Ch.313[Chapter 313] Dragon Slayer
by fnovelpia
Each scale was as large as a tiger or bear hide, and the dragon’s body, if stretched out, would be hundreds of meters long.
With a loud bang! Sir Dominic’s shield struck the dragon’s rough skin.
“Kuh!”
However, the dragon only let out a slight groan without suffering any status ailment.
Although the previous patch had changed the mechanism so that status effects would trigger on critical hits, the effects had been weakened accordingly, making them unable to penetrate the dragon’s resistance.
Even though Sir Dominic felt the tingling sensation in his hands that indicated a critical hit had landed, the dragon’s resistance remained incredibly powerful.
Sir Dominic slightly lifted his shield to check the dragon’s condition.
Beneath the shield was a single broken scale, with only a small amount of blood underneath but no visible wound.
Even that minor damage was instantly repaired by the dragon’s regenerative abilities, rendering Sir Dominic’s attack completely futile.
“…That’s cheating.”
Sir Dominic vaguely understood why people often muttered that he was cheating.
Status effects didn’t work properly, attacks barely connected, and even when they did, the damage healed immediately.
In this seemingly hopeless situation, Sir Dominic let out a deep sigh.
“Haha! How dare insignificant creatures challenge a dragon?”
Almost simultaneously with that sigh, the emboldened Clan Leader Chingwon took a deep breath.
He intended to blow away these ant-like creatures with his powerful breath.
Clan Leader Chingwon called down lightning from the sky.
This was to protect himself during the vulnerable moment while inhaling deeply.
Below them was hundreds or thousands of meters of empty air, and above was the dragon’s wrath.
It was truly a desperate situation.
But as always, hope exists even in despair.
“Sir Dominic! There! That’s the weak point!”
Sir Dominic suddenly heard a voice of hope.
When he turned his head, Unryu Hime was pointing somewhere.
“That’s the dragon’s weak point!”
Sir Dominic looked in the direction Hime was pointing.
There was an inverted scale raised like a wall by the wind, revealing the dragon’s red skin underneath.
Sir Dominic instinctively realized that this was the weak point Hime had mentioned.
As soon as he identified the weak point, Sir Dominic began running toward the reverse scale.
“But be careful! If you touch that, the dragon will become enraged!”
“It’s already angry anyway!”
Sir Dominica shouted while blocking lightning bolts from the sky with her shield.
The powerful electricity made Sir Dominica’s wrist tingle, but it quickly recovered thanks to her strong resistance.
Sir Dominic rushed forward, paying no attention to the lightning falling from the sky.
Finally, he reached the reverse scale after instinctively sliding to avoid a lightning bolt that fell right in front of him.
The lightning barely grazed the top of Sir Dominic’s head, burning the tip of his feather decoration.
However, Sir Dominic was so focused that he didn’t even notice. As he rose from his slide, he lifted his shield and swung its edge against the dragon’s flesh.
“Hnnng—kack?”
The attack was truly effective, powerful enough to make the dragon, who had been inhaling deeply, choke.
The dragon wore a pained expression, unable to breathe properly for a full 7 seconds.
The air that had been deeply inhaled thrashed in its throat as if about to tear it apart, but being stunned, it couldn’t even breathe properly.
After 7 seconds that felt like 7 years, Clan Leader Chingwon could finally taste the world’s air again.
Not the sharp, uncontrolled air from before.
“Cough, cough! You… you bastards…!”
The dragon was furious.
Furiously enraged.
All the scales on its body stood up once before folding back, visually expressing its anger.
“Unforgivable, unforgivable! Arrrgh!”
The dragon soared through the sky with all its might.
It wanted to slam them into the ground immediately, but with its reason paralyzed by rage, it could only move quickly and shake its body.
Its speed exceeded the sound barrier, and the sonic boom echoed like thunder beneath the dark clouds.
Despite the dragon’s struggles, Sir Dominic, Sir Dominica, and Hime remained firmly on the dragon’s back.
Looking surprisingly comfortable, in fact.
“Um, Sir Dominic. About that flag…”
Hime, lying flat between the smooth scales, looked at Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica.
“Is air resistance also included in damage reduction?”
“…? I don’t know.”
Sir Dominic stood proudly on the dragon’s back, holding his shield in front and carrying his flag.
The same was true for Sir Dominica, who offered her own analysis to Hime.
“It must be because of the shield. The shield blocks the incoming wind, preventing us from being blown away.”
Hime thought blocking wind with a shield would actually make one more likely to be blown away, but she had forgotten one important fact.
The fact that this was Gachaland.
If the wind could be considered “additional damage from the dragon’s attack,” then it could certainly be blocked by a shield.
It was truly absurd, but what couldn’t be done in Gachaland?
A bug? No, it was a hidden feature.
Anyway, after thrashing about tremendously, Clan Leader Chingwon seemed to recover from the effect of the reverse scale and once again stopped in mid-air.
Then he turned back to Sir Dominic, Sir Dominica, and Hime and said:
“Haha! How dare insignificant creatures challenge a dragon?”
Sir Dominic stared at the dragon’s face, which had somehow started to glitch.
Wasn’t this the exact same line the dragon had spoken just moments ago?
If so, then the next action would be…
Yes.
The dragon began to inhale deeply again.
And lightning started to strike from the sky once more.
Sir Dominic realized that the current situation was a repetition of what had just happened.
“Sir Dominica! Over there!”
As soon as Sir Dominic grasped the situation, he located the nearest reverse scale.
And he signaled to the person closest to it.
The dragon’s back was so vast that Sir Dominic, without any movement skills, couldn’t cover all the reverse scales himself.
“Got it!”
Sir Dominica approached the reverse scale just as Sir Dominic had done, and delivered a convincing blow to it—a [Shock and Awe].
Once again, the dragon began to thrash about.
But there was one difference from before…
“Argh, arrrrrgh!”
It seemed closer to fear than anger this time.
…
Earlier, after the dragon had ascended to the sky and thunder and lightning began to strike wildly, the battlefield had entered a lull.
Both sides had taken a step back to conserve their strength due to the lightning storm that struck indiscriminately.
Arkus and Ogreson were no exception.
“I have no idea what’s happening up there.”
“Well, from what I can see, it looks like a giant serpent has risen to the sky to challenge the gods.”
Arkus and Ogreson were looking up at the sky from the battlefield.
The current situation was so terrifying yet amazing that they had even forgotten they only had 30 minutes left.
No, not even 30 minutes remained now.
Arkus soon realized this fact and let out a deep sigh.
“Only 30 minutes left. I suppose this means we’re not worthy of meeting Sir Dominic.”
“I suppose so. Perhaps it means Sir Dominic’s status is that much higher. You know what they say—if an unworthy person looks directly at an angel, they die.”
“…That’s a doctrine used by imperial heretics. Not officially preached in Feralant.”
“Well, it’s a doctrine nonetheless.”
“Is that sword you’re carrying a Zweihander? No, you called it a Claymore, right?”
“What? The sword I use is a Claymore! Don’t compare it to a common two-handed sword like a Zweihander! This uses centrifugal force to—”
“What you said is similar. Even worse, actually. You brought up heretical doctrines.”
“…I understand.”
Arkus and Ogreson spent their remaining time exchanging banter and laughing, before eventually sighing.
Time was passing quickly, and they didn’t know what it meant.
They only vaguely suspected that when the time ran out, they might be expelled from this hall of warriors.
“Only 10 minutes left now.”
“Down from double digits to single digits. 9 minutes left.”
“My goodness. You can tell the difference between single and double digits?”
“…Who in today’s world can’t do that?”
Arkus and Ogreson began what might be their final conversation in Gachaland.
However, their small talk didn’t continue for long.
The clouds in the sky parted, and something began to fall.
“W-wait! What is that?”
“What do you mean? Ah! That, that is?”
Ogreson saw the giant serpent—no, Clan Leader Chingwon—falling as the sky opened up.
Clan Leader Chingwon was in tatters, with nearly half of his scales torn off, bleeding profusely as he fell endlessly downward.
The dragon broke through—no, tore through—the clouds, and light began to pour through the gap in the dark clouds.
As if the glory of the gods was shining from heaven.
And Arkus and Ogreson saw them.
Three angels descending from the sky.
Covered in dragon’s blood, cutting through the dragon’s flesh and blood with their shields, they looked like angels with blood-red wings—a man covered in red blood, with two women descending on either side as if supporting him.
The scene resembled two female angels supporting a male angel, as if the three angels had received divine orders to capture the evil serpent and banish it from the divine realm.
Arkus and Ogreson stared blankly at these angels.
And finally, Arkus realized that the man in the middle was Sanctus Dominicus, Sir Dominic, whom he had seen in his dreams.
“Good heavens… Sir Dominic…!”
“Sir Dominic? Is it really Sir Dominic?”
Arkus and Ogreson were so moved by truly seeing Sir Dominic that they fell to their knees and began frantically making the sign of the cross.
Truly, their saint had become a champion of the gods, a holy one, an apostle of the white raven.
They worshipped, praised, and prayed to their saint.
[00:00:00]
[The collaboration event is now ending.]
[All participants will return to their original worlds.]
[See you next time!]
…until they disappeared from Gachaland.
0 Comments