MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 48 Nuriel

The three of us appeared in a vast meadow.

To think this is just an illusion is very unlikely because it feels very real.

According to Carl the theme of this exam is learning from the past so doesn't that mean we are in the past now?

"Well what should we do now?"

Zephyr returned to his usual state and asked while touching the grass under our feet.

"Because we don't know what it is that we should gather information first."

"I'm going, where should we go? I'm just looking at the prairie now."

Carl is unreliable now that he's alone here so the only one I can count on is Zephyr who has excellent tracking abilities.

"I think we should go north."

Before I asked Zephyr it seemed to know.

"Did you find anything?"

"I felt it there was life there, in the south there was also but it was further away so I don't recommend it."

"All right, we're going north."

We walked north to gather information, I thought that it would be a short journey but this was further from my shadow.

The sun had set and the sky had turned black.

"I think we should rest."

"True, it's dangerous to walk at night in a strange place like this."

Zephyr and I were in charge of putting up the tent while Carl was cooking.

"The work is finally done."

"Wait, something's wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"Since I've felt something but because it's so thin and quiet that I don't care about it, I just realized that it's getting clearer all the time so be careful."

"All right."

Since long ago I was so lacking in terms of feeling danger until it was so close to me, it made it very difficult for me to be attacked silently.

"Yeah!"

"Nor!"

"Damn it looks like they're starting to move!"

Zephyr and I ran as fast as we could to where Carl was screaming.

Carl fell to the ground and there was a wound on his arm, while in front of him was a mole type monster but this monster was 2 meters tall with armor-thick skin.

"Stop!"

Carl yells at the monster but is unable to do so and attacks Carl once more.

I hurried forward and resisted the monster's attack with my sword, it was strong enough to make me push back even if it was just a little but still I was very surprised.

I pushed the monster and directly slashed at it but it was lacking in depth, it was my fault for not using magic to check its defensive power.

After learning how powerful his attack and defense was I strengthened my sword with magic and carried out another attack right at his neck.

The head of the monster fell to the ground violently followed by his body.

"Heart, it's not over yet."

Zep appeared beside me and also prepared his spear, it seemed like he had only been watching.

"1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, there's a total of about 57."

"It's a little troublesome."

Just in case I strengthen my physical abilities with magic to the maximum and directly use the unification of light, Zephyr also did the same.

"Let's start."

Dozens of giant rats emerged from the ground and attacked with great loft towards us.

I slashed one of them right in the head that made him die instantly and directly attacked the other.

It's weird why they didn't attack me?

Right, this monster did not attack me and continued to run straight like I was not their target.

All those monsters were attacking wildly towards us, fortunately all the monsters were attacking from the front so it was quite easy to hold them back.

But that makes me feel weird because all these monsters didn't see me even after I killed one of them.

"It looks like these monsters are after Carl who's the weakest person among us so maybe they're not as stupid as we thought."

Zephyr warned me after dropping one of the other rats.

I thought of all possibilities while continuing to withstand the attack from this rat.

"Carl's hiding behind me!"

"All right"

I can't move because Carl is hiding behind me, if I move I'm afraid Monsters will attack him.

Without me realizing we've been surrounded by this monster.

This monster is not strong so I have to fight seriously but still it is very troublesome against those who are in groups and can give up from the ground.

we spent some time to finish them all off and decided to move out and rest.

Shortly after I put up the Zephyr tent came and we decided to eat while discussing the next plan.

"Did you find anything?"

I asked Zephyr because it seemed like he found something interesting if I looked from his expression.

"I have a hypothesis, did you realize that the rat monster had something in common with the rat monster we used to meet in the Empire?"

"I also thought about that, it's just that the size is very different."

After Carl said that I remembered that the form of rats that often appear in the Empire has the same shape as the one we killed, he said, but the rats in the Empire were very small and harmless whereas these rats might even kill inexperienced warriors.

"How about I say that the two are the same monsters but in different times?"

Carl who heard that shook his head strongly to deny it.

"It's impossible, right? if a rat is that strong what about a real monster?! "

I understand what he's worried about because whatever rats we know can be killed by even a small child but if the rats in this world are that big I don't know how big the real monsters are.

For a moment the shadow of the mountain-sized dragon Gizel body appeared in my mind, impossible right? if all the dragons were that big?

"I think that's because the number of which here is very abundant, as we know that monsters will get stronger if they absorb a lot of which too right? Ryu try to use the Fireball as usual."

obeying what Zephyr asked me to use Fireball towards the sky, I used fire ball but the instant the fire in my hand exploded and grew tens of times the size making it look like a meteor.

"seen? it even affects our magic so it's no surprise that monsters evolve as well."

I can finally understand what our current condition is like.

"I'm sure I haven't been tired in the least."

"Well, after putting this together I think we're in the past or something."

"But how is it possible? I think it's impossible to time travel."

"Right, it's impossible but what if we don't go back in time but just our consciousness or our soul?"

"You mean right now our souls are still in the great forest? I think it makes more sense, then what is the purpose of this exam?"

Zephyr thought for a moment before answering him.

"I don't know myself, I think we'll know if we can find a village or town to get information."

I digested the information Zephyr gave me and combined it with all the information I had.

"I don't think we're going back in time, instead we're still in those days just isn't it possible to make a room like this using space and time magic?"

"After you say it all makes sense, there are bound to be limits in this world."

"We'll look for that tomorrow I think we should rest, you two rest first I'll be on guard this time."

"Good night"

Zephyr and Carl slept first while I went to a place far enough from the camp and then took out the dragon egg stored in my ring.

The egg was so big that it took 2 hands to hold it, the dragon egg absorbed magic energy as its source of nutrition so if he was left in a place with low magic density he would die.

After exiting the dragon egg it instantly absorbed the natural magic energy at a crazy speed perhaps it was affected by the density of magic energy in this region, I also helped her by channeling my own magic energy to the end.

Normally I can only channel magic energy for a full 2 hours but now it is 5 hours but my magic energy has not been exhausted completely.

Since there was no end I decided to go home and try to put the egg into the ring but it did not react, it is true that this ring can only hold non-living things.

"Before it could but why is it different this time?"

"Craack crack"

The egg I was holding began to crack bit by bit until it was crushed, a small dragon came out from within the egg and flew around me.

"I remember your mother was a black dragon but why did you become a red dragon instead? or maybe a red hetam dragon? that looks cool!"

The dragon I had killed before was a black dragon but it was very strange why his son had red scales moreover it was not all red but if he noticed the scales were predominantly black but quite a lot of scales it's red too.

Just this time I saw there was a dragon that had unique scales like this.

"Kyeo"

"Hmm? can you talk?"

For me he just makes random noises but I don't know why I can understand what he's saying.

"Kyuu!"

"I'm fine, I'm just thinking what to do next."

"Gum!!!"

She looked angry and went straight up on my shoulders then rubbed her cute head on my cheek.

"Kyuu"

"I'm sorry, to think you can read my mind, I'm sorry I won't throw you away so just calm down."

Dragons are immortal beings so they never die of age and will instead grow stronger the longer they live, according to the book I read dragons take about 500 years for teenagers and 1000 years to reach adulthood.

If I leave it alone in its lair sooner or later another dragon will come to kill it so I guess there is no other choice.

"I think I should give you a name... Hmm how about Nuriel?"

"Kye!"

"do you like it? good, well, Riel how about we take a break?"

"Kyuu!"

I stroked his head and went to the tent to rest because it was time to take turns with the Zephyr.