I've Been Kicked Out of an S-Rank Guild. But Only I Can Communicate With Dragons. Before I Knew It, I Became the Greatest Dragon Knight - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[IvanDFakkov]

This doesn't make sense, though, if it's commonly understood that dragons can understand human languages. Horses can't, a dragon would be both much more capable than a horse in basically every regard and also much more easy to train, command, and take care of due to being able to understand humans. This would naturally result in humans treating them like intelligent pets or work animals and not like simple tools, because they aren't simple tools, and treating them like pets results in happier (and therefore more amenable) dragons and higher efficiency, and a guild like Lindwurm would never be able to outcompete one that treats dragons like pets. It's a problem with the world building that dragons are treated so poorly, this would never happen, especially not when dragons are so commonplace.

This is all aside from the fact that humans tend to anthropomorphize everything, and would naturally come to treat any animal that they could have a friendly relationship with as pets. I mean, really, how many people talk to their pets despite knowing fundamentally that their pets cannot understand human languages? This effect would be even more pronounced for an animal which could understand them, so on every level it's a huge problem that the relationship between humans and dragons is so poor.

Because animal abuse is very much a thing? You think just because they understand human language that humans will automatically treat them nicely? That's precious.

 

[Grevados]

This doesn't make sense, though, if it's commonly understood that dragons can understand human languages. Horses can't, a dragon would be both much more capable than a horse in basically every regard and also much more easy to train, command, and take care of due to being able to understand humans. This would naturally result in humans treating them like intelligent pets or work animals and not like simple tools, because they aren't simple tools, and treating them like pets results in happier (and therefore more amenable) dragons and higher efficiency, and a guild like Lindwurm would never be able to outcompete one that treats dragons like pets. It's a problem with the world building that dragons are treated so poorly, this would never happen, especially not when dragons are so commonplace.

This is all aside from the fact that humans tend to anthropomorphize everything, and would naturally come to treat any animal that they could have a friendly relationship with as pets. I mean, really, how many people talk to their pets despite knowing fundamentally that their pets cannot understand human languages? This effect would be even more pronounced for an animal which could understand them, so on every level it's a huge problem that the relationship between humans and dragons is so poor.

I like your optimism, but I have to disagree. Our own history shows us that humans are perfectly capable of being bastards to things that can speak and understand them if they think that thing is "lesser" than them, as evidenced by doing that very thing to human slaves for thousands of years across many different regions and cultures.

 

[Oeconomist]

While both “artefact” and “artifact” are accepted, “artefact” is more common in British English and “artifact” is more common in American English.

(At least one other American academic and I use “artifact” for a deliberate product of human art or workmanship, and “artefact” for something extraneous introduced by or resulting from a process of investigation.)

 

[dowiet]

Current resolution is fine. Manga that are super high-res I just end up zooming out on the website to make them about this size, anyway. Upscaling's really only necessary imo when the raws are too small to put text into readably.

edit: Also, I wonder if this is gonna end up biting Cyril later. There was nothing done to actually provide evidence of the handover, so I feel like once Cyril levels up more / Emma shows her true worth, the old guild's gonna come knocking again saying he has their property.

Spoiler: regarding that

In general there is some real garbage hovering around that guild so it really ends up biting them in the ass instead. They'll get their just punishment as time passes. Also ya there is some attempts at revenge from that Rui guy cuz well he really is an ass that happens to be weak. As for the property thing the guildmaster formally gave up the dragon to cyril because it was already deemed "useless" to him and he didn't want to really go through the trouble in keeping something not worth to him.

The sleeping mask does look quite cute.
Also dragon +1 as it was described since she is rather small those kinds of dragons are commonly trained to be skirmishers. Big things to happen soon!

 

[dowiet]

i don't get why they're so needlessly cruel to the dragons, especially if the dragons are intelligent enough to understand humans and have conversations with them. sure they can't talk to them like MC does but they can easily just use a pen or put signs on the ground and have the dragon point at them or something. being friendly with them would be so much more efficient.

Problem is they very much see them as machines and nothing more. It's been this way for a long time so there hasn't been any real reason to change their ways otherwise.

 

[AnonymousWeeaboo]

Because animal abuse is very much a thing? You think just because they understand human language that humans will automatically treat them nicely? That's precious.

Obviously they would not be treated like mere tools, and the utility of treating them well would inevitably win out, because well trained dragons are capable of independent action following highly complex orders without oversight and to a high degree of competency, and that in tasks ranging from delivery of mail to the mining of resources to large scale warfare. It simply doesn't make sense to treat them poorly. It would be like a king treating his entire country as expendable resources. We've had that in the past, we know how it turns out, they get out-competed by more competent rulers. That style of running things is unsustainable. That doesn't mean that everything will always be a utopia, but the society presented in this story woule never exist.

 

[AnonymousWeeaboo]

I like your optimism, but I have to disagree. Our own history shows us that humans are perfectly capable of being bastards to things that can speak and understand them if they think that thing is "lesser" than them, as evidenced by doing that very thing to human slaves for thousands of years across many different regions and cultures.

Slavery is unironically an argument in support of my position on this. Slaves were largely either purchased from other cultures where they were taken as prisoners of war or were raised in slave farms, or were taken as prisoners of war directly by a conquering group, and either way the slaves were highly lacking in competency and ability to communicate with the slave owners. Their labor efficiency was incredibly low and was only ever valuable for extremely low skill tasks, like managing crop fields by hand or digging in mines, and they always required heavy amounts of supervision to ensure they weren't lazing about. The moment any kind of industrial machinery made labor more efficient, it was no longer efficient to have slaves of any kind performing that kind of labor, and instead skilled employees were far, far more useful, and far, far more profitable. You will note the differences in agricultural practices of the North and South of the US during the first half of the 19th century, the North was more productive by far due to industrialization, which is why many would make the claim that the Civil War was not necessary to free the slaves and such a thing would have been inevitably accomplished by the economic development of the South instead, it just would have happened more slowly.

These dragons, meanwhile, are not only far more obedient than slaves, they are also far more skilled and efficient. These dragons would not be treated like slaves. They may not be treated well all the time, but as I have stated before, the utility of treating them well would win out. They're just too good, in every metric they are far too efficient for poor treatment to be the norm.

 

[hibikihora]

Thanks for the translation!

Like everyone else has said, both are correct. For a fantasy object with unknown purpose and powers, I'd say artefact sounds better.

Probably because it's much less used where I am, so it has an Old World feel to it.

 

[gearsky]

Two machine translators, two dictionaries, a grammar checker, and cross-referencing the novel. See, now that's the kind of actual legwork that makes MTL a perfectly adequate translation method. The true sin when it comes to MTL is letting the machine do all (or, at least, most) of the work.

Thank you for actually putting in the effort. It shows.

 

[lightning_97]

Someone please link the LN to me, I cannot find it for the life of me

 

[nonexistent696969]

wow, this is getting exciting