Epic of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

-----

After we arrived at the Orange Village, we had to do what we had to do and tell the people about what was happening, but would they believe us? I feel like without proper evidence that would be hard, and because evidence for such a thing as a lizardman invasion would need me to show them that I was exploring the dangerous jungles where not even adventurers' step into, all while becoming friends with the Pastoralist Tribe of Lizardmen would become quite problematic.

Well, I had also thought about just telling them that one of my tamed monsters went to the forest to hunt some food and then when it got lost, I went to look for him and then… Erm, I found a bunch of lizardmen, very suspicious ones with black armor and weapons! …Would that even work? I mean, it is worth giving it a shot, I should just try it out and see if it works and I can find people willing for the job.

However, the whole task seems quite dangerous, what if they doubt me? I could use illusion magic to just convince them straight away, but that would also cause confusion amidst those that were not brainwashed as they begin to wonder what's going on with their leader decisions, creating even more internal conflicts and chaos.

So for now, I decided to do the most braindead strategy ever, just wait. I will simply wait until lizardmen literally emerge from the damn forest and then I will alert the people about them and I will help, yep, it will be that simple. I cannot really find another way around it, and it is honestly too much of a pain in the ass to overcomplicate myself with these types of things. I called it braindead for a reason, I don't think I can call myself a genius either, I just do the simplest things. I got the strength to stop them, so I will just wait for them to show up and smash them- freeze them, I mean. Perhaps cut them with my wind as well, why not.

Anyways, aside from that, I have decided to see what's going on with the soldiers. I had left some little slime spies in one of the soldiers that is always around the Orange Village. Apparently things are doing alright, the soldiers had been okay, sometimes they work together with adventurers to fend off monsters that try to get into the village, and the sect disciples had stopped picking on them as if they were getting paid for it.

I have learned a bit more about this conflict between the sect disciples and the soldiers too, apparently soldiers are seen as annoyances by the sect guys because they "steal their job as protectors" even though the sect guys are being completely retarded for thinking that when the only ones they protect are the rich guys, meanwhile, soldiers protect more than them, protecting the whole area including the commoners… But for some reason every sect disciple is braindead, just like every character in cultivation novels that is made to be stupid so the main character can be made to be a genius compared to them, even though his thought process is probably the same as any normal person, but more murderous than anything else.

So, because of this, they keep bullying the official soldiers for some reason, while still bashing some fits of anger at the adventurers too, probably envying that they can get benefits from being free adventuring out there instead of caging themselves with some old men in this place… I think the sect disciples are just always envious of literally everybody.

But even then, they're pretty strong and should be rather competent fighting-wise. If I got the opportunity I will pickup that one guy that killed Kraxka's father, break his limbs, and bring him to Kraxka so he can torture him to death or something, he really deserves it because he's in fault of fucking over the entire growing relationship of these lizardmen with this people, they were just a few more steps from becoming an accepted race within the nation but some corrupt idiot had to ruin it, I am surprised he's still going around here as if he didn't do a single thing, the funny part is that he wasn't praised for it or anything. The idiot probably thought he would be rewarded or something.

For the moment, we decided to just gather our equipment and prepare for battle, while I moved to the Adventurer guild area of the Orange Village to check it out, there are only two receptionist in here, the two are an ice giant lady and a young wolf beast-kin girl, they seem to get along quite well. Checking the quests, there were a lot of stuff for monster pieces gathering and more, so I really didn't cared much about it, I was mostly too nervous to go out leisurely picking some random monster to sell off here.

However, I transported some materials back to Fuyu, where I was going to craft them into some accessories for Benladra and Benladann, quite possibly. Using the core of the rainbow slime and the other slimes would be good, although their liquid slime… I don't know what to do with that. Maybe I could do something special with it? But what can I even do though? Just thinking about it makes me think… I think it can be used as a material as well to reinforce metals and more, so I will use part of it, but it is more edible than anything, so to relax, we moved to an inn and I began making some jelly using the slime so Benladra can eat it. She was sitting over the bed watching me boil the colorful slime together, she was so cute.

"Papa… Jello?" She asked.

"Yes, you'll love it." I said with a smile.

"Hmm… I wonder what would happen if I absorbed this powerful jelly though…" Said Fuyu in her slime form, suddenly extending a tentacle and slurping some of the jelly inside a pot.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

-----