Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 512

The fairies were breathing hard, roughly gulping air.

Marloe frowned, then snapped her fingers.

And then the spring gate leading outside opened.

- Go. It’s the spring gate leading outside. If you go out through there, Gomes will catch the fairy smell you’re giving off and come find you on his own.

“When I come back?”

- If you really bring down Gomes, then we’ll come find you. We’re always sensing Gomes’s presence.

“Okay.”

Nice service—coming to you.

Su-ho went straight into the spring gate, and not long after Su-ho disappeared, the Defense Captain, who had only just managed to pull himself together, approached Marloe and spoke.

“Your Majesty, are you all right?”

- I’m fine. What about you—are any of you hurt?

“Yes. My muscles stiffened up a bit from the pressure, but other than that, there are no abnormal signs. But...”

The Defense Captain asked in a worried voice.

“Do you think he can really bring down Gomes?” 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

- Who knows.

“...Pardon?”

- If he brings it down, then he brings it down. If he can’t, then that’s as far as he goes. I don’t like that bastard much, but my preferences matter less than my fairies.

“Your Majesty...!”

At the Queen’s words, all the other fairies who heard her were moved.

*

Passing through the spring gate, he again felt like his body flipped over, and an automatic motion landed him on the ground.

It’s really amazing.

She said their specialty was the sorcery of protection—so can she also do things like reversing your senses like this?

Well, it doesn’t matter.

Outside the spring gate, Su-ho began to walk forward slowly.

There was no set destination.

Marloe said if he just walked around like this, Gomes would come find him on its own.

He walked at an easy pace for a long while like that.

- Grk.

From somewhere, an unpleasant cry began to be heard.

- Grrrrk.

That reptile-like growling.

Looks like it had shown up.

That was when—

- Graaaang!!

A high-pitched cry that felt like it would tear his eardrums apart.

At the same time, system notifications began to appear.

[ Fairy Dragon Gomes uses Fairy Hunter’s Roar. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]

“Oh?”

Seeing the system notifications, Su-ho smiled.

He’d been starting to get bored, and the guest arrived right on time.

Su-ho immediately turned his head toward where the sound had come from.

Then he could see the owner of the voice—Fairy Dragon Gomes. The bastard was stuck upside down on a huge tree like a baobab, flicking its tongue as it looked down at Su-ho.

But when Su-ho saw it, he let out a hollow laugh too.

“Wow, it’s that big?”

In the fairy mirror, it looked like just a moderately sized lizard, but seeing it in person, the thing was—what, African-elephant-sized.

So this is why checking the real thing matters.

He could understand at a glance why its nickname was “dragon” instead of “lizard” or “iguana.”

“Looks like everyone here comes with an extra size tier by default.”

Su-ho immediately started skill-armoring up.

[ You summon Heracles’s Lion-Head Helmet. ]

[ You summon Heracles’s Club. ]

[ Blood Armor is activated. ]

[ Blessing is activated. ]

[ Paladin is activated. ]

[ Divine Aura is activated. ]

[ Mana Detection is activated. ]

[ Endurance is activated. ]

[ Enhancement is activated. ]

[ Night Watcher’s Eye is activated. ]

[ Sword Energy is activated. ]

A storm of skill effects.

As multiple auras burst from Su-ho’s body, Gomes panicked for a moment.

It couldn’t be helped.

From the moment it was born until now, it had only ever seen fairies, so it was experiencing this kind of power for the first time.

- Grrrrk...

Gomes’s eyeballs started to roll around.

It had come all the way here, drawn by that delicious, fairy-specific smell, but when it lifted the lid, it turned out there were other things mixed in besides “fairy.”

And the power mixed in wasn’t normal.

Gomes wasn’t stupid.

It was a clever fairy hunter—an existence that prioritized survival over desire.

But it wasn’t such a coward that it would blindly cower before unfamiliar power either.

After thinking for a moment, Gomes decided to test the waters lightly.

Having made its decision, Gomes shrieked and swung its tail at Su-ho.

- KIAAAAAA!!

[ Fairy Dragon Gomes uses Fairy Hunter’s Roar. ]

[ Fairy Dragon Gomes uses Needle Tail. ]

Fairy «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» Hunter’s Roar had the power to drain strength from your whole body just by hearing it, and to stiffen the muscles of your entire body like Pressure and Mega Fear.

On top of that, maybe not against other beings, but against fairies, it had the power to interfere with the release of fairy power.

So it attacked with howling whenever it got the chance.

That was also the case with Needle Tail—the tail attack it had just swung.

Needle Tail looked like a simple tail swing, but when it whipped its massive tail, the spikes embedded in the tail fired like a crossbow, flying accurately toward the target.

WHIAAAA—!!

The firing force was so strong that with a single swing, you could hear the air tearing.

Su-ho stood still in place watching it, then swung his sword.

Slice!

The incoming spikes were cleanly cut and fell with no power left in them.

After cutting the spikes, Su-ho casually rolled his wrist that held the Blood Sword.

‘That’s it?’

It’s less than he expected.

Since it attacked while howling, he thought it might be some incredible attack, but the fear effect was boss-monster-grade, and the rest was surprisingly shabby.

“Tsk, tsk. You ran your mouth like you were hot shit, so I thought you were some insane enemy, but you’re really just a big iguana—nothing more, nothing less.”

Then I should finish this quickly and be done with it.

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