Chapter 159 (1/2)

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“Uwaaaaah!”

“Sir Hero, hooray!”

“Please defeat the evil dragon!”

Every citizen living in the capital was cheering on our dear hero

Yes, spending all thatoff

What I did after returning to the capital was sitoothe expedition would only create too many witnesses That’s why I needed to make sure that only a small team of elites… no, scratch that, I needed to ensure that the hero would have no choice but to fight the dragon one on one

I workedthat line of thinking And my rumour had enhanced the hero’s abilities to such a stratospheric level that…

You’d alreatest hero in the history ofthe ruotten

Oh, and I also ‘invested’ funds in various strategic points to ensure that my rumour would spread beyond the castle walls and to the rest of this kingdom

Thanks tonot just the royal faer questioned the hero’s abilities!

Of course, there would always be those who dare to harbour suspicions but the thing was, this kingdoe Which arding the hero

Through intense prep work and utilising just a tiny bit of political connections, Iobjections And the end result of all on raid party was formed in less than ten days

“Will this really be alright…?” Anext to est co softly in anxiety

I replied “Even if we bring a lot of people with us, one breath attack froon would all melt them down, sir”

“That is true…”

Not only was he the archest in the kingdo the Neidon royal fae point

…The truth about the on as it freely flew around the capital and toyed around the Neidon Kingdoht of the castle walls that stood tall to protect the royal fale breath attack!

That’s why hescared would be the normal reaction

That’s why I said this to hidom, sir Please believe in hi unnecessary My apologies”

The arch on his actions

The eneht was difficult to kill even when our morale was at its peak As such, it was totally unacceptable to say so spirit of his allies

Yulkelis could be considered a co that unacceptable thing Soly for a noble, he didn’t try to hide how remorseful he was

“Over there That’s the lair of the evil dragon, Aruketai!”

To discover its location, we got the kingdom’s financial support to hire various people

Anyone could tell that the cavern ahead of us was artificially created

That… was the evil dragon, Aruketai’s lair!

“The dragon’s lair…”

“Gulp”

The one hundred or sotheir saliva in nervousness

The dragon

The strongest lifefor that they didn’t require the assistance of the Gods

The only race in this world that didn’t believe in any Gods other than the Creator!

Although, dragons did acknowledge the Goddess of Benevolence and Devotion, who sacrificed herself to save the world froon was just around the corner from them

Post-Great Continent War, ion was broken up by various dom

The majority of our expedition lacked real-world combat experience, so how hting a dragon?

“Everyone, remember All you have to do is follow the plan We should do our best to support and assist Sir Hero froe!”

“Keuh-hmmm!”

The hero punk loudly cleared his throat, but let’s just ignore hiht noas the wheels of hten the pressure on them, I shall freely sell the hero down the river!

Besides, none of you would probably get to fight for real, anyway Yes, the hero will take care of the fighting bit!

-Even though they would probably need to fight tooth and nail when the hero gets crushed, ht them here, after all

Sure, this was a trap where the odds of just dying instead of struggling tooth and nail were h, they were still fated to fight one way or the other

The king did have the option of giving up on rescuing the princess for the sake of the greater good But here’s the thing – the dragon ht have kidnapped the princess as ru would that last?

The dragon would probably get tired of her looks soon enough and decide it wants so else fro the dragon take away this and that until the kingdo on the lone thread of hope called Sir Hero!

“Well, then! Let us start our plan, everyone!”

“We leave it in your hands, Sir Hero!”

“We believe in you!”

“U-understood”

“Sir Hero…”

Under the deluge of cheering frohts and soldiers, the hero could only nod whilea stiff expression

Only the saint dispatched by the sa at the hero with eyes of pity

It’s your fault for choosing a profession as annoying as the hero, you know!

The hero profession comes with a risk like this, you say?

What a stupidest profession this was, one where you couldn’t refuse a single thing as long as someone made a daot in return was close to zero!

Let’s say the hero doon carcass for itself Not a single bit would end up in the hero’s pockets, so to speak

At most, it’d end up as a sizeable donation made to the Order of Nature, or somewhere thereabout

Sure, the hero could ask the Order for financial support However, thatfrom the Order’s branch offices and not the headquarters, so the amount would be pitiful at most

It’d barely cover the meal and the inn rent fees for the hero party and preciously little else

So, let me ask you, where would you find an even stupider slave profession than this?

When taking all these into account, it sounded like the Gods were far anisation, Howling

-Master, I get the feeling that Gods are feeling very aggrieved right about now

-But, they can’t even tell what I’ht? So, who cares?

There was a time in my life that I was too afraid to insult the Gods

But things were different now

Now, I believe in neither the Gods nor devils!

More correctly, I’ve come to realise that none of those idiots could be of use to the currenthero and his stupid gang so a peaceful life with ain!

“We’re ready!”

“Good! In that case…!”

Thethey were also ready to go

Well, then! It’s tion raid!

“I choose you, Metal Bat-a-mon!”

“It’s Aru! Aru!”

This was thethe lair to beat up an elder dragon The lethal bat that even enjoyed beating up Gods and de, too!