Chapter 607 – Illusions of Sister Dragons and Dragons

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“Oh, busy, busy! How can you not hire a girl who is good at work, fast, cute, and perfect for changing clothes~”

A pink-haired girl moving a pen over the papers on her desk while saying something that would make others feel like ‘she’s saying the most stupid thing she’s ever heard in her life’.

The girl who served as the guild master of the adventurer’s guild in Ellesia, a rural city in the kingdom, was now taking charge of the paperwork that the two of them had shared until the situation in the kingdom was resolved, thanks to having left Perdia there.

It’s something I didn’t feel very well when I was doing it alone, but when the two of us do it and become one person, even though it’s the same amount of work as before, the difference is quite big.

Many people might wonder why there are so many guilds in the countryside, but in the city of Ellesia, the guild master is in the same position as the mayor of that city.

A city where adventurers take center stage and nurture it.

It is a city that cannot exist if adventurers do not exist, and it is a structure in which not only requests from outside but also problems in the city are solved by the hands of the appropriate person in the form of a request through the hands of the guild master.

As a result, even simple complaints have to go through her eyes at least once.

“Haa… Is it like this again?”

Besides, these days, for some reason, dangerous monsters that shouldn’t be near these rural cities have been appearing all over the place, and to support adventurers responding to them, help from other cities, especially the royal capital, has been needed.

“People and goods…Even magic tools. There are so many things I need, but my source of income remains the same… I need a way…”

In my heart, I want to go ahead and wipe out all those monsters with wind, but the oath is still valid.

“Ah~ Ah~. I wonder if there is a buried gold mine somewhere… If Gaios had been there, he would have told me about such a place if he had coaxed him…”

Gaius, an elemental dragon that controls the magic of the earth, has the ability to determine the location of mines where jewels and precious metals are buried.

Therefore, it could be said to be the most materially rich dragon among the five dragons.

After Gaios disappeared, it was Luti who secretly visited the nest, but the nest at the previously known location had already disappeared.

Her treasure was now hidden somewhere in the dark.

Recalling her thoughts about her old friend, Luti sighed and stretched her back as she brought her back to the back of her chair.

“Gaios… Where are you now…”

Almost 30 years have passed since we haven’t met.

For a dragon, 30 years may seem like an instant, but for Luti, who has already lived among humans and is imbued with their senses, 30 years is too long.

Especially, how much I thought it would be nice if Gaios was by my side, in a situation like these days where problems do not end here and there on the continent.

If Rhethios is her biological sister, then Gaios is her older sister—no, her aunt? Was about

He was her sister’s friend, so it might be more appropriate to call her that.

Compared to Rhetios, who is stern and blunt, and only talks about things that can be misunderstood by people, Gaios is somewhat warm-hearted and kind… More than anything, he treats himself well.

In such a difficult time, it was natural to think of her face like that.

─The time I thought so.

Kugoong…!

“Wow…!”

The vibration that shook the ground, it was very brief and only once, but that vibration was not an ordinary earthquake, but was created by magical energy.

Probably, among the people in this building, he was the only one who felt the shaking.

Even on this continent, there must be about 4 people including myself.

“…Gaios’ magic. But it was so fleeting… It’s already blurry.”

It’s better to say that it’s not the main body, but its traces.

However, the shaking of magical power appeared to the extent that its presence could be felt for sure.

Somewhere in the east.

“…”

Then, the moment Lutios got up from his seat.

Beyond the open window, as if lightning struck in the clear sky, a flash of light flashed.

“Wait, Ruti.”

Her older sister, the silver-haired dragon Letios, who entered her office in a form close to her teleportation, called her name.

“Letios! Just now, Gaius-“

“I know. Because she was with Anatis. Anatis said… This is just that the seal created by Gaios has been broken. If Luti felt it, she would fly right there. He told me to stop.”

“…”

At Rettios’s words, Ruthi tried to say something for a while, but then sat down in her chair again.

“OK got it. If Anatis talks like that, she must be right. Because he is the wisest among us.”

Luti said, not looking back at Letty, but burying her face in the papers again.

After Rhethios nodded her head too, she stared at her sister.

For several tens of seconds, Luti seemed to be burdened by her sister’s gaze looking at her in silence.

“…Why, why? Wasn’t that all you meant to say? Why don’t you go back to Anatis?”

“Your eyes are moving here and there, and you can’t stay focused… You look busy.”

Ruti felt the veins rise on her forehead at her words of making a fuss at her out of the blue, but first of all, she had to filter her words before listening.

After taking a few deep breaths, she smiles and replies.

“Yeah, I’m busy. There’s been a lot of work lately.”

“Is it.”

After hearing Ruthi’s answer, Letios ended the story with a single answer, and silence once again flowed between the two.

“…”

Shaking.

Eventually, when Luti’s patience gauge slowly ran out, she was about to enter her outburst pattern.

“…Can I help you?”

“Uh?”

At the words of Letios who suddenly spoke of her, Luti looked at her with her eyes wide open.

“…Is it human-related?”

“Doesn’t care. It’s also about her sister. Two will finish the work earlier than one.”

With that said, as Rhethios approaches her and tries to examine her papers, her Luti looks at her for a moment, then grabs her by the shoulder and stops her on the spot.

“Wait a minute! You won’t find out about the guild management anyway. Letty is… That’s right. Organize the documents I give you with the same letters written on them, and put them in this folder.”

“I get it. Are you okay with just that?”

“That alone is very helpful. Oh, and…”

And she looks at the clothes Rhethios is wearing now.

A navy blue coat and black tight pants. And a maroon cloak.

She liked to wear male aristocratic clothes, which was her usual outfit, but thinking that she was wearing it to work next to her made her feel a bit stuffy.

“…Come here and change your clothes first.”

“—Is that necessary? I have no problem with this state.”

At Ruti’s words, Letty shakes her head as if she doesn’t understand, but Ruti is talking.

“This is a guild, so if you want to work here, you have to wear this uniform. Wait a minute, it must be Leti… The stomach is 90…”

Saying that, she said that when Ruti opened the closet in her office, there were several guild clerk uniforms of different sizes hanging in the same design.

“You remember the dragon.”

“I remember the size of a girl’s body. Rather, it was me who coordinated Letty’s current outfit.”

“Ah. That’s why I always wear this when I take human form.”

At her words, Luti stopped her hand for a moment, then she approached her holding a uniform of the appropriate size.

“Change into this. Ah, don’t change the clothes on your body with magic.”

“…Like a human?”

When Ruti nodded her head at Letty’s words, Letty looked at the uniform she held in her hand for a moment, then nodded her head and then, without a word, took her clothes that she had made with her magic. It was to scatter with magical power in place.

“For a moment!? Get changed behind the curtain over there!”

“You’re the only one here anyway.”

“Then if someone comes in, won’t a strange rumor spread only to me!?”

As Lutios raised her voice in that way, Letty took a moment to go back behind the curtains in her room knowingly.

“Excuse me, Ruti. There is a request that Luti-sama needs to confirm-“

Then the clerk girl who was working downstairs from her opened the door and came in and found her naked Letty and Luti reaching out her hand towards such Letty.

The girl then makes eye contact with the two, blushes, and then slowly closes the door while talking.

“Sorry, sorry… Z, have a good time…”

“Wait a minute! Must be wrong!!”

001

“Breath is coming! Damage!”

The moment the dragon’s head popped out of the screen opened its mouth and was certain that it was a precursor to something, when Layla shouted that, Cleon and Layla spread their distance to each other and jumped up.

And, as Layla had said, a tawny sandstorm burst from its mouth, imbued with a storm of intense magical power, and swept through her space.

You can just talk about what is dangerous in the sandstorm, but soaking yourself in that breath was no different from diving into a blender.

Tiny but sharp, hard grains of sand will shatter everything it touches.

“Hee!”

Perhaps it was because Lila was late with her slight jump, she involuntarily screamed as she watched as some of her swaying hem touched the sandstorm and she was scattered to dust.

“Eh, you ignore all magical defenses and break through…!”

“Each grain of sand is coated with magical power… I have no choice but to avoid it.”

Lyla nodded as if she understood Cleon’s words.

It was a truly vicious attack, but one thing was fortunate, as if it only considered Cleon and Layla as targets, the wide-ranged attack like that sand breath didn’t disintegrate Kanon’s room or furniture.

[I’ve been avoiding attacks since before, but how long do I have to do that?]

“Wait a minute, Layla is analyzing. How are you Lila! Do you know how to defeat that guy?!”

When Cleon raised her voice like that, Layla raised her hand, narrowing her eyes.

“Okay. That guy is a body made of 100% pure mana. And he uses magic to attack and maintain his existence.”

Even at the moment Lila said that, the protruding dragon’s foreleg swung and thumped the ground! When he tries to strike it down, there is no space to dodge it this time, so Cleon crosses and lifts Galatea and Caliburn to block it and endure it.

I’m going to go to the middle of the day! When he hears a voice, Lila seems to believe that Cleon, and she continues the story while standing behind him.

“If she shaves off her body, she will try to regenerate her body, and then the consumption of her magical power will increase. In other words, it is an alter ego created by the dragon along with the magic tank.”

“You mean that if you hold on and keep attacking, your magic power will run out and you will disappear?”

“That’s right. But you better be careful. Although it is said to be made with magical power, it is an alter ego created by the dragon himself—no, the original dragon? The defense is also dragon-class-“

Before Layla can finish her words, Cleon puts strength into her arms and draws her magic power from both swords, Galatea and Caliburn.

Holy magic and black magic, the two conflicting magics, cause a reaction when they collide, and if the two swords are crossed, in other words, the swords will come out in both directions.

Caang! With that sound, the gap between the sword cores of Galatea and Caliburn widens, just like when the same poles of magnets meet, and the sword swings with the repulsive force.

Seo Geo-eok! When I thought I heard the sound of deeply cutting flesh, the scene of Caliburn slashing the soles of the dragon’s front legs with a sharp blade came into my eyes.

Then, while emitting a roar like a scream, the phantom dragon pulled his outstretched hand and returned it to the other side of the screen.

Inside, the dragon’s soles are slowly recovering, but Cleon talks to Layla while looking at the dragon.

“The dragon said the soles of its feet are its weakness.”

“Who…?”

“Lesia.”

At Cleon’s words, Lila shut her mouth for a moment, then she said that she was talking about someone who had actually won against a dragon, so she had no choice but to believe it… After muttering.

He shook his head and came to his senses, creating several blades of flame on his hand.

“You know Cleon, the dragon’s real weakness is not in the palm of your hand-“

And at the same time as he swung his staff, blades of flame that appeared in a row danced in the air-

It flew right above the dragon’s head, toward its horns.

Whiik! Even the sound of slicing the air was left behind, and the flying blade pressed into the horn from the left and right at the same time, like the sharp teeth of a single living creature.

“I got it…!”

As Layla shouted in her confident voice, the flame blades were about to reach her horn.

Thinking that the dragon’s head became transparent for an instant, the flame blades passed through the air, collided with each other, and were destroyed by the repulsive force.

“Ha!? What!?”

[Ahahaha! Because there is no reality!]

As if Lila’s failure was funny, Galatea raised her voice.

Thinking that it was fortunate that only he could hear that voice, Cleon recharged Galatea and Caliburn with magical energy, aiming for the moment when they appeared on the screen again.

And straight after.

If you think that the disappeared dragon’s head has reappeared, this time, a magic circle rises around it and stone-shaped spears appear.

“Magic attack!”

“Besides, there is a real thing this time! You can’t let it hit the ground!”

While Lyla and Cleon look at it and panic, the magic is ready.

The spears of earth that tore through the air and fell toward the party like comets were blocked by the large, thick magic barrier Laila had spread.

Rock spears continue to be created in the magic circle, and Layla maintains her magic barrier, thinking that the attack will continue for a while.

But then, with the magic circle left as it was, I saw the dragon’s mouth open again.

“Uh? Wait a minute!”

When Lila raised her voice in panic, the breath of a sandstorm that her magical powers could not block was about to attack her party once again.

If you avoid it like this, the stone mass of spears will fall to the floor and destroy the room.

If the room is destroyed, you won’t be able to see the screen after all, so there’s no reason to fight for her life like this.

In the midst of that moment of trouble, the dragon’s vision was ready to use its breath, and the moment when a sandstorm burst out of its mouth and attacked Cleon and Layla.

Cleon jumped out in front of Lyla and swung Galatea vigorously towards her breath that was about to break through her magic barrier.

At that moment, a pink jewel shone from his finger.

The wind of happiness, the jewel of the wind dragon Lutios.

If you think that, as soon as sparks jumped out, the powerful wind’s magic flowed through Galatea’s blade-

[Storm Breath!]

Luti’s voice echoed like an hallucination.

At the same time, following the trail of Cleon’s sword swing, the intense wind element exploded, and the breath of the whirlpool that stretched out in a straight line pushed back the sandstorm of Gaios.

The breath that was pushed backwards pushed up to the head of the dragon illusion, and eventually pierced the owner’s head.

Cooong! Then, with a loud vibration, the dragon’s head bursts out, and the dragon enters the screen once again and begins to recover.

“Sah, I lived…”

“Are you okay? Lila.”

If Cleon hadn’t stepped forward and used the power of the Dragon Ring, Lyla would have been in danger.

Layla nodded her head at Cleon’s words, then she answered him.

“Are you okay. But that just…”

When Cleon nodded and lifted up the ring, Lutios’ jewelry was slightly dimmed unlike before.

“It’s probably hard to use continuously.”

Once you draw power from a gem, you’ll have to wait a bit longer before you can use it again.

Then, it was said that it would be impossible to return his breath like before.

“…Good. After all, protecting and defending is not my style.”

Lila seems to think about the situation for a moment, then she says so in her confident voice.

“Cleon. If it appears again, attack the ‘horn’ unconditionally.”

“Antlers? …Okay. Are you thinking about something?”

Layla nods her head once more at Cleon’s question.

Then, as if she had been waiting for that word, a dragon’s head popped out of the screen.

It had the same dignity as before, but when it was slightly reduced in size, anyone could see that there was little remaining magic power.

A few seconds to wait for the guy’s head to fully materialize.

And the announcement that his head was completed was at the same time as the guy opened his mouth and roared.

Just as Layla had said, Cleon rushed in to sever her phantom horns, holding Galatea and Caliburn.

Cleon’s body surged up almost in a straight line.

His sword, like a flash of light, was about to touch the horn of the dragon immediately after materialization.

The dragon tried to evade the attack while canceling the materialization of the body once again.

But.

Whirik! When I thought I heard a sound that seemed to be entangled in something, there were countless flame thorns extending from the huge ball of flame that floated above Layla’s head.

“What worked once, do you think it will work again?”

When Layla fired ferociously, the thorns grabbed the dragon’s disappearing body, restraining it and forcing it to retain its magical form.

“The analysis has already been completed…! Cleon! Cut it off!”

And if you shout it out loud to Cleon, as soon as Cleon hears it, he will cut off the dragon’s phantasmagoric horn.

One island!

When the two swords were swung in the same direction, its horns split into thirds and scattered in the air.

The dragon’s horn is a symbol of the dragon’s power, as well as the soul of the dragon.

Perhaps that was a design that also applied to the alter ego, but as soon as the sword was cut off, the dragon roared madly and struggled to somehow recover the mana emanating from it.

But even in the meantime, Layla’s flame thorns continue to burn his body, draining his mana.

Then, slowly, gradually.

The guy’s body, this time, was to disappear due to the exhaustion of mana.

As the room filled with red returned to its original color, the pressure that covered the entire room disappeared.

Suddenly, when I look back at the screen, the noise of the sandstorm that appeared when it appeared gradually disappeared, and the original appearance-

Originally intended to see, the appearance in the room appeared.

“…Is it over?”

When Cleon talked like that, as if he didn’t believe it, there was a moment of silence.

When no answer came back, I was able to determine that security had been released.

“Whew…”

Layla sighs in relief, but Cleon looks back at Layla and looks around her.

Of course, the other person’s breath was only aimed at Cleon and Laila so that the items in the room would not be damaged, but the vibration when the sword and foot collided, or the spear of the last stone, made the room that had been cleaned up messy again.

“… First of all, let’s clear things up before calling the people waiting outside.”

When Cleon said that, she let out a sigh, and Lyla nodded her head.

“I’ll help you.”

“Oh, no… Layla is fine.”

‘If you help me, things will get messy again…’

In the end, it was only after Cleon cleaned up the area a little by himself that he was able to go out to meet the people who had been outside, along with Lyla, who had a dissatisfied face for some reason.