I roamed around for a few hours, walking past many fallen Dragons. It appears that the atmosphere is still the same here even after 4 years.

The aftermath of the Nuclear explosion made this place almost unhabitable. It's a wasteland, but fortunately, I'm at the edge of the affected area, under the protection of the red skies.

I must find Sisisaya and stop him from attacking the Baphomet's military group. With the small amount of Magic that I have, I found him using [Spatial Investigation].

He's behind the mountain, which means he's at the crater.

I followed him for 10 days straight, walking and walking until I reached the mountains. This place was extremely huge, but all you could see was a barren wasteland.

Upon arriving at the crater, which used to be the biggest home to Dragons, I realized that I still haven't burnt even under the sun. Is it because of my cloak?

Nonetheless, I continued searching for Sisisaya.

The Shark told me their location, so naturally, I began heading there as well, since Sisisaya is also approaching them.

I could just detonate a [Foot] to catch up, but I feel that I could reach him before he reaches the soldiers.

The Dragons here aren't humanoid, or looking like humans, but rather, tall, monstrous, and gigantic reptiles that leaves massive footprints, or craters every step.

I'd say that the Demons destroying them was justified, but it's kind of annoying having to fix up their mess, preventing the damage from reaching Earth, and stopping the greatest Dragons to become extinct.

"One step at a time... How irritating..."

A Dragon who appeared as a human stood before me as I was walking through.

It's been 5 weeks since I left the crater. The Baphomet's military group has already captured a few dragons, meanwhile I only walked around in circles trying to find out where they were at.

I'm still chasing that mushroom but I should get a dragon too, right?

"Ah... Hatred... Human..."

"Sorry to bother, I'm from the land of man. The demons caused this, so I'll help you guys out and take you to a habitable place."

"Come then... My kind suffered... We hide... Is in a cave..."

I followed him to a cave after a bit more talking. The cave wasn't very deep, most of it has collapsed already and barely anything was holding it from caving in again.

A large group of dragons who looked like humans were hiding, along with an imposter...

"Yahahahahah!! Knnn!!! Get e' bread befo' all thy loaves encaptured!!"

A Catfolk dwelled among the Dragons. Worst of all, she had Divine Intervention from Hreamlea 4 years ago.

I thought the Baphomet took the gun but it seems that some wanderer managed to find it after our fight.

"Kee!! I am thee! We are all!!"

And all the Dragons knelt down to show their gratitude.

The supply of bread that "Tov-Yeua" had, was passed down to the Dragons with the intention to feed everyone, but with food so little, they could barely feed a family, let alone 50 Dragons.

"Yonder mountains, see how they wind pass about, when all hell is clear, but thee faith remaine?"

She had long black hair, a tail, and the ears of a cat. 3 eyes were written over each of her limbs. Her stats were pretty low, nothing standing out, since everything was on the same level.

"B-balance..!!?"

And that's when I realized the truth.

She wasn't evil or good, but rather neutral. Completely opposite from all, since she stood at the middle, divided from everything, yet connected with all.

"Meow! Youe, a saviour perhaps? But we do not need the external to help the internal, for we are thine souls."

"I-I'm here to get the Dragons to a safe place, s-so they can live..."

"They ay souls, they do nay yield to such unnacompanying. Yu' who hay showed when they never, yu' do not have the right given!!"

Tov-Yeua... How is she... How is she so goddamn beautiful?!!!

She stood in front of me. Her smile shined not physically, giving me slight reminiscence of the Baphomet when she ran before me with that psychotic look on her face.

Her position gave the appearance of an angel, giving out salvation to the lost souls.

"A-a-ah..!! You are Baphomet, aren't you?!!"

"I'm nay between or beneath, I am simply Salvation! Tru' salvation is simply nonexistent, for yu' cannot live withou' regrets, and happiness."

I felt joy like never. Have I even felt this before?

I wanted to catch her, crush her, take her, eat her, become her.

"What hath happened to you, supposed savior?"

"KKHRHHGUUHAHAHAHAHHK!!!"

I couldn't hold in my laughter. I split the Dragon in half before walking towards Tov-Yeua who was between the crowd of Dragons kneeling down.

"M-my fellows!!"

The Dragons then noticed me and tried to force me out of the cave, but I tore them apart with [Foe Reducer] before they could successfully kick me out.

Once outside, I immediately began running towards the entrance again, but a sudden roar made me stop.

"You cursed soul..!! How could such one do this..?!!"

I looked around and instantly saw a True Dragon flying into me, crushing me between it's jaws. I fell inside it's mouth and into its stomach, where nothing but darkness and acid sat in.

I came back to my senses and realized what happened.

"..."

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Let's think for a moment here. I'm inside a True Dragon after failing my mission to capture, or take Dragons for the Baphomet.

Hmmm... I'm definitely not into people the same gender as me. Why'd I even eliminate those Dragons anyways? Who was she? She had an extremely familiar smell, and the Magical Energy around her has definitely touched me before.

My perfect memory isn't active right now. I've found out a way to disable it by shaking my brain in a specific way. Perhaps I can enable it again by doing the same thing.

After shaking my brain, I searched through my memories and found it.

The strange but familiar Magical Energy surrounding Tov-Yeua is the same type of Magical Energy that surrounded Fiya.

I think I get it now.

There's a spell that attracts people to its user or something?

Well. Now that I know about that, I must find my way back there and accomplish my mission. This Dragon here won't let me out, so I'll have to do something about it.

I began punching a nearby wall, and then the Dragon vomited me out after a while.

"Yawn..! Stretch stretch..."

The Dragon roared at me again, so I grabbed it by the tooth and threw it into the direction of the Baphomet's military group.

[Spatial Investigation] allowed me to see that it has reached my allies safely.

"Hello, Shark. Like my gift? Hehehe. It was pretty easy, but could you please prepare a black cloak for me back there?"

I spoke to the Shark on the radio again.

"Ah! Quite a nice catch you got here! Thanks!! And I'll gladly grab a cloak for you, bye bye!! Good works!!"

After turning it off, I wiped off the strange liquids on my body and began heading back to the cave where Tov-Yeua was at.

She's a cat isn't she? I guess it'll be okay to get rid of her then. Mind-disturbing abilities are pretty annoying, so I need to remove that as well.

I think I kind of get the Baphomet's ways of thinking now.

After 2 days of walking, I found the cave again but this time, it was empty.

What a waste of time. I should've chased Sisisaya instead of her.

Anyways, nothing I can do now. Time to head back to base.

I started walking around again, roaming aimlessly for a few days straight. The air was constantly changing along with the Magical Energy, making searching around with Magic difficult.

Along the way, I found multiple creatures sent here by the Demons. They're not like those humanoid ones, these guys are huge beasts, designed for dealing with bigger monsters.

Demon-beast "Firewalker" in particular, was a strong one and caused some trouble for me by further decreasing the Magical Energy in the air, which made finding my way back almost impossible now.

It's been multiple weeks of walking around now. The fights I had with the Demons only continues to reduce the chances of me getting a better sight of this place.

"Yeah. You've done a good job, Rireith!! I'll treat you some of the finest fish I've found later! For now, come back to us so we can go back home!"

I also found a few Dragons, true or not, I still sent them to my allies when I could see still them.

"Problem is, it's another day of no magic. I can't use any of my pathfinding spells without magic, so I'll be here for a while."

"Haaa... It's an annoying place, I know. Try not to fight too much or you'll reveal yourself to the demons!"

"I've already considered that. I analyzed these monsters and found that they don't have anything that connects to the Demons Realm except for their keys, but none has escaped me so..."

"Still! Be careful! One of our teams got wiped out by one demon! Do you even know how strong we are? For us to get destroyed by just one..."

I heard they use militarized monsters like Salamanders and Pegasuses. It's pretty crazy, but it's not strong enough for Demons like Agares.

The Shark later left the call, so I went back to trying to find them again.

A thick fog has covered the entire place, but I can still see with my skills. I'm now a bit further away from the crater, and closer to the mountains, which has a river just right behind.

I walked over to the river in a few more days, exhausting more time and resources.

"Wow. What a surprise."

The water wasn't red here. Since the skies weren't red, the water shouldn't be cursed as well huh?

I took some water and rested for a while.

Checking my backpack, I couldn't see anything other than ammunition and useless junk. I had eaten the plants and meat while walking around, so now I only have these left.

Veno prepared some blood inside a glass container in case I was low on them, but I accidentally drank those as well.

I dug a hole and made a quick shelter by putting up sticks and leaves over me so I could sleep. It's what I always do at night after cooking animals in a campfire.

It's better to eat them raw, but for moral reasons, I prefer to cook them first.

"Zzz..."

A hard rain hit me, destroying the shelter that I made. This happens a lot too, so I have something else prepared for such.

I had a fishing net, so I can just put it above me and cover it with leaves so the rain won't crush it. I also had foldable metal poles so the wind won't break it.

I couldn't sleep properly now, because of the sound.

After pondering for a while, a fairy came up to me.

I've been wondering why there are various species around here, like this fairy for example. They must be Demons or just curious individuals who came to see what the bright light was all about.

Terui is a huge continent compared to the others, so it has a lot of creatures.

Fun fact, Cvvoer is actually bigger than Earth, with a diameter of around 22,508 km.

"Ummm... Excuse me, random traveller! Do you have edibles?"

The fairy asked me a question, but I was still meditating on the hole that I dug under my shelter.

Meditation was an important part of training, Veno made me carry rocks up a mountain to meditate under a waterfall, which helped improve my abilities in Magic, but eventually I would fall asleep pondering.

Later, I fell asleep as well, sitting on the same position while the fairy continued trying to talk to me.

"Zzz... Snore... Snore..."

"Huh..? ...Heh! What a stupid human! Zeira shall take your edibles then..!! Kikikikiki!!"

The next morning, I woke up to the fresh smell of air after a rain. It was quite pleasant, but I should get going now.

I took my backpack, but what I saw wasn't appealing much.

"U-uu... Hey..."

The fairy from last night was laying on top of a small lake formed by the water which fell into my backpack, because I accidentally left it open before I fell asleep.

There weren't anything to eat though, so the fairy here just got really unlucky. It must've fell in when a raindrop hit it from behind.

"Let me tell you a life lesson, Zeira."

It's name was "Zeira" according to [Blood Panel]. It's pretty weak, I might crush it like an ant if I'm not looking hard enough.

"H-heh..? Zeira still won't appreciate you..!"

"When life gives you an opportunity too good to be true, chances are, it's a trap. A bee doesn't mistake which flower to take from, an ant won't let go the chance to carry the crumbs off the floor, but they also never hesitate to fight the giant higher beings who walk upon them.

"What if they aren't actually mindless, dumb robots who only move on instinct, but rather, they know who places these flowers, they know who dropped these bread crumbs, they seek those who can perform these miracles.

"We aren't much different than them, don't you think so too? We strive to find the gods who drop these trees to us, those who sprinkle some gold on to our land.

"But remember that in the end, they can still take all of these away from us. It's a trial, a challenge, a test, and most will fail. Gluttony and Lust are sins you mustn't fall for, Zeira.

"I forgot the rest, but basically, some things are just not what they seem to be. So be careful next time, don't fight the gods who gave you the fruit, and definitely do not take their fruit which they didn't give to you. The gold that they didn't intend to drop, aren't for you, so do not take it, unless you want to suffer the consequences."

Veno gave me that lesson whenever I took fish from him. I didn't steal actually, but rather, I just forgot to ask. This insanely long lesson he gave me, makes me want to give it to others as well. This is a good situation, so I couldn't resist, because I might just not find another chance again.

Zeira rested, sweating profusely while trying to avoid eye contact. It looks extremely nervous, knowing that it can't do anything besides lay flat inside the space it's in.

It's wings were wet, and now it can't dry up anymore because my backpack is even wetter.

"H-ha... W-w-what might y-you be talking about..? Zeira i-isn't much of an understanding p-person, you know..?

"Do you fear death? Do you fear pain? Well then. Get out of there-"

"What?! Zeira can't even move here!! Let alone fly!!"

Hmmm... I've thought about it. Birds are sometimes used to deliver messages, but they aren't that intelligent so they make mistakes a lot, Fairies on the other hand... They're just like birds, aren't they?

"I just had a wonderful idea! Zeira, can you please help me find some people? There's a woman with a large tail like a shark, so you won't mistake it for sure."

"Zeira cannot move here... What do you expect Zeira to do..? Besides, Zeira will never accept anything from someone who won't even help a poor fairy dying inside a bag."

"Fine. I'll dry you up. How do you want me to do it? Clothing style? Or Hand style?"

"Huh? What does any of those mean? Zeira cannot comprehend your stupidity, human."

The "Clothing style" is twisting to squeeze the water out, and the "Hand style" is shaking until it isn't wet anymore, but of course, why should I tell any of this to it? It's a thief, isn't it?

"Kukuku..! J-just choose one..!"

"You're smiling heinously right now..! But fine... I'll choose the Clothing style or whatever... The Hand style sounds like you'd beat me to a bloody pulp!"

Well. I'm not sure which one is better actually, but if that's it's choice, then I'll gladly do it!

I pick Zeira up and upon closer look, this fairy is a female!

I don't think that matters though, since the results will be the same no matter what gender.