chapter 5
5 – example
I climbed the mountain with a thief to guide me.
The mountain slope was steep, but my stamina to climb the mountain was not lacking.
The body that has adapted to the dragon heart is solid without any gaps.
In addition to his innate dragon power, if he used his mana, he could climb the mountain without rest for three days and nights.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
I was dragging the captive thief up the road, but some giant blocked my way.
Bald head, scruffy beard, and a stern look.
Wearing a torn leather suit and a greatsword slung over his shoulder, he looks like a bad-tempered thief.
“Are you holding our comrades hostage and entering the headquarters by yourself? Are you insane? Are you a suicidal person?”
Covering the whole body with a cloak and hood, he dragged a thief like a burden to the main building of the bandits, and the bandits who saw him were dumbfounded.
“I don’t know what crazy man you are.”
The thief who stood in my way was not alone.
As if it were a group of people patrolling the forest, five or six people each held their weapons and nodded.
I raised my head and looked straight at the thief who stood in my way.
The guy who stared straight into my eyes hidden inside the hood.
My breath stops.
Whoops!
The guy who approached within a radius of 5 meters and met his eyes collapsed with crab foam.
“what? what’s the matter?”
“What did he just do?”
His colleagues were stunned when they saw the fallen bald giant.
He seemed to stare at the unknown monster wearing a hood for a while and then passed out.
“Hey, hey. Don’t come closer!”
“Damn it, what the hell are you doing!”
As you can see, there was no one here who would talk calmly with me.
I made eye contact with each one.
Huh Eok.
Spaw.
Guys who collapse as if they saw a death.
Did I expect too much from humans?
They can’t stand my pressure better than the dragonians.
After experiencing an assassin, I thought humans would be less afraid of me.
They were a well-known bandit, but their guts were absurdly lacking.
In the end, I was able to walk to the main building of the bandits without any restraint.
A wide-open wooden fence.
When you arrive at the stronghold of the thieves, it is well-prepared like a fortress.
Thieves living in villages.
Excluding the combatants, slaves and hostages were also living together, so if you add all the people together, it will easily exceed 500 people.
“Hey, stop! If you come any closer, I will shoot you!”
In front of the main gate of the thieves’ stronghold.
The thief watching from the watchtower calls out to me.
A series of thieves surrounded me, but when the thieves who got close to me passed out without doing anything, they all stood guard against me in an awkward position.
Shiiik, dududuk.
When I didn’t stop, the thieves standing on the watchtower fired arrows at me.
However, the arrow that collided with my body bounced off helplessly as if it were blocked by a stone wall.
I abandoned the thief who guided me this far.
Since we arrived at the enemy’s base, we no longer needed guidance.
If I drag this guy around for no reason, I’ll get hit by a blind arrow and bleed, and my clothes will get dirty.
“What kind of monster is that!”
Even though I shot the bow with all my might, the thieves screamed when I didn’t even respond.
I stared at the thieves who continued to shoot their bows and bother me.
omg.
The thieves lost their bows in their hands.
He trembled as if he had been electrocuted by my gaze.
It wasn’t really an attack.
I just looked closely at the enemy.
With that alone, the resistance is gone.
waddeuk.
He put his hand forward.
He tore off the tightly closed front door with telekinesis and threw it out.
In an irresistible situation, the thieves opened the way without a word.
Before I knew it, everyone was on their knees.
*
“Are you the captain of this place?”
I found a thief with a unique atmosphere.
It was covered in the skin of a monster on its shoulders, and its body was larger than that of other thieves, and its bare upper body muscles were full of rough and small scars.
He was a thief who naturally intimidated others.
“Who are you, who are you?”
However, even the leader of the tough thieves, who seemed fearless to anyone, stood in front of me and his voice trembled.
Those who encounter me are automatically instilled with good manners.
In an extremely polite manner, I ask for my identity.
“Before that, I ask first. Aren’t you afraid of me?”
Even in this situation where I came to destroy the wild, and even though there were numerous restless bandits watching this place, I was most curious about this.
Is the leader of this bandit really brave?
Is it someone I can have a normal conversation with?
This rogue seems a bit stronger than the assassin that came to me last time.
Even so, it’s only the difference between a mouse and a chick, but I put my hopes on the guy’s ability.
“Huh, huh. sorry. I don’t know what sins I committed, but I was wrong. Please save me.”
The thief knelt down with a frightened face.
I asked if he wasn’t afraid, but he was begging for something wrong.
Worry about your life first.
It was neither a conversation partner nor a state in which to do so.
“Yeah, you’re lucky you didn’t faint in front of me.”
The other thieves fell down as soon as they met my eyes and couldn’t get up, but the captain of these thieves is so ignorant that he begged for fault.
I measured the difference in ability, and I felt that this rogue was equally afraid of me.
“Why do you bandits attack the Dragonians?”
My personal interest in him has ceased.
There was no possibility of him attacking me like an assassin.
Instead, he asked why he dared to lead the thieves to attack the dragonians.
“Dragonian? Sorry, sorry, sorry.”
“I will ask until you give a straight answer.”
It’s not easy to communicate with fear-ridden bastards.
However, I didn’t mean to look at him, so I waited for him to answer.
“Keuk, to be honest, raiding the Dragonians makes money.”
“Is that so? In general, Dragonians are stronger than humans, so it won’t be easy to defeat them. I don’t carry a lot of riches.”
“For Dragonians, corpses are more money than riches! Dragonian blood can be sold to wizards at a high price!”
The boy gritted his teeth and answered with difficulty.
Unable to raise his head and look up at me, he stutters with his hands on the ground.
“Dragonian blood. There is a wizard who buys it. Then it’s worth risking an attack. Did your bandits make money from it? Did you draw dragonian blood to make it grow this big?”
A city-sized gang of bandits nestled in a rugged mountain range.
I asked if it was a force that was called only by hunting the same people.
My eyes when I look at him become even more depressed.
“Kuh, I’m just spitting it out because I’m going to die anyway, so what’s the problem with hunting Dragonians? The Dragonians slaughter more humans, and there are plenty of guys who hold grudges against the Dragonians here.”
As if he had already foreseen death, the thief raised his voice and answered.
“Looking at your attitude, you must also have a grudge against the Dragonians.”
“That’s right! My family was killed by the Dragonians in the Continental War! You ate so many of my comrades, and I hunted that many Dragonians!”
Squeezing out my last courage, I shout.
As the leader of the bandits, this would be my last resort.
“I see.”
I nodded.
It was a courageous statement.
Even at the risk of death, the answer comes out in front of me.
“What is your name?”
I asked the guy’s name.
*
“Galek Ukrian.”
The thief looked up at my eyes and answered.
“Yes, Galek Ukrian. I understand your grudge. My family and colleagues were killed by the Dragonians, so I hunted the Dragonians in revenge.”
“But, do you know that it is now 20 years since the Continental War ended and a peace treaty was signed?”
If the Continental War had continued, his actions might have been heroic.
Hunting dragonians is not something ordinary humans can do.
Because general tolerance is far more powerful than humans.
However, it has been 20 years since the peace treaty was signed. The guy’s grudge is personal, and of course it’s not acknowledged.
“My family died. What is a peace treaty? Even if I become a thief, I will tear you apart.”
He said, suppressing fear with resentment.
Even though I still can’t get myself up on my knees.
“Your courage to question me is imaginary. But no matter how you look at it, your revenge will not be forgiven. Not only do you indiscriminately harm innocent dragonians, but you are also threatening the peace established by our ancestors.”
“What you are doing is simple theft. I will punish you here, Galek.”
I found someone who would talk back to me, but it wasn’t a normal conversation.
It was a discourse full of malice and resentment, and his condition was already that of a demon.
“Yeah, kill me. Even though I am a weak human who cannot touch even the tip of your hair, I will kill a dragon even if I am reborn.”
“You are arrogant. Is a guy who can’t even look me in the eye say that?”
I threw the hood open behind my head.
And he looked straight down at him with an open face.
“Ew, uh, heh, heh.”
The guy who met my eyes properly couldn’t hold a grudge anymore.
They just struggle, seized by instinctive fear.
“I will give you the name of the one who punishes you. I am Demesis. I am the second prince of the Drake Kingdom.”
“Yo, dragon god…”
Instead of a creeper crawling on the floor, a thief who was listening to our conversation muttered while lying flat.
It seems that my reputation has spread to some extent here as well.
“Your death will be an example for me to tell the continent. Those who arbitrarily destroy the peace treaty, those who touch and threaten the Dragonians for no reason will not be able to stand upright in front of me, Drake, or the second prince of the kingdom.”
I pulled my body up with telekinesis.
Let go of the magic control bracelet for a while.
Then, towards the ground, he let out a different breath than usual.
The exhalation of a dragon containing the magic of a dragon heart.
Dragon Breath.
Woo woo woo.
The magic power that came out of my mouth spread thickly and swirled.
The black dragon’s magical power does not have a certain attribute.
However, the density of magical power is so high that it suppresses the magical power of other attributes.
Objects touched by the breath were crushed and crumbled.
Galek, who was hit by the breath first, was shattered like dust, and the thieves’ lives were pierced through the core and collapsed.
Rumble, Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
One mountain was destroyed beyond recognition.
I cleared the dust cloud with telekinesis and returned to the Dragonians who were waiting at the bottom of the mountain.
“I erased the headquarters of the magicians. I didn’t even kill those who were too weak to join the battle, so when they return alive, escort them to the kingdom like the thieves before and hold them accountable.”
“Yes, Prince!”
All of the Dragonians were on their knees before they knew it.
It seems that the fear has grown even more since he showed the dignity of destroying a mountain.
“Now we are leaving for the ecliptic again. It didn’t take long to deal with the bandits. You will be able to arrive on time for the entrance exam.”
I looked at the collapsed mountain for a while and climbed into the carriage.
Since there was no free time, he decided not to deal with the bandits or the wizards who dealt with them.