Thunder Dragon Festival
Leon woke up to a delicate hand stroking his hair.
Something warm and soft was supporting his head.
“Lord, lord?”
Veronica’s bewildered voice was heard in front of him.
“Isn’t he imprisoned?”
“Yes, yes?”
The first thing that came to mind when Leon woke up was that he had punched a hole in the ceiling of Aios.
Looking at the unique furniture made of metal, it seemed that Leon was still in Aios, but bright light was pouring in from the window.
For the miners, they dug the underground equivalent of a sanctuary, and, although not installed by Leon, drilled a large hole in the ceiling of Aios in the process of dismantling the strategic weapon ‘Heart of the Earth Dragon’.
Although there were no direct casualties by calculating a safe trajectory with the help of Dice, many miners must have been suffering from direct sunlight.
Even if Leon is imprisoned right now, there is nothing to say.
Nevertheless, Leon woke up here, somewhere in Aios.
Only then did Leon recognize what he was cutting.
Veronica was giving her thighs to Leon, who was sleeping.
“No, hey, this one, the owner seems uncomfortable, so I really have no special intentions…”
“I’m sorry, can I stay like this for a moment?”
“Yes?”
“It’s been a really long time since I slept deeply. I feel at peace. I want to rest like this a little longer…”
Leon looked up at Veronica’s face and saw her face turning red in the shadows.
“Can’t…?”
“My body and mind are all yours. Please use it whenever you feel comfortable.”
Leon cut Veronica’s thigh like that and closed her eyes to organize her thoughts.
There must be one reason why Leon wasn’t imprisoned.
‘Princess Ailee used her hand.’
He must have defended Leon by securing evidence that they were trying to destroy Aios by capturing the Dark Miners that Leon suppressed.
All of Dragon Heart’s magic power was absorbed and neutralized by Raging Blast, but nonetheless, the mana crystals and empty seats that had been exhausted would remain.
That alone would be enough evidence that Leon protected Aios.
Leon opened his closed eyes and asked.
“Where are Isaac and Tina?”
“I attended the IOS conference room right now. The rulers of Aios and Princess Ailee were having a meeting, so I needed a servant to represent the master.”
Leon sighed heavily at those words.
Isaac and Tina’s performance is obviously excellent, but their horses aren’t that great.
Whether this event would be good or bad for Leon could change greatly depending on what was going on in the big conference room.
In order to lead the conversation going back and forth in the big conference room, I would have to carry a heavy body right now, but Leon did not move.
After all, Isaac and Tina were bridesmaids.
Those who are in charge of the contents of that meeting will be the people in power of Aios and Princess Ailee.
And Leon lined up Princess Ailee.
If Princess Ailee also wants to be with Leon, this was a great opportunity to confirm her true feelings.
If you are hostile to Leon, you will be blamed,
If you don’t take it too seriously, you’ll take away the merits of this case.
If Leon is regarded as an equal partner, he will at least give him a fair price for his achievements.
Leon saw Princess Ailee’s pity for the people, and decided that it was not a pretense.
Being such a princess Ailee, she will not extort Leon’s merits.
I wanted to believe so.
If it wasn’t, he would complain that he had no eyes for people and would only add one name to the list of enemies.
“Right now, I just want to rest.”
Maybe it was because of the side effect of overdosing the mana potion, my head was dull and it was difficult to continue thinking.
Leon buried his head in Veronica’s thigh, calming his weary spirit once more.
* * *
A festival was held in Aios.
It’s kind of an improvement.
Usually, the triumphal ceremony was a festival to welcome the heroes who returned from the war after leaving the territory, so it might be a little presumptuous to call it a triumphal ceremony, but the atmosphere was not much different from that.
The festival, called Thunder Dragon Festival, was held on a sunny night.
This was because, thanks to Leon drilling a large hole in the ceiling, the miners who had been working day and night had no choice but to stop all work and only work at night.
Nevertheless, the perception of the minors towards Leon was not so bad.
It was because Princess Ailee had properly negotiated with those in power in Aios.
There is a reason why the miners who worshiped the earth dragon named it Thunder Dragon rather than Jiryongje as the name of the festival to celebrate the victory.
As night fell, a huge holographic image appeared in the dark sky of Aios.
Young Leon and Leon, who entered battle mode, crossed each other and posed for a pose.
In order to secure evidence of this dispatch mission, it seemed that Veronica bought a magic projector with the salary she had received so far and secretly filmed it.
In other words, the Thunder Dragon of the Thunder Dragon was an expression referring to Leon.
The image of a descendant of a thunder dragon was overlaid on Leon, a dragon of a dragon race wearing lightning, meaning that he is a friend of the Miners who are descendants of the earth dragon.
Of course, the Yongin people were born by a kind of magical mutation rather than a genetic factor, but there were no minors who paid attention to such trivial things.
I just want to enjoy the joy of overcoming the crisis by getting out of long labor right now.
Although most of the hubs in Aios collapsed and almost all traffic was blocked, the authorities in Aios nevertheless held this festival to reassure citizens that the crisis had already receded.
“···Sorry. Leon.”
And next to Leon, who was walking through the festival, was Princess Ailee with a gloomy expression on her face.
“I hope the prisoners will escape. It is all my responsibility.”
As this incident began, the Dark Miners that Leon suppressed escaped from prison.
The existence of the prisoners itself could be evidence that they were aiming for Aios in the Demon Realm, but not a single one of them had disappeared.
However, Leon had no intention of blaming Princess Ailee.
‘The reason they succeeded in escaping is not because Princess Ailee made a mistake.’
The iron bars of the prison were destroyed from the outside.
In the first place, the prisoners had no ability to escape on their own because they were handcuffed with artifacts that obstruct the flow of Aurors and lighted incense candles that confuse the circle’s mana.
‘Perhaps there is a spy in Aios.’
It is not only the Dark Miners who are dissatisfied with the treatment of the Miners, who have gone crazy with their magic reaching their brains.
Among sane miners, there must be crazy people with a mindset similar to that of a dark miner.
But there was no time for Leon to pay attention to that.
“It’s okay if you don’t feel so sorry. sister. That was unavoidable. Most of all, thank you for defending me while I was losing my mind.”
“That is normal. Actually, you solved this case by yourself. If it weren’t for you, not only the miners, but also the sons of powerful nobles who were dispatched as subjugation units and myself, would have been buried alive here and died. So I am more grateful. So if you want something, just say it. I’m going to shoot everything tonight.”
“really?”
Leon asked with a smile on his innocent face, pretending to be surprised.
At that cute look, Ailee’s face melted.
Of course, Tina, who was watching all the sights from the side, had her face turned blue as if she had witnessed something terrifying.
Leon immediately grabbed the yakitori that was sold nearby.
Grilled skewers were usually close to cheap junk food sold on the street.
At that sight, Ailee smiled happily once again.
“Will it be like that? You can eat something more expensive.”
“no. i like this For me, yakitori is the taste of a smile. When I eat yakitori, I can still vividly remember the smile my mother gave me while eating it.”
With those words, Ailee could barely remember Leon’s past.
It was at the age of 10 that Leon first revealed his deeds to the world at a friendly contest.
Until then, there were no records at all.
That’s right, it’s impossible to imagine just looking at his cute and genius abilities, but Leon was isolated from the world just because he was a bastard and lived in an attic.
It was amazing how a child like this could come out of such a barren environment, but thinking about the treatment Leon must have been through up to now, I felt sober.
However, Ailee shook off that feeling and smiled brighter and picked up the yakitori.
“Then I should try one. This will make the yakitori more flavorful. My smile will also be buried in those memories.”
At those words, Leon was able to put on a smile that naturally flowed out.
Ailee, who was once again captivated by that expression, was dyeing her face red without realizing that the sauce from the yakitori was dripping down and getting her hands dirty.
* * *
A tunnel was dug.
The miners who recovered their energy through the four-day festival restored the herb in earnest and restored their way back to the ground.
In fact, it didn’t matter if Leon went back to the ground through the large hole he had drilled in the ceiling, but due to the side effect of overusing the mana potion, he decided to rest until the tunnel was opened.
And there were 7 miners by Leon’s side as he left Aios.
In the first place, the reason Princess Ailee dared to leave the Philo Kingdom and come to this distant land was to make a technical agreement with Miner.
Currently, most of Philo Kingdom’s war materials are dependent on Aios’ exports.
He thought that it would be a good opportunity to reverse the current unfavorable war situation if only the miners of Aios could be invited to the Philo Kingdom to learn the skills of the miners.
In the end, even those in power who learned that they were aiming for Aios in the Demon Realm could not refuse the help of the alliance that Princess Ailee offered.
Of course, not only Princess Ailee of the Philo Kingdom, but also many countries such as the Millennium Empire Ibrium and the Holy Empire Saint Lane requested an alliance with Aios, but it was entirely Leon’s feat that was able to overcome this crisis.
The hero who saved Aios, the mining city, from the demonic beast, Leon Farostel.
If there was any country that Aios, which had been neutral from all countries so far, would form an alliance with, it would be the Philo Kingdom, the country of Leon’s origin.
No, at least for the power of Aios, there was no choice but to do so.
It was impossible to imagine that the miners dissatisfied with the mining city would attach themselves to the demonic realm and launch a sabotage operation.
It also meant that the dissatisfaction of the citizens of Aios had reached its limit, so the authorities had no choice but to pay attention to the citizens.
So, what Princess Ailee suggested was a thunderbolt system where workers could take a break, and Leon completely became a friend of the miners.
The miners were proud of the fact that they were the descendants of the Earth Dragon, and Leon, who was not ashamed of the name of the Thunder Dragon, was something the miners wanted to get close to.
Naturally, from the standpoint of those in power in Aios, they had no choice but to form an alliance with Leon, that is, the Philo Kingdom, supported by citizens.
In commemoration of her achievement, Princess Ailee entrusted Leon with some of the minor engineers who had been dispatched to the Philo Kingdom for a technical agreement.
‘You’ve got a good worker.’