Small Journey

Pachachachachangggg─────!

[Kyaaaaak-!]

[Apaaaaaa-!]

[Huaaaang-!]

Northern Glass Land of the Grabadra Sea.

Resounding breaking sounds and children’s screams rained down.

Glass monsters of all shapes rushed in from everywhere.

Kwassssss─────!

Nadia, with scimitar and jambiya crossed, broke through the gap.

Glass fragments scattered behind her line.

It was as if a Milky Way containing brilliant sunlight was unfolding.

I, who had reduced my body, encouraged her through telepathy.

[You’re doing well.]

Under the hot desert sun, a vast glass land naturally created by mana’s phantasmal effect.

Glass crystals formed here and there on the sandy field emitted reflections that could blind one’s sight.

It was a splendid sight beyond description, dazzling to the eyes.

The desert was coated with glasses shining in the sunlight.

Kwadrrrr-

A grand aftermath sweeps the surroundings again.

Glass bodies covering the land come off.

It was like fragments falling from an iceberg.

Gwadrrrrk-

Clustering glass fragments took on all kinds of forms.

Human, beast, bird, dwarf, giant, indefinite form…

All with the purpose of grinding down living beings.

Shuuuuu-!

Glass whirlwinds blowing fiercely arose here and there.

Cutting power that could grind a camel into a bloody pancake within 10 seconds.

The doing of malicious and playful glass fairies.

[Kyaaaaaa~!]

[Kyarururu-!]

[Ahatha!]

Noisy laughter of children could be heard from here and there.

Not transmission of vocal sounds, but telepathic transmission.

[Waaa~! There’s a fun toy!]

One voice spotted Nadia.

[Slice slice! Let’s grind it~!]

[Kyaaaaaa~!]

[Kkarururu-!]

Kwassssss-!

Evil glass fragment fairies immediately rushed in.

Glass bodies of all shapes and glass whirlwinds approached.

[Die die diee!]

[Ahahah! Let’s play-!]

[Play with us-!]

Humorous, malicious, and yet purely innocent laughter.

“Phoo.”

Nadia simply locked her right-hand scimitar and left-hand jambiya together.

Children’s laughter has no effect on the assassin’s composure.

Pat!

Nadia bent her upper body sharply as if about to fall forward and shot forward.

Huuuung-!

The desert glass fairies, swirling fiercely, greeted happily.

[Hello~! Let’s play~!]

[Play!]

[Play with us~!]

The moment such a collision occurred.

Kwachachachachangggg─────!

Immediately, glass bodies split along her path.

[Kyaaaaak-!]

[Huaaaang-!]

[Uuuuuk-!]

The children’s mockery instantly turned into cries filled with pain.

Pachaaang-!

A huge glass thorn tree walking like an ent broke from its roots.

It tried to blur vision by reflecting manipulated light like a prism, but such tricks didn’t work on an assassin.

It only became glass fragments equally shattered by Nadia’s twin swords.

Hwarurururk-!

Some condensed light in their entire bodies and spewed fire.

Fireballs and streams of fire rained down irregularly.

Nadia simply swept her twin swords.

Tsukakak-!

Some glass fragments flew and touched Nadia.

But they could never wound her.

Because she had heavily armored her entire body.

It was clearly a precaution for this moment.

“Perfect.”

The fact that I had reduced my body to 6 meters wasn’t for any special reason.

With my original 54-meter volume, most monsters would shrink back and refrain from approaching.

It was an unavoidable measure to directly train Nadia in preparation for the Samara Integration Battle a week later.

There’s no meaning in getting stronger if I just hand out all kinds of magic stones.

She needed to build various practical senses.

The glass fairies have a habit of staying in their colony during the day.

They’re creatures that rarely move around except at night.

Predicting this, appropriate farming can be attempted.

The small glass bodies produce at least E-grade magic stones, and the large glass bodies produce at least C-grade magic stones.

They were safe and steady sources of magic stones.

And in case of any contingency, I’m also here.

Pachang-!

[Huaaaak-!]

After the last glass fairy’s scream was heard, the subjugation was completed.

What remained sparkling were the magic stones that were the source of the glass bodies.

They were like pearls scattered on an unoccupied beach.

Pachaaang! Srururururk-

As mana streams rose here and there, Nadia absorbed the magical power of the magic stones she had broken.

These glass fairies have a certain regeneration time.

Attackers are naturally given some rest.

Kwassssss-

[Kyahahahat-!]

[Kkalkalkalkal-!]

[Uhihihihit-!]

Indeed, the glass fairies’ innocent laughter echoed again.

This same process was repeated for a while.

At some point, we left the scene and moved.

The sun in the eastern blue sky gradually falls to the western horizon.

Dusky darkness begins to settle.

Eventually, night falls.

“Phoo…”

As the cold of night approached, Nadia exhaled.

The training that began at noon enters its highlight.

The sun had completely set, and it became a cruel night.

Kung, kuung-

Heavy footsteps echoing on the cold sandy field.

A huge Desert Mummy Gigas appeared on the horizon.

Red eyes glowing, bandages wrapped around the entire body fluttering.

When the mummy giant raised its staff, the hanging green crystal shone.

Kuuuuu-

Fluorescent bright green death magic waves spread widely throughout the area.

[March…!]

A radial ominous telepathy reached the mind.

Kwadrrrr-

“Gueeeeee…”

“Kueeeeee…”

“Kyaruru…”

Rotten hands piercing through the frozen ground around.

Undead wandering the desert night began to appear.

The scene of not only humans but also all kinds of desert races mixed in conveyed the tragedy.

Passuk-

“Kya, aaaa…!”

“Gu, eeeeee…!”

“Uwuwuwu…!”

Repeatedly, hands shot up from the ground like bamboo shoots.

Souls that could never escape the bosom of the great desert and perished.

Corpses and souls were separately turned into familiars of the desert giants.

“Kyaruk.”

One zombie turned its rotten eyeballs toward us.

The rest of the zombies, skeletons, and mummies also turned their heads.

They begin to detect targets that are different from themselves.

“Kyaak!”

“Kruruk-!”

“Kyarurururu-!”

Roars and eerie sounds spread like an epidemic.

Warururururk─────!

“Kyaaaaa-!”

“Kuaaaaa-!”

“Kurururuk-!”

The undead all began to rush in at once.

A wave of corpses and skeletons came crashing in.

The scale reached as many as thousands.

“Phoo.”

Nadia took a deep breath with a determined look and moved her hand to her back.

Tsurung-

Nadia earnestly drew the magic talwar from her back.

Hwaruruk-

Immediately, as her magical power was conducted, flames blazed on the blade.

The burning curved sword in both hands illuminated the dark night desert.

Nadia firmly stepped on her front foot.

Pat! Taktatattaktak-!

Nadia ran quickly without hesitation.

The distance between the rushing opponents gradually narrows.

Nadia and the undead wave collided head-on.

Kwassssss─────!

“Guaaaaa-!”

“Kyaaaaak-!”

“Ueeeeee-!”

Burning flesh pieces and bone fragments scattered.

Nadia wildly swung the great talwar held in both hands.

Chwakchwakchwakchwakchwak-!

Nadia skillfully cut down the corpses.

Under the skilled swordsmanship of the assassin, the undead fell like bundles of straw.

Midway, she held the magic talwar with one hand and moved her free hand.

Sgugegegeogek-!

A blade disk flew through the middle of the undead wave.

All sorts of corpses were sliced in a row as if cutting radishes.

Nadia manifested magic in the hand that had thrown the chakram.

Shiiing-

The blue-glowing blade disk returned and was caught in the owner’s grasp.

It was a magic chakram with a retrieval function through the owner’s magical power recognition.

[Ahiit…!]

[Kyahahat…!]

[Hu, hihihit…!]

Gloomy laughter echoed in the sky around the immortal giant.

Colorful streams swimming in the desert night sky.

Eyeballs like large drops and mouths stretched long and thin were malicious.

Wraiths craving the flesh of the living spotted Nadia.

[A living one… the warmth of the living…!]

[Give me a body again…!]

[Let me enter…!]

The wraith streams wandering the night sky descended instantly.

Shuuuuu-!

Many wraiths also rushed in to take Nadia’s body.

She, who had been slaughtering the undead wave, swung her sword toward the sky.

Hwarururururk-!

[Huaaaak-!]

[Kkeeeek-!]

[Kyaaak-!]

The wraiths were engulfed in flames with chilling screams and perished.

Magic tools and magic weapons were sufficient to strike the substance of spiritual quality.

Against ghost types, the magic talwar was an excellent choice.

Chwachwachwachwachwak! Hwarururuk-!

Nadia swung her fire sword to cut corpses and slice wraiths.

The Black Scorpion Assassination Group’s Samara Clan, sand tribe Rashka great warrior fought brilliantly.

“Haaaap-!”

Nadia indiscriminately slaughtered the undead with a clear battle cry.

A continuous battle where being bitten even once by zombies would be the end.

She would just become a zombie and wander around with them.

But there was no such problem in the current situation.

This was the reason for the thick heavy armor.

To prevent infection from the curse of undeath.

“It’s time for me to step in.”

During her struggle, I was watching a completely different target.

Cutting only insignificant branches is useless.

The tree itself must be uprooted.

[Gather…! Cozy deaths…! Chew and swallow the death and screams of the living…!]

The immortal giant repeatedly raised corpses and wraiths.

After all, this situation won’t end unless we catch the one causing it.

For her with B-grade prowess, an A-grade Desert Mummy Gigas is a profound threat.

Kuddddd-

With the manifestation of will, my form that had reached 6 meters rapidly increased.

Revealing my original 54-meter volume that had been thoroughly hiding its identity.

I extended my neck long and roared with all my might.

“Quishaaaaak─────!”

I immediately kicked the frozen desert ground with my whole body.

Tukwarruruk-!

Frozen dirt scattered into pieces.

My body shot forward like a rocket leaving the launch pad.

A being originating from the southern West Continent Arubian, where necromancy was developed.

I flew like a building uprooted in a typhoon toward the Desert Mummy Gigas, which easily exceeded 30 meters.

[H-White Sovereign…!]

The red eye light of the immortal giant, who handles death, widened in fear.

It hurriedly swung its green crystal staff.

Hwarururururk-

Vast green death magic gathered in its staff.

But it was already too late to respond.

The distance between us narrowed at once.

“Quihwaaaak-!”

I roared resonantly and buried my wide-open mouth into its crown.

Kwassssss-!

I chewed from its head and dug down.

In an instant, I ate its head and broke through the remaining body.

It was truly a disgustingly tasteless flavor of rotten corpse.

“…”

The immortal giant’s form became like firewood split left and right.

Eventually, its form slowly fell backward.

Kuuuung-!

The bisected body of the immortal giant lay on the frozen desert with a heavy crashing sound.

The control of the necromancer who commanded the corpses disappears.

Warurururu-

The zombies, skeletons, and mummies on the ground immediately stopped moving and lay scattered like mannequins.

The wraiths in the sky gradually became translucent and disappeared.

It was a victory in the final planned battle.

[Access to a new physical transformation has become possible. Activation and deactivation can be freely done through the recitation of an activation word or the manifestation of will.]

A new system message appeared.

This was the second time seeing it.

A new physical transformation had been unlocked.

“What is this?”

Captivated by curiosity, I exerted power.

[Undead Transformation (Death Mode) has been applied.]

Immediately the message changed.

Udrrrrrk-

For a moment, a strange sensation covered my entire body.

It felt like a proliferating tree spreading.

I immediately exerted water magic.

Shwaaaaa-

I spread a rectangular water mirror in front of me.

I checked the reflection shown there.

“This is…?”

My voice sank like an eerie dissonance.

Overall, my body was tinged with a black tone.

The entire body had a texture like black stone.

The head became a form with an elongated lower jaw like a snake or goat skull.

From the nape, strange bone qualities extended in disorder like branches.

However, the brilliant golden eye light proved that it was identical to my existing self.

Overall, a broad understanding of death.

In addition, flawless control over corpses and ghosts.

It was the moment of awakening a completely new necromancer aptitude.

From now on, I could also form a legion of death with things that died by me.

“Have I now acquired necromancy…?”

I exerted the newly acquired power.

Hwarururururk-

Immediately, deep fluorescent green flames arose throughout my body.

A unique chilling and ominous energy.

But to the practitioner, infinite warmth.

It is death magic, the power to handle death.

I floated my body with telekinesis.

Wiiiing-

I flew here and there in the desert night sky where the Milky Way spread.

It was like a black snake of death enveloped in green flames cruising the night sky.

From the ground, Nadia blankly tilted her head and looked up at me.

After enjoying it sufficiently, I descended back to the ground.

“…Your appearance has changed.”

Nadia approached me and said, looking up at me with a profound gaze.

I deactivated Death Mode.

Charararararak-

The black-stained outer skin is bleached white again.

I returned to the original White Sovereign form.

“The battle is over. Let’s rest.”

“Yes.”

A struggle that lasted over 12 hours from noon to past midnight.

The result of severely pushing Nadia was a pass.

Pachaaang! Srururururk-

Magical flows arose here and there in the desert under the night sky.

Nadia broke and absorbed the magic stones of the undead.

When the farming was over, I took my tail in my mouth.

Ururururung-

I took the form of a snake in an ouroboros, with my body rounded.

“Come inside me.”

Nadia leaped up and entered the space between my body.

Looking at her, I exerted fire magic.

Hwaruruk-

Immediately, a small fire hole appeared and blazed in front of her.

It serves as a substitute for a bonfire to spend the night.

I exerted magic again.

Wiiiing-

Small and large subspaces opened around Nadia.

Warururururk-

All kinds of food and daily necessities fell near her.

Befitting a master of magic, the dragon race is also very proficient in the use of subspace.

These were all items prepared before departing from Zangar.

Thanks to this, Nadia could move lightly, without burdens.

“Now let’s spend the night.”

“Yes.”

Nadia knelt toward the bright orange fire hole.

First, she takes care of the bedding, preparing a blanket and sleeping bag.

Then, she gathered jerky, provisions, and water-filled leather pouches and began to eat.

Asak, asak.

In the silence where no one spoke, only Nadia’s eating sounds echoed.

Although we had ventured out to an absurdly far distance, there was no particular worry.

Because we could return anytime with teleport through memory-dependent transference.

I just needed to focus on pushing Nadia to her limits to develop her.

I hardly did anything, and Nadia was also very at ease.

This was because I was guarding and protecting her.

“Now… you speak normally instead of telepathy echoing in my head.”

“That’s right.”

“What happened to you?”

“It just turned out that way.”

I looked at her and slightly exerted my Insight Eye.

[Nadia Lint Hakan Hal Amutar]

[Gender: Female.]

[Height: 170cm.]

[Weight: 58kg.]

[Race: Human.]

[Age: 20.]

[Occupation: Akran Village Vice Chieftain, Black Scorpion Assassination Group Samara Assassin, Sand Tribe Rashka Great Warrior.]

[Characteristic: Assassin.]

[Rank: B-rank Level 5.]

[Emotion: Calm.]

She had risen 2 levels from B-rank Level 3 at the initial check.

It was indeed a bus-riding accompanied by practical sense.

My great warrior Nadia is growing vigorously.

“You’ve also acquired… polymorph that changes appearance or size.”

Nadia, who had already finished eating, was wrapped in a sleeping bag and blanket.

Leaning her back gently against my outer skin, she whispered.

“Where do you get these abilities?”

“Well.”

I slightly avoided answering this time too.

“Polymorph can become any appearance, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Is human form… impossible for you?”

“Well.”

Nadia asked me with a strangely trembling voice.

With my tail in my mouth, I watched the dark horizon on the other side of the night desert.

When she finds out that I can also take human form, how would she react?

But I try not to show human form unless absolutely necessary.

The death of water dragon Phurnicia became a great trauma for me.

I was also afraid that I and the worms might be taken lightly.

The experience of transmigrating as a monster worm had reversed my existing perspective.

I was a monster that ate humans, and a human who gave up being human.

I thought it was too late to make all kinds of excuses now.

“…The White Sovereign looks cool in his current form too. Even if the whole world denies it, that’s how it appears to me.”

“Thank you for seeing it that way.”

The desert night under the increasingly deep Milky Way.

The relationship between me, a monster, and Nadia, a human.

Only the bright fire illuminated each other.

“……”

At some point, Nadia fell into silence.

Having filled her stomach sufficiently, she was closing her eyes.

Befitting an assassin, she was accustomed to sleeping in such environments.

“Sleep well…”

Whispering quietly, I also sank my consciousness.

That’s how we spent the night together.

“Quiyooooo-!”

The sharp roar of a desert eagle slicing through the blue sky.

I slowly woke up.

“Heung… Uhumm!”

Nadia, waking up together, raised her arms and stretched.

She tidily organized her wakened spot with practiced hands.

Eventually, she hopped out of the space of my body.

“Huh?”

As soon as Nadia got out, she made a clear questioning sound.

She was looking at the terrain spread behind us.

There, a broad gravel field rather than sand was spread out.

We had moved little by little throughout the intense battle, but didn’t recognize it because it was night.

“There… what is that? A strange reflection?”

Nadia said, shading her eyes with her hand, as if curious.

Something strange light was indeed sparkling there.

“Can I go check it out?”

“As you wish.”

Taktaktaktatak.

Nadia immediately sprinted, kicking up sand.

Kuddddd-

I, who had reduced my size to 6 meters again with polymorph, followed her slowly, wriggling my body.

“What on earth…?”

Nadia, who had already arrived first, was rubbing something with her hand.

It was a black stele with a surface like obsidian, shiny and smooth.

As all the dust was wiped away, the reflection became more intense.

Nadia knelt and examined the stele.

“Something… could it be an ancient tombstone?”

On the surface of the stele was something presumed to be squiggly text.

However, due to weathering over long years, it was difficult to recognize the form.

“Probably so?”

“What is this?”

Nadia pointed to a protruding part that jutted out from the center of the stele.

It was a form that particularly stood out with a slightly brighter color.

“A switch…?”

For a moment, I was captured by vast curiosity.

Isn’t this a typical development of finding a hidden place?

“Press it.”

“Is it okay…?”

“We’re curious. Let’s check it out.”

At my encouragement, Nadia carefully extended her finger.

“T-then…”

As Nadia pressed the switch on the stele with her finger.

Ururururung-

Immediately, the stele embedded in the ground rose.

And below it, a rectangular darkness opened up.

Stone stairs leading downward were spread out.

“What is this…?”

Nadia narrowed her eyes and questioned.

A formation as if inviting us to enter.

It was an entrance leading somewhere underground.