Vainqueur the Dragon

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Trapped in Another World: The gods of Outremonde tend to grab mortals from Earth and send them to their homeworld for a variety of reasons. It's reached the point where the natives treat it as an uncommon, but completely normal, occurrence. There's even a religion offering the faithful resurrection on Earth, led by reincarnator Orknoob.

Plot Armor: Parodied in the form of the literal Plot Armor, which makes its wearer effectively immortal as long as they remain Good-aligned. It's also origami made from cheesy writing, and it forces its wearer to spout equally cheesy True Companions-related lines.Enlightened Self-Interest: After discovering how the System can make him even more money to add to his hoard, Vainqueur becomes an adventurer fighting evil faeries and demons, renovating villages, and killing bandits. It's not out of any sense of "kindness", but instead to gain levels to increase the size of his hoard so he can brag about it to the other dragons. I tamed him,” Vainqueur made a face. Even if that talking cat was probably the Marquise, she didn’t smell like a princess. She didn’t even smell like a virgin! Not worth adding to his hoard. Still, since she was noble blood, Vainqueur deigned answer directly. “I am Vainqueur Knightsbane, King of the Albain Mountains, great calamity of this age! You sent ruffians after my silver rapier treasure, interrupting my long nap. I thereby demand half your cattle as restitution for the trouble caused, alongside the one thousand gold coins you offered for my possession.” Sigrun, thank you,” Wotan said, with a tone that reminded Vainqueur of how he often spoke to his prized chief of staff. “Now leave, and live.” Dragon Tamer: While ostensibly their servant, Victor learns how to get the titular dragon to fit into society. Vainqueur is the story of a powerful, wildly vain, and surprisingly clueless dragon named Vainqueur who learns his world was ALWAYS an RPG world. He, like all other dragons, was just too far up his own ass to notice. When a thief named Victor carelessly spills the beans while trying to rob his horde, Vainqueur gains a class and realizes he can rake in the gold as an adventurer. He press gangs Victor into being his “minion” and sets out to get rich and settle an old score.

These good for nothing upstarts? They always claim they made the world when everyone knows dragons did it first. Tell me where I can find and reprimand them.” Liar!” Vainqueur roared, his voice causing the ceiling to tremble, “You must have fought past an army of goblins to get there!”Vainqueur’s minion reappeared behind the protective barrier, trapping them between their own shield and himself. Book opens with a dragon waking up from a short nap of 50 years to find someone trying to steal something from his hoard. He is, naturally, annoyed. The human accidentally revealed a particular layer to the reality of that world that the dragon hadn't previously been aware of: levels and leveling. Characters can advance and get "levels" and "clases" and "perks" and . . . stuff. It's a litrpg book. A gaming book. Just by being made aware of this level thingie, the dragon gains a class. And when he learned why the human was there, not for the dragon's gold, but to complete a quest - get a sword, then get paid gold, the dragon is very interested. Someone would pay him gold? To do stuff? Pay him to eat stuff? He's an immortal dragon! The greatest and stuff! I had to do it, minion,” Vainqueur told his friend, who looked at the statue in horror—horror at her treachery. “They lusted for my gold with their greedy eyes, then tried to turn me into treasure… after I gave them a minion job! Do you know the unemployment rate among your kind, Manling Victor? You do not, and you do not want to know. While I achieved full employment!” Midas Touch: The "Curse of Greed" grants this power to those who fall subject to it, along with making them increasingly obsessive and paranoid so that they'll intentionally use it, even on their former friends. Eventually they become so obsessed with gold that they deliberately turn themselves into gold statues.