The Bone Dragon's loot (drop item) was a short tin (wand) named "The King Tin of the Dead Dragon".
　Apparently, by holding it up to a freshly made corpse, you can turn it into undead and use it as you wish.
　However, it will continue to consume quite a lot of MP during this process. If it can't sustain that, the undead monster will revert back to its original corpse. Once that happens, it seems that you can't undead a second time against the same corpse.
　It's a powerful special effect, but it's a difficult magic item to use.
　I really like the fact that it requires a little creativity.
　
　I think I'll keep it in my pocket after all.

The items that were dropped were powerful but not very useful, but defeating the bone dragons also gave me a great deal of experience.
　Thanks to this, I was level 30 in a flash.
　And I was able to learn the Flight that I'd always wanted!
　Yesterday, for example, as expected of me, I was so happy that I returned to my childhood. I was able to fly freely through the skies of Laxteria and get a bird's eye view of the royal capital from above.
　Also, I was able to break in from the roof tops, where I couldn't go before, and receive some of the items and coins that the scoundrels had accumulated, but, well, that's just the way I like it.

　But more importantly, we need to talk about the Levels.
According to the strategy book, the 30s are the domain of legendary figures.
　The founder of our academy, the great wizard Lester, is 34; the founder of the Rakstad Kingdom, Donnarna, who slaughtered vicious demons to seize his domain and establish a dynasty, is 31; and so on and so forth.
　And I've been aware of this since I was in the 20th level, but the higher you go, the harder the process of upgrading to the next level becomes.

　Boss monsters spew out tons of experience at once, so if you can catch them all at once, you'll be able to level up efficiently.
　Just like the time we killed the Bone Dragon, or the time we killed that destrent we'd been indebted to.
　According to the information in the strategy book, however, it is a rule that you can only level up to a monster's "level" + 1, no matter how many bosses you kill.
　No wonder I was stuck at 28 when I randomly captured a level 27 Destrent.
　On the other hand, if I could randomly catch a level 34 Bone Dragon, I could reasonably get to 35.
　But it would be a shame!
　That bone dragon is an alien species, from the continent where Rakstad's kingdom is located, not a native monster. Eventually they will be resurrected by the magical power of the Demon King Morlfy, and the details of the resurrection are written in this "Strategy Book", but as long as I'm in Rakstad, I can't touch them.
　As long as I'm on the island, we can't do anything about it. Hmmm.....

　Then the only way to level up is to hunt small fry monsters, but this is also difficult.
　They spit out too little "experience value".
　For example, I calculated with the skeleton soldier I kicked out the other day that I'd have to hunt 10 million of them to get to level 31.
　10,000,000?
　Let's say we hunted 3,000 animals a day (I'm sick of it just imagining it!)
　Yeah, I can't do this.

　In order to defeat the Demon King Morl-Fi, I'm going to leave the Kingdom of Rakstad at some point and head for the next place, but before that, I'd like to do everything I can in Rakstad.
　In order to do it all, I want to be at least level 32.
　I had such a blueprint in my head.
　Two more levels to go. This is........far!

　I was groaning in bed at the inn, reading the "strategy book".
　And then I learned some new information.
There's a concept called "sub-quests" that I'm not familiar with in our world.
　In this book, the journey to defeat the Demon King Morlfy is defined as the "main quest", while the various incidents and requests from people in trouble along the way are referred to as "sub-quests".
　Sub quests are not to be taken lightly. They are so important that you'll find an entire chapter on them in this "Strategy Book".
　In fact, it is said that you can gain experience by completing these sub-quests.
　But it didn't save anyone's life or give any rewards.
　Moreover, although this sub-question was inferior to defeating bosses, it was far more efficient than hunting down mooks.
　I'll just have to do it.
　Until now, I've completed sub-quests with the sole intention of saving the poor girl in Enzo Village, or just because it was a good opportunity to obtain Bazelnut's Hammer.
　But from today onwards, I'll need to actively take on and complete subquests for a while.

　I wonder what sub-quests are available in Rakstad, so I search through the index.
"Bunabia Cave Survey Request" and "Do you have any exposition? "Please!　'Defeating Vampires'........there is, there is.
　So because the Demon King Morlfy appeared on earth, there are so many people and incidents in trouble in the world. So the lid of the cauldron of hell has been opened, huh?
　I get it.
　I'll save them one by one.
　And I'll earn the experience and the rewards as well.
　I think we've made up our minds.

　I close the strategy book and get up out of bed.
　It's about time.
　I need to visit the royal castle in Laxtia.
　With the Bone Dragon dead, there are no more undead monsters in the great tunnels of Megolaus, and mining is once again possible. Mining was once again possible.
　The King of Rakstad has invited me to his castle and is throwing a dinner party for me tonight.
　It's going to be a real pain in the ass.