Became a Hatchling of the Grand Duke of the North

31 – I am here (2)

The devil is a calamity brought upon this land.

The heart of an empire in the past.

A demon descended from the flames of a meteor in the capital.

In just half a day, hundreds of casualties and one hundred knights were stained with death,

Twenty-seven years ago, a small kingdom could not survive a single day and its castle was captured.

That’s why the name of the demons was a symbol of fear in itself.

A scourge of this land as devastating as the wrathful dragons.

And the continent’s ten great powers, the only ones capable of an all-out war on an equal footing with such beings-.

It was the general term for the armed forces possessed by each country on this continent.

* * * *

[Ki, Kki!]

[Kyaaak! Suho, Guardian Dragon! What are you doing now…!]

Let Han grab his own scales and try to rip them off.

Not only Lucia, but also the head maid and head butler Garcion, who had been watching, hardened their faces.

Dragon scales grow only once in a lifetime.

New things do not come out again in the place where one law was chosen.

Just as most mammals do not grow new ones in their place when their teeth are pulled out, so were their scales.

It was the same with the young hatchling.

A scale is an extremely minute aggregate of energy determined from the unit of genes, from the early stage of birth when its shape began to form in an egg.

Because the shape of an egg is complete before the shell is completely hardened, each one of them serves as an important medium for dragon magic.

Toduk!

The scales were pulled out, and blood formed in their place.

[Kiyi!]

Han felt intense pain.

It felt as if a part of himself had been ripped off.

Is it because they say dragon scales only grow once in a lifetime?

I felt a deep sense of loss, as if something precious was being torn apart.

‘But that’s not what’s important right now.’

What Han wanted now was one.

That’s Lucrezia.

Magic is something that comes true if you earnestly desire it.

The magic for dragons is completely different from that for humans.

Those mediocre, untalented humans, through years, decades, and lifetimes of repeated learning and constant longing, never learn even a fraction of magic properly.

The dragons were able to freely use any powerful magic just with the status and power they were born with.

Once seen, the composition of magic is perfectly understood and mastered.

That was the true meaning of the unparalleled strength of the Balaur.

The reason is simple.

Originally, most of the magic in this land was handed down from dragons to humans.

To put it simply, magic was no different from the beginning.

Humans were just borrowing and imitating others. Even that is immature.

Flame!

His scales began to burn with blue flames.

The thing that soon became a medium for magic floated into the air.

Go oh oh-.

Thick magic parchment emits strong light and synchronizes accordingly. The magic stored there was being executed.

After a while, the illusion of an empty space opened up, and the space began to open forcibly.

[Could that be? Oh my god.]

Director Garcion, who was watching, opened his mouth.

He had witnessed the phenomenon happening before his eyes several times in the past, so he couldn’t be unaware of it.

[Gate… If it’s just a young dragon that hasn’t been born for a few days…]

That’s none other than that.

Away, it was the Gate, a rift passage leading to the northern pole.

[Kieek!]

There is no time for anyone to stop Han.

I jumped right into that gap, toward the gate.

[Su, Guardian Dragon!]

The surprised people shouted from behind, but the figure of the guardian dragon Han had already disappeared beyond the open gate.

They were taken aback by that appearance. The worry was only momentary.

Chief Garcion was the one who assisted Archduke Lucrezia for this moment.

He grabbed the shoulder of the maid next to him.

[Chief Maid. Please listen to me from now on.]

[Ah, yes!]

He made eye contact with the head maid, who seemed confused by this hectic situation, and gave her smooth instructions, as if he had prepared them all along.

[I will immediately follow after Suhyo-ryong and head over there, so the head maid will assemble all the remaining soldiers in the castle and ask them to depart for the polar region. In addition, you must convey this fact intact to the Archmage of the Hwangseong through the ‘communication port’. It is a must.]

[Okay, let’s do as you command!]

[Good.]

Deacon Garcion nodded once at her answer.

Without hesitation, he drew the sword from his waist and jumped straight toward the shining gate.

Down!

Shortly after Chief Garcion disappeared to the other side of the blue rift passage, the size of the gate gradually began to noticeably weaken.

The gate was gradually getting smaller.

Since Han, the guardian dragon who was the caster of magic in the first place, didn’t have that much magic power, it seemed that the gate’s maintenance time was only short enough.

[What should I do?]

Thanks to that, the time given to Lucia was extremely short.

She was troubled, rolling her feet in her place.

Her First of all, it was because she didn’t even have a weapon in her hand like the owner of Garcion’s house. If she had at least been carrying a weapon, she would have jumped in without hesitation, but this is an impossible situation.

She doesn’t even have a weapon, so if you try to pick it up blindly, it’s just baggage.

But at that moment.

Lucia’s troubled eyes turned to the brilliantly colored broadsword hanging as an ornament in her hallway.

A thought flashed through her mind.

‘That’s it!’

Lucia moved her body first, faster than she thought.

[Eight!]

To blame!

She grabbed the broadsword as if snatching it, and jumped straight into the gate.

Soon.

The gate, which slowly began to run out of power, became smaller and disappeared.

[Oh, my God. Maybe I like this.]

She was the head of the maid who was flustered here and there for a while.

Within a moment, she recalled Garcion’s owner’s order in her head and shouted as she hurriedly ran down the hallway.

[There! Who is there!! Yone! Elinne!]

* * * *

Hoooooh-!!

On the other side of the gate.

The polar region at the end of the northern part was rough.

‘Su, breath!’

The wind was so strong that it took my breath away.

It was also difficult to keep both eyes open.

Is this the sharp wind of the real polar land, which is said to be the harshest in the North?

Until now, he had been protected by the people of the grand duke’s family and had always enjoyed only a warm light, so I had no idea.

[Kieek-!]

In the end, after flying in the sky for a while, Han was staggered by the raging wind and landed in the white snow.

‘Profit!’

I couldn’t even move.

His physical theory, which has already run out of mana,

All I could do was struggle while stuck in the snow.

However, even the height of this pure white snowfield was high enough to reach the waist of an adult, so Han, stuck there, could not bear to move.

‘Papa, I can’t escape…!’

Gasp!

At that time, there was a large grip that grabbed Han’s body.

[Are you okay? Guardian Dragon.]

[Key?]

Only then did the startled Han look back at him with his eyes wide open.

The one who caught him and held him in his arms was none other than-.

‘Go, butler Garcion? Could it be that he followed me?’

– Garcion was the deacon.

He said as he put himself on his shoulder casually.

[I will walk instead. Instead, the Guardian Dragon gave me guidance…!]

‘Okay, I understand!’

Han lifted his paw and pointed it in one direction.

‘It’s over there!’

The owner of Garcion’s house nodded as if he had understood Han’s meaning.

[Okay.]

He strode through the tall, waist-deep snowfields, and began to make his way through the unseen rough snow.

* * * *

[Keep the defensive ranks! Never go first!]

At the command of Archduke Lucrecia, all the soldiers gathered around.

They drew their spears and swords, and maintained a huge circular formation, guarding all directions.

[Kreuk, kreuk.]

And in front of them, there was a ‘guy’ slowly hovering.

He was like a wolf.

Looking at the guy with glistening dark eyes, aiming for an easy prey here and there, Lucrezia glared at the guy with his eyes wide open.

The blood that flowed down from his forehead froze as it was and couldn’t even reach his cheeks.

‘I never thought a high-level demon would have already appeared.’

That was far more intimidating and difficult than the big guy she had encountered last year.

Humanoid.

That thing is as small as a human and has two limbs.

It was an intelligent body with a mind that thinks like a human.

I knew how to make a strategy, and I knew how to hunt sheep.

It was the soldiers of Archduke Lucrecia who were outnumbered now, but it was they who were being hunted.

If you were careless even a little bit, he would undoubtedly rush and slaughter dozens of soldiers with a single blow.

In fact, the corpses of soldiers were already lined up in the snowy fields around them.

The rush of a guy so agile that he couldn’t even react with the eyesight of an ordinary human caused countless casualties in an instant.

Facing the guy who was wandering around and glaring at Archduke Lucrezia, she opened her mouth.

[Wizard, next magic?]

[Ah, not yet! We need time to hold out for at least one minute!]

Did you understand that, or did you realize that this was an opportunity?

The demon spurred his eyes and shot straight at them.

[What?]

Archduke Lucrecia, hardened his expression, gave strength to the greatsword in his hand.

But at that moment.

[Kieack!]

With a shrieking noise that resonated somewhere.

Quaguaguagua!

A pure white breath attacked the demon that was rushing at it.

The body of the creature that had been shot and attacked as quickly as an arrow was hit by a large amount of light and bounced off to the other side.

[This, this?]

The eyes of Grand Duke Lucrezia and countless other people, who were taken aback by the unexpected situation, reflexively turned to the direction where the breath came from.

There was one human figure and a baby dragon with scales the color of pure white snow.

The true identity is none other than that.

Han and Garcion were the butlers.

[Kiii-.]

Han the Guardian Dragon.

Sniff!

He glared at the demon that had fallen off the other side and let out a ferocious snort.

How dare you aim for our Lucrezia!

Pass-.

On his forepaws, there were silvery scales that began to crumble with the light.

‘I am here!’