episode_0176
by fnovelpia“Let’s go!”
The low, thick roar characteristic of the dwarves erupted.
Dwarves began to pour out of the underground bunker like a tidal wave.
Dwarven torches soaked in devil oil burn brightly. With their fierce firepower reminiscent of flamethrowers, they overcome the chilling cold.
The crowd, divided into eight directions, swarms around. They move along the street and enter their respective homes one by one.
“It seems that Ulbram has succeeded in persuading people.”
“Yeah.”
Skadia, who had been looking down with narrowed eyes, snorted with an indifferent expression.
“Huh. I don’t know what else they’re planning, but it’s a meaningless outburst. The dwarves will become slaves again and live under the dragon’s management. ”
“That doesn’t make sense. Are you serious?”
“Do you really think that a bunch of insignificant bugs can turn this situation around?”
“No?”
“Huh?”
Skadia absentmindedly questioned the answer that was completely contrary to the flow.
“You can never turn it over. So don’t interfere or anything?”
“Ha. I wondered what you were talking about, and you seem to be worrying about trivial things like a small creature. There’s nothing to bother you about.”
“Do you swear?”
“Why did this body swear an oath to a mere human being… .”
“Huh? Why are you beating around the bush? Are you sure the guy is going to come later and say two things with one mouth?”
Skadia’s eyes twitched.
The guy who was trembling with his head sticking out from behind Assis was the only one who had a mouth. Why on earth would Assis show favor to a guy like that?
Even Skadia, who understood the ways of the world, could not understand it.
“Huh. If you want to make a promise to me like that, I will be lenient. I promise not to interfere with whatever you guys do.”
“Did you swear?”
“Don’t like it, you foolish little thing. If I swallow all those dwarves, I’ll chew you alive.”
In this situation, Karami laughed fearlessly. Skadia showed an indifferent reaction and lowered her gaze.
The underground city of Doomheim.
A dwarf’s haven where everything is covered in snow and ice.
“Huh?”
In that corner of Doomheim, a single point of light twinkled.
It was a small light.
A faint light trembled in the darkness.
Kang… .
The first sound of the hammer quietly shook the silence of Doomheim.
A second spark has been awakened.
The dim light became a little stronger.
The sound of hammers striking metal once again.
A short, sharp sound cut through the darkness.
The third spark was lit.
The light and sound grew louder as if chasing each other.
As the red light from the furnace dyed the walls, the hammering became louder and louder.
Fourth and fifth.
One by one, the sparks that bloom push away the darkness.
The lights continue and spread.
The sound of the hammer becomes deeper and more intense.
thud!
thud!
thud!
thud!
When I came to my senses, the entire Doomheim was breathing to that rhythm.
It was no longer iron.
It beat like the heart of the earth.
When all the sparks were finally lit, the winding dragon veins illuminated the underground city in a dazzling manner.
Light and sound.
Fire and steel.
The song of the dwarves, in which everything came together as one, resounded.
“What is this… .”
If there are stars in the sky, there are lights in the Underworld.
TheForge Milky Way.
The heat and soul of the dwarves flow through the dragon veins to the heart of Magmar.
Bang─!
Bang─!
Magmar’s Heart Core Room.
Torvar hammers the dying embers with his hammer.
Sparks fly everywhere.
A huge furnace boiling with dwarven fire.
Even when sweat pours down and the heat makes it hard to breathe, Torvar doesn’t stop.
Torvar, the Arbiter of Flames.
He always ignites the spark.
And beyond the broken door.
“Wow… .”
Perka engraved the sight on his retina.
The master that all dwarves aspire to be.
A spark blazes in his pupils.
My heart pounded as if resonating with the sound of the keys.
Perka’s dwarf DNA reacts.
The ice covering Doomheim is melting.
“You’re doing something stupid!”
“Wow, you’re not going to interfere with my promise to you, are you?”
“You didn’t think that a body like this, a true dragon, would keep its oath to a mere human, did you!”
I knew it, you fucking punk.
Karami cursed inwardly.
“You’ve been living for thousands of years, so you don’t have any shame, do you? ”
“Yeah.”
Even to Karami’s sharp remarks, Skadia did not react. Strangely, whenever she spoke to him, she would feel an uncontrollable irritability.
I prepared my magic to extinguish the spark that had begun to breathe again.
Karami also moved.
No more aggro.
His role ends here.
It’s time to pass the baton to Assis.
Assis rises from his seat.
He looked back, looked into Karami’s eyes, and held out his hand.
“Hand.”
“Yes?”
“Hold my hand.”
I wondered what he wanted.
It wasn’t a difficult request.
Karamigas placed his hand on top of Aasias’s.
As the hot body temperature was approaching, Assis flinched his hand greatly. But he didn’t dodge. He just stared blankly as if it wasn’t enough and waited.
Karami let out a small laugh as he understood the meaning.
“You’re a greedy slave. At this rate, I can’t tell who’s the master and who’s the slave.”
They held each other’s hands together, interlocking their fingers. Their fingers were tightly interlocked so that they would not fall apart easily.
“Is this okay?”
“… … Yeah.”
“Have a nice trip.”
I let go of my hands.
Assis, who still held the warm hand, lightly flew away.
***
The heat and cheers that filled Doomheim.
Magmar’s heart, which has swallowed the dwarf’s passion and soul, burns hotter than ever.
Absolute zero melts.
Put the cold air to sleep.
Skadia loses power at a rapid rate.
For him, the heart of Magmar is the pinnacle.
“You damn bastards. You still haven’t given up!”
Any more is dangerous.
We need to settle this quickly.
Skadia raised her head high, her mouth wide open.
The atmosphere is sucked in in a spiral shape.
A fierce whirlwind engulfs his body.
A deep blue light begins to emanate from the mouth.
The breath of Skadia that covers the world in ice.
A third breath is about to fall upon Doomheim.
Even though Magmar’s Heart has regained its strength, it cannot block direct attacks.
Assis blocks the front of Skadia.
“Are you going to resist this body until the end!”
“… Yeah.”
“Okay. Then try to resist. The power of this body!”
There was a flash of light as if an explosion had gone off.
Skadia vomited out the cold air that had been compressed to its limit.
Dragon breath shot straight towards Assis.
Assis raised his sword and drew his magic power to its maximum to create a defensive barrier.
A flash of cold light enveloped Assis.
Quagagagagagagagaga!
“Wow… !”
Countless loud, ear-shattering crashes overlap. The ice barrier is chipped away and shattered.
The Assis inside was not safe either. The cold air she gave off was even colder than that, and frost formed on her skin like spiderwebs.
The cold air seeps inside, attacking her mind and soul. It is trying to repeat the atrocities it committed against her in the past.
To turn Asis into an emotionless doll.
Although Assis has a high immunity to cold, his opponent is Skadia, an authority on the ice attribute. It is theoretically impossible to win by fighting with the ice element.
“Why don’t you know the heart of this body? The princess is different from those people. If you mix with them, the princess will become an ordinary, ordinary human being. Do you want that kind of future?”
“That… I don’t know.”
I never really thought of myself as beautiful.
I never thought of myself as being different from other people.
I don’t know what it means to be a normal human being.
He realizes that he is an idiot.
I don’t know what the other person is talking about.
I don’t know what I’m thinking.
I don’t know what kind of feelings you have.
but.
Assis looked down at his right hand.
A warmth that has not been dispersed lingers in her cold hands.
His touch.
His body temperature.
It still remains in this hand.
Hold on to that warmth.
“I want to fall.”
Now I understand.
Why did the tribesmen of Lake Fortress mourn Darka’s death?
I don’t want to break up with him.
“I want to be with you.”
The tribes of Lake Fortress too.
The dwarves of Doomheim too.
I want to watch them laughing and chatting from the side.
And I want to be with him.
No one can touch that heart.
A feeling that Assis treasures and warmth mix together and become one. It melts away the ice that was eating away at her without a trace.
At that moment.
Damn.
Just as a bird breaks an egg and hatches, the ice surrounding Asis cracks and breaks.
The blue pupils that are so bright they sparkle with magical light.
As the pure magic burst out like a storm, Asies wrapped his magic around his sword. He swung the ice sword diagonally.
The fatal blow cuts through the breath.
“No?!”
It wasn’t just Assis’s magic that cut through the breath.
A soft red haze surrounds Assis. The magmar heart responds to her passion, sharing its heat.
“Knock on your heart! Burn your soul! Forge the legend!”
The earth throbs.
The slow-moving heart of Assisi then began to pound.
Kyaang!
When the hammer is struck, sparks fly into the sky.
What melts into the sparks is people’s sweat and passion.
It is absorbed into ASIS.
‘It’s hot….’
It’s hot, beyond warm.
Dwarves are blacksmiths.
The role of the blacksmith is to create weapons for the hero to use.
Assis itself becomes a weapon, becoming stronger the more the dwarves strike the hammer.
Assisi is no longer alone.
A lot of people are with her.
If it’s this.
‘I can do it.’
Ice wings created on Assis’s back.
It divides the breath and passes through it.
Reaching the sight of Skadia in one breath.
Draw the sword up diagonally and quickly.
Slaps Skadia’s chin.
Thud!
“Keuk!”
The mouth is shut and the breath is forcibly cut off.
It doesn’t stop.
The attack is piling up.
Every time the sword light flashes, Skadia staggers greatly along the sword path.
Asies is strengthened while Skadia is weakened. With the power of Magmar at its back, Asies’s strength surpasses Skadia’s.
The battle continued there.
The meaning of steadily weakening Skadia’s stamina is finally realized. The Goddess of Victory raises Assis’ hand.
Escadia was momentarily taken aback by the unexpected power, but quickly regained her composure.
No matter how much Asies runs wild, he can’t cause any significant damage.
The sound of the hammer is also quickly dying down.
Not only physical strength, but also the dwarves’ spirit and passion are being transferred to Assis. Even if they are dwarves, they cannot pound the hammer indefinitely.
If you hide your weakness and stall for as long as possible, you will eventually win.
Skadia had no doubts about victory.
Before the Asis who had been caught behind came aiming for the inside of the wing.
Skadia flapped her wings hastily, creating a gust of wind.
‘chance…?’
That suspicion passed through his mind for a moment, but Assis continued to aim for that place. It was definitely not a coincidence.
Skida is embarrassed.
“How did the princess do this…!”
It was nothing else.
What Asies was aiming for was Skadia’s weakness.
It was a reverse scale.
Although Assis is favored by Skadia, he has never revealed the location of the scale. However, Assis is aiming for it accurately.
Assis recalled what Karami had said just before the battle.
-Listen carefully. Dragons are strong, but they are a perverted species. They are born with their weaknesses exposed on the outside of their bodies.
– It’s called a reverse scale. The dark scale on the inside of the wing on the back of Skadia’s back. That’s his reverse scale. Aim for it. You’ll love it.
Assis declared with action.
With this sword, I will kill you.
At that moment, for the first time in her life, Skadia felt fear at the thought that she might die. At the same time, what filled her emotions was anger.
“How dare a bitch who doesn’t even know her place try to kill me!”
Skadia swings her claws, but is helplessly repelled by Assis’s sword.
It was now meaningless to even retrieve the guardian deity.
Because the balance of power had already collapsed.
It was the price of endless arrogance and carelessness.
‘You have to step back first…!’
Skadia turned her back to escape.
It was a naive judgment that came about because I was gripped by fear for the first time in my life. It was no different from telling the other person to kill me.
There was no way Assis could miss that opportunity.
Swish!
I accelerated and climbed onto Skadia’s back.
Grabbing the giant wings and forcibly pulling them back, scales of a unique color are revealed.
Skadia glides wildly.
He performs dangerous aerobatic maneuvers to shake off Assis.
It blew out ice fog and shot out sharp spikes, but Assis held onto his wings tightly and did not move.
“Stop it, princess! It is this body that gave you protection. This body is no different from your parents!”
“… … .”
“That, that’s right! Don’t you want to go to the kingdom? I’ll release the king and queen. What do you think? I’ll give you back all your memories and emotions!”
It’s mean, but you have to endure it.
Just once.
You only have to get over the situation once.
Scadia tried to use her brain, but it didn’t work.
Because Karami had already taken all precautions to prevent her from being shaken.
Assis gathers all of his remaining strength. Blue-white magic is placed over the red aura. Two opposing energies are imbued into the sword.
“Princess!”
Assis moved his mouth quietly.
“Sleepy… .”
“… What?”
“Cut it.”
I want to finish quickly and go to sleep.
In his arms.
Assis is indifferent.
He stuck his sword into the reverse scale.
***
The dragon falls.
The dragon that once threatened the world falls to the ground.
The aftermath had an immediate impact around the world.
“Chief! Heaven!”
Lake Fortress.
The tribesmen look up at the sky.
The clouds covering the entire permafrost zone of Isenggar disperse, the snowstorm stops, and the unusual cold disappears.
The sky is clearing.
Countless twinkling stars and aurora show off their light.
“Chief, did they really do it?”
“… … .”
Yorn stared silently at the sky.
I quietly recalled the fairy tale Darka had told me.
Not only that, the city and people that were frozen by Scadia are freed.
The dwarves of Doomheim stopped hammering and watched the ice crystals scatter.
Percado, the Seven Dwarfs too.
Karami was sitting on the ice bird and leisurely floating across the sky. He was lost in thought after crossing another large mountain.
A shadow is cast over him.
Snowflakes falling from the sky.
Assis lands.
Assis sat down naturally without saying a word and laid his head on Karami’s thigh.
He yawned slightly and closed his eyes.
Not long after, the sound of quiet breathing can be heard.
Karami stroked her hair with a bitter smile.
The heat of the magmar had disappeared, but Asis was definitely warm.
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