In a World Filled with Deserts, an Old Man with Electronic Money

It's big.

It's huge.

"I can't count your necks."

"But you're not moving."

"If you move, it would be dangerous to get close. I'm glad Marilyn found out."

"Taro, I don't lie."

Marilyn, the Spirit of the Sea, just moved to Gori Town to relocate the Temple, but soon afterwards she moved to defeat the Water Dragon.

Suddenly we couldn't win the battle, so first we scouted the water dragon out of Gori Town and in the center of the dead sea from afar.

Everyone is looking at a water dragon with binoculars they bought from Netshopping.

"Is it made of water...."

"Almost salt water. There's a core somewhere in that giant, and that's how we collect the water and form the body."

"Do you make the sea water that forms the ocean a part of your body?

In that case, it seems very difficult to defeat...

After all, the water dragon is sitting with a lid on the point where a lot of water springs out.

It may be a weakness to be unable to move, but being infinitely resilient is not an exaggeration.

And to compensate for that disadvantage, the water dragon had countless necks.

There were no legs, the torso was shaped like a platform on the neck, and it had a pretty special shape when it came to dragons.

Even though it is almost made of water, how about this sand beast?

It's like that.

"I see. Can't Aisha or I do any damage?"

"I guess so. The water can't be slashed with a sword, and the damage is zero even if you poke it."

The water dragon is made of seawater that the core can freely control.

If you chop off a lot of necks, you'll soon have a new neck in your torso.

"We have to destroy the core."

Moreover, the core lies at the deepest end of the body, which supplies seawater, the material of the neck.

Naturally, if you want to destroy the core, the necks will get in the way, and even if you chop off your neck, you will soon have a neck from your huge and heavy torso.

It's like having infinite resilience.

"Mr. Tallow, you can't do that, can you?

It's no use.

So, dissolution.

I will also try to point the multi-purpose truck unimog that I bought in Netshopping to scout the dead bottom of the sea towards the moving city.

"There's a way!

"I can't, that's right."

The infinitely growing neck is filled with seawater that gushes out of the infinitely fed ground.

How do we destroy the core?

It's impossible.

"The water dragon has its limits! Infinite resilience is a lie!

"What do you mean?

"Label, Aisha. I'm just attacking and chopping off a few heads!

"I hope so....."

"It doesn't make any sense, does it? That's fine."

Marilyn asked me to fight the water dragon for a try, and Label and Aisha stepped out of the unimog and ran toward the target at full speed.

That's over 600 levels, over 400 levels.

They slashed the water dragon as fast as a wind.

We observe the situation with binoculars.

"Here we go!

"Oooh!

The label cuts off with a sword, dodging an attack from the neck of a water dragon as if it were dancing.

Aisha also repeated the precise continuous thrust on the neck, chopping off the neck of the water dragon one after the other.

"If you drop your neck on the ground, it won't stink anymore, and you'll soon have a new neck."

"Master Marilyn, I don't think I can do it. The part of the torso has certainly become smaller after the neck is recovered, but it is immediately sucked up from the basement and recovered. That's what Taro thinks, isn't it?

That's right.

It's true that Fleur's analysis was correct, but I was only concerned about one thing.

So I'll ask Marilyn about it.

"Doesn't the water dragon get any bigger? Or can't you be?

If you can suck water out of the ground, the water dragon should grow forever.

But not doing so could mean that the water dragon can't grow any bigger.

"That's the right answer. The water dragon is a very contradictory beast made of sea water, but it also possesses the properties of a beast. Sandbeards basically don't like water."

"You're a sandbag made of water, but you don't like water?

Mu challenged Marilyn's remarks.

"Because sandbeards are creatures, a minimum of water is essential. But for sandbags, more water than necessary is harmful. That's why the water dragon is blocking the place where the water springs out."

That's why sandbags are the most prosperous in this great dessert.

Marilyn says the water dragon is at its limit.

Instead of getting any bigger, they're dying as creatures, so they're stopping the ocean from resurrecting.

"One more thing, water dragons can't live without salt."

Water dragons consist of salt water, not water.

The salinity is almost the same as that of seawater, and it is said that if the salinity decreases, it will still die.

"Does that mean you can knock down a lot of water?

"That's right, water dragons aren't stupid either. Naturally, I have a safety factor."

It seems that if it does not exceed three times its current volume, it will not die of excessive moisture and low salinity.

"What if the body of a water dragon is over-salted? If you can't live, there's a way to hit the salt, right?

I see.

That's what you did.

That's right, Mu says new ideas faster than we realize.

"If it's salt, it'll drain it out of your body, so I can't."

"I can't... but it's impossible? Let's get La Label and Aisha out of here. Hey, Mr. Tallow."

Labels and Aisha are still fighting water dragons, but they can't cut off as many necks as they want.

The salt water that made up the neck was staining the ground and the scaffolding became worse.

We should evacuate both of them.

I fired a rocket fireworks I bought in Netshopping and gave instructions to retreat.

"Mr. Tallow, do you have any ideas?

Hmm...

Water dragons consist of salt water at the same concentration as seawater.

What brings together salt water is the core deep in the torso.

Destroy the core and the water dragon dies because it can't sustain itself.

The amount of salt water that the core can hold is limited, beyond which the water dragon will collapse.

This is because even if it is made of water, the water dragon is a sand beast and more water than necessary is poisonous.

The label and Aisha were still dropping the neck of the water dragon one after the other, but as the fallen neck seeped into the rock, the water dragon immediately sucked water from the ground to maintain its size.

"Marilyn, is the water that the water dragon is sucking up from the ground seawater?

"No. It's normal water."

"What? Well, how do we maintain the salinity of the water that makes up our body?

If you were sucking up fresh water to recover the lost salt water, it would soon reduce salinity and be a fatal injury to your water dragon.

"The rock around here is salt. When the sea water evaporated, salt remained."

Ancient civilizations collected the water needed for a fully ambient fusion reactor, but did not collect intrusive salt.

As the sea water decreased, the salt concentration of the sea water increased like that of the Dead Sea, and finally the water evaporated and remained as rock salt on the spot.

The water dragon uses it to save salt.

"There's no gap....."

Looking through the binoculars for any hints, the labels were just about to begin retreating as I instructed.

When I watched the situation with my binoculars, I noticed one thing.

The neck that fell to the ground after being chopped off was a reservoir of water, but from the largest reservoir of water, the neck resurrected and hit the label again.

"Label!"

I shouted because it was an unexpected ambush, but even if I didn't have to worry, the label anticipated it, avoided the attack, and slashed it again with a sword, sprinkling water and knocking it down.

"Marilyn, is the cut and split sea water alive for a while?

"If the core binds, the water will be alive for a while. I can't do anything if I get soaked in the ground."

I see.

Is that why the neck of the water dragon grew again from the large reservoir?

If it soaks the ground, the water dies, but if it remains as a reservoir, it tries to act as much as possible.

It's not dead yet?

"If it's about the amount of water that's been cut off and separated, it's not that dangerous. Mr La Label dealt with it at his leisure. And if you think that separated water mass is in the amount of water that the core can hold, then maybe my ice magic can handle it."

The neck of the water dragon is frozen with the magic of Mu, and Aisha chops off the label.

Since the ice is still alive, it enters the breakdown of the amount of water that the core can hold, but it is not a combat force because it is frozen and separated.

Is it difficult to merge with the main unit because it is ice?

"The body may gradually lose weight and destroy the core."

"Oh, that's no good."

"Why?

"Because the sea water doesn't freeze. To be precise, salt is drained when it freezes."

When salt enters the water, it won't freeze.

No, if the temperature drops considerably, it freezes, but at that time, the salt is discharged as ions, so the fresh water only freezes.

"Marilyn, the salted water is going to die, right?

"Of course."

In other words, even if you only freeze the water, the water dragon quickly pumps water from the ground and recovers immediately.

Salt emitted when ice is formed is also effectively reused, meaning that the water dragon is no damage.

"I didn't know. That's Mr. Tallow."

I'm glad to remember what the teacher said in science class a long time ago.

"The way of thinking is not bad. If you make lots of independent living water masses and make the body lose weight....."

It appears that the core cannot be discarded if the saline mass meets the survival conditions.

If there is a limit to the amount of water we can hold, if we create a lot of salt water that is alive but not helpful in stopping our attack, the body will weaken.

"But you can't freeze it, can you? Can it be an independent mass other than freezing water?

"... I can. You'll be fine with that."

"Like when you defeated Nothing, you use what you bought in Online Shopping again."

That's what I'm talking about.

So far, Label and Aisha came back, and I proposed a plan to defeat the water dragon with them.