chapter 38
Episode. 14 lanterns (1)
■■■■■-!
The dragon roared. A thick layer of dust was lifted, revealing a large body.
The knights who faced the pupils of the guy who had been torn vertically let out a groan.
My hands and feet were shaking. My hamstrings were numb and I wanted to turn around and run away.
But I couldn’t. My superiors, Polk and Jack, as well as Richard and his colleagues were standing up proudly.
“Chwiiik!”
The first attack was for Rapture, who rushed to the dragon’s left side.
An ax full of golden aura struck the green scale.
After that, Richard and Aaron attacked from the right side of the dragon.
“2nd Platoon! Charge!”
Polk, who drew attention from the front, shouted.
Twenty knights, each holding a weapon, charged at that command.
They were high-ranking knights who handled the aura fully.
“aaa!”
The twenty knights split in half and clung to the dragon on either side.
jjwoong-!
However, their attacks did not even scratch the scales. Instead, only the grip of the knights was numb with the tremendous counter-resilience.
-Kraaak!
An angry dragon swung its tail.
It seemed to the knights that a great green wave was coming over them.
“5th Platoon!”
At Polk’s shrieking cry, the 30-year-old mid-level knights with large shields rushed at them.
“Oohhh!”
They blocked the front of the attacking dragon’s tail.
And flew away in an instant.
Thirty knights whose bodies were strengthened with mana, along with crooked shields.
However, thanks to that, the knights on the right, including Richard, were able to buy time to fall back.
Quagga-!
In the meantime, Rapture and the knights hit the guy’s left side without stopping.
Polk and Jack poked sharply between its claws and scales.
■■■■■-!
Pier, filled with rage, resounded once more.
Peer exploded right in front of your nose.
The bodies of the knights had no choice but to freeze.
The dragon thrust in its mouth as if it were about to chew Jack up and swallow it.
When Jack’s vision fills with pitch black,
Kwaaang-!
From the cave to the clearing.
Gide, who ran that long distance at once, was slammed into the top of his head.
At the same time, the dragon let out a roar.
It was a cry of anger, bewilderment, and pain.
“Gide!”
Richard looked at Gide.
An old man with a red-hot body and bloody air streams gushing out like steam.
He was old enough that it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed right away.
Looking at his unfocused eyes, Richard bit his lip.
“2nd platoon, retreat!”
Richard’s thoughts were broken by Polk’s cry.
At that word, the knights who were brandishing their swords madly followed his orders and retreated in perfect order.
“Kraaak!”
The dragon shook its head and cried.
A pain I had never felt in my entire life stabbed through the top of my head.
It was unfamiliar to me to feel pain from a dwarfed human who couldn’t even be a snack.
Jjoong!
Gide’s spearhead hit him in the lower jaw. The shock raised its head, and the dragon’s eyes glared.
patter-
A few shiny green scales fell to the floor.
“young master!”
Richard exchanged glances with Polk.
The 2nd Platoon retreated, but the commanders, Polk, Jack, and Richard, and the others did not.
Because they were the 1st platoon.
“Catch his eyes!”
Richard’s cry of faith reached their ears.
You can’t make Gide take all the risks.
I had to lighten the burden a little, even a little bit.
The 1st platoon moved as if they had given up their lives.
Richard’s dragon tooth violently squeezed between the scales.
The ax of rapture slashed at the tip of the tail, and Aaron’s spear wrapped in a piercing aura constantly beat the scales.
■■■■-!
“Don’t be afraid!”
When the dragon bloomed, Richard’s cry followed without fail.
Get the card-!
It wasn’t long before Gide broke another scale.
The dragon was to die for.
He couldn’t figure out how to counterattack in the current situation.
A human who attacks menacingly right in front of their noses.
If you focus on him, other weak humans will knock on your body without rest.
Even if it wasn’t a threat, he wanted to trample on those who were trying to damage his body right away.
But it couldn’t be.
If you try to pay attention to something else, you will be fatally attacked by the human in front of you.
dare.
like a human
Young dragons cannot use magic. To be precise, the wisdom was not ripe yet to perform the miracle of magic.
It was still more like a monster than a dragon, the supreme life form.
Kagak-!
Gide spurs the ground and rises into the air. His spear burned his back and shattered his scales. Blood flowed from between the broken scales.
But it was an opportunity for him.
The dragon tilted its head and tried to swallow Gide.
That moment.
A terrible pain erupted from his lower jaw.
“Kraaak!”
Richard, who had climbed up his body before he knew it, thrust his sword into his scarred lower jaw.
The Holy Aura cut through his strong muscles and opened the wound.
“3rd Platoon, charge!”
Twenty knights grabbed their swords and charged at Jack’s cry.
This time, it was both sides of the dragon.
In the meantime, Gide poured attacks from his back.
Cheolreuk-!
The chains that restrained the freedom of the gigantic body shook violently.
We must break this chain
The dragon, barely awake, chewed through one of the chains.
At that time, something red filled the eyes of the swollen guy.
Scars covering half of his face.
familiar face.
The red orc raised an axe.
“Chwiik! die! Die!”
Kwajik-
The dragon’s left field of vision was stained black.
The dragon raised its head at the intense pain it felt in its eyes.
But after a while, the pain arose again in the lower jaw.
This time, Aaron’s spear, wrapped in a piercing aura, was deeply embedded in his lower jaw.
“3rd platoon, retreat!”
Polk, who was watching the battle, shouted.
It was an excellent decision.
Bang, Quaang-!
As soon as the knights retreated, the dragon’s tail hit both sides of my body alternately.
coo goo-!
Overwhelming mana rushed into the dragon’s jaws.
Of course, Breath was not a desperate magic, but a mass of mana gathered ignorantly.
Seeing this, Richard drew in a deep breath.
and.
“Ballista No. 8, open fire!”
The forest shouted to leave.
Quaang-!
Immediately there was a roar. It was the sound of a ballista firing on a hill overlooking the battlefield.
A vicious lump of metal struck the mouth full of mana.
At the same time, a chain attached to a lump of iron wrapped around the upper and lower jaws.
Kwaaang!
The condensed mana exploded inside its mouth.
The dragon’s one remaining eye was bobbing up and down as if it were about to turn upside down.
“Oohhh!”
In the meantime, the tenacious 1st Platoon clung to it tenaciously, its scales breaking and stabbing open wounds.
Kwajik! Kwajijik!
Gide, who had been scratching his back, was hitting his left side fiercely before he knew it.
It twisted its body like a dragon dancing.
Worth it more than you think.
It was a thought that popped into everyone’s head.
“Don’t be offended! The opponent is a dragon!”
But Richard was never distracted. He shouted as if using a picket fence and climbed up the body again.
He desperately harassed the pitch, which was already a mess.
Even so, his gaze steadily followed Gide.
Gide’s explosive energy was gradually weakening.
His impenetrable life was coming to an end.
‘It has to be finished before then.’
No matter how much his stamina was reduced, only Gide could finish it off.
When Gide is knocked down, the outcome of this fight becomes unpredictable.
“charge!”
You have to see the end in it.
The Akmun Knights started to do their best.
So that Gide can run wild more comfortably.
The 6th Platoon, intermediate knights holding shields rushed in front of the claws that swung like they were scratching the ground, buying time.
In the aftermath of just one, they were knocked out of the distance and passed out.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th platoons, composed of high-ranking knights, harassed the dragon by moving organically as if they had become one body.
Gide’s attack, which reached the end, became more reckless. Losing his temper and striking the dragon mercilessly, his spear broke several chains.
“No. 13 ballista, open fire!”
Every time that happened, another ballista’s metal flew with a roar.
When that wasn’t enough, Adele’s tree rose up and entangled the green giant.
– Big!
Suppressed sobs escaped from between the mouths wrapped in chains.
“Die!”
Richard swung his sword.
Mana has long since bottomed out.
Now, the aura weaved with faith once again burrowed through the broken scales.
The knights let out a roar imitating a dragon.
The low-ranking knights stationed far away in Ballista also joined in and raised their voices.
Victory was on the decline.
The dragon’s eyes were filled with anxiety and scanned all directions.
Now I couldn’t find any fighting spirit in him.
The dragon who was supposed to see the world became a frightened lizard in front of only 200 humans.
The knights foresaw victory and continued to attack more and more fiercely, and Rapture, who became the incarnation of revenge, raised an ax to burst his one remaining eyeball.
suddenly.
Until the sky breaks.
◈ ◈ ◈
Less well-
The sound of bones crashing resounded.
An angry voice followed.
“Darkness… … The king’s darkness comes!”
Energy surged from the liches.
As the energy came together to form a complex formula, cracks began to appear in the sky.
crack.
The gates of hell that will stain this presumptuous world black.
Beyond that, red eyes appeared.