episode_0070

The reception room of the returned count.

Deltan asked while facing the head of the school, Golgorias.

“You don’t want to waste time since you are going sightseeing together. Let’s get straight to the point. Have you investigated what you asked for?”

Number 5 was asking about the breathing of the martyr.

Golgorias closed his eyes and took a breath, as if trying to savor the scent of the tea, then put down the teacup and said.

“Yes, there were some results.”

Deltan’s fist clenched.

“What.”

“As the Arch Mage said, I searched mainly for myths and legends. The name of the martyr’s breath was a clue.”

“Yes, I expected the name itself to be intuitive.”

“Do you know about the legend of the desert?”

The Deltan’s head tilted.

Golgorias added with a small smile.

“It’s a legend about the origin of the southern Palantian Desert.”

“Ah, the fire dragon Palantia blew out its breath and it turned into a desert?”

“You know.”

The Deltan’s expression grimaced.

“… The breath of a martyr is the lungs of a dragon?”

“First of all, that is what we think.”

“I’m going crazy.”

Deltan swept his face with his hand.

‘Dragons are extinct.’

There were no dragons left in the current era in which [Eblore] is set.

Dragons are a MacGuffin-like race that exists in-game only as background information.

However, I felt frustrated because the ‘martyr’s breath’ was the dragon’s lungs.

The other materials were equally difficult to acquire, but this time it was different.

‘Acquisition itself is impossible.’

It is an object that no longer exists, beyond the problem of not knowing its identity or being difficult to access even if known.

A great 4th rank arch mage.

Even now, I got to that position and even got the information about being a ‘hall’.

“Are you sure? Other myths and legends… .”

“None. That is the end of the origin of the entire desert.”

Gorgorias sipped his tea.

Then he opened his mouth again.

“I don’t know for what purpose you are looking for it. But we don’t expect an Archmage to go after something that doesn’t exist. So I searched further.”

“… What is the result?”

“I found more.”

Deltan’s body leaned forward.

“Speak without interrupting.”

“Dragons became extinct, but their subspecies remained.”

“… Dragonian.”

“Drake, Wyvern, Serpent.”

Golgorias continued to recite the subspecies and then spoke.

“In the desert, there is a canyon where they live together.”

“Redirick Canyon.”

“Yes, it is a canyon that is expected to have been the southern water source in the distant past.”

Canyon Desert Rediric.

It was an area that Delta Inn had also visited once.

This is because when the main stream was still in progress, I encountered a chapter boss there.

“I’ve been there too.”

“Yes, this is the place where the Arch Mage captured the symbolic demon Haborosun.”

“Then I understand. That I didn’t feel any other energy there.”

“I can’t help but feel it.”

Golgorias’ smile deepened.

“The information I found is about the dragon’s body.”

Deltan’s eyes widened significantly.

A faint look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

“… Body?”

“It is obvious that even the Arch Mage cannot access this information. The dragon’s body is internal information within our school. To be exact, this is information from the diary left by the first leader. Only the head of the time can view it.”

“Can you tell me?”

“Salute to the great Arch Mage. This is the top priority that every wizard must follow.”

Golgorias placed his hand on his left chest and bowed his head gracefully.

Of course, it wasn’t cool because I was wearing a floral patterned blouse.

“… Favors are gratefully received.”

“In the depths of Rediric Gorge, at the bottom of a dried-up lake, there is a temple.”

“Dry lake… .”

This was also terrain known to the Deltans.

It was a dried-up lake, as the saying goes, but it was a pit that could be considered a ‘sinkhole’.

‘There was a temple underneath it?’

From what I remember at the time, I didn’t feel anything.

There are two possibilities.

Either there is a barrier around the temple, or the pit is so deep that it cannot be detected.

“It is a temple to honor their parents. In other words, can we call it a graveyard?”

“Is Palantia’s body there?”

“The first head wrote so.”

“Why didn’t you bring it with you? Your first leader is a necromancer. This dragon… .”

Deltan could not continue speaking.

This is because I roughly understood it.

“… Yes, the leader must have been 3rd rank.”

“As of now, that’s about it. By the standards of the time, he was a wizard of the 7th circle.”

“Plague.”

Things got annoying.

There was one reason why Deltans thought so.

A subspecies of dragon. In other words, the dragon race is never friendly to humans.

together… .

“The Arch Mage slaughtered quite a few dragons during the battle at Rediric Canyon, right?”

… This is why Deltans are like their enemies.

Deltan said awkwardly.

“I couldn’t help it. Just because you’re a dragon doesn’t mean you’re immune from the devil’s temptation. No, they were even worse.”

Basically, the species themselves are arrogant.

Moreover, I had very vague moral or social concepts, so there was not even the slightest resistance to the temptations that stimulated them.

In other words, they were things that the devil liked to cause trouble with.

Haboroshun, the symbolic devil, was a devil meaning ‘false idol’.

He appeared to the dragons in the form of a living dragon, bewitched them, and manipulated them as he pleased.

So, isn’t it obvious what will happen if the dragon is possessed by the devil?

The dragon race ran rampant in the desert, and 20% of the indigenous people living in the desert were completely wiped out in just three days.

The Deltans tore them all apart, encountered Haborosun, and killed him.

“… Don’t you want to understand? Still, I saved them.”

“They are not very understanding friends.”

Deltan let out a long breath.

Golgorias said with a chuckle at the sight of the Deltans like that.

“Anyway, this is all I found out.”

“Thank you. It was very helpful.”

“Nothing much to say, didn’t they even give us a tour of the islands like this?”

Golgorias continued to ask with a cheerful expression on his face.

“By the way, is there a restaurant you can recommend in the system? The food is soft. Now that we are older, it is difficult for us to chew hard food.”

“Butt Gerhart… .”

‘Ah, vacation.’

Deltan remembered it later.

Three days from today, Gerhart had taken a vacation that he had not taken even when he was told to rest.

Deltan’s face became swarthy.

“… I will guide you.”

There was no one who could take on the job.

To leave it to Galan, he was someone who couldn’t speak human language.

By ordinary people’s standards, his telepathy is a mental attack that destroys the brain.

“Oh! Is that true? The Arch Mage himself?”

“There is no one to do it. Okay, get up. Let’s go eat right away.”

I’m already busy, but things have gotten really annoying.

Deltan thought about that and stood up.

Golgorias just had a smiling face.

*

Depart immediately after leaving the reception room.

After putting the old men of the school on Galan’s bus, Deltan got into the sedan.

There was Agnes, who came out after hearing that she was going out to eat.

“Why are you here?”

“Because you don’t want to eat alone?”

“What is that… .”

“And even if I try to eat it alone, I can’t. There is no Gerhart.”

Oops.

The Deltans realized the importance of Gerhart once more.

All management of the mansion is done by Gerhart alone.

In other words, without him, all work on the count stops.

‘Then driving… .’

Deltan looked at the empty driver’s seat.

“Ah.”

Even the driving had to be done by Delta people.

Deltan made up his mind.

“I need to hire more employees.”

“Gerhart will be upset. It seemed like he had pride in his work.”

“Why do you care about that? No, more than that, when did we become so close?”

“Gerhart is good at talking to people. Talk to me whenever I’m alone so I don’t get bored. Then we decided to be friends.”

“Somehow, he behaved in an odd manner that did not suit him.”

Deltan gritted his teeth and got into the driver’s seat.

Agnes also said as she moved from the back seat to the passenger seat.

“Are you good at driving?”

“… .”

Deltan did not answer.

There was no other reason.

Deltan couldn’t drive.

That’s a lot too.

I am a Delta person who wants to be perfect in everything.

Additionally, Delta people have extreme spatial perception abilities.

There was no other reason why he couldn’t drive.

This is because driving is not something that only you can do well.

This is because accidents occur when and where things that cannot be found in intelligence pop up.

In fact, while Deltan was still on Earth, he once hit a drunk man who suddenly ran out onto the road.

Settlement amount: $30,000.

It was one of Deltan’s most humiliating memories, and one that traumatized him about driving.

His perfectionist tendency, bordering on psychosis, led him to the conclusion, ‘Let’s not drive from now on,’ rather than ‘Let’s be more careful in the future.’

Anyway, it’s been almost 8 years since then.

Deltan took the wheel.

Agnes tilted her head.

“… Delta people?”

“Seat belt strap.”

“Huh?”

“Merago.”

no.

Carrying Agnes alone was uneasy.

Deltan reached down and pulled down her seatbelt.

The distance is getting closer.

And an arm stretched out as if to attack her.

Agnes’ body stiffened for a moment, but Deltan had no time to worry about that.

Click.

The seatbelt was fastened around her waist.

Deltan wasn’t reassured by that and snapped his fingers.

Shock reflection magic.

It was a spell that would protect her body from unexpected accidents.

Deltan took a long breath and put his hands on the steering wheel again.

My fingertips were trembling slightly.

Only then did Agnes begin to feel what could be called anxiety.

“… Delta people. Now that I think about it, I think I can starve today.”

“Don’t be funny. Are you coming down now?”

The Deltan’s reason was a little clouded.

He was feeling a fear that he had never felt even from a devil.

“Departing.”

“Sleep… .”

Buuung!

The car started before Agnes could open her mouth.

Agnes felt her heart pounding.

I have no regrets about my life.

I am not afraid of death.

It wasn’t that kind of concept.

No matter how much I accepted death, that didn’t mean I would accept this kind of death.

The drive started with a mixture of anxiety and anxiety.

However, what Agnes feared did not happen.

This is because the sedan was traveling at a speed of 15 km per hour.

Buuung!

There was a traffic jam on the road, but no one honked.

Jet black body and silver finish.

And the silver Hebron family emblem embossed on the rear bumper.

In this place where there is basically a caste system, and also in this place where superhumans live.

No one could blame the Deltans for blocking the way ahead.

Hebron, the Delta.

The Seventh Arch Mage and the first Demon Hunter, the hero who saved the continent and a living legend.

However, there was nothing like this moment.

On the archipelago’s roads, he was Hebron, the delta of traffic jams.

Buuung!

Agnes pursed her lips.

Something strange happened.

‘… cute.’

Agnes thought of this when she saw such a frustrated Deltan.

Without even realizing it.