Legend

"Isn't it time we arrived?

That's what Ray said when four days passed since he left the Zays' settlement.

It was originally about a five-day journey one way, but the kind of luggage is pretty much easier to run due to the influence Ray is storing in the mistering.

He also helped the Centaurs, who had been attacked by Dragonias two days ago, but since then he has been able to make it this far safely, without any problems that seem particularly troublesome.

That's why Ray said yes, a day earlier than originally planned, but it might not be strange to approach the home of Dragonias.

"Right. The scenery around here looks familiar"

Centaur's face, the guide who tells him so, has a bitter color.

Naturally. When I used to come to scout the home of Dragonias, I ended up being eaten and killed by Dragonias, because I was the only one who managed to escape.

If it was meant to be, that's not strange to have trauma.

... No, it's obvious from the way things are now that you actually have trauma.

Still... even if you manage to eliminate that trauma, you have to do something about Dragonias, because you understand that, you've come this far, pushing and killing the hearts of fear and fright that are in you.

I know that. It was the other Centaurs, but I'm pretty sure you still need to force me here.

I know there's only one Dragonian home.

... If it is clear that there is a Dragonias home nearby, that is also the means by which Ray rides Seto and searches from above.

However, if Ray and Seto, who are slightly tone-deaf, do such imitations, it is not known whether they will be able to safely return to this point and rendezvous with the Zays again.

Though it's good to find Dragonias' home base, nothing is strange when it comes to attacking its home base with Ray and Seto alone in the end.

That's still the question, after defeating Dragonias that way, can we go back to the settlement of the Zays... or more precisely, can we reach the hole connected to Elgin near it?

For once, the worst is to use a pair of orbs to get in touch with Grimm, but if it's also a different world, not Elgin, it's a subtle thing to know if you can get in touch with Grimm even if you're too far away or using a pair of orbs.

"Perhaps you can think that the fact that the scenery looks familiar means that Dragonias is close to home."

"Right. Yes. I don't think that's wrong. … However, we need to make sure that we don't find Dragonias because there will be more around our home base as well"

"That's gonna be a lot of numbers, isn't it?

Normally, if it is to be a home base, it is not strange to have watchdogs.

Ray asked from that thought, but the guide Centaur shook his neck to the side.

"As you know, Dragonius has no sense of self or intelligence... maybe there is, but he's more dominated by intense hunger than that"

"Doesn't that change even at home?"

The dragonias Ray has fought so far, all of which were dominated by hunger.

But if you're making a home, that's what makes Dragonias a highly intelligent individual… If you think about it in Elgin's perception, it's not surprising that there are rare or superior species.

"Right. Maybe there's an intelligent dragonias, but from what I've seen, there was no such opponent.... but I wasn't able to scout that well before."

When I used to come for reconnaissance, that's what dragonias found me as soon as I arrived, and I became the wingman to escape.

Centaur originally has faster legs than Dragonias, and, more than he was chosen as a reconnaissance officer, naturally, the faster-legged ones have been chosen in the settlement.

But... bad luck, I stumbled upon Dragonias while I was on the run, and as a result he was eaten to death except by those who were guiding the Rays.

Having heard that explanation, Ray opens his mouth as he sees how the regrettable Centaur looks.

"Maybe the dragonias we ran into on the way were ambushing us."

"Yes, after returning to the settlement to report, that possibility was also discussed. But as far as other dragonias are concerned..."

"Well, I guess so"

I really question that area more than normal dragonias behavior is behavior.

If you have intelligence, I was wondering if you could move more efficiently.

Ray agrees with that, but if the number of superior or rare species is low, maybe...... and it's not surprising to think so.

"Gru."

And as we go on talking, Seto accidentally rings his throat.

What the hell happened? and Ray looks around...... finds Dragonias quite far away.

However, uncommonly...... really uncommonly, those dragonias were not looking for food but eating something.

It's quite a distance, so I don't know what you're eating from Ray.

But the way it is dominated by hunger and eating its prey is completely unaware of its surroundings.

(Well, this area is already a completely Dragonias-controlled area, and you don't need to be vigilant? Oh, but another dragonias that embezzles our own food... well, don't we have to worry about that? On the contrary, the situation is favorable over here now that I haven't seen what's going on around me)

For the Rays, dragonias is good enough if they are small in number.

I'm going to sweep my home base with a raid using a fire whirlwind, but if I have a chance to get a Dragonias body with another color scale before it does, the choice not to choose it didn't exist.

"Zai, there's Dragonias over there.... you see that?

"If you ask me if I can see... if I tell you I'm there, I don't even seem to be there, do I?

Centaur, who lives in the meadows, has a very high vision.

But Ray has a higher vision than such a centaur... and Seto has a higher vision than Ray.

So now Seto is able to confirm the existence of Dragonias, and Ray can manage to confirm it, but if you ask Zai and the others, it's a distance that doesn't even look that way.

"Anyway, I'm obsessed with eating something right now, and I don't see you noticing this way. As was explained earlier, you should avoid running into Dragonias when something happens, so I'll take him down here."

"... ok"

I guess Zai's reply to Ray's words was delayed because we understand that it is ourselves who is said to be in danger when we encounter Dragonias.

Only Ray and Seto can defeat Dragonias without any problems at all.

Before that, Ray and Seto can fly, so we don't even have to fight.

"With my magic, I can only secure the body of Dragonias with the red scales. In that sense, defeating dragonias with scales of another color is pretty helpful to me too"

As for Ray, I said that because I didn't say that to encourage the Zays, but purely in my own interest.

But it wasn't strange to think that if we tried Zai and the others, they really cared about us.

Still, I know there's nothing I can do about it in the present situation, so Zai can't honestly nod to Ray's words.

"Okay. Let's do that."

Seeing Zai nod, Ray slaps Seto's back gently.

"Seto"

"Gru."

Simply calling his name, Seto understands what Ray expects and rushes up to the sky with his wings winged after a few steps of aid.

The flying ceto eventually arrives at the spot with Dragonias who is still on the ground.

"All right, then, when I get down, you go on with Seto, too."

That's all I say lightly, jumping off Seto's back as I take the Death Size and Dusk spears out of the mysteries.

He kicks in the air and falls to the ground while using Slapenil shoes along the way......

"First one, then two"

Take advantage of the momentum that has fallen, cutting one of the Dragonias left and right in the Death Size, followed by the use of a Dusk Spear to blow up one head that stays close.

Because Dragonias was obsessed with satisfying his appetite... rather than continuing to satisfy his appetite in a progressive fashion, he is slower than usual to go out and fight back against the presence of a raider named Ray.

Still, if two of my buddies get killed, they'll give it back to me and try to strike back at Ray...

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto, who has fallen from above, smashes its torso with a blow to the forefoot.

It's not just that, it kicks and jumps on the ground the moment it lands on the ground, hitting and bouncing against one dragonias.

Neither Ceto nor Dragonias are so different in terms of body size.

Nonetheless, the dragonias, blown up around Seto's body, blow up violently.

This would simply be that Ceto is higher in pure muscle strength, even if the size of the body is the same.

Other than that, I guess it's a big deal that he was suddenly struck by surprise where he was on guard against Ray.

"Green, blue, yellow... oh, there's black too. I don't need red anymore."

Ray checks the color of the scales of the Dragonias around him as he shrugs off his neck by shaking his death-size at the counter, avoiding the Dragonias attack that comes as a rip-off with sharply stretched nails and trying to eat a thousand pieces of meat.

It was a bit unfortunate to have a red scaled dragonias that already had a good amount, but still glad to have scaled dragonias of various colors, while using Death Size and Dusk Spears to prune lives.

Try dragonias, you wouldn't even have known what the hell was going on.

Originally, Seto's little presence like Ray's was supposed to be meat to satisfy the hunger by lightly killing them with their own blow.

Even so, if you are aware, your companions will die one after the other from that bait.

For Dragonias, driven by hunger, companionship is not that important.

That is what makes it easier to secure meat to satisfy hunger if we are together, while at the same time being an interrupter in the sense that if we had meat to eat less of ourselves...... we were even enemies.

That's why I never really cared about my people dying, but if I still saw my own people killed one after the other, it would be natural to have the perception that they were powerful enemies.

But when Dragonias realized it, the number of those who had already survived was smaller… their few survivors were also killed one after the other.

"... Well, this is it. Even so, you had quite a few."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto rings his throat as he agrees with Ray's words.

Two days ago, there were four dragonias that were attacking the Centaurs.

But there are now more than ten bodies of Dragonias in front of Ray and Seto.

Having more than double the dragonias was also alarming for Ray.

"It's on the home side, so I guess there's a lot of Dragonias themselves.... Wow."

The last time there was a strange voice was because Dragonias saw the corpse he was devouring.

It has become something that we should call wreckage, so much so that we don't even know what kind of animal it was originally.

It was because I saw such wreckage that a strange voice came out of Ray's mouth.

Nevertheless, if it's just a corpse, that's what Ray is used to seeing, too.

In the first place, there are now a large number of Dragonias bodies before Ray.

Still, it's still big to see the wreckage and make such a voice because it's a corpse you made yourself or not, or because it's a corpse Dragonias was eating and fishing for.

"In the meantime, as for the bodies over here... shall we keep the bodies of Dragonias?"

With the meaning of switching moods, Ray leaves the eaten scattered corpse intact and stores the body of Dragonias he and Seto killed.

That's how he cleaned up Dragonias' body, and after a paragraph, Zays arrived where the Rays were.