When Yumir came to himself, he was in a world he had never experienced before.
"Huh?"
He tilted his head and looked around. The skies were all red, and the lands glistened in bloody light. It was strange, this new environment that he did not want to get used to. Just being here made him feel unpleasant, but he still felt an odd sense of safety.
"Grandma? Noona?"
Looking for the ones he had been with just a moment ago, he spread his mana, but in vain. Nowhere in this wide world could he sense their mana.
They definitely destroyed a magic formation together, came back to Earth, and just as they were about to return to the mansion, he seemed to get dizzy; then an unbearable pressure assaulted him, blowing his consciousness away.
And when he woke up, he found himself here. He did not know what was happening.
"Dad...."
Yumir looked for his dad first in this unknown situation. That wasn't in vain, as he could feel traces of Yu IlHan throughout this world. Of course, those were just traces, and the person himself couldn't be felt, but right now, that was enough.
"So Dad came here before."
Having reached a conclusion, Yumir felt calmer than before. Just with the fact that Yu IlHan had been to this place before, he could sense the connection between him and Yu IlHan.
Holding back tears on the spot, Yumir pondered. If it was his dad, what would he have done in this situation?
"I know, kill everything in sight!"
That was all he saw of Ilhan as he grew up, and the only viable conclusion he could reach! In fact, Yu IlHan was doing the exact same thing on Earth right now, so Yumir had seen through him completely.
Yumir first grilled the dragon meat in the magic bag Kang MiRae had given him, then ate it. And he became level 192. Really, he was not that far off from evolving into a true dragon.
"....Good."
Since he was full, Yumir tensed himself and spread out his senses again. This time, he wasn't trying to find other people, but to find the weakest enemies to kill.
However, the results were insane. He could only sense the auras of strong beings he had never sensed before on Earth or any other worlds!
"Wow, so strong. Level 250, 253, 261, 274, 280 .... Hmmmm."
At his current level, level 250 was somewhat doable, but anything above that, he thought it was impossible. Perhaps things might change if he became a true dragon after the 4th class... but since the world he came to was full of these freaks, Yumir was only confused.
"....Okay."
However, his disappointment did not last long. Many strong enemies meant levelling up faster through defeating them! His dad would be happier if he came back stronger, and he would also be able to fight against stronger enemies.
His instinct told him to dig a hole and hide, since only stronger monsters than him were here, but as he had grown after fighting monsters nonstop for a few years, Yumir knew very well that such embarrassment would disappear only after enduring it.
"Then let's go with this guy first?..."
Just as he was about to start defeating them, starting with the lowest-levelled one, he sensed a new presence he hadn't sensed before.
"....Huh?"
The monsters he had found so far all belonged to freaks with a minimum level of 250, but the one he sensed now was level 1, or at most level 2. And they were bunched up in one spot.
Humans. Yumir instinctively felt it. Weak, and young humans.
How? He didn't know, but he couldn't let this be. A frightening monster had sensed them and was fast approaching. However, it was fortunate that there was only one.
"Hhp!"
After realizing that, Yumir kicked off the ground. His chantless wind magic made his body lighter than ever.
At that time, he could hear a voice through the wind from not far away.
"Hik, Hiccup."
"I'm scared. I'm scared."
"Mommy, daddy...!"
It was the basics to hide one's presence once one was placed somewhere unknown, but those foolish human children were crying their hearts out as if someone would come help them if they did. And as expected, the monster raised its speed after settling on the target.
Yumir clicked his tongue and sighed, as his dad always did when he saw such people, and thought he could use this situation to his advantage.
Now, Yumir's concealment had also reached the master stage. Although he wasn't confident it would work against such a high-level monster, if there were beings capable of diverting its attention from him, his chances of success would increase.
'The strongest strike. And another strike hidden in that strike. I'll be able to kill it if I do that.'
Thinking like that, Yumir took out a magic stuffed cookie from the magic bag and crunched on it. Yu IlHan's dragon cooking, magic-stuffed cookies, and numerous other cooking methods also raised Yumir's cooking skill considerably, and perhaps thanks to that, his overall power increase from a single magic-stuffed cookie was over 20%.
'Fuu, good. I can do this, it's possible…..!'
Strong power gathered on his fist. The aura of wind enhanced by the 3 class advancements, the physical combat he had inherited from Yu IlHan and trained in, and the Superhuman strength he had also inherited were all the power he could use at once right now.
Yumir could find the humans soon. As he had predicted from the beginning, young human children had gathered up in one spot.
Babies that didn't even look 3 or 4 years old. In fact, they weren't that much older than Yumir, but the difference in their power levels was rather deplorable.
"I'm scared!"
"Mommy, where are you!"
[Kuaooooooooooooh!]
Instead of the mommies they were looking for, a monster replied. It was a horrifying one with a height of over 20m tall, and one that spat out flames from all over its body.
Yumir could not understand its body structure despite looking at it, but was also assured it was not an enemy he could not defeat. A full-frontal fight was still impossible, but if he could take advantage with a surprise attack, it would be doable.
Yumir's innate attribute was wind. It was a sharper sword than anything, and at the same time, a sturdier shield than anything. He enveloped his body in wind to avoid being injured by the flames and gathered all his destructive power into his fist.
'Sharper, sharper, sharper.'
As if hypnotizing himself, Yumir muttered and leaped with all his strength.
Although he couldn't leap several kilometres in one go as Yu IlHan, the wind aura beneath his feet served as a boost, so his speed was not inferior to Yu IlHan's instantaneous speed. The results of his training to move as quickly as his dad had finally borne fruit.
[Kioaaaaaahk!]
"Uwaaaaaaan!"
"Monster, monster scary! *Uwaaaan*!"
The children cried, and the monster found them and was about to assault them in a joyous mood.
But at that moment, Yumir's frontal fist pierced through all the flames that guarded its body and hit the center of the head!
[Critical Hit!]
[Kuoooooh!]
The monster screamed. However, Yumir accepted it not as a threat but as a new opening and moved his body once again. While his momentum was still going, he kicked the monster's head just like that!
[Critical Hit!]
Yumir's kick, covered in advanced wind magic, had a strong affinity for the flames on its body. Even the flames meant to protect the freak's body were his as he proceeded forward. The perfect surprise attack made it lose all its flaming armour and allowed a near-fatal strike to its neck!
Of course, that was only possible because Yumir had fantastic control over his wind magic. Yumir's ability to control the wind to soften anything each time he faced an external shock was already beyond that of a simple 3rd-class.
[Kuoooooh!]
"Hmph!"
The monster that allowed 2 critical strikes to Yumir without even fighting back roared and turned around. Although it wanted to eat those annoying crying kids, it was in too much pain to ignore Yumir!
"That's not enough!"
However, its flames could not harm Yumir at all. Yumir, born from the flames Yu IlHan had put his heart into, had an innate resistance to fire, and that resistance, paired with advanced wind magic, went beyond just enduring the flames and instead used them against it.
"Wow, that!"
"It's the hero!" 1
"Hero!"
The children who could speak a little forgot about crying and shouted with glistening eyes. Yumir thought that idiots were really not to his liking, and applied more mana to his body. 2
[Kihaaaah!]
"Give me experience!"
The freak with critical wounds on its head and neck went against the completely intact Yumir.
These demons relied more on their attributes than on their physical abilities, so Yumir, who could nullify their flames, could fight them head-on with little difficulty. The children couldn't even think about running away from this battlefield and watched the battle, entranced.
"Eeeek! Iiiiii!"
[Khuaooooooooh!]
An unknown amount of time had passed since the cries of an infant dragon and the screams of a flame demon began to intermix. At last, Yumir's fist smashed against the monster's giant head.
[Kihk, Kihi...]
The monster couldn't even shout one final word before collapsing to the ground. At that moment, some unknown text appeared on the tired Yumir's retina.
[You have earned 37??91?782?4 experience.]
[You have earned the Lv 25 record?] In??r??????.] 3
"Fuu."
Yumir sighed and landed on the ground as if he were collapsing. The battle was harder than he had expected. It was easy to inflict damage, as the monster had lower health for its level, but that was offset by its strong mana, so every single one of its attacks was dangerous.
"Uu, so difficult."
And painful. As Yumir was no God, he could not control all the wind perfectly at every moment, so he was burnt here and there, and where he was nicked by the monster's fist, his bones could almost be seen.
Although he was recovering fast with Dragonblood regeneration, unique to dragonkin, it looked like it would take a little time for him to make a complete recovery. Of course, this was a low price for winning against an enemy 60 levels higher than him.
"The hero won!"
"Hero!" "Hero!"
The children gathered around Yumir. However, Yumir ignored that and looked at the monster he had just killed. Seeing him silent, the children also stopped in their tracks.
"Hero...?"
And then, Yumir started taking action. He ripped out some flesh from the monster he had just killed and took a bite.
"Kyaaaaak!"
"Kyaak! Kyaaaak"
"Hero is eating monster! Dirty!"
Yumir, who possessed Extreme poison resistance and higher curse resistance, ate away at the monster even while bearing the pain. Looking at that, the young children took a step back, but a growl could be heard.
"I'm hungry."
"I'm hungry too."
"Uuuuu."
Yumir stopped eating and looked at them. He hesitated a little before grilling a considerably less poisonous part and asked.
"Wanna eat? But you need to listen to me if you eat."
The children, who were too hungry to refuse, gave in to the devil's temptation and accepted the meat. The interesting fact was that they did not die even after eating the poisonous meat that contained a curse.
It was unknown whether this was due to some weird transformation in their constitutions upon coming to this hell, or something else, but Yumir couldn't think of that. He only thought the other kids could eat them because he could.
Looking at the children eating away on the monster's meat, Yumir smiled.
Now that they ate, they could not refuse him. No matter how young they were, or whether they were babies who couldn't even walk, it did not matter.
They were all Yumir's subordinates now. Although he didn't know where he could use them, his dad's field of expertise was making useless things useful. He believed that he could do it too as the next in line of the Yu family.
Dragon's Hell Army was born here.