Chapter 23

Shin was in the sky flying towards Dragnof at high speed.

On the way, he felt again many presences gathered in the same place.​​

He knew that this place was the battlefield he was familiar with.

It was almost like a second home since he fought there for 6 months.

Seeing that a new battle had taken place, he thought he could participate in it before going to Dragnof.

He had nothing to lose, he could test his training with his spear and then he could go to Dragnof along with the soldiers which would allow him to come back more unnoticed... he thought.

"It's decided."

Having made his decision, he turned left towards the battlefield.

After a few minutes of flying, he arrived at the battlefield he knew so well.

And he hadn't changed during those 6 months of absence, except maybe more craters, holes, destruction, nothing very strange for a battlefield with dragons.

Except one thing that was different from before.

Humans, who used to rely on allied dragons, now fought with enemy dragons on equal footing.

Humans were now using dragon slayer magic even though it was a bit clumsy since it was invented only a few days ago.

The battlefield was even more chaotic and intense with the arrival of dragon slayer magic.

Humans wielded fire, wind, earth and other elements.

Explosions exploded everywhere, in the air or on the ground, the fighting was intense and difficult to judge.

But usually the losses were equal on both sides, as many enemy dragons as humans and allied dragons.

But it was quite admirable to see how the humans managed to get away with it when they had the magic of a dragon slayer only a few days ago.

Shin understood why the humans were in favor of winning the war despite the numerical superiority of the enemy dragons.

Finishing watching the fighting, Shin headed towards a dragon before the battle was over.

Arriving behind the back of a flying dragon, Shin retracted his wings to drop on the dragon's back.

Just before landing on the dragon's back, Shin extended his arm into the void to pull his spear out of his personal space.

Landing on the dragon's back, he didn't even give the dragon time to notice a presence on his back that he cut off his head.

Losing its head, the dragon's body began to fall to the ground.

Before that, Shin did a back flip and landed on a small platform made of fire under his feet.

He had named this technique "Flaming Aerial Walk".

No judgment on the name, Shin preferred a simple and informative name.

Anyway, he gave names to his techniques to be able to differentiate them and because it was pretty cool.

He succumbed to this childish urge but don't blame him, everyone would have done it! Then he wasn't going to say them out loud every time he was going to perform them; at worst in his head.

No sooner had he landed on his platform than he projected himself in the direction of a dragon and sliced it in half.

Then he landed on a platform again and projected himself onto a new dragon and cut it in half.

He did this trick for a few minutes and killed hundreds of dragons.

Then he landed on a new platform but stayed there this time.

This little trick had attracted the attention of several dragons and dragon slayers.

Seeing the silhouette standing on the platform in the sky, the eyes of the dragon slayers widened and immediately flickered.

"Look, the Celestial Phoenix"

"He's back!"

"Look at those moves, he's killed a hundred dragons in seconds!"

"Unbelievable!"

Fanatical cries of disbelief, surprise and happiness could be heard throughout the battlefield.

"Celestial Phoenix?" Shin scratched his cheek with a small smile when he saw the commotion and heckling he caused.

He felt like he was even more ecstatic and fanatical than the last time he had come.

Then Shin resumed his activities but before he could move from his platform, he heard several roars close to him.

*ROAR*

*ROAR*

*ROAR*

*ROAR*

*ROAR*

*ROAR*

Quickly looking around him, he could see that he had been surrounded by several dragons that were coming at him.

The dragons coming at him were stronger than average and perhaps one rank below Shin.

But the difference in power between two ranks is huge.

Shin's eyes shone with a powerful glow.

He grabbed his spear with force and moved so fast that it seemed as if he hadn't even moved his arm.

'7 Blades dividing the shy' mumbled Shin.

However, right after he executed his movement, 7 magic slashes appeared and collided with the dragons.

The dragons were surprised but didn't even have time to express their amazement that they were swallowed up by the slashes.

The slashes lit up the whole sky with green as the appearance of Shin's magical power is naturally a beautiful green.

When it all cleared up, the dragons that had come in contact with the slashes were now cleanly cut in half.

The slashes that cut the dragons above Shin cut the clouds, the slashes that cut the dragons to the side just cut the air all the way through, and the slashes that cut the dragons below Shin cut the ground to form huge trenches.

The slashes had even cut other dragons that were unlucky enough to be in their path.

"7 blades dividing the sky" was the execution of the attack "Blade dividing the sky" 7 times in a row in a crazy speed of execution.

Following this attack, the battlefield was in silence.

But eventually the murmurs began to be heard.

"Unbelievable..."

"Too loud"

"So that's the strength of the Celestial Phoenix."

"Invincible"

The slaying dragons looked at Shin with great admiration.

It was for many a great inspiration and gave some the aspiration to become so strong one day.

The looks of admiration, the glorious murmurs continued for a little while until the roar of enemy dragons resounded and awakened them.

"This is no time for admiration"

"Go back to the fight!"

Slayers shouted to their fellow humans and dragons to get them out of their daydreams and back into combat, back into reality.

The others awoke as they returned to battle against the enemy dragons.

Seeing this, Shin decided to sit on the sidelines and leave the rest to the dragon slayers and allied dragons.

He didn't want to interfere too much from now on and let the dragon slayers fight so that they could get better and stronger.

If he intervened too much, the dragon slayers would not become strong enough and the war would not turn in their favor.

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After a while, Shin had already put himself out of sight.

He could see a few people looking around trying to find him but not finding him, they retraced their steps back to Dragnof.

Shin spread his wings and throughout the trip, he followed them and kept an eye on them to make sure nothing would happen to them.

After a good hour of walking for them and flying for Shin, they finally arrived at Dragnof's door.

Shin was finally able to see Dragnof's kingdom from the sky for the first time.

And he was not disappointed.

The entire kingdom was surrounded by very large and thick walls; inside them contained many dwellings and building structures, as well as the main palace. The outside of the palace had many tall structures with dragon statues placed above them, walkways and passageways, as well as trees and plants. The palace itself was a large stone building with many unique structures and arches.

There was nothing to say it was impressive.

Especially the palace was really massive, which was normal since it had to accommodate many dragons.

He was really wondering how he had built such a big palace, such imposing walls and especially these gigantic dragon statues.

He was not in the modern era but in the modern era! And even with the magic, it was still quite incredible.

After a few minutes of analysis and admiration in front of Dragnof, Shin went down discreetly to hide in a mini forest stuck to Dragnof.

He was also hiding his magic power because otherwise he would have been spotted miles away.

Hidden in bushes in the forest, Shin watched all the dragon slaying army enter through the huge door guarded by two dragons.

Shin turned around in the forest and wondered if he should wear something to hide his face and perhaps his clothes.

With his face and his clothes, there is no doubt that Shin was going to attract too much attention and that was not the point.

"System, can you buy me a hooded dress... and a simple dress," Shin asked.

[Of course]

[Buying a dress with hood]

Then Shin was suddenly dressed in a hooded dress over his clothes.

(Same as Xiao Yan in battle through the heavens in chapter 8 but without anything that passes in front of the mouth, only a hood)

"Perfect" Satisfied with his purchase, Shin came out of the forest.