"Hm?" Maple Forest Youlan raised his head, not understanding what Asata meant.
"My remains will be left to you! They can make up for the weakness of not having dragon armor! If you had dragon armor, you wouldn't have had to keep circling around without daring to fight me head-on!" Asata laughed heartily.
"..." Maple Forest Youlan's eyelid twitched. Is there any chance that even with dragon armor, I still wouldn't dare let Long Xi fight you head-on? Am I crazy? Fighting a Bone Dragon in a close-range meat grinder? Do you think a Dragon Knight raised on elite education is an idiot? Trading blood with the Undead would have been a crime back in the imperial era!
"With all due respect, honored... uh..." Maple Forest Youlan trailed off. After all, he did not even know who the Dragon King before him was!
"Frost Dragon—Asata! Dragon King of the ice dragon clan! Strictly speaking, my ties with the Lagrange Empire are no less close than those of those little dragons! You needn't be so restrained before me. After all, I watched you fight the Human-Dragon War with my own eyes." Perhaps because he had not spoken with anyone in a long time, Asata seemed especially talkative.
"Honored Lord Asata, I will not desecrate your remains..." Maple Forest Youlan said solemnly. Though his voice was soft, his gaze was incomparably serious.
"Desecrate? No, no, no, that isn't desecration! Do you think I'd let you dismantle my bones and use them as alchemical materials? There's no need for that much trouble! I've already forged them into a set of mythical dragon armor! Put simply, it's a divine artifact!" Pride and arrogance filled Asata's eyes. Clearly, he was pleased by Maple Forest Youlan's dumbfounded, inexperienced expression.
"A divine artifact?" Maple Forest Youlan clearly