Chapter 228 (2/2)

Because she was a woman, Link felt it inappropriate to check her injuries himself, so he pointed his wand at her and cast a floating spell.

The Warrior then floated in the air.

Link then used the Magician’s Hand and carried her from the snow-covered ground into the cabin near the fire.

“Why don’t you go and check her injuries?” he asked Annie.

“Sure,” she answered.

Annie approached the Warrior and noticed that there were traces of blood on her head, so she tried to take off her helmet to check for injuries. Strangely enough, no matter how hard she tried to remove the dragon’s head helmet with two delicate horns sticking out of it she just couldn’t remove it from the Warrior’s head.

“That’s strange,” Annie remarked. Then she carefully examined it and half a minute later turned to Link who was nearby and said, “It’s not a helmet. It’s a part of her body.”

Link was stunned for a moment. Then he noticed how dim the light was in the cabin so he cast a light spell to illuminate the place better so he could see more clearly.

Then he really was taken totally by surprise. He discovered that not only was the helmet-like thing a part of her head, but the so-called armor on her whole body was, in fact, not armor at all.

At a glance, the Warrior seemed to be wearing an elaborate and luxurious scaly armor. But once examined closely, these scales all turned out to be her own skin!

The deep dark red scales covered most of the Warrior’s body. Where there were no scales, the exposed skin still looked quite bizarre. It was red like the scales, yet it shone in the light and had a metallic luster. Link tried patting the skin with his wand and discovered that it made a clanging sound as if it was made of the same material as steel armor.

“What on earth is she?” Annie had never seen such a creature before.

By then, the other scouts had also finished their tasks, so they started walking into the cabin as well. They saw the strange Warrior by the light of Link’s spell, and all found her fascinating and completely unlike what they’d ever seen.

“Look at her head,” said one scout. “It looks like one of those dragons in the legends. Do you think she might be a Dragon Warrior?”

“Now that you mention it,” said another, “that might really be the case.”

“My lord, what exactly is she?” asked a scout.

Link knew exactly what she was. She was from the Dragon Clan. Furthermore, she was not an ordinary Dragon woman at all.

Her scales were fine and delicate, her dragon horns were curved and looked like steel, and her skin had a metallic sheen to it as though it was pure steel. There was no doubt about it—this Warrior was a pure-blood Dragon woman.

Pureblood Dragon People were no different from real dragons. The only difference was that when Dragon People were born, they were turned into humanoids by a magical process and were fated to keep that form for the rest of their lives. The Dragon People were very powerful Warriors and were roughly on the same level as high-level demons!

What Link found curious, though, was that from what he knew, Dragon Warriors lived in a hidden world called Dragon Valley and they rarely if ever entered this world at all. So how did this Warrior end up in the Black Forest? And how did she get herself captured by the ghouls?

“She really is a Dragon Warrior,” said Link with a nod.

The Warrior’s body didn’t look as if she suffered many injuries. There were some wounds, but they were all shallow and not life-threatening, except for the one on her head. When Link raised her head and examined it carefully, he found that the wound was on the right side of the back of her skull. The wound was dark and swollen, although there wasn’t much blood flowing out. It must’ve been the result of being hit by a blunt weapon, probably one of the ghoul’s hammer.

Judging by her breathing pattern which was smooth and strong, Link knew that the Dragon Warrior’s life was safe, so he started to cast spells to heal her.

He first cast Elemental Cure, then took out a bottle of high-grade medicinal potion. He then let Annie open her mouth before he slowly poured the potion into it.

Gulp gulp gulp…

The Dragon Warrior instinctively swallowed the potion. This meant that her injuries really weren’t that serious.

After that, Link stood up and told everyone, “We’ve killed the two ghouls here, so we must leave this place now.”

As he spoke, he cast a spell to make a stretcher out of the wooden planks found in the cabin. Then, he placed the Dragon Warrior on it and ordered two scouts to carry her as they moved to a new place. They left the wooden cabin while carefully covering the footprints they left in the snow.

“Follow me,” said Link. “There’s a huge boulder over there. We can find shelter from the cold wind there.”

The boulder was about half a mile away, and just as the group had walked about a third of the way, the Dragon Warrior suddenly coughed gently. Her breathing then turned rapid, and her body slowly began to move. She was waking up.

Only a little more than ten seconds later, the Dragon Warrior opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was how unfamiliar her surroundings were. Then, she noticed that she was carried on a stretcher by a few human beings while a young man whose attire looked as if he was a Magician walked beside her.

It was a bizarre scene for a Dragon Warrior.

The last thing she remembered was that she came to this forest by the orders of the Queen who commanded her to investigate the power imbalance in the forest. She then encountered four ghastly beasts that kept refusing to die no matter how much she attacked them. Then, after a long battle she finally defeated them and was about to escape, but four more of the same beasts had found her, and she was overpowered and knocked unconscious.

The problem was, shouldn’t the Black Forest be the Dark Elves’ territory? How could there be humans here? Besides, these humans don’t seem to be all that strong. Yet, how did they save her from those ghastly things?

A flurry of questions swirled around in her head. She was about to open her mouth and ask them but was stopped by the young Magician.

“This isn’t the right time to be talking,” he whispered. “Take some rest for now. We’ll talk once we’ve reached a safer place.”

“I can walk,” she said. She’d collapsed because she’d been too tired. But now that she had recovered some of her strength, there would be no problem for her to walk now.

She then struggled up from the stretcher and managed to get on her feet. She still felt slightly dizzy, but it wasn’t too bad that it would affect her movements. She then followed the scouts quietly all the way.

Just then, a notification popped up on the interface.

Rescue Mission Completed.

Player rewarded with 100 Omni Points.

Second Step of Skeletal Fort Mission Activated: Get Assistance.

Mission Details: Acquire the support of the Dragon Warrior.

Mission Rewards: 100 Omni Points.

With Link’s current strength, 100 Omni Points was just an average amount, neither too much nor too little. He didn’t know the true strength of this Dragon Warrior, so he wasn’t sure if it was worth it. But, he trusted that the gaming system must have a good reason to turn it into a mission.

It was just like in Gladstone when the gaming system would guide him step-by-step. In the end, he managed to complete a mission that at first seemed impossible to accomplish.

Right now, Link had decided that he would attack Skeletal Fort, so he accepted the second step of the mission without any hesitation.

Then, he turned to the Dragon Warrior.

“I’m Mirose,” he said. “What’s your name?”

To his surprise, the Dragon Warrior just glanced at him for a few moments without answering.

“Mortal Magician,” she said, “you’re not yet qualified to know my real name. But since you’ve saved me, you shall call me Felina.”