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Chapter 110
Ch.110 I Hate This!
The news that an astonishingly beautiful woman had arrived bearing a letter from Hans sent shockwaves through the Hero Party.
“Again?! That bastard couldn’t even wait?!”
“Wh-what did you say?!”
Leah and Cecilia stood frozen, mouths agape in dumbfounded shock.
Scarlet, however, remained calm.
“Excuse me… but what is your relationship with Hans?”
“He is my benefactor.”
More precisely, he’d saved her daughter—but the moment those words left her lips, Leah and Cecilia’s faces turned ashen.
‘H-how many rivals are there?!’
‘Father Hans… does he only rescue beautiful women?’
‘Patron… please stop spreading your grace everywhere…’
Every woman present had been helped by Hans.
So naturally, the Hero Party worried this stunning beauty was just another target of his flirtatious schemes.
“W-what kind of benefactor?”
They all asked Lady Icira Frosthold in trembling voices.
“He saved my daughter.”
“Y-your… daughter?!”
Their confusion lasted only a second—
before outrage erupted.
“Is he seducing a married woman now?!”
“This is disgraceful! Lady Icira, was it? Adultery is wrong!”
Icira frowned at Leah and Cecilia’s accusations.
“Why do you all think such impure thoughts?”
Unaware they’d formed a clique, she recalled Mia and the Sand Elves from before.
‘Perhaps humans are better than elves who tried to link Hans and Aria.’
With a scoff, Icira spoke:
“He and I are not involved. Anyway—take this.”
She held out the letter Hans had given her.
Mia snatched it instantly.
“Hey! That’s unfair, Mia!”
“Master would’ve sent it to me anyway. We’re like family! Even if I hate him, I can’t hate family.”
Cecilia puffed out her cheeks, watching Mia drop hints about claiming Hans in the future.
“Tch! You say that, but you’ve got ulterior motives, don’t you? We had an alliance!”
“Wh-what?! I’ve got honor, you know! Don’t you trust me?”
Mia thumped her chest defensively—but she looked deeply suspicious.
“We’ll trust you. So what does it say?”
“Wait.”
Leah carefully opened the letter and read aloud.
“It’s nothing special.”
Just ordinary questions—how everyone was doing, whether the capital was stable.
But when they read the part about the current situation, their heads spun.
“What should we do…?”
“I know, right?”
Leah and Cecilia felt too ashamed to explain this mess to Hans.
Then Scarlet cautiously addressed Icira:
“Um… Lady Icira? May I ask who you really are?”
She’d noticed the mysterious woman’s sudden appearance—and the overwhelming magic surge that accompanied it.
It was far beyond human scale, even dwarfing Leah’s genius-level affinity.
“I am a dragon.”
Icira’s flat tone carried no emotion as she sized up Scarlet.
“You must be the Hero. Greetings, Hero.”
“Oh…”
“Wait! A dragon? Are you Aria’s…?”
Icira nodded.
“My daughter, yes.”
Leah’s eyes narrowed accusingly.
“Hold on! Then why did you separate me from Master back in the Snow Mountains?!”
‘So it was you, you lizard bitch?! You teleported me away!’
She’d nearly died of heartbreak thinking Hans was dead.
Even now, the memory made her chest ache.
“I did it because Hans asked me to. How could I refuse the man who saved my daughter?”
(Though truthfully, Hans’s desperate barrage of magic in Icira’s lair—which melted every last ice crystal—had also swayed her.)
“Ugh…!”
Faced with a dragon’s righteous logic, Leah couldn’t argue.
‘Master… did you really have to do that?!’
She knew he’d faked his death to push her away—but she still couldn’t forgive this dragon.
After all, she’d been the one cast out.
“Lady Icira… could you wait just a moment?”
Cecilia waved the letter.
“We should probably send a reply.”
Icira’s elegant brow furrowed.
“I’m not a postwoman.”
‘Both humans and elves treat dragons like errand runners now… How times have changed.’
“But it’s urgent! You know the King of the Dead has returned, and things aren’t going as Father Hans planned!”
“What?”
Icira knew Hans’s secret—he was a human who’d glimpsed the future through a ‘game.’
That’s why she’d gone to Lord Auros herself to secure a guardian.
“So… please wait just long enough for us to relay the situation.”
Annoyed but resigned, Icira sighed.
“Sigh… Why not go yourself?”
(She hated shuttling back and forth.)
“Huh?”
The Hero Party blinked in confusion—
until Icira waved her hand and whispered:
“Teleport.”
Blue light enveloped them—
and they vanished.
***
As I reviewed petitions from my vassals, blue light erupted from my office floor.
“They’re already here?”
Having seen Icira teleport before, I recognized the spell instantly.
But instead of one figure, four coalesced from the glow.
“Huh? Four people?”
The light flared—and Icira appeared with Scarlet’s group.
“Oh?”
“Master?!”
“Father Hans?!”
Their bright smiles quickly turned sheepish.
‘Are they still like this?’
“Glad to see you all. It’s been a while.”
(Weeks had passed—but I wasn’t actually glad. Still, I had to pretend.)
“What happened?”
Cecilia scratched her cheek awkwardly.
“Well… um…”
“Master, it’s a disaster! The Northern Fortress refuses to retreat!”
“What? I already explained everything!”
My original plan was to consolidate the Empire’s scattered armies in the capital to repel the undead.
The Northern Fortress housed the Empire’s largest force—
if they fell, the enemy’s power would surge dramatically.
“But there was no such plan before!”
“That’s right! The Emperor and those idiot ministers decided this!”
“Explain properly!”
After pressing Leah and the others for details, I could only laugh bitterly.
“Unbelievable… absolutely unbelievable.”
They’d taken my holy water and relics—then completely ignored my strategy.
What was this? They called me the ‘Adversary,’ yet dismissed my advice?
I’d thought Destiny’s broken politics existed just to raise difficulty—but this world was actually this dysfunctional.
In-game, politics relied on quantified stats like Prestige, Legitimacy, and Influence to form noble factions that could pressure the Emperor or ally with him.
I’d considered building political power—but it seemed too tedious, so I’d skipped it.
Back then, soldier deaths were just numbers.
But now… this was real.
And I wanted to protect them.
Letting the Northern Fortress face the undead army was suicide.
Plus, being used by nobles left a bitter taste.
‘I’ll deal with those bastards later…’
“Icira, can I ask you a favor?”
She shrugged.
“Could you set up an alarm spell at the Northern Fortress? If the undead approach, teleport the Imperial troops out immediately.”
Icira frowned coldly.
“Even for me, teleporting an entire army is impossible.”
Ah… so even a dragon had limits?
But the thought of those elite soldiers dying haunted me.
In a game, I’d shrug it off—but here, thousands would perish.
“If there’s no way…”
I hesitated, then asked again:
“Is there any method?”
“Hmph… Not entirely impossible. If He intervenes, it could be done.”
“He? Who’s that?”
A dragon like Icira calling someone capable of the impossible…
“Ah! Lord Auros?!”
Nod.
“Only He could manage it.”
Auros Auripex—the final boss of ‘Dragon War.’
But would that lazy dragon actually move?
In the original game, dragons vanished completely once the King of the Dead rose.
They were fiercely independent—why would their Lord get involved?
It made no sense.
“Lord Auros wouldn’t intervene in something like this.”
Icira just shrugged.
“You never know.”
Suddenly, Leah shrieked excitedly:
“L-Lord Auros?! Could I just take a single drop of his blood?!”
Silence fell.
“Why… why would you say that, my disciple? Is humiliating your master your life’s goal?”
“No! Dragon blood is precious—even a normal dragon’s! But Lord Auros’s blood?! If I could study it, I’d publish groundbreaking research! Aren’t you curious, Master? As a mage, don’t you wonder what power it holds?!”
‘Sigh… Not even a little.’
Was it because this was reality, not a game?
No one in ‘Destiny’ ever said such nonsense.
Icira’s eyes turned icy.
“Lord Auros would never give blood to a human.”
Then—
“Leah, I never took you for such a shameless person. To think of taking blood from someone who helped us!”
“I always thought Mia was the pervert among us… but you might be worse…”
Scarlet and Mia whispered—
“Don’t compare me to that perverted elf!” Leah yelled, face crimson.
Screech!
“Sorry, ‘perverted elf’! You psycho human mage!”
“Waaah! It’s Leah!”
The door burst open—Mia and Aria rushed in.
“Aria!”
“Waaah! S-sister, why?!”
“Dispel!”
Leah unraveled Aria’s magic, reverting her to a tiny Hatchling—
“Wow! So cute!”
“Aria?!”
Leah immediately hugged the small dragon.
“Ugh! Sister, you’re suffocating me! Let go!”
Aria pushed with her tail and hands—but Leah just nuzzled the adorable Hatchling’s face.
“Long time no see! I missed you!”
“Hic! I missed you too… but I hate this!”
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