Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～ - Chapter 493

493 – Harvest Feast
Just before it collides with me, magic circles appear on both sides of the shub-niggurath.

“Oo, OOoOOOOOO…”

A repulsive moan escapes its many mouths, and two spheres of earth materialise. It’s the [Clay Sphere] skill… It’s been doubled with [Parallel Chanting]. Its magic significantly stronger than any of the other monsters I’ve seen on this island. It’s not something I can let hit me lightly.

I suppose I should use [Mirror Counter] here. I wanted to try it out before fighting Lilixira, anyway.

A wall of light appears in front of me. As the earthen spheres touch the wall, they reverse direction and shoot back at the shub-niggurath. This is good. It can completely shut down magic-bullet type skills. I also got it at a high skill level, so it’s nice and easy to use. Still, not knowing for sure what it can block is a bit anxiety-inducing.

I swing my arm up, intending to hit it with a [Dimension Claw] while it’s staggered. But, the shub-niggurath ignores the [Clay Spheres] and instead flicks a tentacle towards me… I guess it’s able to shrug off hits that black young take for it.

I swing my claw to directly tear through the [Tentacle Whip]. But, the tentacle doesn’t break. Instead, a nearby black young explodes into a shower of green blood and entrails. I managed to knock the tentacle away, but… If its tentacles can be invincible too, I’m put at a disadvantage.

“OoooOOOO!”

From the shib-niggurath’s mouths, a black smog leaks out. This must be its [Plague Breath].

As the smog cloud grows, several tentacles reach out… I see, it’s using it as a smokescreen.

Attacking wildly after reducing the visibility isn’t a bad strategy. But, I have [Gravity]!

“GuuOOOOOOOOh!”

A black dome of light extends out from me, and the shub-niggurath’s tentacles drop to the ground. I seize the fallen tentacles and grip them tightly in my claw. This should have killed another of the baby goats.

The [Plague Breath] fades. Surrounding me are black lumps of flesh, more of the shub-niggurath’s kin. H-how!? Their stats are low. They shouldn’t be able to freely move around in my [Gravity].

My understanding arrives too late. The most likely explanation is that it spat them out at the same time as the tentacles. Their stats are low, but the aim was only to get them around me.

“OooOO, OoOOOOOOO!”

The shub-niggurath moans, and the black young burst into flames.

“BmeeeeEeE!” “MgaaAAAA!”

The black young bleat in agony. It seems it’s not just their legs that are goat-like, their cries are too. It’s coming! The shub-niggurath’s skill, [Harvest Feast]!

N-no, calm down, it’s for times like this that I have [Mirror Counter]!

“GuuOOOOh!”

I roar. A magic circle expands, and a wall of light surrounds me. Heheh, even if it doesn’t reflect it, this should be enough to block…

The [Mirror Counter] cracks. The shub-niggurath has charged against it. The wall of light begins to fade, and the black flames rush in.

I-if it rushes straight into the blaze like this, it’ll lose a lot of its kin from the recoil! N-no, that’s wrong. R-right, it has [Fire Attribute Nullification]! It can heal while burning the goats!

I feel teeth sinking into the base of my neck. Another of its mouths bites into my shoulder.

Sharp pain runs through my body. My flesh is torn away in a spray of saliva and blood.

It’s a feeling I’d started to forget over the past few days – the sensation of terror that accompanies pain which could easily lead to death. My HP begins to rapidly plummet from the the black flames and its teeth.

“Guu, guuOOOOOOOOh!”

I swing my claw hard into its body. But, all it does is jolt slightly, and doesn’t show any sign of letting go. Not being able to deal damage makes it this much harder to get it off me!? I-is it impossible to get rid of it once its sunk its teeth into me!?

N-no, I still have another option! I raise my upper body up, lifting it up. Then, I kick off the ground.

“O, OoOO…?”

With [Dragon Mirror], I change my body, temporarily taking the form of a [Baby Dragon]. The shub-niggurath’s teeth close on empty air. Seemingly unable to understand what has happened, it stops moving.

I immediately change my form into that of Eldia’s species, [Diabolos]. It’s the biggest species of dragon that I know of. My stats change to【Attack: 3462(2770)】. I see, I knew [Dragon Mirror] changes my stats, but seems they’re halved when I grow small and increase by about 20% when I grow larger. The larger form has terrible fuel efficiency, so it doesn’t seem all that usable, but it might be useful for critical moments like this.

“GuuOOOOOOOOOh!”

I slam my fist into the shub-niggurath as it floats in the air. Even if the damage is cancelled, the momentum should still send it flying while it can’t support itself against the ground. Its fleshy body shoots down at a sharp diagonal, then craters into the ground. I cancel my [Dragon Mirror] and move away from the flames while healing the damage with [Autoregeneration].

I want to get some distance from it. It’ll be dangerous if it shifts targets to the others, but I need a moment to gather myself. There also aren’t any more off its goat offspring in that direction, so there shouldn’t be a danger of the ones they’re fighting suddenly bursting into flames. It’ll probably charge at me again in just a moment, but this has bought me a little time.

There’s also something I want to try. I learnt its attack pattern by clashing with it head-on, so there’s something I’ve thought of. Perhaps the skill I got at the maximum level of the Hero skill, [Flash that Drives Away the Darkness], could bypass the goats’ [Substitute].