21st Century Archmage

‘Huhu. Life is good~

Swooosh. Swooooosh.

Unable to hide my joy, I was smiling ear to ear under the helmet.

Bebeto was flapping his large golden-striped black wings as he cut through the wind. On a day like this, the refreshing wind seemed to be singing about spring.

‘What cuties.

I turned my head.

Behind us was the source of my happiness: five wyverns. They werent wearing enspelled armor, but they were, at a glance, five sturdy wyverns. Having accepted Bebeto as their boss, they were flying with all their might behind us.

‘Uhaha! If each one is 2 million, then five of them make 10 million Gold! Oh gods above, thank you!

Wyverns were known to have impressively strong loyalty towards their masters. But that was nothing for me and Bebeto. The Korean proverbtheres nothing one can do against pure force applied here. As long as I threw a wholeheartedly resisting wyvern to Bebeto, it would educate(?) itself, and then I would follow up with the medicine that was Heal. After repeating that a few times, most wyverns would shit blood to cling onto me.

The go-getter Bebetos outrageous trampling… Only someone who had tasted it would know the feeling.

‘If I keep winning over enemy wyverns like this… Huhu. I wont be jealous of any kingdom.

So far, I hadnt heard of anyone re-educating wyverns like this and then using them. It wasnt easy to win an enemy wyvern over without dealing critical injury in the middle of battle, and a wyverns sense of loyalty was no less than most knights.

However, the wyverns were putting out both hands at the coordination between Bebeto and me. I felt like I could make a few wyvern fleets after a few more rounds of this.

‘But will they be fine? Theyre apparently guys that didnt grow up on holy water…

Instead of magic armor, the Temir wyverns had strange figures drawn on their bodies. It turned out that those figures had been drawn by a shaman. In order to use a wyvern for military purposes, the wyverns had to be soaked in holy water from the time they were in the egg to eradicate demonic power, but apparently, the Temir were training their wyverns with shamanry instead of holy water.

‘It doesnt matter. Whether you ride a motorcycle or a bike, as long as you end up in the same place, its all the same.

Whatever might happen will happen later, right now, the wyverns were following Bebeto and my orders obediently. The females were particularly quick to wag their tails at Bebeto.

‘So its actually not all wyverns that oppose hybrid wyverns, but just the males… Must be a males characteristic wariness towards a stronger male.

I had fought several times on Bebeto, but there werent any wyverns that went mad after seeing Bebeto like the rumors said. The only thing was that male wyverns tended to be more aggressive compared to females. To me, it seemed like a males typical instinctive action, like when a lion at the head of the pride warned off other males.

‘But anyway, I hope nothing happened.

I heard through the communication channel for military-use only that Viscount Lukences soldiers or wyverns hadnt attacked Denfors. But even as I flew over, I was worried that they might get attacked. They might hold out one way or another if it was only ground combat, but if wyverns were used, it was crystal clear that all the mercenaries in the covert would flee.

“Ah…”

And a short while later, in the middle of worrying, I saw Denfors and breathed a sigh of relief. On this continent, I didnt really have anywhere to call home. But as soon as I saw the worn-out city, Denfors, I suddenly felt the joy of returning home.

‘One month, right… Okay! Before that, I will make Viscount Lukence fall to his knees!

A fight with Viscount Lukence to be recognized as the formal master of over 20,000 soldiers and Nerman itself.

Id already come this far and had no desire to compromise.

The path walked by Kang Hyuk, the man… The only path was a shining victory!

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Guooooooooo!

Once he saw Weyn Covert, Bebeto let out a long roar to announce his arrival.

Kiooooooooo!

Kuuuuuuuuuuuu!

The wyverns following us startled me with long roars as well.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

With the arrival of several wyverns, mercenaries popped up like frogs jumping out of a hot pot and the bell clanged loudly to inform the covert of an enemy appearance.

‘Impressive!

Even though they couldnt do much with their strength alone, the mercenaries were drawing bows or gripping weapons with combat-readiness. I felt a flush of satisfaction seeing their soldierly actions.

“Ruuun!”

“Uwaaaah! If you want to live, everyone run!”

“Mommyyy~!!”

‘Geh!

However, my satisfaction crumbled not even 3 seconds later.

‘Of course…Sigh.

Losing themselves in fear, the mercenaries ran in all directions like bunnies fleeing a hawk. They were so fast that they could probably beat the world record for the 100 meter dash.

“I-Its the lord!”

“Ah? Is it really him?”

But a few guys with their head on straight saw me and yelled that it was the lord. It seemed that in the time I was gone, the mercenaries had decided to treat me as their lord as well.

“The lord has returned!”

The mercenaries stopped running only after confirming Bebetos appearance, which was starkly different from other wyverns, and me on his back.

Swoooooosh.

Bebeto flapped his wings as he slowly descended on the coverts runway.

Flap, flap flap flap.

And the other five wyverns landed as well behind him.

“T-Theyre Temir wyverns.”

“Holy! Why are they here?”

As expected of Nerman mercenaries, they recognized the Temir wyverns whose bodies were marked with shamanry.

“Welcome back, my liege.”

Looking at me and the wyverns, Derval ran through the throng of mercenaries who were racking their rock-hard brains.

“Nothing happened?”

“There were no problems. But these wyverns are…”

“I picked them up.”

“Pardon? Picked them up? Wyverns?”

“I dont know how those Temir northerners knew, but they gave me five wyverns, telling me to knock down Viscount Lukence. And they even processed two dead wyverns nicely and gave me those as a gift as well.”

“As expected of my liege!”

At my nonsensical explanation, Derval looked at me with eyes full of emotion and respect. He would probably even believe me if I said you could make bread with dirt.