I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

chapter 1
The story of the hero defeating the villain and rescuing the heroine is always enduring.

For example, a mustache dressed like a plumber, defeating a villain with a spiked turtle shell on his back, and rescuing a princess whose duty is to be captured by bad guys.

Another example is a certain swordsman who often wears a green hat and green clothes, and whose name is always misunderstood, defeats the persistent demon king who reincarnates to make trouble time and time again, and rescues a princess whose name is widely known.

One of the most classic fairy tale templates is like this. The knight killed the dragon and rescued the trapped princess from the dragon's tower. Congratulations, congratulations.

But if Li Yuan, who has just traveled through it now, evaluates this "Dragon Quest" story, he has only one feeling:
"Congratulations to your mother!"

He was "fortunate" to travel to such a story, and "fortunately" to become an important character in it.

But now there are two problems bothering him, first...

"Why did I become the dragon that stole the princess?"

In the hall of the tower building, Li Yuan turned his snake-like neck, looked at his huge body covered with red scales with his slender amber pupils, and finally accepted the fact helplessly.

This is not a dream, he crossed over and became a red dragon named Helganon.

And soon, he will be killed by a group of knights who came to save the princess.

But another problem is...

"I thought I didn't snatch the princess either?" He murmured in his heart.

He has completely inherited the memory of the red dragon Helganon, but in the memory of the red dragon, there is no such thing at all.

There is no princess in the tower he lives in, which has become a ruin, and the living creatures in it are probably only worms except for his red dragon.

Calm down, think about it again!
He took a deep breath and once again sorted out the memories inherited in his mind.

Helganon, a newly grown red dragon, occupies the ruins of a high tower on the edge of the Breeze Forest at the junction.

Like other evil dragons, it likes to burn, kill, loot, and search for treasures, but at the same time, it also pays attention to the rules of survival. It only picks weak prey, and will not provoke some objects that it can't afford.

What he likes to do the most is sleep on the treasure in the cellar. He is a very standard dragon.

Then one day, an injured female knight suddenly broke into the ruins where he lived. Helganon chose to meet the intruder without hesitation, and fought with the female knight.

The female knight was quite capable of fighting, and she resisted tenaciously when she was injured. Before she was killed by him, she also left him with a lot of damage.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle was over, another group of knights suddenly broke into the ruins and killed them out of nowhere.

The already scarred Helganon was outnumbered and finally died under the siege of the knights.

Before consciousness faded, Helganon heard a knight shout:

"The evil dragon Kuja who robbed Her Royal Highness has been eliminated! Go search out all the treasures here, and smash the evil dragon's lair!!"

In Helganon's memory, "Kuja" is what humans call him, and these knights are coming for him.

——This is the last memory of Helganon.

It is also what will happen in half an hour.

Yes, in half an hour.

Li Yuan looked at the huge mechanical grandfather clock that was still running on the wall in the hall of the tower building. The current time was about 10:[-].

And Helganon happened to see the clock just before he died, and it was four fifty.

This memory was clearly imprinted in his mind, and at the same time, a strong thought made him extremely sure that this would undoubtedly happen in the near future!
Either he foresaw the future death after traveling to replace the original owner, or, Helganon had been killed, and then some kind of power made the time go back half an hour, and the soul was replaced by him.

It's a big joke to be inexplicably time-traveled after sleeping, and to face the danger of death immediately!

The problem must be with the book...

He fixed his gaze on a book lying on the ground.

The cover of the book is dark brown, made of unknown material, with bark-like texture.

This old book does not exist in Helganon's memory.

In other words, it suddenly appeared here along with Li Yuan's time travel, and nine out of ten are directly related to his time travel.

Do some research, maybe you can find a way to travel back!

Inexplicably turned into a big lizard and then hacked to death by a group of knights, who the hell can stand it?
He reached out to the book...or his front paws, and immediately realized that the book for a human was too small for a dragon.

Transfiguration!
A concept of the ability that he controlled in his memory immediately came to mind. This is an innate ability that dragons can learn as they grow older, and can make themselves change into a humanoid form.

Helganon has this ability, but he rarely uses it. Most dragons are proud of their powerful bodies, and they are very resistant to becoming weak creatures.

But Li Yuan, who used to be a human, was naturally not so hypocritical. He tried hard to recall the steps of transfiguration, and started to try it directly.

A numb feeling ran through his whole body, his huge body collapsed quickly, a force pulled his muscles and bones to change shape, in a blink of an eye he became a human, and a part of dragon scales became a set of leather armor and a cloak to cover him.

Now he can finally reach out and pick up the book from the ground to read it.

The first thing that appears in the book is a double-page picture.

The left page shows a lifelike red dragon with his own name next to it, and the name "Helganon" is additionally written below in dragon script.

On the right side, there is a dilapidated tower, which seems to be the ruins where he lives now, and the name of the tower is written in another strange text beside the tower: Endless Tower.

This text did not exist in the memories of Li Yuan himself and Helganon, but he clearly recognized it.

Then there is a distinct chain connecting the dragon painted on the left with the tower on the right.

What does this chain mean?
Li Yuan couldn't understand.

He carefully observed every corner of these two pages, and found no other useful information, so he turned a page.

On the next page, there is a circular and complicated magic circle. On this page, the endless tower drawn on the previous page has a faint ink mark, appearing in the magic circle like a background.

The interface of the magic circle is black and white, only a fan-shaped area with an acute angle is painted dark red.

Then there is a line of small words written in that mysterious text below the magic circle: the current repair level is 4/100
Four percent repair?Is it this tower?
Li Yuan thought to himself.

He looked at the page on the right again. The style of this page was a bit like a menu or a table of contents, and it was the same kind of text, which said——

Permissions have been opened:
【Rebirth】

【housekeeper】

【warder】

……

Among the three lines that appeared, the word "Rebirth" was gray, and only "Steward" and "Watcher" were written in black and white.

There seemed to be some content behind it, but only a few scattered blots of ink that were not at all decipherable.

He turned it back again, and there was either a little ink stain left behind, or it was completely blank.

Li Yuan's heart sank after reading it. It seemed that there was only a little bit of content related to this tower written on it, and there was no information that seemed to be related to time travel.

He turned back to the page of "magic circle" and "opened authority", and crossed the words with his finger in doubt.

Rebirth, steward, watcher... What do these so-called permissions mean?
Then, when his fingers touched the words [Housekeeper], the words lit up, and at the same time, somewhere in the cellar suddenly vibrated.

Li Yuan followed the sound in surprise, and saw a large mass of earth and rock protruding from the ground, lifting several floor tiles in the hall.

The mass of soil and rocks emerging from the ground quickly changed its shape, and gathered into a short human figure half the height of a man, and then respectfully half-kneeled down to salute Li Yuan, and at the same time made a voice without cadence:

"At your call, my lord, your faithful servant is at your service!"

　It is customary to follow up on new books.

　　Friendly reminder: This book is not a genre of alien beasts. The male protagonist will change into a human being and accept female protagonists of various races. Readers who have strict requirements in this regard should read carefully.

　　The world view is not dnd, so don't forcefully copy the settings of other works.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)