Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～ - Chapter 530

530 – Group Battle
Aruane jumps off the zombie fenrir’s back and swings her arm up towards me. Deep red blood flows over nails, growing in long and sharp blades of blood… This must be her [Poisonous Blood Claw] skill.

She’s frightening, but my stats give me a massive advantage. She’s not the kind of opponent that can fight me by herself.

Suddenly, I sense a presence from above. Looking up, I see a four-armed man with fly-like wings diving down towards me. It’s Beelzebub in human form.

No way… Their timing is too perfect. Even if Beelzebub’s kin were monitoring this area, it’s impossible to imagine he just happened to arrive at this moment.

No… Aruane led me to this place. I’m finally able to understand what she was plotting.

Her original plan was to zombify a fenrir and quickly join up with Lilixira. In other words, she knew Lilixira’s location. When I happened to run into her, she choose to delay picking up the atlach-nacha, and instead bought time by dragging out our conversation while bringing me closer to Lilixira. That’s the only explanation that fits.

Lilixira too would probably prefer her side to attack me as a group, rather than them being taken out one-by-one. I only paid attention the surface level of Aruane’s behaviour, and didn’t consider the possibility that she could be this intelligent. She’s ridiculously sharp. Though I have to wonder why someone who is practically a hurricane with a will is obeying Lilixira so obediently…

“There he is! [Darkness Rain]!”

A purple magic circle deploys behind Beelzebub, and lashes of purple rain pelt down towards me. I jump backwards. At the same time, Aruane jumps the opposite way. The ground between us is destroyed in a hail of purple lights.

Glancing around, I spot a dragon flying towards us from a fair distance away. Atop it is a white-haired woman. Lilixira. I can also see another dragon ridden by Alphiss and an unknown man near her. My eyes meet Lilixira’s jade green eyes.

She probably sent the fast humanised Beelzebub ahead. I still have some time until she arrives.

Aruane is strong… But she’s no Eldia. I’ll deal with Beelzebub and Aruane now, then crush Lilixira. Once I’ve made sure the atlach-nacha is safe, I’ll head towards Volk to hopefully rescue his group. That’ll be the end of the battle. I don’t know what the odds are, but… For Lilixira, this battle is far too reckless.

“Dr-dragon-god-sama, we’ll…”

Aro calls out to me uncertainly from my back.

『Absolutely don’t get off of me! They’re not opponents you can fight! You’d be killed in an instant!』

Beelzebub flies over me to cut behind. At the same time, Aruane kicks off the ground to launch herself at me.

“Kuhahahahahah! Don’t think too badly of me! I don’t like flitting around like this, but it’s Saint-sama’s orders!”

I glance behind. Another huge magic circle has deployed behind Beelzebub. He’s making full use of his speed and small body to keep me flanked me while constantly barraging me with hard-to-dodge wide-range magic, the power of which isn’t diminished in his humanised form. It certainly seems like the sort of strategy that Lilixira would employ.

『But it doesn’t matter!』

I release [Gravity] at maximum output. A dome of black light expands out from me.

“Guh…!”

Beelzebub rapidly falls. He desperately flaps his wings to stay airborne. I had thought it would be enough to ground him, but I suppose he’s too far away for the full power to hit him. Fortunately, thanks to his desperation to stay off the ground, the [Darkness Rain] magic circle has faded.

However, the effect against Aruane as she leaps through the air is tremendous. She slams down to the ground, falling to one knee. She’s completely immobilised. I swing my claws down towards her. This will definitely kill!

She stares up at me searchingly. In the face of a desperate crisis, her clingy smile has faded, leaving her expression blank.

She forces her body off the ground and pushes out an arm towards me. A mass of purple light forms in front of her arm, swelling into a sphere. Is she trying to launch one final attack? But a single shot like that won’t do much to me… I’ll push through it and tear her apart.

“[Dark Sphere]”

The purple light explodes, and the blast sends her small body flying away. She self-destructed to avoid certain death.

It’s not a bad tactic, but… My claw is far faster than the blast wave of her [Dark Sphere]. As she soars through the air, I tear through her shoulder. She twists, and one of her arms falls to the ground, tumbling away and leaving a trail of blood.

…It looks like I missed dealing a fatal wound. There’s no doubt that a normal person would soon die from that wound, but given how strange she is, she might have some way of surviving. I want to finish her off for certain.

“I got a hit!”

Having been freed from the [Gravity], Beelzebub flits past me, raking his claws through my chest and cheek. But, all he achieves is a thin line against my scales, and a minuscule amount of damage. His attack power is halved in human form. It seems I can ignore his physical attacks currently.

“Cheh! It’s about time I go back to my true form and rampage… Ah, that [Ascetic] is here.”

Following his line of sight, I see another dragon flying inbound, coming from a different direction to Lilixira. Riding it are two men, one small and old and the other in the Holy Knight uniform.

They’re under Lilixira’s command no doubt, but… Are they strong? They’re nonchalantly approaching on the back of a normal zephyr, and I can’t sense even the slightest feeling of pressure that I would normally get from a powerful monster or human.