Chapter 102 – Felgion (2)
Next day.
I joined the guide prepared by the guild.
The guide was quite talented, befitting the rank of silver. Covering his face with a mask, he silently accepted our request.
Without trespassing on the dragon’s realm, I want to check the dragon’s realm that exists in the mountain range one by one.
We’re probably the only ones asking for such a bizarre request. The guide also seemed very suspicious, but a pro is a pro. His personal feelings seemed to be excluded.
“The quest continues until we find the dragon realm we want. After completing the quest, you can go down the mountain range. Do you understand?”
With the guide agreeing to the terms, a makeshift party was organized.
The guide led us into the mountains. At the entrance of the mountain range, Iris, who was secretly excited, showed a different attitude in an instant.
Hero’s unique aura disappears in an instant, and the girl’s face, excited by the thrill of adventure, becomes that of a warrior.
At the rapid change, the guide and my older sister, who saw Iris for the first time, were surprised.
My sister whispered to me softly. Iris lowers her voice as if telling her not to listen, but considering that she can’t fool Iris’ ears anyway, she was just telling her to listen.
“I was worried because it was young. Wouldn’t that be okay?”
“I can hear everything!”
As expected, Iris lowered her voice and got angry, then she grumbled and got back into formation.
Speaking of formation, it is a guide who is both a vanguard and a searcher. An older sister who assists the guide with spirits behind him. It was only set like this, and Iris and I were only at the level of keeping the distance so that we could move at the right time.
Besides, there is nothing dangerous other than dragons in the first place.
The party moved deep into the mountains in peace and quiet.
…
“Wow. I don’t know how long I walked…”
After walking like that for a long time, Iris let out a hoarse voice as if she was tired of boredom even though she looked physically fine.
Even so, her posture was steady, so I stroked her hair instead of saying anything.
“Ugh.”
Anyway, just thinking about it now, Iris, who used to act elegant and modest in front of others, seemed to be quite comfortable in front of her sister.
Maybe it’s because we have a common denominator called ‘me’.
Anyway, it was a good thing that more people could be honest with me.
“Get along well with your sister.”
“Yes, yes? Why?”
I don’t have anything to be ashamed of.
“Uh heh heh…”
The corners of her eyes also trembled slightly. She seemed a little upset. I laughed awkwardly and pinched Iris’ cheek.
“Ahaha…”
With that feeling, I go further into the mountains for a while. At first, Iris, who had been making a lot of noise about it, saying that it was boring, had long since stopped talking about her.
“Hoo-wook.”
The guide let out a heavy breath.
Dragon Mountains. Except for dragons, there are no dangerous monsters.
Nevertheless, the reason why the Dragon Mountains boasts notoriety is because of its rugged and dirty terrain.
The maze-like winding mountain roads, steep slopes, and distant cliffs that appear from time to time.
In the canyons that appeared from time to time, the meandering shape looked like the shape of a huge serpent twisting its body.
‘Adventurers walking around here describe it as the place where the angry Imoogi went wild because they couldn’t become a dragon.’
It was the guide’s explanation.
It would run without rest in such a mountain range. Unlike I, Iris, and my sister, the guide was a silver-level, veteran adventurer, but he was not a superhuman beyond his limits. It was natural for him to be tired.
Usually they don’t move this fast. The adventurers looking for the mountains were usually quite large, so it was enough just to move at the pace of the guides.
I opened my mouth.
“Will you take a break?”
At my words, the masked guide turned around. Despite his tired expression, he took a small breath and shook his head.
“We are almost at our first goal.”
If I can rest, I will rest after I get there. He said. I nodded. The march began again.
When I heard that we were almost there, Iris and her sister’s faces grew tense. If the one in front of us is our goal, Felgrion.
“… Hey.”
The older sister, who pursed her lips, quietly opened her mouth so that the guide could not hear. Instead of answering, I nodded.
“Do I really have to kill that bastard here? Later, huh? Gather the kids to fight together…”
“If I come out of the Time Temple with a holy object, will that greedy bastard not know?”
My sister shut her mouth.
The dragon’s mountain range is not suitable as a nest for the black dragon, a race of miasma, pollution, and curses.
To be precise, the mountain range itself is of course good for nesting, but instead it was also the place where the most dragons camped in the entire continent.
Whether it’s red, blue, or green, he doesn’t care, and he doesn’t get along well with black. Even when Red and Blue fight each other, when they see a black dragon, they go and fight together.
It is because of the pollution that comes out naturally in the ‘Dragon Fear’ that the black dragon spreads.
Among dragons who are considered guardians of order in their own way, the black dragon, which pollutes the surroundings even if it breathes quietly, is a blind eye.
Wouldn’t it be better if they didn’t come out of their territory, black dragons are nestled in these mountains where at least five or six dragons of almost every race live?
Even the most influential elder dragon in the mountains is white, which is the opposite of black?
That must mean that you have the confidence to beat all the other dragons, or at least you want something like that.
“… Relics of the Time Temple?”
“What else could there be?”
The black dragon Felgrion is a heretic who wants to go against the time series.
He is also the one who begged the demon king for only that.
“The reason why I live here in camp is because I can’t enter the temple myself.”
To find any opportunity.
I said softly.
“Then it’s better to just catch and kill him on the way.”
“… Yes. Hmm.”
My sister shook her head.
In the meantime, the guide who was going ahead stopped abruptly.
He said looking back.
“This is the first area.”
I peeked inside. As if this was the boundary, from right beyond where the guide stood, fiery mana surrounded it like a barrier.
“Normal people can’t even see it with their own eyes.”
The guide nodded. It was only after many people were sacrificed that they were able to accurately gauge the location of the boundary.
In any case, they are said to be guardians of order, but they have a dirty personality.
“I don’t think it is here.”
I nodded at my sister’s words.
“It is the realm of the Fire Dragon.”
“Then let’s take a break for a while.”
Iris said, and when I said yes, the guide went under a nearby tree and sat down to rest.
By the looks of it, it seems that my stamina is almost exhausted.
I took out a potion from the subspace.
“… Thank you.”
Seeing them in such a hurry, that guide must also have personal circumstances.
I decided not to ask.
I don’t care too much, it’s a relationship where you just have to pay if you do your job right.
After taking a break for about an hour, we started again.
“Here is?”
“No.”
Realm of the Green Dragon. The bushes grew thick. It seemed likely that she would become lost if she entered.
“Here.”
“It’s cold. I’m going to freeze when I go in.”
Realm of the Blue Dragon. A large lake was surrounded on all sides by ice and snowstorms. If the guide level goes in, you won’t be able to survive even 5 seconds and you will freeze to death.
“Let’s go to sleep for the night.”
It was late at night, so I decided to sleep. The three of us decided to stand up for the night watch.
To be honest, our party didn’t really need to sleep, but it was purely for the guide’s stamina. The guide obediently accepted the favor of our party and went into the sleeping bag.
“I didn’t expect to find it in one day.”
“At this wide mountain range.”
It was a place where dozens of dragons lived, taking for granted a mountain peak that would normally be called a sacred mountain in another region.
It would be more strange if we found it quickly, so we decided not to mind.
“Isn’t this going to take a week?”
“It’s no wonder you say that.”
He criticized his sister’s excitement. Would it take that long?
…
And until the next day and the day after that, not even a trace of the black dragon was found.
“I-I’m sorry.”
“No. What is wrong with you?”
The area of the dragon that I discovered next.
This time, it will come out soon, the result of looking at it with the mind.
“How many fucking Reds are there!”
My sister exploded.
Spirits that respond to the angry contractor’s emotions. At that moment, the nature of the mountain range roared. Even after entering the mountain range, she was the sister who had contracted with dozens of spirits.
The land shook with the wrath of the great spirits, who would not be surprised if the number of spirits contracted with them now exceeded one hundred and formed an army of spirits.
It might provoke the dragon beyond the realm, so the moment I tried to stop my sister.
‘… ?’
A sudden feeling of discomfort.
I came closer to the borderline of the realm, the magic curtain.
I could feel the guide and Iris freaking out.
I stretched out my hand and lightly scratched the surface of the magic screen. Kagagak…
An unpleasant and terrible reverberation that spreads softly…
I looked up.
“Hey.”
“Yes, yes?”
I took out a bag of platinum coins from the subspace.
“You must have already received the advance payment. It is the commission completion fee. There will be a return scroll in your pocket, so tear it up right away.”
By scratching the magic screen, the guy inside must have noticed me.
Sensing the seriousness of my words, the guide quickly took out the scroll, tore it up, and disappeared along with the bag of platinum coins.
“What, what is it? Why?”
My older sister, who had barely calmed down her anger, gave me a bewildered face.
I smiled.
“This crazy bastard. I chewed up and swallowed a fire dragon.”
