âVery well. Let us retreat now. âŚYou have my thanks.â
âRetreat? Right after we destroyed the cannon?â
âWe are to retreat when youâve used up half of your magic. That was the agreement, was it not? Of course, I do wish I could destroy more of this placeâŚbut I will keep my word.â
Oh, it was worried about my MP.
In spite of appearances, the dragon had integrity.
That being said, I wasnât sure it was necessary.
âI actually have about 80% left. You can keep going.â
I said to the dragon while checking my status.
As I had been hunting a lot of lesser fire dragons and monsters for slime food, my maximum MP had gone up quite a bit.
Up until now, it always seemed like my MP would drop below 0 just when a fight against a strong enemy was really getting startedâŚbut now, I still had plenty left.
ââŚI will take my question back then.â
âHuh? What question?â
âAbout you being human. I know it for certain now. You are not a human, Yuji.â
The dragon was sure of it now.
But I was clearly a human no matter how you looked at it.
Itâs just that I had a little more MP than most, and I could tame slimes.
âI feel like youâre being very rude, considering I just helped youâŚâ
âIt was a compliment.â
ââŚI see. Well, I suppose I will accept it then.â
And then the dragon started attacking the walls again.
The dragonâs sharp claws tore into the mountain walls and carved out giant chunks.
HoweverâŚit was attacking a part that wasnât a passage. It was just a wall.
âThat doesnât lead to anything.â
âI know. âŚBut if I go down another tunnel, they will likely attack me again. And so I should avoid any route that they can predict.â
I see. That made sense.
The Blue Moon of Salvation wouldnât think that the dragon would break its way through every wall.
However, the problem was that this would take a long time.
Even with the dragonâs overwhelming power, it was trying to create an entirely new path through the mountain.
âAlright, Iâll wait. Just destroy what you can for now.â
âVery well. But it may result in the ceiling collapsing in some places. You might want to send your slimes awayâŚâ
âDonât worry about them. Iâm protecting them with defense magic.â
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to leave it to the dragon.
Maybe rocks would fall, but the slimes could be easily protected.
A few hours later.
âSorryâŚit seems like they got dragged in after allâŚâ
The dragon muttered as its claws moved away the rubble in order to find the slimes that had been buried.
It seemed like it had finished its rampage for now.
âWeâre finally out!â
âIt was so tight!â
The slimes shouted as they hopped on top of the boulders.
At first, they had been able to come out by themselves every time they were coveredâŚbut they would keep getting buried again no matter how many times they got out. And so the slimes had just given up and stayed buried.
While they were perfectly safe down thereâŚit was apparently not very comfortable.
âIâm sorry. It may not be much, but I will help them escape as part of my apology.â
âOkay, thank you.â
Due to the dragonâs attacks, the layout of the tunnels had changed greatly.
It was hard to even tell where the original tunnels were.
But⌠There was still a great big hole that led to the open sky.
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