Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

She wasn't set ablaze because she was standing far away, but her face was still burning hot. If it weren't for her self-healing ability, she might have died in the agony of being slowly roasted by burns all over her body.

The heat arrived almost simultaneously with the shockwave that propelled her high into the air.

Mayumi Haga struggled to grab onto the exposed steel bars beside her, but even the charred and burnt flesh stuck to them couldn't change her expression.

Luckily, it was me who ended up here...

If it were anyone else here, without the protection of a magical field, they would have been caught in the aftershocks of the magic and died on the spot.

Mayumi Haga understood why Rika Sugiyama had sealed away most of Hitomi Tono's magic.

If other people's magic is like rivers or lakes, then the total amount of magic can be gradually increased by widening the river channels or by diverting or excavating.

So Hitomi Tono's magic is like a raging, unrestrained sun.

This guy's personality isn't just like the sun; even his magic is like the blazing sun. He possesses an immeasurable amount of magical power from birth, which, if left unchecked, could harm others.

Just like now.

Just because he opened the magic limit a little bit out of anger, he almost evaporated Haga Mayumi here.

Mayumi Haga even rediscovered the feeling of trekking alone through the hellish original world.

When Magical Girl Crimson goes all out, she is less aware of her surroundings, and the damage she causes is not to be underestimated.

Fortunately, this is a reflection space where destruction is permissible without any problems, and apart from Mayumi Haga, there is no one else who could get hurt.

So, did Magical Girl Crimson's attack actually damage the Dragon of Wisdom?

The answer is yes.

Such a powerful attack, enough to destroy half a city, would cause even the intelligent dragon itself to let out a painful roar.

During this process, part of the calamity-corroding substance on its head was evaporated by the high heat, revealing a bloody, rotten head riddled with wormholes.

However, the deeper things cannot be completely cleared away.

The dragon's body is far tougher than imagined, and the Calamity also has the ability to aid regeneration. Its original flesh is cut away, then the Calamity fills in, transforming into a disgusting, sticky, blackish-red rotten flesh, mixed with some purple tendons.

The once beautiful dragon became increasingly ugly, and its aggression grew more and more ferocious, as it spewed a mouthful of decaying black flames at the magical girl Crimson!

Fortunately, although Hitomi Tono was furious, she still maintained a certain level of rationality and narrowly escaped when the black flames were about to touch her.

Although the dragon was huge, it was also agile enough that Hitomi Tono almost didn't react in time.

“...How disgusting…” Tono Hitomi murmured.

Everything in front of me can indeed be described as "disgusting".

Beneath the dragon's silvery-purple scales, the creature rapidly shrank, its once bright red flesh turning black and bluish-purple before detaching from its body and plummeting heavily to the ground like a dripping viscous solution.

Those black, unidentified objects corroded the dragon's body, covering its skeleton with filth, turning it back into a barely recognizable creature.

Its original eyes turned into water and all flowed away. But the eyes that grew later were not in their sockets; instead, they were sewn back onto its eyelids in a wicked way.

Its claws were outstretched, revealing a dense array of blood-red vertical pupils that bulged out like insect eggs.

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Main text: Chapter Fifty-Two: The Giant Craftsman

"Senior," Mayumi Haga said to Urzana after bringing back the scales of the Dragon of Wisdom, "is there any way to drive it away?"

“…I asked you to go see the dragon, and you’re thinking about this kind of thing?” Urzana looked at Mayumi Haga as if she were meeting the child for the first time. “Truly worthy of being a guardian from the Far East.”

In fact, Mayumi Haga was also immersed in that oppressive beauty, but when she came to her senses, strange emotions gradually welled up inside her.

“It can move. What if it gets angry? Wouldn’t there be no way to stop it?” Mayumi Haga frowned. She always felt that such a creature was roaming above her head, and she always felt like a giant sword hanging above her head by a thin rope. “Everything in the world has its balance. There’s no reason why a dragon is an unrestrained spirit.”

"Do you feel hostility towards clouds drifting across the sky?" Urzana asked with interest, sitting cross-legged with her hand on her chin.

Mayumi Haga said, "Even natural disasters can be overcome through human means."

Even if it comes at a huge cost, there must always be hope.

“We guardians generally can’t do anything to it,” Urzana waved her hand. “After all, blessings are useless against such a behemoth.”

Mayumi Haga noticed the key point in Urzana's statement and asked, "Generally? Are there any special methods?"

“When I was your age… I don’t remember how long ago that was, there were still many wizards. But now, the bloodline of wizards is becoming increasingly dry. Do you know why?” Urzana looked down and saw Mayumi Haga’s blank face.

Mayumi Haga guessed, "Is it because of a curse?"

“You guessed it right away.” Ulzana gave her an approving smile and couldn’t help but reach out and ruffle her obedient junior’s soft hair. “It’s because of the curse of the Dragon Hunter on the wizards.”

Long, long ago, there was more than one wise dragon in the world.

Ulzana didn't know the exact number, but the existence of multiple dragons had indeed brought disaster to the people living on this land.

Dragons that wield thunder and fire bring annihilation to human settlements whenever they merely pass by.

Although they are beings like elves, and have no hostility towards humans, their very existence has brought disaster to humanity.

So the wizards began to study how to drive away the dragon.

They will drive the lava dragon that turned the earth into a sea of ​​fire to the ends of the earth, drive the deep-sea dragon that submerged mountains and lands to the deep valleys of the sea, fill the dragon cave that cracked in the sky, and restrict the movement of the lightning dragon...

...During this process, a wizard accidentally killed a dragon that was an elf.

The abilities possessed by wizards of that era far exceeded the imagination of modern guardians; at least Urzana could not have imagined what it meant to "accidentally kill a dragon."

The plague dragon was killed by a wizard, and since then, wizards have been burdened with the curse of "dragon slayers".

The curse makes it difficult for wizards to give birth to children with wizarding potential, and most of them die young.

That's how the wizard's bloodline dried up; now, only one heir remains from that line of wizards.

“Even the wizard who made the paraglider no longer practices witchcraft; he only creates tools for the guardians,” Urzana explained. “The souls of witchcraft users are tainted with curses, so that craftsman gave up his identity as a wizard.”

"I see..." Mayumi Haga said with a hint of disappointment.

“Besides, the paraglider he makes for you might be his last creation,” Urzana said. “That old man has lived long enough and is about to return to the river of time, his skills about to be lost. If there are any other weapons or props you'd like him to make, remember to bring them up then, because they won’t be available again.”

"Is it really okay to exploit an old person like this?" Mayumi Haga felt uneasy.

"Just tell me if you want the dragon-slaying tool or not!"

“…I want to,” Mayumi Haga whispered.

Urzana and the old man were clearly old acquaintances... or rather, she was kicked out of the house by the giant old man with the white beard as soon as she entered.

"You still know how to come see me! You might as well wait until your father dies before you come and collect his body!"

The Giant Craftsman is Urzana's direct blood relative... actually, they are father and daughter.

The giant craftsman, with his white beard and thick fur coat, was twice the size of Urzana, and even the door frame of his house was taller than the one belonging to Mayumi Haga. Mayumi Haga couldn't even be seen by him at first glance.

"I brought my apprentice to see you, didn't I? Stop babbling!" Senior Ulzana slapped her father's stomach with a loud thud. "I'll give you some work to do!"

The white-haired giant then lowered his head and noticed the small guardian standing at the door. Mayumi Haga gave her elder a polite but awkward smile.

He looked down at Mayumi Haga, squinted and carefully compared their heights, a somewhat desperate expression appearing on his face, which was almost completely covered by his thick beard.

"...So small."

Haga Mayumi wasn't short for a human, and was quite tall for her age. But for the giant craftsman, the tools this little guy needed truly required him to carefully manipulate them with tweezers.

It must have been a long and agonizing process.

But since she was an apprentice brought by the unfilial daughter, practically her granddaughter, the giant craftsman only complained a few times before reaching for the tools beside him.

"So, what are you making? A paraglider?" He dragged out the box and rummaged through it for suitable materials. "You brought the dragon scales, and the frame... Ah, and the mountain god's bones are still here."

Mayumi Haga was curious about what was in the other person's box, but out of politeness, she didn't approach. The giant craftsman noticed her gaze and beckoned to her: "Come here, how am I supposed to know what materials you're suited for if you're just standing there?"

The black-haired girl looked up at Ulzana, who smiled and nudged her through the back.

So Mayumi Haga went over and saw that the giant craftsman's storage box was full of rare materials that were hard to obtain or were no longer available.

The giant craftsman seemed to have accumulated too many materials, and it would be a waste not to use them. Seeing that Yuga Mayumi didn't have any decent weapons, he secretly became happy. He rubbed his hands together and said, "Oh, there are just a lot of materials here that you can use... It's a waste to leave them lying around. I'm bored, so I'll make you some more things."

Mayumi Haga originally only wanted to come and get a paraglider, but she ended up with a dozen or twenty weapons that she couldn't use right now.

"Here you go! Anyway, there's only one dragon left in the world. It's a pity it died, and no wizard would put their soul into it... It probably won't be of any use. You can play with it if you want."

The giant craftsman shoved a weapon, now only the hilt, at him with the enthusiasm of an old man who had brought out all his snacks to meet his granddaughter for the first time.

Main Text: Chapter Fifty-Three: The Wizard's Finger Bone

The sword... or rather the hilt, was now just a bare hilt, smaller than expected.

Its surface is covered in rust, and it looks like it can only be used to crack open nuts.

“This is the weapon used by the legendary dragon slayer,” the giant craftsman said, his beard trembling. “I obtained it by chance, and it’s really not the type I can use.”

It's amazing.

No matter how hard Yuga Mayumi studied it, he couldn't understand how this small sword could kill a dragon whose size was comparable to a mountain.

In comparison, this sword, even if repaired, wouldn't exceed the length of Haga Mayumi's forearm. For Ryu, it wouldn't even be able to pierce his skin, let alone be considered a thorn embedded in his flesh.

"Excuse me, sir, how do you use this sword?" Mayumi Haga wanted to know.

The giant craftsman said, "You should ask other wizards about this; I don't know."

Mayumi Haga didn't ask again, but the question remained in her mind until she met another wizard.

Lania from the Wizarding Village.

Of this group of wizards who carried the curse of the dragon slayer's bloodline, only Rania remains. Apart from her white hair and red eyes, most of the other villagers have returned to their normal appearances, with many having dark hair and a wider variety of eye colors.

The wizard named "Shrike" looks to be about the same age as Mayumi Haga. Although he wasn't very friendly at first and still didn't like to talk properly later on, the two can indeed be considered friends.

After getting a little more familiar with it, Mayumi Haga took out the weapon that the giant craftsman had given her, intending to ask Lania how to unleash its dragon-slaying properties.

The little bird raised its eyebrows slightly when it saw the hilt of the sword that Haga Mayumi had taken out.

Lania wore traditional wizarding attire, but she disliked the somber, gray hues and preferred to use dyes she found herself to create brighter, more vibrant colors.

It's like a vain little bird with brightly colored feathers.

Rania's appearance was flamboyant and striking, with upturned eyes that gave her a beauty that was almost aggressive. When she was alone in the house, she went barefoot, wearing a pretty red string on her ankle, the little bells on it occasionally jingling as she moved.

Strangely, sometimes even when Lania is exercising vigorously, the bells don't make any sound.

"Ugh—this thing looks so unlucky." Rania took the broken weapon, which was said to have killed a dragon, from Mayumi Haga's hand, looking quite disgusted. "Where did you get it?"

"It was a gift from an elder," Mayumi Haga answered honestly. "Is it no longer useful?"

"No, it still works." With a slight frown of disgust, Rania didn't ask Mayumi Haga what she needed it for. She tossed it back into Mayumi Haga's arms with two fingers. "It just needs to be repaired, but the materials needed are a bit hard to come by."

Seeing her expression, Mayumi Haga asked, puzzled, "What materials are needed?"

Rania turned her head away: "I don't want to tell you."

Haga Mayumi:?

Rania's direct rejection had become somewhat familiar to Mayumi Haga. After all, that was just her temperament; she could become inexplicably unhappy, so it was common for conversations to end halfway through.

However, she really wanted to know the answer to the question today, so Mayumi Haga's tone was a little aggrieved: "...Oh."

"I'll tell you when I have the chance!" Rania suddenly stood up, clearly having no intention of continuing the conversation. "Get up quickly, how long do you intend to stay here?"

They didn't linger, did they? They just arrived, didn't they?

Mayumi Haga was used to Rania's dismissal and didn't argue, but instead got up.

She told Lania about her travel itinerary: "I'll come back to you in a while with the herbs you need."

"Go away, go away, seeing you annoys me," Rania muttered.

It's rare for someone to come all this way, and instead of asking how they've been doing, they come right up to this ancient weapon... How can there be such a person?

This time, Mayumi Haga did not learn the method for repairing and using ancient weapons from Rania.

Later, after Rania's death, she received a gift from her.

The proud little bird wrote down the method of using ancient weapons and handed over the important material to Mayumi Haga.

To reforge that ancient arrow, many materials that are now extinct are needed, and most importantly—the wizard's finger bone.

The human body has twenty-eight finger bones, but not every finger bone can be used to recast ancient weapons. Only the index finger joint of the dominant hand can be used, as it embodies the "primordial" essence of witchcraft.

There is also a saying that if that finger is chopped off, the wizard will lose his ability to cast spells.

After Lania died, she left behind all the materials that Mayumi Haga might need.

The finger bone needed for the Haga True Bow was also placed inside.