Reincarnated Dragon Goes to the Academy!

Chapter 184 : The Prelude to War (1)

But except for the relatively friendly Ellaim, the other spirit kings were as expected.

[It doesn't matter who occupies this land. As long as they don't pollute the land.]

Noas, the earth spirit king, said this and disappeared.

[Nature is to let history flow. Not to interfere. Just like the wind.]

Zephyrus, the wind spirit king, also disappeared as if there was no need to listen further.

[X off.]

Ifrit, the fire spirit king, well...

So things would get a little difficult, but it couldn't be helped.

"Things never go easily."

"It's always like that."

Hasel and Lucas, sitting side by side, sighed repeatedly.

"Hah..."

Hasel's sigh was mixed with resentment.

He must have just hurt his pride without gaining anything.

"Hoo..."

Lucas's sigh was mixed with a sense of hopelessness.

He was even more at a loss because he hadn't even found out where they were.

"We're in big trouble!"

Just then, Aman, who had suddenly rushed in, shouted with a pale face.

"What is it?"

"All the elf territories have been attacked."

"Damn it!"

He had thought it was just his usual fuss, but the situation was serious.

***

They split up into different places.

Hasel went to Ruslan, and Aman went to the elf territory in the Raskan Mountains.

And Lucas was in the elf territory in Divanos. They, who had split up into the three largest places where the elves lived, were seeing the same scene at the same time in different places.

A burned forest and village. The corpses scattered here and there made him guess how terribly they had been treated.

"..."

An elf who had died, burned, frozen in a running posture.

An elf who had died with his hand outstretched as if begging to be saved.

An elf who had died without even being able to nock an arrow.

Lucas's heart was devastated as he looked at them, who had died in all sorts of different postures.

'Even the alarm magic...'

He had set up not only protection magic but also alarm magic in their village in preparation for a possible situation.

But the tragic scene was saying that all of that had been in vain.

No one had known until they had been treated like this. The embers had already been extinguished, and the blackened remnants were damp as if they had been hit by dew.

'Who on earth did this.'

Things were going wrong. He knew it was the work of the demons, but they had easily undone the magic the dragons had cast.

'Who...'

Who among them had such skills? At the very least, the alarm magic should have gone off.

He had even installed a separate alarm magic that reacted to demonic energy, but all of that was useless.

The sound of his heart beating echoed in his ears.

Thump- thump- the sound of his wildly beating heart represented Lucas's heart.

He was anxious. In fact, Lucas had also thought that persuading the spirit kings was going too far.

But it was a countermeasure he had set up because it was not enough to be overly prepared. But now it seemed that it was not overflowing, but that it was also not enough.

'What do they have?'

The demons were a superior race, but they were nothing compared to the dragons. They were just at the level of the elves being skilled in spirit magic.

But how?

His teeth ground together.

He looked for traces, but as expected, there were none.

Now that the enemies had come so close, this side also had to move a little more busily.

-Paaat!

Lucas teleported and disappeared.

***

"You've been through a lot today."

"No."

Pamela's hair color, who had received the new name Melanie, had become a little darker than before.

And her eye color was also a darker red than before, and small horns were growing on her head.

"The power seems to suit you well."

The new power the Demon King Yastan had given her was completely adapting to Pamela's body.

"Yes. It's good."

Pamela, no, Melanie, answered with a faint smile.

"There were a lot of high-quality souls this time. You've also become skilled in handling souls."

"Thank you."

"Now, then, Melanie. I have a new job to entrust to you this time, can you do it?"

Yastan asked in a gentle voice. The gaze with which he looked at her, as if she were very lovely, was a bonus.

"Of course."

Melanie was at a point where she could not control the power boiling in her body. Even if she poured her strength into gathering souls every day, she had power left over.

"Haha. As expected, our Melanie is better than a warrior of the clan. Behold, Matisak. How brave our Melanie is."

"Yes. That's right."

"Doesn't she say she'll do it right away without even asking what the job is! Brave. Very, very brave."

Yastan knew exactly how to handle the scarred Melanie. Although there was also the information Liwol had given him, in fact, Melanie was so easy to handle that he didn't even need to know such things.

"Right. Melanie. This job might be a little dangerous."

"It's okay."

Dangerous? Then it was even better.

Because the praise that poured in whenever she accomplished a difficult task was so sweet. And with this much power, there was nothing to be afraid of.

"Here, take it."

Yastan handed over a piece of paper that was on the desk.

"Can you read the characters written there?"

"Yes."

The characters written along with the ancient language. But there was no problem in reading them.

Because she had learned it while she was in the Resurrection Cult.

'No way...'

Melanie's expression darkened slightly as she slowly read the characters.

"As expected. Will it be difficult?"

At Yastan's tone, which seemed to be testing her, Melanie quickly fixed her expression and smiled faintly.

"No. I can do it."

There was nothing she couldn't do. The only option she had now was to do it unconditionally.

It was better to try and then say she couldn't if it didn't work out. Because it was much more disappointing to back out, saying she couldn't do it without even trying.

So she had to do her best. And she had to believe she could do it.

"Hahaha! As expected. You are my daughter."

"Then I'll be going."

I have to go right away. Because it's something I have to do for my new life.

***

Melanie approached the enemy, hiding her power as much as possible.

Since she was now in a perfect human form, she would not be threatening if she did not reveal her power.

And according to Yastan's words, since they were an arrogant race, they would not even think that a mere human could harm them.

Melanie, who had hidden her power and even her existence with the help of the demons, approached slowly.

With each step, her heart pounded as if it would burst.

'If I just do this...'

I can be acknowledged.

If that happens, I will be able to marry Liwol and live happily as the Demon King's daughter.

The demons were much better than the untrustworthy humans.

Another step.

She approached the huge being sleeping in the deep cave.

The aura emanating from the large body was amazing.

'So this is a dragon.'

The pressure felt just from breathing in and out made her body tremble.

Melanie, who was holding a particularly black, large soul stone in her arms, approached the being slowly, very slowly.

When she was close enough to reach him if she just stretched out her hand.

-Paaaaaaat!

She thrust the soul stone in her hand into the dragon's left side.

[K-keok! Who dares!!!]

The dragon, who had shot up at the pain felt in its heart, stomped its large foot, and the ground shook.

'No.'

Melanie, who had fallen back from the impact, covered her mouth to stop the groan that was about to escape and held her breath.

[Come out!!! You rat-like bastards!!!]

A small laugh almost escaped her.

'Bastards'? I'm alone.

Thinking this, Melanie now suppressed not a groan, but a laugh, and looked up at the red body that was running wild.

'Soon...'

As expected of a dragon, the soul was not swallowed in an instant.

[Keuk...!]

A groan burst out.

[Keo, eo-eok!]

Blackish-red blood gushed out of the large mouth.

[Kraaaaaak!!!]

The fountain of blood that spewed out of its mouth soaked the cave ceiling.

'It's done.'

It would be over soon. Very easily.

'How arrogant.'

No matter how much of a dragon it was, to be sleeping with its belly exposed without a single alarm magic? How arrogant.

[Kraaaaaak!!!]

The red pupils lost their strength, and as they went limp, they turned black.

"It's done."

The pupils that had lost their focus. The blood that was dripping from the gaping mouth.

"So what. It's no different from a big wyvern."

Except that it required a much larger soul stone than a wyvern.

It was to the extent that she wondered if it had been too easy. Still, wasn't it a dragon?

"Let's go now. Now, hurry up and polymorph."

As soon as Melanie's words ended, the huge dragon's body shrank in an instant and became the form of a human woman with red hair.

"Hmm. Can't you change your hair color?"

There was no answer.

"Then what."

As Melanie recited the coordinates, the polymorphed dragon grabbed Melanie's hand and teleported at once.

***

"What about the other races?"

"They seem to be fine for now."

It was a relief. To think that only the elves had been attacked.

"What happened to Vadim?"

"Not yet."

Although he had boasted that he would hatch in three days, Vadim had not hatched even after a week.

"I'll go and see."

Lucas, who had teleported, slowly examined the egg where Vadim was.

"Hoo..."

Looking at the egg, the past came back to him again.

"Are you okay?"

Hasel asked with a worried expression.

"I'm fine."

Lucas, who had nodded his head briefly, placed his hand on the egg and slowly read the energy.

'The soul is definitely there.'

As if Vadim's words were not a lie, he could feel Vadim's soul stirring in the egg, which had felt nothing before.

'I can't force it to hatch.'

Everyone knew the disaster that would occur the moment a dragon's egg was forcibly hatched.

Not only would the soul in the egg be destroyed, but the soul of the one who had hatched the egg would also be destroyed.

That was why they could not carelessly touch an unhatched dragon's egg. There had been a case where an egg that had not hatched had hatched after five hundred years.

'I understand a little now.'

A dragon, which was said to be made by selecting and selecting a clean soul.

In the old days, the parents had blamed themselves very much when they saw an unhatched egg, but now that he thought about it, he felt that there was no need to do so.

'If it was fated not to hatch.'

The thought that he might not have given it a soul because he didn't like it when he was selecting it.

"Vadim-nim."

As Lucas called his name to the egg, a 'brrr-' vibration was felt from the egg.

It seemed that his voice was also being transmitted vividly.

"Didn't you say it would only take three days?"

Based on the personality he had seen for a short time, he decided to say something unbearable. To make him hatch even out of anger.

Now, Vadim's power was desperately needed.

"You were bluffing. But three days is too much."

Brrr-

The egg trembled again.

"You're not even a chick... ah, do chicks take longer than that?"

Brrrrrr-!

A trembling as if in denial.

"Then hmm... about a quail?"

"Lord. I know that even quails take longer than that."

Hasel added from the side.

"That's right. Then what hatches in three days? Hmm... a crab baby?"

Aman, who seemed to have understood their meaning, also began to tease from the side.

"Tsk. Even crabs take longer than that. A shrimp, maybe."

"Hahaha! Is that so?"

Brrrrrr-!

The egg trembled again.

Although they had teased the egg for a long time, the egg just kept trembling and did not hatch.

"Hah..."

It was when a sigh of disappointment was about to escape him.

"The alarm has gone off."

At Hasel's words, Lucas and Aman held out their arms at the same time.

-Paaat!

It was better to move in the time it took to hear the answer.

[End of Chapter]