CH 100

A large flying dragon, about the size of a gantry crane, seated four people per dragon. A belt threaded through the base of their neck and their body like a harness, and a large cushioned floor pillow like a bedding was fixed between the wings.

The dragon flapped aggressively when it took off, but once it rose to the sky, it almost stopped moving with its wings spread out, probably because it was riding the air flow.

Even so, it sometimes flapped its wings to raise the altitude and override the air flow. 

“… Is this the cause of being sick on the flying dragon?”

“Wahaha. It can be pretty unpleasant, right?”

When the flying dragon moved its wings, the connected muscles of its back also undulated. The undulation shook the person riding along with the cushion. It swayed like a small boat overcoming a big wave. Although it didn’t flap its wings very much, it was up to the dragon to move its wings, so it was not unknown when it would come. Unlike the waves that were visible, it was unpredictable.

“Still, the feeling of the wind blowing through and the view overlooking from a high position are way better. Seems like it would be okay.”

“Good to hear that. Don’t let Cain join the Dragon Riders.”

“I won’t join though.” 

There was no way he could join the knight’s order of another country. But it was not uncommon for a commoner, or the second son of a lower aristocrat and lower, to do so.

“Since I heard the term ‘dragon rider’, I thought that the flying dragon was smaller. I thought it would be like one person riding a horse-sized dragon and swinging swords from above.” 

“There are also units that operate in that way. For the flying dragon corps in the frontier, the operation is mainly one knight ride.  It is more useful because the opponents are monsters or beasts.”

The one who helped explain to Cain about the flying dragon was Julian’s personal guard knight, Senshur.

There were four people on the dragon that Cain was riding – Cain, Julian, and Gianluca Senshur. The reins were held by Senshur, but he seemed to be holding them just for precaution, and there was no sign of him steering the dragon at all.

“A single-seater flying dragon does not have a sharp turn compared to a horse. In addition, since it can take altitudes of only 3 to 5 meters, it becomes a vulnerable target for arrows in battles. When it comes to melee, it will also be difficult to separate the enemy and the ally while attacking the dragon. In man-to-man battle, it will be the fighting method of putting archers on this big dragon and shooting from above. “

“I see. So it has both strengths and weaknesses.”

Cain thought it would be powerful to put a mage who could use magic on a dragon, but he didn’t say it out loud. It may have been fortunate for the Kingdom of Limuto Break that there were few people who can use magic in Siriyum.

“Having said that, there hasn’t been a war in the last few hundred years. It’s faster than a horse or a carriage, so it’s now used exclusively as a means of transportation.”

“It’s convenient because you can fly straight through mountains and rivers.”

The dragon carrying Cain flew straight north across mountains and rivers. It seemed it was because there were no obstacles, but also because the movement speed itself was fast to begin with. Cain’s long braided hair that he kept in his hood fluttered and swayed right behind him. 

“It’s about half a day to the destination. The road from the royal capital to the destination is not yet in place either. Even if we have enough time, it’s not a place that can be reached by carriage, at least for now.”

“At this size, I can’t take them out for a walk, so this visit of His Royal Highness The First Prince will also be a good exercise for the flying dragons.”

“I see.”

“You can start seeing it now.” 

Gianluca, who sat quietly next to Cain, pointed to his right front.

Under the dragon, the forest had been spreading for a while. There were rows of high mountains beyond them in the front, and the forest stretched all the way to the foot of the mountains, but I could see a round clearing ahead of where Gianluca pointed. Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com

“Is only the planned site of the new city leveled first?”

“No. There was a village over there. It was a long time ago. It’s a remnant of that. It’s been a long time since, but no grass has grown.”

“Do you think it’s being cursed or something?” 

Cain said it with the intention of a joke. If the land was in the forest and was not overgrown by the forest, it might be due to that there used to be a small volcano and the surface of the earth was solidified with lava, or the village that used to exist had concrete refining technology, or people thought it was an abandoned village but in reality, people still lived there and were logging – these were the possibilities. There was also a possibility that the magic vein was very strong only at that place. 

A curse or the like, it was only a joke. 

“Yes. That place is cursed.”

Julian said clearly. And when he turned around and looked into Cain’s eyes, he grinned.

“That’s where the witch village used to be.

Almost at the same time as Julian said those words, the flying dragon slowly moved its wings as it lowered its altitude.

The place that was immediately in front of them, was cleared in a nice circle. And a large magic circle was drawn on the circular land. It was a simple one with a pentagram written in the circle, but it was indeed a magic circle.

The movement of the wings became rushingly faster, and Cains and the other who was riding on the back were shaken up, down, left, and right by the undulating of the back muscles. Cain and the others arrived at the former witch’s village, the planned site of the next royal capital of the Kingdom of Siriyum, with their heads pounding and dizzy.

While feeling a little queasy, he looked around the vast land. He could see the pentagram from the sky, but it cannot be seen from the ground.

“For somewhere to relocate the capital in six years, isn’t it too much of nothingness?” “That’s right, but I wanted to build my royal capital from scratch.”

Julian spoke while looking at the open land of nothingness in front of him. 

“If I want to make it easier, there is a way to move only the royal palace to the old royal capital from the previous ones, and use it as a relocation destination. In fact, the capital relocation 100 years ago was just returning to the royal capital from 300 years ago. That’s why the current royal capital is all…. To put it nicely, all of them are historical buildings made by traditional construction methods.”

Julian crunched his way while walking on the hard soil. Gianluca followed him, and Cain also followed them from behind. 

“This place is not close to any of the old royal capitals in the past. Across the mountain range on the back is the neighboring country Senthil who I plan to deepen diplomatic relations with in the future. The location is not bad. It is the best place considering the meaning of relocating the royal capital.”

“What does it mean to relocate the royal capital?”

“For that, read the textbook after we get back. It should be in around the fourth-grade economics class. At any rate, you probably already have the textbook for the fourth grade, right?”

Julian stopped and kicked the ground with the tip of his shoes to dig a hole.

“Apart from the fact that this is a cursed land, it’s the best place to relocate. Until now, only Gianluca had magical powers in the people around me. I couldn’t admit openly in public about the existence of the cursed land, and I can’t also recruit people with magical powers in the country. ….I had almost given up on it though..” 

The pentagram line didn’t disappear where Julian had pierced a hole with his shoe tip. It was clear that it was not as simple as a drawing of white line with lime in the school playground.

“I could only think that Cain’s study abroad, which wasn’t planned at all, is a divine intervention.”

Julian returned to where Cain and Gianluca were, and he took their hand and grasped them tight.

“Please help me cleanse this land.”

Julian stared at him with a serious look on his face. Cain thought about the past and wondered if that might be the first time he had seen Julian’s serious face. It had only been a month and a half since he started school, but perhaps Julian had only shown his playful side all that time. 

“I can’t reply right away.”

For Cain, who had already been brought along to such a remote area, replying that took all his might.