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Wyvern.

The size of the wings spread is almost 5m.

Powerful jaws and claws that can tear through steel.

It is truly a terrifying monster, worthy of being called the ruler of the sky.

A monster that can devastate a village when just one appears.

What would happen if seven such monsters appeared and attacked the village?

“Ugh!”

“Aaagh! Save me!”

“Aaagh!”

The answer was now unfolding before Claude Party’s eyes.

“Shi, fuck… fuck!”

People were captured by wyverns, dragged into the sky, and fell and were crushed.

It is swallowed in large gulp.

Clamp Village quickly became a shambles, and people quickly abandoned the village and began to run away.

“This… this can’t be…”

Claude looks at this with a blank expression, as if it makes no sense.

I can’t even hold my sword properly because my right shoulder is bleeding profusely, probably from a wyvern bite.

To put it simply, you are not in a state where you can fight no matter what the wyvern does in front of you.

‘How did this happen?’

A terrible catastrophe.

Claude decided that he could definitely defeat them.

In fact, it was possible with his abilities.

But as you can see the result.

How on earth did this happen?

Claude couldn’t understand.

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Go back in time, a few hours ago.

Warrior Claude’s party arrived at Clamp Village by carriage.

“Ah, you are from the Adventurer’s Guild.”

When they arrived at the village, an old man called the village chief welcomed them.

Because they came to help with the crisis their village was facing, they were treated very kindly.

Of course, rather than feeling grateful, Claude Party thought it was natural.

“Haha. The warrior Claude has arrived, so don’t worry.”

“Oh… I can’t believe the person who received the title of hero is coming. I feel reassured.”

The village chief as well as the villagers smiled with relief upon hearing that Claude was a hero.

Actually, since there were only three people, I was a little worried.

How are three A-rank adventurers going to deal with a group of wyverns?

In fact, I was worried that there might be unspoken pressure not to accept the request.

“I feel anxious every day since the wyverns built their nest. When will those guys come out and grab us…”

Now is the breeding season for wyverns.

They build a nest in a suitable cliff or canyon, lay eggs, and raise their young.

When the eggs are incubating, the wyverns just guard the nest and don’t go out, so it’s okay.

But the moment a baby is born, hell begins for the creatures around it.

Mother wyverns hunt like crazy to feed their young.

Naturally, Clamp Village, which is not far from the Valley of Twilight, is within the hunting range.

In addition, the same goes for several surrounding villages.

Although Clamp Village was the representative, the request was made as a group by raising funds from all villages in dangerous areas.

‘Hmph, wyverns are nothing special.’

The wyvern guarding the nest is particularly nervous.

Just getting close to it causes an uproar.

It was natural to do this to protect the egg.

But Claude wasn’t worried.

He thought that with his skills, he could defeat several wyverns charging at him.

‘Hehe, a wyvern during the spawning season. ‘I can’t miss this.’

‘Wyvern eggs are sold very expensively.’

Unlike Claude, who simply plans to wipe out the wyverns and claim merit.

Mary and Sophia were focusing their attention elsewhere.

Wyvern egg.

In some countries, beast trainers are hired to purchase wyvern eggs and train and raise them from hatching to create wyvern air units.

Wyverns are very powerful and violent, but if you can control them well, they don’t have that much air power.

Alternatively, some wealthy collectors or individual beast trainers may seek out wyvern eggs.

That is why wyvern eggs are sold at a very high price.

Mary and Sophia were eyeing a wyvern egg that was several times more expensive than the successful request reward.

‘Hehehe, honestly, I ended up partying with a guy called a hero. ‘I should eat this much soybean paste.’

‘I even gave you a place to sleep, so wouldn’t it be fair to get this much?’

She loves money, and to achieve this, she clings to strong male adventurers.

Those who knew the reality of these two people deliberately avoided them because they did not want to get involved.

Of course, the popular images are A-rank adventurer Fiery Mary and White Angel Sophia.

Although she is also famous for her pretty face and is praised quite a bit.

They could spread rumors and let the truth be known, but there was no adventurer in this world who liked being involved and bothered, so even the few who knew the truth seemed to just hush.

To begin with, Claude didn’t have a good reputation, and even though he was talented, he didn’t have much personality, so adventurers didn’t like him very much.

Since they thought they were going alone anyway, there was no one who told Claude about it.

“Then shall we go quickly?”

“Let’s go quickly.”

“We’ve had enough rest, so let’s get started.”

Anyway, after receiving such excellent treatment, Claude’s party, having had enough rest, headed straight to the Valley of Twilight.

Huge canyon walls stretched high on both sides.

There is a wyvern nest up there.

“Rise, fly.”

Mary used the secondary magic Fly to levitate the party in the air.

Because I couldn’t just climb up that sheer cliff.

Buuuung─

They easily reached the top of the cliff using fly magic.

Still, he was an A-rank wizard, and he had enough magical power to lift three people up a cliff that was almost 100 meters high.

“There it is.”

As I climbed up the cliff, a group of wyverns began to appear in the distance.

Wyverns built a nest on a cliff and sat quietly on the nest.

Those are females.

The male wyvern…

“Kieek! KEEP!”

It flies low and draws a circle, as if alerting its surroundings.

Everyone seemed to be on high alert, as if they had already realized that Claude and his group were nearby.

But don’t rush at them first.

This seemed to be because if they left the area near the nest, they might be attacked from somewhere else.

“Should I go in there?”

Claude said that and looked at the nest.

8 nests and 8 female wyverns.

Four male wyverns flying above.

A total of 12 animals.

If you rush straight towards that road, you will have to deal with all 12 of them.

No matter how confident Claude was, he seemed to think it was a bit dangerous.

“I have a good idea.”

At that time, Sophia said she had an idea and explained the plan.

The strategy she proposed was as follows.

“Go in quickly, don’t fight, just grab the egg and run away. Excited wyverns rush in. We have to protect the remaining eggs, so we won’t rush at them all. Three or four will come, so let’s kill them individually. ”

“Accurate.”

It was a good operation.

If you take out a few of them and fight, your chances of winning are very high.

To be honest, it would be dangerous to attack all 12 of them, but you can defeat three or four of them by yourself.

Claude thought.

“Let’s run it right away.”

Execute the operation.

Receive Sophia’s blessing magic to increase your physical abilities.

And with Mary’s blink magic, only Mary and Claude quickly burrow into the wyvern nest.

Mary can escape quickly using blink magic.

Claude has excellent basic physical abilities and can move quickly because he can strengthen his body with magic.

Sophia waits behind her, preparing auxiliary magic.

“Keeek!”

When a female wyvern gets excited and rushes in, she burrows into the nest at just the right time and splatters out with the eggs.

The male wyverns floating above and a female wyvern, the owner of the stolen egg, went berserk and started running towards them.

However, it was not easy to catch Claude, who was a wizard who used blink magic and who had tremendous abilities to the point where he was given the title of hero.

‘It’s easy.’

Mary confirmed that there were about three wyverns following her, and snorted as if it was ridiculous.

Then, suddenly, I noticed another female wyvern running next to me.

‘Gap…’

There are a few females running towards them, perhaps because they have yet to leave the nest.

As a result, the other eggs are naturally defenseless.

‘Just one more… Can’t I just take one more?’

I got greedy.

However, that was something that should never have been done.

Because, even if it happens once, from the second time, the Wyverns realize that if they continue like this, all their eggs will be taken away one by one.

Therefore, we all move as a group to thoroughly exclude the enemies in front of us.

Anyway, you just have to lay the egg again.

So, to avoid being disturbed again, you just throw away the egg and give priority to clearing away the obstacles in front of you.

If Edin were here, he would have clearly warned about that.

Like other monsters, Edin fully understands the characteristics and ecology of wyverns, so he would have warned that the second egg should never be touched.

Then all 12 Wyverns will come.

But now there is no one in this party to give such a warning.

I just… move according to my greed.

Mary used Blink magic again on the nearby nest and lifted another egg.

“Keek?!”

“Keeek!!”

And that moment.

Female wyverns who kept their eggs in check to prevent them from stealing.

And the eyes of the remaining two male wyverns who were floating to protect this side also changed.

“Uh, uh huh?”

Sophia, who was watching this from afar, made a strange sound as if she was embarrassed.

All 12 wyverns spread their wings and began to fly.