Chapter 258: The Land Dragons Nest (2)

‘…He’s surprisingly calm.’That was my impression as I parried Cayen’s sword.

There was no reason for me, protected by the power of my aura, to engage with every attack, but I couldn’t rely solely on defense either.

Amidst the exchange of blows, I had to find Cayen’s critical weakness and deliver a fatal blow.

“Is that all you’ve got? The power of the bloodline that dealt us, the exalted ones, defeat!”

“”

I hated to admit it, but I was outmatched by Cayen in strength, speed, and skill.

Even though I was focusing solely on offense, minimizing my defense…!

‘This is a probing attack.’

Stay calm.

Cayen is trying to find a clue to penetrate my blood technique in this exchange.

So, if I kept bluffing and allowing all his attacks like before, he might attack Emilia to create an opening.

That wouldn’t do.

Unlike Internal Monologue Insertion, which targets living beings, Aura Deployment is a blood technique that inserts monologues into the properties of space to achieve specific effects.

Therefore, I can’t achieve different effects simultaneously in the same space.

If I were to ‘destroy’ Cayen’s heart….

At that moment, my invincible barrier, which makes me ‘immune to dragon attacks,’ would break.

“”

“ Attack with all your might, Geum Taeyang!”

I wielded Dawn Moon, and Cayen wielded his black bone sword.

We clashed, separated, and clashed again, repeating the cycle.

Cayen’s attacks were swift and sharp. Even with my Avatar manifested, I could barely keep up. I dodged and parried, looking for an opportunity to counterattack, but…. ℝ

It’s no use.

Unless I precisely target the space he occupies, there’s a high risk of missing.

This was the conclusion I reached after observing Cayen’s speed.

He utilized the space widely, never staying in one place, and pressured me from all directions.

Immediately after I parried with Dawn Moon…!

He moved to a different spot!

“”

I didn’t even have time to utter a monologue.

Cayen was extremely composed, and it was me who was faltering.

‘Now I understand.’

The reason he called out Emilia’s name instead of mine at the beginning.

He was trying to see if she was in any condition to fight.

He never intended to respond to my provocation.

Cayen is rational, and he’s not the type to act foolishly to win a woman’s favor.

He judged that he could defeat me if he focused on me here!

‘Using my blood technique on the knights must have drained a lot of my stamina….’

He probably doesn’t know the true nature of my blood technique.

There’s no way I can use a technique like that multiple times….

That must be his limit of speculation.

I can use full-powered Aura Deployment once more, and the Black Dragon’s secret technique is the same.

Once this probing is over….

We’ll reveal our trump cards and decide the winner!

“Is Alremene pretty?”

“”

Now!

I kicked Cayen in the gut with a Spartan front kick.

“ To the very end….”

“So you do care about her?”

You shouldn’t be thinking about women during a fight.

“Child! You can do it!”

“Thanks, Emili—”

I got kicked in the face too.

“This isn’t the time to be distracted by cheers, is it?”

“You bastard…!”

Overcoming the difference in weapon length with the power of aura and physique!

I closed the distance and swung Dawn Moon!

Cayen leaned back to evade my attack and swung his sword again.

I have to dodge this!

I retreated, and in the moment our distance widened.

It crumbles under its own weight!

Internal Monologue Insertion into the ceiling above Cayen’s head!

Boulders, each weighing at least 200-300 kg, rained down like a torrent!

“Did I get him?!”

“”

Cayen coughed up blood, buried under the pile of rocks.

I got him!

“Woohoo!”

Like in novels and manga, unless it’s a horror genre, rock showers have a 0% fatality rate, but in reality, getting hit by one would at least cause serious injury, right?

Cayen, befitting a dragon, pushed aside the rocks, which were much heavier than my body, and stood up, but he was covered in blood.

“I didn’t expect you to use such petty tricks.”

“I’m far from honorable.”

Directly destroying things with Aura Deployment would have been much more powerful, but a mass attack shouldn’t be underestimated.

Should I collapse the ground too? No….

If the fight was going to end like that, he should have been crippled when the rocks fell.

It only inflicted minor damage….

However….

“Don’t think it’s over yet! I, the Black Dragon, swear on the honor of my clan, I will settle this with you.”

I replaced the rocks under Cayen’s feet with sticky jelly blocks.

“What…!”

Now!

While he’s immobilized, I’ll slit his throat!

Cayen barely dodged by tilting his head back, but a few drops of blood splattered.

“That won’t work on me!”

“Oh really?”

I changed the jelly blocks back into rocks.

No, I changed them into even harder steel to bind Cayen’s feet.

I didn’t know if they were as hard as real steel, but it was enough to confuse him.

“”

Nothing’s easier than attacking someone who can’t move!

“Black Dragon Unleashed…!”

A black light erupted from Cayen’s black bone sword.

An aurora borealis seen from the sky…!

I retreated, shielded Emilia, and covered my eyes with my arm.

Everything in the path of the black light was destroyed.

“Child!”

I’m alright.

I’m glad Emilia wasn’t caught in it.

“Don’t get ahead of yourself.”

Cayen held his black bone sword and took a stance.

“The first attack… was just to get rid of those annoying rocks!”

Here it comes!

Cayen widened his stance, now free, and took a deep breath.

A black light emanated from his sword, pulled back to its limit!

“Draw!”

I was waiting for this.

Black Dragon’s secret technique, come at me!

Expanding the protective range of the Anti-Dragon Invincible Barrier!

“”

The black light swallowed everything.

Even Cayen’s own shout!

It’s useless, no matter how much physical force you exert!

The area within my aura’s range is protected by monologues.

A solid wall might break, a tight barrier might have a way to be breached.

But…!

As long as this is a filter that repels dragon attacks, Cayen’s efforts are in vain!

“”

The problem is the backlash from the blood technique.

An aura that targets a single species and blocks all attacks….

I’ve used the Invincible Barrier too much, and I can feel my insides creaking.

Cayen is pushing himself to the limit too. I can’t collapse here…!

“”

The last one standing gets everything!

The dragon mom too!

And the Land Dragon Alremene too!

Enough reason for two males to throw themselves into the fray!

“”

No…!

Elizabeth is with me too!

My aura expands!

The aura pushed back the space enveloped in black light, revealing Cayen, drenched in sweat and pale.

“It didn’t even… graze me!”

I immediately reached out towards Cayen.

“Aura Deployment.”

Destroy… the dragon’s heart!

“Kill me.”

Cayen dropped his sword and knelt. Sёarᴄh the NôvelFire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Seeing that, I stopped my attack.

“Why aren’t you killing me?”

“I’m tired.”

I almost did it in the heat of the moment, but if I deployed an aura that could crush a dragon’s heart, my body wouldn’t be able to handle it.

A normal attack is enough to kill him….

Besides, seeing Cayen completely exhausted, I didn’t want to do it.

“You’re just a third-rate villain after all….”

I’m not destined to be a Dragon Slayer.

“Kill me, I tried to kill you too. Death is the rightful price.”

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?”

I approached Cayen with Dawn Moon in hand.

“Tell me one last thing. What was your blood technique? Why did it work on me?”



“It’s an aura. An aura that makes me immune to dragon attacks surrounds me.”

“….”

It was an unfair fight, but Cayen accepted the outcome gracefully and offered his neck.

I grabbed Cayen’s horn and prepared to strike.

“Do you like Alremene?”

“…”

Cayen let out a long sigh.

“The Fire Dragon woman, and you too… Stop assigning meaning to things.”

“Are you engaged?”

“We are. It was just a bargaining chip. The appearance of the Fire Dragon made her hysterical.”

“Even though she attacked us together with you….”

“It must have been unexpected. We agreed to buy time while she recovered from her injuries. If things went well….”

“Marriage?”

“…Yes. But we haven’t seen each other enough to develop romantic feelings.”

“Is she pretty?”

“….”

Silence is consent, they say.

A fitting answer in this situation.

“You can escape the nest now. Now, kill me!”

“”

Instead of his neck, I sliced Cayen’s horn.

“”

“Whoa! The blade… isn’t going through easily…!”

I was trying to cut it clean off like a radish!

“What… are you doing…!”

“Stay still!”

I held Cayen’s head down and sawed at his horn!

“”

“Why are you whining so much when you’re prepared to die?”

“My dragon horn! This is a greater humiliation than death!”

“You made Emilia lose her horn, so I’m confiscating yours!”

“Stoooooop!”

Wow, it’s harder than I imagined!

It was even harder because Cayen was shaking his head violently.

“I said, stay still!”

“”

He foamed at the mouth and fainted.

Does it hurt that much?

“That’s cruel…. Child…. Mommy can’t bear to watch.”

Emilia chimed in.

Maybe I should have just killed him like he wanted.

This isn’t what I had in mind.

– Why the horn instead of the neck

– Consider it a new life

– Boss!

….

I picture what I had in mind.

In reality, what’s beneath me is Cayen, foaming at the mouth and eyes rolled back.

Damn it….

I didn’t really want to see a guy’s ahegao….

“Let’s finish this quickly.”

I stepped on Cayen’s head and focused on sawing off his horn.

“”

“Hey, bear with it! I’m halfway through!”

“”

“Damn, I wouldn’t have done this if I knew it would be this hard.”

Things don’t always go as planned.

I imagined a scenario where I spared my opponent after a life-or-death battle, creating a sense of obligation, and receiving help from him later….

…But here, there’s only a cruel villain sawing off a defeated dragon’s horn while stepping on his head, and a dragon mom watching with pity.

“”

“Stop whining. From now on, you’re going to be the swallow that brings me good luck!”

“”

“Oh, you can’t fly now, so you’re not a swallow, are you?”

Ah, it’s off.

I felt like a fanfare was playing in my head.

Geum Taeyang has acquired the Black Dragon’s Black Horn!

“Now the other one….”

Cayen curled up into a ball and trembled.

….

Well, I guess I’ll let him off the hook for now.

“If you act up again, I’ll grind the other horn off, got it?”

…An unforgettable fear was etched into Cayen’s soul….

“Let’s go, Emilia.”

“Yes, child!”

Our battle with the Black Dragon left a huge hole in the Land Dragon’s luxurious suite.

The floor and ceiling were gone, the boundaries between rooms vanished.

It was infuriating to see how nicely decorated her living space was, like a luxury hotel, after all the trouble she put us through.

“Child, we need to hide.”

“Emilia?”

“The Land Dragon is coming this way.”

She’s right.

Emilia and I hid behind some rubble and observed the situation.

“Ahh! Why did you destroy my house~!”

I almost laughed.

“Cayen…! What happened to your horn?”

“…… …”

“You’re making strange noises…. This is all because of that Fire Dragon…! Where did she go?”

Emilia and I lowered our bodies as much as possible and held our breath.

Emilia’s breasts were pressing against me, which was a problem.

No, wait!

Turn this crisis into an opportunity!

I touched Emilia’s breasts, seeking peace of mind.

Emilia looked up at me, as if to say there was nothing she could do.

“Agh! Seriously! Why are things so complicated!”

I peeked my head out from behind the rubble.

Alremene sounded like the name of a giant golem, so I had no expectations whatsoever…!

Blonde, busty, twintails! And a black slingshot bikini!

Woohoo!

Even her annoyed face is pretty!

She was a beauty with gentle lime-green eyes that contrasted with her gorgeous blonde hair, like Belita’s.

Her pair of brown horns, curved forward like a crown, were also impressive.

Her most striking feature was….

She’s short!

Her legs were long and her proportions were good, so she didn’t look short, but she actually was!

I’d say she’s between 151 and 153 cm.

But her breasts were Peridot-level!

Is she a virgin? Or a milf?

The Land Dragon Alremene is a virgin.

Not a milf….

Not something to be disappointed about. If she’s not a milf, then a virgin! That’s the best.

“Cayen…. You said you’d just stall for time… Why did you fight until you ended up like this!”

Huh, this atmosphere…?

Does the Land Dragon have feelings for Cayen?

The way she stared at his face and her sorrowful eyes.

These were signs I couldn’t ignore.

“I’ll carry you to bed. Where did the intruders go?”

“… …”

“Did they run away?”

“…”

No.

He’s trying to tell her!

Alremene carefully watched Cayen’s lips, then sighed as if giving up.

“When you wake up… I guess I’ll have to take responsibility….”

What….

So she wasn’t trying to use him and escape alone… but they had feelings for each other and were developing a relationship?

This… I can’t stand this!

My instincts were screaming. I had to follow Alremene.

Alremene is full of openings….

You know what’s up, Internal Monologue,

My guide!

“Emilia. Let’s capture the Land Dragon.”

“It’s dangerous, child.”

Emilia grabbed my arm and shook her head.

“Neither of us has the strength to fight anymore. Let’s just focus on escaping the nest. Okay?”

“She’ll think that’s what we’ll do.”

The pursuit by the dragon knights, the battle with Cayen,

Now, when she thinks we wouldn’t dare attack again after escaping the Land Dragon’s attacks… This is our perfect opportunity!

“Let’s cross this dangerous bridge together, Emilia!”

I took Emilia’s hand.

“Child…. Mommy is worried….”

“Emilia, you’re still young enough to do this.”

“!”

“There’s adventure beyond uncertain danger, isn’t there?”

Emilia puffed out her cheeks.

“I was just worried about you, child. I can do it if I have to!”

“Let’s defeat the Land Dragon and take over this nest. Our adventure isn’t over yet.”



“What should I do?”

It’s our turn to be dicks.

“I have just the plan.”

I explained the outline of the plan to Emilia, and we split up.

The plan was….