The moment Ul saw the figure, his eyes lit up!
He hurriedly shouted, "Natsu, come help me!"
"Hm?"
Hearing someone call his name out of the blue, Natsu looked around in confusion. Then he spotted Ul running at full speed, and his face broke into his trademark sunny (idiotic) smile.
"Hey! Ul, what are you playing at?"
"No time to explain, Natsu. Help me deal with the guy behind me first... huff, huff!"
Although Ul was in great shape now, after being chased for half an hour straight, he was starting to feel the strain.
Natsu curiously glanced behind Ul. His expression grew excited of its own accord, and he declared confidently, "No problem. Leave it to me!"
Compared to Ul, Natsu was a genuine brute!
One of his hobbies was fighting!
But don't get the wrong idea.
Although Natsu loved to fight, he was also a "kind" person.
What Natsu loved most was sparring with others to test their strength. He wasn't all that interested in life-or-death battles... In other words, this guy didn't kill people. He just beat them up.
Emmmm!
Even if they were his enemies.
Ul really didn't know what to make of Natsu's personality. Still... if he had a choice, he'd very much like to be Natsu's enemy, because that would definitely be the safer option.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist."
Bang!
"Aagh!"
The fight ended quickly.
From start to finish, Natsu simply let out a loud roar, then knocked the gorilla monster that Ul couldn't handle flat onto the ground with a single punch...
Ul had watched the entire fight, but not once did he show the slightest surprise.
After all, Natsu was a dragon's kid!
If Natsu couldn't even handle such a little monster, that would really have surprised Ul!
Although Natsu was only fourteen this year, he had trained in magic by the Fire Dragon King's side since childhood. His magic was already almost at the level of an A-rank Mage. And that was just his strength under normal circumstances—if he went all out, his power would be even harder to imagine.
After dealing with the gorilla monster, Natsu still seemed a little unsatisfied. He walked over to Ul with a rather bored expression, while Happy, his little tagalong, followed close behind...
"Natsu, are you two about to go on a mission?"
Looking at the backpacks Natsu and Happy were carrying, Ul couldn't help asking.
"It's not a mission. I'm going to look for Igneel!" Natsu replied.
"Aye... Let me tell you, Ul, you'll never guess! Igneel is a dragon!" Natsu had barely finished speaking when Happy suddenly darted out and said to Ul with a mysterious look.
Ul nodded faintly and replied with an unusually calm expression, "Oh!"
Natsu: "?????"
Happy: "?????"
Why did something feel off?!
Whenever Natsu and Happy told other people about Igneel, they got all kinds of reactions... disbelief, mockery, surprise, and so on!
But they had never run into someone who reacted like Ul.
So the boy and the cat were caught off guard for a moment. Their already tiny brains seemed to have crashed.
Ul didn't know mind-reading or Face Reading!
But from their reactions, he could still guess more or less what was going on.
And he had only one response to that!
Heh.
What was so surprising about knowing Igneel was a dragon?
Not only did Ul know Igneel was a dragon, he even knew Igneel had never gone missing at all. He'd been hiding inside your body the whole time, Natsu, you dragon's kid. So no matter how hard you looked, there was no way you'd find him...
Did he really need to brag about something so trivial?
Ridiculous!
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All right!
The real reason Ul didn't dare say anything was that he was worried it might ruin Igneel and the others' plan!
More importantly, Ul wasn't sure whether those dragons would come out and beat him to a pulp if he really did ruin their plan.
He figured it was best to avoid taking that kind of risk.
After helping Ul knock out the gorilla monster, Natsu soon left with Happy!
Natsu had a deep bond with Igneel, who had raised him from childhood. So whenever he heard a rumor about a "dragon" somewhere, Natsu would almost always rush over right away.
But the ending had already been decided long ago!
"Looks like humans aren't the only ones who screw over their own kids!"
Watching Natsu's retreating figure, Ul couldn't help letting out a sigh of "deep understanding."
After sighing, Ul shifted his gaze from Natsu to the gorilla monster lying unconscious on the ground.
A glint of cold light flashed in Ul's eyes!
The next moment!
Ul slowly spread his hands. His magic surged within him, and a deep-yellow Magic Circle, slightly darker than before, suddenly appeared beneath the gorilla monster...
Low-Level Magic—Rock Spike!
Squelch!
A spike made entirely of rock quickly emerged from the deep-yellow Magic Circle and pierced the gorilla monster through the chest, spraying blood into the air.
The unconscious gorilla monster's life force rapidly dwindled...
Not long after,
the gorilla monster finally died.
At the same time,
Ul suddenly felt his magic power surge by a noticeable amount...
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