I Opened an Inn Next to a Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 141



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Episode 141

It had been a week since Eugene started helping his employees. One by one, some employees started to achieve meaningful results.

The first one started with an elf employee who was in charge of cleaning the rooms.

“Eugene! I did it! I, I summoned the spirit!”

Even though there were guests, he ran over and grabbed Eugene’s hand, shaking it up and down while screaming, “Kyaaak!”, and anyone who saw it could tell that he couldn’t contain his excitement.

“The answer was my mana control skills! Once I learned how to handle it properly, I was able to materialize spirits!”

And then he suddenly shouted.

“Look at this! Let me show you! Yuck!”

Summon a water spirit or something.

It looks exactly like Bangul, the water spirit that Eugene controls.

Another incident was that the guests opened their eyes wide and became excited because of the spirit that suddenly appeared at the inn.

“Congratulations. You are now a spirit master.”

“Thanks to Eugene. Thank you so much. Hehe.”

But that was just the beginning.

Success stories keep coming out.

Some elves were demonstrating sword skills, claiming they had successfully summoned spirits and created auras, while others were shooting magic arrows, claiming they had successfully charged their bows with magic.

In the case of vampires, there are many who have succeeded in implementing high-difficulty techniques that were previously unmanageable.

Simply put, it starts with the unique transformation technique of vampires that allows them to turn into bats, and goes all the way to advanced techniques that allow them to freely release their blood energy and attack like missiles. Although each of them uses their powers in different areas, they have each shown that they have advanced one step further in their respective fields.

As Eugene, I can only be proud. With the self-defense equipment you gave me as a gift and my skills having improved to this extent, I don’t think I’ll ever get kidnapped while walking along a secluded forest path alone again.

That’s good. That’s good, but… … .

It’s a bit much to bring a sword or a bow to work to show off your accomplishments.

It’s admirable that you brought it to show the boss… … But isn’t it a bit scary? The customers will be scared.

No, I was actually scared.

-Eugene! Look at this! I’m coming out!

In a place with a lot of guests, he suddenly pulled out his sword and swung it around while releasing a flash of aura.

Is that all?

He even showed off some cool tricks by filling the bow he brought with mana and shooting magic arrows, but that was actually at the noble level.

Some vampires even transformed into bats in front of their guests. Are they crazy?

I see the guests getting all worked up, really… … .

Oh my.

Even thinking about it again makes me break out in a cold sweat.

It was a bit absurd, but I guess we should let it slide since he said he was so happy.

Who brought this on himself?

* * *

Most of them showed results of growth, but there were two characters that did not.

One of them was Irina.

Irina didn’t even need Eugene’s help in the first place.

She was the vampire queen. She was capable enough to do everything on her own, even without Eugene’s help.

Strictly speaking, Irina should not be in a position to provide help, but rather, she should be in a position to provide help.

And one more.

That’s the only human employee besides Eugene.

It was Edwin.

“Wow, I’m jealous.”

Edwin grumbled. In fact, it wasn’t just now. Edwin had been grumbling a lot lately.

“I’m the only one who can’t do something cool. Just me.”

The reason was that everyone was doing cool things, but he was not as good as them.

Edwin muttered gruffly and threw the stone in his hand with all his might. The stone flew with great force and hit the tree with a thud.

“Some people can summon spirits and cast cool auras, but why don’t I? Why only me?”

“In return, you can no longer hear what animals say.”

Edwin also had one achievement: he stopped hearing animal voices.

This was the result of learning from his new master, Archdruid Absalon. Thanks to this, he was able to live with animals that cried normally instead of animals that spoke like humans.

I heard that it was an ON/OFF function so you could listen when you wanted and not listen when you didn’t, but Eugene didn’t really know how it worked. That’s understandable, since Eugene isn’t a Druid.

Eugene didn’t know how Absalon and Edwin taught, and he didn’t want to know. They taught well and learned well, I guess.

“Yeah, but that’s so uncool.”

Anyway, the important thing was that Edwin wasn’t very satisfied. Eugene said with a smirk.

“You said you would have no more wishes if you could just stop hearing the voices of animals. Now you’ve changed your tune.”

“That was the case back then. But, isn’t it the case that humans are animals that suddenly develop desires that they didn’t have before?”

“That’s right.”

Eugene also greatly agrees. That greed is what made humans the rulers of the continent.

“So, you envy them?”

“If not, then it’s a lie. They summoned the spirits and didn’t even emit an aura in a matter of days.”

Eugene stared at Edwin’s face.

There was a strange eagerness on the boy’s face.

That desire was precisely the desire to become stronger.

That was an emotion that had never been found in Edwin before.

‘It’s the perfect age for that.’

Although he may sound a bit like an old man, Edwin is actually a hot-blooded man in his early to mid 20s.

What you want to do or desire may vary from time to time.

Eugene chuckled and patted Edwin on the shoulder.

“There’s no need to rush. They are who they are and you are who you are. They have their own pace and you have your own pace.”

“but.”

“But what’s the big deal? You’re just learning to walk.”

Exactly!

Eugene hit Edwin on the back of the head. Edwin frowned and rubbed the back of his head without mercy.

“They have been trained to fight since they were young. But you? No. You have lived without any fighting. You have not learned techniques for mana manipulation. Of course, there is bound to be a difference between the two of you. Isn’t that right?”

“exactly.”

“Then think about it. Wouldn’t it be weird if you could write something that’s equally cool? Even a genius can’t do that.”

Actually, if you’re a genius, it’s possible. Because you’re a genius.

Real geniuses are those who can do something just by looking at it once, even though they have never used magic before.

He knows how to command spirits even though he hasn’t made a contract with one.

That guy is Eugene.

The world is so unfair.

Some people can do it and some people can’t.

But what can I do? That’s just the way the world is.

Eugene didn’t tell Edwin these unreasonable facts. It wasn’t enough to just tell the dream tree hope.

“Hearing what you said, I realize that I was so ugly. To be so jealous of my colleagues.”

Edwin scratched his head awkwardly. Eugene shook his head.

“That doesn’t mean it’s ugly. It’s not ugly at all. I guess I could be a little jealous.”

Eugene didn’t think jealousy was a bad thing.

Because it’s natural for any human being to feel jealous of someone who is better than them.

It’s a natural feeling. To deny it is like denying your instincts.

That is not something to be denied, it is something to be accepted.

You have to accept yourself as you are, even though you are jealous.

That’s how there is progress.

If you use that inferiority complex as fuel to study hard or do something, you will eventually make progress in some way.

But what if you can’t accept it?

At that point, you become an ugly person, you know.

It would be a glorious thing for a family to commit such a terrible act that it would be reported on the 9 o’clock news.

But Edwin wasn’t that kind of guy.

So there was no problem.

Besides, when Eugene saw it, it wasn’t jealousy.

It’s just simple envy.

And it’s greed.

I also have a desire to become like that.

An intense emotion never before seen from Edwin.

Eugene felt secretly satisfied.

In fact, he was just like an old man. He was only in his early to mid 20s. Of course, it was possible because he had achieved a lot since he was young, and had also experienced great failures.

Anyway, he’s a guy with a lot of life left.

I felt a bit sorry for him because he seemed to have such a bright future and was so indifferent to life.

It’s good that he’s good at his job, but as an older brother, I feel a bit sorry for him.

Eugene hoped that his younger brother would do well.

In that sense, the strange eagerness on the guy’s face was a positive sign.

Because greed breeds progress.

But shouldn’t that greed be directed in the right direction?

So Eugene took a chance.

“But you know what?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Druids have cool skills too.”

“I don’t think so. My new teacher just talks boringly, and he doesn’t show me anything like that.”

“It’s not that I can’t show you, it’s that I don’t show you.”

“Really?”

“That’s what I said.”

* * *

“Eww. Tsk tsk.”

Absalon clicked his tongue. He looked somewhat dissatisfied. Eugene asked, pretending not to know, even though he had an idea why he was doing that.

“What’s wrong? Is there something wrong?”

“That’s not it. It’s just that my disciple suddenly started saying something out of the blue.”

“Out of the blue?”

“okay!”

“What is it?”

“Why don’t you show me some cool skills!”

Eugene laughed to himself. He must have really asked since you were hinting at his luck.

“So, did you show off any cool skills?”

“You didn’t show me.”

“Why didn’t you show me?”

“I’ll teach you how to do something pretty! You’re always yawning during my class, what? Cool techniques? You want me to teach you that? Bullshit! You expect what a kid who doesn’t even know the basics wants!”

Absalon grumbled. But he didn’t really show that he didn’t like it. That gentleman was the kind of person who didn’t even show that he didn’t like it.

“No, and what the hell is that cool technology? Where the hell did you hear that stuff and why are you asking me to show it to you?”

Eugene feels a sharp pain for a moment.

But I just stopped being so stubborn.

“Could it be something like that? Like animal shapeshifting?”

“Oh, you mean something like this?”

Absalon’s body began to grow abnormally large.

Wood crack!

Absalon’s body grew thicker with the sound of his bones cracking, and soon he transformed into a large bear.

Its appearance is unmistakable that of a brown bear.

It was a unique shapeshifting spell that only druids could perform.

“Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen that. Hmm.”

Eugene clapped his hands. Absalon’s bear transformation. It’s been a long time.

It is no exaggeration to say that bear shapeshifting is a Druid trademark.

There is no end to how powerful it is.

First, the bear tears the person apart.

But human fighting skills and wisdom were combined.

The combined fighting power of the two druids is truly beyond imagination.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.”

“That sounds good. I think it would be perfect if you showed it to me.”

“Hey, you little punk. You have to wish for what you want.”

Wood crack!

Absalon returns to human form.

“That’s because you don’t know. The basics are important for anything. You have to build a solid foundation to be able to do something like this. But are you going to show me this difficult transformation technique? Would you want to make your disciple’s heart flutter? If you show me carelessly, he’ll just get impatient.”

Eugene also agrees.

But this old man, he doesn’t know anything, he just doesn’t know anything.

What? Are you being impatient?

What if there was no motivation to begin with?

That would require greed, since curiosity about Druids itself would disappear.

“Hey, sir. That’s not it.”

“No?”

“Yes. Think about it. You have to show him something like that so he will learn diligently. Don’t you? Don’t you think that Edwin might not enjoy learning druid skills?”

“Fun? Of course not. Who finds studying and training fun? You have to endure such things to become a great Druid like me.”

Eugene shook his head.

‘No matter how I look at it, it seems like he doesn’t have the qualities of a teacher.’

A great druid, but not a great teacher?

In that sense, Eugene’s teacher is a true teacher.

Except that his personality is a bit strange.

“No, I think you’re mistaken. Edwin wasn’t really interested in druids in the first place.”

“What, what?”

“He just didn’t want to hear animal voices. Now that he’s done that, why would he want anything else?”

“What, what nonsense.”

“Did you know that he’s been interested in spiritism lately?”

“What!”

Absalon jumped to his feet.

“Me, Spirit? Is that true?”

“Yes. And I think he wants to learn swordsmanship too.”

That’s a lie.

I just envied the cool auras and spirit summoning skills that elves had. I never said I wanted to learn how to do that.

But I held back tears and decided to tell a white lie.

There’s nothing I can do.

Isn’t this all the heart of a big brother who cares for his younger brother?

“How can I avoid losing my one and only disciple that I worked so hard to get? Shouldn’t I make him feel the charm of being a Druid?”

“That’s right!”

“Then what should we do? Shouldn’t we show them some cool skills and say, ‘Oh, our Druids can do this too,’ and do something like that?”

“That’s right! That’s it! That would be great! You said it well!”

Absalon rolled up his sleeves.

“This won’t work. Where is Edwin? We need to talk to him right now!”

Absalon said that and went straight to find Edwin.

Eugene smiled faintly as he looked at her back.

‘It’s easy, it’s easy.’

Problem solved.