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“Hehe.”
He covered his mouth with his hand and giggled.
“That’s the wonderful thing about being human.”
That’s it for the small talk.
“Who are you?”
“You knew this, right?”
“Zmu.”
“yes.”
“I will ask you again. Zmu, who are you?”
“Well, it’s the dream keeper.”
“Let’s ask a different question. ‘What’ are you?”
“What answer do you want? I am Zmu, a wizard, dream keeper, and bard of the square. And it is an agent of happiness.”
“There is a clearer answer than that.”
I was sure.
It’s surprising, but I’m sure it will.
Meeting Zmu was so surprising that I was embarrassed by how calm I was.
“you are.”
“Not human.”
“It’s not even a devil.”
“First time seeing you.”
It is a being that I have only seen in fairy tale books.
It’s a world where devils run rampant, so it’s not hard to believe that they exist.
Even in history for at least thousands of years and longer, they were only recorded as ‘legends’.
It’s not a good legend. They are people with a reputation that is as high as that of the devil.
Instead of protecting humans from demons.
The ruler of destruction who controls all human life.
“Are you a dragon?”
Haha-!
Zmu opened his jaw wide and his cheeks were crushed like half moons.
Zmyu, who was laughing loudly in annoyance to the listener, looked straight as if he had never laughed before.
“How did you know that I like random jokes? “It was funny.”
“It’s not a joke.”
Since I just said he was a dragon, his magic has gotten stronger. It’s amazing magical power. At least as far as I know, among ‘human’ wizards there is no one with magical power that surpasses that of him. Manowa and Topjudo. Even when considering the purity of magical power… I thought maybe it was similar to Melissa.
“Judging by the reaction, it was real. The dragon has not yet been destroyed… Oh, sorry. “That was rude.”
“What is there to be rude? “I’m not a dragon.”
“Hey, it’s a dragon, right?”
“What you are doing right now is rude.”
“Wow. Trying to hide it is no use. No matter how much I cover it up with magic, I can still see it. different. many. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. In that small body… How could that… Hmm.”
I had a man of similar size to me in front of me.
I felt as if I was encountering Quartz’s giant castle or Calvine’s rugged mountain.
He was huge. It was an unacceptable size for a living thing. It’s big enough to fit even a demonic giant soldier under your feet. What was surprising was the magic that hid his enormous size. Even Cheonan Tong wouldn’t have been able to see through it if he wasn’t focused.
Zmu’s face became stern after repeated questioning. He had a soft expression just a moment ago, but now he had a very hard face, giving off a cold-blooded aura that seemed as if not a drop of blood would come out. Maybe that is his true self.
“… Even if I were a dragon, you would be so calm. Do you know what a dragon is?”
“Surely you are a bad bastard… Oh my, rude again.”
“is it so. They are evil beings. Dragon, ruler of destruction. The meddler of birth. Even though he is not a god, he creates faith by giving ‘fire’ to humans. They exploit those who worship them and turn them into playthings.”
I sat quietly and listened to him.
Zmu’s words felt like an introduction, not an excuse.
myself.
Introduction to dragons.
“They give the human kingdom a ‘seed’ with the promise of prosperity, but when it ripens and bears fruit, everything is taken away. The worst thing is that they kidnap the princess for fun. Really… “They are arrogant beings.”
“You really know a lot about dragons.”
“Because it is the most loathed being.”
“Is it self-hatred?”
“I can’t understand anything at all. “Please return when you are finished eating.”
I quietly looked at Zmu, who was showing his displeasure. What a self-hating dragon! It’s definitely something special. However, compared to the extraordinary beings around me, I can be seen as belonging to the ordinary axis. Compared to the nine-tailed fox, the Supreme Lord of the Murim, and the White Bone Saint, the dragon is a nobleman.
I held out my hand.
“We are friendly.”
“her? “Like you said, we’re exclusive. How can you be friends?”
“That’s strong. I said I couldn’t agree with your ideas, but I didn’t say I couldn’t respect them. Belief and the strength to back it up. It’s good because it’s a dragon. Let’s be friendly. Mr. Zmu.”
In response to my reckless ‘friend request’, which had almost zero social skills, Zmu made a complex expression and did not say anything for a while. His hands rose and fell. I didn’t understand Zmu. We’ve just met, so how can we understand? But I discovered something unusual about the village he created, and I wanted to take advantage of it. If he created a village just to make people happy, it’s enough for him to just be a bystander. If he becomes a member of the village himself, he could cause trouble. However, he became a part of the village as a bard in the square, as an adult trusted by the innkeeper’s daughter, as a regular at a bakery, and as a friend of a happy family.
He wanted it too.
It means ‘happiness’.
No matter what the circumstances, if he is a dragon suffering from homophobia, he will be suffering from the loneliness of being alone in the world. Of course, there are those who consider this trivial, but at least he feels lonely. Do you have the right friends? Probably not.
“… Are you asking me to be your friend?”
“Yeah yeah. What’s so difficult about it? “Let’s be friends, friend.”
He was a very interesting person, no, a dragon.
Is it because he is protecting himself with powerful illusion magic?
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I was actually weak at hiding my emotions. To be precise, Cheonan Tong penetrates his illusion and catches a glimpse of his true expression. I really liked this delicate dragon who blushed and felt excited when asked to be friends.
* * *
“You are such a mysterious person.”
I could tell that he had already had a conversation with Melissa, in that he was friendly towards me, a stranger, and was less suspicious. He didn’t have to reveal that he was a dragon and rush to eat his friend. Zmu would have done the favor, but I wanted more than that. Fortunately, it seems like things have worked out well. He didn’t kick me out even after the meal was over.
I talked to him briefly about Melissa.
“Just like her.”
One day, Melissa, who came to Zmu’s village, forced Zmu, who she saw for the first time, to become her ‘subordinate’. He calls himself ‘King of the Outcasts’. When Zmu refused, she said that Melissa boldly shouted that one day you will be ‘mine’ and then left. Since then, Zmu has received one-sided help a few times. He said it was as if he really treated him like a subordinate, but strangely enough, he wasn’t angry.
As we walked and talked about Melissa, we arrived at the entrance to the village.
Zmu spoke first.
“I heard that you need camouflage magic that works behind the scenes.”
He immediately worked his magic. It is a well-known legend that dragons are masters of magic. After seeing a dragon actually use magic, I thought that no matter how hard a wizard tried, he would not be able to defeat the dragon. The method was different. It is said that in three years of Seodanggae, Pungwol can be recited, and he had some knowledge of the magic system after learning about it at the Magic Tower. Clearly, wizards created a circulation loop based on their innate talent and used it like a machine engine. In order to use magic, magic had to be accepted and circulated so that it could be used. That’s why the Black Priest’s anti-magic power is poison to wizards.
However, the dragon’s magic… It was similar to me.
To be exact, it is similar to a spiritualist.
However, he was able to ‘process’ the energy of the natural world.
Suuuu-
The magic he unleashed dwells in me.
Daa!
At first, it was not easy to accept it due to Dalby’s resistance and internal resistance.
However, after persuading Dalby and emptying the internal energy with discharge magic, Zmu’s magic began to be applied. Zmu called this magic ‘polymorph’. It is a magic that only dragons can use, and is described as ‘the culmination of arrogant play and pleasure.’
“If a power as strange as your eyes did not exist, even the high-ranking demons behind it would be fooled.”
It is said that polymorphs can transform into any form. It can easily transform into a large monster, a sticky liquid, a winged angel, or a horned devil. Melissa’s transformation magic was great, but it was nothing compared to Polymorph’s. Indeed, Melissa was worthy of approval. If it weren’t for Cheonan Tong, I wouldn’t have felt any awkwardness even though I had reached the end of Hwagyeong.
“Would you like to check?”
I checked my appearance through the magic mirror made by Zmu.
“This is so… … .”
Horns, red eyes, black hair and bat wings.
The devil is a being of disgust, and it is normal to feel nauseated just by looking at it.
“You look so handsome?”
However, the man in the mirror added a touch of decadence to my originally handsome face.
Zmu smiled and shook his head.
“no. To the devil, you will look ugly, like a cesspool soaked in filth.”
“wow.”
“Polymorphs are not released even by dispel. May the breath of Saletus rest upon you-”
“Good luck, is that what you mean, buddy?”
“Dragon… … .”
he said with a smile
“It’s a proverb.”
* * *
As soon as Ushas saw me, he screamed as if he had seen a hideous and disgusting creature.
“I’m hurt.”
“It’s terrible! “You look really dirty, Polestar!”
“no… … .”
I recalled Zmu’s words.
I didn’t necessarily tell Ushas.
“Why did you come?”
A passage leading to the other side where we came before.
As I was preparing to head to the other side with Melissa in a flower garden that felt like heaven even though it was hell, Ushas came. Ushas said to me with a warm smile.
“I want you to tell her when you meet her, Eve.”
“Eve?”
Ushas came over and whispered in my ear.
I frowned and confronted Ushas.
“it’s crazy? “How can I say something like that with my mouth?”
“Oh, Polestar. My beloved younger brother. I’ve done so much for you, but you won’t even say a word to your sister? “It’s really too much.”
I was already feeling seasick because of Ushas pouting, but I tried to hold back and nodded.
“okay. “I’ll tell you that instead.”
A promise is a promise. If I don’t tell you that, they’ll think I’m a ghost and interrogate me.
I was sick of thinking about the vulgar words that came out of Ushas’s mouth. No matter how accustomed a country is to swearing, it has to contain such harsh language. For some reason, Ushas seemed to hate Eve, the king of disguises.
“Ready.”
When Melissa used her magic, the ground split open, creating a small hole barely big enough for one person to pass through. But even with Cheonan Tong, I couldn’t see the end of the pit. How deep is it? No, the concept of ‘deep’ may not apply.
“Theoretically, if you can see, you can quickly find the entrance to the other side.”
“… “I’m asking just in case. What if I don’t see it?”
Melissa paused before answering.
“That can’t be possible.”
“Wait a minute, what is that silence?”
The moment of silence bothered me, but I had no choice.
“Have a hard time.”
“Do you really have to tell me what I said?”
I left my two older sisters behind.
With his eyes wide open, he threw himself down the pit.
fantasy,
