Book 3: Surviving In Another World From Zero
Chapter 38: Meeting A Catastrophic Dragon

Entering the forest Ardhi had been confronted with a pack of wolves showing fangs to him, each jumping which he mercilessly slashed down with a flash.

Seeing that the figure they were fighting was a threat, the wolves began to flee.

It had already been five days of travel in just the next few days at least they could make it to the imperial territory. Ardhi and Yuki rested for a while to enjoy their lunch.

There was a groaning of someone's voice so they looked for the origin and saw that a woman was curling up in pain with wounds all over her body, she wore a black dress according to her hair color and had horns and a tail behind her.

At first glance they could tell that he was a dragon.

"That's a brush, who don't you say you're heroes."

"Master is a hero."

"Don't kill me, please forgive me. It wasn't me that caused the monsters to appear, not me."

"Maybe you misunderstood something."

"Misunderstand me?"

The woman's stomach rang indicating she was hungry.

"Sorry."

"For now eat first, we have plenty of food."

"I owe you my life."

Ardhi explains who he belongs to the woman as well, he is named Marsya, a dragon disaster.Because the incident in the empire filled with many monsters he was somehow blamed and the heroes instead chased after him.

His injured body was caused by them.

"Just because you were born as a disaster dragon they even want to, but the dragon also has a heart."

In the past Marsya did destroy a lot of territory but since defeated the first hero he has not done anything like that.

"You know the previous reward?"

"Yes, I remember him taking his wives with him."

"Where did they go did they join the empire?"

"No, I'm sure they went somewhere else, if from here you can find a hidden settler there."

If not to join the empire then what exactly do they want?

"Unfortunately, I'm being chased by a hero that's gonna be hard to get through."

"I also have things to settle with the hero so I'll beat him for you."

"That's true, I'd be helped, if I could I'd like to clear my name as well."

"You can come with us for a while."

"I'm grateful for that."

"It looks like this dragon ate a lot, definitely troublesome master," Yuki said after returning in his sword form.

Marsya looked panicked.

"Ah, ah, here's how I'm going to hunt you guys who cultivate it."

"It wasn't a bad deal."

Glad that Yuki and Marsya can get along, after filling their stomachs back on the journey.

The one who was chasing Marsya was a girl named Ruti, he had incredible physical abilities could even challenge a dragon with only his bare hands. In addition to his cheerful and reckless nature he was also able to move many troops under his hands.

Ardhi asked everyone to hide as a few soldiers walked in front of him.

"Not that you're gonna beat the hero, why hide?"

"It looks like the hero has gone home."

"Heh home?"

"Is it possible that he was overconfident because it had previously left me badly injured."

"You could say so."

"Well it's true I can't do anything because my energy hasn't recovered even trying to get to the dragon's shape is hard."

"Because there are no heroes let's just skip them."

"I understand."

Ardhi as much as possible to not involve himself in a fight that is not too important.