The walking dragon son

The dungeon is a mystery unknown even to the gods. The mechanisms that have been explored now indicate that the dungeon is conscious.

Monsters are also part of the dungeon, and their hostility to adventurers and survival instinct are their only consciousness.

However, for some unknown reason, some monsters will become intelligent. And these monsters who gave birth to wisdom are also called "heretics".

These heretics are not accepted by adventurers because of their status as monsters, but they are also hostile to other monsters because they have broken away from the will of the dungeon. They are a species living in a crack.

Of course, their existence is a secret. The person who helped them cover their tracks was the Sage Fels, who was ordered by the great god Ouranos.

Ouranos, who was guarding the dungeon, was the first to learn of the existence of the heretics, and then he began to think about the possibility of humans and monsters coexisting.

The Monster Festival held every year by the Ganesha Familia is to eliminate humans' fear of monsters, and it is a preparation for that purpose.

So in addition to Uranus and Fers, Ganesha may also know some inside information. Of course, there was another person who knew about it, and that was Hermes, who had been cooperating.

The god of fun is really indispensable everywhere.

In the original plot, the heretic caused a major incident and greatly affected the subsequent plot.

That incident had a particularly great impact on the protagonist Bell, and could even be said to be a turning point in his growth.

Before that, although Bell had a dream of becoming the hero in the story, it was very empty.

After experiencing the heretic incident, especially after being accused of being a hypocrite, Bell clarified his heroic path and truly matured.

Of course, it was also in this incident that Bell also met his destined opponent. The heretic of the special black Minotaur, who is fondly called the Cow Girl and the True Heroine, is Asterios who has never forgotten Bell even after reincarnation.

The beginning of the incident was when Bell met and rescued a dragon girl heretic.

Charles didn't know when this dragon girl named Winnie by Bell was born, but now she appeared in front of him.

When Charles and Stella entered the tree maze on the 19th floor, they found a group of people rushing towards them.

Generally speaking, in order to save energy when adventuring in dungeons, you will not advance too fast.

Therefore, the actions of these people were very strange, and the aura that Ciel sensed had a nauseating feeling.

Before the two of them could decide whether to check it out, a petite figure ran out of the woods.

The wounds on her face were still bleeding, and she looked terrified. After seeing Charles and Stella, the expression on his face turned into despair.

She wanted to escape in another direction, but she was exhausted from running all the way, and her feet gave way and she fell to the ground in embarrassment.

Stella thought there was a monster attacking, but she didn't expect it to be such a being who looked like a little girl.

Ciel had been teaching her about the dungeon at this stage, but he hadn't talked about the heretics yet, so she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Char, what's going on?"

Facing Stella's question, Charles sighed and said, "We'll talk about it later, someone else is coming."

As soon as Charles finished speaking, six people emerged from the jungle.

Ciel looked at them and frowned.

Wei Ni's strength is equivalent to LV3. Although I don't know if these people carry magic swords, there is a LV2 archer among them. If I want to kill her, she will not escape.

There is only one reasonable explanation left, and that is that they didn't want to kill Winnie at all. This is not what a normal adventurer would think.

After the six people appeared, they first glanced at Winnie who fell down, with a glimmer of greed in their eyes, and then they looked at Charles and Stella.

The thin man in the head said: "Hey, according to the rules of the dungeon, that guy is our prey, so don't interfere!"

Stella hasn’t figured out the situation yet, but she has already begun to hate the man opposite who speaks so rudely.

Ciel thought about it for a moment, and then said: "You are from the Icarus Familia, right?"

The faces of the six people changed. What they did in the dungeon was not something that could be seen in the light, so they did not carry anything with the clan logo.

But their identities were still recognized, which made them suspicious.

The thin man said with a cold face: "So what? Are you trying to steal our prey?"

The little human behind him pulled him and said, "Hey, he seems to be the Dragon Furnace of the Hephaestus Familia!"

The skinny man's face turned even more ugly. He has no bottom line, so he doesn't mind killing people and silencing them if his actions are exposed.

After all, it's not like they haven't done this before. The monsters in the dungeon will erase all traces.

But the other party turned out to be Dragon Furnace, one of Orario's top adventurers, killing people and silencing them? Don't be kidding, you can't even hit him on the head!

Of course Ciel knew why these people were chasing after them. Although Ikaros is a regular Familia, what he does in private is no different from that of the Dark Familia.

One of them is to capture monsters alive from dungeons and sell them to people other than Orario. After all, monsters are Orario's "specialty".

No matter what world you are in, there are always people with weird quirks. What's more, this is a world with backward civilization.

With those people as the source, there will naturally be dirty deals.

After all, those people would capture even humans as slaves, not to mention monsters who are originally on the opposite side.

The Icarus Familia is particularly special. Its leader is Dix, the descendant of the Daedalus clan.

The way to poach monsters and resell them outside of Orario is the man-made maze built by the Daedalus family.

Not only poaching, but also many activities of the dark faction are facilitated by the Daedalus family because they need to raise funds.

Last time, Ciel teamed up with the Loki Familia to sweep away the dark sects and fallen fairies hidden in the man-made labyrinth of Kronos.

But after all, it was a huge building that the Daedalus family had built for tens of thousands of years to compare with the underground city. Therefore, I have not been able to completely conquer the man-made maze until now.

Especially in the areas controlled by the Daedalus family themselves, the progress of conquering them is very slow. So their dark dealings are still going on.

Only people from the Icarus Familia would think of catching monsters alive at this time, because living monsters are much more valuable to them than magic stones.

Ciel is not such a holy mother, and will pity monsters who are irrational and are natural enemies of humans.

But heretics are different. They have joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, and can communicate with others. They will not actively make enemies of humans, they just want to live well. Their souls are the same as humans.

But Dix regarded them as more valuable commodities, and even used the pleasure of torturing them to relieve his own blood curse.

Under the leadership of Dix, you can imagine what the people of the Icarus family are like. No wonder the smell I felt before was so disgusting.

So Charles raised his eyelids and said: "No more nonsense, just... get out of here!"

The thin man wanted to say something else, but was stopped by his companion.

"We'll leave right away, and I'll give this prey to you!"

With a smile, the cat-human adventurer pulled his captain and walked away.

When Charles was completely out of sight, the slender man said: "Is this just the way to take this breath?"

The cat-man adventurer said: "Of course not, but we can't defeat that dragon furnace. Let's go back to find Dix."

Charles could guess what these people were thinking, but he just didn't care.

Looking back, Charles looked at Winnie who fell to the ground.

Stella had already walked in front of her, but Winnie was so frightened that she backed away.

Stella smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. My name is Stella, what's your name?"

Winnie looked at the smile on Stella's face and clearly felt the difference between her and those before.

So she tilted her head and looked at Stella, and said like a child learning to talk: "Stella? Name?"

Stella's eyes became gentler and she said, "Yes, Stella is my name. Don't you have a name?"

Looking at this heartwarming scene in front of him, Charles couldn't help but feel as if he and Stella had picked up a daughter.

Stella turned around and said: "Char, let's give her a name!"

Ciel nodded and said: "Vini, her name comes from the fairy Velonia with wings of light in the fairy tale of this world."

"Winnie! Winnie!"

Repeating the name repeatedly, the dragon girl showed a cheerful smile.