Chapter 115

There weren't many dragons that could stir changes in their surroundings simply by existing.

The Agrix breed — the very symbol of House Albarant — was a prime example of that. Kazen was still only a subadult, yet he carried the power to shift the temperature around him simply by being there.

"I need to figure out whether the climate is changing just because this dragon exists, or whether the dragon is deliberately changing the climate."

I'd gone back to my lodgings and gone over the documents the Duke had handed me, carefully, line by line. The conclusion wasn't hard to reach.

"……It's deliberate. If this were a case where the climate shifted simply because the dragon existed, then strong winds and lightning would have been hitting that region constantly, the whole time the dragon's been there. But that's not what the report shows."

That much, at least, was a…