After leaving the Ingracia Kingdom’s royal capital, Yuuki’s group was leisurely traveling along the Great Kanat Mountain Range towards the East Empire.
The safer route to the empire’s territory passes through the Dwarf Kingdom and would reveal their location to Rimuru and co.
Since Yuuki had never travelled to the east before, he couldn’t transfer there with magic.
「Well now, mountain climbing can be fun every once in a while.」
Yuuki spoke in a carefree tone while he tore apart a low-class dragon that had come to attack them.
Kagari responded by shrugging her shoulders while Yuuki’s supervisors, who he’d formerly dispatched to several countries, and were his trusted retainers remained silent, observing their surroundings quietly.
Yuuki, bored by their response, looked up at the summit.
The route Yuuki’s group was following was one that passed above the Dwarf Kingdom and was rarely traversed.
The wild dragons that inhabited the area were a high-class life-form that could understand human speech if it became a higher species.
They were uninvited guests on these mountains so it would become troublesome if they were discovered by a King Class dragon.
Aware of this, Yuuki and co. advanced carefully.
Compared to Yuuki who seemed to be having fun, shadows of fatigue could be seen in his subordinates.
It wasn’t surprising since they had been attacked by lower-class dragons once every hour. Up to five dragons have attacked at once. If they went through the safer route commonly used by merchants, they wouldn’t be attacked like this and dragons would rarely appear.
The route that Yuuki and co. were traversing wasn’t a route approved by the Dragon King.
Maybe because of that, they were extremely cautious. Yuuki had chosen this route without hesitation.
At that time,
「Oh? A call from Leon. Recently, he was mad and said that he would cancel our deal, does he still have complaints?」
While saying that happily, he took out a necklace with a small crystal from his breast pocket and charged it with magic power.
And somehow the conversation with Leon occurred,
「It seems like Leon will come here. Since it’ll take him approximately an hour to get here, shall we take a break and wait for him?」
He informed Kagari and the others before he immediately sat down on a sturdy and comfortable rock.
「Leon...? The Demon Lord, Leon? Will it be alright?」
「Is there a possibility that it's the Demon Lord Ruminas and co?」
「Is it fine for our location to be given that easily?」
So his subordinates and Kagari questioned.
「Eh, it should be fine. After all, he was a regular client.
Besides... even if the Demon Lords unite and come along, there’s still Chloe.」
He replied optimistically.
Kagari and the subordinates realized that it was useless to even say anything now.
And so, after an hour, they would face Leon.
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