Became a Hatchling of the Grand Duke of the North

94 – Dragons, Demons, and Rats (3)

[Keit?!]

After witnessing the absurd sight, Han pulled his tail up in amazement.

Ratmen were rolling in like waves. It was an unbelievable sight, a sight that could only be astonished.

Not one or two. Dozens? No, this is not that either.

More than that, an overwhelming swarm of rats was swarming like a tidal wave as if filling the field of view.

On the contrary, he doubted himself even after seeing it with his own eyes.

I wanted to make sure I saw this properly.

‘What, what!’

Apart from embarrassment, Han was already quickly flapping his wings to the other side and running away.

It was an instinctive move.

But perhaps because of the sudden panic and tension, his wings weren’t as smooth as usual.

He has to ride the wind to fly, but he couldn’t even do that smoothly in this place where the surroundings were tightly blocked.

‘Do, run away! Run…!’

Ratmen are the biggest headache and fear of modern people.

They are no different from cockroaches.

It was not uncommon in Han’s previous life for a peaceful family home to be visited by a strange neighbor the next day when no one moved, everything around was destroyed and the entire family was annihilated by the rat man.

What Han encountered just now were those big monstrous rats and things that were about the size of cockroaches.

For Han, who lived in the eyes of modern people, they were one of the biggest objects of hatred.

The only difference from normal bugs was that they were monsters with bodies that could eat people.

Those things are swarming and coming.

No matter how hard he was, he couldn’t help but be taken aback.

As if he was flapping his wings and desperately running away, there was a hand that grabbed Han from behind as if snatching his wings.

[Kiik! Kiek!]

Unexpectedly, with a violent hand,

Startled, Han flapped his wings and let out a noise.

He recklessly raised his claws and clawed at the opponent who snatched him up.

At that time, there was a sound that made the fierce resistance of the guardian dragon, Han, flinch.

[Stay still, Guardian Dragon!]

[…Kiik?]

What I heard wasn’t Rat Man’s violent scream.

It was a clear human voice.

At that, Han opened his tightly closed eyes.

I saw a man running hurriedly, holding on to his wings.

It was a man wearing an imperial military uniform that resembled a long coat.

[…]

Han only blinked in his embarrassment.

‘What, what is it? A human… Wasn’t it?’

Toward him, the man shouted.

[Now that you have opened your eyes, take care of yourself!]

With that said, the man in the imperial military uniform now put the han on his shoulder roughly.

It was a rough touch, but no man, not even a hand, cared about it.

Even if they just looked right back, they would be in a situation where they were on the verge of being swept away by the waves of ratmen following them, so there was no reason not to follow them.

Han, the guardian dragon, silently followed the man’s words.

He clung desperately to the tottering man’s shoulder, his claws planted.

Han’s vision shook as the man ran.

It was a terrifying speed and shaking, as if it had been an earthquake. It was hard enough just to endure.

The man’s movements were beast-like, to the extent that the expression fierce was appropriate.

What surprised him even more was that the man was running fast with his upper body leaning forward and low enough to almost fall.

Even if they encountered an obstacle like a wooden plank in their way, he would quickly evade it with his arms and legs as if it were a wild animal, and even run away from me.

On the contrary, it was a faster movement than that.

It was a rapid movement that reminded me of a wild beast.

[Chwiiik-!]

Of course, the rat men who followed were not fools.

They let out an angry scream and fired arrows.

However, the man with frightening movements like this beast, avoided even looking at it.

An attack that sometimes targets Guardian Dragon Han and flies precisely. As if he had sensed it in advance, he quickly struck it lightly with the blade of his sword.

But the reason why he and Han couldn’t drop them even with such agility was simple.

It was because this was the passage of a long sewer made of only straight lines.

If this place were the ground without a ceiling, then the limit and the man too.

He wouldn’t be in danger of being overtaken by anyone. Han could have escaped by flying upwards, and the man seemed to have enough ability to evade on his own.

As long as we ran together while clinging to the man’s shoulder for a while.

Suddenly he realized something and opened his mouth.

His eyes ran, but he glared at the man in the military uniform who was distracted.

‘It’s you! It was you!’

He was the one who still remembered the ‘Bullet Mark’ that he had been locked up in before.

The cognitive ability of a creature called a dragon is so outstanding,

He already had an instinctive intuition through the length and shape of that gun slung over the man’s shoulder and the diameter of that muzzle.

That the bloody man in front of him wearing a military uniform was the one who shot and killed Rat Man last night.

Han is not an idiot.

Although it inherited the nature of a dragon and became insensitive, its cognitive ability is inherently superior to that of any other creature in the world.

Moreover, he was a man with human intelligence.

He had been vaguely guessing from the beginning.

‘There is no way there is no one in this capital who will protect me and Lucia. No, it wouldn’t be strange at all if there was at least one of them from the beginning.’

It was the only grand princess in the world and the guardian dragon of the north.

Moreover, even though she was a collateral, in Lucia’s case, she was a person with distant relative bloodlines from the imperial family.

Han with Lucia, who will grow up to become the next swordsman and guardian in the north.

The fact that they acted in the middle of the crowded capital city without any escorts was nonsense from the beginning.

‘But I never thought that escort would have been one of the continent’s top 10 powers!’

I was able to understand this because I had already read a lot of books while learning human characters.

It was clear that the man in front of him was one of the great powers of the empire, a master of weaponry.

At that time, a man in military uniform, Seungnyang, looked back at Han riding on his shoulder and called out to him in an urgent voice.

[Guardian Dragon! Please help me!]

[Kiik?!]

Han flinched at the sound.

‘What, what, how?!’

No matter how much the dragon is a creature that protects the peace of Middle-earth, the current dragon is just a young dragon after all.

Even if you compare it to a lot of dogs and cats, it’s not a significantly better physique, it’s just that it’s such a young stage that is clearly revealed.

Moreover, the opponent was an enormous number of monsters that could easily exceed dozens.

I wouldn’t have known if it was one or two strong opponents.

In that case, at least I would have had to focus only on the person in front of me.

However, this case was different.

They were rushing in like waves, and there were so many of them that it was certain that if you slowed down even a little, you would be crushed and killed by them.

Strictly speaking, it was only an intermediate level wizard, so

No matter how much he was against such a number, there was no way he could do anything special.

The only way was to desperately run away, hoping not to be swept away.

Towards such resentment, the man, Seungnyangi, continued his instructions again.

[Anything is fine! It doesn’t matter whether it’s magic, sorcery, slipping the opponent, or freezing or burning it!]

‘Wait, in that case, I’ll create a wall of ice and completely block them from approaching…!’

As soon as I continue to think like that,

Seungnyang added as if he had expected Han’s thoughts.

[However, please do not completely block the road! If those guys lose their attention, they’ll have to go up to the ground!]

…For example, it meant that they would only keep their eyes on them.

If doing just one thing was difficult enough, Seungnyang was now demanding more of him.

‘Hey, I don’t even know!’

I don’t know what strategy to use, but Han decided to follow his instructions.

He was a man who proudly occupied a place among the great powers.

I thought that if it was a human like that, he would have at least one chance against monsters as big as me.