Surviving as a Knight in a Trash Game

Chapter 194

In Agnitus' lair, about five Gray Demons had swarmed in. The creatures, which looked to be about stage 5, seemed to have come to catch Agnitus.

“Are they trying to catch a dragon?”

Even so, they were the strongest creatures on this continent, and even a Grand Master would have difficulty imagining fighting a dragon, yet based on the data they had collected, the calculation was that five Gray Demons could subdue an elder dragon-grade dragon.

Karl was momentarily curious.

“Milen.”

“Yes?”

“Do you also know them?”

“The monsters that humans call Gray Demons?”

“Yes.”

“I do know them?”

A very faint smile was drawn on Karl’s usually expressionless face.

“Aren’t you curious?”

“About what?”

“About how much a dragon can handle them.”

“I am curious. How would I know?”

Karl did not answer Milen’s question. He just stared at her blankly. She momentarily raised her finger and pointed at herself.

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“I’m a Green Dragon, which is said to be weak among dragons?”

“Still, a dragon is a dragon.”

“Uh… I heard that the elder dragons said to avoid a direct confrontation with those gray monsters?”

“If it comes to that, I’ll help you, so don’t worry.”

“…”

The reason she had chosen a female form and had come to Karl was not because she wanted a picture like this.

“Are you really going?”

Nod.

When Karl nodded his head again, Milen, with an expression close to tears, slowly moved her steps towards the Gray Demon.

Swoooosh.

The gray-shaped monsters all raised their heads towards her as she walked. Their whole bodies were covered as if in armor, and their gray-colored faces and eyes, molded like gray plaster statues, fixed their gazes on Milen, and the five of them simultaneously threw themselves at her.

As was known from before, the gray monster transformed its own body, making its right arm into a giant sword, and then swung its arm at her from all directions.

Kwaaaang!

Milen, I don't know when she had made it, but she formed a green defensive barrier to block their attacks and scattered sharp blades of wind in all directions.

The magic was so strong that it was on a different level from what an ordinary person could create, and the casting speed was so fast that the moment she gestured, the wind began to hit the Gray Demons fiercely.

“Kieeeeeek!”

The characteristic screeching sound of metal scraping was heard, and one Gray Demon, whose torso had been pierced by the high-density compressed wind, threw its whole body at her in a self-destruct attack. Even if its torso was pierced, the creatures' functions did not stop.

It meant that their functions would only stop if they were at least cut in half or their heads were blown off.

This time, Milen created a giant blade of wind and showered it towards the Gray Demon. The dozens of giant blades of wind, which looked threatening at a glance, did not inflict any particular damage on the Gray Demon.

The Gray Demon that had collided with the blade of wind only rolled a few times and tumbled on the ground.

This time, Milen flicked her finger and created a very small flame. Karl, who saw the small blue flame, knew at a glance that the fire was not ordinary.

The moment she teleported among the Gray Demons and attached the flame that bloomed on her finger to the torso of one of the monsters, the fire instantly changed into a giant flame and began to melt the Gray Demon.

“Gurrrrrrrr.”

The Gray Demons that saw one of their comrades being taken down began to make a strange crying sound. They instantly dug into Milen's side and, without giving her time to cast a defensive barrier, drove a sword into her side.

Milen, who was flustered by the surprise attack that was much faster than before, quickly twisted her body, but she couldn't completely block the sword from grazing her side.

At the same time, the swords that flew towards her back and neck were also barely blocked and dodged with a barrier and evasion, but she couldn't completely block the attacks.

‘Why did it get faster?’

She too was flustered by the sudden movements of the Gray Demon and was facing a crisis several times while using magic continuously. It was more difficult now with four than when there were five.

Karl, who was watching the situation from a distance, was deducing one fact as he watched the movements of the Gray Demon.

‘These things can’t use aura.’

The gray Gray Demon from last time had used aura, but these things couldn’t utilize it. The attack patterns and styles of the four Gray Demons that had survived and were fighting Milen were different.

‘Each individual is independent.’

Although they looked the same, it meant that those four had different independent structures.

And they all learned differently. That meant that there were some that grew fast and some that grew slow. Catching the one that used aura last time was an excellent choice. It meant that if that creature had grown, it was unknown how big it would have become.

‘It means that these things are growing somewhere.’

The reason why the generated Gray Demons did not attack immediately. And the reason why these things came to catch the dragon might be. To learn something else through them.

‘I’ll have to catch them.’

It was unknown what kind of data the ones that survived here would collect and share. I didn't know yet if they shared knowledge, but if such things were possible, it could become a bigger disaster.

Karl instantly threw himself and showered a wave of golden aura towards the Gray Demon. The five that had come here, who had not learned aura and had not grown much yet, were quickly dealt with by the joint attack of Karl and Milen.

Perhaps if Agnitus had been there, he would have dealt with the five that came here quickly.

‘Perhaps they will have the data that five of them cannot subdue an elder dragon. It’s clear that they can’t share through the dead ones.’

I don’t know what would have happened if one of them had survived, but what was certain was that the dead ones would not be able to transmit information. If the Gray Demon that used aura had been alive, wouldn’t that information have been shared?

“Didn’t you move a little too late?”

Milen looked at Karl with a resentful eye while treating her injuries here and there.

“You’ll have to face them alone in the future, so I thought you needed experience.”

“…Really?”

Her face, which had been showing a slightly resentful expression until just a moment ago, instantly relaxed. Although she had become an adult dragon, she still had a pure taste like a child, as if she were mentally less mature.

“Let’s wait for Agnitus here.”

Karl, who had settled in Agnitus' cave, took out various things needed for camping from his subspace and then began to cook on the spot.

From prepared meat to various spices, so many things were prepared that it could be said that there was nothing missing.

Bubble, bubble.

By the time the aroma of the boiling stew covered the inside of the cave, Milen was waiting with sparkling eyes for Karl to serve her the food.

During the time she had come here with Karl, there had been nothing among the food he had made that was not delicious. And there were even several tastes she was trying for the first time.

What should I say, the sweet and salty taste was amazing.

Karl, who was in the middle of finishing the food, looked at Milen, who was holding a spoon and looking at him with sparkling eyes, and for a moment, he was reminded of the dog he had at home.

‘Like a pet.’

Come to think of it, since she was also a dragon, it seemed it would be fine to see her as a pet dragon. Karl dished out a large portion of food into a large pot, not a normal bowl, and handed it to her.

“Thank you for the food!”

Milen, who had picked up a portion that would be enough for five normal adult men, greedily pushed the food into her mouth.

“It looks delicious. Would it be alright if I joined you?”

From behind Milen, who was in the middle of gobbling down the food, a handsome man with red hair appeared, I don’t know when he had arrived.

Karl silently dished out the stew into a bowl and handed it to the red-haired man. The man naturally took out a chair from his subspace, sat down, and slowly scooped the stew and pushed it into his mouth.

Chew, chew.

The handsome red-haired man, Agnitus, who was eating the stew while carefully savoring the taste, nodded his head vigorously.

“It’s really delicious. You’re very good at cooking, you are?”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

Karl, who was watching the two of them eating the stew deliciously, took a little for himself and sat down. In front of him, what looked like pork was seasoned with spices including pepper, skewered, and being grilled over a fire.

By the time the smell of the well-cooked meat on the crackling firewood spread through the cave, Karl handed the skewers to the two dragons.

Chew, chew.

“This is also really delicious!”

“It really is.”

The two dragons, with faces more impressed than a human, diligently tore into the skewers Karl had handed them.

“Perhaps… is there a little more?”

The elder dragon Agnitus, who was called the flame dragon and was the elder of the Red Dragon clan, showed the skewer he had finished eating and smiled awkwardly.

Karl, who found that appearance quite funny, took out more ingredients from his subspace and made more skewers.

“There’s plenty, so eat as much as you want.”

A moment later, dozens of pork belly skewers were cooking in the fire around the firewood.

And the two dragons really didn’t stop and endlessly ate the skewers.

“Well, humph… I didn’t think you’d be coming for a while, so what brings you here? Even bringing the green kid. Are you planning to get married or something? Then I can serve as a witness as an elder.”

At Agnitus' remark, Milen’s face turned red, and she lowered her head deeply. It seemed she was willing to do so at any time if she had the chance. Karl, without caring about such a reaction, opened his mouth with an expressionless face.

“I think you also know about it, the Gray Demon.”

“Hmm, I was just talking about that at the dragon council meeting.”

“They came here too. A total of five.”

“Are you saying they were targeting me?”

“It seemed so. With five of them, I thought it would be possible to definitely send Milen here off. It seemed difficult for you even if ten came, though.”

The strength of Agnitus that Karl saw again was so great that it could be said to be otherworldly. He was an elder dragon, and an elder dragon of the Red Dragon clan, which was said to be the strongest in battle.

Because Agnitus was a dragon who was evaluated as possibly being the strongest in the history of the Red Dragon clan, he was not an easy opponent even for the current Karl, who had grown much stronger than before.

“By the way, you’ve become unbelievably strong. Now I can’t even be sure.”

“I don’t think it’s that much.”

“No, now I really don’t know. A monstrous growth rate. Anyway. So what’s the reason you came?”

“Would you believe me if I said I came to ask for help?”

Agnitus made a strange expression.

The question of what he would do if a human asked for help, which had come up at the dragon council meeting, had come sooner than he had thought.

“Dragons do not interfere in human affairs.”

“I don’t think it can be called a human affair. Isn’t it something that the dragons already know? That those things are things that have never been seen anywhere.”

Agnitus and the other dragons already knew the part Karl had mentioned.

“If you leave them be, in the end, whether it’s dragons, humans, or all the other races, they will all be devoured. You wouldn't want that, would you?”

Karl’s story was by the book. The problem was the stubborn Lord.

“It’s more complicated than you think. Persuading the Lord is not an easy task.”

“I just saw that the Gray Demon seems to be starting a dragon hunt. Wouldn’t that be a good reason?”

Agnitus fell into thought for a moment. Dragons being hunted. Dragons were individual beings. And when they became adult dragons, they all prepared their own lairs and lived there.

It was rare for them to interact with others, and they would only see each other's faces at the dragon council meeting.

“It might be a more dangerous situation than I thought.”

As Karl said, if they were to proceed with a dragon hunt, there was a high probability that the dragons would be taken down before they could even gather.

It was a moment when a communication system and countermeasures were needed.

“We’ll have to go together. It might be possible if it’s you.”

With those short words, Agnitus suddenly cast a teleportation spell. The moment Karl’s vision went slightly dark, he had arrived in another cave.

And there stood a man with a picturesque appearance, with blond hair and blue eyes.