I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 189

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 189

Black Dragon’s Scale

I entered the cave.

Jinhyeok approached the wall and crouched down.

Something serious was drawn there.

I looked back and forth between the drawings covering the wall and Renia.

‘Renia drew this? No way.’

It might be prejudice.

But it really doesn’t suit him.

The drawings were crooked and cute in their own way.

They looked like something Momo or Seira would draw.

Renia, who had stopped walking, turned around.

“I didn’t draw them.”

After leaving that brief comment, Renia started walking again.

It seemed like there was some story behind it, so I decided not to ask further.

I followed Renia again.

Anyway, right now it’s about the black dragon’s scale.

I shined my flashlight around.

The cave was completely messy.

Dust had accumulated everywhere, probably from being neglected for so long.

‘Renia’s not the type to clean up well.’

Another thing I learned about him.

Crash!

I turned my head at the sudden sound.

Renia had punched his fist into the wall.

One side crumbled and a new chamber appeared.

A treasure room?!

I quickly ran over there.

And as soon as I arrived, I stepped back with a grimacing expression.

Rather than a treasure room, it was more like a warehouse.

A warehouse for storing acquired spoils of war.

Various things were placed there, from giant monster heads to eyeballs, teeth, and claws.

“So Renia had this kind of hobby.”

“It’s not a hobby. I just collected them because they’re worth money.”

While Renia was rummaging through one side.

“Woooooh!”

“Oh shit.”

I was startled.

Ellia suddenly manifested and let out a cheer.

Come to think of it, this was a place that would make Ellia’s eyes roll back.

“Huh? Isn’t this a Black Wyvern’s eyeball?”

Renia shrugged his shoulders.

“The name was different, but it was black and could fly.”

“Hey dokkaebi friend, can I take this? It’ll be a huge help in making potions? I’ll let you drink it first. No wait, let’s have master drink it first? Just in case something goes wrong.”

Jinhyeok nodded with a sad expression.

What choice did I have?

I was the only one who could be a poison tester.

“Do whatever you want. I wasn’t using them anyway.”

“Yahoo!”

Ellia summoned the Starry Forge as if she’d been waiting for this.

Ellia began pushing the displayed items into the Starry Forge.

Watching her, I suddenly became curious.

The Starry Forge that I hadn’t visited for a while.

How much of a mess would it be by now?

Ellia was already far from being organized.

Last time and today too, she just shoved everything in randomly, so it must be incredible.

‘I’ll have to ask Teacher Daemomo for help soon.’

Foreseeing the future, I continued searching for the scale.

“Ellia. Don’t put the black dragon scale in there too.”

“Don’t worry? If there’s something that precious, I’ll recognize it right away… Huh? What’s this place? It feels like there’s something amazing here.”

Ellia pointed to a sunken space.

Unidentifiable things were piled up there.

“Isn’t that a trash can?”

“Oh no! You don’t know anything! Treasures are usually found in places like this?”

Ellia quickly got down and stuck her body inside.

She really has no fear.

Ellia diligently searched through it, throwing this and that out.

She was even humming, so she seemed really happy.

“Master.”

“Yeah?”

“I think I found it?”

“What?!”

Ellia stuck out just her hand and handed me something.

Looking at it immediately drew question marks.

Really this?

It was covered in so much dust that various things were stuck to it.

It wasn’t even particularly black.

I took it and tried wiping it clean.

The sticky stuff wouldn’t come off easily.

“Ellia. Don’t you have something like hydrochloric acid? I think I need to dissolve it to clean it.”

“There should be some somewhere in the Starry Forge?”

“Okay.”

If it really was a black dragon’s scale, it wouldn’t dissolve in mere hydrochloric acid.

I was planning to pour it on generously.

Creak.

I opened the workshop door.

“Hmm.”

And closed it again.

Quick surrender complete.

I thought it would be somewhat messy, but to this extent.

It was at the level of a garbage dump you’d see on TV.

I took out a gas burner from my inventory and crouched in front of it.

Since I didn’t have proper tongs, I’d substitute with my index finger.

Jinhyeok turned the intensity to maximum and began roasting the scale.

“Bizarre.”

Renia left a one-line review about his master who was roasting his own hand too.

That aside, he really was versatile.

To think he even had flame resistance built-in.

“Ooh. The color’s coming out.”

After roasting it golden brown for a while.

He lifted the black-scaled scale that had revealed itself.

Ding!

[You have obtained Black Dragon Drachan’s Scale!]

[Drachan, who drove countless cities to destruction long ago!]

[The Black Dragon was a mighty creature called a disaster by its very existence!]

[A clue about the Black Dragon is being drawn!]

The bursting black light enveloped Jinhyeok.

It was different from the holograms he had seen before.

A much clearer and more vivid scene.

It was like sharing someone’s vision without any filter.

‘Snow?’

The entire field of vision was pure white.

Since it wasn’t swirling around, the wind didn’t seem too strong.

Before long, countless glaciers appeared.

A place that could be called a graveyard of glaciers.

The vision moved slowly, then entered underwater.

After diving for quite a while, the vision finally stopped and illuminated straight ahead.

An impossibly massive glacier.

Everything around was pitch black, so nothing was immediately visible.

He leaned forward to see more clearly.

The vision moved forward accordingly.

And shortly after.

Jinhyeok drew in a sharp breath.

Now he understood.

The reason the vision had shown him this place.

At the bottom of the glacier that stretched endlessly toward the deep sea.

Somewhere in the middle, it was sleeping.

The owner of the traces he had seen in Frostheim.

Black Dragon Drachan.

Just as he muttered in his mind.

The sea that had filled his vision disappeared.

Jinhyeok was back in the cave in an instant.

“Did you see something?”

He smiled at Renia’s question.

“I went and saw that dragon friend you beat up, Renia.”

He looked down lovingly at the scale in his hand.

Found it. Black Dragon Drachan’s scale.

He took out the Yodel Compass and tried it right away.

Naturally, it didn’t react.

Deep mountains and a graveyard of glaciers.

The gap was too large.

He’d have to try it outside.

“Master?”

“Yeah?”

“Emergency.”

“Why?”

“My body won’t come out?”

“Oh.”

Ellia, who had been struggling for a while, went limp.

“Pull me out.”

“Okay.”

He grabbed her sprawled ankles and applied force.

“It’s not coming out easily.”

Just as he was about to pull harder in earnest.

“Master? I think you should stop.”

“Can you come out by yourself?”

“That’s not it. I got the feeling that if you pull any harder, my upper and lower body might separate completely?”

“That would be troublesome. Then what should we do?”

Renia, who had been watching their conversation, spoke up.

“Couldn’t you just cancel that manifestation thing and do it again?”

“Ah.”

“Oh.”

Silence fell over the warehouse.

They say if your head is bad, your body suffers.

Thank goodness Renia was there.

If it had been just the two idiots, they would have kept pulling until the end.

“Phew.”

Ellia, who had re-manifested, walked over as if nothing had happened.

Of course, her appearance was far from that.

From her head to half her upper body was beyond dusty—it was pitch black.

Anyone could see she had been through a lot.

“Just wait a little longer. I’ll gather everything quickly.”

Ellia picked up the pace.

She no longer made any effort to push things in properly.

She just grabbed whatever she could and tossed it into the workshop.

“The inside must be a mess.”

Renia, as expected.

Sharp.

“There’s order within chaos. Only a sage can understand it?”

“A sage, was it.”

“A sage containing 3,271 years of knowledge, no less.”

“Not bad.”

Thank goodness.

If it had been Kancheo, he would have said, ‘Roughly time to die, isn’t it?’

“I’d prefer you call it excellent.”

Ellia, having finished her correction, continued collecting.

‘Black Dragon’s scale.’

Jinhyeok smiled as he turned the scale this way and that.

It was still early, but his heart began to race.

He was going to meet an Imugi and even a dragon.

And not just any dragon, but the Black Dragon that had been called a disaster.

As soon as dawn broke, he took a taxi.

He decided to enter the Tower of Despair from his new house.

He had finished the move-out cleaning, so he shouldn’t dirty it again.

‘So this is Pangyo-gu.’

The atmosphere was quite different from Seoul.

He had heard there were many IT companies here.

There were even game companies that used to empty his pockets when he was young.

He wiped the corner of his eye at the sudden memory.

He had been scammed and lost all the items he had carefully collected.

When Yoo Jin-hyeok was 15 years old.

The tears he shed back then were truly hot.

Thanks to that, he developed trust issues and wouldn’t fall for scams even as an adult, but anyway.

“We’ve arrived at Seo Panjyo.”

“Thank you!”

Pangyo itself is quiet, but this neighborhood is even more peaceful.

It seems like there aren’t many houses here to begin with.

‘Nice, very nice.’

The spacing between houses is quite generous too.

Now I can chat loudly with my friends without worry.

But what are these cars?

Several vans parked haphazardly in front of the house.

While I was tilting my head in confusion, a woman who had been circling around the house approached me.

She was dressed in neat casual business attire.

She’d been pacing around continuously—who could she be?

“Excuse me.”

“Yes.”

“Do you happen to live here?”

“I moved in today.”

The woman pressed her palm to her forehead.

She didn’t forget to mutter “Oh my god” either.

“Don’t tell me you signed a contract with these people?”

A phone was thrust toward me.

“That’s right. The real estate agent, the landlord, and some kind of manager.”

“Haah…”

The woman rubbed her face with her hands.

“My name is Yun Gyu-ri. I’m a lawyer.”

“I’m Yoo Jin-hyeok.”

“You’ve seen the recent hot news about jeonse fraud cases, right? I’m representing the victims of those cases. Mr. Yoo Jin-hyeok, please don’t be shocked and listen carefully. Those three people I just showed you are all the masterminds behind those cases. They’re guys who cleverly evade the law in various ways, making proper punishment difficult.”

That’s why she had been hired.

Since criminal punishment was impossible, she was trying to do something through civil litigation at least.

After taking a deep breath, Yun Gyu-ri continued.

“There’s a high probability that you’ve been scammed too, Mr. Yoo Jin-hyeok. Even if there’s no problem with the contract itself, they’ll somehow make you give up.”

Yun Gyu-ri made a pitying expression.

He’s still young, yet he’s gotten caught by the worst kind of guys.

But why is this person so calm?

Has he frozen up from shock?

“Thank you for letting me know.”

“Are you okay? Mr. Yoo Jin-hyeok, you should file a report first…”

“I’m fine.”

Fine?

He doesn’t seem to understand the situation properly yet.

“These bastards are really the worst. They operate nationwide. There’s a high probability they have backing forces protecting them. More than a few people have been harmed trying to deal with them alone. I was one of them too.”

Jinhyeok smiled.

Even though she’s meeting me for the first time, she’s worrying about me this much.

She’s a good person.

“I’m really okay. Because those people you called the worst, counselor. To those people, I’ll be.”

Jinhyeok reached his hand toward the main gate.

“The worst thing they’ll ever encounter.”

He opened the door.

And went inside.

Into my house.

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