MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 35 To the Leviathan Region

I woke up in the morning feeling refreshed.

I saw the egg and stroked it.

"Good morning, buddy."

Was it like this from the beginning?

The egg changed a little bit because if I don't remember it this plain black egg but now it has a thin red stripe around it.

I don't know what the dragon is about, so I feel like this is normal.

I put it in the dimensional ring and then down the lower floor.

There Zep turned out to have sat first while eating.

"You ate first without taking me."

"Ohh you're awake, I saw you sleeping so well that I couldn't wake you up."

"What are you saying."

I sat down and ate.

"What should we do now?"

Zep asked.

"What about you? have all the materials you need been collected?"

"Not everything but the rest can only be obtained in the dungeon so just assume it has been collected."

"Then we will head straight to the Leviathan region."

"Hmmm I have an idea, we're short on money and it would be a pity if we sell materials from wyverns or treasures obtained from dragon nests so how about we take on Escort missions that are aligned towards the Leviathan realm?"

"I was suspicious but it turned out that your idea was pretty good."

"Can? we also do not need to rent another horse carriage because it has been provided by the client."

We went to the nearest adventurer guild and went straight to the mission board to look for a suitable mission.

We didn't find any requests regarding it so I went to the reception desk.

"Excuse me is there an escort request to the Leviathan region?"

"Let's take a look..... Just a moment ago there was but it was already taken by the Gold rank adventurer group, if you ask them maybe they will let you guys join."

A group of people entered the guild.

"I'm so full!"

"You're right, partying after you get home is the best!"

There were 5 people entering the room 3 men and 2 women.

"That's them, Mr. Elrich please come."

The person standing in front had faded red hair, he was taller than me and looked quite handsome like a character from an otome game.

The party turned towards us.

"Ohhh what's the need, miss mayra?"

"They both wanted to find a request to the Leviathan region so I wanted to ask if you could take it with you."

This man named Elrich came up to us and watched us closely.

"Children with their white hair and purple hair are definitely the newbie adventurers being talked about recently."

"They both get recommendations from the supreme leader so they definitely have potential."

"Well they must have had enough ability to get that recommendation so I'll take it."

"So that's how you two can go with them if you don't mind."

"Thank you."

"No problem, introduce me as Elrich the leader of this group and beside me is Welter, ***, Emy, and Carla."

The people standing next to him started nodding their heads one by one.

Welter looked like a tank with a Zep-like muscular body, only to be enveloped around by a gentle aura.

**** on the other hand is a fairly short person and uses arrows.

While Emy looks like a witch aunt, she is surrounded by a seductive aura.

Lastly, Carla is an older sister-type person whose cold body is quite proportionate and balanced.

She has black hair plus a little blue.

He wore tight clothes and used a two-dagger weapon.

"Greetings, I am Ryu and this is my partner Zephyr."

"I hope a lot of you two, we can talk more on the way come we go it's not good to let the client wait."

"Then we're leaving."

I said goodbye and followed Elrich to the city gate.

There were already several carriages lined up that seemed to belong to quite a large merchant.

"We are the ones who accepted your request, Mr. Arvion."

"Ohh you guys are here, hmm? I heard you guys have 5 members but I see you have 7 now."

"Ahh about that they both just joined us because the same request has run out."

"So but I'll pay the same price is it okay?"

"Of course it doesn't matter, how about you Ryu?"

"I don't mind as long as we can get there either."

"Good, then you guys get ready we'll be leaving soon."

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We are currently on our way to the Leviathan region while guarding 5 horse carriages full of merchandise.

Each of the Elrich members kept one carriage in addition to me and Zep placed in the middle and we sat on the train.

I looked around while anticipating an attack while on the other side Zep was lying down while yawning.

"Don't you think you're too relaxed?"

"Just relax there are no monsters around here and not even bandits."

"If you say so."

"I heard something quite interesting."

From inside the carriage appeared the woman with her blonde hair she was Emy.

"What do you need, Miss Emy?"

"Hey hey don't be like that, call me Emy and just Emy okay?"

"Alright, so what's the need for Emy?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little interested after hearing your conversation."

Emy continued to talk but Zep did not even look at her and continued to lie down while closing his eyes.

"Is it true that you can sense that there are no bandits or monsters here?"

Emy flooded Zep with questions.

"Yes can."

"Waaahhh how do you do it?"

"I can use it naturally so I don't know."

"Great! how far can you detect them?"

"If I focus it might be about 1 KM."

"That's awesome!! can you teach me something about that!?"

"I told you I don't know myself."

"can you do something about it?"

Zep wakes up and for the first time looks at Emy.

"Have you ever used detection magic while you were in town, in the guild, at home, in the bathroom, while eating, while fighting, until while sleeping?"

"Ummm I use it in the city but other than that it's not because it's going to use too much mana."

"That's why you can't use it, you're not alert so you're less in danger."

"You're young but you look like someone who has a lot of experience, your life must be hard."

"Not really, I've been living a life like this since birth so I'm used to it quite a bit."

"I hope this trip goes well."

"I hope so."

Our journey continued peacefully, we did not meet bandits or monsters so we spent the day talking to each other.

After a few days of travel we arrived in the Leviathan region we got off the train and met with Elrich's party.

"It looks like we're going to split up here."

Elrich spoke first of representing everyone.

"It seems so, there's still something we have to do."

We all went to the guild to take the payment then we parted ways.

Zep and I went to look for an inn.

After finding one near the Zep guild directly entered and sat on a chair while taking out various items.

"It seems like this is enough."

"What are you doing?"

"I don't feel good, let's go."

And Zep went straight out without another word, I just followed him from behind because he looked so serious.

It turned out that he went to the guild then went straight to the mission board and saw everything after that he went straight to the reception desk.

"Is there no demand to hunt down bandits or monsters?"

"excuse me but there's been no such request for a month."

"What's!? it's been that long, where is the demon lord now?"

"Ehhhh! he was going to the residence of the Demon King Belzebbub for a meeting."

"Tch, when did he leave? and who's with him?"

"That was 2 days ago and he went with his two knights and some soldiers."

"All right, thank you."

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"What's going on?"

"It's bad, let's get ready, hopefully still on time."

Not knowing if I followed him back to the inn.

Zep went straight somewhere, when I asked him he wanted to go to the blacksmith to make a weapon.

Instead of staying in the inn I prefer to go into the forest to practice.

I go deep enough because normally I would train against monsters but it's very quiet.

I've been walking for quite a while but there aren't any monsters I've met.

Because there was nothing so I decided to practice alone.

First I tried to drain a blood magic out of my body.

A blackish-red magic started to appear slowly and following that my appearance also changed.

After that I took out the sword and cast magic into it.

It was a black sword but slowly the blade began to be colored by the red color.

When I release this blood magic always happens, it always mixes into my other magic even if I don't use it.

Next I used the unification of darkness and as before slowly my armor was colored by a thick red line.

"It's becoming more stable than ever."

I tried to use it for a while and then stopped because I started to feel thirsty.

I went back to the inn and then went into the room.

I took out a blood bag from my ring and drank it.

This is a side effect of prolonged use, if I use it for a while it won't matter and it will only be exhausted but if using it for a long time it will make me feel an unbearable thirst.

I've tried drinking water but it didn't have any effect, I tried monster blood and it's quite tasty but it's not there now so I have to take the blood supply I stored in the dimensional ring.

If it runs out I might have to take some demon blood.

I went to the bathroom to clean myself then went to sleep.