My SSS-Rank Clone Talent: I Level Up Endlessly!-Chapter 38: Book Taming World, A Mere Worms Threat!?

"And my location is at the second worst place, a village under the Demonic Faction," Eryke mumbled while massaging his head.

The Demonic Faction was a cruel and bloody force that didn’t know any human rights. The strong ruled it, and action depended on the words and whims of the strong.

If you are weak, then you are pretty much a pig awaiting its fate. Luckily, Eryke the Fourth quickly took the guise of a beggar and started to beg on the street, so he has gathered intel from looking at the similarity.

"But I don’t understand anything that they say."

He rubbed his chin, then looked at the shop.

As expected, there were more skills than there were previously in this shop. Whenever his power increases or his clone makes improvement, new skills always appear in his shop.

With it, an idea was born in his mind. The Awakener here could only rely on their talent, even if they had accumulated a lot of destiny points, their skills were likely limited.

"But I could be everything."

The amount of potential this single SSS-Rank talent had was off the charts for sure, with an endless amount of growth.

"I don’t know if the other SSS-Rank also have this same growth rate or not, but I will take full advantage of this benefit." He clenched his fist, then focused on the system shop.

After scrolling for a bit, he saw it at the last section of the shop:

Universal Language!

This skill was simple: it allowed one to communicate with another being in their own language. It was like a translation feature, but over time and with no restriction. But the cost of this simple skill was 300,000 destiny points.

With his face scrunched and full of wrinkles, he finally bought the skill. A painful one, but needed the most right now, he couldn’t just go to every world and have to vigorously search for their language.

The moment he purchased it, he felt a strange energy course throughout his body before appearing in his mind. This was the same scenario for all his clones.

***

"Mommy, who is that beggar?" a little girl asked, pointing at a man in ragged clothes lying in the corner of a wall on the rough city street.

"Shh."

Her mother quickly hushed her and walked away.

’Finally, I can hear their words,’ Eryke the Second thought, his ears twitching as he grumbled inwardly.

His body reeked, and his clothes were torn in several places. When he first arrived in this world, he had spawned right in the dumpster and gotten into a scuffle with a pack of dogs. Though he’d managed to scare them off, at the same time his clothes were left in tatters.

’Sigh... this feels like Europe’s golden era.’

His gaze swept over gentlemen in tailored frock coats and women gliding past in rustling skirts. They looked rather elegant in their attire.

Just as he observed the crowd, his pupils widened.

A well-dressed little boy dashed through the street, pursued by a freaking book!?

"Eh?" Eryke the Second watched in bewilderment as the book hurried after the boy.

’This... will be a weird world.’

Time passed, and Eryke lingered on the streets, gathering intel. His understanding of the language made the task much easier, and soon enough, he knew exactly what world he had entered.

Book Taming!

In simple words, in this world, one can tame books to grow stronger, and the background is complicated, with nobility ruling the world. To climb up, one needed to climb the nobility ranking.

"Now, how should I start my journey with my charm?"

He thought with a smirk. With his inherent skill, it’s obvious what he should do...

***

Eryke, in the real world, sighed:

"There is still time left. I can slowly explore the other world, but I am in urgent need of strength, so for now, I should rely on Drayken."

He sat cross-legged and started to gather and absorb more mana. His progress was rather quick, not to mention his mana control had leveled up, but Drayken was helping him as well with mana share.

***

In the Dragon and Telekinetic world, Drayken spent the night sleeping peacefully, and the next day helped Eryke.

Since he hadn’t been called, he quickly gathered mana and inscribed the third circle:

"Aura Projection."

Just as the name describes, one can form different auras that can not only defend but attack as well.

To try it out, Drayken extended his hand forward, and black haze surged out of his hand, forming into the shape of a sharp blade.

Then he aimed at the table in front of him and sliced down. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

In an instant, the table was sliced into two with a clean cut.

"Not bad."

He muttered in satisfaction.

Clap-clap!

"Young master, that was amazing," the two clapped at the same time, smiles on their faces.

Drayken smiled and walked up to them.

"You two should rest more. Why did you massage me the entire night? When I woke up, I found you passed out."

"This is our duty, young master," Lin spoke and smiled, while Rin was blushing.

"No duty if it puts you in harm’s way. This is an order from now on."

He spoke with a serious expression. He would never treat anyone close to him in a bad way!

"Thank you."

"Good." Drayken nodded his head. While they were talking, a woman’s voice came from outside the door.

"Drayken, come out."

Hearing the familiar voice, Drayken’s expression changed:

"Eleanor?"

He opened the door, and as expected, there she was, Eleanor, looking at him with a smile.

"What do you want?"

"Well, the Dragon King called you to have breakfast, Young Prince." She walked up to him and whispered in his ear, her hot breath stinging his skin.

"Eleanor, what kind of scheme are you pulling?" Drayken narrowed his eyes.

"Nothing." Eleanor shrugged nonchalantly. "But you don’t want anything to happen to Lilia, would you?"

He froze on the spot before he started to laugh it off.

"Sure, you can do anything to Lilia right now, and I won’t be able to do anything."

"Oh, what if I order men to—" Eleanor didn’t finish, but her eyes were filled with meaning.

"You can do so." Drayken spoke in a cold tone with an expressionless face. "However, remember that if you do so, when I get stronger than you, you will face a condition that will be a hundred times worse than whatever Lilia faces."

His voice was low, but Eleanor felt a shiver down her spine.

Even though she was stronger, better, and smarter than him—a mere worm in front of her—this mere worm gave her a heart-palpitation-inducing feeling.

"Haha." She chuckled and pushed her heels to pinch his cheeks. "Why do you have to take everything so seriously? Come, follow me."

Eleanor turned and walked with steady steps.

Drayken narrowed his eyes and followed slowly behind her.

Soon, they reached a spacious hall, where the aroma of various flavors wafted into his nose.

In his peripheral vision, there was a large dining table with multiple chairs, but only two were occupied, and the servants were serving them.

"I have brought him, Your Majesty." Eleanor bowed.

Kaizer took a whole bite out of the leg of an unknown animal and looked at Drayken.

"Come sit with us, besides Synthia."

"Yes, Dragon King." Drayken bowed and quickly took his seat. He couldn’t help but look at Synthia.

The girl was hiding her face downward and avoiding his gaze as much as possible, but she couldn’t hide the red blush on her face, as well as her ears, which were beet red.