Chapter 46 (1/2)
The G.o.d Dragon
There was a vast s.p.a.ce.
It would be wrong to call it a cave.
It could probably contain many towns the size of Anise. The Cyclops wouldn’t have been able to reach the ceiling even if it tried.
In that dark room, there was a mountain.
No, a Dragon the size of a mountain.
A neck stretched up from that ma.s.s of black. It was too big.
Jet black scales. Golden eyes.
Just its head alone would rival the Cyclops’ size.
To even think that something that ridiculously large could exist was ludicrous.
Dark Dragon Valis.
With a single glace, the group stopped moving.
Their hearts and lungs stopped moving. Dying. Death.
“Sorry.”
Its words were like a coercive pressure, making the group prostrate themselves on the ground.
“Be at ease.”
With those words, the pressure disappeared. They could move. Move away from death.
A short while pa.s.sed while their bodies once again began to send oxygen back through themselves.
Even Ria wasn’t able to move, it was as though she had been tied down.
“It’s been such a long time since I have met mortals. I forgot about adjusting.”
Her just talking normally could kill living things. She held that much power. That was a G.o.d Dragon.
In the age of legends, they finished their dispute against the G.o.ds to overthrow heaven and earth, and were now this world’s absolute guardians.
“Wait for a moment.”
She was restraining her power. They had no choice but to wait if she said so.
“Matching a human, it’s difficult.”
The mountain wiggled.
It undulated. It surged.
The black ma.s.s gradually shrank.
Ria relaxed the hand she had unintentionally placed on the katana at her waist.
Really, she hadn’t realized when.
That freak—no, the thing that rivaled a G.o.d, was she planning on fighting it?
Before she noticed it, the mountain had disappeared.
In the dark area in front of them, she heard footsteps.
Before long, a beautiful woman entered Ria’s view.
With black hair and golden eyes. Her skin was white, black cloth casually covering her nakedness.
Her face was similar to Ria’s.
No, if Ria were several years older, her face would probably look like hers.
“Welcome, to my residence.”
Her voice was a female human’s. There was none of the earlier pressure in it.
“It’s different. Our residence? Human speech has changed a little since then… have I made a mistake?” [1]
She was unexpectedly humble.
Was the overwhelming presence earlier unneeded swaggering?
Valis turned around. The cave’s walls, filled with lots of holes—
There were countless dragons in them.
They gasped. They were each around one hundred meters long. An innumerable number of them slept in the holes along the wall.
Hundreds? Thousands?
More?
“Only when the world approaches destruction shall we truly awaken. For the degree of a Millennium, although we originally should not need to stir, I have a pact with Ryuke Riana. Among the Black Dragons, only myself shall support the humans.”
Of course, the Ryuke Riana she mentioned was the Militant Emperor.
Valis waved a hand. Enough chairs were created from the floor for each person.
“Have a seat. Myself as well, I must borrow the humans’ power.”
Saying so, she also sat down. She created the chairs in a circular pattern. Since Ria sat down directly, the others also did the same.
“Now then, what would you like to talk about? Is it the matter about Clarise?”
Valis’ eyebrows knit together. Her method of expression felt similar to a human’s.
“Quite recently, humans—no, it’s we now, eliminated the G.o.d Dragon named Clarice.”
It was more than a month ago, but she said quite recently. Her time span seemed very different from a human’s.
“We do not know the cause. Rather, although we know, I don’t have the words to describe it to you all. The concept doesn’t exist in human language. At any rate, with a strong Demon King and Hero, if both cooperate, it may have been feasible.”
Valis meant that it was very unlikely.
The Demon King cooperate with the Hero?
“The world has begun to distort thanks to that. Due to this situation being fortunately forseen to some extent, measures had been taken. Between myself and Clarice, a new G.o.d Dragon was born. However, that one is still young.”
Valis pointed towards the infant Dragon gatekeeper.
“We must raise it. For that, I had to bring it out of my residence. Defending and bringing up the infant is your role.”
Next, she pointed at Ria.
“You are a person who holds the Dragon’s Bloodline. A person who has received the blessings of a separate world’s G.o.ds. One who can kill G.o.ds.”
She fixed her eyes on Ria. From the beginning, she hadn’t so much as looked at the other humans.
“You having chose this world, that is the first reason.”
“Iii—iii!”
Her voice came out. A bit.
“I chose the blessing myself. I didn’t know that chose the world!”
She shook her head.
It was the power of rule.
The Dark Dragon’s words had bound Ria.
“Perhaps I spoke incorrectly. You came to this world due to the [Universe’s Law of Causality].”
Serge’s body trembled.