646. [Side Story] Dragon Slayer (6)
Cross Road City Center. smithy.
“Whoa whoop whoop…”
Diarmudin let out a sinister laugh.
He is still wearing [The Old Phoenix], an equipment made from Wing De Huan’s magic core that was just completed today.
It was a robe with dark gray feathers densely stuck in it. As the Diarmudin wearing this robe stood proudly, brushing his long beard, it looked pretty good.
‘It’s like something from a martial arts novel or a magistrate’s magistrate…’ It’s
not like a political faction, it just feels that way. Is it because of the color of the robe?
The old wizard continued to spin in place and look in the mirror to see if he liked the new equipment.
“Actually, I haven’t said anything in a while.”
“yes.”
“I was looking forward to when it would be my turn every time other young people received one decent piece of equipment.”
I didn’t know you were expecting it…
“I didn’t express it. What the hell are you trying to give me? That’s what I thought.”
“….”
“Then, the sadness was just before crossing the critical point, and they took care of it just barely. Huhu, Prince Ash is also smart.”
No, I don’t have it… I just realized that you thought so…
Of course, I smiled brightly without showing off.
“It’s been a little late since I didn’t have the right equipment to give to Diarmudin. How do you like it?”
“Good. very good The equipment made in our Ivory Tower exclusive workshop is also very powerful, but this item has a different box.”
Afterwards, Diarmudin snapped the fingers of both hands.
“This feature is also great.”
with a screeching sound.
flutter!
Large wings spread out on both sides of the robe. The people around them all admired (frightened) and ducked to avoid the spreading wings.
“It’s like giving a tiger wings!”
Diarmudin called himself a tiger, but no one thought it was arrogant. In fact, this grandfather deserves it
. You’ll be able to dodge that terrible dragon’s attack with ease.”
Diarmudin, who flapped his wings as an example, grinned at me.
“In addition, it increases the sensitivity to the wind attribute. If it’s this…”
“Can you use wind magic now?”
“No, that’s not my taste. You can use this wind to make a more powerful fire.”
This grandfather was openly a fireman. I’m just thinking of strengthening my fire magic somehow.
Anyway, besides these special features. Since it is a piece of equipment with dragon hearts, it is a robe with excellent performance.
In particular, what I am paying attention to is the magic amplification function built into the robe itself.
It has the same performance as the Artifact Magic Amplifier that is being used usefully on the battlefield. It boosts the performance of magic for a limited number of times.
It can be said that it is an equipment that really gives wings to Diarmudin, who is already a great super-dealer Nuker.
“I don’t think there is any equipment that goes beyond this for a wizard. I will use it well, Prince Ash.”
Diarmudin muttered as he looked at the flames in his hands.
“Now I can better avenge those children’s enemies…”
“…you’ve seen the equipment given to other heroes, so you know.”
I had to nag.
“That equipment is also a kind of nightmare slayer… a monster’s malignity. Please use with care, dear Diarmudin.”
“Don’t worry too much. To be in a position like this until I grow old, I have no choice but to be friends with the darkness.”
Diarmudin laughed savagely.
“The halfway darkness won’t bring me down.”
“…”
I silently nodded.
Diarmudin is the owner of the ivory tower, the strongest attack magician on the front line here, and as he said, he is a veteran who has gone through all of the mountain battles. Of course you should believe
In addition, several equipments were produced simultaneously and poured out. Several of them were custom made for me.
“Now, this is the cloak in question that you guys ordered!”
Kelly Bay shouted, waving her red cloak like a bullfighter.
“You really have no idea how much we struggled to cram the protection into these thin cloaks… I’ve been stoking magic fires in the furnace for the past few weeks, burning more firewood when it’s all about to melt! ”
Hearing those words, he suddenly looked around and saw the people of the production union, covered in sweat and soot, scattered all over the forge.
It’s not that it’s not, the production union people were really dying.
Carpenters and masons assembled the walls, and blacksmiths and alchemists built the equipment. Although it was mainly invested in this way.
As the castle wall assembly needed magic construction technology and combination work, a blacksmith and an alchemist were put in this side as well.
Similarly, in equipment production, masons and carpenters repair existing furnaces, build new furnaces, select stone materials that can withstand the magic fire and firewood that can be burned
… It was to the point where everyone, even the people, were put in to help out.
Everyone was in a state of supercarcass, but they were working silently. Thanks to this, repairs to the walls and equipment were being processed according to schedule.
“…sorry for the trouble.”
Kelly Bay growled as she cradled the cloak in my muttering bitterly.
“Hey, it’s still more comfortable for us working here than for you guys fighting for your life on the front line, right?”
“…”
“Don’t be sorry. It’s the same because everyone on this front is fighting to the death. I just told you about my hardships!”
Kelly Bay pretended to drink a pint of beer.
“I’m asking you to bring me something cool to drink. Algan?”
“Ha ha, I know. I’ll turn it into an awesome product.”
“Yes, yes. It’s your cloak anyway.”
Kelly Bay glanced at the cape in my arms and scratched her head.
“At least one breath… even if you get hit, you won’t die. maybe.”
“I just said it for nothing, but did you really do it?”
“But don’t get hit on purpose. Even if you don’t die, you can get seriously injured.”
“all right. I will consider it for emergencies.”
After that, I also received the armor. This time, it was an armor made exclusively for me and tailored to my body. This time, I was even told not to pass it on to someone else.
All of my subordinate heroes rushed in and forced me to put them on. I’m wrong, so just let me wear it alone…
“Considering your poor stamina, I specially made it lighter.”
“Thank you for that….”
Now everyone in the city has reached the point where they memorize that I have poor stamina… I grumbled and finished wearing the armor.
The armor made of thin leather was comfortable. It’s not enough to fall asleep in, but I don’t think I’ll feel uncomfortable while running and rolling.
When I put on my armor and cape like this, all the heroes around me were relieved, sweeping their hearts. No, have I been so anxious all this time?
“….”
Other than me, the other heroes were also receiving new equipment and wearing it.
All of the heroes, who were tightly dressed in armor and robes and capes, were all black overall.
It was unavoidable because they used the by-products of the Black Dragon Corps to make equipment.
It seemed like everyone was getting closer to darkness one step at a time… My heart wasn’t so good.
“Ipian Raid will leave tomorrow morning.”
I announced one more time while looking around the heroes, led by Diarmudin.
“Have a good rest, everyone.”
The heroes also nodded with serious faces.
The black dragon corps raid, which seemed so numerous, was coming to an end before I knew it.
Now, the battle against Ipian is tomorrow.
***
After finding the heroes who will march out tomorrow and encouraging them one by one.
early night time. Returning to the mansion, I headed to the garden.
[That constellation is the lighthouse, can you see it? Standing at the entrance of the Milky Way that stretches out long, you stand tall as if you are illuminating the other constellations. That’s why it’s called a lighthouse.]
In the garden, the Skyrian’s constellation lecture was in progress.
Not only Violet and Parekian… other Gamble Club heroes and servants of the mansion were watching the sky and listening to the lecture of this dragon who was more knowledgeable about human knowledge than humans.
In particular, Parekian looked up at the night sky as if he was lost with his long hair pulled back without eyes, nose and mouth.
Violet put one hand on top of Parekian’s head and showed him the image of the night sky using phantom magic… With the other hand, she was munching on sweets. It seems to be a lot more convenient.
[And that’s the claw spot. Also called a plow seat. It looks like a claw, but it also looks like the tip of a farm implement, right? So in the distant past, it was a constellation that prayed for the prosperity of both hunters and farmers.]
[…!]
When a person like me came out, Parekian stretched his neck even further. It was almost to the point of standing still.
“Wow, Mr. Toenail! I’m falling apart!”
When Violet couldn’t hold on to that posture and screamed, the startled Parekian slowly lowered his posture again and gently wrapped his arms around Violet.
“Right. nice, nice.”
Violet wiped her greasy hands from eating snacks on Parekian’s head. Whether he knew it or not, Parekian surrendered to its touch like a well-tamed animal.
[Among the stars scattered in disorder, giving rules, engraving names and symbols, and giving stories. Isn’t human creativity really amazing?]
Meanwhile, Skairian, immersed in his own story, was only finishing his own story no matter what the circumstances around him.
[Without knowing the true identity of the darkness beyond that star…]
“Keuheum!”
The story of the constellations is interesting, but that’s not what’s important right now.
As I approached, clearing my throat, the personnel in the garden turned to me.
“majesty!”
“You are here, Your Highness!”
“okay. came Come on, let’s all disperse today because we’re going on a campaign tomorrow.”
At my command, everyone began to scatter one by one, making a sound like ‘yes’.
“Skerian.”
Perhaps because the lecture was cut off in the middle, I approached this dragon who was making a very sad expression and asked straight-forward.
“Are you sure you don’t intend to help in the battle tomorrow?”
[I told you, Ash.]
Skairian scratched the back of his neck shyly.
[I want to watch from the sidelines what you humans do and what kind of heroic battles they fight. If I get in, the balance will be ruined right away.]
“….”
[You’re looking forward to it? How are you guys going to defeat the eldest brother?]
It wasn’t that he didn’t have the idea of using the ‘Absolute Command’ to have him participate in the war.
If I had to drag this guy into the battlefield that much, it would be the time of the Night Bringer raid, not the Ipian raid.
“I mean Ipian. Is there any room for persuasion?”
If you can avoid battle, it’s best to do so.
I asked, looking around the two captive dragons in my garden.
“I heard the other day that if the world perishes, you will die too? Wouldn’t Aipian not want to die too?”
It was a story I heard when I was capturing Skyrians. The story is that if the world perishes, these guys will die too.
Of course, I thought they were planning to live well by themselves after the destruction… The picture of the world after the destruction that the Night Bringer draws seems to be a bit different.
[We are alter egos and appendages created by our father by removing parts of our bodies. It’s nothing more than a tool to accomplish my father’s cause.]
Skyrian uttered calmly.
[It is natural for tools to be thrown away when they are used up. It was destined to be abandoned from the beginning once the destruction of the world was accomplished.]
“….”
[Downfall that my father envisioned in the first place- because the work of returning this world to nothing included the death of my father himself.] The
whole world after reducing it to ashes. Does that mean that he is trying to erase even his own life in the end?
Why does the Night Bringer go so far… to end this world?
– Aren’t you mortal? That life will eventually decline, and the meaning you cherish will weather and die.
Suddenly, the sonorous voice of the guy who came at the end of The Lord of the Flies came to mind.
– It is an established fact that the end is coming. If so, what kind of end would you like to meet?
– Tell me, the last player. What kind of death do you wish for while fighting to prevent the end of the world?
I really want to ask.
Nightbringer,
what kind of death do you want?
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