NOVEL SIMPLE Unnecessary complex lore
While Eric laboriously carried the spaceship on his back and flew to Mruim, the crew quickly worked on repairing the ship. Eli was really idle, she constantly chatted with Eric through the loudspeaker, even though Eric couldn't talk back. This captain was too talkative!
But Eric got some good information from it, "Hans was last spotted in Murim, so we hope we can find him there. Don't worry, Howl, you can see Hans soon and I'll tell him of your amazing feats!"
Eric was still treated as a pet dragon! See this 20-metre awesomeness of an OP dragon? No, obviously you don't, you blind girl!
Crying in his head, Eric continued to move forward. On their way, more mages came to obstruct and obliterate them but one fireball of Eric's scared them shitless away. Where did they all come from? But well, in order to win the war, they had to be at least this tenacious.
The only unfortunate downside was the fact Eric's dragon speed wasn't as fast as the lightspeed warp of the spaceship. To travel from one planet to another took a long journey. Intergalactic travelling, something Eric had never done before.
As a successful person on earth, he travelled to every single country. As a cursed one to travel to another world, the demon world. And now as an unlucky but also lucky victim, the story granted him the superior travel of all travels!
Space travelling! Planet travelling! No wait, dimensional travels was the ultimate- no, wasn't he basically travelling between dimensions? Did these stories count as dimensions? Did it matter if they were fiction or not?
So, in a nutshell, Eric already experienced all forms of travelling there was. Oh, how wonderful. Even the most ambiguous and blessed person could never attain this kind of exciting journey. Didn't Eric almost experience everything there was? With these students' stories, Eric had so many more opportunities to live lives only bound to fantasy. What bliss! Readers and authors would get so jealous!
Anyways, Eric's hard labour soon came to a stop. With this story's advanced technology, the spaceship was soon repaired and Eric returned to his pet form, reduced to lying on Eli's lap and petted like a king.
It was good to be rewarded. And since Eric was a human, stuck inside a dragon, he fortunately still could eat human food. And frankly, the human food here was damn delicious! Who cared about super dragon treats now? Although they were very tasty as well. Cough. Cough.
Three days later, they finally arrived in Murim. From space, the planet didn't look any different than earth. The only difference was the earth's blue planet was brown for Murim, meaning Murim was more desert- and earth-like as opposed to the oceans earth was blessed with.
In other words, Murim was a dry planet. No beaches for this dragon to enjoy. Fine, Eric was here to edit the story and not a rich tourist.
The spaceship was parked in an open, protected area on the outskirts of the capital. Sure enough, Murim looked like those martial-arts descriptions. Compared to other huge, technology advancements Eric came with, Murim was completely void of any. People lived the old-fashioned and ambitious way.
The streets were sandy grounds, the houses made out of wood and stalls graced every corner. People in simple cotton clothes and sandals walked around with buckets of water and children all played with balls and enjoyed the fresh air. In Leon's story, Eric was used to the medieval-like environment but now it was old-eastern flavour.
Eric sighed. He just wanted a convenient phone and internet story. Have a toilet that flushed and normal baths and showers, but in Murim here, you have to flush your dung with water manually and shower with buckets of water...
Eric hoped they didn't stay for too long. If things were dire, he'd rather do his business in the spaceship because everything was super modern there! Then Eric realised there wasn't even a need for this worry, because- he was a dragon! Where and how should he poop and pee? How should he wash himself? He... he had no idea! A major obstacle appeared!
Murim didn't have kings or a government, however, it had Lords managing different areas. This was a martial arts world where one dojo sprouted next to the other and nothing more was important than a master and disciple relationship. Of course, this Murim was different from the one known on earth. It came from a demon's fantasy after all.
So, who was the highest ruling being in this world? It wasn't the Lords. Even the Lords were governed by the hidden yet known 'Alliance of Martial Gods'.
And this alliance of Martial Gods headquarters was in the capital where right now, the servants greeted the king and co.
Eric looked around the HQ. He had at least a tiny bit of ridiculous hope of it being modern but actually, it wasn't. However, the HQ was 20 floors high and incredibly large. One floor was as large as three football fields. It was also more comfortable than the normal wooden houses.
The ground floor was the entrance while the other floors were either the meeting rooms or places for them to reside. The 10 gods of the alliance were always busy and spread around the whole world. When they arrived, the king, Eli and some other important people were brought to the fourth floor.
The other crew members stayed in the spaceship. Eric naturally was dragged along, whenever he had the chance, he tried to escape but Eli was faster, "Don't run. Grandfather will find Hans, so stay here. It's safe."
Eric blanked. It turned out Eli was a princess and the king her grandfather! Her parents died and now it was the king who took care of this princess!
"Have they not arrived yet?" sitting in the meeting room the old king spoke up and the servants flustered said, "I apologise, your majesty, however, the gods are not currently here. We've received words that they will be soon back. For now, please rest in the rooms."
And so, everyone was ushered to the sixth floor to rest after waiting for an hour.
The servant continued, "We are terribly sorry to the guests of new earth and hope you can forgive our rudeness. If there's anything, please let us know. Lunch will be served soon."
New earth? Eric's head hurt, this story was more complicated than he thought! So, Murim was its own planet and new earth as well, this was where the spaceship people came from. Even the mages from another planet?
Luckily, Eric soon got his answer. While Eli was finally asleep, Eric snuck out and found servants gossiping with worries. In the kitchen they sat and cut veggies, "Is it ok for the new earthers to be here? What if they bring the magicers?"
"If only things were easy and peaceful! Theyshould keep this cyberwar between themselves and not drag all other planets with them!"
The other servants agreed. Eric who hid behind the door was even more confused but a new servant gave Eric exposition, "Why are they at war?"
"Young one, you haven't heard? Far back in the past, on one earth, the new earthers and magicers lived together. Some could use magic while others don't. Then something happened and they disagreed with each other. There was then a split between those who could use magic and those who developed technology to match the mages. Since earth was not livable anymore, the technology advanced people fled to a new planet, what's known as new earth now and the mages to another plant known as magic."