How to Live as a Half-Dragon

093. Exploding Dragonian

“Never seen… there?”

Cecily nodded.

Xian immediately asked.

“when? You mean you’ve seen it before?”

Receiving a look of curiosity, Cecily opened her mouth with a moment of silence.

“Because I saw them before I met Xian. It was quite a while ago.”

It was when Cecily was still living in Grint Forest.

Grint Forest is a huge and vast forest that occupies 10% of the territory of the Roman Kingdom.

Even in that Grint Forest, Cecily lived in a relatively remote village.

An outsider suddenly attacked the usual peaceful forest.

The guys who were committing the massacre that day were saying that Cecily was the exploding dragonian they saw today.

“hmm… So, was that when you were captured as a slave?”

“huh.”

Cecily laughed bitterly and told the story behind it.

The vigilantes in the village were initially taken aback by the sudden attack of the Dragonians, but they quickly fought back effectively.

As befits a talented race of elves, they joined forces to defeat the Dragonians one by one.

But that was only for a moment.

“Because the guy Stain said appeared.”

He quickly slaughtered the vigilantes.

An existence that does not work even with his special bow and magic, and even higher spirit magic.

Cecily’s village just disappeared.

“Are they all dead?”

“No, there will be people alive.”

Cecily said that being an elf doesn’t necessarily mean being good at magic and bows.

It was introduced that some warriors were skilled enough to be used in battle, although they handled them relatively well, and explained that there were also those who were powerless.

“For some reason, other people who were not vigilantes were dragged away… .”

I don’t know the purpose.

Afterwards, Cecily, who was also captured, was dragged around by adventurers until she met Xian.

Xian’s head was spinning.

‘What are you trying to do with the elves?’

The reason why the Dragonians didn’t kill them and captured them was probably not for the purpose of simply using them as toys.

While thinking about the reason, Cecily said,

“Maybe that’s why they attacked.”

“huh?”

“It could be because of me.”

Cecily mustered up the courage to say it now, it seems, for this reason.

Xian was curious. Do you have any basis for thinking so?

“In what part?”

“Because I always make people around me unhappy… .”

“hmm… okay?”

“Are you okay?”

“Even if you ask me if I’m okay… .”

Xian was honest about not knowing what to say.

making people around you unhappy

Common sense, I wondered if that was possible.

‘And if you have to ask… .’

Rather, Xian felt sorry for Cecily.

‘Because I’m a Dragonian too.’

It was said that it was a dragonian that exploded at will or a fake dragonian, but nothing was revealed about their identity.

In that sense, if it was a dragonian who attacked a peaceful village and turned it into a mess, it was a bit embarrassing for the same dragonian.

‘I can never say that I am a Dragonian.’

In the first place, I don’t know if the day will come when I talk to people other than Hughes.

According to the information he knew, dragons were a species that was not welcomed by all creatures, not just humans.

Xian gave up his complex thoughts and spoke to Cecily.

“Never mind, it will be fine.”

* * *

The story he had heard the night before was passed on to Drake.

Of course, he did not do so on his own accord, but with Cecily’s consent.

Upon hearing the whole story, Drake’s reaction was flat.

It’s a story that doesn’t really contain what their purpose is.

It wasn’t information that I was particularly happy about or reacted to.

“Well, that was good information.”

As always with Xian, Drake stroked Cecily’s hair.

It must have been the heart of the guy who told me the story he didn’t want to bring up.

“why?”

Drake’s eyes immediately turned to Xi’an.

It’s such a reaction as if you’re okay.

It was an action that could have been made because he knew that he was a Dragonian.

“that… what… it’s not okay But it doesn’t matter.”

“I see.”

Sian said to Drake.

Because I had a question.

“But.”

“hmm?”

“How come the guys gave up today because they are rare?”

Prepare a travel bag in the morning, move on again, and spend half a day.

Even when we camped overnight, no one attacked us.

I was rather anxious because it was the exact opposite situation to the new guys attacking me when I defeated it yesterday.

“Or preparing a big room… ?”

It was a good enough possibility, but Drake shook his head immediately.

“Probably not.”

“sure?”

“Aren’t they going to have infinite power left over?”

It was Drake’s claim that if that had been possible, it would have come to the sun immediately.

It was quite persuasive to say that the reason Drake didn’t know about their existence was proof that they were in the shadows.

Well, if you had such a great power, it is correct that you should have sent a lot at once, rather than sending it bit by bit.

In fact, if that was the case, Stain, who was in charge of most of the processing, would have been dangerous.

“Let’s watch a little more.”

It was at the end of Sian’s conversation with Drake.

Stein opened his mouth slightly.

“Come to think of it, the story came out.”

“What?”

Stain pulled something out of his pocket as if he remembered something he had forgotten.

Upon closer inspection, it was a round ball.

Xian looked at the small fingernail and asked.

“What is this?”

Stain asked in reverse to Xian, who was talking after checking the opaque marble colored in gold.

“Don’t you know? Isn’t it dragon jade?”

“Yongok? this?”

When a dragon heart develops, a dragon jade appears around it.

It was, of course, the first time I actually saw it.

I’ve fought dragonians and even tried to kill them, but I’ve never thought of splitting myself up and taking the dragon jade.

But it wasn’t Drake. I reacted as if I had seen it before.

“The only dragon jade I got was corundum… Was it all there was?”

“Yes, I took a closer look just in case, but that was all. Even this is what the strong guy had.”

“Is that so… ?”

Xian, who looked at the two people talking alternately, said.

“So what are you using this for? Does it have a purpose if you look at it?”

It was strange to feel like grabbing something while watching.

Stain answered Xian’s question instead.

“Dragon or Dragonian dragon jade is used to make identity cards for Slayers. A dragon jade is, after all, a concentrated mana aggregate created from a dragon heart. Maybe that’s why it is a direct way to forcibly awaken the dragon heart’s mana.”

“Oh yeah?”

After listening to Stein’s explanation, the desire to touch disappeared completely.

It may not be as big a problem as before, but there’s nothing wrong with being careful.

“Well, when dragons quarrel with each other, they say that they grow by taking the opponent’s dragon jade. I don’t know if it’s real.”

I’m hearing this again for the first time

However, I felt like it would be possible in theory.

If the dragon jade was the aggregate of mana, it was very reasonable to assume that it would help develop the dragon heart when ingested.

‘But I didn’t know ID cards were made that way… .’

In the meantime, I wondered if there was a principle that could distinguish a dragonian, but it was simply the dragon heart forcibly reacting to the dragon jade.

Xian talked about the questions that came to mind while watching Dragon Heart.

“Oh, but isn’t this a different color?”

The identity card Xian had seen was large, but not this color.

It was copper colored.

“Like the circle, the dragon jade is divided into three stages. Mi-ok, an introductory stage. A drug in the growth stage. And it’s fully matured corundum. The color is copper at first, but as it develops, it goes through silver and changes to the current color.”

“I see… .”

“Would you like to check it up close?”

When Stain tried to give it without notice, Drake snatched it up.

“I will not keep this.”

It was such an exquisite timing that the words of thanks came naturally.

* * *

dark office.

A single candlestick illuminates a secret room filled with bundles of various papers.

The man looked at the hot letter that had just been uploaded and burned it.

“I’ve been through everything… .”

Roman kingdom.

There was once an elf that was being transported to its destination a long time ago due to poor management.

It was also a case that had been given up halfway because there were no witnesses left, let alone the adventurer who had entrusted the request.

‘Even if I missed him, I mean I missed him… .’

Since he was the blood of the village’s elder family, there was a high probability that he knew the source of the World Stone, so it was a pity that he had to get it.

In fact, the raid we conducted this time was also aimed at that elf, but the result was like this.

“I’m sorry… .”

He picked up the slip the man had left by his desk.

I saw a crumpled slip with clear bloodstains.

It was a slip paid for entrusting the mercenaries with a request.

‘Is this already 7 years ago… .’

The man had been tracking this journal for a long time.

The original goal was to prepare for the adventurers’ strange thoughts, but it turned out to be luck.

After all, it was used to track the whereabouts of elves.

It was about six years ago that the slip, which had virtually no traces and was virtually abandoned, came in.

At that time, the slip that had not been recovered for over half a year was recovered from the Semain branch.

“Is your name Xian?”

It was the name of the person who used the slip.

It wasn’t too difficult to recognize the name of the boy who had been active in Semain quite flashily for the past six years.

However, the problem was that he didn’t want to come out of Semain.

Until recently, it seemed that they had come and gone to the abandoned mine city, but they waited because it was difficult to recover after trying their hands in Ophelia’s realm.

‘But to be annihilated again… .’

It was even more unbelievable because among the Dragonians, there were even those who couldn’t use swords.

It was too late to send troops again now.

‘Is it better to wait a few more years before raiding the elven village?’

Even though it’s been more than 7 years, I was quite hesitant because it was a bit early to go into the elven forest again.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but a red-haired boy who distorted his plans.

No, the man recited the name of the now young man.

“It’s Xi’an… There’s nothing wrong with remembering it.”