True Magician

Chapter 129

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There was no point in dragging things out, so as soon as we finished the outdoor picnic, I teleported us straight to the dragon, finding it with 3rd magic. And it wasn't a problem, as his signature stood out very well among the many other souls.

We were now on a hill, in the middle of a scorched black earth covered with ash and dust. The air here was stifling and almost hot, the mountains were visible in the distance, and there was no greenery or any wildlife, except for our target, of course.

A little farther away, a dragon was lying down and apparently sleeping. And seeing it, I can't say I was impressed. It was just a dragon, a large but quite ordinary dragon, with black wings and scales, sharp fangs and claws, a long spiky tail, and one sunken eye. In terms of strength... Ddraig would have eaten him for breakfast and asked for more.

As I recall, he lost his eye in a fight with some adventurer, and later the Familias of Hera and Zeus almost completed all Three Great Quest except for this dragon. Pretty funny to hear something like that, since in the usual mythology these two were married and yet didn't really consider each other's opinions. Especially the fast as lightning old man.

- "Is that... is that... him...?" Hestia asked cautiously, hiding behind Bell, who was staring at the dragon with wide-open eyes.

- "We've heard about him from adventurers, but we didn't think we'd see him in person. He's strong," Ray marveled, and Let nodded in agreement.

- "Not impressive," Morgan said boredly.

- "Lord Hermes, are you sure we should be here?" Asfi asked worriedly.

- "Why would we?!" Hermes exclaimed enthusiastically, "We are to witness a heroic battle between humanity and a monster! This is a legendary event that you get to witness once in a lifetime, and don't you want to see it, my beautiful Asfi!!!"

- "Well... maybe..." hesitated Asfi.

- "Aaaaaa~" Tia sang out, looking at me.

- "You know me. It'll go fine," I smiled and stroked her head, then shifted my gaze to the dragon, "Well, I'm off."

- "Good luck!" Hermes waved his hand and the others followed him, a little worried about me.

- "Would you like a good luck kiss?" Morgan smirked, to which I rolled my eyes and jumped down.

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Asfi didn't know what the Tiamat Familia and Romani himself were thinking, that he was completely calm about fighting against the One-Eyed Black Dragon, especially alone. Even the two strongest Familias of the time had failed to do so, that they had joined forces and still lost. And here, Romani was alone, and was not bothered by the dragon itself or its power, which she could feel even from here.

Asfi was level four, which by Orario standards was really not bad. But even so, she felt genuine fear just being in such close proximity to this dragon. And the reason was more than justified, because in case of anything, they would trivially be unable to run away and save themselves.

Her god, on the other hand, found their current situation extremely worrying. So much so that she had never seen such an excited expression on his face, not even when he had peeked at her while bathing. His eyes were burning with anticipation, as if the purpose of his existence was about to be accomplished, and Asfi had no choice but to accept it all and hope that Romani and the Tiamat Familia would succeed.

She shifted her gaze to the others present. To see their reactions to all of this.

The Goddess Hestia, Bell Kranel and the Xenos were feeling the same as Asfi herself, but here were the remaining two... The Goddess Tiamat looked at Romani with faith in her eyes, but without fear for life or injury, for some reason unknown to Asfi. Morgan le Fay, on the other hand, looked bored and even a little disappointed that the Hermes Familia captain was interested. Also, this woman was definitely of noble blood, judging by her posture and ability to hold herself.