Repelling the Dragon 26
"Master Lars...? It's dangerous! Please stand back!"
In a hurry, Irinya tried to pull to safety.
「Thank you, Irinya. But I've already been effectively exiled from my count's family. So, you should prioritize your own safety over mine.」
When I said that, Irinya burst into tears.
「Please don't say that! Mikel and Rolf are buying us ti! There's no need for Master Lars to sacrifice himself as well!」
Irinya desperately tried to hold back. Her words seed to reach Mikel and Rolf as they shouted.
「We're planning to survive too!」
「Stop dawdling and just run! Lars isn't going to change the situation by staying!」
Hearing their words, Irinya nodded tearfully. It wasn't ant in a bad way, but the three of them didn't see as a fighting force. Well, it couldn't be helped.
However, I had realized sothing over the past few days. It was about my job aptitude. I'd spent many years taking actions to raise my proficiency and level as a rchant. Normally, I would have been ready to acquire advanced rchant skills by now.
Yet, there was a sense of discomfort. It wasn't just a premonition. It was a certain feeling that I could sense the existence of skills outside the realm of being a rchant.
Looking back, I had chosen the reincarnation system with a character that reached the highest level as a magitech engineer. If the character's stats and skill points had been inherited, then it was possible that I already had the aptitude for a magitech engineer and was just waiting to use my skill points.
If that hypothesis were correct, then I might have been raising my magitech engineer proficiency while intending to raise my rchant proficiency. Since a magitech engineer is an advanced profession of a rchant, and the rchant skills can be acquired at any ti, it was entirely plausible.
Why hadn't I noticed that my job aptitude was for a magitech engineer? It was simply because I refrained from wasting skill points, and I couldn't afford to perform any reckless experints. The biggest reason, however, was the job aptitude assessnt result I heard from Irinya.
Having been told I was a rchant, I believed it without question. However, thinking about it more deeply, considering that the magitech engineer vocation was entirely unknown, could the person conducting the assessnt have accurately stated the results? This is purely speculative, but it's likely that the assessnt couldn't evaluate advanced professions. It was simply that I possessed the aptitude for a rchant as a talent, so the result was labeled as 『rchant』.
I realized this just before arriving at this forest, when we were attacked by the dragon. When I felt my life was in danger in the carriage, I had an undeniable sense of being able to learn one of the magitech engineer's skills, bunker.
I didn't know what triggered it, but it was a morable sensation. After regaining consciousness in the village and being too busy to level up properly, the feeling of potential skill acquisition ant I had already reached a sufficient level of proficiency.
It was worth trying.
「... It's okay, Irinya. Don't you trust ?」
I furrowed my eyebrows and looked back with a troubled expression while trying to smile. Thereupon, Irinya, still with tears in her eyes, released her grip.
「N-no, I trust Master Lars.」
Nodding at Irinya's response, I turned to face the direction of the dragon and kicked off the ground to start running.
「Mikel! Rolf! Move away for a mont!」
I shouted as loudly as possible. Instinctively following those words, Mikel and Rolf leaped away in large arcs, distancing themselves from the dragon. They widened their eyes when they saw running towards them.
「W-what the...!?」
「Lars! What are you...?」
Ignoring the astonishnt in their voices, I focused on my newfound power.
My original job aptitude was as a Machine ister, a magitech engineer. And surely, I had accumulated enough proficiency.
In my mind, I imagined skills for battling the large dragon. Unlike others who were grasping around for skills, I had a clear advantage in skill acquisition. As a top player in LOG, I had thoroughly researched every corner of the ga. That included, of course, the knowledge of each skill.
I had all kinds of information in my head, from the ti it took for a skill to activate, its effects, and the skill points it consud. Thus, as long as I had the necessary proficiency, it ant I could learn rchant and magitech engineer skills at any ti. This gave the confidence to speak.
「... Magitech Automaton - Machine Golem, Create!」
The mont I said that, I felt as though so kind of power was being drained from . And then, the skill activated. A massive, bluish-white magic circle erged on the ground before , and from its center, a colossal human figure appeared.
Though it resembled full-plate armor, there were slight gaps through which a bluish-white light escaped. The armor and its limbs were engraved with characters—a sight I recognized as my companion, the Machine Golem, from countless ga experiences. However, seeing it manifest in reality, it was more imposing than I had ever imagined in the ga.
I could hear Mikel and Rolf shouting in amazent from a distance, but there was no ti to explain. The dragon, rumbling, was gathering strength in its hind legs, ready for battle.
「Command Golem!」
Upon issuing the instruction, the magitech automaton crouched low and began to move. Simultaneously, the dragon let out a roar and charged forward. Its gaping maw, filled with massive fangs, approached, and the magitech golem launched its fist. The intense impact reverberated through the air, making the dragon's head jerk upwards.
This initiated a fierce exchange, with the magitech automaton enduring the dragon's claws and fangs upfront as it continued to swing its arms. Hit by the golem's attack, the dragon attempted a stronger retaliation, twisting its body and lashing out with its tail at terrifying speed, which the magitech golem caught with all its might.
「Golem! Throw it!」
Even though it was an outrageous command, the magitech golem wrapped its arms around the dragon's tail and, employing a throwing technique, spun its body around. The dragon's massive form rose briefly into the air before being forcefully slamd headfirst into the ground.
As I witnessed this spectacle, my vision gradually dimd.
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