Chapter 86 – Dragon’s Lair -1-
I looked down at the hand holding the dagger.
Since the original body was cheap, I had the illusion that the handle could be deformed with force.
Deciding to stop doing nonsense, I swung my dagger into the air.
Wedge!
A bloody bellowing sound spreads everywhere.
“… Is it real?”
It wasn’t conceited, but the sound was harsh.
Right now, my physical ability, which was at an ordinary level until yesterday, has grown ridiculously.
Of course, it is said that you can use the power of divine protection without any conditions, but even if you use only a little power like this, the power of divine protection has hit the bottom.
From now on, sitting cross-legged every day and being able to embody the power concentrated in the genitals metallurgically would be the icing on the cake.
“Ed. By the way, do you have a reason for using a dagger?”
Jeren asked me a question.
Why use a dagger?
Of course there was nothing like that.
Who would want to use a fucking weapon like this.
“It’s not like that, but I have no choice but to carry a dagger because it’s the easiest and cheapest to get, but to be honest, I don’t want to use anything else either.”
Since daggers could be used by anyone, they were in high supply, so the price was naturally low.
It can be used for slaughtering or other chores.
However, on the contrary, since ordinary people did not find long swords to cut something, they were quite expensive compared to short swords.
“Then would you like to learn the swordsmanship I use?”
Startled, I straightened up and stood up.
“Is it okay if you let me know?”
Usually, in order to learn swordsmanship, you had to pay more to learn it.
Even if you learn like that, it’s actually a good thing if you learn the basic gripping method properly.
The bastards who said they were teaching swordsmanship were all scoundrels.
That’s right, all the guys who were already cutting a knife were occupying one spot.
Even though he was a commoner, he had a few cases where he joined the knights because of his outstanding talent.
“Of course it is fine.”
“Is it okay that I am human?”
What I was worried about was this.
In fact, humans were hostile to all races except elves.
In the case of the demons, a tribe of Jeren, if their identity is discovered, an order to kill them will be issued immediately.
Of course, demons wouldn’t look at humans kindly, but if I, a human, were to learn the swordsmanship of demons like that, wouldn’t Jerwen be in trouble?
But Jeren shook his head slightly.
“No problem at all. Because I intend to teach you the swordsmanship I invented myself in the first place.”
“What! This one-man victory!”
It was a word that stimulated romance.
At those words, Jeren blushed and touched her nose once.
“Yeah, I guess you can do that too. First, I will show you my swordsmanship.”
Clearing her throat for no reason, Yer En drew her sharp sword and took her stance.
“Oh oh….”
As I looked at myself in admiration, she twitched the corners of her mouth.
Are you the weak type?
“Then… Whoops!”
With the sword of Jeren that started like that.
At first she crossed her longsword, which she held in her right hand, as usual.
Even though it was a simple and ordinary action, compared to the gong sound I heard when I swung the dagger, the difference in level was serious enough to make an eerie sound resonate.
After a horizontal slash, the sword path, which started again from the right diagonal at a tremendous speed like a snake, heads downward.
From then on, Yeren started teasing her feet.
It was shocking to see Yer En putting down her magic and using her swordsmanship innocently.
When I saw her first horizontal slash, I thought it was a systematic and ordinary swordsmanship, but looking at it now, I couldn’t predict where the attack was going.
If I had been the opponent, it was clear that the second cut would have split my upper body in two.
A swordsmanship that reduces unnecessary movements to the limit and leaves fatal wounds with each attack.
As if fighting a duel with an imaginary enemy without stopping, Jerwen avoided his body at the moment he thought an attack would follow, and then delivered a heavy slash.
I had the illusion that life and death were going on in front of her eyes.
In my eyes, who longed for the knight, Jeren’s sword dance was more beautiful than the dancer’s dance.
Whoa!
After finishing the last slash from below to the top of her, Yer En exhaled lightly and looked at me.
“If you have mastered this far, I will show you the next one. Ed has the power of blessing, so it shouldn’t be that difficult.”
I looked at Jeren through her hazy eyes.
Yer En, immersed in her swordsmanship with a serious look, was really beautiful.
Her admiration was palpable simply beyond her appearance.
“Beautiful. Really.”
“Mu, eh, eh! Yes Yes!?”
A drop of sweat trickled down the gap between her cleavage.
A completely different look from Jerwen just before.
It was clear that her overwhelming swordsmanship had my adrenaline secreted.
So that,
“Standed.”
Today is Yeren.
* * *
The ancient evil dragon and the modern warrior continued their bizarre companionship.
There was quite a bit of time left to get to Balladur’s Lair.
“… What are you planning to do with me?”
Yurgon, who was quietly eating meat, asked him.
Thanks to hitting her on the head every time she complained about side dishes, she seemed to have calmed down a bit now.
Baladur looked at Jurgon with a small sense of achievement.
“You guys’ lives, Kufu. For me, it’s just a fleeting moment.”
Jurgen’s face crumpled at the balladur who started to make a sound like a chump.
But that was it.
“I have lived a long time. And that will be the case in the future as well. Hoo-wook.”
If he had been a bit more dignified, he would have been able to concentrate, but he was less persuasive because he was an obnoxious fat man.
“There are a lot of great treasures in my abode. Kuhik, there are overflowing with such artifacts that you and the like would not dare to define their value.”
Jurgen, who was not particularly greedy for water, let it flow in moderation.
Isn’t it all my pride anyway?
His mind was filled with the idea of quickly escaping from this guy and finding Osiel.
“By the way, there are a few artifacts that even I can’t figure out. Huuk, one of them is an artifact called the ‘Jewel of Chaos’.”
One day, when Balladur appeared in the Pandemonium, it was an artifact dedicated to him by the owner of that place.
Satisfied with the waves of unusual magic it emits, he didn’t listen to the explanation and went back to the rare to analyze it, but he couldn’t come up with an answer.
That’s why he went back to the world of demons to find him, but because a long time had passed, the guy who handed him the Jewel of Chaos had died of old age.
“I’m thinking of writing that to me.”
Jurgen muttered dryly.
Balladur didn’t answer, but Jurgen, realizing that it was an affirmation, opened his mouth again.
“Are you planning on killing me after that business is over? Yes, I know everything But let me ask you one thing.”
“I have no intention of answering.”
It was Balladur who answered that, but Jurgen knew that he was a little talkative.
“Why me? What the hell did I do to you?”
What was unfortunate was that.
Suddenly, a mad evil dragon caught him, took him to Rare, and used an unheard-of artifact, but there was no possibility that it was a positive artifact.
If so, I would have used it on myself.
“… Wasn’t it something you had already prepared for to become like this?”
Balladur said with a rare narrowing of his brows.
Because he really hates lies.
“No sir… So what are you talking about? Are you doing this because I attacked you?”
Jurgen, who had barely swallowed the swear words, spat out the words as if he was unfair.
Balladur looked at him quietly before opening his mouth.
“Is it. But even if it was done without knowing, it doesn’t matter. The results will not change.”
Pudeudeuk.
Frustrated Jurgon gnashed his teeth and pounded his chest.
“Fuck you… What the hell did I do, you say… !”
After throwing away the goblin meat that smelled like urine, Jurgen stood up and glared at Baladur with hateful eyes.
“Insignificant provocations do not work. Fu-wook, but I don’t like loud things, so I’ll have to keep it quiet.”
Having said that, the evil dragon opened his thick palm and approached Jurgon, who shook his head and covered the top of his head with his hand.
“Sir, don’t be noisy! I’ll be quiet, so….”
At the same time, he picked up the thrown meat again and began to eat it with an exaggerated action as if it was delicious.
Even though he was degraded to an ugly body, a faint smile bloomed on Balladur’s face, who was satisfied that he had imprinted fear on humans.
Of course, he himself was unaware of it.
‘The damn contract with you will end sooner or later.’
Recalling the princess of an ancient kingdom whose memory has not faded in the slightest despite the passage of many years, Balladur pondered with a complex expression.
* * *
“What did you say just now?”
Even in a very small rural village, in any village where a peddler’s carriage could reach, there was no human who did not know the saintess of the Holy Empire.
Such a saintess frowned and questioned someone.
“That, that’s true… It’s been a few more years already!”
The person involved was Rick, who made a living digging mushrooms in the mountain behind Raham.
Her high-ranking lady came to her village, so she was snooping around with the intention of watching her, but she was caught for some reason and was being questioned by her.
“If you lie, you will not escape the wrath of God.”
“No, why am I lying….”
It was only then that the saintess let out a sigh and frowned even more.
“Lethe… Dead? What is this… How did she die?”
Rick, who was looking at the saintess, began to ponder while licking her lips.
Sensing that, the saintess pressed her silent pressure on him, and her lips opened to Rick.
