"How 30 dragons protected a town"
21 layers beneath The City of Middlepoint, far into the layer, there is a small town. Due to its remote location, its inhabitants had to manage on their own. And for a long time, they did. At least until a group of raiders learned about them and decided to pillage their settlement. Once they left, the townsfolk continued their lives, rebuilding what they had lost during the attack. So the bandits robbed them again.
During the third attack, one of the town's inhabitants had enough. They attacked one of the bandits out of the shadows, unseen. When the bandits' leader learned about that, he gave the townsfolk 24 hours to hand over the guilty person.
On the same day, a new guest visited the town. It was a young woman, a merchant selling pet dragon homunculi of Small Animals, co. and a Golemancer. For whatever reason, she decided to help the people of the town. During those 24 hours, she tinkered with her homunculi, adding attack modules to them, and searched for various hiding spots.
When the raiders arrived, she and her little army were already ready. One by one, her dragons attacked from hiding and disappeared before anyone could react. They glided off the building, jumped out of the sewer grates, and crawled out from beneath the cars and rubble. And they bit and scratched and clawed the bandits only to disappear again.
And so, at some point, the bandits decide that the hassle is not worth it, and evacuated themselves. The sales of golemancer's dragon pets skyrocketed. And once the raiders noticed that the homunculi were there to stay, they decided to find another target.
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