Chapter 413: Fierce Ambush.

Chapter 413: Fierce Ambush.

Artificial Allied Territory detected! [Dhuinn Rune: Territory] activated. [Earth Rulers Reign] activated

[Earth Rulers Protection] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

Earth Rulers Protection: A beneficial effect from the artificial Territory [Earth Rulers Reign], created through the epitome of runecraftingthe Dhuinn runes. Supported by an artificial aura, every ally inside the range of the Territory will receive a 50% increase in their vitality and wisdom, in addition, to a temporary [Terra Resistance Lv. 5]

The Ankoran Kings pumpkin-sized rune on his golden-brown armor lit up, turning him into a giant torch inside this dimly lit hallway. Another one on his axe began to glow as well. With both shining a vibrant dark brown, the area around us began to creak like dry rocks grinding against each other, creating that ear-throbbing noise you would associate with scratching a blackboard.

However, before it could finish, the dragonslayerGalgflourished his elegant twin blades with the white, freezing scales on the edgethe same weapon he used to cut my arm offand vanished from our sight. His speed was at the point where it was hard to see, but not fast enough for me to not sense it. It was just that my agility wasnt high enough yet to follow him with my eyes since I havent gotten my buffs up yet!

However, that didnt matter since we had our own speedster on our side now. Someone with a far greater speed boost.

Clank!

The loud sound of steel clashing against steel erupted from my left as my head ducked instinctively to avoid an attack my sensory skills picked up. My eyes looked up, noticing my scale-dust sparks igniting as VifiYok blocked Galgs attack. The formers red lightning and the latters red aura clashed against each other.

Again? I could hear Galgs baffled voice, but this moment of vulnerability wasnt ignored as two arrows flying towards him caused the dragonslayer to jump away. However, he was forced to dash back even further when he saw these arrows with drill-like stone heads twist to follow him like a pair of heat-seeking missiles.

Sadly for him, this hallway wasnt very large; in fact, it was even far too small for me to transform into a dragon. In this small room, Galgs body snapped around as he heard the sweeping sound of a sword leaving its sheath. The samurai dwarf, Ungi, slashed at Galg, forcing the slayer to defend himself by blocking the samurais attacks with his weapons.The roots of this story extend from novell bìn origin.

Galg wanted to distance himself, but the samurai sent a flurry of attacks his way, keeping him close and preoccupied. VifiYok immediately charged into the duel, wielding my glaive with her lightning spells to push Galg back in this dance of blade and spells.

Low agility, good reflexes, runes aimed for fast attacks! Ungi suddenly shouted out, catching VifiYok off-guard, but she quickly caught onto the meaning behind his words.

Very, very fast attacks, hard-hitting Abilities, but Im one-armed.

These two statements alone changed the rhythm between these two, as the timing of their attacks slowly changed to fit the other, synchronizing as if the two of them had fought together before. Ungi would cover for VifiYok when she found it hard to keep up her momentum due to being one-armed, while the latter would hit hard and build up pressure on Galg, giving the dwarf time to land precise slashes aimed at Galgs vital, slowing down his momentum to allow Vifiyok and the elves to land a glancing hit here and there.

Get a hold of yourself, Hestia! Fight through the fear! Buffs! Buffs, now!

[Music Resonation (Moderate)] [Various Spell Buffs] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

As my parallel minds were casting more and more spells on myself, my music began to spread around the area, buffing everybody up. The fear I felt for these dragonslayers was slowing me down, but I mustnt freeze up when it mattered. I had to participate.

[Shield of [The Light]] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

I put on [The Heir of Hope] and [The Will to Fight and Survive] as they were my general buffing spells. The hallway was far too small to cast giant area-destroying spells or abilities, so I kept it small. I bit my lips, still feeling my heart pump not cause of the action, but seeing that dragonslayer wearing armor made from my materials. Materials Ive been using to give my friends and allies significant boosts, and he thought he could just steal them and turn that into armor?

Honestly, yikes. I still remembered the pain of losing my arm to him.

No corrosive breath for now. Would hit the others if they breath in the fumes. Attack!

I blasted [Banishment Beams] and [Tornado Bullets] at Galg in support of Ungi and VifiYok, helping them take advantage of the situation better. I then directed Tatsuya and Kyouya to rescue the unconscious woman Galg had unceremoniously thrown on the ground, while getting the dwarven earthshakers and elven rangers into position to kill this dragon slayer.

However, just as VifiYok managed to knock one of Galgs blades out of his hand, he jumped on the wall and used the blades chain to pull it towards him before kicking it at Tatsuya and Kyouya. Seeing this, I quickly raised a [Terra Wall] to block it, but the blade pierced right through it, forcing Kyouya to clad himself in his armor to deflect the blow.

As the blade swung around the hole it created in the earthen wall with its chain hook, my [Foresight] activated, warning me just in time as I saw Galg deftly bypass both VifiYok and Ungi. He swung his arm to the side the moment he was free, retracting his blade before he dashed towards me.

I tensed up my body to dodge, but before he could get anywhere close, a giant tail erupted from my shadow, nearly turning the dragonslayer into a kebab as it pierced through the air and into the ceiling above. It was Rajah!

The hardened fur on his tail stood up as if he had goosebumps and he swung it down on the ground, shooting out the strands like a porcupines quill on the dragonslayer. Naturally, Galg ignored it all, tanking the damage as if it was nothing, only for him to get ganged up on by the three earthshaker dwarvesthe heavily armored knight-types.

Using their shields, they pushed him away from me. When he tried to climb over them, the elves forced him back down with their arrows before I resumed my bombardment of spells. As the creaking of the Ankoran Kings Territory continued, VifiYoks voltaic lightning momentarily drowned the sounds out as she dashed over to Galg, landing a red lightning-infused kick on him, shoving him back even further.

Dammit, stop moving around and just die, you dual blader freak!

Hmm?! His head snapped back as he felt a presence behind him.

Underestimate dwarven runes at your own peril, akong!

Ungi was standing behind the dragonslayer, holding his blades handle and preparing to draw it from his sheath. Just as he was about to unsheath it, the ornamental markings on his katana sheath began to glow, looking a bit like runes from their design alone. After a moment, the sheaths runes began to glow cyan and green, before Ungi unleashed a blade surrounded by ice and wind at the dragonslayer in a powerful attack.

In response, the slayer slammed his twin ice blades against the katana, unleashing a freezing blast at Ungi, pushing him back. Recoiling from the attack, he resheathed his blade once again, prompting the ornamental markings to turn completely red, allowing him to send out a slashing wave of fire when he drew the blade again. That confirmed it, that engraving was most likely a Dhuinn rune considering the more complicated effect and the size of it, similar to King Fugnaruss.

Speaking of

Move.

Ungi and the dwarven earthshakers stepped away upon the command of their king, who was raising his axe into the air. The hardened earth inside the hallway began to telekinetically gather around him like a storm, literally breaking down the floor, wall, and ceiling.

VifiYok didnt immediately react to the dwarves quick action and was still attacking the dragonslayer when the king was ready to unleash his attack. So, to support, I created a warp point between us, grabbing VifiYok towards me just as she caused Galg to dodge, leaving him wide open as a fusillade of stones struck him right as he deployed a [Defensive Rune: Pavise] to protect himself.

In addition, the ground beneath him molded itself into tendrils, grabbing his ankles and anchoring him down, leaving him vulnerable to the near endless storm of attacks from King Fugnaruss unexpected ability. In fact, it even looked like the very room was getting smaller around him, and my suspicion was confirmed when stalactite and stalagmite formed around Galg, making it look like the dragonslayer was about to get eaten by a stone beast.

Reforged, rebuilt, remade, over and over again for the Ankoran Kings and Queens! This is the heirloom who will only accept the one on the throne as its master! King Fugnarus shouted as he grabbed his axe with both hands. MOVE!

We all moved as far away from the dragonslayer as possible, including Tatsuya and Kyouya who managed to carry the unconscious woman away. The dwarven earthshakers immediately placed their tower shields to protect me, giving me a moment to check on the womans bloodied face, but that was when the room exploded in noise.

I snapped my head up, seeing brown light glow up behind the shields of the earthshakers, as the ceiling and wall broke apart and filling up my vision in a maelstrom of stone. With the thunderous sound of a stone crashing against each other in a landslide, a shockwave launched all the stone to my leftat the dragonslayer, I presumed. The impact was so strong, the earthshakers were forced to activate [Defensive Rune: Auracoil] to protect everybody.

As the noise died down, we slowly peeked out of the cover from the tower shields, only to be stunned to see the entire place was completely eradicated

as in, the floor, wall, ceiling were gone, replaced by a crater. Even the glowing portal doors were gone. The Ankoran King had to just made the hallway large enough for Rajah to come out to fight, but it was still too small for my dragon form.

Still, while it was impressive what the Ankoran King did, I was still shocked to see that Galg was completely unharmed, only for my heart to sink when I saw how he managed to survive this. Grossed out and horrified at what he did, my mind momentarily retreated, unable to hear the loud shouts the elves and dwarves were spitting at him. Once my mind returned to reality, I was swept away by the raw emotional rage from everybody.

YOU! YOU KILLED THEM?! The Ankoran Kings voice thundered.

It was pure self-defense, a mans voice laced with sarcasm responded as he revealed himself from behind a broken down wall made from the corpses of humans, elves, dwarves, and dragonewts. It looked like their flesh and armor had melted together, forming a single structure able to protect everybody behind it from the Kings attack, only it was riddled with so many holes, it looked like swiss cheese.

Oh my fucking gosh?! I grimaced as I could see bones, muscles, and so many human organs I didnt want to look at this huge mess of gore. The Kings attack truly did a massive amount of damage, as none of the bodies, armor, or anything really, could be even properly identified.

The mage of the dragonslayer group showed himself, tapping the wall before it collapsed down like a block of tofu, wobbling around, causing my stomach to turn. With it down, another member of the dragonslayer group showed themselves; this time, it was the heavily armored lance warrior. He was crouching on the ground, grabbing the body of a male human from a distortion in the air[Storage Magic].

They attacked us first, why shouldnt we defend ourselves, Ankoran King? The mage smirked as he twirled his staff. Who would have thought so many countries would want us dead? Well, it gave me easy subjects to test out some of my elixirs and embalming tricks I picked up.

Ready, the lance wielder declared through his metal helmet, before pulling out his tower shield from his storage, once again showing off he was a void-touched. The shield landed right on the human corpse, decapitating him, sending his head rolling before it stopped as his helmet fell off, revealing the persons face.

King Fugnarus looked at the face as his grip tightened around his axe. I could not see his face through his helmet, but he was shaking so widely with rage, I could imagine how he looked. By Crustacia, I swear this on my honor, this is a grudge. I will not forgive you until I see your head on a spike Umslid kain, kawuk kaan, fie Crustacia! Tazongs!

Oh oh VifiYok let out, only it was drowned out by the roars of the fury-driven dwarves.

Umslid kain, kawuk kaan, fie Crustacia! For the Ankor-Nazta! For our fallen comrades!

The same applied to the elves. Falakash, leistari! Origdila haikeli, Saelari wictorii!

Urrgarck! Grak! And just when I thought the fighting was about to begin once again, Tatsuya and Kyouya called out to me when the unknown woman began to cough a spasm. Dark blue lines similar to veins spread from below her neck.

Damn! White flames.

My medic senses activated as I covered the woman in white flames to heal her wounds as arrows flew and metal stomped on the ground behind me. I groaned a bit as I looked away from them as my worry for this unknown priestess made me want to prioritize her. After all, while I did not know how she looked, Franz did mention how a Saintess came with him and that she had the second half of my [Room] runes.

If this person was her, then I had an obligation from my boss-employee relationship with Aurena to at least keep her alive. I had to make sure not to mention I couldnt exactly let her die when I could potentially heal her.

Mana Eyes. Only the name!

Name: Fleindia Alsternich

Bingo! She was the person I was looking for!

Guys! I wanted to tell the others who this was, but my [Foresight] suddenly warned me of an attack coming from behind me, following the loud alarm of my [Danger Perception] usually reserved for life-threatening attacks.

I followed my instincts and bent my knee, only for VifiYok to trip me, sending me falling right on my face before she jumped and tackled the boys onto the ground. Before I could say anything, an arrow suddenly flew right over us, dragging us along it through wind pressure alone.

I activated my rocket boosters to catch the boys, the demonkin, and the Saintess. As I snapped my body around, VifiYok yanked my right wing, causing me to destabilize and fly to the side, avoiding another incoming arrow. My eyes darted around, trying to find the sniper, only for two more arrows to fly, but not at me, but at the elves.

Kuuraagh! Both cried out as the projectiles pierced their throats, sending them flying back.

What?!

Dreadflare

Just Blink.

Clang!

My eyes widened. Metal clashed against metaltwo white blades were blocked by two daggers made from dark purple metal. However, my fullest attention was drawn to the raven black-clothed person standing before me, eying Galg with blood-red eyes. A red mana mist exuded from her eyes as rage distorted her beautiful face.

S-Saori?! I called out to her as black lightning covered her arms.

You are messing with my best friend here Move.

Thunder roared as the black wolfkin unleashed a stygian dark bolt of lightning out, blasting Galg away as he let out a loud moan. As he landed on the ground, the wolfkin turned around to me.

She smiled. Sorry for taking so long.

But this moment of reunion between two friends didnt last for long before another unexpected entrance caused the room to shudder. From our side through a portal, a large beam of mana shot right through into the room at VifiYok. She managed to dodge it with the leonid berserker, but the lance fighter was less fortunate as it crashed against him, sending him crashing against the wall and right through it as the attack erased everything it touched.

When the attack finally dissipated, there was now a deep hole into the wall. Darkness clouded what was inside it, but with my [NIght Vision] I could see everythingthe lance fighter laid there with most of his armor melted right off him. In the next second, the air exploded like a loot pinata, sending various pieces of equipment, food, and other stuff I couldnt make out.

Hes dead.

W-what?! the leonid beserker cried out as she checked her party bracelet, but her chance to recompose herself was lost as a new voice drowned out everybodys surprised cries.

Arrrrrrrrgrh! Stepping out of the portal was a young woman with a unicorn horn on her forehead. Her black hair was lit up by purple highlights while her arms and legs were covered with blue lines. Bastard! All of you! You want a dragon? HERE IS THE STRONGEST DRAGON YOU SCUMBAGS WILL EVER, EVER MEET! BE HONORED, FOR FARGRYNEILL QILINUS KARGRYXMOR IS HERE TO DESTROY ALL OF YOU FOR HURTING MY HATCHLING SISTER!

It was Neill and, boy, she was ever mad.

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Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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