novelzi Chapter 193 : Chapter 193
Chapter 193 : Chapter 193
Chapter 193The golden aura flew through the sky and struck the Gray Demon's back squarely. The creature's armor-like body was quite sturdy, so the aura couldn't cut through the armor and exploded, sending the Gray Demon rolling a few times and crashing to the ground.
“Kieeeeeek!”
A screeching scream, whether of pain or anger, erupted from the creature's mouth.
The Gray Demon instantly turned its body and started running towards Karl. The creature, with a nearly perfect humanoid body, a torso about 1.5 times larger than a human's, and a body made like armor as if wearing full plate, flew in and transformed its arm into a greatsword, swinging it at Karl.
Woooooong!
“Aura…?”
This Gray Demon was clearly emitting a gray aura. The gray aura rising above the disgusting energy it originally had was emitting an energy similar to a normal aura.
Woooooong!
Karl's golden aura and the stage 5 Gray Demon's aura clashed.
“…”
The aura stopped. The gray aura did not contain a very strong aura energy, but when it was combined with the disgusting power used by the Gray Demon, it blocked Karl's aura.
Seeing the creature that should have been cut down long ago raising its momentum even more strongly, Karl was able to deduce one fact.
They were growing.
The Gray Demons had come to this world and were growing more and more. In particular, these stage 5 creatures had a tremendous growth rate. To be using aura so soon after appearing on the continent.
‘Cut it.’
A strong feeling rose up that he shouldn't let the creature escape from here. Karl raised the power of the aura imbued with Laevateinn another level and wrapped the aura in flames.
Based on the memory of having summoned a pure flame using the flame and magical power of Laevateinn in the past, Karl's creation, which combined aura and magic, bloomed on his sword.
[Karl Meyer Style. Union. Inferno]
The mystical-colored aura, enveloped in gold and blue light, split and burned the Gray Demon's aura. And the Gray Demon touched by the inferno was split in half on the spot and scattered as ashes.
Karl stared at the Gray Demon, which now had no trace to be found, for a long time, and then looked at the stone slab that had been split in half.
[Soon… coming….]
From the few letters left on the stone slab that had been split and had lost its function, Karl guessed that he would soon meet the being above the heads of the enemy gray monsters.
And so, Karl slowly spurred his horse on the path he had to go again. As if slowly savoring the scenery that might really be the last, Silver, carrying him, continued to move without stopping.
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“Lord… shouldn’t we also go out into the world?”
In a huge cave, about 10 people were sitting in their respective chairs, looking at each other.
Among them, the handsome man with golden hair was listening to the others' stories in silence.
”Demons have appeared on the continent. Although that Transcendent named Karl is said to have repelled the demons, there are still various beings brazenly roaming the continent. That’s not all. Those things that humans call Gray Demons. We have no idea where those monsters that appeared in our territory a while ago came from.“
The blue-haired beauty continued to speak to the blond man called Lord.
“We are not rejecting the Lord's will not to interfere with the continent as much as possible. Don't you know well, Lord?”
Due to the restrictions they had made themselves, at some point, even the traces of dragons had disappeared from the continent.
Because the power of each of their individuals was so strong, they knew all too well that even a single dragon could change the entire history of the continent, and thanks to that, the dragons had made a pact among the various species not to interfere in the history of the continent after a certain incident.
Even if they went out into the world, they would thoroughly hide the fact that they were dragons and would soothe the hunger in their hearts by living as one of the members of the world.
However, now, as the blue dragon Peña said, a crisis that they had never experienced before was sweeping the continent. Things like the descent of demons or the invasion of monsters were abnormal signs that even the dragons had not experienced in their long years.
Moreover, it was the first time that they didn't even know the cause.
“We will watch a little longer for now.”
“Lord…! By that time, there may be nothing left in the world.”
“If so, that too will be their history.”
The golden-haired Dragon Lord, Desmond Elliot, had no intention of bending his opinion despite the stories of the other dragons.
“Why do you try to distance yourself from the world so much, Lord. Have you still not forgotten the memories of the past?”
Desmond looked blankly at the person who had poked him with a familiar tone, unlike the others.
It was the red-haired dragon, the Red Dragon Agnitus, who always lived his life according to his own opinions.
“Isn’t it all because of that that you’re not becoming the real Lord, and you can’t go out into the world?”
“Agnitus, everything is always so easy for you.”o the dragon council meeting.”
“Dragons have meetings too?”
“Of course, the elder dragon-grade or the heads of each species all attend. Once they go to a meeting, they are away for a week, so if you wait a few days, I think they will come.”
After getting good information thanks to Milen, Karl continued to move towards Agnititus' lair with her. On the way, Milen chattered away about something next to Karl, as if she were a sparrow.
“Have you not met anyone to talk to recently?”
“Eh…? That is….”
After parting with Karl, she had her coming-of-age ceremony, and for a few months, she hadn't had the chance to meet someone and talk.
In fact, the dragon who had gone through the stormy period of 999 years old when she had gone out into the human world had talked without a moment's rest.
Since there had been no such occasion after the coming-of-age ceremony, she seemed to have become talkative without realizing it.
Moreover, there was also the influence of her becoming more feminine after her gender was clearly decided.
“Ah… I’m sorry… I must have been talking a lot without realizing it.”
Karl answered by nodding his head and continued to move towards Agnitus' lair.
As they moved for a long time, the two of them continued to walk in silence. Perhaps because she had been given a hint once, Milen also just moved her lips and couldn't say anything else.
“Just talk.”
“Yes?”
And so, at some point while moving in silence again, Karl threw out a single word as if it were passing by on his horse.
“What did you say?”
Even though she had heard everything, she asked Karl again.
“Just, talk.”
Karl left a single word with an expressionless face and the same tone.
“Ah… yes!!”
And after that short single word, Milen began to open all the story bags she had been holding back until now.
“So, what I said when I saw that human bothering the old man back then was.”
She really continued to talk without a break. It was also a skill that the content of the story could change continuously.
“Just a moment, I’ll just drink this and continue.”
Perhaps because she had talked so much, when she got thirsty, she would pour water into a cup she took out from her subspace with magic, gulp it down, and then move her mouth again.
“It's true that people were less afraid of me when I did that. Come to think of it, when I visited the second village, you know. Oh, by the way, in that second village, there was a house that made really delicious bread. The owner of that bakery had three children, and the first of them was….”
It was like this. The endlessly continuing story, Karl sincerely regretted having opened Milen’s mouth.
After passing a listening time that was close to torture, Karl was finally able to arrive at Agnitus' lair. As Milen had said, Agnitus was not in sight, as if he had gone to a meeting.
However, in the masterless house, he felt the presence of uninvited guests.