The more docile and small a monster is, the easier it is to survive.
The more ferocious and large a monster is, the harder it is to survive.
Aggressive monsters don’t avoid approaching fights.
If they lose a fight, they die.
Even if they win, injuries slow their movements.
Because of that, if they meet another opponent, they’re defeated and become prey.
Large size and great strength aren’t advantageous for survival either.
Maintaining such a body requires lots of nutrients and magical energy.
They feel hunger more often and must fight more.
Rather, small things that hide well survive more easily.
Considering the saying that the longer a monster survives the stronger it becomes, would cockroach monsters living under rocks be the strongest?
Of course not.
The more aggressive monsters have more opportunities to absorb magical energy.
Thus they evolve more and become stronger.
Wyverns are typical large carnivorous monsters.
If not for the special environment of the mountains, even an ordinary wyvern could be the ruler of an area.
But this is the magic realm bestowed by heaven.
Naturally strong and ferocious wyverns gather here by the hundreds and thousands.
The wyverns who become leaders here are all the real deal.
Celeta was like that too.
Celeta, ruler of southern Delfram.
She earned the title “Black Queen.”
For such a title, she wasn’t very old.
Of course, being a monster, she wasn’t human and wouldn’t be counting her exact age.
However, making an estimate.
Her generation can be guessed from how she barely knows the Oboe language.
Long ago, when humans and wyverns were close and lived together communicating.
Back then there was a separate language for humans and wyverns to converse.
Though that human civilization perished, wise mothers passed that language down to later generations.
Although as time passed few wyverns remained who knew that language, older wyverns often could speak the Oboe language.
That Chugota was like that.
Chugota was already a ruler of an area when Celeta was born.
She was certainly a wise and strong wyvern.
Though it might not be the appropriate expression.
Young Celeta might have respected Chugota.
Even after becoming strong enough, Celeta never thought of invading Chugota’s territory.
When Chugota still had just one head, when she flew with that white body, Celeta would quietly perch on stone pillars.
Of course, that was in the past.
After Chugota laid her first egg, and disappeared unable to protect her offspring.
When Chugota returned with three heads, she was insane.
Chugota was no longer the wise queen of the eastern mountains.
Celeta also had her first offspring.
Among them was a lacking youngest born small and without wings.
And now the insane Chugota was mistaking that youngest for her own offspring.
“Kugagagagak!”
Celeta had no intention of tolerating this.
Chugota crawled across the ground at fierce speed.
Celeta glided down from above as if falling.
Light flashed from both their mouths, and destruction beams were fired.
Instead of hitting each other, the beams struck the golem between them.
Celeta’s destruction beam hit the golem’s face.
And Chugota’s destruction beam hit the golem’s lower body.
Bang-!
Due to the impact contained in the beams, the golem spun in mid-air.
Now to charge in.
Celeta launched a physical attack with such determination.
Whoosh-
Dirt exploded upward.
It should have been an attack sufficient to damage even a golem.
At the moment of impact, the golem’s body separated into three pieces.
Celeta only crushed one of them.
Something like an arm extended from the golem part she gripped with her claws and stabbed her leg.
Moreover, the two separated golem pieces rushed to attack Celeta again.
What saved her in this crisis was none other than Chugota.
“Guuu!” “Keeek,” “Guruk, gururuk!”
With strange triple-layered cries, Chugota simply clung on.
Clinging on would be the appropriate description.
Not caring about wounds to her own body, she spread her wings wide and crashed into them like embracing them.
Even trusting in self-healing ability, it was clearly insane behavior.
Her wing membranes were torn and holes opened in her skin from the golem’s strong force.
But thanks to Chugota’s reckless attack, Celeta gained space.
The two golems that were about to pounce on her were now attacking Chugota.
Good thing she had hidden her offspring nearby.
Otherwise something terrible would have happened.
With Chugota handling two.
And Celeta handling one.
A change occurred.
The golems’ eyes that had been focused on fighting suddenly flashed bright.
Their heads all turned simultaneously toward the stone tower.
Could something have happened inside the stone tower?
The golems all started withdrawing at once.
The golem that had been clinging to Celeta and wounding her was the same.
The golem threw Celeta aside and ran back to the stone tower.
Terrible creatures.
The wounded Celeta took rough breaths.
Finally freed, Celeta quickly flew up.
“Peeeek!”
Her eldest daughter was squeaking from behind that stone pillar.
She had come out to cheer despite being told to hide.
She’ll need a spanking when they return.
For a moment, what Celeta felt was liberation.
Freedom and relief from getting that terrible golem off her body.
However…
“Gururururu-!”
Not Chugota apparently.
The old and insane white queen stubbornly clung to the fleeing golems.
Even unable to fly with broken wings again, she fiercely clung on blocking the golems’ advance.
Only then did Celeta come to her senses.
The youngest.
The youngest had gone into the stone tower.
“Kuak!”
Since Chugota was holding two, she needed to catch at least the remaining one.
She fired a destruction beam, but the golem rolled once and stood back up.
She had used up her magic now.
So, Celeta simply bit the golem.
And rolled on the ground.
Gugugugung-!
An impact that felt like it might break her neck hit her.
The golem was extremely hard, made of who knows what.
Though Celeta’s bite force could easily crush rock, she couldn’t break the golem.
Finally the golem escaped from Celeta’s jaws.
It was the same for the two golems Chugota had caught.
They quickly merged back into one and spread their heat sinks like wings.
And prepared for super acceleration.
“Kuaak!”
The two wyvern queens’ delay tactics weren’t in vain.
The holes throughout the stone tower suddenly closed.
The golem’s super acceleration activated right after.
Bang!
In the blink of an eye the golem had already reached the middle of the stone tower.
But even that sturdy golem couldn’t forcibly enter the sealed tower.
Whiiiiir-
Moreover, the golem suddenly went limp like a puppet with cut strings.
