Chapter 270

The Scent of the Destruction Dragon

“T, Tower Master…?!”

Association President Aira opened her mouth in surprise.

This was a conference room where the world’s top figures, heads of various national associations, and high Rankers were gathered.

How many people could appear in such a place without any sign?

She, and the other Rankers, too.

They glanced at Sophia, who had suddenly appeared.

It was to catch a glimpse of her, who was always considered one of the world’s strongest.

“Wow, this one’s funny, isn’t she? Calling me Tower Master now? What about when you were all ‘Sage, Sage’?”

“T, that’s…”

Aira was sweating profusely.

‘Did she see?’

It seemed she had seen her searching for Hyper Rankers a bit too aggressively in her excitement.

The Tower Master was the oldest of the world’s Rankers.

‘No, beyond that.’

No matter how much Aira was the president of the World Hunter Association, she was just a firefly in front of the full moon before the Tower Master.

She had to give way by several, no, several hundred moves.

As Aira made a helpless expression, Sophia shook her hands and laughed.

“Hehe, I’m just kidding. Why are you so nervous? Goddess of the Dark Moon Aira, everyone knows that you are working hard for the peace of the world’s hunters. Besides, it’s not like we’re meeting for the first time, right?”

“That’s right. Thank you for seeing it that way.”

“Okay, okay. Then, shall we quickly skip the greetings and grasp the current situation first? Since the situation is what it is.”

Koo-oong!

Sophia, standing in the center of the conference room, took out the staff she was wearing on her waist and slammed it on the floor.

Woo-oong!

“……!”

Then, golden light soared from the staff, and a hologram in the shape of a large TV, about 98 inches in size, appeared.

And inside it.

Kugugugu……!

The movements of a dynamically wriggling monster were vaguely captured.

“Th, that’s……!”

“Is that the monster from this incident?”

“How big is it?”

“Can’t we see it in more detail?”

The conference room instantly became noisy.

It couldn’t be helped.

The main body of the monster, which was difficult to even approach due to the high-intensity earthquake.

The Tower Master was scanning it with just one spell.

It was like piercing through their stuffy chests in one shot.

“The information from the association’s investigation agency is correct.”

The Tower Master opened her mouth.

“It possesses an enormous power that I can’t even dare to estimate with my magic. Moreover, it is awakening its dormant energy more and more, like a bear waking up from hibernation.”

“D, does that mean that this power is not the end?”

“I don’t know exactly. Judging from the circumstances, it will soon reveal its appearance on the earth, so we’ll have to check it out then.”

It was the Tower Master who answered calmly and leisurely.

Tremble, tremble.

Her wrist holding the staff was clearly trembling.

The appearance of a disaster-like monster affected the entire world.

Due to the sense of unease at the level of a world war, the stock market plummeted, and the prices of food and raw materials began to soar.

└ Yucatan monster-induced financial shock! LOL

└ The earthquake is a problem, but so are the prices……. Everyone is buying up physical goods. At this rate, we might starve to death instead of being killed by the monster. Even if I go to the market right now, there’s no food to buy.

└ Isn’t it over if we just catch the monster?

└ That’s right, what are the Rankers doing? Not catching the monster. If they’ve been treated like national guests socially until now, then it’s only natural that they have that much obligation.

└ That’s not the problem. The Tower Master said it at the meeting. It’s a monster of a level that even she can’t dare to estimate the power of.

└ Then is it really the end of the world?

└ Seems like it. In fact, 14 years is a long time to have lasted.

People all over the world trembled.

Doomsday theories spread and the world was shaken, and various pseudo-religions emerged.

Young people who had been building their careers in a sound and honest manner were frustrated.

The crime rate across the country increased rapidly.

If we catch the monster, everything will be resolved!

There was no one who didn’t know that simple fact, but there was no good solution.

The Tower Master declared that it was tough, so who could they blame?

There were the Demon King and Cheonma, but they were not heroes in the first place.

They had no obligation to catch a suddenly appearing doomsday-level monster, and no one could force them to sacrifice themselves.

And, a few days later.

Koo-kwah-gah-gah!

The land in the very center of the Yucatan Peninsula began to split.

No, it would be more accurate to say that it was torn apart rather than split.

The bottom seen through the satellite radar was literally torn apart as if paper had been torn.

At the same time.

“It’s been caught on the satellite!”

The marine expert in the conference room shouted.

“The monster coming out through the bottom is…… uh, a lizard? Ah, no…… that thing with Wings is……!”

He couldn’t continue speaking after seeing the screen projected in the situation room.

Keu-rwa-ra-ra-ra!

The one flapping its Wings with a huge roar was too huge and magnificent to be called a lizard.

“Th, that’s.”

Everyone’s faces turned gray.

Their complexions turned pale.

“……Dragon?”

“A Dragon?”

“Th, that’s a legendary Dragon that has never even appeared in a Dungeon before, isn’t it?!”

That’s right.

There was only one word that could best describe that existence.

Dragon.

It was on a different level from the Dragons that appeared in mass media, comics, and novels.

First of all, the size was absurd.

Usually, when you think of the size of a Dragon, you think of a small mountain in the neighborhood at most? That’s about as far as you could stretch your imagination.

“H, how can a Dragon be visible from a satellite!”

“Isn’t that almost the size of a city?”

“An earthquake was bound to happen with something like that wriggling in the ground!”

“How can we deal with something like that!”

Everyone knew.

Everyone felt it in their skin.

That Dragon is strong.

Not just strong, but really strong to the point of being a doomsday-level threat.

“……This is.”

Tower Master Sophia Silverstone was also flustered.

‘A Dragon?’

Even she, who was ranked 4th in the world, had never seen a real Dragon.

She had only heard of its existence through Delilah.

‘There was a Dragon on this Earth?’

Pah-jweut!

“Keu-heut!”

Along with the sound of Magical power being cut off, Sophia groaned.

This was because the exploration magic was cut off with the appearance of the Dragon.

‘Crazy.’

Other people were also trembling, but the fear she felt was even greater.

As much as she had a high understanding of Magical power, she knew better than anyone how terrible that power was.

She shook her head, stunned.

“Elder.”

Then, she spoke to the elder who had followed her.

“As of this moment, summon all the personnel of the entire Magic Tower! This is not a matter of considering someone’s interests. It’s a matter that could literally determine the end of the Earth!”

Kwah-gah-gah-gah!

At the same time as the Dragon soared into the sky, the earthquake stopped.

There were still aftershocks, but the ground was no longer shaking as before.

However.

Keu-rwa-ra-ra-ra!

The roar of the Dragon, awakened from its sleep, brought a fear greater than death to the survivors nearby.

Kugugu……!

Enjoying the cool breeze that it felt after a long time.

Keu-reureureu……!

The dark brown Dragon roared.

The Dragon’s identity was the Earth Dragon Brias.

Brias, floating in the air, glared at the earth with eyes so ferocious that it sent chills down the spines of those who saw it.

It’s been a while. How long have I been asleep?

Hoo-oong, hoo-ooong!

While continuing to flap its Wings to awaken its sleeping cells, it grasped its physical condition.

Then it realized.

That roughly 66 million years had passed.

Hmm.

A period so long that even a Dragon could not handle it.

There was only one reason why that was possible.

After the last Dragon War, all of its power had been sealed…….

Thanks to that, the aging of its body had been slowed down.

Pshik.

The corners of the Dragon’s mouth went up.

Indeed, in the end…… that’s what happened?

The fact that it was the only being that had survived and was breathing here meant only one thing.

That all the Dragons except for itself had died.

The Earth Dragon liked that.

Dragons are unavoidable beings.

The Dragon’s domain is so vast that it cannot be satisfied even if it contains the entire world.

Only one Dragon must exist in one world.

Because if two or more exist, they are bound to clash.

But.

Kugugugu.

The Earth Dragon’s brow furrowed.

There are still remnants of the Dragon race left in this world?

At the same time, it realized.

Why it had awakened from its sleep.

Why it had stopped its comfortable hibernation and instinctively stood up.

The scent of a Dragon.

This was a survival instinct.

That’s also…… the scent of the Destruction Dragon.

Ah.

Brias shuddered.

What was the Destruction Dragon!

A disaster for the Dragon race, a predator that devoured the Dragons around it the moment it was born.

I almost had a big problem.

An existence called the natural enemy of the Dragon race, even though it was the same Dragon race.

The good thing was that the Destruction Dragon had not been born long ago.

Then it’s a Wyrm…….

Then it was worth a try.

It was the greatest of the Ancient Dragons.

It was also a powerful Dragon that had survived to the end in the Dragon War.

It would be difficult if the Destruction Dragon only reached the Mature Dragon stage, but if it was a Wyrm.

In other words, if it was a hatchling, it would become quite easy.

No matter how powerful a predator it was, a cub that was not protected was weak.

Ki-rwa-ra-ra-ra!

The Dragon that had woken up from its sleep roared ferociously.

At that time.

Keu-rwa-ra-ra!

Vinas, who roared cutely, tore off the head of an ogre with its sharp teeth.

Poo-hwak!

Blood splattered and brain fluid flowed.

Even so, it committed slaughter as if it was having fun.

I could have wiped them out, but I didn’t.

“Good job.”

If it could become a Mature Dragon at a faster rate as much as it destroyed.

It was better for it to eat the experience points if possible.

“Hoo.”

Jeo-beok, jeo-beok.

It had already been a week since I had been walking around the aura of the boss that I felt in the center.

The Dungeon size was even larger than expected.

The traps in various places were quite annoying, and the cave maze was also complicated.

“Hey, how long are you planning to stay here?”

During the week, the Old Man also experienced the power of the Destruction Dragon.

The Wyrm’s body was so hard that it could not be torn by ogre claws.

Dragon Fear was a great area crowd control skill that showed why Dragons were Dragons.

Also, what about the Wyrm language?

It showed a variety of colorful magic that made the effort I put into the spells pale in comparison.

It was a scene that showed why Dragons were called the progenitors of magic.

Arin also said that she had gained many insights from Vinas’s magic.

“Now that you’ve seen enough, shouldn’t we go out? Just looking at the insides of these disgusting lumps of meat is making me feel sick.”

“I want to go out too, but…….”

Unfortunately, there is no way to get out.

After a certain amount of time had passed, the Dungeon entrance itself was blocked.

That means.

“You have to catch the boss quickly to get out.”

That the entrance would only appear if the Dungeon mission itself was cleared.

The actions of the Bada Guild members were frustratingly slow.

“How long are you going to wait for that? Can’t you just catch it?”

“Hey, how can I do that.”

I know the hearts of the weak better than anyone else.

I know how much hard work they must have put in to get the S-class Dungeon bidding rights.

Am I just going to catch the boss and leave because I’m strong?

Isn’t that almost like taking away children’s New Year’s money?

“There are still a lot of guys to eat in various places, aren’t there? Let’s wait a little longer.”

I can feel it with the Supreme Clarity Heart Method.

They are also approaching the boss room soon.

It must have been a pretty difficult Dungeon, but they were stubbornly cooperating and had the reward in sight.

That’s why I waited.

If there was no hope at all, I would have just stepped in and cleaned it up.

Ki-ek, ki-e-ek!

Vinas, who had already finished cleaning up the ogre Legion in the corner, cried out, making a ki-ek sound.

Quickly.

A cry to bring out something more delicious.

And at that moment.

[Someone touches the ‘Two-Headed Statue’!]

[Achieve special conditions!]

[The boss, ‘Twin Head Ogre’ (SS-class), appears inside the Dungeon!]

“Huh?”

I was surprised.

SS-class?

‘If it’s SS-class, it’s on the level of a Constellation’s fragment…….’

The Bada Guild members won’t be able to handle it?

Suddenly.

“Kkyak!”

“Eu-heok!”

“N, no way!”

The screams of the hunters were heard in my ears, which were extremely developed in hearing.

‘Heo.’

This.

I guess I’ll have to step in?

Seueuk.

I turned the direction after putting on the mask that I had taken off because it was stuffy.

Kki-rurururu!

Vinas roared as if it was excited.