050 Merrill Ancient Labyrinth, 3rd Floor ~The Fire Dragon~

Author: Kaeruda Ameko (蛙田あめこ)
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n1082gh/50/
Translator: Lilia v3.0
Editor: AYA Translation

“””Thank you for the meal!”””

Emilia and Abigail had somen noodles with adventurers who didn’t even know their names, and broke up with a smile. When the stomach was full, a veteran adventurer with a grim face also had a gentle expression. The party that was squeaking in the heat seemed to get along well.

“I’m glad, Abigail-san!”
“Well, it’s just for our meal.”
“That said, Abigail-san was enthusiastic, didn’t she?”
“Well, that might be…”

When they went down to the 3rd floor, the heat became even stronger.

“Uh, it’s terrible heat …”
“I’m going to melt…”
“Emilia, Abigail. Get on my back. With the authority of my ice wolf Fenrir, form a cold barrier.”
“Wow, thank you John!”

John’s back was warm and fluffy for a moment, but with just one howl, the surroundings were immediately filled with cold air.

“Fa … it’s cool …”
“Oh, it feels good…! There is a fireplace that we can use in the winter, but is there a similar thing to encounter the heat?”
“Abigail-san, can’t you make something like that?”
“Hmm … Is it possible to make it with the same principle as the refrigerator…? I don’t know yet, but it may be possible with John’s ice power and Emilia’s magical power.”
“Yay!”

Ice magic to relieve the heat requires a great deal of magical power to activate, and only the royal aristocrats can use such magical power abundantly in the summer. Once a time when the atmosphere was full of manna… Before the world tree disappeared into the “end of the world”, ice magic was more casual.

“Gururu… it looks strange. The heat is too terrible.”
“John?”
“Is this kind of heat really created by the estrus of a fire dragon?”
“Is there any other cause?”
“I don’t know …”
“I want to pass through the 3rd tier and go to the lower tier at once. The setting of savepoints has already been completed for the 3rd tier.”
“Wait, somehow … I feel like something painful.”
“Something painful? I don’t feel anything …”

Emilia squints.
Then, after she jumped off John’s back, she ran in the direction of that sign.

“Oh, wait Emilia! It’s dangerous!”
“It’s okay, something … someone is suffering!”

I have to help. Emilia puts in the heat.

“is this……”
“It’s a fire dragon, but it looks strange …”

At the back of the third floor, in the nest of the fire dragon. The fire dragon that had given her eggs for the quest — that exceptionally large individual had its eyes loosely closed.