I Regressed to My Ruined Family – 33

 #I returned, and my family was ruined (34)

The energy contained in the whip-like black magic was tremendous. Only a black magician of at least the fifth rank could display such power.

However, compared to the power contained within, the black magician’s control over it was very immature.

“What is this?”

It was like watching a clumsy knight who had only taken a bunch of potions and was trying to show off.

After vibrating the essence of fire.

He swung his great sword between the joints of the whip. Even among the massive black magic power, that was a weak point.

The whip was cut in half in one blow.

“What… what is this?”

The black magician Girsten looked confused.

Since he had begun training in black magic in earnest, no one had been able to easily withstand his black magic.

Even skilled knights of the fifth rank, who could use mana as freely as water, were no exception.

Even a whip that had hunted down skilled knights was cut in half by someone who seemed to be using only a small amount of mana?

He was flustered.

Meanwhile, Ethan rushed toward the black magician.

“Darkness as black as pitch, protect me!”

Girsten urgently chanted. A spherical object appeared around his body.

It was clearly a solid defensive spell.

However, it was not without flaws.

“He really is a novice.”

He only knows how to strike with force, but he doesn’t know how to use his power delicately. A guy like this is actually easy to deal with.

Heat began to gather at the tip of his broadsword.

Seeing this, Girsten laughed hollowly. The mana contained in the sword was truly insignificant.

Even if he did his best, he would only be a second-class knight at best.

He concentrated his strength on his defensive barrier.

The sword stabbed toward him from the front. Black magic gathered there.

“How pathetic.”

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When one concentrated on defending one point, the defense of other parts naturally weakened.

Slightly changing the direction of his attack was not difficult for Ethan.

In an instant, he released the illusion inside his body.

His body became lighter and faster.

He twisted his sword using his body.

He thrust his sword toward the direction where the protective barrier had weakened.

Whoosh!

With a chilling sound, the sword swung and crushed the black sphere.

Chi-i-i-i-i!

Fire energy not only burns enemies, but also contains the power of purification that returns harmful things to nothingness.

Black magic was nothing more than mana tainted with death energy, which amplified its power.

The black magic gradually began to melt away in the concentrated heat.

“Wh-what is this!”

The black mage screamed.

He was clearly using much more black magic than the knight. So why was the protective barrier melting away?

“Help the master!”

He frantically began to control the skeletons.

Clack!

Clack!

The skulls rushed toward Ethan with pickaxes in their hands. Unfortunately for them, Ethan could easily destroy these low-level undead creatures with just his bare hands.

Crack!

With a single punch, the skeleton was reduced to ash.

Crack!

Crack!

Crack!

The number of skeletons rapidly decreased. Girsten was horrified at the sight. The skeletons he had summoned were made from orcs, who were famous for their strong bones.

They weren’t the kind of summoned creatures that would be reduced to dust with a single light punch.

“What kind of monster is this…!”

Soon, the defensive barrier was broken without resistance.

“Guh… Guh!”

The black magician’s body shot up into the sky.

Not only was his neck tightly gripped, but his entire body was immobilized as if sealed.

Girsten’s eyes filled with fear. Ethan, who was staring at the creature, smiled wryly.

Compared to his power, he was really weak.

It was as if he had spent his entire life in a closet reading magic books and was experiencing real combat for the first time.

The black magician’s blood vessels were already completely sealed. Ethan easily subdued him and began to examine his body.

Near the black magician’s heart, there was a spot where energy was concentrated as if it were the core of a monster.

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“It’s confirmed.”

The way the dragon people accumulated energy was exactly the same.

The only difference was that as the dragon people accumulated energy, their hearts themselves gradually changed in a special way.

“That’s what they call the Dragon Heart.”

Dragon Heart.

It refers to the heart that contains the essence of a dragon’s lifetime of training. There was another peculiar thing about the way dragons accumulated power.

“They mixed in the mana breathing technique of humans.”

Humans and the Yongin tribe.

The black mage had trained in a mana breathing technique that combined the strengths of both races.

“That’s amazing.”

In his previous life, there had been no contact between humans and the Yongin tribe.

To humans, the Yongin tribe was an enemy that must be destroyed, and conversely, the Yongin tribe

Because they possessed such immense power, they treated humans as an inferior race and never even attempted to interact with them.

“Of course, there were a few humans who attached themselves to the dragon-kin.”

They were called traitors to humanity.

They too were eventually killed after having some information extracted from them, extending their lives only briefly.

In the end, they were devoured by the Yungin tribe and reduced to nothing more than a meal.

“That’s how it was.”

This life was very different.

The mixed technology of the two tribes right before his eyes was proof of that.

In order to mix the two forms so intricately, there must have been a deep level of technological exchange.

Originally, the dragon tribe had almost no technology to speak of.

With their past changed, their behavior seemed to have changed as well.

Whatever the case, one thing was certain.

“They’re both stuck together.”

The dragon tribe and humans were starting to stick together.

That was it.

Ethan looked at the black mage.

He was very curious as to how this guy had acquired such skills.

“Where did you learn that technique?”

“…”

Even with his throat being squeezed, the black magician did not open his mouth. He immediately grabbed the guy’s fingers and bent them.

Ugh!

“Aaah!”

A chilling sound echoed as the black magician’s scream rang out. “Do you know about the dragon tribe?”

“…”

The moment he spoke, the man’s eyes began to shake violently. It was no different from admitting that he knew.

“If you keep your mouth shut, your body will be torn to pieces like these fingers.”

“Ugh… You… How dare you… Act so arrogantly… You don’t have much time left… Ugh…”

It was at that very moment.

The energy gathered in the monster’s heart began to swell as if it were about to burst.

Judging by its power alone, it was an explosive energy that easily surpassed the mana reserves of a 6th-rank knight.

Ethan grimaced.

“Self-destruction?”

He blocked all the passages near his heart with mana. The explosion range was much smaller than before.

However, he couldn’t stop his heart from bursting.

The speed of the self-destruction was too fast for that.

Bang!

In an instant, the creature’s heart burst. Covered in blood, it collapsed to the ground, still smiling faintly.

“Kuh… The cult… Will last… Forever…”

With its last words mixed with blood, the creature closed its eyes.

“Cult?”

Ethan tilted his head.

The cult.

He had heard that word before.

“Even in my past life, there were crazy people like that.”

A group of psychopaths who were so fascinated by the immense power of the dragon clan that they began to worship them directly.

In a nutshell, it was a kind of cult.

A black magician chanting the name of the cult.

The missing records of the viscount’s domain.

Even a mana breathing technique that combined the technology of dragons and humans.

“This is complicated.”

There were quite a few fragments of information he had obtained from this abandoned mine. He immediately began searching the mine thoroughly.

If this black mage had left any records, he might be able to find a clue to this case.

However, all that remained in the mine were bone fragments turned to ash and black metal. Ethan looked at the metal in the cart.

It was enough to make a great sword.

“Almost all the metal has been mined.”

There was almost no metal left in the abandoned mine. This meant that the black mage had been mining metal here for a very long time.

The metal inside the cart was almost the last remaining metal in the abandoned mine.

He took out the metal and put it in his bag.

The bag swelled up as it absorbed the metal.

“When I return to the viscount’s domain.”

First, I must track down the missing records.

The duke’s domain.

In such a vast territory, there must be more than one black magician who could be called a minion of the dragon tribe.

“Perhaps there are already members of the dragon tribe in the duke’s domain.”

Some members of the dragon tribe were capable of imitating the appearance of humans.

So it wasn’t entirely impossible.

“I’m going to be busy from now on.”

Helmut ignored the man who could be called a minion of the dragon tribe.

His response would differ depending on whether he did so because he didn’t know anything or because he knew.

First, he had to make a broadsword.

He would think about what to do next later.

Ethan escaped from the abandoned mine.

* *

“There will be no more undead in the mine from now on.”

“Thank you, Grand Duke!”

After descending Mount Mitron.

He returned to the village and retrieved the horse he had left behind. He left the small village amid the warm welcome of the villagers.

Now that he had obtained the metal, it was time to forge the sword.

“It won’t be easy.”

He immediately ruled out the blacksmiths in the viscount’s domain.

With his skills, which were limited to working with steel, there was no way he could forge a new metal.

Even if he could forge it, the result would obviously be crude.

“A dwarf would be perfect.”

A race that could forge a new metal as if it were a metal they had worked with last night.

That was the dwarves.

“There were dwarves living in the Puskes Mountains.”

It was the place where he had gone to receive the blessing of fire. Dwarves were living there too.

The only thing that worried him was that they did not seem to have very good feelings toward humans.

“I’ll find out when I get there.”

There was no need to think about it further.

The horse’s head turned toward the Puskes Mountains. After a week-long journey, Ethan arrived at one of the places known to be inhabited by dwarves.

The Iron Rock Mountain.

It was one of the mountains in Puskes.

After carefully searching the area, he found a passage leading underground.

“This is it.”

The entrance to the place where the underground race lived.

He stepped inside.

After walking down a long passageway, he found a place filled with buildings.

They were definitely buildings where dwarves could live.

However, there was no sign of life in the village.

“There are no guards either.”

The outer walls were completely blackened, as if they had never been repaired.

Judging from the traces, it seemed as if the place had been abandoned for more than ten years.

“…What is this? Did they move to a new place?”

He knew of a few other places where dwarves lived, but they were all too far away.

“I have to solve this here.”

Just as he tilted his head in confusion,

he sensed someone nearby.

“Huh? A human?”

He turned around and saw a short old man. It was a dwarf.

“I have a question. Did dwarves used to live here?”

“They did in the past.”

“Did you move away? I’m looking for someone to make something for me, but the village is empty, so I thought I’d ask.”

“Make something? Why are you looking for that here? You’ll probably find it easily in a human city.”

“What do you mean?”

“What do you mean? Everyone left here to make money.”

Ethan tilted his head.

Dwarves are a closed race.

Furthermore, when humans first discovered them, they immediately enslaved them, making them one of the most hostile races toward humans.

The reason Ethan knew where the dwarves lived was because of the dragon tribe that had appeared in his previous life.

Back then, all races had no choice but to unite, and through the cooperation they had no choice but to start, they became comrades who risked their lives for each other, and gradually came to understand the dwarves.

The dwarves, famous for being a closed-off race. Are you saying that such dwarves are living alongside humans?

Ethan looked at the old dwarf.

“…Are there really dwarves in the city?”

“I told you there are. If you pay them well, they’ll gladly take on any job you give them.”

He rummaged around in his pocket and handed him a business card.

[Greston Dwarf Union]

―We welcome job requests at any time!

―Reasonable prices, amazing quality!

―Dwarves are the best at crafting!

“Greston, what’s that? There’s a pretty big human city nearby, right? You can find them there.”

“……”

“Oh, right! When you go there, be sure to tell them that ‘Chechemoora’ referred you! Then I’ll get a referral fee. You can at least do that much, right?”

“……Alright.”

It seemed like I should visit Gresston after all.