Became a Hatchling of the Grand Duke of the North

77 – Dragon Mage, Awakening (1)

The plan was simple.

Enter the room full of eggs, pick up one egg and run away.

However, it seemed clear that the process would not be so easy.

Even in that room right now, the number of ants carrying eggs far outnumbered them.

At a cursory glance, dozens of them could easily be seen.

Of course, it was Lucia, the warrior of the avant-garde, who took on this role.

She started to warm up in her place right away.

Her long legs flexed and her muscles twitched.

Seeing that appearance, Princess Rachel asked with concern.

[Are you really okay, Grand Duchess? It must be dangerous in many ways.]

[Ha. It’s okay, no problem. And here, as a warrior, it is right for me to step forward.]

Her Lucia’s answer to her was confident.

Among them, there was no one who possessed as great a physical ability as her.

Lucia wasn’t just outstanding with her strength. Her natural agility was also unmatched by her shooter.

Because of this, she must have stolen the eggs of the Giant Ants and escaped, so she was not as suitable as she was.

Han, the guardian dragon, stared at Lucia with strong eyes.

‘Be careful, Lucia.’

[Don’t worry, Guardian Dragon. Nothing will happen.]

Perhaps recognizing the meaning of her gaze, she smiled and stroked his hair.

As if in response, Han’s mouth also opened slightly.

[Kiii.]

Sweet.

The stroking hand is as warm as usual.

Han felt his emotions quickly unravel even in the midst of tension.

Also, he always feels warm when he is with her.

[Then I’ll be back.]

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Lucia lowered her stance.

She stepped into her ant egg chamber with one of her cobblestones in her hand that gave off a bluish aura.

The entry was easy.

A pebble filled with fog-like magic that Yone created the day before that blurs the surroundings.

Accepting that, Lucia surprisingly easily penetrated the ants.

[Kiik?]

Her Lucia Some ants passing by her found her, tilted their heads, expressed her doubts, and then passed her by again as if not noticing her at all.

She turned her head away, engrossed in her business again.

It’s because of the magic that contains the strangeness that even if their eyes meet, they forget it quickly.

‘Okay. It’s a success.’

Thanks to that, Lucia was able to easily stand in front of her eggs.

I see pure white eggs.

But that calm ended in an instant.

Sure.

That was the moment Lucia put her hand on her white egg.

[Kiik?]

[Keye!]

Right after she touched her hand, the ants around her all turned their heads toward her as if they had been waiting.

[Uh, huh?]

Lucia showed embarrassment.

Our eyes met.

It must have been. All the ants in her room were ‘watching’ her in unison.

The effect of the sorcery has ended.

At most, just by touching one of the ant eggs, the flow of the strange magic was broken in an instant.

[Uh, huh? Don’t they seem like they’re looking at the lady right now?]

[That’s how it seems to me…]

Yone and Princess Rachel, who were watching from the outside, also noticed that the atmosphere had taken a strange turn.

A situation in which all the ants in the room are looking at only one Lucia.

This situation, in which even the entities that had been working diligently until just now, had stopped and stopped, was clearly telling us that something was definitely wrong.

The minute silence passed,

[Kieack!!]

Soon after, her ants lunged at her with their jaws spread, screaming at her.

‘Lucia!’

Guardian Dragon Han and everyone watching from the outside were startled.

However, she evaded the Giant Ants that were swiftly rushing towards her, and ran straight toward her party.

[Everyone jump!!]

[Kikkiik?!]

Lucia held up an ant’s egg in one hand and a guardian dragon in the other.

She started running away from the crowd of ants.

[Oops!]

[Ugh, ugh!]

Princess Rachel and Yone also followed Lucia in a panic.

‘Billion, shake! Now, wait a minute, Lucia!’

My vision was shaking.

Han, the guardian dragon, held in Lucia’s arms, choked at the messy, shaking sight.

But this time, Lucia was running without looking back as if she had no time to care about the state of her regret.

This is because a swarm of ants was rushing ferociously from the back.

They swarmed like bees with terrifying momentum, riding upside down to the walls and ceiling, with the momentum to fill the wide aisle.

‘Su, breath…!’

Perhaps because she was holding her tightly, Han couldn’t breathe.

It’s tight and I’m short of breath.

Pakpak! Pak!

How long did it take for Han to resist struggling with his little hind legs for that long, Lucia’s strength weakened.

Aiming for that gap, he slipped out of her hand and quickly climbed onto her shoulder.

‘Puhaa-!’

I almost died. Even in Lucia’s hands.

She must have been so distracted that she didn’t even notice it until now.

[Kiik?]

At that moment, I felt a magical response from the front.

When the guardian dragon Han turned his head, he saw two large soldier ants appearing in front of the frantically running party.

‘In front of everyone!’

Yone shouted in surprise.

[Girl! Before! In front!]

[I’ll take care of the guardian dragon and the egg! Haaap-!]

That was the moment.

Lucia, who handed over the egg and guardian dragon to Yone, spurred her on the ground with her spirited spirit, and then rushed at her soldier ant as if being shot.

Kwaduk!

She easily dodged the attack of the guy who was aiming for her and was about to bite her jaw, and then she headbutted her torso.

A slender girl’s blow to the body towards a giant ant. However, the result was not ordinary.

The guy was sprawled against the wall and became incapacitated.

The other guy who remained belatedly aimed at her Lucia, but Lucia turned her head to avoid it, grabbed her by the nape of her neck tightly, and then tied her to the ground and pinned her to the ground.

Boom!

The ground rumbled with so much power at the moment.

[Key, Kiii-.]

Great, great.

Han was surprised to see her mouth open.

It comes. Is this the real girl crush?

Tossing him to the ground with pure brute strength?

Even if the impact was considerable, the guy who was pinned to the ground wriggled his legs and did not think to move at all.

I wonder if this is really possible.

Right after that, Lucia raised her mana and shouted.

[I’ll clear the way! Everyone is right behind me!]

Lucia was like a small heavy tank.

Where did she have such great strength in her thin body?

She pushed the ants that were blocking her way and started to break through the entrance that was blocking her.

The northern-born dragon blood man was as great as his reputation.

Lucia pushed away all the monsters that stood in her way with her natural ability.

An entrance leading to the ground.

Thanks to Lucia’s propaganda, the road there was cleared.

[Kieack!]

f*ck!

She called out to her party, slamming one of the Giant Ants that were about to pounce on her.

[Everyone go first! I’ll follow you!]

Princess Rachel and Yone ran up to the ground as they were, holding on to their struggles.

In the meantime, Lucia pushed the Giant Ant and caught up with the others who had run ahead.

[Ha, ha!]

The group quickly became breathless.

It was the same with Lucia.

Perhaps she used excessive power beyond the limit, rather, she appeared to be more tired than the others.

But there was no hesitation in the hordes of Giant Ants that were chasing after them.

As if they weren’t tired, they screamed and rushed like a wave.

[Uh, ah! Die! I will die!]

The terrified Yone cried out.

[Kiik?]

Then, the guardian dragon Han, who had been riding on his back, showed embarrassment.

‘Yo, yone, is this guy panicking?’

But Yone did well on that subject.

She must have known that if she stopped, she would be swept away by the relentless swarm of ants, but she didn’t stop running even while crying.

At this point, Han felt intuition that it was time for him to step up.

‘Clothes.’

A low-level magic spell that makes one’s body magnetic and clings to walls, ceilings, and other objects.

I used it to support Yone’s shoulder firmly.

He raised his mana by holding the antennae he had been holding in his forepaws.

As soon as Han pours magic into it, it starts to glow with a bluish light.

At that moment, Han swung his long antennae at the swarm of ants.

Then, his mana rode up from the tip of the antennae, emitted light like a maniacal light, and shot straight out.

Puck!

The magic power containing the cold air flew like an arrow and froze some of the ants that were chasing it.

Anyway, chunks of ice formed on their torso and under their feet.

[Kiik?!]

Some of them froze to a halt, just as they came running.

That was the beginning.

‘Come on! Next!’

Han started to shoot bang bang magic like a turret with mana once again.

There was nothing particularly difficult about it.

Perhaps because it served as a catalyst for magic, it was enough just to lightly shake it with magical energy.

This is because the tip of the antennae acted as an outlet for magical power, as if it were a gun barrel.

[Kieek!]

They couldn’t stand the ice clinging to their legs and torsos.

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Heavy ice clung to the ground with his entire torso, unable to even move. The number of ants chasing them soon began to decrease.

It feels like shooting a gun, this.

No, ice arrows?

Every time you shoot, white ice explodes.

I didn’t even have to come up with a complicated magic formula in my head.

If you shake it with magic power, the tip acts as an outlet, so there is no need to think complicatedly.

‘Isn’t this more convenient than just using magic? I can see why wizards carry wands.’

Now I know why hunters from previous lives tried to match such expensive equipment.

The only thing Han uses is an ant’s antennae.

How much more amazing would it be if you wielded a more powerful magic conductor on a board like this?

‘hahahaha! That’s right, that’s right!’

Boom! Boom boom!

Han excitedly fired an ice arrow.

A convenient magic arrow that does not require casting. I never thought that something like this would be possible.

Every time the antennae were shaken, the ice fireworks exploded splendidly, tying the ankles of the chasing ants.

This, the taste of both the sting and the sight is very good.

Every time they shoot, they freeze in batches of one or two, so from one point of view, it felt like shooting some kind of ice firecracker.

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