Ryuu Kusari No Orishin No Naka No Kokoro
Chapter 1 Part 4

Nozomu worked part-time at the commercial district depot the next day.

There was no escort today, and the Boss asked him to arrange and record the cargo in the depot area. After confirming the cargo to be transported, he reported to the Boss, there was something the Boss wanted to convey and called Nozomu, who was,

"By the way, Nozomu, have you ever heard a hunter see a dragon in the forest the other day?"

"Dragon…?"

Dragon.

The strongest existence on this continent.

It is one of the spirit species and has tremendous power.

It seemed that some people who had once defeated the dragon had obtained its power.

This so-called dragon slayer existence does not exist today, and only exists in historical textbooks and legends.

"But, what did the legendary dragon do near such a city?"

"I think so, maybe the dragon just misunderstood. Well, you often go to the forest, you have to consider it even though it's "Long" (TL: Chinese Dragon)."

When He said that, Boss laughed with a smile.

Unlike Dragons, "Long" is a type of demonic beast.

His strength was not as strong as a dragon, and his intelligence was low, but it was an enormous threat to humans.

His strength was definitely one of the highest in the demon beast category.

Of course, no matter how I think about it, I can't win.

"I understand. I'll be careful."

I thanked the Boss and went home to go to Shisho's place.

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Nozomu went home, prepared his sword, and headed for his master's hut.

He used minimal clothing from the skin of a demonic beast that did not obstruct movement, knives and pouches attached to the belt, a set of grooming tools such as potions in a pouch, a smoke-screens ball, a ball of sound, and a set of treatment tools such as potions in a pouch, and ball filling in. .

As the name suggests, the smokescreen ball produces a smokescreen, and the sound ball emits a very loud sound, and hopefully the weak monsters can be repulsed. Finally, a deep ball of charge. This was a thing that shot out thunder comparable to top-tier magic around the area that was thrown, and the price was also high.

Because He had extremely low basic abilities, and the number of times he could use powerful Qi techniques was limited due to his Ability Suppression, so he bought it just in case.

Even if the effect of the strengthening item that affected him was suppressed in this way, the power of the item that did not depend on his own abilities was not suppressed, so he always carried it while going to the forest.

On the way to Shino's hut, the fog came out, so she sped up a little.

The fog gradually became thicker and could not see even 1 meter away.

"It's bad."

Nozomu muttered, and when he saw the compass he had was not pointing in a certain direction, he turned around.

"What does this mean."

There were indeed many demonic beasts in this forest, but they did not possess any characteristics that would drive the compass crazy.

When He felt impatient with the abnormal situation, He took a deep breath and became calm, and looked around again.

The trees were overgrown and he could use them to hide, but it was not a place where he could rest in peace.

"Is it inevitable to stay here for now?"

For a while it was necessary to secure a safe place, so he took a walk marking the passing tree with a knife so as not to get lost.

After a while, he seemed to pass through the forest, the trees were gone, and he arrived in the open.

It seemed that the fog was gradually starting to disappear.

As he felt relieved, the scenery around him suddenly became distorted.

"Eh?"

The next moment, he stood in a strange place.

Surrounded by mountains, it was a barren land as far as the eye could see.

Obviously not around Arcazam.

A huge shadow covered her confused self.

As he wondered what was going on, Nozomu became speechless.

A huge black object covered half of the sky.

It has 6 large wings with 5 colors and flaps firmly.

It has jet-black scales, and its depth seems to symbolize the years it has been through.

His eyes hugged the darkness of the abyss and looked at the tiny man on the ground.

It was all the embodiment of despair.

"Dragon King Tiamat"

A perverted dragon among the feared heretics who even ate dragons of the same race.

It was a legendary dragon that disappeared from the ground over 5,000 years ago.

Nozomu stood up with a surprised expression.

He could not understand the current situation.

If you think about it normally, no matter how many demonic beasts appear, it does not matter, you would never think of meeting a legendary dragon right before your eyes and nose in the city where you live.

He was puzzled, but in truth, this space was a tentative world between the real world and the spirit world (where the spirits lived), made to seal Tiamat using the continental veins.

However, Tiamat possessed extremely powerful strength, resulting in the world's limited strength temporarily becoming fluctuating.

Fluctuations passed through the ley line, and because the ley line was connected, it was probably connected to somewhere on the continent and made a path.

The path that Tiamat traveled was much smaller, but most creatures like humans could pass through it.

Nozomu passed by without knowing the way and came to this finite world.

Tiamat faced Nozomu. In his eyes was the pure joy of finding his prey for the first time in a long time. As the jet-black dragon folded its wings, it descended directly towards Nozomu. Nozomu enveloped his entire body with Qi, kicked the ground, and directly left the place.

Immediately after, Tiamat descended with a roaring sound.

The weight of the dragon and the impact of the fall caused the ground to rise and scatter with shock waves.

Nozomu was struck by a shock wave, crashed, and slammed into the ground.

There were no visible injuries as he took a defensive position instantly, but there were injuries in some places due to scattered stones and broken stones.

He immediately decided to withdraw.

He threw all the smokescreen balls he had and fled into the forest at full speed among the smokescreens he had produced.

He thought that if he hid in the forest trees, he would have more time to escape.

However, the idea is too good to be true.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

As he ran between the smokescreens, all the smokescreens disappeared with a tremendous roar.

Not only that, he was again struck by a shock wave that hit.

Looking at Tiamat, he did not move at all, it seemed like just a simple roar and the accompanying shockwave had shattered all the smokescreens.

When Nozomu was stunned, Tiamat opened his mouth wide, and a huge black flame gathered in his mouth.

Black flames were chaotic with various colors mixed.

Nozomu's alarm bells instinctively started ringing to the maximum and pulled his feet as fast as possible.

A huge flame that was exhaled passed through it at the last minute and landed in the forest.

The next moment, the voice disappeared from the world.

When he realized it, he was flying in the sky.

Swimming in the air for the first time in his life, It felt very unreal, but a few seconds later, the impact hit the ground forcing his consciousness to return to reality.

Check the body injured by the fall, remove the herbs from the bag, and drink.

While feeling the healing potion healing his body, He looked at the forest and the surrounding area and became speechless.

The forest is completely burned.

At the point of impact, there was a crater that seemed to be large enough for Solminati Academy to enter, and its existence had disappeared completely.

The trees around the crater had been blown off course and turned carbon without retaining their original shape, probably from burning up in an instant.

The nearly unburned trees were all uprooted by the shockwave.

Looking back at Tiamat with a shocked expression, the jet-black dragon spread out five six-colored wings.

A colorless photosphere in five countless colors is created in the wings.

"Magic spirit"

Magic used by spirit species summoning world powers. Unlike other spells used by non-spirit species. The spirit magic, which did not require a process that plagued the outside world, was activated the moment he decided to use the spell, allowing for an incredible rush compared to other spells.

Countless photospheres were heading towards him while giving off a trail of light. His numbers were uncountable and filled most of his views.

Nozomu cut through the photosphere with his katana while retreating with all his might, but he was easily swallowed up by the hordes of light in an excessively large amount.

Still, he fought back with all his might to avoid a fatal injury.

When the rain of light stopped, there was Nozomu, piercing the entire body.

He took some herbs and drank them at once.

"Guuuu!"

He looked at Tiamat who was slowly approaching him while groaning as the potion healed his body forcibly.

It is impossible to escape if you see the state of the forest.

The forest that hid it burned to the ground, even if he could hide, it would be blown up all at once again.

He had only one choice, and the battle of despair began.

"Uhhhhhhhhh ………….."

It had been more than ten minutes since the battle began.

No, it's not a battle.

A battle was only possible if there were enemies, but for a jet-black dragon, such a thing was not in front of him.

Nozomu is just his toy relieving his boredom.

The jet-black dragon could kill Nozomu in the blink of an eye, but to the dragon, this was not a battle but a game.

Just like a cat playing with a mouse.

However, for that reason, Nozomu survived these ten immortal minutes.

However, there was only despair waiting outside of it.

He could not even injure the scales with all-out slashes and Qi techniques he fired without thinking ahead.

Even if he avoided Tiamat's swinging arm, he would be blown away by the shockwave.

It is impossible to escape due to circumstances.

There was no tool in the hand that could pierce through the scales of a dragon.

He was running out of energy, and the physical reinforcement with the Qi technique had almost reached its limit.

In a situation of walking on a rope, the limit finally came. He did not know how many times, but the impact of being blown by the wind and crashing into the ground left his body numb. The Qi effect has expired. He swallowed the last potion with trembling hands and managed to get up.

Tiamat raised his hand like a tower again to Nozomu.

Nozomu could not avoid strengthening his arm with the Qi technique.

In the face of inevitable death, Nozomu remembered what he had done like a spinning lantern.

In a vague awareness, a magic lantern ran in front of such a desperate situation, and He looked back at his own past.

His parents smile in his hometown.

They are good parents.

They say nothing to her for wanting to support Lisa, and although their lives are not good, they send her to school.

She meets Lisa and falls in love at first sight.

"In hindsight, it was my first love, it was said your first love would not come true, but did it really happen?"

At that moment, he confessed, and one day he was able to convey his feelings.

But in the end……….

She wants to support Lisa's dream. With that oath in his heart, he knocked on the door of Solminati Academy with just that thought.

"I want to support Lisa's dream. I hope so. but still…"

Abilities and values do not grow as expected, impatience is asked, and although he struggles, his path is closed due to the manifestation of the suppression of abilities.

Lisa suddenly says goodbye and she is isolated from the school.

"I ... bad, why, why .. I wonder why she didn't tell me anything …"

His heart is still wounded to this day.

He wondered if his existence was a big deal to him.

He meets Shish, and a hint of light appears.

"i'm glad to see Shish. She's a wild woman, but she's obviously a good person."

It was a terrible training day, but he definitely thought about it.

Originally, He wanted to ignore her, but he helped her while complaining of being attacked by a Wild Dog.

When he thought about it now, he could go back to his old self.

To himself when He laughs and is angry honestly.

The next moment, a shock struck him, erasing his memories with his consciousness.

Tiamat's arm reached the ground in front of Nozomu. After which, he was thrown and rolled around on the ground unsightly.

Tiamat clearly played. His expression looked amused and posed no threat at all.

Tiamat opened his mouth wide. Chaotic flames gathered inside. Is it tired of playing with him, or trying to see how much his tolerance is?

After all, he had no way to fight now.

"Congratio, Aguje …"

Nozomu had already raised an indescribable voice and stared at the flames.

Barely aware, he could no longer even think about the past.

The magic lantern had passed, and only a dense, cold sign of death wrapped around it.

"Dead"

He faced the density of death and became stiff.

"Dead"

It's more like a "death" than when one person is attacked by a Wild Dog in the woods.

"I don't want it"

He barely had the ability to think clearly, and developed his instinctive thinking.

"I don't want to die"

It becomes a strong thirst to live and burns the last life in him.

“I don't want to give up”

This was a manifestation of the strong desire for life that Shino had ever seen.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

The next moment, he bellowed crazily and roared at the gigantic dragon toying with his life.

Nozomu stepped towards Tiamat with a roar that burned his last life. Its speed was so fast that it was hard to believe that it was a dying human.

However, it was slower than when it fully recovered, and the flames were released without being able to get close to Tiamat by half the distance.

"Slow"

Nozomu's mind was focused solely on eliminating the threat in front of him for life. His extreme concentration expanded his time senses many times over. In it, he was frustrated with his slow movements.

“Why am I so slow!!”

With this, the huge death flame that was approaching in front of him was unavoidable.

When He saw his body, suddenly a chain he had never seen before bound him.

"Is it because of this!!"

He was sure that this chain was his shackle and touched this chain to tear it apart.

If you think about it normally, you can't easily tear the chain apart. However, he was confident that he would break the chain for some reason.

"That's on the way... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

He pulled the chain forcefully and the chain broke with a crumbling sound.

The next moment, he sped up in an instant and passed through the huge flames.

Tiamat lost his sight for a moment due to too much acceleration.

Nozomu put all his energy into this opportunity.

Currently his body and blood vitality had yet to recover, but his body had instantly reacted to his thoughts.

His physical abilities clearly surged above the current state of full recovery.

He pulled out a katana while running. Send his energy to the drawn sword.

It greatly suppressed the energy he sent. Pulling out the katana with his screaming fighting spirit.

Qi Technique "Phantom"

The Qi, which was thinner and sharper than hair, flew at the same speed as the unsheathed sword. He cut both of Tiamat's eyes with a single slash.

Tiamat roared and raised his neck in response to an unthinkable counterattack.

"Phantom" is a simple technique that fires a slash with a compressed ki from its blade, but it is difficult to see a highly compressed ki, it flies at the same speed as a high-speed unsheathed sword, and if it is within 10 meters, it is very difficult to avoid because it lands almost instantly.

Moreover, this extremely compressed Qi was a technique with an extremely high killing ability, there was no denying that it was difficult to defend against whether it was a steel shield or a magic barrier when it landed in either direction.

However, since the Qi urgently needed to be suppressed, it would need to prepare for half a second to several seconds, and in a situation surrounded by many enemies, it would open a huge gap.

As he rushed towards, Tiamat raised his front leg and slammed it into the ground many times.

The large front legs hit the ground repeatedly, and each time the ground shook, causing local earthquakes.

Nozomu hurriedly let loose and moved away from the front foot in the last minutes, but was overwhelmed by the shockwave.

He can't move like that. However, the next moment, the ground collapsed, and a gigantic Tiamat entered the hole.

Apparently, Tiamat had stepped through the underground cavity.

Tiamat tried to get out, but was unsuccessful because his eyes were closed.

Nozomu took out all the items in the pouch while closing the gap with Tiamat, and threw something at his head.

It was a ball of sound thrown. It exploded near Tiamat's face, causing a powerful sound to reverberate around him.

Tiamat, who was hit by the ball of sound directly from close range, shifted his gaze for a moment and slowed down.

If this was a spirit, it would not be too affected.

Although the dragon is a type of spirit species, it has a physical body despite being a collection of elements, and has aspects as a living being.

Because they use physical sensations, they can be affected by unexpected circumstances that can be lost or confused.

Of course, dragons are a spirit species even though they are easily influenced by physics. While wearing the paranormal sensation he deserved, Tiamat, who had too much power was unable to sustain most of his reasoning, therefore was completely bewildered by a series of unlikely situations.

Tiamat completely stopped his movements. Nozomu rushed to Tiamat at full speed.

The goal is the dragon's neck. The reason he was aiming for his neck was because he was not sure he could break the dragon's skull.

Dragons have a physical body. In other words, if the body can be killed, it can be killed.

The important thing is to kill his body.

However, it was not easy as the dragon itself had an extremely powerful body.

Nozomu jumped towards the dragon's raised neck. Point attention to the katana to be drawn again, and press it firmly. He drew his sword and his sword flickered.

The "Phantom" Qi technique cut through the scales in Tiamat's throat, and the compressed Qi exploded inside. The erupting Qi shook the pitch-black scales from within, revealing its soft skin.

Next, Nozomu's pursuit is unleashed.

Qi Technique "Phantom - Repetition-"

Repeated punches were released as if tracing the trajectory without any notice appearing before.

The punch pierced through Tiamat's neck deeply, and a large amount of blood spurted out like hot water.

However, normally, even if it received a fatal injury, it was not enough to defeat the jet-black dragon.

Nozomu used the momentum of the counter-punch to make one full turn.

Combine the rotational force and jumping momentum to penetrate the wound on the neck that has just been torn.

The sword pierced through the neck of the giant dragon deeply, and the blade passed through his throat and reached near his brain stem, but hung in the air with the sword he stabbed as a crutch.

"Gugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

However, the dragon still did not fall.

An earth-shaking roar resounded, and raged to drive away Nozomu.

The sword was buried within the flesh and could not be pushed or pulled. If nothing was done, it would be shaken and a bloody red flower would bloom on the ground.

Nozomu squeezed out his last strength and grabbed the pouch on his waist.

The last remaining depth charge ball is ejected.

He struck it into the sword blade with all his might.

The next moment, thunder struck out with a dazzling light. Thunder, which was comparable to top-tier magic, pierced through the sword and neck nerves and burned the dragon's cranial nerve cells.

But the thunder also burned his body and completely robbed him of his remaining strength.

The gigantic body of the dragon collapsed and was thrown out. The dragon's body moved slightly, but its eyes no longer had the brilliance of life.

Finally, the giant dragon collapsed and became particles of light, soaring like a tsunami.

Nozomu could no longer think of the light particles soaring into the sky, he was just watching.

He was full of wounds, had limbs, but nowhere was safe.

Finally, when particles of light gathered in the sky above him, they fell towards him furiously.

Out of bounds and unable to move, he was engulfed by the looming light currents and lost consciousness.

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Nozomu's consciousness woke up slowly.

His consciousness in a dream reminded him of the battle with Tiamat.

Severe pain engulfed his entire body as he forcibly lifted his upper body, and as he looked around, he was in the forest on the outskirts of the city.

"Without realizing..come back."

In an incomprehensible situation, the pain radiating throughout the body told him that the previous battle was not a dream.

"By the way, for Shisho ………"

He had no idea how conscious he was, but it was not a good idea to stay here.

Judging that, Nozomu forcefully moved his ailing body and headed towards Shino's hut in a faint consciousness.

He did not even realize that he had become a "Dragon Killer" that there were only a few people in history …