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67. Promise (1)

“Why do you need a holy sword? In the first place, you can’t catch a hydra just because you have a holy sword!”

Pointing at the holy sword at my waist, Yan frowned.

“Maybe everyone will die. If that’s the case, mage-nim~”

Isabel sat down on her pillar and threw her problem at Jan.

“What do you think about Hydra, Wizard?”

“Large size, immortality, nine heads, and magic resistance are so certain that even a meteorite won’t kill you unless you hit it.”

“It is difficult to guarantee even eradication, let alone capture.”

“Anyone who knows that well would say something like that? No, it’s the goddess’ trick bag, isn’t that a scam?”

“Hmm, to say such disrespectful words to a goddess who always sees ahead, if it had been a priest other than me, she would have played the chant~but-“

Isabelle shook her head from side to side.

“It’s as clear as the fact that we have to catch the hydra~ The other day, the saintess’ foreknowledge phrase I received using the owl delivery service said that it would be the same~”

“Haa, even the goddess has gone as far as she can go. This isn’t a warrior party, it’s a suicide party.”

“I know the wizard is worried, but… There’s no way we’ll actually catch a hydra the size of a wall like that~ The hydra we’re going to catch is at least this big. About the waist?”

Then she pointed to her own waistband.

“…What kind of dog is that eating grass?”

“The characteristics of the hydra that the wizard mentioned earlier… It’s immortal, nine heads, and magic resistance, so actually, those aren’t very important. The real thing is in it.”

What’s Inside the Hydra-

“The deadly poison that can kill even a god is actually all the factors that determine Hydra. Anything else is just secondary. The size to dilute the poison and the multiple heads to share the load on the nerves are all evolutions to withstand the extreme poison.”

“…It’s the first time I’ve heard of it even in the Mage Tower.”

“So you said it was confidential, wizard~. If this fact goes around outside, nothing will get better, right?”

“Nothing will get better…”

” Hydras are being closely observed by the Church. One existing Hydra is already in a perfect monitoring and control system, so unless something big happens, there is nothing we can do or the Hydras will run amok. But this time the ark is different. Because-“

With the index finger and thumb of his right hand, he made a movement as if walking on top of the palm.

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“Because it came out as a mutation, not a normal occurrence. It is a case where we did not expect that the hydra gene would be expressed in dragons, the descendants of dragons.”

Hydra, mutation, and tolerance.

About the size of the waist.

For some reason, Iren’s figure passed by.

“What, the dragon whose gene was expressed has nine heads or limbs sprouting? Or have you become a monster that eats people?”

“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be us and not the Imperial Knights who are here trampling the village with their boots?”

“Then why?”

Floren, who had been listening quietly beside her, tilted her head and asked Isabel.

“Did the dragon act intimidatingly to people?”

“No”

“Then did he act antisocial or try to oppress someone by using his characteristics?”

“No”

“But why do you want to kill Yong-in just because he has the characteristics of a hydra?”

“Of course, it is a threat, because even having the possibility of being killed is already unacceptable in the church~ And the prisoner country has already issued an order to kill it. No matter how much Yongin is of the royal family, even there Hydra was an existence that could not be passed over.”

“Until the chase?”

“They said it was a crime not fulfilling their responsibilities and duties as royalty and putting everyone in danger.”

At Isabel’s words, Jan rested his chin on his chin and thought for a moment.

“But doesn’t that mean we don’t have to kill them?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to that direction.

“No, deadly poison is what Hydra is all about. And the hydra evolved with a large body and multi-branched head to withstand its own poison. If so, wouldn’t it self-destruct if I waited? Yongin isn’t a demon of any kind, so there’s no way he’ll evolve suddenly.”

There was certainly some truth in Yan’s words.

“It’s now, but if a little more time passes, my body won’t be able to hold on and I think I’ll melt away from the poison and die? Why should we find and kill them? Rather, isn’t it right to protect it?”

“Wizards only think of the good side~ Surely, over time, that may happen, but have you thought about how it will be used if you survive or are taken over by those with nefarious intentions?”

The easiest way to solve a problem is to eliminate the cause itself, not to solve the problem.

“The Hagyodan had no other choice than to kill the dragon in the first place.”

“Sure~”

“Then isn’t asking for help on the adventure that the church commissioned me to be like a contract to kill? Are you kidding me?”

Yan’s forehead furrowed in an instant.

“That’s why you put a condition before talking, right? I can’t take it back after hearing it, and if you still don’t feel like it, ask me to stay here for a while until the work is over.”

The story of killing in the end.

“Do you think I’ll just watch it?”

Isabel, who had tapped her temple with her index finger in her hideous atmosphere, brought her out.

“So… The thing the wizard agreed to receive from the church in exchange for the request was definitely a phoenix feather, right?”

“You…”

“As you know, the feather of a phoenix is the rarest of nobles that can even bring the dead back to life. Are you saying that you can’t even stand still while receiving such a thing?”

Isabelle’s face was pushed in front of Yan.

“Isn’t the value of a feather worse than just closing your eyes for a moment? Wizard~”

“That’s… No…”

Yan’s voice trembled.

“Then just stay still. Just close your eyes and ears, and just don’t disturb me like before.”

“…Why do you want to do that?”

Yan’s expression was full of worry. Isabelle smiled and told her as she continued to swim through her conflicts.

“No one in the church wants a god who bleeds. It’s our mission to eliminate anything that could be a threat and point you in the right direction.”

Then he turned to me and pointed at the holy sword.

“The warrior’s holy sword must kill the dragon~ The only thing that can handle the poison leaking out of the body after death is the warrior’s holy sword~ If you don’t cut the dragon with the holy sword and burn the poison, how will the surroundings No one can tell what will happen? Therefore-“

Isabel’s face is approaching to the point of being burdened.

At a distance where you can feel her breath and see every thread in her eyes, at a distance where her lips can touch at any moment…

“You will kill me, warrior?”

I couldn’t bear to answer that question.

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Isabel left because she had some errands to do in the village, and Floren said that she was staying in the forest for a while, as if she was uncomfortable with the only stone temple left.

In the end, only Yan and I were left.

Crackle.

As the bonfire shimmered, creating dancing shadows, Yan opened his mouth.

“Why?”

“Huh?”

“Why didn’t you answer that?”

It must be about Isabel’s last question.

“…I need some time to think.”

The goddess and the foreign press, the oracle and the bet, the past and the present, Irene and Maria… All sorts of miscellaneous thoughts were tangled up and I couldn’t easily answer.

However, from Yan’s point of view, it seemed a little different.

“As for Isabel before, she just nodded her head without objection and it really changed a lot.”

Is it a compliment or…

“…As if you were Someone else.”

In an instant, powerful magical energy wrapped around his body and squeezed his breath.

“Hey, Yan!”

I don’t know when I used my hand, but the holy sword on my waist was far away.

Black shadows rose all over the limbs, including the nape of the neck, restraining the body.

The pressure that tightened at the same time seemed far from a simple joke.

Veins swelled in her temples, and her face began to blush.

Even a warrior’s body couldn’t stand it, Yan said with an expressionless expression on me as I was half-kneel on the floor.

“You know what? I mean, the warrior didn’t say my name when he called me. He was just called ‘The Wizard’, as Isabel used to say, not Jan.”

This was a mistake.

“But from before, he suddenly showed strange behavior. Don’t you call me Yan by all means… Isn’t it too complacent to not answer Isabel’s words and to do something that the original hero would never have done?”

I tried to grab hold of the shadow and tear it apart, but to no avail.

Since the magic spread over my skin and clothes had no substance and was applying intangible power to me, nothing could be caught.

“Look, I still can’t do anything.”

As long as this body I entered belonged to someone else, I should have been careful.

“So I’ll ask again, why?”

“…What… Is…”

“Why didn’t you answer Isabel’s question properly?”

The shadow tightens more and more, the breath I held in reaches its limit, and various thoughts pass by.

A changed past, a changed future, and Irene’s image of praying over a bouquet flashes by.

“Because I thought… it wasn’t right… Not right!”

“…..”

That was my answer.

Then, like a lie, the pressure that had been squeezing my body disappeared and I took a strong breath.

“Kekk, kekek…!”

As I was coughing and coughing on the floor, Yan stood in front of me, and a long shadow from the bonfire covered my face.

“That’s why I’m saving you.”

“…..”

“I don’t know who you are, but at least you’re not an evil person, so I’m giving you a chance. Being able to use the holy sword is a guarantee in itself.”

When I looked up, I met Yan’s eyes.

“The one who knows my name, the right words for me and the one who knows Floren. But Isabel doesn’t notice. And even strangely awkward body movements.”

It was just a series of pure words without using any magic.

“But there is no one who knows me and Floren at the same time and can say that to me…Now, now…At this hour, unless someone has touched my memory.”

Yan’s eyes are slowly shaking.

“Hero. You…”

And finally spit out.

“…Are you from the future?”