King of Titans and Dragons
Chapter 351 - 351 346 The Darkness of the World

Chapter 351: Chapter 346: The Darkness of the World Chapter 351: Chapter 346: The Darkness of the World Golden Dragons are a type of dragon that enjoys playing games in the human world. They like to disguise themselves as minstrels with little power, weak wandering mages, or even beautiful women.

In short, Golden Dragons enjoy transforming into forms that can entice humans to commit crimes. After drawing in those who wish to commit such wrongdoings, they would then reveal their true form and educate these evildoers. Whether this education is physical or psychological, depends on the circumstances.

Summarily, Golden Dragons are very fond of a kind of bait-and-punish law enforcement. They enjoy revealing themselves in front of many intelligent creatures, especially when punishing evil and maintaining justice.

It just so happens that, as a non-human with half-dragon blood, Muria also enjoys engaging in these activities that Golden Dragons favor.

On the long journey to the Vimier Elf Forest, Muria likes to disguise himself in various human identities. He roams the human cities like a wealthy businessman’s son on the run, or a curious young noble who has run away from home.

Most often, Muria disguises himself as a human with little power but a lot of money, like a child with gold in a busy market, crazily enticing humans to commit crimes.

Every time, Muria catches many fish. For these sinners, Muria adopts a classification approach.

Generally divided into two types, those who only want to rob, Muria punishes and educates them, then lets them go.

The other ones that want both money and life, Muria does not let them go easily. But he did not kill them either. After all, he is a kind Golden Dragon, how could he wantonly kill people?

For these guys, Muria tosses them all into the Semi Plane to cultivate. He didn’t forget that his Semi Plane is as desolate as the primordial forest, with a lot of unused land wasted. It needs to be redeveloped and cleaned up.

It is just right to make good use of these sinners. After all, killing is ultimately not good. Besides, manpower is a resource, why waste resources? Let these evildoers work to their death in his Semi Plane.

In most cases, the identity Muria disguises as is a weak person. But sometimes, he would pose as a ‘powerful’ adventurer, strolling in human taverns, and when he was extremely bored, he would also take up some tasks.

And just when Muria was passing through the center of the Osroni Subcontinent, the strongest human kingdom, the Aminis Kingdom, he did something legendary that shook the continent.

At that time, Muria disguised himself as a silver-ranked wandering mage and came to a small city within the Aminis Kingdom. Not in a rush to find a dragon, he intended to pick up a few tasks similar to investigating demon followers from the local adventurers’ guild to kill some time.

But in the end, Muria only took one task, a low-level task that no one cared about

The task was to retrieve a lost child, and the reward was only three gold, eight silver, and thirty-five copper. That was all the savings of the despairing human couple who had lost their child.

When Muria entered the guild, he ran into the human couple. They were crying, kneeling, and pleading with every adventurer coming in and out to find their child.

No one paid attention to them, or rather no one dared to take up this task. The task was not low-paying for low-level adventurers, but they didn’t dare to take it because they knew some inside information.

And upon seeing this, Muria smoothly took up the low-rank task. Under the hopeful gaze of the pitiful couple, he took a drop of their blood and used the bloodline tracking magic to find their child in the Lord’s Castle that ruled the small city.

Without any surprises, Muria and the couple broke into the castle, and found their kidnapped child in the dark, filthy dungeon of the castle.

In the dungeon, there was more than just one child. There are over sixty more children at the tender age of seven or eight. These children were deceived, drugged, and forcefully kidnapped and brought to the dungeon to be ‘packaged’ and sold like goods.

The main culprit behind the child trafficking was the supreme ruler of the city, a lord with the title of Baron.

He treated his territory like a ranch and regarded his subjects as livestock. He selected young children with good looks and qualifications and forcibly took them away by illegal means. After undergoing some unbearable training, the children would then be sold.

Rage filled Muria’s chest in an instant, but it didn’t cause him to lose his reason.

Muria first took all those who worked hand-in-glove with the lord into the Semi Plane, allowing these evildoers to devote their energy to cultivating his Semi Plane.

Then, he took the Baron into the Semi Plane and summoned his high-ranking devil servant, Abyss Refining Demon Mels, and handed over the interrogation to it.

He was ruthless in removing the evil. Since he had encountered it, of course, he would destroy this product chain stained with countless human families’ blood and tears, regardless of any consequences or costs.

Whether it was due to the influence of his previous human life memory or the innate sense of justice after having the Golden Dragon bloodline, both compelled Muria to make this choice.

In the end, under the interrogation of the Abyss Refining Demon Mels, the sinful Baron of the Aminis Kingdom, divulged everything he knew, even the incident of him raping his father’s personal maid when he was twelve.

Mels, who was on the verge of becoming a legend, conscientiously compiled the information Muria wanted and gave it to him without prompting.

Not surprisingly, upon seeing the information obtained from the interrogation, Muria instantly fell into a rage. A visible murderous intent filled the entire Semi Plane.

This scared all the wild beasts and reformed evildoers in the Semi Plane as they prostrated on the ground, shivering in fright.

Muria was infuriated for a simple reason, according to the intelligence, the nobles involved in human trafficking were not only this Baron. The nobles from several surrounding territories were all involved in this inhuman trade.

The key point was that, according to the Baron’s guess, he and several local noble lords were merely an insignificant part of this trade chain. They were only the lowest-level suppliers.

There were only faint clues as to what these children were going to be used for after being trained and who they were going to be sold to. Depending on the children’s performances and talents, they would be trained into death warriors, playthings, or even be used as the subjects of experiments for mages, sacrifices, and so on.

Information revealed that the involvement in this trade chain would be incredibly extensive, especially in the Aminis Kingdom. God knows how many nobles have joined in this.

Muria saw the dark side of the world again. The situation was far more complicated than he thought, and it had even exceeded his capability.