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“Ugh…….”

What Wayne saw before his eyes as he came to his senses by clutching his brittle head was a dark and desolate cave landscape. At first glance, the atmosphere was similar to Arjen’s residence, but the atmosphere spread throughout the cave was completely opposite.

“Well, it was quite late to come to my senses. Only in this way can one be called a hero who carries the future of mankind?”

“You…!”

Wayne recalled the situation right before he lost consciousness. After losing strength, I couldn’t withstand Akasha’s attack and collapsed, biting my lower lip tightly, unable to overcome my anger. The only thing that comforted her was that Akasha’s current condition was not that good.

Even though he had returned to his original body, his wounds that had not yet healed were clearly visible, and as a result, he was quite exhausted and looked like an old man in recuperation.

“What are you planning to do by holding me back?”

“Kkeuk, what is your situation? If you want, you can leave this rare right now.”

In fact, from the outside, it is difficult to even say that he has been caught. This is because Wayne was not detained at all. However, since the holy sword that was always supposed to be at her waist was missing, Wayne could never run away.

“You say something like that about stealing the holy sword. Why are you letting me go instead of killing me?”

If Wayne were his normal self, he wouldn’t have asked this question. This is because, unlike a warrior, she values her life very highly. Even when she was captured by Arzen, she was so obsessed with life that she sacrificed her body and saved her life. The reason she was able to speak out loud was because she was confident that Akasha would not kill her.

‘It’s probably because of Arjen.’

Wayne recalled the situation before he lost consciousness and recalled Akasha’s words. As soon as he realized that he had made a pact with Arjen, he reacted very violently. Although it was not a good relationship in context, the fact that Akasha was trying to find Arjen did not change.

And no matter how much a dragon could fly and crawl, it was a long way to go from scratch to another dragon whose whereabouts it did not know. Even if his thoughts only reached that point, Wayne was able to fully understand his own value.

“As you can guess, they are trying to use you as a means to find Argen. But even if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have killed him. The setbacks that arise from killing a hero are quite annoying.”

“Take over…?”

“What, did you act so arrogantly even though you didn’t know? human warrior. To put it another way, isn’t it like receiving Stella’s love with your whole body? She is a bitch who is called God, and it would be difficult for me to handle the wrath of such a brat. Nullifying Stella’s powers may be considered a joke, but destroying that bitch’s favorite toy is way over the line.”

After saying that, perhaps out of pride, Akasha swallowed back what she was saying, saying, ‘No matter how much I am, a head-to-head match is still a little too much for me…’

“Anyway, I have only one suggestion.”

“Tell me where Arjen is? I’m sorry, but I can’t do that because of the oath. It contains information that no harm should be done to Arjen directly or indirectly. To put it your way, telling you where she lives is crossing a line.”

In fact, Wayne didn’t even need to answer. If you go out of Lair and ask any citizen of Berfia, you will be able to answer nine times out of ten because this is Arzen’s residence. It was even more strange not knowing that I played Rare near Eletrove, the richest land on the continent.

However, in the case of Akasha, she minimized her external activities to hide her rare status, so even such simple facts were not known. However, the answer that came back from Akasha was something Wayne did not expect.

“What nonsense are you talking about? You can quickly find out Arjen’s location by tracing the energy of those who made the pact. What I’m curious about is how you survived Arjen.”

“……What?”

“Kkeke, I can assure you. If you had met Arjen before gaining the power of a dragon, that is, when you only had the power of a hero, there is no way you would have been alive. I can confidently say that I know Arjen’s strength better than anyone else.”

“…….”

“No matter how bad you are, it’s okay. Even with Stella’s power behind him, no human would be able to achieve more than that for Arjen. Because her power and the Holy Sword will have a fatal effect on each other.”

“What do you want to say? Forget expressing yourself in a roundabout way.”

“Ah… I’m not bragging, but I didn’t put in much effort to resist Stella’s power. However, even though Arjen is powerful, he is not the type to study something deeply…”

Wayne could guess what Akasha would say next, and his prediction was correct.

“How on earth did Arjen nullify the power of the holy sword? How did you both survive?”

“…I can’t say.”

“Did I say it was a suggestion earlier? To be precise, it is a transaction. If you tell me, I will return the holy sword.”

An offer you can’t refuse. Wayne almost opened his mouth without thinking. What stopped her was not her own transcendent judgment and patience, but the oath Arjen made.

Peee!

“Wow!”

Wayne shuddered from the pain he felt for an instant from his chest. Yong-eon imposed sanctions on Wayne, who attempted to violate the terms of the oath. And Akasha was not one to miss that reaction.

“…Hoo?”

“Cough! Cough! Big……”

“The oath has been activated… After the transaction, mandatory execution was awaited, so it would be impossible for me to find out for myself.”

Akasha quickly gave up because the dragon’s pledge had a vastly transcendent gap in the category of magic that was completely different from magic. There was also a way for him to make a pact with a dragon and get an answer from Wayne, but in case of conflict between pacts, the pact made first takes precedence, so in most cases, there was no other way.

“You clearly said you wouldn’t say it, but you said you couldn’t say it…? When the head automatically reacted to the holy sword, the oath actually activated… However, in my common sense, providing this level of information does not fall into the category of ‘causing harm’.”

However, the man standing in front of Wayne was not of any significance. This ‘smartest dragon’ made inferences that were close to the truth with only limited information.

“There is only one case in this case… There are conditions other than ‘not to cause harm to Arjen’ as an oath. And the fact that the oath is triggered by such a light leak of information means that the parties to the contract are not powerful people like Argen.”

“…….”

“There is? There is a ‘third party’ included in the covenant with the same content as Argen…! And he is the one who neutralized the Holy Sword!”

‘No way!’

Wayne couldn’t help but be shocked. I even felt fear at Akasha’s insight, which perfectly deduced Eugene’s existence just from the information in front of me.

“Tsk tsk… This is good. I was itching to meet Arjen as soon as possible until my body got better, but I had to prepare well anyway. I like it because there is no time wasted. Hahahaha!”

Wayne closed his eyes tightly and prayed as he watched Akasha’s bewilderment to the point of giving goosebumps all over her body. I sincerely hope that this crisis will be conveyed to Arjen and Eugene.

***

“…Huh?”

“Huh? What’s going on, Arzen?”

Arjen, who was sitting on my lap and happily enjoying my hair arrangement, suddenly tilted his head. It was natural that the hairstyle was ruined as a result.

“No… something is strange.”

“Strange? What?”

“The hero is a bit unusual, isn’t he?”

This time my head tilted at the story about Wayne that came out of nowhere.

“Suddenly? Did something happen to Wayne?”

I felt uneasy as the name of the person who had left and had to carry out an important mission came up without warning.

“I don’t know what happened. However, the location of the pledge target can be determined in real time… It is approaching this way quickly.”

“Huh? What, it’s no big deal. Aren’t you just rushing over because work is over and you want to meet up quickly?”

“Uh… I’ve surpassed the level of running? Even if humans wake up from death, they run at a speed that cannot be achieved… no, they are flying. I would believe it if they said it was a dragon and not a human.”

“…What is that?”

No matter how strong a warrior he is, it would be impossible to imitate the speed of a dragon that flies like a jet. So, it was not unreasonable for Arjen to react like that.

“…Huh?”

The question was quickly resolved, as I began to see something of a gigantic shape flying over the mountain range. It was a dragon that looked flawless even from a distance.

‘Is it really okay to be a dragon rider?’

When I turned my head towards Arjen, who was looking in the same direction as me while thinking nonsense, I saw that Arjen’s expression had turned very white.

“Arjen?”

Seeing Arjen so agitated that he even broke into a cold sweat, I once again looked at the being approaching me. Before we knew it, he came right in front of us and fell like a missile in front of us, as if to show off his large body.

“It’s been a while, Arjen. Is this a reunion after 100 years?”

For some reason, the dragon, which looked as if it had held the universe together, suddenly became in a bad mood just by looking at it.