But donât get close to the volcano itself! If you encounter a Fire Dragon, it might evaporate you!â
âOkay!â
âItâs scary, so I wonât go near it!â
It would be too late if the Blue Moon of Salvation were already inside. But that wasnât likely.
After all, not much time had elapsed since the appearance of the Fire Dragon.
Unless they were the ones who had summoned the Fire Dragon, then they wouldnât have started to move until after it appeared.
And if we started moving at the same time, then we would be faster, since the Proud Wolf was faster than any horse.
âWe finished surrounding it!â
âGood job! âŚThen, keep it up for a while! You can decide for yourselves if itâs too dangerous to stick around.â
âOkay!â
And then I returned to the inn.
As it was possible we would be thrown into a state of emergency, the best thing to do was to reserve my energy.
After all, what the slimes needed for support was magic.
And so I would avoid leaving the inn.
That way, I wouldnât be forced to fight and have my MP depleted.
âDo you sense the Fire Dragonâs presence?â
âI do!â
âIf the Fire Dragon comes close to you, you should all retreat! Safety first.â
âOkay!â
I said as I watched them.
Apparently, it took three days for the Fire Dragon to leave once it has appeared.
If I was to keep the security net up the whole time, then the slimes would have to take shifts.
âŚAs I pondered this, one of the slimes started shouting.
âSomeoneâs coming!â
âIs it a guild investigator?â
âHmmâŚI donât think so! Heâs carrying a strange barrel! What a creep!â
A barrelâŚ
A human that wanted to antagonize the Fire Dragon would probably use water.
So there was probably water in the barrel.
âContinue hiding over there. Wait until they come closer.â
âOkay!â
After a while, the figures approached the slimes.
They were talking as they walked.
âTsk⌠Why do we have to go and provoke the Fire Dragon.â
âItâs an order from our client.â
âStill, we should have rejected the order. I donât care how much they are paying us. It wonât mean anything if weâre dead. Iâd rather rob or abduct people.â
ââŚWe would be killed for sure if we went against the Blue Moon of Salvation. Weâd have a better chance of survival provoking the Fire Dragon.â
Apparently, the people carrying the barrels were just hired by the Blue Moon of Salvation.
Still, they were clearly criminals already.
âŚThat was fortunate.
I could take them down without worrying.
âBut these barrels are damn heavy. Why canât we just use water from some river?â
âItâs special water. But they didnât tell me why it was special.â
ââŚWeâre carrying it without knowing anything about it?â
The man said as he slapped the barrel in irritation.
The barrel had the words âBijia Wineâ painted on themâbut it definitely wasnât filled with wine.
It was likely filled with some dangerous liquid that the Blue Moon of Salvation had created.
Their goal was probably to make the Fire Dragon attack the town before it went away.
Or perhaps they just wanted it to go on a destructive rampage in the area.
It wasnât perfectly clear, but the Blue Moon of Salvation always wanted to do things that caused a lot of death.
So sending an A-Rank monster into the town seemed like the kind of thing they would do.
Well, these guys were like disposable thugs. So they were mostly just following orders instead of having any plan.
âWe kill people we donât know and smuggle secret things. âŚIsnât that what we always do?â
âThatâs true. Letâs just hope we survive this one.â
âAye. âŚHey, why donât we practice throwing these heavy barrels while we can?â
They said as they continued on their way to the volcanic mountain.
They would likely die if I left them alone. But they might just succeed at throwing the barrels at the Fire Dragon.
âŚI better stop them then.
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