novelraw Chapter 114 : Chapter 114
Chapter 114 : Chapter 114
Chapter 114
The witch, whose lips had been quivering several times, finally opened her mouth.
“Tell me what you want. To me, impossible things are……”
At her confident voice, I answered quickly.
“I’d like you to clear away the Orcs.”
“…It’s not like there aren’t any. If there were no impossible things, I’d be a god, wouldn’t I?”
As I looked at her with cold eyes at her attitude that changed like flipping a palm, she put her hands on her waist and shouted.
“You, if you are a human, you should have at least a minimum of conscience! Killing 100,000 lives is……”
“It was you who told me to say what I wanted first, though.”
“Not that! Something else!”
Hmm…….
The witch in the game was one of two things.
Either she acted condescendingly while handing over an item as if giving alms, or she appeared as an enemy just when she was about to be forgotten and turned the continent into a sea of fire.
Since I didn't know about the witch's abilities, I couldn't know what to ask for.
I had no choice but to say everything I wanted for now.
“Conquest of the continent?”
“Your wish is too big for just one Dragon!”
“Are you saying you won't do it, or you can't do it?”
“Of course I can’t!”
The witch was more useless than I thought.
“I expected something since you were so confident… Tsk.”
I continued speaking toward the witch, who opened her mouth slightly as if dumbfounded.
“Perhaps if it’s a few kingdoms……”
“No! I can’t! I won’t!”
Che. It was a chance to clear away kingdoms that would become problems later in advance.
“You are much more incompetent than I thought.”
“It’s you who has no conscience!”
The witch shouted abruptly, then pointed at Garius and Jeremy with a deep sigh and said.
“Phew… I will teach magic to those idiots.”
It wasn't a very appealing proposal.
Garius is a hero who entered the 6th circle alone and grasped the clue to the 7th circle.
Jeremy is in a state where physical training is more urgent than magic training.
Above all, I don't know when the Orcs will appear.
Sending the only two wizards we have right now was too big of a risk.
“What, why is there no answer……?”
I thought while looking at the witch silently.
‘She is certainly strong, but…….’
The witch was exceptionally strong even within the game where monsters swarmed.
Because characters who could wage war against a kingdom belonging to a hero single-handedly were rare even in the game.
If it were her magic, it wouldn't be difficult to swallow up all the Orcs.
‘Is she trying to save her strength after all?’
Perhaps she at this time is weaker than I know.
‘Shall I scratch her pride a little?’
Seeing that she openly volunteered to be a teacher, it was clear that her pride in magic was immense.
“Hmm…….”
“What kind of answer is that! Do you know how many wizards came looking to learn from me?!”
“As expected, a wizard who can’t even handle Orcs is a bit…….”
As I shook my head slowly, the witch, who seemed genuinely unable to believe it, looked at me with a blank face, flustered.
“Well, there must be other good opportunities for those two. They might be able to receive the teachings of a ‘great wizard’ at least once in their lives.”
“You, you, you……!”
I looked at her pitifully as she stammered like she was broken, and continued.
“Ah, don’t worry. I’ll check on the Dragon properly. I’m not the type to be all talk like someone.”
As I said that and was about to pass the witch, the witch’s sharp voice rang out.
“It’s me! It’s me! There is no wizard in this continent superior to me!”
Being able to shout like that while the ‘conversation’ is being maintained means that the witch genuinely believes she is the best wizard.
In other words, it means her pride is as strong as her self-esteem in magic.
“…Right. I get it, so can’t you just let us go now?”
When I spoke while sighing as if annoyed, the witch shouted in an aggrieved voice.
“You, you! Your eyes right now are eyes that don't believe a single bit! Hey, wizard! You answer!”
“Okay. I understand well that you are the best wizard, so—.”
“But this guy until the eeeeend!”
The witch, her face flushed red, shouted abruptly.
“Fine! If you let me teach those two, I will tie the Orcs to the forest for the next week.”
“Hmm.”
My mouth watered at the sweet proposal.
Of course, biting the first offer right away is what amateurs do.
“T-two weeks?”
I asked her, who was twitching her hat as if anxious.
“How long are you planning to keep my wizards?”
“Hmm… Since they both seem to have talent… about ten years?”
The witch’s hat, facing my cold eyes, fluttered quickly.
“No, nine, eight, hmm… five years?”
“…….”
“Then, th-three years? But what can I teach in just three years? They won’t even learn the basics…….”
“…….”
“Even three years is a no? That makes no sense! Then how long is possible?”
The answer was simple.
“Until you can keep the Orcs tied down.”
Well, if she really wants to teach, she should use some of her strength.
* * *
The witch, who had been pondering for a long time, said that two months was the maximum for keeping the Orcs tied down.
And I readily agreed to lend the wizards.
“I’m the one teaching them, though……?”
“I am lending them. I am giving you the opportunity to teach wizards who can become as great as you someday.”
Blinking her big eyes, she glared at the two wizards with a sullen face.
“Those guys?”
“If they get even one step closer to the truth in just two months, everyone on the continent will praise the Witch of the Forest, calling her a great wizard.”
“Is that so……?”
“Of course. Since you’ve only been in the forest, this opportunity is like heaven-sent luck, so you should have a bit of a grateful heart.”
The witch, who was thinking deeply, tilted her head but soon nodded.
As if she especially liked the part about being praised, the witch nodded vigorously and continued.
“Okay! Thanks! I’ll try my best!”
I smirked while looking at the vigorously flapping hat.
‘Is it because she’s only been in the forest…….’
She was innocent.
I didn't know if it was acting or because she had lived only in the forest.
‘There are many things I want to ask…….’
I had to be satisfied with this much for now.
The reason she was showing such a side was because she thought of me as a ‘manager’.
I must maintain this distance and relationship until I can be sure that the witch of this world is an ally.
“Ah. The Dragon is alive and healthy.”
Just a relationship where we give and take what we want.
“Huh! Really?”
At the moment I was about to return to the Special Mission Unit with those words, the witch shouted.
“Wait! Just one last thing, answer one more thing! Are you really not a Dragon?”
After smirking at her running towards me with her hat fluttering, I headed towards the Special Mission Unit that had escaped from the mana.
“We are returning with the corpse of the Serpent King.”
I originally intended to collect only the byproducts and return, but the witch shouted that it was absolutely not allowed, saying that the quality of the scales would drop the moment they were plucked from the corpse.
Since she was so sincere that she even cast a weight reduction spell herself, saying it had to be taken whole no matter what, I decided to drag it along inevitably.
‘If it gets too heavy on the way, I can just loot it then.’
That was what I thought back then.
* * *
Mireska nodded repeatedly watching the humans moving away.
“At first he denied being a Dragon with a straight face, but during the ‘conversation’, he didn’t say he wasn’t a Dragon, did he?”
If he is a Dragon, all curiosities are resolved.
The fact that he can check the life and death and condition of a Dragon whose whereabouts are unknown.
The fact that he couldn't say he wasn't a Dragon during the ‘conversation’.
The fact that such a weak human became a ‘manager’.
If he is a Dragon hiding his existence, everything can be understood.
“Denying being a Dragon at first must be because of the rules of the species.”
It was famous that Dragons out on amusement thoroughly hid their existence.
Although there were hardly any beings who remembered Dragons.
“Mmm. Mmm. If he’s a Dragon, my charm might not have worked.”
The biggest reason she was convinced he was a Dragon was the charm.
Her charm, special even among fairies, was not of a kind that a mere human could withstand.
The reason she, the daughter of the Great Fairy Queen and called the greatest wizard, ended up stuck in the monster forest was also to control this charm.
“As expected, he is definitely a Dragon.”
She turned her head and asked the man who had his mouth half open.
“You think so too, right?”
“He, he abandoned me…….”
As she looked at Jeremy with narrowed eyes, Garius, who was next to him, nodded instead with a complicated expression.
“Right? You think so too, right?!”
“I don’t know how a Dragon became a Young Lord, but if he is a Dragon, so many things……”
“I told you so! Ahahaha! He wasn't surprised even after seeing this Mireska, so that guy must definitely be a Lord!”
While she was cackling for a long time having solved the difficult problem, the snake the Dragon took suddenly came to mind.
“Ah, I should have told him to be careful on the way…….”
Even if it lacks intelligence, it is the corpse of a Monarch species.
All sorts of monsters hiding would rush towards the humans at the dizzying scent and stimulation emitted by the corpse.
Just as she tilted her head and wondered if she should help, the two wizards caught her eye.
‘I don’t even have enough time to teach those wizards…….’
Even for her, it would take a full day to move that huge snake to the fortress.
Besides, to tie down the Orcs' steps, she had to move diligently.
“Well, there is a Dragon over there, so it should be fine.”
Since Dragons gradually increase their strength pretending to gain enlightenment whenever they are in danger, they wouldn't be defeated by mere monsters.
“Alright, then let’s go!”
The moment she moved her hand toward Jeremy and Garius floating in the air, the figures of the three people disappeared in an instant.
* * *
“Move! Do not stop your feet!”
Ian, who shouted with blazing eyes, split a Hobgoblin’s head with his sword.
“Do not miss a single one!”
“Move faster! Do you want to die here!”
The battle, which began the moment we left the swamp, had already continued for over eight hours.
There were no high-ranking monsters establishing a territory, but the problem was the quantity.
Even Hoodwock, who was born and raised in the fortress, clicked his tongue saying he had never seen this many Goblins, wondering where on earth they had sprung from.
‘I absolutely can’t give it up.’
If I just give up the Serpent King, I can return to the fortress safely.
If I just give up the Serpent King.
‘My armor, my weapon, my gear!’
If I have the Serpent King's corpse, I can outfit the entire Special Mission Unit and the Black Noble Troop with new gear.
If I mix that guy’s bones, I can make at least top-grade arrows and upper-intermediate grade swords.
“Captain! Another group of Goblins appeared in the rear!”
“Demonic beast wolves ahead!”
“Do not stop moving! I will handle those guys!”
Clutching my sword, I rushed toward the wolf appearing from the front.
- Grrrrr…….
Seeing the drool flowing down, it seems you also covet what is mine…….
“I never yield what is mine.”
Even if I have to pickle it into snake wine instead of making weapons or armor, that is mine.
- Kuaaaaaang!
I shouted while running to meet the charging wolf.
“It’s mine—!”
Ian, having shouted like that, swung his sword ceaselessly as if trying to wash away the fear and terror he felt from the witch with the blood of monsters.
Until they reached the edge of the forest and the fortress came into view.