Is this really just an RPG? !

Shirley had said it was a shortcut to the lair where the dragon lived.

I thought she was talking about a small tunnel leading to the surface, follow it all the way back to the surface, and see the entrance to the cave where the ice lord lives. When I found that the tunnel suddenly became empty, I felt that something was wrong. After using the detection magic to detect the fact that "there is a dragon ahead", I am more sure of my intuition: this is indeed a road leading to the lair where the dragon lives. The tunnel, but its other entrance and exit are not near the entrance of the cave where the dragon is used as a lair, but inside the lair, directly connected to the dragon's treasure house.

——I never imagined that I would come into contact with dragons so quickly.

——I can't blame Shirley at all, there are no mistakes in her words.

I clutched my stomach and bent my body, while enduring the discomfort from my abdomen, I thought about how to face the possibly super rambunctious dragon cub who was not yet an adult, without fighting or threatening. Under the circumstances, he took the crown of the Principality of Atuqiu from under his paws, and returned to Dababin safely to give the crown to the princess Julie.

"Have you figured out a way? Mister Brave with the most crooked ideas?"

"I didn't think of a magical girl with more crooked ideas."

"Hey! How can you say that about me! I should be a genius magical girl."

"Is there any difference between these two nouns?"

"Yes, the magical girl refers to Lilith, and the genius magical girl refers to me."

Emily answered confidently, and after a pause, she gave up looking at people with her nose, which was a strange behavior that violated her current body shape, and explained what she just said.

"Magic girl is the full name of witch, and genius magic girl is the full name of talented woman!"

"Why not a goddess."

I simply ignored the first half of the sentence.

"Eh? It's not impossible, but the title 'Goddess' is likely to bring unnecessary pressure to those who meet me for the first time."

"……oh."

I simply gave a perfunctory answer, pretending that what Emily said before was a joke.

She was indeed joking, after all, she hugged her stomach and kept laughing loudly after she finished speaking, the volume was just controlled so that only I could hear it.

"Back to the beginning, it's a dragon, even if it's just a dragon cub, it's still a dragon, so what should we do?"

"Beating in?"

"Call in?"

"Swing it in?"

"...Can't you use a more gentle way?"

They are obviously three women with different personalities. When encountering troublesome problems, they will choose simple and rude ways to solve them. From this point of view, they really have a tacit understanding. However, it was obvious that Emily was just joking along. She didn't even prepare any props needed for the battle. Instead, she took out a silver knife and gestured, as if she was going to get some from that dragon cub. The blood is used as a material for making recovery potions.

As if the next thing to face is not a dragon.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is really nothing to worry about.

The reason why bear children are so destructive is that they always make choices beyond ordinary people's expectations, which makes people unable to prevent incidents from happening. That being the case, the imminent bear dragon cub that is about to face is very likely to have the same or higher lethality as the bear children among humans. In the face of "handing over his collection to the original owner The decision that will be made when the question of "...

Surprisingly good guess.

No matter how you look at it, it will be an answer like "I don't care if I hear what's in my paw, it's mine"!

I still don't think so much.

According to past experience, the simpler the incident, the easier it is to complicate. Even going to school can't pass the year normally, and within a few months, it is forced to enter the semi-completion state due to an unexpected incident. . However, if we use this idea to speculate in the opposite direction, we can draw the conclusion that the more complicated the event, the easier it is to simplify. The best representative is what I encountered on the cruise ship when I came to Iceland.

It was so big and troublesome, but it ended inexplicably.

A conclusion can be drawn by summarizing these two points.

"Isn't it just a dragon!"

"Yes, yes, isn't it just a dragon...Master?"

"Eh?"

A casual exclamation caused the four ladies to turn their heads to look at me at the same time.

"Neil, do you know something?"

"Your Highness, why do you say that..."

I turned my head away in embarrassment, and while smiling, I hoped that the other party would not continue this topic.

You can't answer the point of view of "deduce a certain law based on past experience to confirm that the dragon in front of you is not as troublesome as you imagined"! Not to mention that the credibility of the reason is almost zero. If they really believe my reason, it will make me feel sad for a while.

——Is the life of a brave man so delicate?

If I really want to seriously explain my current performance, it is not without any conclusive reasons.

The action of that dragon is very strange.

Ordinary [detection magic] can only know the surrounding magic power. The caster usually obtains information through these small changes. Most of the mana contained in non-living substances such as air, land, water, etc. The way of movement of mana is obviously different from that of mana in living matter. Through this distinction, non-living matter and living matter can be distinguished, and even the approximate body shape of living matter can be understood... After all, mana is generally relatively uniform It is distributed in every part of the body of the living matter, but there will be a concentration phenomenon in some places.

For example, in such an unnatural cave, I, Lilith, Emily and Sen belong to the living matter, [Detection Magic] can detect the existence of the four of us and give feedback to the caster about the approximate size of the four of us characteristics, but there is no way to recognize the difference between each individual.

After all, this is just the simplest [detection magic].

The higher level seems to have very subtle differences that can distinguish the mana in each living substance. I don't know exactly what it is, after all, I have never planned to understand this kind of magic.

Qiuqiu has a very special hidden judgment. Unless it is a special magic for this race, her existence cannot be discovered. It is probably like the "Level" in the game. There is a judgment level, and most magic cannot detect her. Reaching that level...Of course, this is the explanation she gave herself, and I can't think of a specific explanation.

"That dragon is a little strange."

"Um?"

It was Sen who was most interested in what I had to say.

She even put away the scary big hammer so she could concentrate on my explanation.

"His attention is on a certain small object. The mana possessed by that object is very high. It should be some kind of magic item, that is..."

I'm not quite sure how I want to describe it, because the feedback from [Detect Magic] is full of contradictions, and it even makes me wonder whether the magic is invalid for some special reasons many times.

"He is poking the magic item with his paws, the frequency is very high, and every once in a while, he will lie on the ground and slap the ground with his paws, as if he is laughing?"

"...I might know what it is."

"Eh?"

I looked at Lilith with doubts. Unfortunately, she had no intention of explaining, but just hurriedly passed the topic.

"Leave this aside, how far are we from that dragon?"

"It's a little far away. After all, we can't detect the sound and vibration made by the dragon when it hit the ground. In addition, this passage is winding and winding. It may take a lot of time."

I stopped maintaining the mana consumption of [Detect Magic] and let the spell dissipate on its own.

Although more information can be obtained when it is recovered, the magic power fluctuations generated in that way are likely to alarm the dragon. It was a miracle that he didn't notice the changes in the mana around him when he was released. As the one with the lowest luck value in the whole team, I don't believe that I was lucky enough to be able to cheat again.

"Go ahead, you can't turn back anyway."

"Ah... To be honest, you can still turn back."

"...I didn't mean that!"

I really don't understand why Emily always likes to pick on the loopholes in my words so much.

Is it just because I am a brave man?

Obvious changes have taken place on both sides of the tunnel. If the previous part can still be called "excavated by rough means", then the section you see next is completely comparable to it: whether it is the ground or the two sides Or the top is extremely flat, with traces of special grinding and flattening, which means that such a passage is definitely not dug out randomly by some huge creatures, but built by someone with all their heart.

What's more, bricks and the like appeared on the inner wall of the tunnel ahead.

The only two races that use bricks to build the entire Lindsay Continent are humans and goblins, because neither of these two races are born with certain abilities, and they can only rely on their own intelligence to achieve their goals through certain methods. Purpose. Elves live in trees, dwarves live in caves, and demons wander in the abyss. Even the rare support familiars will have a special space for them as a resting place until they find a suitable partner. use.

This is a tunnel specially processed by one or a certain group of people.

At the very front of the tunnel is a young blue dragon.

"Will there be any race that will build a lair for a dragon? Or what kind of dragon will deliberately make these fine decorations for its lair?"

I couldn't help raising my head to ask Qiuqiu who stopped in the air a little above me.

"No... I can't find it. Even if I decorate the place where I live, I can't do it to this extent."

Obviously, Qiuqiu was also surprised by the condition of this tunnel.

Dragons are different from humans and goblins. They have power and magic power that most life cannot match. They are born with powerful power and are quite long-lived. So, those guys are sleeping most of the time, even when they wake up, they are nothing more than eating, fighting, collecting treasures, finding a wife, and playing prestige in front of nearby creatures.

——Do you want to decorate your own home?

——Aside from gold, silver and jewelry, what else can be used for decoration?

—and how comfortable it is to sleep on gold!

I have to admit that out of a hundred dragons, ninety-nine are greedy, lazy and stupid haters.

The remaining ones are mostly weird ones with brain problems.

etc! Assuming that the dragon in front of me is the legendary strange species, then such a completely unstyled lair and the obviously unsuitable posture of a dragon can be explained clearly. After all, the brain circuits of the strange species cannot be helped by normal people To understand, the brain circuit of the strange dragon is even more unpredictable than the normal dragon.

The problem is so serious!

What kind of dragon is that?

If Lindsay can still love me for a while, please give this dragon a subtle design!

I prayed and walked forward while leaning on the wall. After turning a few corners back and forth, I finally came to a place that looked very special. In a relatively open place, there is a passage entrance directly in front of it, which looks like an intermediary point. Compared with the bricks in the tunnel, the surrounding bricks are the products of two different centuries. If someone insists on describing it... maybe there are rooms first and then passages? At least based on what I have seen, I can only draw the conclusion that "this very empty place in front of me looks like a certain room, which is older and more mysterious than the passageway."

In the corner of the room there are piles of hill-like things, all of which are metal products. Although the metal still retains its luster and has not been corroded for any reason, after Lilith's [Time Detection] magic confirmed, , further confirming my speculation.

"Before the century of destruction?"

Looking at the metal piece in Emily's hand, I couldn't help asking.

Maybe it's because so many things I've encountered recently are related to Warren's organization, so that the name "Century of Destruction" has left a deep impression on my mind, so that when it comes to things related to the age, I don't know. They will involuntarily guess whether it has something to do with the era when the demons danced wildly.

——It is indeed a group of demons dancing wildly.

——It is enough to understand it literally.

—Where are the demons dancing? Although it is incredible and hilarious, it is a fact, and its purpose is naturally to disgust people.

It's just that I didn't expect that the answer I got was far more than I expected.

"No, it's even earlier, earlier, earlier, earlier, maybe even before the gods appeared."

"????"

"????"

Not only me, even Sen expressed a certain degree of doubts about this.

On the contrary, Qiuqiu and Lilith seemed calm.

But I always feel that Qiu Qiuna didn't react at all, and Lilith was so excited that she forgot to control her face.

"This kind of metal piece cannot be made by hand."

"magic?"

"No, no, no, it should be another kind of power, a very mysterious, unknown, frightening and exciting power."

"what is that?"

Unfortunately, Emily did not give an answer, and neither did Qiuqiu.

Sen and Lilith's attention was entirely on the remaining metal products, and they didn't pay attention to my inquiry at all.

"I said, our purpose is not on this."

"..."

Who the hell went to investigate first!

I looked helplessly at the petite girl.

However, the other party didn't receive any of the information I wanted to convey from my eyes.

Because she never looked back at me.

"Maybe the owner here will know?"

"The master here..."

"It's always good to have a little fantasy."

"I'm sorry I can't even hold fantasies."

How could a dragon cub know these things.

He is only a few hundred years old!

I can understand that he knew about the destruction of the century, but according to what Emily said, it should have happened thousands of years or even tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago... Eh? Isn't it there? A few hundred years is still understandable, and human beings have reproduced for dozens of generations; a few thousand years is not a long-term thing, and the rulers of the elves have more than a dozen generations; hundreds of thousands of years also sounds terrible. The patriarch's light replacement interval is calculated in thousands.

In contrast, the replacement of the brave and the devil is just a small stroke in history.

So there's nothing wrong with that.

The point is, has this continent really existed for so long?

Those gods who govern this continent have existed for so long?

"It's metal, but it's not the same as common metal."

"That's alloy."

"Alloy? A special metal made from a combination of different metals?"

"About that... iron and copper together."

"If you add that, it's not as good as a simple iron or copper product."

"That's it... But I did find that the material used to make these things is called an alloy, but I don't know exactly what it is."

"What a pity, the wisdom of the ancients."

Lilith, who was talking to Qiuqiu, suddenly sighed.

It seems to be sympathizing with something, and it seems to be sorry for something.

She stood up quickly and let go of her previous emotions, returning to her usual appearance.

"Okay! Let's talk about these things later, let's go find that dragon!"

I always feel that Lilith is very motivated now.

"Maybe the dragon will know where the metals come from."

oh.

really.

She really deserves to be Her Majesty the Witch of the Alexander Empire, not someone who relies solely on talent.

I nodded, followed my footsteps and left the empty room.

Before leaving, he looked back at the discarded metal products with nostalgia.

There's one thing I haven't said all along.

Although it was the first time I saw these things, I felt an indescribable sense of nostalgia, as if I used to look at and use these things every day, and they were common things in the era I lived in. It needs to know, learn, and understand, as long as you hold them in your hand, you can know their names and uses.

[Illusion? 】

【I guess so. 】

Put those emotions behind you and focus all your attention on the dragon you are about to come face to face with.

I suddenly felt an urge to pray.

——If you have a chance, let me come here again.