v1c31 - A Forest Appears in the Barren Land and a Welcome Party for the Young Blue Dragon
“The big green snake that makes the forest …… So it was real.”
“You there, elf. The next time you call me a snake, I’ll be very angry.”
“I-I’m sorry! It’s not that I’m calling Ms. Blue Dragon a snake, I was just reciting the elven lore.”
Putting aside the fact that Lydia is being stared at by Ms. Blue Dragon, it is indeed amazing that she can create a forest just by holding her hand over it.
If we take Ms. Blue Dragon above, I wonder if she could create a forest in this barren land.
“Lydia. Can’t you take Ms. Blue Dragon to …… or rather, can’t you take everyone up above?”
“Everyone? It’s not impossible, but it will take some time because we need to enlarge the stone wall that will be used as a foothold.”
“Mm …… Alex and the others want to go back to the surface? I’ll send you up then.”
As soon as he says that, Ms. Blue Dragon approaches and gathers us up, she turns into a green snake …… a huge dragon.
She carried us on her back and slowly ascended upward, then went straight out of the hole and back into the form of a young girl.
“That’s amazing. Can Ms. Blue Dragon fly?”
“Yes. I’m a dragon, after all. But I can’t leave the shrine, though.”
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“How far can you go? Our house is within sight.”
“…… I can’t see it because of the wall, so can you show it to me for now?”
When we asked Lydia to make the wall disappear, Ms. Blue Dragon told us that she could not go there for a long time, but she could go there for a short time.
So we decided to go back from here toward the southeast direction where the cabin is located, making a narrow passage with a stone wall.
“But it really has turned into a barren land, hasn’t it?”
“Yes. That’s why we came to cultivate it.”
“Hmm. Well then, let me help you a little.”
After saying so, Ms. Blue Dragon grows a big tree outside the passage Lydia makes.
“These trees are called cypress trees, and they are suitable for building houses. Not only that, I heard they used to make furniture with it as well, and you can use them as you like.”
“Is that right? Cutting down trees and so on.”
“It’s all right. If you need more wood, I will grow as many as I can. Alex is my benefactor, after all.”
We walked back to the cain, and when we looked back, we saw a forest had formed in the northwest direction.
Then I, Lydia, and Ellie cooked a larger meal and we all ate it together.
“Now, let’s start with Ms. Blue Dragon’s …… Uh, it’s a bit late, but calling you Ms. Blue Dragon is a bit distant, isn’t it? Is there any other way to call you?”
“I am Blue Dragon, nothing more, nothing less. I only have the name Blue Dragon, you know?”
“Hmm, Blue Dragon, Seiryuu …… Sheiryuu …… How about Shelly?”
(T/N: Seiryuu means blue dragon/azure dragon.)
Nina looked at Ms. Blue Dragon to see about her suggestion, and she replied that we could call him whatever we wanted.
“Well, again. Cheers to meeting Shelly!”
We decided to have dinner while chatting and laughing.
By the way, I had initially used words like …… to thank Shelly for saving us, but she asked us to redo it because we both owe each other a debt of gratitude.
Also, there are only four chairs in the cabin, so I said I’d stand, but…
“With my figure, even if I sat on a chair, I wouldn’t be able to reach the food that was served. So I will sit on Alex’s lap.”
Shelly strongly requested that, and here we are.
We have reached this point, but sometimes Ellie and Lydia look at her enviously, and Shelly snickers, “Huh ……”, I wonder what’s going on here.
I served Shelly her food…
“This …… is delicious. It’s so good, it makes me want some rice.”
It seemed to suit her palate.
“Oh, it’s a stew. I think it might have been a little too strong, though… I’ve heard of rice, but where Ellie and I live, we don’t eat it very often. What about Lydia and Nina?”
“I don’t think we don’t grow it in the Elven Forest. But I think I have heard that it is often eaten in the East.”
East, huh …… I’ve only heard rumors that they are from a different culture from ours.
Oh, speaking of different cultures, I think the clothes Shelly wears are made very differently from ours.
Maybe it’s the clothes of the dark-haired people Shelly was talking about.
“Hmm, rice, huh. Dwarves will eat anything as long as it tastes good, and as a race, we seem to like drinking more than food. Nina doesn’t drink, though.”
Dwarves live in the soil, so they probably don’t care about food.
When I was thinking about this…
“It is well known that Dwarves like to drink. Well, I don’t think Ms. Nina is ready for it yet.”
“Mm! Don’t tell me, you have alcohol!?”
“No, we don’t, but …… wait, you’ve become quite depressed, huh.”
Shelly’s face lights up and she looks up at me, and it instantly goes dark.
Alcohol, huh …… Roland drinks sometimes, but I don’t.
However, if Shelly were a little girl as she looks, I would be angry, but she is in fact a dragon, so I guess I’ll let the matter drop.
With that in mind, I ate some of my own Assassin Rabbit’s stew, too, and just as I was reflecting that it tasted a little stronger than usual…
“Ngh!? Wha-What is this!? My body is …… hot!?”
“Alex!? What’s wrong!?”
“Mister, are you okay!?
Suddenly my body is hot, or rather, my body is overflowing with power …… something is wrong.
I don’t know why, but my hands …… no, my body seems to glow faintly.
The heat and glow subsided after a while, but what on earth was it?
“Hmmm. This is …… I see, so that’s what it is.”
“Ms. Shelly. What is happening to Mr. Alex?”
“It seems that Alex has been given a divine skill.”
“A Divine …… skill?”
“Yes. I’ve heard it sometimes referred to as Extra skill, but Alex is supposedly able to become powerful by eating the flesh and blood of monsters and other creatures. “
Extra skill …… Ah, it’s the skill that I got when I defeated Bernhard.
I decided to ask Shelly to give me the information I missed at that time.