The Foreigner on the Periphery

Hell of Disbelief (14)

“Night has come, Father.” Jochaim looked at the window where darkness fell and then turned his head. At this, the neck of the alien placed on the table began to blink slowly.

“Are you going to spread the nightmare in this city too?”

=········=

The severed head stared at the adoptive sons with a still gaze. “Yes. I know. Was it from the area outside Frankfurt? A strange thing has happened around the city where we are staying. People have begun getting nightmares and committing murders.”

“Ah. It is said that he had a ‘nightmare.’ Could this also have something to do with the miracle of my father’s resurrection?”

Thus, he began to spit out like a prayer. ‘I am immersed in my happiest dream, let it be clouded into a nightmare. So I will sleep.’

The Patriarch still remained silent. “You don’t seem to want to open your mouth yet.”

The other didn’t even deny it. “Please. Please spread your miracles in this city today as you have always have.”

=Are you going to bring Callieter to this place?=

Jochaim did not hide his intentions. “Yes. This is her rare front yard. Even if she was away now, if something like that happened near where her child is, she would have no choice but to put down everything she was doing and come back.”

=You can buy the dragon’s wrath.=

“You still don’t know how dragons think? It’s not because she’s been so passionate about the case that there have been innocent victims. This is because only a few hundred people died from a non-purpose race.”

Nevertheless, there was a reason why Callieter showed a deep interest. “She was simply horrified that a power of unknown origin appeared within her estate. But what if its true identity is revealed? The power from which uncertainty is removed becomes a useful tool from that moment on. Callieter will definitely be interested in ‘us’.”

What Jochaim was aiming for was to take this opportunity to conclude a contract with the dragon in a stronger form. The priest then began to stare at the adoptive father.

“Callieter will protect us. So, heretical judges cannot take you away.”

***

Minjun looked out the window. The chaotic day in Bremanhaven had finally come to an end. The red energy had completely disappeared from the night sky, and a dark blue curtain deemed to replace it.

“The number of pedestrians has also decreased moderately. Shall we leave soon?”

At that moment, his cell phone rang. The caller’s ID revealed it to be Blair. Instead of sending her message magic to the other side of the world, her boss had her secretary do it instead. Minjun clicked his tongue after checking the contents.

– The committee finally approved the heresy judges to jump to Earth. It was about three hours ago. It took a while to get information from Callieter because she was away. You should have arrived at the Frankfurt terminal by now. Their first step to come to this world will be a visit to the parish of the Earth. If so, will the bishop whom Minjun interrogated give them all the information?

‘I will pass it on. If I’m afraid of the voices of the opposition, I’ll secretly shed it. That person’s purpose is to give up the ‘head’ as soon as possible, close the conflict, and then start renegotiating with the main office.’

It was said that it was not long before they would come to this place.

‘I must hurry.’

***

At that time, the prisoners who gathered their opinions were monitoring Minjun’s hotel from a certain distance.

“Huh? I see something!”

The inmate who was watching with white flames in his eyes noticed something unusual and said: He was watching the changes in the spiritual world that would overlap with the real hotel room coordinates.

“It’s a teleport spell. It’s finally moving.”

Everyone began to watch Minjun’s movements in tension. It was then…

Paah!

“What?!”

A violent storm began to sweep through the other dimensional landscape. Fluorescent flames that had been gently inflated suddenly exploded.

This was what Minjun intended. Instead of completing a normal teleport, he roughly began to scrape through his magic power. Naturally, sparks began to splatter like an iron blade hitting a stone.

From the point of view of a wizard who saw the spirit world, a phenomenon occurred where he witnessed lightning strikes in front of his nose with the naked eye.

Violent colors covered the room. The flash was enough to injure the observer’s spiritual eyes. scream. “Aww! my eyes!”

After the afterimage of all colors swept through, the prisoner found the hotel room empty. “Teleport!”

“Track it down!”

Everyone looked at Asif-1,319,552. He was the one who promised that he could be pursued wherever he teleported, except for the Old Dragon, simply by looking into the spirit world.

However…

“······Damn it! Clean, no traces!”

Of course, there was a lot of swearing and sarcasm. The prisoner then began to murmur in bewilderment. “This can’t be happening… is there a unique ability we don’t know about?”

He could not guess that the secret was simply accumulated know-how and concentration over many years. “Find it!”

The prisoners immediately dispersed and began to search the city. Among them, none of them dived to the depths of the sea and searched for them. Thanks to this, the pursuers found traces only after Cathy swam to the bottom of the sea without being detected and disappeared.

It belonged to two people other than Cathy. However, there was soon a problem. “The trail was split in two, both in completely different directions.”

There ended up being two moving traces with hidden magic. “Why don’t you use teleport again?”

It was easy to guess why he had to leave a mark. “You cheeky bastard…!”

Among the pursuers, the prisoner with the shortest identification number went first. In the meantime, the reason the two were split was to divide the pursuers’ power in two.

In other words, it was also a positive sign. No matter how much Asif-666 was, it also meant that it would be burdensome to deal with so many people at once.

“Even so, it’s a shallow waterway.”

The other began to speak quickly. “As long as he comes out like this, it’s a change of plan.”

Instead of waiting for Asif-666 to visit Jochaim, they planned to hit him once and make him confess the information. He said that they should proceed with taking hostages at the same time just in case, and he decided to split the prisoners into two groups.

He didn’t know which one was the real one, so they started with an equal number of people.

It didn’t matter if both were baits. This was because they could take it hostage. However, this seemed unlikely.

‘Considering their personality, I wouldn’t go out alone after sprinkling them both as bait. One of the two companions is hidden by teleporting and the other is used as bait. Not the secretary I worked with for a long time, but the new face that appeared this time is probably the bait. It means that they are capable enough to earn time while escaping.’

“Come on, disperse! Subdue the one who catches the bait and immediately join the other group.”

In his opinion, Asif-666’s plans did not seem to work. How long would it take for the one who chased the prisoner’s bait to finish the job? 5 minutes at most? They virtually had no meaning in distributing power as they only had to return to chasing Asif-666 immediately after suppressing the target.

‘You underestimated us too much.’

***

One trail ran to the east and the other to the west. The prisoners who were chasing the western trail soon found a figure flying through the sky while wearing an invisibility spell.

Ordinary people would not have noticed something passing in the night sky, but they were prisoners. One couldn’t see the details, but they could be sure that there was something flying through the air.

“Sheesh, this is the bait.” The wind results and the afterimage of the spirit world were telltale signs. In addition to this, flight speed was noticeably slower.

The moving trajectory also began to stagger little by little without drawing a straight line. “Asif-666 can’t get tired of it already. He is an unexpectedly cool talent. Attack! Be careful not to die!”

The prisoners then poured out their spells at once. Most of it was to break the barriers and invisibility magic that protected the target. Perhaps Asif-666 had taken action, the veil that had never been easily broken was eventually shattered in a rushing attack.

With this, the concealment collapsed with the sound of something solid breaking. In addition to this, there was the moment when the figure of the object he was pursuing appeared in the night air.

“…Elephant?”

They then saw the unexpected. A huge elephant was flying in the sky. No, it might be more accurate to say that it was slowly falling rather than flying.

“No, not an elephant. That’s…!”

Thud! Kururu!

After leaving the city and flying over the forest, the target eventually fell to the ground. Like a bulldozer, it pushed the earth away, uprooting trees and rolling around.

= Whoa! Ouch! =

Then he saw a being that twisted his heavy body and turned into a muddy body, raising his body. In addition to this, someone said in disbelief, “No way.”

With a voice unsure as to whether it was right to dare to refer to that word… “······Dragon?!”

There were many characteristics of dragons, such as an elongated neck, distinctive scales, horns, wings, and tail. Nevertheless, the reason the pursuers first thought of hippos and elephants was simple. “Where in the world would a dragon be that fat!”

This was because the bulging huge buttocks seen from behind were in a shape that could not even be considered to be a dragon’s.

“But, it’s a real dragon!”

There were no traces of polymorphs. Eyes poured out in tension. The prisoners’ heads were confused. Asif-666 was chasing after a friend who escaped with bait, but why did a dragon appear?

Kuroo!

Prisoners hardened for other reasons. ‘What, who is he?!’

People often felt fear in front of the unknown, but what the inmates now felt was more than that.

What was that, who was it? As a prisoner sent to Earth, it was basic to memorize the personal information of all the dragons inhabiting this planet. However, the opponent in front of him was Chomyeon.

As far as they knew, there was no such dragon on Earth. So, what kind of dragon was it that prisoners did not know?

It was a dragon that hadn’t gone to a dragon meeting yet. Dragons desperately protecting themselves at the racial level and not even revealing their photos, were extremely fragile or had some flaws by their standards.

The dragon had never been out, so only the news that he was born had no way of knowing what he actually looked like. Such dragons were called Hetzling.

‘Hetzling? Then the parents…’

There was no need to roll their heads. This was considering what kind of dragon’s front yard this place was.

‘That’s a Hetzling of Callieter!’

She understood that her same sea dragon genus trait was not well revealed, but that she resembled her husband more. Moreover, there was a bigger problem with the appearance of that dragon than whether it was a sea dragon or a fire dragon.

A dragon covered in fat? There was no dragon like that in the world. It was not normal. However, if it existed…

These conclusions were drawn in the minds of the prisoners. ‘Callieter gave birth to a deformed child!’

It was a dragon with complete immunity to infectious diseases and a stronger body than any other race, but it had its own weaknesses. Anything else, mutations were born with an extremely low probability. A dragon with a lot of pride, even if the children born that way had passed the appropriate age, they were confined only within the Rare and were treated like Hetzling without revealing them to the outside.

Of course, if the prisoners had more knowledge, they would have realized that it wasn’t a deformity, it was 100% pure fat, and there were no obstacles that needed the same level of protection as Hetzling, but unfortunately, there were no experts among them.

“Huh!”

Fear spreads through the air. Some even made the sound of clacking their teeth in fear. It was because the dragon, who had raised his body, looked down at the back of his arm and muttered with a mental wave.

=Ai… are you hurt?=

One of the scales he was looking at was torn off and was rumbling. The dragon muttered as he stared at the place.

=·······Should I call mom?=

“Come on, wait!” The prisoners felt the sky turn yellow. It was the dragon’s duty as stated in the Dragonic Code to bring revenge on those who harmed the dragon without justifiable reason.

Moreover, if the opponent was a Hetzling, they would become quite nervous and paranoid, and such a psychology would be expressed very violently.

Would Callieter, angered by the injury of her child, be concerned about ‘damage to property’?

If this situation was claimed in self-defense, the committee would eventually give up the prisoners after receiving adequate compensation.

“Wait, uh… let’s talk first!”

They realized that this was a ship designed by Asif-666.

‘He’s a scary little boy. The idea of decorating a trap with Hetzling without being prepared to die! If you make a little mistake, you’ll turn the wrath of the old dragon on yourself! No, how did you get it out of the rare in the first place?’

The dragon, who looked at the restless inmates, replied: =What’s the story?=

Ha Eun-seong was surprised inside as the situation went as the agent predicted. It was, of course, Minjun who had torn the scales off.

 ‘I guess I have a talent for acting? Is this really an act of deceit?’

Meanwhile, the prisoners were noticeably relieved when Ha Eun-seong showed signs of responding to the conversation. He also paid attention to the fact that the opponent’s attitude toward the dragon race was not like a dragon. They were simply being.

‘Okay. Malformations are often accompanied by mental retardation. You hackling, you’re pretty damn stupid. If we do well, we will be able to overcome the crisis.’