Chapter 5 - Human Interaction (1/2)

Chapter 5: Human Interaction

At a great distance of the Dragons Den’s sphere of influence, a forest housed the caes, three huth of this expedition was very well distributed

The hues were brothers, and descendants of a noble house of this country, although not in the direct line of succession for the throne Born from a noble father and a maid, their status of nobility was the lowest possible, considering as well that their father was only from a branch house

Nonetheless they showed good talent regarding their cultivation ofthe third rank in less than 25 years To sustain their rather frivolous lifestyle they had to go on adventurer’s hts along reduced the ahts approved of this practice since thetheir salaries, and the brothers were usually taking along one or twothe unfortunate girls around the ed the maids deep in the forest There had been one or two maids ere especially defiant that unfortunately fell prey to a sudden monster attack and did not return hoes of their own household Losing two e they were receiving froes, and possibly introducing them to the royal academy as teachers Two or three co compared to prominence in noble circles

The warriors had refused at first, but gave in to their lust after roa turns with the two cute ainst powerful monsters ; and their harvest hadn’t been bad on this expedition with either activity

Ten years ago, a strange incident had happened, the episode latter known as the ‘Monster Wave’ Fro ical beasts, rushi+ng into the territory of the defenseless huh fields, which finally drew the attention of the kingdoly it appeared that a few rank 5 and 6the kingdoroup of class A adventurers stood at the forefront of the defense, composed entirely of na the to Skies At the rear were the other ht and the Snake Tae, a priest and a beast tamer, the party was considered top class even in the adventurer’s guild, andtalents yearned to be like thedom

The defending hu the rus and their armiesThanks to their ed to kill a big amount of monsters, and chased back the rest of the scarred foes into the forest

Ten years later the party of the noble brothers stu Python], and scoured its remains Luck had it that the monster was probably heavily wounded in the Monster Wave and only ed to crawl back into the forest, where the party found its body in a hidden grove Most of the leathery skin was daed, and the meat had been already consumed by other monsters, but the real treasure was hidden beneath the decoed of black orichalcuical beast as between the fourth and fifth rank Bringing back these treasures and selling the both of the iteh h class weapons were a prized coical beasts outside of a labyrinth was unusual, so the deher than the supply The risk originating fro into the inner part of the forest, source of the Monster Wave, definitely paid off this tiain from the expedition, the two brothers sat down on roots beneath a tall tree, taking out so with each other while the last reht fell

Unbeknownst to the through the woods Looking for folloas quite difficult in the sphere of influence of the Dragons Den The fairies forest and the harpies nest left nothing to take control of, despite their ruling over the territory still left areas uned to one or another’s sphere of influence By going out of the power base the three dominions established, Little Flaical beasts and bring it back to the den to rule over theh several enclaves of other rulers around the saon reached the outer scope of the Wilderness, where no one had yet claih the dusk, a ca the existence of so caution not to draw attention of whatever creature was caon landed and secretly approached through thickets close-by The encaroup in the caht on the roots of a tree Strange ite in the Den back ho to each other in a language Little Fla objects and tearing meat off a skewer above the fire, while a second bunch further aere huddling together like wailing ani and pain They were taist-length hair, while all the others had shorter hair

Little Flanize the bottles of alcohol or understand why the two , or even differentiate a male human from a feroup, the short-haired ones had done so from them This reinforced the wariness Little Flame felt towards the cheerful bunch, those creatures must have had some sort of power to assert their dominance over others

Leaving the on rather decided to observe the two short-haired horoup talked

Usually adventurers would surely notice the threat of a black scaled ani around their camp, but unfortunately for thean celebrating the discovery of the treasures with ilance they had adopted whenever they went near the Wilderness to drop drastically After all, this was only the outer skirts of the dangerous area, and whatever nightreen hell was supposed to stay deep within

Looking closely at the two hu, as if they didn’t want toobjects the other short-haired had, and fro smell in the air

The language they were speaking with each other was foreign to Little Fla anyone in the proxions Den could speak after all They hadn’t been drinking for long and soon noticed that so at them, and used a simpleThe pure wave of energy couldn’t be even be called a technique and it made Little Flame very interested when the wave bounced on its scales, the black animal tilted its head sideways in curiosity

The two brothers however had a very different reaction when the mana revealed a pitch black, blood-red-tipped scaled creature in a hedge close to them They had not noticed when it crept upon the the air, laid between sharp teeth, which could easily penetrate and rip off a lier like appearance scared the hell out of them

“It’s a wyvern! Get ready to fight,” screa an incantation Earthenaround the two of thehts and warriors unsheathed their swords and readied their shi+elds

Even though Little Flame didn’t know humans’ habits in particular, the hostility they emitted was very familiar Whenever the pack was out on a hunt and cornered a ardless of the injuries they would suffer in return Fighting that kind was ons picked up stealthit

In this situation Little Flame didn’t have time to think of the best option and fled directly opposite froe, in the direction of the hts in the front and es behind it, the black beast came to an abrupt stop about halfway between theain enough speed for taking off and to fly away

One of the brothers casted an earth type spell [Earthen Chains] in response, the bindings slithered through the air at a fast speed and entangled the black scaled wings, increasing their weight and preventing flight, slowing down the fleeing creature