Mining City Aios
After Leon’s visit, Arya started attending the academy again.
The only difference from before is that Arya has begun to distance herself from Leon.
What Leon said to Arya.
the word to dream.
Ironically, if Arya wanted to achieve that, she had no choice but to distance herself from Leon for now.
‘But only now.’
Arya raised her hand and stroked her chest.
Four circles felt inside.
Leon passed on to Arya, the fruit of the courage to act.
Right now, it’s only 4 circles at most, but as she gradually increases her courage, and if her influence grows to the point where she can’t give instructions to Arya, it was clear that her dream would come true someday.
Leon is still moving forward on a long road ahead, but one day he will be able to catch up and walk the same path.
For that dream, I could endure it now.
Arya’s movement had a huge impact on the airflow around Leon.
The never-blooming snowflake and the nobleman of dawn.
The only boy Arya Rothbane allowed to sit next to him.
None of the students knew that there was an unusual atmosphere between the two of them.
Therefore, even the female students who were very interested in Leon could not approach Leon beyond a certain distance.
However, after Arya Rothbane was absent from the academy for several days, she moved away from Leon.
Naturally, the girls saw it as an opportunity and started a fierce competition to win the heart of Leon, who had risen to power in the academy.
This didn’t just happen because Leon was handsome.
Not all female students in the academy are the same, but the majority of them were not really interested in learning magic or swordsmanship.
There is one reason why women enter the academy.
Because it was done by the family.
The Academy is a place of networking where the descendants of noble families who are proficient in magic and swordsmanship gather.
The children of noble families are being used by the family to make a better relationship with the family.
Of course, it’s a story from Leon’s point of view, who has lived in a democratic society.
Arranged marriage was a story of nothing special in the social class.
There are children who consider it their mission to take care of themselves and associate with people of higher power and honor, and actively sell themselves over.
From such people’s point of view, the dragons who inherited the blood of dragons, the principal’s disciple who has a strong influence in the magical sciences, and the son of the Marquis Parostel family, Leon, was a wonderful cynic.
Of course, the fact that her mother is a low-key could be a flaw, but even taking that into account, Leon was famous throughout the country to the point that it was enough to make a difference.
The disturbance of the Duke Sirius family, who had warned him not to get close to Leon, had disappeared, so now was the perfect opportunity to win Leon’s heart.
Is it because of that?
A familiar scent filled the room.
The demand for shampoo, conditioner, and body wash, which Leon had entrusted to Mary, increased sharply, and sales began to explode.
Leon’s desk was filled with countless gifts and notes calling him to a rare place, and day after day he received calls from a girl he didn’t know well and went out to hear confessions.
Naturally, Leon did not accept the confession of any of them.
I was also embarrassed because I never dreamed that a day like this would come to me, and above all, I had no intention of dating at the age of 11.
Above all, as always, there was no time to be dating Leon.
While training magic and martial arts, at the same time, while receiving training to improve the performance of Dice, and receiving huge subsidies from Mary, Vincent and Vincent developed Pure Potions, from research to improving mana potions to developing artifacts…
The days went by so quickly that I couldn’t even tell how time passed.
“master. A request has arrived from the family.”
And Leon thought that he had finally come.
When I opened the letter Veronica sent out and checked it, it was about a kind of dispatch mission.
Ayos, a mining town in the northern part of the Philo Kingdom.
The dwarf sub-race, who lives in the mines, said that a problem had arisen for the miners.
‘I must receive this mission.’
* * *
Leon remembered this mission.
Even at that time, some of the children of the Marquis Parostel family were dispatched, and they lost their lives.
The gist of the mission was simple.
In Aios, the city of miners, a number of monsters began to spring up from the mines and started to disrupt the work, so they asked for help from neighboring countries.
The Minor sub-race was a very unique race.
Aside from the appearance of a child even when grown into an adult, the average lifespan of 800 years and the appetite for eating metals.
However, the reason they are considered important to the Philo Kingdom, a human nation, is probably because of their value as a blacksmith.
Miners eat minerals.
To be precise, it can eat minerals and extract and spit out only metals, and thanks to these characteristics, rare metals were easily picked up and used for mining.
By using such characteristics for a long time, metallurgical technology was naturally developed, and more than half of the metal weapons that people use today were items produced and discharged by miners.
And the demon world knew it well.
So they formed a dungeon in the mining city where they live, and the mine collapsed, causing many miners to die.
Suddenly, the production of weapons fell to less than half.
Naturally, the number of weapons decreased, and the war became increasingly unfavorable due to the rapid increase in price, and with the destruction of the mining city as an opportunity, the demon realm quickly gained victory.
However, as long as he knew such a future, Leo had no intention of keeping an eye on it.
Above all, Leon personally wanted to form a close relationship with Miner.
As I said earlier, the miners were blacksmiths with great metallurgical skills.
‘Maybe this opportunity can come up with a good weapon.’
Leon accepted the dispatch mission from the family.
Fortunately, the academy was soon getting ready for summer vacation, and Leon was able to go to work without having to pay a leave of absence.
Thus, Leon was able to arrive at the mining city of Aios with only three people, Isaac, Tina Maple, and Veronica.
“Hey, that’s spectacular.”
Of course, it is a sight that has never been seen in a previous life.
The mining city of Aios was destroyed in the 1012th year of the imperial calendar.
The first time Leon came out of the family before returning was in the 1014th year of the imperial calendar.
In the first place, the only foreign country Leon went to before returning was the Demon Realm.
The majesty of the mining town, which I had only heard of in words, was truly a spectacle that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
The entrance, carved entirely from a huge mountain, was overwhelming like the entrance to purgatory, and at the top of the entrance was a stone statue of an Earth Dragon, an earth dragon, symbolizing the minority of the sub-race, with its huge jaws wide open.
And the smoke spewing out of the mouth must have been caused by the underground steelmaking work.
“That’s right, it’s a place where the miners live.”
At Leon’s admiration, Tina said with a dissatisfied expression.
Reeves are a peace-loving race.
Because he was famous for not having a good relationship with the miners who made a lot of weapons and used war as a means of business.
Of course, it was ironic that even Tina, who made a career as a knight, inherited Reeves’ habit and considered Miner negatively.
Even if it’s not just that, the image of the minors wasn’t very good, so it’s natural if it’s natural.
Of course, the appearance of their diet of minerals meant that they felt alien to the other races, whose main nutrients were carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
That is why they often gave their nicknames negative names such as moles and earthworms because they are a race that eats dirt.
Of course, the miners used to claim that they were descendants of the Earth Dragon.
Except for the miners, there was one more creature that used minerals as a staple food, and that was the Earth Dragon, the Earth Dragon, which swam freely in the ground.
In fact, Miners had scales resembling earth dragons, but that did not prove that Miners were descendants of earth dragons.
Naturally, their argument was not accepted and only a negative image was added.
They are bluffs who claim to be descendants of dragons.
But Leon knows.
The fact that you have to do well when you have it so you don’t regret it.
They are a dirty race that usually eats dirt. Even though they slandered them as bluffs, when the mining city was destroyed, they tried all kinds of flattery to recruit the surviving miners from numerous countries and cities.
However, the miners had long since lost their affection for other races that slandered them, and the few surviving miners in the collapsed mining town had been scattered and completely disappeared from the world.
Leon, remembering the scene, warned Tina.
“I won’t say what you hate Minor. But even if you enter a mining town, it’s hard to take that attitude. Because I purposely went out on a mission to a distant land in order to build a friendly relationship with Miner. So tell me now. If you don’t like this mission, I’ll arrange another wagon and send it back to the royal road.”
At Leon’s cold words, Tina shrugged her neck and gave a frightened expression.
“I’m sorry. I won’t do that in the future. Please take me too.”
Leon shook his head only after seeing Tina like that.
And the wagon entered the tunnel leading to the mining town.
It is about 20 meters wide and several hundred meters high.
A tunnel of such an overwhelming size continued for several kilometers.
The pillars supporting the ceiling were minimal, but as the entire wall of the tunnel was covered with a special alloy, it did not feel weak at all.
Thousands of wagons were busily coming and going under the tunnel.
A lot of armor and weapons were loaded and moved to the battlefield.
Even looking at Leon’s eyes, they were unbelievably excellent quality weapons.
But what was even more surprising was the fact that, despite the excellent quality, every wagon going in and out of the tunnel was full of such weapons.
Not only was the quality excellent, but the production was also quite high.
And the carriage on which Leon rode was able to enter the underworld so huge that the end could not be seen properly.
It was a city where steam spurted from here and there, and the sound of hitting iron resonated nonstop.
High-rise buildings made of metal, which is rare in this world, form skyscrapers layer by layer, supporting the ceiling like columns, and in between, complex metal bridges like a spider’s web were intertwined.
And the appearance of the miners going back and forth between them.
Each of the dwarfs, who looked only like children, had white hair and red pupils.
like albino.
Perhaps it has something to do with the reason why the miners dare to build cities in this kind of land.
This congenital mutation, called albino or albinism, has poor eyesight and lacks melanin, making it vulnerable to UV rays.
The reason why they are called the cursed children of darkness because they can’t keep their pulse under the sun.
On the other hand, the reason for its small size is probably because a small body is more advantageous in a cramped mine.
Of course, if the body is small, the strength may be weakened, but in fact, the miners were famous for being strong, just like the warriors who learned the martial arts even if they did not.
They were born with a body structure that could produce great power with few muscles, and the dragon scales sprouting from their whole body acted as an exoskeleton, helping their thin skeleton not to break easily.
While observing such miners, a small guard dressed in armor and weapons approached.
“How did you get here?”
“This time, I asked for help from the mining city of Aios, and I was dispatched from the Parostel family. My name is Leon Farostel.”
When Leon took out the badge and showed it to him, he politely bowed his head and said:
“It was. Thank you for coming here for our ios. All those who have come to subjugate the monsters are gathered in the plaza over there, so I will guide you there.”
At the place where they were escorted like that, there were a lot of people in costume waiting with a lot of flags.
There is no leader who curses the miners behind the scenes but doesn’t know the usefulness of the miners’ abilities.
Naturally, not only the Parostel Marquis family of the Philo Kingdom, but also numerous countries and numerous families dispatched a subjugation force to help Miners.
People’s eyes were drawn to the sight of Isaac holding out a flag bearing the seal of the Marquis family of Parostel.
‘A seal of the Marquis Parostel family?’
‘The seventh, eighth, and ninth places are gathered over there, and who else is coming?’
‘Leon Farostel! The Yongin people are here!’
The atmosphere of the square becomes cluttered at the word of the Yongin people.
The subjugation team, who looked down on their appearance and looked down on them as children, began to get nervous about the appearance of a strong competitor.
However, there were people who were interested in the appearance of Leon like that.
“Nice to meet you. Sir Leon. I’ve always heard a lot from Master. My name is Ailee Philost.”
A girl with the flag of the Kingdom of Philo on the badge that should have the family seal on it.
It was the appearance of Ailee Philost, who is also famous as the second princess of the Philo Kingdom and a direct disciple of Rebecca Meredith, the commander of the Guards.