Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 129 Diary of the Fifth Century
"Don't you dragons inherit magic from your bloodline? Why are you interested in the original text of magic?"

"Dragons are the most powerful creatures, not just because we have a lot of money!" Exure threw down a huge book with big emeralds wrapped around the corners from the bookshelf, almost killing Ron. "How much can you learn just by relying on your natural breath magic?"

"We have plenty of time and energy to study!"

"What is this?" Ron pushed the book open, but found that he couldn't understand the dragon language on it. He showed it to Sylvia, but the dhampir said that she didn't know more than Ron. "Exuri, can you explain it to us?"

"This is...oh, this is it." It also took some effort for Axuri to flip through the book, but fortunately he read quickly. He stretched out his claws and snapped his fingers, and the light of the spoon in Ron's hand immediately went out, and everything returned to darkness.

"What did you do?" Ron hurriedly felt for the enchanted pattern on the spoon, but found that he couldn't feel it no matter how hard he tried.

"Dispel magic. This original book talks about this," Exure said in the darkness. "I just learned it the last time the teacher taught me."

"Come on, I'll take this opportunity to translate our language for you, but I'll only teach you once, I don't really understand it myself yet."

Since Ron had entered the lecture mode again, the others had to take his spoon and explore the surroundings on their own. Most places here were covered with a thick layer of dust, and it was obvious that no living creature had been here for a long time.

"I knew this day would come..." Ivy sighed, "Victoria, your god clearly gave you the ability to see in the dark, so why do you have to hold this spoon?"

"Because Sera doesn't have it."

"Then why don't you just cast a light spell?"

"But Ivy, don't you think this is interesting?" Victoria waved the spoon in her hand, and when the light from it dimmed a little, she broke it again. "And there is no need to choose one or the other. We can use both at the same time to make the underground brighter--"

“Stop!” Ivy and Driver were caught off guard and groaned in pain under the bright light. “Turn it off, please stop the miracle. We’re almost blinded!”

"In fact, I can use the daylight spell to make it brighter here..." Victoria ended her light spell with regret and stopped hurting her companions' eyes.

"Hey Ron, did you remember it?" Sylvia looked at Ron helplessly. Aikzuri's temporary teaching had ended. She seemed to have learned a lot, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she didn't remember anything.

On the other hand, Ron, with the help of his spell book, hardly encountered any bottlenecks. Now he can basically read books in the dragon language normally, but there are some pronunciations that he really can't pronounce.

"It's okay. I'll teach you when we get back," Ron said with a smile, "but you'll have to keep looking for Exuri for pronunciation. I can make fewer sounds than you can."

There is no problem reading books in this dumb dragon language, but it is basically impossible to cast spells in dragon language. In this respect, Ron is not as good as the kobolds, after all, that is their mother tongue.

"As long as you are happy," Exure was not self-satisfied, but he didn't care how well Ron and the others learned. After teaching them once, he continued to fly up and down in the library, "Hey, look at this, you must be very interested!"

He pulled out a booklet from the bookshelf that was much thinner than the spell tome: "I guess this is the green dragon's diary. Maybe we can find out what killed him!" "Huh? He really has good habits." Ron hurriedly caught the diary thrown by Axuri. Although serious people don't write diaries, diaries can help serious people!

"The fifth century. It seems that he classified his diary according to his age. If you look for it further, you may find records from other periods."

"Let's talk about that later. Take a look at this first!" Exuri flew down and urged, "I really want to know what he has been through!"

"Let me see, um... 'It's a novelty to have a copper dragon as a neighbor. I've never tried this in all my years.'"

"'She is beautiful and powerful, but she is so noisy! I can hardly sleep because her untimely visits always interrupt my sleep and patrols.'"

"'But I can't piss her off, and I have to appreciate her sense of humor, no matter how lame or how dry her jokes are. Because she threatened to corrode my garden with acid if I didn't - by Tiamat and Bahamut, I'll have to think about moving again.'"

"'When I first met her, I tried to attack her by surprise, but the result was humiliating - she was two hundred years older than me, and I couldn't beat her at all!'"

"That's really unfortunate," Exure smacked his lips, "Luckily, they are both dead now."

"'Celebrate! That guy is finally gone! She hastily left me a short message, saying that she can give me her nest and territory - I don't want it! What's the point of those bare hills and valleys? She insisted on making a bunch of messy little holes on them, saying that she wanted the wind to accompany her?!'"

"'A group of elves found me and said they were also new residents, led by a baron...'"

"What Baron?!" Sylvia was stunned. "Is he the Baron Saran Lane you mentioned? Has he ever looked for this green dragon?"

"There's nothing strange about this," Exuri said nonchalantly, "My lair isn't too far from here, it would be strange if they haven't seen it."

"This happened not long after the copper dragon moved away," Ron tried to identify the symbols indicating the month and date left by the green dragon, "which means that the elves of the Hailan Empire may have visited the copper dragon as well."

"What do they want to do with the dragons?" Sylvia was curious. "Help them revive their empire? Or try to enslave them? I'm afraid they are just dreaming."

"Don't be in a hurry, read on," Ron turned another page of the diary, "'I rejected them. These high elves are simply crazy! Do they think they are so smart? They actually tried to find the madness under this land, and claimed to be in touch with those beings?'"

"'My heart was about to burst when I was talking to them. What they said and what they planned were so evil and unforgivable even to me. And what they said afterwards? Don't be funny.'"

"'Those filthy creatures who only dare to hide in the darkness of a corner of the world dare to provoke me in front of my lair?!'"

(End of this chapter)