5 – The Seal of the Mar Dragon

Thud.

The Dragon’s head fell.

[Spatial Sense] had a short reach in itself, but it cut objects that touched the blade regardless of their length.

The Dragon’s neck was thick, but it was cut cleanly as if by a giant blade.

I landed a beat late.

The jet-black that had dyed the [Black Sword] crumbled, returning to its original black color.

I couldn’t create my own [Sword Aura], but I freely used both the Storm’s [Sword Aura] and Force’s [Sword Aura].

“….”

I looked up at the Dragon’s head.

I felt a sense of emptiness.

But,

‘With this, the world will be a little more peaceful.’

A Monster that had been sealed.

It must have tried to destroy the world in the past.

Amel looked at the remaining embers of life in the Dragon.

Win had said that Dragons were creatures that were almost like wills imbued with Mana. If so, that Mana presence was the Dragon’s life force.

Was it the Vampire Chief’s?

I checked the information window.

Come to think of it, I hadn’t seen the information window after it became a Dragon.

‘It’ll probably just be a grim black color.’

These days, I couldn’t distinguish strength by the color of the information window. Recognition through feeling was the only suitable standard for judging the opponent’s strength.

But in that case, the accumulation of experience was important.

It was like measuring length by eye.

But the elements that determined strength were much more diverse than size and length.

You couldn’t judge the opponent’s strength just by looking at the size of the Mana.

That Dragon was like that too.

The Vampire Chief, who had stolen the Dragon’s body, had a larger and more powerful amount of Mana than any opponent I had ever met, and even considering all the other negative factors, it should have been on par with the Death Knight, but its neck was easily cut off.

It was a waste if the hardware was strong but the software was bad.

Anyway, I looked at the information window.

Surprisingly, it was still working.

[Magical Dragon]

Grim black letters.

What was a Magical Dragon?

Wasn’t the Dragon itself a symbolic race that governed Magic?

I tried to recall the Dragon settings from reality, but I couldn’t remember well.

Still, I knew that many settings had Dragons as the originators of Magic. Magical Dragon. It might mean that it was a Dragon with outstanding Magic, even among Dragons with outstanding Magic.

‘It was still just that.’

I fed Mana into the [Black Sword].

The last ember.

Go out.

I fired a Mana cannon like Chocolat’s [Sword Aura].

The Dragon’s head was hit by the [Sword Aura].

But it was fine.

“….”

It’s sturdy.

Was it highly resistant to Mana?

Amel saw that the presence of Mana inside the Dragon’s head had become stronger.

The presence grew stronger and stronger, and soon moved its position to the Dragon’s forehead.

“….”

Was it the Vampire Chief?

Pshhh.

It pierced the scales.

…It wasn’t.

What emerged from the forehead was a woman with black hair and skin, the same color as the Dragon’s skin. She pulled her body out with the monstrous strength to pierce the Dragon’s tough scales.

No, rather than monstrous strength, it looked like… she was clearing the way.

The Mana that had maintained the Dragon’s toughness scattered along the path the woman passed, becoming weak enough to be torn apart by bare hands.

Sticky clumps of Blood wrapped around the woman’s body, refusing to let go.

[Vampire]

That clump of Blood was the Vampire Chief.

He desperately clung to the woman.

Even the woman couldn’t tear it off with her hands.

Even if she stretched her arms as far as possible, the clump of Blood only stretched.

But a horn that sharply pierced the clump of Blood.

When the horn pierced the clump of Blood, it was punctured.

The clump of Blood trembled and faded away, and the Vampire Chief’s information window disappeared along with it, confirming his death.

The woman pulled out the rest of her legs.

She sat on the Dragon’s head.

The woman, who had been looking up at the night sky, discovered Amel and looked down.

“….”

“….”

Silence passed between them.

The woman was a Dragon Girl.

She proudly raised her horns and wagged her tail.

A smile bloomed on her lips.

“You dared to cut off my head?”

“….”

I gripped the [Black Sword] again.

“Thank you! Thanks to you, I woke up!”

“….”

I received a thank you.

No, I cut off your head.

Above the woman’s head.

[Magical Dragon]

Grim black letters.

The information window revealed her identity.

“But you’re my enemy, right?”

“That’s right. I’m going to kill you.”

“How fierce.”

The Dragon Girl stood up from her seat.

She raised her hand.

Then the Dragon’s head disintegrated into particles. It wasn’t just the head. The Dragon’s torso, which was far away, also became particles.

The particles that had been the Dragon gathered at the Dragon Girl’s touch.

It took several minutes until they gathered.

The particles clumped together to form a large bead.

The Dragon Girl, who had completed the bead, said with interest.

“You waited for me.”

She rolled the bead between her fingers and then swallowed it into her mouth.

“It’ll take 100 years to return to my original form. What kind of cut leaves such a wound? Interesting. Analyzing the cross-section might help with the development of Magic.”

“….”

What was she saying?

The Dragon Girl muttered to herself.

Amel waited for her on purpose.

I didn’t feel like attacking an opponent who had no will to fight without hesitation.

Then, at that moment.

The Dragon Girl found a stake that had fallen nearby and reached out her hand.

Then the stake was lifted.

Amel watched the workings of Mana with her own eyes.

So you could handle it like that.

I could see with my own eyes that if you controlled Mana well, you could lift it because it had the property of repelling Mana.

“It’s rusted. How long has it been since it’s changed like this? It’s a shame, but those guys aren’t in this world anymore.”

The Dragon Girl looked at the stake and raised her hand as if she missed it.

Then she turned around.

She spoke to Amel.

“You’re thinking of fighting me, right?”

“So?”

“It’s a reward for waiting. Take it well.”

The Dragon Girl pulled her arm back greatly.

Then she swung it as if throwing something.

Then the stake flew.

The stake was at least hundreds of meters away.

But it was thrown with the Dragon Girl’s Mana and gained acceleration.

As it accelerated,

Cracks burst.

The stake, which had received the Dragon Girl’s Mana, flew while breaking the outer surface.

Crack.

Crack.

Crack crack crack.

And it broke.

The shell that was the stake.

What was inside the shell was a sword.

It was a giant sword.

The giant sword flew towards Amel like a missile.

I extended [Electricity].

The [Electricity] that ran to the ground connected to the giant sword and grabbed it.

“Haha! You really caught it!”

“….”

I took it as a preemptive strike.

Amel changed the direction of the giant sword with [Electricity].

I rotated it,

The rotating giant blade struck the Dragon Girl.

The giant sword, which was driven into the ground, easily split the ground and escaped in the opposite direction. It was still very sharp even though a long time had passed.

“Hyahahahaha!!! You even wielded the Sword God’s sword?!”

The Dragon Girl had flown into the air to avoid the giant sword’s slash.

“To perfectly realize the power of nature with Mana. That power must be innate. Ah, I hate it. Talent is really hateful.”

She laughed happily, considering that she hated it.

The Dragon Girl lightly spread her hands.

“The will of the world that refuses change is the same now as it was then. I guess so. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have woken up so easily.”

A giant Magic circle was drawn in the air around the Dragon Girl.

The Magic circle soon rotated around her, and the Magic circle that drew a circle created a three-dimensional sphere.

The Dragon Girl said.

“Time.”

Huh?

What?

…Huh?

Thud.

I landed on my butt.

My chest felt heavy.

I grabbed my chest.

Near my heart. It felt like a lump of lead had formed, making it heavy.

“It’s a reward for waking me up. I won’t kill you. But I won’t let you interfere either.”

“Mana…?”

“Yeah. Here’s your Mana.”

The Dragon Girl picked up a new bead with her fingers and showed it to me.

I recognized it at a glance.

That was Mana.

It was my Mana that I had collected so far.

It was sudden.

‘Unexpected.’

Time Stop.

I knew because I had been hit by it in the [Duel Arena].

I had been hit by Time Stop.

I tried to generate Mana.

When I tried to gather it,

I could even sense that Mana bead.

But,

“You can’t.”

When the Dragon Girl grabbed the Mana bead in her hand, my heart ached as if it were being squeezed.

“Amazing. You’ve completely mastered your Mana? You’re not even a Dragon, but it’s amazing. You’re on par with a Lord. If I leave you alone, you might become a new Lord.”

A murderous intent flashed in the Dragon Girl’s eyes for a moment.

But she soon closed her eyes.

She judged.

‘It takes quite a bit of effort just to suppress the Mana. Amazing. A mere human has so much Mana. If I fought, I’d be robbed back.’

The Dragon Girl smiled brightly.

She was struggling,

But she showed interest.

“Well, goodbye.”

“Where are you…”

“Going…”

“…to go.”

Red light shone in the human’s eyes.

I thought she would be frustrated,

But the human’s fighting spirit became even stronger.

She wrapped Mana around the human’s black sword.

That was Sword Aura.

A barrage of rough Mana was fired at the Dragon Girl, who was about to turn around.

The Dragon Girl, who was focused on suppressing the Mana bead, couldn’t avoid it and endured it with her durability.

In the first place, attacks by Mana itself didn’t have much effect on Dragons.

“Haha… amazing. You’re using Sword Aura in that state? Are you really human?”

When I looked at the human again,

A smile bloomed on her face.

If it weren’t for the murderous intent flickering in her eyes, it was a pretty smile that I might have fallen for.

With a smiling face, she opened her eyes wide and said.

“You stole my Mana, right? Isn’t it too arrogant to judge that you’ve won just by taking away my Mana?”

“No, it’s right to say that I’ve won.”

The Mana that the Dragon Girl had taken was all the Mana that the human had.

I hadn’t been able to release the Seal and properly handle my body, but it was a ridiculously small amount to be from the human who had cut off the Dragon’s head…

But thanks to that, I was able to take it all away relatively easily.

The control of Mana was so strong that I couldn’t even take away the initiative over Mana.

Mana was the source of all power that allowed one to exert power beyond humans.

Since the fuel for that power had been taken away, there was virtually no chance for the human to win. The judgment that she had won was truly logical.

But,

She was coming.

The human was drawing in external Mana and rushing in with Mana Enhanced leg strength.