NOVEL NEXT Chapter 313: Dragon v Frog
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The Frog Prince croaked at the dragon in the air, indignant at the fact that it intruded on its territory.
'What are you doing here, Enchanted Queen? This is not your territory!
The Queen laughed at his words.
'It still is. You turned coats and sided with the enemy, but this swamp bayou is still mine.'
It turned out that the Frog Prince was once a citizen of the Queen's kingdom. Perhaps, the reason why the Queen accepted Atlan's proposition was because it gave her a reason or excuse to teach traitors like the Frog Prince a lesson.
The Frog Prince, in response, bloated its stomach, making himself look much bigger, and therefore much more intimidating.
'
Leave now or this will be regarded as a declaration of war. You do not want to fight against our army.'
This was the first time Atlan saw an indication of two different factions of Canzers fighting against each other.
Atlan could only shiver at the thought of millions of Canzers fighting against each other in an all-out war. But it seemed that the Queen
wasn't afraid at all. She continued to invade the Frog Prince's territory as if it were her own.
She dove down towards the Frog, but in the periphery of her eyes, she saw a giant sword coming towards her wings.
The Queen snorted. She found it insulting that the humans thought they could fight her with their paltry numbers. If it weren't for Atlan, then she would have destroyed them just because they were interfering with her fight with the Frog Prince.
With one swing of her wing, she blasted the sword away, sending the giant Swordmaiden apparition tumbling backward.
Ninth and the rest of the team were surprised at the dragon's strength. The fact that it could repel the Swordmaiden's sword so easily meant that this was not an opponent they could defeat without the use of their domains.
"Brace yourselves. This dragon is on a whole other level…"
"We can't defeat both at the same time. We should split up."
"We can't split up. We'll be lowering our overall strength and we won't be able to fight them."
"Then how are we going to defeat both?!"
Ninth raised her hand and stopped her team from arguing. She then looked at Atlan's battle suit and asked for help.
"Carmine, any ideas on how we can disable the dragon so that we can kill the frog?"
The other side didn't answer for a few seconds. The team of Specialist Operators in the Emergency Meeting room were debating and brainstorming ideas on how to deal with the current problem.
It was one thing if they were just fighting against two different Canzers at the same time. That was easy. The problem lay in the fact that they were fighting the Enchanted Queen. Of all the Canzers that had to interfere, it was extremely unlucky for it to be the Queen.
It was already hard dealing with her if she was alone.
"It's complicated. There are contradicting sources about the Enchanted Queen's weakness. Some say that a lightning strike from the heavens will paralyze her, but according to some books, that will only make her stronger. Some say that a boulder will crush her into immobility, but some say that it will only anger her into a furious rage."
Carmine and the others couldn't decide which story was true.
"What should we do?" the team asked Ninth. She was ultimately the one to decide which one to go for.
Should they strike lightning at the dragon, or should they bury it in a large boulder?
Ninth knew that it was a hard decision, something that could not be made with little deliberation. But she was a leader. She had to choose before the Dragon killed them.
"We should go with—"
But before she decided, Atlan suddenly walked up and put his hand up towards her.
"We shouldn't do anything," he said.
"The dragon will kill us all if we don't kill it first."
Atlan shook his head. "Will it? When I first met the dragon, it could have killed me. But it didn't. It let me go. I don't think this dragon has any bad intentions towards us."
His words made the whole group silent. It was inconceivable to them that a Canzer would harbor no hostility towards a group of humans who had the deaths of thousands of Canzers in their hands.
"We can't do anything. Those Canzers will not wait for us to deliberate whether the dragon will kill us or not—"
But before Ninth could finish, Atlan pointed towards the horizon.
Everyone's eyes were led toward the Dragon and the Frog.
The Dragon swooped from the air and tackled the Frog, sending it flying through the bayou.
It took no effort from the dragon to send the gigantic Frog Prince tumbling through the air and landing on the creek. The crash sent swamp water flying out and created a mini tsunami that rocked the raft that carried the whole team.
After a few seconds, everything settled down.
The Dragon was still high up in the air. Meanwhile, the Frog Prince was on its back, with its limbs showing no sign of movement.
"Did…did the Dragon just kill the Frog?"
"A Canzer attacking another Canzer?! I've never seen that before…"
"Are the two of them fighting against each other? This is great for us!"
The team celebrated the fact that the two Canzers seemed to be on completely opposite sides.
But the only ones who stayed quiet were Ninth, Atlan, and Carmine.
"This is not good," said Ninth.
"...I don't know if it was on purpose, but the dragon made things harder for us."
Before the team could question why Ninth wasn't celebrating with them, they all suddenly heard a groan from the giant Frog.
CROAK!
The Frog Prince's body started convulsing as if the ligaments in its body were changing and transforming into something different.
The Frog Prince was undergoing his transformation!
Meanwhile, the Dragon looked over to Atlan and gave him an imperceptible smile.
'The stronger the opponent, the stronger you will get, right?'