Don’t Run Away My Lord

81 – Someone loses the fight (7)

Things that were blocked by the shield and hit by the splatter breath melted with steam.

You blocked the acidic breath that could not dissolve anything…?

Even destroying magic…?

Can divine power even block the dragon’s breath?

But suddenly, a sacred shield appeared from somewhere…

I looked down and was surprised.

Lyanna, who she thought had taken refuge with Wolpert, stood there with her divine power burning throughout her body.

「Liana! “Why are you here!”

“Do you think I’ll just watch you get beaten up by your blood relatives?”

Liana’s sacred shield was huge and completely surrounded me.

The sacred power burning fiercely in her body rose upward and spread widely, constantly strengthening her protective shield.

It is clear that Liana is a human using her divine power, but I had no idea that she had such powerful abilities…

Is it going to push her abilities to the limit?

Liana is a human being who becomes stronger to the strong…

“Erga. When you give the signal, I will release the shield, so kill them all. I will support you.”

「What are your future plans?」

“Is there anything wrong? I have to kill them all and get rid of them. I’ll think about the next thing later.”

「Got it」

As soon as Liana released her shield, she immediately jumped into the sky.

The aftereffects of the released shield scattered to the four dragons hovering in the sky.

Hot smoke rose from the scales of the dragons hit by the fragments of divine power, and painful cries erupted.

* * * * *

「Up…! Go up!”

The dragons who had risen to a height beyond the reach of divine power soon realized that not a single one had followed them.

「Over there…!」

A dragon with its side horribly torn was lying on the ground.

The dragons hurriedly moved their bodies to find the missing Ergaduk.

「Where is it?」

「It comes down from above!」

Something seemed to flash in the sun, and in the blink of an eye, one of the struggling dragons crashed to the ground.

Ergaduk climbed on the back of the falling dragon and bit its back indiscriminately, turning it into a tattered rag.

Just before the dragon, whose spine was severed and died, crashed to the ground, Ergaduk kicked its back and rose upward.

「It’s coming! Catch him at all costs! Soon other blood relatives will come…”

The dragon suddenly turned around without even finishing his sentence.

This is because a golden ray of light shot vertically from below, creating a large hole in his wing.

The dragon lost sight of Ergaduk and quickly turned around.

But there was already nothing in the sky.

Even the dragon right next to me.

「Damn it…! Where on earth are you!”

At that time, a blinding golden barrier closed in on his vision.

A black claw pierced from underneath the dragon, which was temporarily blind and struggling, and tore its body in half.

* * * * *

The body of the last dragon fell to the ground.

Landing on her ground and returning to Liana, she smiled weakly with a pale expression on her face.

“As expected, Erga-sama. You’re amazing.”

“Are you okay?”

“Yes. I’m fine. But…”

Liana looked down.

A huge amount of blood was pouring between her legs.

“Liana!!”

“hehehe… I guess I used too much divine power for the right amount…”

I ran over to Liana who was falling and caught her in the nick of time.

“Liana… Damn it…”

“It’s okay… If you get divine treatment… Everything will be fine…”

But Liana could no longer use her divine power.

The golden light that had been blinking uneasily in her hand suddenly went out.

When I looked up, I saw other blood relatives coming out of a huge portal in the sky.

「Ergaduk! In the end, I ended up crossing a river of no return!”

There were too many of them to fight while protecting Liana, Wolfert, and Keita.

“My lord! Chamberlain!”

Keita and Wolfert ran over the dragon’s corpse.

“Quickly, to the portal! To the portal!”

Keita, who slipped down from the dragon’s body, created a portal and shouted.

I picked up Lyanna and ran through her portal.

“Quickly! Quickly!”

As soon as she threw her body through the portal, an acidic breath hit her back.

* * * * *

“Oops!”

The exit of the portal was in the air, a few meters away from the ground, so Wolpert rolled around on the floor and groaned.

“I’m sorry, Guard Captain…!”

Keita, who had just crushed him, got up and apologized.

“Anyway… Where is this?”

Wolfert slowly got up and looked around.

There were huge piles of stones and half-collapsed abandoned houses around us.

This is a scene I have seen many times somewhere…

“Huh?! Could it be that tower…?”

Woolfert raised his hand and pointed behind him.

When I turned around, I saw a pure white marble circular tower standing against the blue spring sky.

It was Caple Top.

There was still a clear sign on the outside telling people to be careful of dogs in ancient language.

And in the sky above the tower, waves of magic invisible to the human eye were visible.

It was a detection spell that my blood relatives were using to find me.

Dozens of detection magics were embroidering the sky like a spider web.

Liana, held in her arms, groaned and groaned.

As she slowly lowered Liana to the floor, Keita ran over and slid down to her knees, examining Liana.

“Oh, my…”

“Huh…”

Ulpert, who came next to her, also took a breath when he saw her Liana.

“This… Is a big deal…”

Keita bit her lip and looked at her Liana.

“Sacred power… You can’t use it anymore, can you?”

“Yes… I’m overdoing it…”

“Ah…”

Keita looked at me and said.

“My lord, listen carefully. Erhina in her stomach is in a very dangerous state right now. I think the Chamberlain used her divine power beyond the limit and her body couldn’t withstand it.”

For a moment, the broken wyvern egg among the ruins of the lord’s castle came to mind.

Corrupted without being able to come out into the world…

I felt like my heart was falling.

“What should I do?”

“This… Ah… I don’t know either…”

Keita was blaming himself, tearing out her hair.

“I should have opened the portal sooner…”

But that’s not Keita’s fault.

At the scene where five or six dragons fight using magic, a storm of magical power beyond imagination occurs.

It is close to impossible at Keita’s level to create a portal through that space.

So, only after I killed all the dragons was Keita able to open the portal.

At that time, Wolfert frowned and looked toward the east.

“Oh, f*ck… Lord…!”

When I turned around, I saw several black dragons flying in this direction over the Mourey Mountains far away.

It looks like they traced the magic wave of the portal created by Keita…

It may not have been enough for Keita, who is still inexperienced in using magic, to even erase the magic waves…

Keita, who was looking at this in bewilderment, slowly turned his head towards me.

“My lord… Do you remember when I tried to report what I found out at Caple Tower before, but was unable to…?”

“I remember.”

“If it’s okay… Can I report it to you now…?”

I raised my hand to Wolfert, who was angry and asked what I was doing when the dragons were attacking me right now.

Keita is a wizard.

No matter how blind he may be, he is not so stupid that he cannot discern between right and wrong.

There was no way I would say that in this situation without a reason.

“Listen.”

“To start with the conclusion… At Caple Top, you can go back not only to the future but also to the past.”

“What… What…?!”

Wolfert screamed.

“But I destroyed the magic inside the tower. Are you saying it’s still possible?”

“It’s possible. Last time I went in, all the magic was back to its original state.”

“Restore it to its original state…? Then, all of those cabins…?”

“Yes. That’s why I opened a portal here. I thought that jumping through time would be the most effective way to completely defeat those dragons.”

Then… Should I just go back to when I first met Celiapari and kill her?

No… Wait a minute…

Even if we go back and stop the cilia flies, it won’t be a simple matter…

“What will you do, my lord…?”

I looked down at Liana lying in my arms.

Liana was sweating coldly with her eyes half closed.

She had to make a decision.

“Going back to the past.”

There was no point in going to the future.

My blood relatives have already decided to reject me, and tens of thousands of years are not enough for my current blood relatives to overcome the time of generational change.

In that case, it would be better to go back to the past.

Going back to the past, I’m sorry, but it’s right to leave the fight with the blood relatives to Ergaduk of that time and start again from a safe place.

* * * * *

As I walked down the pitch-black hallway leading to the center of the tower, a beautiful forest soon appeared.

A calm pond and a deer drinking water. Chirping birds and soft sunlight.

And there was a hut in between.

“Why are there all these places…?”

Woolfert opened his eyes and looked around.

We crossed the forest and entered the cabin.

The cabin looked exactly the same as when I first arrived.

Keita asked after closing the door.

“Finally, we can go back to the time the tower was last in operation, although there may be a time difference of several years.”

“It was forty years ago.”

It is a very good time.

“Let’s go back then.”

“What happens next?”

“There is a place you can trust for a while.”

The moment Keita said she could go back to the past, she already had a plan in mind.

There is an inn that I stopped at some time ago when I was passing through the Kingdom of Berabche with the intention of becoming a lord in the Viscounty of Tussen.*

The inn knows that I am a black dragon, and despite that, it is a place that can help me.

I will go there.