Chapter 633 Boreas’ Life (4)

“After Juniper officially joined us, we continued going around tearing through the northern regions and making it a habitable place for the new settlers to venture out to. This went on for around five years as my group and I got stronger and cleared away more land. But one day we received a request to slay a dragon.”

Hearing this everyone leaned forward with anticipation, since they knew that this must have been when Boreas met Gwyneira.

“Some prospectors found a mountain that was filled with ice elemental crystals and mithril, which was likely to start a huge boon of business for the area. The only problem, a powerful dragon had made their home there and had chased away the people trying to start the mine. Naturally my group was called in since we were undoubtably the strongest group in the northern reaches. And while my party members told me to not agree, as dragons were supposed to be some of the most fearsome and intelligent magical beast. I really could not pass up the chance to fight a dragon.” Boreas said with a glint in his eyes remembering how he felt at the time.

Of course, at this point they all knew that he did not kill this dragon, seeing as how she ended up as his wife. Though they were all dying to know how a quest to kill a dragon ended up with her joining him.

“To start we had to make a number of preparations if we were going to be taking on such a fearsome foe. At this point my group and I had collected a number of valuable materials, and we went to work preparing potions and commissioning new weapons and magical items to be made in Tralenstein. It honestly took us over a year just to get ready. My companions simply would not allow me to run off and fight without being thoroughly prepared.”.

Once they were ready to go, their group headed off to the mountain and climbed to its peak where the entrance to the dragon’s lair was supposed to be.

They tried to enter stealthily, but Gwyneira had blocked off all the possible entrances into the mountain with magical traps and means of detection. This meant that Boreas quickly throughout subtly and blasted his way through the front door.

“I believe that just trying to enter the mountain was the hardest thing I had ever had to do up to that point since arriving on Mirrion. I mean, there were so many traps and magical defenses to get through, and even though all of us were at least level sixty-three at that point, it was terribly dangerous for us.” Boreas said with a grimace as he remembered the traps that had been set up.

He had nearly lost and arm at one point that was ripped through by a trap that had conjured a giant maw of icicles and had clamped down on him.

“It took us a while and numerous injuries, but we eventually made it to the heart of the mountain where we found the dragon waiting for us with dozens of magically created ice soldiers.”

Boreas then went onto describe the epic battle he and his party had with Gwyneira, as she defended her home that as Boreas described look like a palace made out of ice, which was far from what he had excepted.

“At that time, she was still only level fifty-nine, but there is no doubt she was the strongest being I had ever fought. It was the first time I had to go all out and truthfully; she nearly beat us all with all the magical formations she had set up in advance. But in the end, we won a war of attrition, and she simply ran out of mana and stamina after we fought a back-and-forth battle for around three hours.”

With their enemy beaten down and restrained, Boreas had moved to finish Gwyneira off when she started talking to them for the first time.

“I still remember what she said to me to this day. ‘You humans really are as my father told me. You will invade other’s homes and kill them if it to your benefit. Even men from another world are exactly the same.’ This really struck me as it was the first time a beast communicated with me, and I was taken aback that she knew I was from another world. At this point I had not even told any of my party members.”

This coupled with what she said about having her home invaded was enough to make Boreas rethink what they were doing. His group had just entered her sanctuary where she was minding her own business and were basically going to murder her in order steal all of her stuff.

“It was then that I realized how wrong what we had just done was, and the thrill of trying to kill a dragon left me entirely. This was not like going out into the woods to kill some mindless beast, she was just as if not more intelligent than I was, and I was suddenly met with a wave of guilt for what we had done.”

Realizing what they had just done, Boreas was no longer able to go through with killing Gwyneira, and instead told his party that they were leaving.

Of course, none of them understood what Boreas was getting at ,but he said he did not feel right about doing this and that he would not be accepting any dissent.

After that he freed Gwyneira from the mana draining binding they had caught her in, and Boreas stuck around for a bit to ask her some questions.

“I really wanted to know how she knew I was from another world, and even though my friends thought I was crazy, I dismissed them, and they followed my directions. Anyway, I could tell that Gwyneira as not going to hurt me, not with the look of befuddlement in her eyes.”

Certainly, for Gwyneira at the time it must have seemed impossible that the group of humans that had come to kill her decided to let her go free and then start a discussion.

“She was guarded at first, but eventually she answered my question and told me that she could see my entire status and knew that only those that came from another world had the personal status unique skill. I then thanked her for her answer and went on my way after saying we would not bother her again.”

Yet that was apparently not the end of it.

While Boreas reported that he had been unable to defeat the dragon, the very wealthy group that was trying to establish the mine did not give up. They exerted all of their connection in Tralenstein and had a group of high-level knights and mages sent up to kill Gwyneira.

However, Boreas at this point still felt bad for what he had done and intervened by stopping the people that were sent to kill Gwyneira before they could invade her home.

“I just felt that I owed her something after what we had done, and from that point onward, I was more careful to make sure that we were not attacking any intelligent entity in their homes.”