I Became a 6★ Gacha Character-Chapter 562: Wild and Feral 2

After checking the internet all night, I discovered that despite Han Se-ah's broadcast featuring flying breast-butts and airborne elephant trunks (the beast-kin edition), the fallout wasn't particularly severe. Heroes Chronicle had been thrust upon the world through over-technology, so such incidents had been discussed extensively for some time.

There had already been streamers openly introducing the Kingdom's red-light districts, and others who'd uploaded hunting videos with an RPG game mindset, only to get in trouble for showing monster corpses and entrails.

Several idiots had already flooded the internet with videos showing intimate places—like hearts and lungs deep inside bodies—before being crushed by the mighty hammer of the law. As a result, special legislation was apparently being discussed in the outside world, but that was far removed from my concerns.

With ten years of missed movies, comedy videos, and other streamers to catch up on, why would I care about politics in another dimension?

"This way!"

"What about our companions?"

"My friends are guiding them!"

Reassured that Han Se-ah's broadcast wouldn't face any issues, I found myself in this situation immediately after spending a night at the beast-kin natives' temporary shelter.

I'd thought it was awkwardly early morning, but fortunately, it seemed the event triggered the moment Han Se-ah connected. Whether it was Han Se-ah's peculiar luck or an event that activated because a user was present, I couldn't tell. But I could see her dumbfounded face at the edge of my vision as she was carried off by a beast-kin.

The one coming toward me appeared to be a feline beast-kin with a small build, swaying a long tail as she ran quickly. The one who'd gone to Han Se-ah seemed to be a canine beast-kin with a larger build, carrying her while running.

"Wh-what, what's going on? Why are you carrying me as soon as I log in—ack, to-tongue...!"

"Oh my, are you alright?"

-Just started the stream and we're already seeing Han Se-ah's head and wolf lady's boobs bouncing up and down

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-If you don't use euphemisms like "milk containers" or "baby bottles," you'll get neutered by the AI

-But if they bounce up and down like that, won't the Cooper's ligaments get damaged? That's why female athletes wear sports bras

-LOL they're superhumans with mana-reinforced bodies, you think they can't run because of ligament damage?

Whether it was because of the romantic notion that wolves only look at one female their entire lives, or because they were particularly strict about gender distinctions despite their scant clothing, I couldn't tell.

Next to Han Se-ah, whose head was roughly bouncing up and down in the wolf-kin's merciless grip, was Irene, being gently carried in the arms of what looked like a bull beast-kin. Grace and Katie, who could run on their own, were following behind, sprinting across the treetops.

...Could they be deliberately shaking Han Se-ah to get rid of the fire smell clinging to her body? Thinking of it that way, it looked like they were shaking out a shirt with cigarette smoke embedded in it.

"But what did you, urgh, find?!"

"Something suspicious."

"That's what I'm asking about!"

Unlike Irene, who was comfortably nestled in the arms of a muscular wolf lady who matched my height, Han Se-ah was tucked under a wolf beast-kin's arm with only her waist secured, her head and legs flapping up and down. Still, she managed to control her camera and ask questions.

Is this the skill of the world's #1 Heroes Chronicle player? She could control the camera drone, but couldn't stop her head from rattling, making it look like a scene from a variety show.

A face beautiful enough to stand next to celebrities or idols, jerking up and down a couple times per second. If she hadn't possessed a superhuman body—specifically, a player avatar with game adjustments—we'd have to worry about a concussion from how violently she was being shaken, worse than any amusement park ride.

"So, what did your friends find?"

"Something big! A strangely big stone!"

It seemed the wolf lady carrying Han Se-ah disliked the sticky oil smell too much to answer, so I asked the question instead.

The girl guiding me was as talkative and lively as she looked, immediately responding. Having inherited some animal characteristics, she explained that nocturnal beast-kin had gone out on patrol late at night and discovered a huge stone. ṙ𝐀ＮỒ𝐁Èś

I wondered what was special about a large stone, but then realized we were in a deep forest inhabited by forest fairies and beast-kin. With no rocky terrain, just fertile soil densely packed with trees, a large stone was indeed suspicious.

So I followed the slender cat tail swaying back and forth until we reached the large stone.

"...That's quite big, isn't it?"

"Big! Suspicious!"

"Huh, what's this? It looks exactly like an egg."

To be precise, it was a massive, round, egg-shaped rock that appeared to be about 3 meters tall.

Definitely suspicious as hell.

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An egg?

Anyone would say it's an egg, right?

An egg... from an animal that can lay something this big?

If such an animal existed in the forest, we would have seen it from our village.

Beast-kin natives, who had rushed over at the news that the nocturnal patrol had discovered something suspicious overnight, gathered around.

Thinking about it, the beast-kin present were elite warriors from the 66th floor who had detected the great fire on the 62nd floor and traveled a whole layer on foot. No wonder they acted so quickly and efficiently. They had all gathered within five minutes of our arrival at the giant stone.

But even after dozens of beast-kin and the Secret Terror, who had flown in after detecting the commotion, put their heads together, they couldn't figure out what this stone was.

"Wow, it really does look like an egg. How should I put it—like the kind of dragon egg you'd see in a cheap mass-produced mobile RPG where you light a fire and a dragon is born? 'We apologize and present you with a level 100 Red Dragon!' That kind of thing."

-We apologize for our mistake! Enter VIP9999 when logging in and you'll receive the legendary sword!

-Just like those video ads where you roast an egg in a campfire and a red dragon hatches and goes ROAAAR LOL

-I'm from another country but I understand what you're talking about, damn video platforms and their flood of canned ads

-How long has it been since translation AI was updated, and they're still manually running text through translators to chat?

-But the shape is too perfectly egg-like LOL Ignoring the spiky protrusions on the outside, it's just blatantly a stone egg?

Even though they hadn't figured anything out, it truly looked like an egg to anyone. Even if we showed a photo to a random elementary school student instead of beast-kin and wraiths, they'd probably ask, "Is this an egg?"

It maintained perfect balance on its egg-shaped body—wider at the bottom, narrower and more pointed at the top—embedded in the forest floor. Its surface had cracks resembling reptilian scales, so rather than a smooth egg, it looked like the kind of dragon egg you'd see in a mobile game.

The problem was its size.

'If this is an egg at this size, could it really be a dragon's egg?'

Its enormous size—over 3 meters—made it difficult to conclusively call it an egg. Ogres, known as giants, stood 5-6 meters tall. An egg—not even a juvenile creature—measuring 3 meters? If a beast that massive lived in the forest, surely either the forest fairies or beast-kin would know about it.

Yet it was also difficult to definitively say it wasn't an egg, because this was a fantasy world. This was a game about climbing a tower to fight the Demon Lord—wasn't it about time for a dragon to make an appearance?

"Roland, what do you think this is?"

"It looks like an egg... judging by its surface, rather than being laid by a creature, it might have formed from gathered mana, like how fairies are born."

"Hmm, true. There probably isn't an animal that could lay something this big."

With the appearance of the Four Heavenly Kings, it was half-confirmed that the Tower ended at the 100th floor. In that context, wouldn't the deep forest on the 65th floor be the perfect place for a dragon to appear?

Maybe they'd drop a dragon hook here, then after fighting the Orc Champion, we'd find traces of a dragon, and the next Heavenly King would be dragon-related... perhaps a corrupted dragon using evil magic—that kind of character appears frequently.

Still, I couldn't just blurt out "It's a dragon!" so I phrased it more diplomatically. The forest fairies and little fae were born from forest energy gathering under the World Tree, so maybe this was something similar.

"...Should we move this huge thing to the Magic Tower? Or should we invite mages from the Tower to set up a research camp here? Or could we put it in our inventory... ah damn, it doesn't seem like something we should move."

-Seems about time for a two-handed dragon mommy to appear. When will we see a dragon that's learned Polymorph?

-Maybe use the forest fairy emblems to open a gate and bring some Magic Tower geezers here to research it

-The imperialist who exploited native wraiths now sending old men into the deep forest... hmm... "Han Se-ah/Controversy/Elder Abuse" might get added to the list

-But those Magic Tower nerds wouldn't need to be forced—they'd jump like dogs at the mere mention of a dragon egg LOL

The enormous 3-meter size and the possibility it might be a gimmick meant we couldn't put it in our inventory. After all, hadn't the shadow fang tiger caused trouble with two named monsters when it brought the fairy seed?

One had been nicely roasted in the forest fire and one had been recruited to our side, but we needed to be more cautious this time. I didn't want to witness some invisible mother-dragon screaming ROOOOAR in rage after her egg was stolen.

As I was thinking this and looking around slowly, I locked eyes with someone.

"Hmm?"

-Kwek?

Not a native, but an orc secretly watching us from the forest.

...What now?

Enjoy the chappy!