"Chirp chirp." The Red-eyed Rat King watched Russell curiously as he picked through a pile of rough boulders at the Stubborn Stone Masonry.
It came over too and tested the taste of a boulder with its teeth. Just like before, it scraped against its teeth.
Back when it had dug tunnels in Cave Tunic, it had fought plenty of battles with these stones, so it quickly lost interest in the boulders.
It lay at the entrance to the masonry, boredly grooming its increasingly glossy fur.
As for Russell, he continued selecting stones. Not personally, though—he was following the M-shaped Mark on his palm, choosing whichever stone Little Dream Dragon had picked. Even though he had no idea what Little Dream Dragon had discovered.
Still, anything favored by a Dream Dragon could not possibly be ordinary.
"Could it be an Ice Soul Bead lost inside a stone?" Russell imagined as he searched through the stone materials.
Previously, Little Dream Dragon's M-shaped Mark had often burned whenever it sensed the Hail Beads and Ice Soul Beads held by the knights of the Knight Order. Especially whenever they entered the commander's tent, Baron Roman's Ice Soul Bead made Little Dream Dragon drool.
The M-shaped Mark had burned nonstop because of it.
At night, in the Dark Dreamscape, Russell had to spend a great deal of effort talking Little Dream Dragon out of eating Baron Roman's Ice Soul Bead, as well as the Hail Beads the knights had earned through hard work.
"If that's really the case, then I've struck it rich!" The more Russell thought about it, the happier he became, and the more eagerly he searched through the stones. "Little Dream Dragon can eat Hail Beads and Ice Soul Beads I pick up without any burden, and it won't have to keep