Chapter 127 – Ep.8 – Road to Lemune (2)
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As their wagon progressed, Delrin could keenly feel what the vibrations had just been.
“Wow…”
Wagons torn to shreds, horses,
The sight of the knights moaning between them…
It was like a scene after a disaster.
Everyone was down
Everyone was moaning.
“Hey. Don’t treat it. It’ll be annoying if you follow me later.”
Even as they walk among the wounded, the women still argue, unable to agree.
Rico stops Helen from offering healing prayers for her wounded, but Helen just smiles and asks for her understanding.
“Don’t worry. They probably won’t be waking up for a while. But as we pray to God, we can’t ignore the dying…”
“That’s fucking shit. Is it okay to smoke a cigar and have a drink while praying to God?”
Delrin and the others grumble and walk, but unlike before, there is tension between them.
They watch their surroundings as they walk directly on the road that has become so messed up that they can’t even get on the wagon.
“Everyone be careful! It must be as strong as this Kaede. I’m sure it is.”
“It’s noisy, so just walk quietly…! Don’t spit out useless words!”
“Professor, can’t we just fly on a broomstick…?”
“No. If you provoke him by mistake, things will get more difficult. It’s better to walk quietly.”
Delrin and Eva, who have little fighting power, are in the middle, and Neva and Kaede lead the way.
After that, Rico and Chichi.
And Helen at the back.
“Do you see those claw marks?”
When Helen pauses, she points somewhere and calls everyone.
“There, on the overturned wagon on the left, there are claw marks.”
Even though it is a wagon the size of a house, it is shattered by the marks of three claws.
Inferring from that, one claw is bigger than Delrin’s body…
“Um, what the hell is that…?”
Delrin can’t overcome her growing insecurities due to the sharp clue and seeks answers from her women.
“…”
It was Kaede who answered that question.
“…A dragon. A dragon has come.”
Kaede smiled for the first time and spoke.
The smile and liveliness that never left her lips had disappeared.
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It was all the more miserable because it was a disaster that happened in broad daylight.
Only moaning flowed on the road lined with blood and pain.
The sight seemed to warn of the frailty of human life and death.
It wasn’t like an ordeal.
It was a disaster.
The knights of Albator, who wore the same armor as Neva, were incapacitated and were lying on the ground.
As they continued to walk, Dwarven warriors also began to mix among the wounded.
“Everyone gathered and waited. I don’t know if it’s a dragon or what, but they helped us anyway.”
“It was luck. They probably wanted to target the encamped knights rather than a wagon.”
Riko and Chichi walk by looking at each other, analyzing the situation in each other’s scenery.
Neva, who moves forward, rather walks silently.
“…”
Pushing past her familiar faces, she walks.
In her mind, there is no place for former colleagues, or her juniors, or her subordinates.
Neva walks her way, lost in her own thoughts…
Riko is leading the conversation on behalf of the female knight who is becoming a little strange.
“Hey, bastard. Can you fight a dragon?”
“…I don’t know.”
Unlike usual, even cheerful Kaede is trembling with fear, so the forced conversation only amplifies the fear between them.
“…He fights well with legless kids, but he’s scared. Stupid.”
“It’s different. This, it’s different…”
A different fear from the monster twins of the swampland that they fought before.
If they were close to monsters or ghosts, the existence of a dragon is like a disaster that they dare not do anything about.
‘It’s a dragon…’
Delrin also feels the fear of dragons.
But this one, unlike the other women, is awe mixed with fear.
Recalling the dragons he has seen in all kinds of fantasy cartoons and movies, Delrin wonders what a dragon would look like and what kind of existence it would be.
If she recalls the flight of it that roared all over the land, wouldn’t she surely be as magnificent and massive as the dragon she thought she was?
Breathing fire from her mouth, destroying castles with the flap of her wings…
Won’t it swallow everything with its ignorant teeth?
When she sees the scene lined up around her, fear suddenly springs up, but on the other hand, she also has a strange expectation that she will be able to face the dragon herself.
In a way, wouldn’t that be her vague belief in the dragon that easily defeated the enemies the queen sent?
“Hey…ぅ… “
However, contrary to Delrin’s pounding fear,
The fear of the little witch walking alongside her makes it difficult for her to even walk properly.
“Yo, yo, yo… Dragon…”
Blue and weeping, Eva unknowingly grabs the hands of those around her. Delrin in her left hand and Rico in her right.
“Yo, yo, yo…”
“Hey, what are you afraid of?”
Since Rico is in a position to hate her strange behavior, she tries to shake off her hand right away, but when she sees Eva, who looks like she’ll get tired of peeing right away, she has no choice but to Give a hand.
“…Uhh. Sisters are a fucking pair.”
Beside her staggering Eva, Delrin watches her anxiously. It’s more of a natural instinct for her to be on her nerves when she’s younger than herself.
“Are you okay? Don’t be too scared and walk. Even if the dragon is nearby, it’s already made a fuss around here, so it won’t come back. Even if it goes, it’s probably… Uh… Wait a minute…”
However, Delrin soothes Eva and she realizes something.
The fact that this area is now completely devastated,
The Lemune they are walking towards…
“…Three, my God…”
It’s like being in a worse situation than this dirt road.
He sees a blazing fire beyond his field of vision.
The shimmering heat burns people’s screams and creates a haze,
As it climbs higher, it emits cruel light and shakes.
“It’s already too late.”
“No. It’s not too late, I avoided it well.”
“Yo, yo, yo… Yo, yo…”
Lemün, a city in a canyon seen from a distance, is burning with acrid smoke.
I hear the voices of those running away from there.
Some call mother and father,
Some call their children
Someone sees the burning city and cries.
“This… Is too much…”
It was different from the majesty of dragons seen in novels.
It was only the totality of painful screams and cries that I faced directly.
Like Eva, who trembled next to her, Delrin’s body began to be infected with fear little by little.
The dragon he faced with two feet was not a good item or a boss monster that dropped it.
It was fear incarnated,
It was the manifestation of calamity,
It was a betrayal of fate.
Delrin couldn’t help but freeze. Born with the will and power to rule the sky, it was a being that could not dare to go against it.
“… Don’t mind. It’s because if you’re weak, you’ll be beaten.”
The words Rico must have uttered in her own way to console her little man and woman, but those words only reminded her weaklings of the order of her power.
Despair flowed from the eyes of the dwarves who had fled far away. Even the vengeful spirit and anger that burns inside the despair collapses in front of the wall of reality and is eventually swallowed up in despair.
As the dragon’s fire soared higher, the dwarves’ cries permeated into the ground. They can’t cry looking up at the sky. I can’t shout to the sky the sound of a song of resentment. Heaven is no longer on their side.
Tears drop and fall to the ground.
The land where the Earth God would have blessed is filled with the sadness and resentment of the dwarves…
“The situation is crazy. Rather, it would have been better to fight the queen bitches and short-haired swordsmen.”
“Don’t say such things in your mouth. Do not laugh at their calamities, though you will not hear their sorrows.”
In this situation where everyone is running away from Lemün, only seven people are heading towards Lemün.
“Speaking of dragons around Lemün, there is only one.”
“… Leviathan. It is the most dangerous dragon among dragons.”
“Chichi-san knows that well.”
She said, “I heard she fell asleep for near eternity while she was apparently sealed away… “
“No. How can I seal her. It’s just that everyone made a small pact not to wake her from her sleep.”
The giant dragon’s roar echoes throughout the mountain range. Its sound, which spread far, took away even the last screams of the dwarves.
“Hee, hee… Heck… “
The little witch couldn’t stand her roar and eventually her legs gave out and she collapsed, but Delrin, who was walking alongside her, caught her with her body.
In fact, Delrin’s strength in her legs went down before Eva did, but Eva accepts it anyway.
“Huh, huh… Awesome… “
“Gwa, gwa, okay… It’s okay… “
Neva’s blue eyes, looking at Delrin and Eva, who are crying together, want to stay with the two for a while, then turn to Lemün, who is on fire again.
“… Let’s save at this point.”
She is,
Neva,
The article,
After talking, they walk again soon.
The wolf follows the knight,
The thief is with the wolf,
The witch walks after the thief,
Following the witch, her saintess advances,
At their center,
Delrin gets up first by holding on to her wobbly legs, and says while raising Eva.
“Hey, get up. I have to follow you soon… Save… “
[The save point has been set!]
