Chapter 420: Rebellion and Revolution.

Chapter 420: Rebellion and Revolution.

A miniature dragonator! Maagneil's muffled voice exploded from the cockpit of the blackened gundam. Weaker compared to its original demon counterpart, but still a masterwork of engineering! My son never needed you to smith for him in the first place, Grimnir! You held him back! This creation is the proof!

Striking a victory pose, the gundam held the bloodied drill up high, relishing in its ability to pierce through the drakes body with it. However, this impromptu celebration was short-lived as Manethalas body jerked up. Roaring, the giant drake threw himself off the golem, but was quickly assaulted by a crippling amount of pain, stopping him from attacking his assaulter.

The giant drake grabbed his chest where a giant hole could now be seen, large enough to fit a car through. My [Sun, Consume all] was healing him quickly, closing up his wounds, but the drake himself wasnt feeling better from the healing. His head fell onto the ground, gasping for air, causing me to notice his eyes turning red.

Sorry! Mana Eyes.

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Name: Manethala Level: 26 Race: Earth-Rolling Drakarno

Age: 411 Years

Effects: [Poisoned (Winters Gift) (Major)] [Mental Corruption (Moderate)] [Bleeding (Minor)]

[Adrenaline (Major)] [Music Resonation (Major)] [Shield of [The Light]]

[Earth Rulers Protection] [Various Spell Buffs] [Drakonian Fortitude]

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You gotta be kidding me?!

[Winters Gift] may have been made to hunt dragons specifically of the fire element, but at such a high dosage, it would be poisonous for anybody! I couldnt cure that fast enough; he needed the antidote!

However, just as I was about to call either VifiYok or Tatsuya to give him one of the dosages reserved for me, a System message appeared before me. As my attention wandered over to it for a moment, my eyes widened and I couldnt help but condemn the System for doing this to me.

What was worse? Multiple knives slicing you in a row but with enough time to steel yourself against the pain, or a straight punch to the gut too strong to properly defend against?

41 human, beastman, elf, dwarf followers lost>

[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]: 22377>

My head snapped up top. My parallel minds quickly reminded me that nobody important to methose I gave [Hestias Retainer]could have died, otherwise the System probably would have told me about it, even though I wasnt sure. The people who died were probably strangers to me or they could have included Pradreo and Skardrvo.

Dont think about it!

Regardless, the fact of the matter was, that damn dragonslayer had re-entered my mind. He was living in my head rent free! Galg! It had to be him and his party, considering they did the same with the rescue team, even though I didnt think everyone should be struggling against them.

On the one side, there were only a bunch of rank Bs, some wyvern slayers, and Galgs party. On the other hand, we had a ton of very strong people on our side, but so many people already died?! How many of them werent my fans? Dammit, what was going on up there?

Hestia!

[I know! Flash Fire!]

Despite my distractions, Id been listening to my skills all this time. I knew Maagneil had his damn cannon trained on me, and I wasnt about to die to this bastard until I found out what was happening above.

I activated [Flash Fire], dashing right out of the explosion of the cannon, making my way towards one of the flames surrounding the gundam. My explosive speed while Maagneil hadnt reactivated his gravity ability allowed me to use [Drakonian Sunlight Edge] and [Hellblade Edge] to slice off a portion of the golems leg as I sped by, causing it to fall down.

I stared at the fallen gundam, realizing exactly how this terrible father managed to survive Saoris spell; multiple earth shells covered the entire colossus like armor, leaving no hints of metal body to an outsiders perspective. Charred pieces of earth were cracking off, revealing more and more layers of protection. Clear signs were there that showed Saoris [Hadaen Dragon Thunder] had very nearly managed to break through.

Maagneils possession of the Earth Elemental Emperor, the former but weakened ruler of the earth element of Peolynca, was giving him that extra edge on the defensive side, while his gravity control through the aberration inside his sons body gave him a lot of crowd control. This wasnt even mentioning those two weapons he had designed to kill dragons with.

Now, I didnt know if this would solve all the issues, but I really had no choice. I needed to get in close and touch Broggarts body. I had to usurp that aberration to remove the gravity powers. The fact I couldnt do before when I broke through the golems head was all the proof that I needed to directly touch the demonic being to usurp its power The only issue was that Broggart was now hidden behind a rock chestplate.

Nows the time! Solar Beam!

Channeling the solar energy [Sun, Consume All] managed to obtain for me, I unleashed my last available solar beam of this entire trip, drilling through the gundams rocky exterior. Gravity suddenly got stronger, pushing my body down, forcing me to control the magma and [Hydra] around me to stiffen my body up with obsidian, holding my head up just so I could keep my assault up. Meanwhile, I also made sure to have my sun heal Manethala just enough to keep him alive.

However, against my expectations, Maagneil forcibly blocked the beam from melting more through the chest by blocking it with his cannon barrel. The earth around me also stirred, opening a hole up, causing me to fall through the floor.

I broke through the corrosive obsidian and activated my rocket boosters, trying to intensify [My Darkest Thoughts] so I wouldnt fall down even further. A chill went down my spine as I saw the hole closing above me, only for me to hear the voice of King Fugnarus and the hole widening. Rock pillars rose up from the side, knocking the gundam back, allowing me an angle to keep beaming down at his chest, which had its armor already fully regenerated.

In the next moment, something flew right at the gundam, totally knocking it down. The gravity effect weakened, allowing me to fly out of the hole but unfortunately I had to stop my [Solar Beam] as I escaped. Regardless, I was still in my overdrive mode and ready to end this battle.

Once I was back on top, I saw Ellaines figure; her bone wings were repaired and she morphed the mana around her arm into a giant sickle blade, using it to rip and tear into the entire construct. Her whipblade separated into its individual blades, held together by a mana string, with fleshy bits growing on them. These pulsating pieces of meat expanded, connecting each blade into one single eldritch tentacles with razor-sharp claws.

Attack! Ellaine screamed as she pushed the gundam further back with her viscous-yet-acrobatic demonic swordsmanship.

Eventually, though, gravity struck her and she was forced onto her knees, but only for a couple seconds as VifiYok appeared from behind the gundam. She struck with my glaive, nearly severing the cannon barrel arm with a single fiery slash.

We need to stop him! He cant escape!

The rebellion orbs purpose was to break a dungeon, causing it to go into a rampage. The moment he got back to the surface, I could already imagine the destruction he could wreck with the powers of the Earth Emperor, not to mention how Manethala was still following us.

Crack!

And the bad news wouldnt stop as my core cracked again, and this time, it was quite severe. I was overstressing myself again. Even if my solar core could handle more pressure now, it was still not strong enough! However, I had to push myself. There was just no time to waste!

[VifiYok, I need you to catch him!]

She nodded to my request. Throw me!

Clapping her feet again to reverse the magnetism, its force pushed everybody away except for me as I kept a tight grip on VifiYoks arm. Still, no matter how much I tried, it wouldnt last long and I knew it, but only a second was enough for me to twist my body, throwing the demonkin as close as possible to Maagneil as we reached the final floor before we hit the surface.

In this giant forest, there was finally enough room that Maagneil couldnt obstruct us. Even if he tried to control the earth, King Fugnarus was able to stop him by counteracting the earth manipulation. As such, VifiYok flew up into the sky, finally close enough for her Territory to take effect on him.

With a single clap, the gundam flew towards her as she readied my glaive to attack. All of us on the ground were also naturally drawn towards her, aiding us in this last-ditch effort to stop this madman from fleeing, but nothing was ever so simple as Manethala also caught up.

With the earth exploding, letting the humongous drake through, a savage roar escape his mouth as he attempted to bite all us, forcing the majority of us to defend ourselves, leaving Saori, Ellaine, Tasianna, and Grimnir as the only ones left to help VifiYok out.

Wind! One of the Saints of ZephiraAzelfadrew his bow, releasing an arrow that dug right into Maagneils gundam while creating a slipstream. He then blew himself out of a claw attack from Manethala, weaving himself through the air like a dancer.

Due to the many injuredthe students, several members of the support force, and even Akastthe rest of us had to help them escape from this chaos as they had no other way to survive. Thankfully, the slipstream Azelfa created allowed all of us some leeway to fly and dash away with [Air Walk], while the four last people responsible for Maagneils apprehension used VifiYok magnetism to fly away.

Maagneil! Grimnir shouted before shooting out a flamethrower with his blasthammer, causing him to crash against the others to fly higher.

Tasianna, instead of flying, threw her ice blades into the sky and used [Wind Blast] to send them flying even higher. Saori caught them with her [Dark Tendrils] and dragged Ellaine with her up even further, before allowing the latter to shoot up. Morphing her arm into a long, stretchy tentacle appendage, Ellaine threw it towards VifiYok, prompting the latter to catch it with her glaive to throw the demonized right at the gundam, allowing Ellaine to land a massive punch right into the chest of the golem with [Musclemass] strengthening her arm.

As Ellaines attempt broke through several layers, VifiYoks Territory was still active, causing Maagneil to close into her impending lightning attack. He could still use his gravity to push her away, but her magnetism would just pull him after her. As such, there was now no chance for him to escape except for aiming his cannon at her in a desperate move.

But that was why Ellaine was there. With her arm now morphed into a sickle blade she hacked right into the arm, causing it to slightly bend to Maagneils chagrin. His last possible move was removed, and that meant we finally caught this bas

This is not where it ends! Maagneils ghastly voice interrupted my thought process.

Through the slits of the gundam, red light erupted as the entire chamber began to rumble. The ground below us was moving towards the ceiling like one of those spike room traps. The rock tendrils on the gundam activated as well, pushing Ellaine and VifiYok back, even sacrificing his cannon arm to VifiYoks slash to make his plan come to fruition.

As we all landed on the ground with the floor closing up on us, including Manethala, it became clear VifiYoks Territory was working against us. Everybody was being pulled towards her, forcing her to deactivate it.

And just like that, Maagneils gambit worked as he flew up to the ceiling, drilling himself through, while people like Tehmrayn, Yorshka, and Master were forced to fight against Manethala before the earth drakes head eventually touched the top. With our strongest fighters fending the drake off, Saori gathered the rest with her [Yomi] around me so I could fly everybody up through the hole Maagneil created.

With gritted teeth, we could only watch as we saw the real sun once again in the clear, blue sky of Peolynca only, we had a clear problem behind and in front of us. Maagneils gundam had crash landed right in front of the Event dungeon, sending the festival held there into a massive panic. A ton of people were hurt by the move, a number of whom died upon impact.

71 human, beastman, elf, dwarf followers lost>

[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]: 22306>

You unforgivable skorr!

All we could do was only watch as the rocky tendrils of his erupted, digging themselves into the ground, causing widespread chaos and destruction. People were sent flying. The ground began to tremble as gnomacotta warriors were being created from all this, all to serve one purpose: delay us for his escape.

Whether he knew I was a goodie two-shoes or not did not matter, as I couldnt help but grimace as the screams of everybody below me tormented my mind. The sight of siblings being separated, children crying over their lost families, and friends trying to save each other from the sudden terrorist attack.

172 human, beastman, elf, dwarf followers lost>

[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]: 22134>

It took 243 fans of mine and how many more to die before the information was finally processed. It wasnt due to shock or confusion; this was just the time I needed to understand what Maagneil had done the moment we reached the surface. All this happened in a couple of seconds; so many peoples lives were ended in a matter of seconds.

And it wasnt over, for the roar of Manethala erupted from behind us. Even more seconds passed where it was impossible to help the people before me, as I had to focus on my own survival and to not get crushed by Manethala as he burst through the ground, destroying the entirety of the dungeons entrance and sending everything else flying. The fighters we left to fend him off were also included in the latter portion.

As my heart dropped in despair, the glimmer of my white flame sun finally graced me once more, preserving anybody hurt in their attempt to stop Manethala. It helped to clear up my mind. It reminded me that I wasnt a hero but I was still an idol and it was my job to assure the rest survived.

Those who died were gone. I could mourn for them later on, for the resolve I built up since Eshes death had trained me for this moment. I wasnt a hero, for a hero was somebody who could save everybody. I was, however, a blessed of Aurena, the Origin Goddess of Light, Healing, Miracles, and Kinship.

I needed to do my job.

[Woooaaaahhhhaa ]

However, there was one last distraction I had to face first. A sultry, almost disgusting, voice greeted me once more after so long.

[Hello, darlings. The game of hide-and-seek seems to be over completely. So what did I miss?]

KleaHatma had awoken.