Chapter 205 – Valley of the Dragon (03)

Originally, the entrance to Dragon Valley was quite far away.

You must enter the entrance to a valley filled with numerous wyverns and drakes, and then go inside by hunting down all of the drakes that emit poison or cold air.

After finding a cave large enough to wander for days, you are asked questions at the entrance and can only enter if the dragon shows interest. This is the true Valley of the Dragon.

But we were going down the steep cave and quickly approaching the dragon.

This is a straight passage that is opened only after visiting the Valley of the Dragon once and meeting the dragon, the leader of this place.

In other words, the first favor was accepted and the second visit was done… To put it in technical terms, it was a shortcut.

The stone root I found while falling through the waterfall was originally a device that made a short cut and helped me go downstream by hanging a rope around the stone root.

The reason I came all this way was because time was running out to get to the Valley of the Dragon through the original passage.

Gooooo…

Marian slightly lowered her posture at the low vibration.

She thought it was an earthquake shaking the cave and she immediately checked the direction to escape, but since I knew the truth in advance, I knew she didn’t need to be careful.

“It’s not an earthquake.”

When Marianne looked at me with doubtful eyes, I explained to her, searching through her darkness the vision she could not see.

“It’s the sound of the heart.”

A vibrating sound that resonates again after a long period of time.

And the vibration started from the huge creature inside this cave and was resonating.

There was a dragon sleeping so huge that it could not be fully captured in the field of view. With normal vision, I couldn’t notice it because the sunlight wasn’t shining properly, but I was able to recognize it because I have the [Shadow Ninjutsu] And can distinguish objects even in the dark.

‘A huge thing’

This wall that I am looking at right now, a solid lump about the size of a decent building, was the dragon’s horn.

A huge maw that can devour entire villages from the head it is attached to, a body so long that you cannot see the end, and wings so huge that they cover the entire body.

It had the shape of an ordinary dragon, but its size was so huge that it didn’t feel realistic.

The diameter of one thinly attached scale was the same size only when Marian and I stretched out our arms and hugged her.

Guuuuung-!

As I wait, listening to the vibration sound like BGM, after a while, the vibration sounds a little shorter than before.

Did he sense an intruder through his heartbeat and realize that an uninvited creature named Marian had entered the room?

If we had followed the original route, there would have been a flurry of hunting down Drake and Wyvern, so this dragon would have already awakened, but since we arrived in a short cut, this dragon still needed to be ready to wake up.〈 Br〉

‘You can’t catch it with a wooden sword… Right?’

Sir Andre and other leaders faction can fight and kill, but this dragon is different.

Even if they are hostile to the Valley of the Dragon, they hide without fighting and the Drakes, Wyverns, and Dragonians flock in to oppose them.

In fact, it would be more correct to think of him as the only dragon and Dragonian god.

Gooooong…

Marianne, who had become accustomed to the sound of the vibration, was quietly waiting next to me with her sword lowered. She seemed to want to prepare just in case by covering her eyes until she got used to the darkness.

Gooung. Gooung. Gooung.

And finally, when the heartbeat began to resonate continuously, a sound that was familiar to me as a [System message] And to Marian as my ‘voice’ was transmitted directly to my head.

〈Who are you?〉

A mechanical sound that is neither male nor female resonates.

It’s not hostile, but it’s not friendly either.

When the voice just calmly asked about her identity, Marianne bit her lips and resisted what she was trying to answer, but she actually opened her mouth first.

“Aren. A member of the royal faction’s staff.”

When I introduced myself, Marian introduced herself without any further resistance.

“Marian. The first successor of the Dnevarin family, a famous sword family…”

〈What are you here for? 〉

I gave the long-awaited answer to the dragon’s question, which was simply asked as if it was determined by law or system.

“I came to make a deal.”

〈 transactions. Do I know what I want〉

“Kicking out the dragon slayer clan that disturbs sleep.”

According to the setting book, this throbbing, the vibration of the dragon heart, attracts sub-dragon monsters to the surrounding area.

Therefore, subdragon-type monsters such as wyverns and drakes were supposed to flock in, and when the dragon slayer clan received this pulse, it was supposed to make a dissonant sound and return it to the dragon.

The reason Kay thinks she’s deaf is because she was receiving these beats into her body and sending them back, so she was dulled to the point where she could not feel any other vibrations or sounds.

‘Actually, Drake’s roar can’t blind Kay’s ears.’

If she were a normal person, she would be deaf to that degree, but Kay had an extremely trained body, so not even her dragon’s howl, nor a drake’s howl, would be enough to deafen her.

However, just as when she hears a noise that is too loud, other sounds get drowned out, Kay hears this beating every day, so she must be having difficulty hearing other sounds.

Also, from the dragon’s point of view, the discordant sounds created by sub-dragon monsters and dragon slayers are no different from mosquitoes that disturb sleep.

Therefore, the dragon hopes that the dragon slayer village will be removed nearby so that he can sleep well.

‘In a normal way, we would have to be hostile to the dragon slayers and chase them out.’

Due to the Celestial Academy’s system, it cannot be performed because it attracts Kei and the dragon slayers remain, or even if it were to attract the force, all the dragon slayers left while entering the entrance by detour, so the dragon, which had no Regrets, fell into a deep sleep. It works.

If that happens, trading will no longer be possible, so I used the shortcut to trade with the dragons before the dragon slayers left.

I rather solved it by having Kay and all of her dragon slayers join the kingdom army and have them leave the village.

Because rather than saying that this dragon really hates dragon slayers, it was because he knew that he wanted something that could not be seen with its own eyes.

In other words, it doesn’t matter to the dragon whether we take the dragon slayers in a friendly way or kill them to gain the dragon’s favor his, as long as we get them out of the vicinity of his house his His.

〈If you succeed, you will pay the price〉

“It is possible.”

At those words, the dragon let out some of its pulse and fired it towards the cave we passed through.

〈 Next time, come through that hole. 〉

It had already come that way, but the sleeping dragon didn’t seem to know.

〈When this discord is reduced, I will give you a gift.〉

The dragon’s heartbeat slowed again and the first transaction ended.

“I guess I can come back after moving.”

I took a quick look at the dragon, whose body I could only see partly because it had been asleep for so long and whose body was hidden between rocks and collapsed soil, that I couldn’t fully see even with my vision, and took Marian out of the valley.

Shoot aaa-

“Ah, you made it easier to go down.”

The pulse emitted by the dragon collapsed the cliff across from where we jumped and raised the water level below, so we were able to escape by simply jumping onto the surface of the water together with Marian, without having to jump off with a separate rope.

Kwaak.

And by tying a rope, next time you can get a boat or something and go under the waterfall to find it.

Splash.

When I noticed that the end of the rope was submerged in the water and was about to go down, Marian was thinking deeply about something.

“What are you thinking like that?”

“I feel like I have become distant from Aren.”

I’ve never experienced being alone together.

When we reunited with her, she already had swordsmen from the famous clan by her side, and by my side was Melissa, Golem No. 2, and even Inori.

That’s why Marianne brings out what was inside her now that only the two of them are left.

‘That’s because the level of affection has dropped’

Even now, Marian’s affection level did not reach 2.0.

It was inferior compared to before, when the level of hatred was overflowing, but since affection is usually ignited and rises quickly during school days, and becomes relatively lukewarm as an adult, I guess I can say that this is a good performance.

In fact, if you don’t raise your favorability level a lot in the academy part, you’ll have a hard time in the war part and end up having to play with one or two affectionate characters.

“Just get closer again.”

“Can we do that? Can we?”

Marianne said she did not understand.

As someone who doesn’t know her memories from the first episode.

“I can do it.”

“Actually, I’m trying to find Aren and kill him… “

“You’re not dead. So you can do it again.”

If you don’t die, you can try again.

During her first encounter, Cylian cut off all support for me, despising my incompetence, and drove me to a place where I could only die.

Her her her her her her her her her she disappeared without even having a conversation with me, so I thought of her her as her her her her Rita her her her until the end.

Alice and I ran into each other a few times, but we couldn’t open up to each other, so she couldn’t even find where she was, and after looking for her a few times, she gave up.

I didn’t pay attention to Melissa because I didn’t know her her her her strategy her her her, so I let her die and didn’t even care about her her her her Golem her of her her her no her her her. 2 because she was weak, so I made her go missing and stop working.

Teacher Karen got tired of helping me and then seeing her friends become scapegoats, so she left.

Nevertheless, Marian was a relationship that protected me until the end.

Even if everyone turns their back on me, even if I sacrifice my friends due to my incompetence.

She was the only one who stayed for me.

“Come to me whenever you feel better.”

So, this time I won’t give up either.

“…”

Pong.

Tears were flowing from Marian’s eyes, creating ripples on the lake.

Marian’s firm disposition was being erased as the red color floating next to her face her her gradually became blurred.

Before I knew it, my affection level had surpassed two levels and was running towards the highest point since we met again, but I just pretended not to notice and looked away.

It’s just a little bit, but you’ll need some time to compose yourself.