Ch.756Kill Each Other From Now On (2)

“Goaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The guardian fairies’ symbolic weapons, the high elementals, roared magnificently as they swung their fists at me.

Like fossils that had lived for over a thousand years, these elementals were immense beyond measure. My entire field of vision was filled with rock and ice.

‘This should definitely attract some attention.’

I smiled as I watched the meteor-like fists falling toward me.

Mocking the two guardians who, despite their cold facade, seemed to have forgotten the current situation in their obsession with killing me.

Everything was going according to plan.

Think about it. What would happen if such massive bodies suddenly appeared in the middle of a chaotic battle?

【 Goaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 】

Wouldn’t the ancient dragon, busy dealing with the dragonborn swarming like ants that had found sugar, finally look this way?

And it would discover the enemy of its mother who had provoked it and lured it here.

【 Kyaaaaaaaaak! 】

As expected, Nidhogg rose up flapping its wings like an agitated fighting cock and flew straight toward me.

With dragonborn clinging to its skeletal frame, it charged recklessly like a Russian driving an oil tanker after downing ten bottles of vodka.

“Kuk, Eirnesia! The dragon is coming!”

“I know that!”

The two guardians who had been trying to crush me with the high elementals’ fists urgently changed direction toward Nidhogg.

Though Nidhogg’s goal was to tear me apart rather than attack them, once that massive body started rampaging, would I be the only one under attack?

The guardians too would be sent flying like deer hit by a truck.

If they had been mounted on the high elemental of wind, they could have flown high to avoid the dragon’s charge, but earth and ice elementals had no such ability.

So, for better or worse, they had to face the dragon’s strike head-on. That is, if they didn’t want to be caught in the aftermath of an attack meant for me.

“Thanks for protecting me, you fifteen-hundred-year-old idiots!”

I thanked the two guardians as I kicked off the ground and took cover behind the wall of high elementals. I easily sliced through the elemental poetry they shot at me with Durandal.

Beyond the dissipating shadows of the elementals, a mass of putrid insects charged forward, thrusting its stag beetle-like horned head like an enraged bull.

The ice spikes as tall as pillars summoned by the ice elemental shattered upon collision with the dragon’s carapace, and the whirlwind of rocks shot by the rock elemental was smashed to pieces by the dragon’s swinging foreleg.

Then.

– KWAAAAAANG!

As a last resort, the two elementals’ fists collided with the dragon’s head, creating a thunderous boom.

—-

“Guaaaaargh!”

The high elementals, their arms instantly shattered, howled in pain as their bodies staggered.

The dragon, one of its horns broken, roared fiercely as it struck the elemental’s body with its foreleg, while the elementals, their arms restored thanks to Eirnesia and Tersillius, landed an uppercut directly on the dragon’s lower jaw.

A hand-to-hand battle between giants and a dragon. A spectacle one couldn’t pay to see.

And on the heads and shoulders of these monsters, dragonborn and fairies clashed, swinging claws and swords at each other.

From the fairy guardians’ perspective, they would have preferred to ignore the dragon and dragonborn to focus solely on me, but…

This was no longer a one-on-one battle in the air like before. How could they insist on such a thing in the midst of this chaotic melee?

“Don’t interfere, you pointy-eared bastards!”

“You’re the ones interfering! Stupid lizards, target the dragon, the dragon!”

The fairy guardian Eirnesia shouted in frustration.

She shot down flying dragonborn with elemental poetry, blocked magic and flames from dragonborn using elementals as shields, and swung her sword at dragonborn who broke through all those defenses.

Despite being a maiden who had lived for over a thousand years, she wasn’t just holding her own against seven dragonborn but actually pushing them back. However, it was obvious that her stamina was gradually depleting with each exchange.

“This cunning wench…! Was this your plan from the beginning?!”

Tersillius too was too busy fending off enemies from all directions to even attempt attacking me.

He had to deal with dragonborn rampaging in their greed to monopolize the dragon’s corpse while simultaneously controlling the high elemental to fight the dragon. Naturally, even a guardian had no leisure to attack me.

The dragonborn, easily withstanding ordinary attacks thanks to their scales, kept charging forward.

Nidhogg, who might spew its breath and sweep away everything around it if left unchecked even for a moment.

Both were threats the guardians couldn’t ignore.

Moreover,

【 Grararararak-! 】

As soon as Nidhogg spewed vast amounts of dark mana from the flesh below its waist, covering the ground like a lake, skeletons tainted with black mana crawled up from the pool and began to rampage.

Come to think of it, this dragon could crudely imitate Feyrus’s necromancy.

Though each skeleton was inferior even to a master-level knight, their sheer numbers made the already chaotic battle even more of a mess.

[ If hell exists, I imagine it would look something like this. ]

‘Indeed. Things went according to plan, but seeing it firsthand, this is chaos beyond chaos.’

I chuckled in agreement with Hersella’s admiration.

A massive melee of fairies and elementals, dragons and dragonborn, and necromantic skeletons. Even the center of a city under carpet bombing wouldn’t be more chaotic than this.

This spectacle was precisely what I had aimed for.

—-

When I was facing Tersillius and Eirnesia on the wind elemental, I had opportunities to inflict fatal wounds on them by manifesting Defying Fate, yet I fought with ordinary swordsmanship and provocations.

The reason was simple.

My goal at that time wasn’t to cut down the fairy guardians with all my might, but to push them into the midst of a chaotic battle.

Think about it. Suppose I had used Defying Fate to cut them down. What would happen next?

Were these two my only enemies?

What awaited me after expending significant karma to kill all the guardians would not be rest after victory, but the charge of a pack of dragonborn and the enraged dragon.

I would have to fight continuously against the dragonborn and Nidhogg that would come after the fairies, until they all fell or my strength gave out.

Why would I endure such hardship?

If I had intended to fight like that, I wouldn’t have come up to the hill in the first place.

The reason I led my companions back up the hill was not to defeat all the fairies with our strength and then deal with the rest, but to use the enemy’s strength against the enemy.

Therefore, instead of manifesting Defying Fate to cut down the two guardians, I provoked them again and again to make them use attacks large enough to attract attention on the battlefield.

To lure Nidhogg to this area.

I could have created a huge pillar of fire with the power of runes to attract attention myself, but… why waste my strength?

If I just irritated the fairies, it was obvious they would rampage on my behalf on a grand scale.

Look at that.

Dragonborn that would have taken me who knows how long to kill one by one were falling like porcupines to fairy arrows.

Even the guardians, difficult to defeat without Defying Fate, were consuming their stamina and mana like water as they struggled against the dragonborn and dragon.

Both sides were weakening without me having to directly intervene.

Yes, kill each other.

Satisfied that everything was flowing in the direction I had aimed for, I gave a bright smile to the different races killing each other.

– CRACK!

While tearing apart the bodies of dragonborn that came at me, not just the two guardians.

—-

Using the fairies targeting me as bait to induce a chaotic battle meant that I too would be caught in the middle of that chaos.

The dragonborn, crazed by the dragon remains that had appeared after hundreds of years, considered me an enemy just like the fairies.

“Are you after the dragon’s remains too, woman!”

Dragonborn kicked off the ground and charged, swinging claws covered in muscle and scales. Behind them, all sorts of magic spells followed.

“No, they were ours to begin with.”

Just like those dark faction bastards. Blinded by greed and rampaging without thinking, no different from dogs in heat.

With faces closer to lizards but without wings, they were probably at the upper master level at best. It was laughable how they charged at me relying only on their scales and numbers, not knowing they were rushing to their deaths.

“How dare a monkey like you! The dragon’s remains belong to us dragonborn!”

“Sure, sure. Only in your dreams.”

With the chaotic battle unfolding as intended, there was no need to conserve energy as extremely as before.

I unleashed the karma I had been suppressing and delivered merciless violence to the dragonborn surrounding and pouncing on me from all directions.

– PAKAAANG!

A blue afterglow arcing through the air shattered the magical formulas it touched and continued to clash with the dragonborn’s scales.

The fairies seemed to fight by targeting gaps due to their lack of strength to break through scales… but that was just because of their insufficient physical strength.

– KWADDEUDDEUK!

“KYAAAAK!”

Durandal’s teeth mercilessly tore through the dragon-imitating scales, carving deep wounds into the dragonborn’s flesh.

Unless they were complete semi-dragons with wings—equivalent to hero-class in human terms—the scales of wingless dragonborn couldn’t withstand my strikes.

“Not so tough after all. Your hardness was just for show!”

I swung Durandal and the Crimson Sword like a storm, rampaging relentlessly. Smashing dragonborn, skeletons, and the occasional elemental poetry that tried to exploit openings.

“Your back is exposed!”

With enemies all around, I couldn’t block attacks from every direction with just two arms… but that wasn’t a problem.

“No, it’s not.”

With a brief taunt, two crimson tentacles shot out from behind me, drawing the remaining two Crimson Swords from their sheaths.

A storm of slashes followed. The Crimson Swords, wrapped in the tentacles of the Karma of Murder, traced rough yet sharp trajectories as they swept through the dragonborn targeting my back.

[ Ahahaha! How delightful. They’re just hard enough that smashing them feels absolutely wonderful! ]

Hersella, wielding the Crimson Swords with the tentacles of the Karma of Murder as her arms, let out an excited, maniacal laugh as she praised the sensation of the impacts.