Chapter 80
The dragon was hovering in the sky . And at the huge dragon’s compound eyes, Tatsumi swung his sword with all his might .
While doing so, he channeled mana into the sword and activated “Mana Strike . ”
The sword then struck the flying dragon’s huge compound eye as he intended . However, Tatsumi felt that he just struck a hard rock with the sword .
Although the sword definitely hit it, it hardly flinched .
Tatsumi then invoked ‘Instant Transition’ while grimacing at the unexpected hardness . At the same time he disappeared in the air, he reappeared on the wall next to Calcedonia .
Accompanied by the sound of sparks, Tatsumi once again landed on the city walls .
Tatsumi looked up at the dragon, putting strength to his lower body and set himself up .
“…Damn! The compound eye is too hard!”
Tatsumi, who thought that the sky dragon’s compound eye was soft unlike the rest of its body, aimed at the compound eye .
Certainly, the compound eye must be one of the softest part of the dragon . However, it’s still considerably hard and attacking with an unstable pose in midair didn’t do much damage .
It looked exactly like a dragonfly, and its body’s features were also similar .
However, Tatsumi’s opponent was a dragon . A beast with the title of the strongest in the sky . It was not merely a large earthly dragonfly .
“You okay, Tatsumi?”
Bugarank rushed to help Tatsumi . Calcedonia was following right after .
“I’m fine . I think I can go on…”
“Is there a problem?”
Tatsumi nodded and told Bugarank of what he realized earlier .
“…I see . So that’s why it doesn’t use its legs in the air . ”
The two of them talked while the dragon watched them from the air .
It began to slowly approach the city .
The two amalgamations of myriads of eyes looked down at the defenders and seemed to be evaluating them .
But then again, it was impossible to tell where the compound eyes were looking at .
The dragon would soon enter the range of the defenders’ attacks .
Calcedonia and the others of the restraining group were preparing to attack whenever Bugarank sent his instructions .
“It doesn’t look like ‘Mana Strike’ is doing anything from the first attack . Though it was only the first attack . ”
“There’s nothing else we can do… For now, let’s just continue . ”
“I understand . ”
And at the same time Bugarank answered, Tatsumi disappeared with just those two words left behind .
Tatsumi teleported to the dragon’s eyes once again .
He had a close view of the dragon’s huge eyes, yet he could not read the countless cells at all .
Turning his eyes away from the dragon’s eyes, Tatsumi searched for another spot to attack . And then, he found the place .
──If going for the entire eye doesn’t work, why not go for the true eye?
Not just compound eyes exist in a dragonfly; the inner eye also exists . And this world’s dragon was the same as the earthly dragonfly .
At the point where the compound eye met the head─basically the inner carthus1 in a human─there was a protuberance that was the inner eye .
The Earthly dragonfly had three inner eyes but it seems this world’s dragon only had two .
At this time, Tatsumi’s body had already started to fall . Having calculated the speed of the fall in advance, Tatsumi slashed at the dragon with the momentum from the descent .
But just before Tatsumi’s sword hit, the dragon moved
A dragonfly’s sky-sidestepping that was unthinkable for a normal creature . The huge dragon slipped sideways right before Tatsumi’s eyes .
With the movement of such a large object in the air, there would naturally be a disturbance in the atmosphere .
The sudden gust swallowed Tatsumi without giving him any time to resist .
“Uwaaaaaaa!!”
He was played around by the whirlwinds, and his field of vision was changing faster than an Irelia getting a pentakill .
Even so, Tatsumi frantically tried to get a grasp of his surroundings . In the rapidly spinning world that he was in, he noticed a large black thing .
Before he realized what it was, Tatsumi’s chest was met with an enormous force . He couldn’t breathe because of the shock .
Luckily, he had the beast-material armor, extra armor under those, and a shield placed preemptively . His ribcage didn’t break, but Tatsumi was easily tossed away by the shock .
He was sent flying without being able to brace himself or resist .
idk wtf this is and wtf an inner eye is, so someone in the know please help
“H-Husbandddddddd?!”
On top the city walls, Calcedonia’s pained voiced shouted out
The things that happened up above the city walls were crystal clear to see
The dragon dodged Tatsumi’s sword and created a violent gust . Tatsumi, getting knocked over by the wind, was blown off by the tail .
Tatsumi was tiny compared to the dragon and couldn’t resist being swept away .
The dragon started to chase after Tatsumi after it knocked him away .
With the surprising speeds of the dragon, it wouldn’t even be a minute before Tatsumi was caught by it .
“Don’t do it!!!”
Twang . A steel arrow was shot at the huge insect .
The arrow was fired from Jadokh’s bow, Lyurn’s Strength . That arrow was wreathed in flames .
This was the magic effect of the greatbow . Any arrow that passed through the bow would have the power of fire added to its strength .
However, a normal wooden arrow would just burn out under the flames . That’s why the arrows for the bow were made with steel .
The flaming arrow headed to the dragon, which was flying swiftly
But the dragon was just that kind of peculiar monster . It suddenly halted in the sky and twisted to avoid the arrow with ease .
“Miloulle!!! The next arrow!!!”
“I got it!!!”
Knowing that there was an arrow waiting for him, Jadokh reached his arm back .
Miloulle had already taken an arrow out of the quiver, and she placed it on Jadokh’s outstretched hand .
Jadokh’s entire body’s muscles swelled .
He used two of his burly arms to firmly prop the bow into position, and the other two arms to pull back on the drawstring . Little by little, Lyurn’s Strength, a bow that couldn’t be used by an ordinary man, bent back .
Before long, he had stretched the drawstring to its limit . The arrow was fired once again .
The arrow wrapped itself in flames as it shot through the sky . However, this arrow was also dodged by the dragon .
That was fine, though .
A smile appeared on Jadokh’s shapely face .
The dragon avoided the arrow, but it didn’t notice the three spells flying to where it it dodged .
The wide-area attack magic of the Thunder System, Thunderstorm .
The piercing attack magic of the Flame System, Flame Lance .
And, the spell borrowing upon the spirits of the ice, Argentum Tempestate . 1
Calcedonia, Morganeich, and Eru . The powerful attack magics that the three shot all hit the dragon .
It was as if they predicted where the dragon would dodge . Countless bolts of thunder poured into the dragon .
The dragon tried to dodge the thunder too, but Calcedonia’s Thunderstorm’s range was too large .
Flashes of lightning pounded into a part of the dragon’s body─the right side of the wings . An untrained eye would think that the thin, clear wings would be fragile, but it was a wing of a dragon . In fact, the wings were stronger than steel, and they endured the attack from the spell .
However, the wings were not impervious to the attack . The dragon’s agility was temporarily shut down . With that gap, it was Morganeich’s Flame Lance to shine
The dragon frantically tried to regain mobility, but its efforts were in vain . The Flame Lance barreled towards the dragon’s torso, which corresponded to the dragonfly’s thorax, and hit .
The combination wasn’t thought through, yet it produced amazing results . This was Calcedonia’s and Morganeich’s distinctive partnership formed over years of being together .
Feeling some of the drive from their former days, the two looked at each other and smiled .
But as soon as Calcedonia realized what she was doing, she immediately averted her gaze . Morganeich could only bitterly smile .
Although the Flame Lance was specialized in penetration, it still could not penetrate the dragon’s exoskeleton .
Even so, it did not do nothing . A person would still die to pebbles if enough pebbles were thrown .
A storm of snow and ice barraged the dragon that had finally managed to regain its posture .
This spirit-powered magic, Argentum Tempestate, had an even larger range than Calcedonia’s Thunderstorm . Of course, this spell was sent by Eru .
Furious gales of snow shrouded the dragon, and ice pellets relentlessly battered its huge body .
It had the power to end the life of normal beasts, but it could not boast of having the power to take the vitality of a dragon .
Humming its four gargantuan wings, the dragon quickly escaped from the storm formed by Argentum Tempestate .
Small parts of the body, all over the place, were frozen over, but the time spent under the influence of the spell was short . It would not do much to harm the dragon .
However, Tatsumi teleported in the air as his friends were attacking .
When he got back to the wall for the second time, his vision was still spinning .
Bugarank promptly healed Tatsumi .
“You okay?”
“Yes…I-I don’t know how…”
While the patriarch healed Tatsumi, the others were continued to conjure spells at the dragon .
Most of their attacks missed, though some did hit, but their purpose was so that Tatsumi had enough time to recover .
“…They’re amazing . ”
“Huh?”
“Your friends . They’re hitting way too many spells on the dragon . ”
Although Bugarank was healing Tatsumi, his gaze was fixed on the dragon .
Tatsumi knew that the agility of the dragon was really abnormal . Even with such a mobile opponent, his friends were hitting a fair percentage of attacks .
Everything was because of their skill and cooperation . The four in charge of creating a diversion weren’t just sending all their attacks at once . They sent magic and arrows at precise times to capitalize on the others’ attacks .
That’s why their attacks were hard to dodge, even with the dragon’s speed . Nevertheless, over seventy percent of the attacks were evaded .
Even if only a pebble’s amount, the four steadily piled up damage onto the dragon .
Tatsumi hoped that they would eventually deal a fatal blow . As soon as Tatsumi had that thought, the dragon suddenly changed directions .
The dragon, which was only dodging until now, came straight to the section of the wall where the four creating a diversion were at .
Before this, the dragon was only driven by the feeling hunger from the devil that possessed it . However, it started to feel something else .
There were tiny creatures that were scraping it, even though they were insignificant . The feeling of anger broke out towards those insignificant beings .
Though possessed by a devil, the dragon was also a living being . It was natural for it to be angry at those that hurt it: one of the basic emotions that came with being alive .
The hunger that came from the devil and the anger that came from itself . These two combined into one new goal .
To devour all the pesky beings . That was its new goal .
In a sense, that meant that the dragon recognized the tiny creatures─humans─as enemies .
From “food” that existed to be eaten to “enemies” that existed to be defeated .
With its new murderous intent, it attacked the warriors that stood atop the city wall .
Will be using Latin for Eru’s magic . She’s from a different world, so “Blizzard” or “Ice and Snow Storm,” which are what the spell would translate to going by the previous naming conventions, doesn’t make sense .
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