Raon Miru

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## Raon Miru

### Name

Raon Miru
Raon Mir (Official translation)
라온 미르

### Relatives

Lord Sheritt (mother)† Unnamed Red Dragon (brother)

### Affiliations

Cale Henituse
Henituse Family
Eruhaben

## Physical Description

### Height

>1.15 meters
>1.20 meters

## Appearances

### First Appearance

Chapter 19 (Novel)Chapter 18 (Manhwa)

**Raon Miru** (라온 미르), Korean for "Joyful Dragon."

A six-year-old black dragon (four years old at the beginning of the story) who followed Cale ever since he was saved by him. As with any other dragon, Raon possesses destructive impulses, however, he is one of the few who seek communication and camaraderie.

## Appearance

He is a cute black, scaled dragon with blue eyes. He is about 1 meter long and 20 centimeters wide (later over 1.2 meters). He has plump cheeks and is a little pudgy due to being well-fed and taken care of ever since joining Cale's group.

## Personality

When Cale first freed Raon from the cave, he was totally biased and hated humans and didn't trust anyone or anything, often being on guard and avoiding communication or contact, but the more he continued traveling alongside Cale and his group, he soon learnt how to trust and open himself up to other humans and beings.

Along the way, Raon shows that he could be immature and cute, but that he is also able to become serious when the time calls for it. He is incredibly protective of his family and feels that Cale is very weak and constantly needs his protection—this made him become something akin to Cale's personal guard.

Raon has been shown to start taking after Cale. He also starts to develop a scammer mindset (or a strategist brain), under the tutelage of Master Cale. Raon gets excited over things such as free stuff, gold coins, food, talk of destruction, destroying things, and wicked smiles.

He is unlike any other dragon and is friendly and caring, which is the complete opposite of most dragons who are aloof and arrogant. However, there are times that Raon could be a bit of a tsundere—for example, when it comes to his desires, happiness and pride for his name.

Raon often feels a sense of kinship with those that have gone through similar experiences like his imprisonment—his liking of Mary is a good example. And as a result of the life he lived before, Raon feels hatred towards practices of imprisonment or slavery, but on the other hand, another result of that life made Raon value goodness and teamwork, because it was one of the reasons why he was rescued in the first place.

## Plot

### Original Plot

In the original novel, "The Birth of a Hero," Raon was a nameless black dragon who was kidnapped by the White Star's organization as a mere dragon egg. The egg was obtained and hatched by Marquis Stan, who then bound the dragon with mana-restricting chains. He was secretly tortured every day by the Marquis' successor, Venion, after his birth. This was all done in the hopes of training the dragon to obey Marquis Stan's orders. Eventually at 4 years of age, the dragon taps into his own life-force to break the mana chains, then escapes and goes berserk, destroying his mountain prison and threatening the innocent village that Choi Han happens to be staying in at the time. Though feeling pity for the crazy dragon, Choi Han ultimately decides to put it out of its misery by killing it.

### Current Plot

In the current story, Raon was also kidnapped as an egg and tortured by Venion Stan. This time, however, Cale visits the village near the dungeon where he is being held, taking along Choi Han with the express mission of either freeing him or allowing Choi Han to kill him before he can pose a danger.

Ultimately, Cale decides to free him and sets him loose after giving him a pep talk about being strong and surviving, which causes Raon to take an interest in Cale and follow him. Raon does not actually have a name until much later in the novel, when he asks Cale to choose a name for him.

He has just went through his 1st growth phase, awakening the attribute of "**Present**": the moment when things can change among many possibilities which allow unlimited growth.

The White Star is trying to kill him to obtain his dragon heart and to prevent the rise of another Dragon Lord (since Raon is the child of the last Dragon Lord).

## Known Inventory

* Slices of apple pie
* Cale's communication device
* Freesia's devil like sculptures
* On, Hong, and his piggy banks
* Silver and gold coins (monetary allowance from Cale)
* Seed obtained from Magic Tower which revealed to be mana storage device. It was then moved to Rosalyn’s lab.
* Cale's Top's Whip

## Growth Phase (Chapter 235-257)

Dragons go through three different growth phases to become an adult. The first growth phase does not have any physical changes. Instead, it prepares the foundations for the second and third growth phases. That is why although there would be no physical changes, the amount of mana the Dragon can store and use would grow. After their second growth phase, they would be able to use skills like, ‘Breath.’

In a dragon's first growth phase, they are supposed to beat their future self by awakening their attribute (their plate is also formed in this period). Raon's first growth phase happened just before the battle against the Indomitable Alliance in the Gorge of Death. While in the phase, he could not do anything except listening to others talking while he was tested in his dream. Raon however, as he remembered what Cale said to him before, decided to run away by flying as far as he could to the outer sky from a foe that he couldn't beat. This caused his plate to shatter and allowed him to gain an abstract and very powerful attribute self-described as "The Present", a time-based attribute whose details are yet to be known or used. Eruhaben also notes that "the whole world became his plate" the moment it shattered.

## Trivia

* Raon's name was inspired by Kim Rok Soo's friend, Choi Jung Soo, who once had been reading a book on pure Korean words in order to find a fitting name for the new sword art he was planning on creating. Cale happened to catch a glimpse of a few pages that Choi Jung Soo was reading and remembered the two words he saw *(ㄹ, and ㅁ—i.e. 'Raon' and 'Miru')* many years later, when the time came for him to give Raon a name.
* Raon would give tear-soaked apple pie slices to Cale whenever Cale overused his powers or got hurt.
* Raon—as well and On and Hong—likes to sleep on top of or very close to Cale.
* Raon also serves as Cale's GPS.
* Raon's favourite food is beef steak.
* Raon, On and Hong are usually referred to by Cale as "the children averaging X years old" *(X being the current average age of the 3 of them).*
* Because he loves apple pies and always keeps some in his inventory, it became something of a meme.
* Raon tends to give nicknames to those he cares about. However, despite meeting so many humans after being freed, he would only ever call Cale Henituse, "Human." (Most of the time it's "weak human")
* Raon enjoys breaking things like destroying the Magic Tower.
* Raon stayed as an egg for a minimum of 9,000 years.
* Raon instantly knows how to use something that he has learned, and is described as a "genius" both by himself and Eruhaben. He learnt things in one month which Eruhaban planned to teach him in three months.
* The first time Raon ever referred to Cale as "Cale" was in Chapter 67 and then in chapter 305.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 165
2. ↑ Chapter 35
3. ↑ Chapter 168
4. ↑ Chapter 255
5. ↑ Chapter 10
6. ↑ Chapter 67
7. ↑ Chapter 416
8. ↑ Chapter 273