Chapter 8
“…To build a new city in the ruins. That is the new world I desire.”
Yuna, who had overcome her depression and lethargy caused by numerous disasters and misfortunes, now had a new goal.
It could be said that she now harbored a fierce ambition, a burning desire to achieve something at all costs.
Such a strong longing for her ambition could be a powerful driving force that motivates action, and Yuna was no exception.
She found the courage to return to the city she had fled, all to see the world that the great dragon god had spoken of.
“I will return to Gyeongju! And I will start from Gyeongju to create the world I want!”
“Y-Yes. If that is the path that satisfies you…”
The foolish dragon, who had seen Yuna’s tearful and lethargic state just moments ago, now gazed at her with a bewildered expression.
Seeing Yuna’s sudden drastic change, Bahamut… no, this foolish dragon inwardly regretted that perhaps he had comforted her with the wrong words.
“So please lend me your strength!”
“The contract has already been fulfilled. I will intervene in the world through you.”
‘Well, as long as I keep her from going off course, it should be fine, right…?’
But the water had already flowed, and spilled water could not be put back into the cup.
When Yuna asked him to lend her his power, this foolish dragon thought complacently that he could keep her in check from the sidelines and only served to further boost her unfounded confidence with his unnecessarily grand and deep voice.
“Yes. In the name of Bahamut!”
With the dragon’s confident declaration, Yuna began retracing her steps to prove that her thoughts were correct.
She swore to her god that she would no longer run away, and she left Bahamut’s shrine, heading outside the cave.
“Kaahk? Gob? Gob?”
“There it is.”
As soon as she stepped outside the cave, she heard the noisy voice of a green monster.
Hearing the voice, Yuna hid against the cave wall and secretly observed outside, where she saw a green monster with a similar appearance to the ones that had pursued her before.
The monster, which she called a goblin, merely watched from outside the cave and did not dare to think of entering.
Seeing this, Yuna mistakenly assumed that the foul green monster sensed the presence of the dragon inside the cave.
“…Yes. Yes! I really wasn’t wrong!”
Indeed, the aura of the great dragon would not allow such lowly creatures to invade.
And unlike them, she was someone chosen by the dragon.
With this unfounded confidence and a sense of superiority, she stepped forward.
“You green monsters! How dare you try to defile the entrance of a sacred shrine!”
“Gob? Gobgob?”
Without any fear, she boldly challenged them to a fight.
Naturally, the green monsters, seeing Yuna, who fearlessly challenged them, looked at the crazed woman with astonishment that did not befit their role as monsters.
Even though goblins had an insatiable lust when it came to females, seeing a woman screaming like a madwoman would make any burning desire vanish instantly.
Forgetting their instincts, the goblins stared at Yuna with incredulous expressions, wondering what kind of unfounded confidence this madwoman had to confront them.
“Lightning Bolt.”
“Gobuuu!?”
But their carelessness came at a price—death.
Yuna pointed her finger at the goblin and uttered a spell, and the immense magical power she gained as the priestess of the dragon unleashed a powerful lightning arrow that electrocuted the goblin, burning it cleanly from the inside out.
Unluckily for the goblin standing nearby, it was caught in the proximity of the lightning bolt and also got electrocuted, unable to remain conscious as it convulsed and fainted.
The remaining goblins, realizing that this crazy woman was actually a powerful, crazy sorceress, panicked. They abandoned their comrades and attempted to flee on the spot.
“Call Lightning. Magic Arrow.”
But they couldn’t escape from Yuna.
With another spell, lightning struck from the sky, and with a tremendous noise, it charred the fleeing goblin to a crisp.
The goblin hit directly by the lightning fell to the ground in a puff of black smoke, instantly killed, and the remaining goblins, who had only been shocked, were finished off with precise magical arrows.
“Ah. Hahahaha.”
The monsters that had been so fearsome before reaching Bahamut’s shrine were now nothing more than easy prey.
But now, look at this scene.
The opponents she would have previously had to flee from secretly were now dealt with effortlessly.
“I feel so powerful! Now, it might be possible! It might really be possible!”
Moreover, even after using such powerful magic, Yuna did not feel tired. Instead, she remained in perfect condition.
Yuna, who had seen awakened mages in the survivor camp become exhausted after using powerful magic once or twice, realized that she was now stronger than even those mages.
Yes, Yuna Choi, who had become the priestess of the dragon, had reached a different level than ordinary awakened beings.
“Pathetic. Truly pathetic.”
And the spells she had just used were not even her main ones.
They were merely byproducts she gained upon becoming the priestess of the dragon.
“How far can I go with my current power?”
Before heading to Gyeongju, Yuna wanted to fully understand her strength, and now, goblins were nothing more than trivial opponents.
She needed a stronger foe to confirm her newfound strength.
And so…
“Grrrr…”
“Ah. It’s here.”
She had drawn the aggro of nearby monsters by using the Call Lightning spell, which summoned thunder from the sky.
Yuna had used Call Lightning to finish off the fleeing goblins, and the loud noise it caused attracted a powerful monster.
A creature with densely packed muscular build, a face resembling a pig, and green skin like the goblins.
A monster commonly known as an orc appeared before Yuna, leading its group.
“I will show you the power of a god.”
Despite the appearance of a group of monsters that seemed several times stronger than the goblins, Yuna did not flinch.
Instead, she boldly declared that she would show these aggressive orcs the power of her god.
“GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
It seemed that the orc did not appreciate her arrogant demeanour, as it charged at the madwoman with a ferocious roar.
The axe it wielded seemed ready to split Yuna’s head and cleave her body in half.
But even with the orc horde charging fiercely at her, Yuna only smiled maniacally.
“Summoning, Bahamut.”
She used the immense magical power she had obtained as the priestess of the dragon to summon the great dragon god into this world.
The massive power she had gained from her new role vanished all at once, leaving Yuna feeling a significant fatigue, but she didn’t care.
It was happening.
In this world, in this place! Yuna Choi’s god was descending!
“GOAaaaaaaa…?”
The orc, which had been charging at her with an expression full of rage, instinctively sensed something was wrong, a sense of danger. That unease quickly turned into shock.
Before the orcs’ eyes appeared a gigantic magic circle.
The orc instinctively assumed a defensive stance, readying itself to counter the magic that was about to strike, but soon realized that this magic was on a different level than anything it had encountered before.
A giant claw emerged from the unfolded magic circle and tore apart the orc’s tough body as if it were paper.
“U… Uwahahahahaha!”
“Go? GOAAAAAAAAA!”
The orcs, still struggling to process the loss of their comrade in an instant, snapped out of their stupor upon hearing the madwoman’s crazed laughter and charged directly at her, the summoner.
The gigantic claw was still present, but if they could just kill the madwoman who was casting the magic, the spell would vanish.
The orcs knew this from their long years of experience, which was why they targeted the madwoman without hesitation.
It wasn’t entirely the wrong decision.
In reality, the reason the claw was here was that Yuna had used her own magical power to partially summon Bahamut, with whom she was connected.
“GAaaaaaa…!”
But the orc charging at Yuna was easily crushed like an ant beneath the claw.
Its strong body, the brute strength that came from that body, and all the battle experience it had gained—all of it proved meaningless.
This was a matter of overwhelming difference in scale.
To Yuna’s foolish dragon, Bahamut, the orc was no different from an ant to a human.
A mere swipe of its finger, a simple press, and the orc’s body would be torn or crushed under the immense pressure.
“GA! GOGAGRA!”
“Oh, are you trying to run?”
The remaining orcs, finally coming to their senses after the swift death of their seasoned warrior, issued a retreat command.
In a split second, the orc-like monsters decided that there was no chance of victory against the mad sorceress.
It wasn’t the wrong decision, and in fact, the decision to flee immediately after the fall of their seasoned warrior might have been commended by their opponents.
“You cannot escape my god.”
But they could not escape from the madwoman’s god.
Like swatting flies, the massive claw smacked the fleeing orcs into the ground.
The many orcs met the same fate as the experienced orc who had targeted the madwoman, crushed to death, following him into oblivion.
“Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. With this power, this time… I can really…”
As all her enemies fell before the power of her god, Yuna smiled with deep satisfaction, feeling certain that with this power, she could truly achieve her goal.
Any lingering doubts she had held in her heart vanished completely, and in their place, her faith, now called devotion, grew ever stronger.
To her, who had lost all hope, losing this faith now would mean losing her life.
‘…Wait, I only taught her summoning magic, though? I never taught her elemental magic? I don’t know, but… that’s terrifying.’
And her god, who had watched the entire scene unfold… no, the foolish dragon Bahamut, was astonished by the fact that Yuna had used not just summoning magic but other types of magic as well.
It was only natural; the magic that Bahamut had gifted her was solely for summoning him, and he had never taught or given her any elemental magic.
‘Is this… a placebo effect?’
Faced with this inexplicable scene, the foolish dragon turned away, wondering what on earth had gone wrong!
He was sure it had been a perfect plan!
‘Maybe I actually made a contract with a girl far more dangerous than I’d realized?’
“Well then, my god! Let’s return to the city!”
And so, the foolish dragon concluded that the problem lay not with himself but with his choice of contractor.
Of course, Yuna, unaware of Bahamut’s thoughts, simply offered a prayer to the great god who had lent her his power and began her journey toward Gyeongju, her intended destination.
It was truly a mismatched master-servant relationship.
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