Reincarnated Dragon Goes to the Academy!

Chapter 128 : He Must Be Dead by Now, Right? (1)

Returning to the dormitory, Lucas first began to organize the gods and races that might have sided with the demon god.

-Tap! Tap-tap!

Just then, a sound like something tapping came from outside the window.

'What is it?'

Lucas, who got up from the bed, cautiously approached the window.

-Tap-tap-tap! Tap-tap!

Something was busily moving its small hand through the slightly open curtain.

"A pixie?"

"Benefactor! Benefactor!"

-Click.

As Lucas opened the window, Alin zipped inside with a quick flutter of his wings.

"My goodness, how on earth did you know to come here?"

When Lucas had saved Alin and his clan, he had clearly been in his polymorphed form. Therefore, they shouldn't have been able to recognize his true identity, yet Alin had come straight to knock on his dormitory room window.

"Hehe. You might not know this, benefactor, but we pixies are not a race that forgets a kindness!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"We've cast a whole bunch of blessing spells on you, benefactor!"

"Huh?"

Alin puffed out his chest with a look of immense pride. But this was clearly stalking.

Moreover, more than three years had already passed, and the fact that he hadn't known all this time was even more absurd.

But since they were blessing spells, he couldn't just scold them freely.

"...Right. Be that as it may. What brings you all the way here?"

"Ah, actually, it's something a bit serious. The chieftain told me to go see you, benefactor. That's why I risked the danger to come all this way. Phew!"

Alin grinned as if to show off his bravery, but Lucas's expression was serious.

"Alright. I'll take you when you go back. You've had a hard time coming here. So, what is this serious matter?"

"Well... a demon came to the village."

Lucas's expression twisted into a scowl.

"A demon? You mean a pure-blood demon, not a half-blood?"

"Yes."

This was much faster than he had thought. When he heard that the Demon King was halfway here, what Lucas had thought was that he too had not been able to bring his complete body to the surface.

But a pure-blood demon, not even a half-blood, had come up to the surface?

"What does that mean? That shouldn't be possible."

"It is possible. In fact, it was three days ago that he came to our village."

Hearing this, Lucas, as if he could no longer bear it, held out his palm to Alin.

"Ah?"

"Get on."

If he had his way, he wanted to snatch Alin and teleport immediately, but this was him restraining himself as much as possible.

"Ah, yes sir."

Alin climbed onto Lucas's palm.

-Flash!

And with that, the two disappeared.

"Ugh! I'm dizzy."

"Tell the chieftain I have arrived."

"Uuugh... just a moment."

Alin clutched his head and dry-heaved, perhaps from the aftereffects of the teleportation.

But Lucas couldn't wait for that either.

"Is the chieftain present?"

Lucas strode up to the front of the chieftain's house and called out to him.

Not long after, the chieftain opened the door and came out, giving Lucas a bitter smile.

"You've come."

"It's been a while. I'm in a hurry, so I'll ask how you've been later. What do you mean a demon came to visit?"

"It is as I said. The demons, known to have disappeared from this land, have returned."

After confirming it again with the chieftain, an alarm bell began to ring in Lucas's head.

The fact that the demons had returned, and that upon their return, they had sought out the pixies' village. What that implied was clear.

The preparation stage was already over.

"He seemed to be a high-ranking demon. They came to me and made a request."

"They asked you to help them take over this land, didn't they?"

"Yes. If you read between the lines, that is what it was."

Seeing Lucas's serious expression, the chieftain's eyes wavered.

"I know you, benefactor, to be the contractor of the Blue Dragon. You were the one who saved our tribe members before."

Lucas nodded silently.

"But we could not dare to seek out the Dragon Lord. Therefore, knowing it was a discourtesy to you, benefactor, we came to you so suddenly. I am truly sorry."

The chieftain bowed his head low in apology.

"It's alright, please continue speaking."

There was something Lucas needed to confirm right now.

"And that is, what your position is."

"...I wish to side with the demons. No, I feel I must."

The chieftain's gaze hardened with resolve, and Lucas, in turn, had a shocked expression.

To say they would side with them so easily.

"May I ask the reason?"

"This is also the first time I have met the demons in person. But I am not ignorant of history. They are those who were cast out from this land for their sins."

"And yet, what is the reason for saying you will side with them?"

Lucas swallowed a bitter breath. Even though the pixies were not a crucial military force, he felt incredibly hurt.

They were a clan that Lucas, and Aman, had saved with their own hands just a short while ago.

Moreover, despite knowing that Aman was a Blue Dragon and that Lucas was his contractor, they were saying they would side with the demons who had sinned against the dragons.

"..."

The chieftain also took a deep, bitter breath and continued.

"The dragons are our kings and the guardians who peacefully protect the surface. The demons rose up against such dragons and committed a sin."

The chieftain's voice began to tremble.

"However, they did not commit that sin against us, did they? They made us a firm promise. Never again! Never again would we lose our lands and our clan."

"..."

Tears began to well up in the chieftain's eyes.

"But... but!!! What did our king do! During all those long years when our clan was captured by the hands of humans, while so many of our clan were dying, what did he do!"

The chieftain's voice, crying out in indignation, cracked and echoed through the forest.

"My daughter!!! My only daughter, Serin, came home after decades, yet she is still lost in a daze and hasn't even come to her senses, so what did our king do!"

Lucas's heart ached as well at the sight of the chieftain beating his chest with his small hands and wailing.

"I am sorry."

Lucas bowed his head. He was sincere, truly sincere.

Everything the chieftain said was right. While they were being persecuted, the dragons had stood by and watched.

Because it was their ecosystem. Because it was right to leave it alone as long as it didn't greatly disturb the order.

But they hadn't thought about the pain or suffering that would be embedded deep in their hearts. No, they hadn't.

To the dragons, all of it was just one small ecosystem viewed from afar, a reality where if they happened to encounter it, they would click their tongues once in pity.

If they happened to encounter it during a game and offered a helping hand out of generosity, it was supposed to be a stroke of luck and a godsend for them, an event that should be sung about by bards and remembered for ages.

"Sob... but they! They made us a promise. That they would protect us. That they would drive the humans from this world..."

The chieftain collapsed to the ground and sobbed.

"But Chieftain..."

Lucas hesitated, unable to bring himself to say the next words.

'Can I ask them to trust us again? Can we really ask them not to side with the demons?'

All sorts of questions swirled chaotically in Lucas's mind.

'But the chieftain came to inform me, even knowing I am Aman's contractor.'

If Lucas's thoughts were correct, it could be that they too wanted to try trusting the dragons one more time.

'But can I ask them to trust me again? I'm not a dragon right now.'

The chieftain, collapsed on the ground, his small body trembling as he wailed.

The sound of the pixies watching from afar and crying also lingered in Lucas's ears.

"I will bring the contractor. It would be best to discuss this with a dragon."

Putting away all the words that had been on the tip of his tongue, Lucas turned his body.

-Twang!

At that moment, a thin strand of magic shot out and pierced Lucas's arm.

"Ugh..."

Lucas groaned, clutching his pierced arm as a vivid pain spread through his entire body.

Simultaneously, a barrier unfolded.

"It's an ambush. I'm fine, so please get inside quickly."

Lucas, who first deployed a defensive spell around himself and the chieftain, cast a detection spell.

'Damn it. That hurts like hell.'

At the same time, he began to pour healing magic onto his arm.

Once the pain had subsided to some extent, Lucas teleported, chasing the foreign energy caught by his detection spell.

-Flash!

As Lucas appeared, an ashen figure vanished.

'I'll kill you.'

-Flash!

Teleportation was cast again. And seeing the enemy's form disappear once more, Lucas knew instinctively.

'They intend to kill me.'

It wasn't just a single attack; they seemed determined to kill Lucas, even if it meant exhausting all his mana.

'Three of them. Judging by the casting speed, they are not opponents to be ignored.'

Three high-level mages of an unknown circle.

'Mana is not the problem.'

Being not even a 7th circle mage right now, he couldn't use Mana Drain without even knowing the opponent's level.

Moreover, this was the pixies' village, so he couldn't just unleash large-scale magic. But he couldn't move to another location either.

'If I leave, they might target the pixies.'

If Lucas's guess was correct, they were high-ranking demons who had come to the surface. If they, having seen his meeting with Lucas, decided to kill all the pixies?

'No, the pixies are not their problem. Being discovered by the dragons would be the bigger problem.'

Having organized all his thoughts in a short time, Lucas made a decision.

-Flash!

Lucas teleported and disappeared.

'As I thought.'

Seeing the three follow him at the same time, Lucas was certain.

'The one they're after is me. It was a good idea to come here.'

But if Lucas had gone straight to Aman, they would have immediately returned to the pixies and massacred them all.

Therefore, Lucas teleported not to where Aman was, but straight to the front of Lake Mare.

"Are you not coming out?"

Despite Lucas's words, they remained hidden and did not appear.

'They are maintaining a barrier and detection magic at the same time...'

They were waiting for the moment Lucas's mana was depleted.

Making them, who were maintaining invisibility magic, reveal themselves was a simple matter, but Lucas decided to use a different method.

'I'll catch them all at once.'

Lucas began to gradually lower the strength of his barrier.

"You seem to be scared."

Then he began to bluff at the empty air.

"I don't know if you know, but I am the contractor of a dragon! I still have plenty of mana left!"

High-level mages would have already noticed that Lucas's barrier was weakening.

"I'll say it again, if my contractor comes, I don't know what will happen to all of you. It would be better to come out without using such pathetic tricks."

Lucas even showed off his acting skills by making his voice tremble slightly.

The barrier weakened even more. Along with that, he felt them moving.

'Almost there.'

Lucas lowered the strength of the barrier surrounding his body a little more.

'Just a little more.'

A little more.

'Now!'

-Krrrrrumble! KABOOM! KRA-KA-BOOM! CRACK! S-CRACK!

In an instant, the earth shook, and lightning began to pour from the sky. Along with that, dozens of ice spears rained down.

-Twang! Twang!

No one could have survived such an ambush, but they thoroughly confirmed the kill.

As the spot where Lucas had stood was covered in hazy smoke, only then did the figures reveal themselves and begin to approach.

"A formidable human."

"I was surprised too."

"He must be dead by now, right?"

They moved closer to the spot where Lucas should be dead.

"He's probably turned to ash. Why bother checking again? Let's go."

"True."

Just then, a foreign energy enveloped them.

"Huh?"

One of the men, feeling something was wrong, looked up at the sky.

[Hello, boys?]

Amore had descended.

[End of Chapter]