"Excuse me, who is this Imperial Princess you're talking about?" Annan asked as he walked over.
The passerby noticed Annan's mage robe and answered cautiously, "We don't know either. There's just a rumor that an Imperial Princess has come to Mountain Keep Fief..."
"Mountain Keep Fief?"
The passerby pointed deep into the Broken Mountains. "Fifty li east of here. Its lord is Knight Makarov."
"Thank you. There's something else I'd like to ask." Annan chose his words carefully. "An Evil Dragon came to the Broken Mountains recently, didn't it?"
The passerby hurriedly replied, "It's southeast of Mountain Keep Fief. Have you come to slay the Evil Dragon...?"
"Is that Evil Dragon a chromatic dragon?"
"I think it's some kind of blue dragon..."
Annan suddenly understood. Had Illymoyas come to stay with a relative?
Wait...
Annan remembered that the Dragon Mother had said she didn't know where Illymoyas had gone either. Had she lied to him? Unlikely... The Dragon Mother spent all her time hoping Illymoyas would inherit her wealth. She had no reason to hide Illymoyas's whereabouts.
That meant this blue dragon was from outside her clan. And since it was an Evil Dragon, it had to be male... Illymoyas had another dragon behind my back!?
Hadn't Illymoyas been asleep all this time? When could she have... In the Dream Realm?
The more Annan thought about it, the more likely it seemed. What else would make a blue dragon rush out of her lair the moment she woke up!?
"That's right. I've come to slay the Evil Dragon..." Annan said through gritted teeth. "Where's the Mercenary Guild? I'm taking that Bounty!"
Following the passerby's directions, Annan arrived at the Town's Mercenary Guild.
In the nearly five years since arriving in Allen World, Annan had visited the Mercenary Guild only a