Chapter 268. Dragon hunting (4)
As expected, Nelvania is stealing and manipulating the dragon’s consciousness through some means.
That’s why the dragon can only fight according to its instincts, not its own will.
It moves only to destroy everything in sight.
It’s like a conditioned reflex program.
This is one of the reasons why the current movement of the punitive force works.
It’s easy to respond when you see a pattern.
After all, just dodging well is enough to confuse the dragon.
This is exactly the problem I pointed out in the first place.
First of all, the beginning is smooth.
While raising the corner of his mouth in satisfaction, the dragon opened its mouth.
“Breath!”
Dragon’s 18th specialty.
This is a more well-known specialty than magic.
To expel the high-density energy within the body.
In the case of the white dragon, is it an ice breath that expels a large amount of cold air accumulated in the body?
The plan is to wipe out the troops at once with the breath.
But, of course, that was to be expected.
“No. 2 No. 7! Prepare to respond to the magician’s breath!”
As the dragon opens its mouth, a strange cold air surrounds the soldiers.
“Breath!”
“Each unit, get away from the dragon as much as possible!”
In order to respond to the breath attack without shivering in the chill, each unit quickly united and evaded to one point.
If someone sees it, they might laugh at it.
I don’t know if it’s better to spread out and scatter, but I don’t know if I’m going to have a good time with one place.
But it is definitely an act for a reason.
This time, unlike the other units, two units that had been relatively distant came out.
They are magicians belonging to Pahilia.
“Prepare for a breath response!”
“Deploy all protection magic!”
The wizards belonging to one troop developed all the protective magic that could be cast simultaneously.
Prepare by casting all available magic, from simple shields to auxiliary magic that helps you escape from the aftermath of cold or excessive magical power.
And another group of wizards started chanting different magic.
“Reverse wall! deployment!”
They take a tool, surround it around the center, and work their magic.
If the saintess had seen that, she would have widened her eyes in astonishment.
A shield of protection used by the Seongguk.
He is chanting magic using the modified object.
Another barrier was enclosed outside the protective wall.
At the same time as the casting ended, the dragon spewed out a pure white breath.
A breath with a murderous coldness that could freeze even lava in an instant.
It hit the shield.
Even the air is frozen by the breath, and the barrier is about to be cut away as it is.
“Keuuuk!”
“Hold on as much as you can!”
“If you don’t have enough magic power, even pull it out from a magic stone and endure it!”
The wizards gritted their teeth and began to endure.
Even if all the available wizards shared magic at the same time, it was not easy to endure.
They seemed to be about to collapse at any moment, and they endured by forcibly replenishing their mana in the magic stone.
If it is penetrated now, the troops protected behind it will be annihilated.
“I just need to hold out for one second!”
Arell shouted from the communication tool worn by the commander of the wizard unit.
Even if all the wizards do their best to endure, that time is only seconds.
But that’s enough.
The magic surrounding the protective wall works.
It takes effect immediately after decrypting all the breath attributes and mana vectors.
The pure white breath bounced back and poured into the white dragon’s face.
Aaaaaaaaaaa!
A white dragon that instinctively screams and stops its breath.
“…I’m really mean.”
From the other side of the communication port of the unit commanders, Arel made a sound of bewilderment as to whether he was watching the scene.
As he said, the breath was reflected back and rained down, but the white dragon would not have suffered much damage.
It is not a creature that is weak enough to be damaged if it is covered with its own cold.
At least, to the extent that the scales had a bit of pure white frost on them?
As evidence of that, the dragon seemed to have calmed down immediately, spreading its wings wide and shaking off the frost on its body.
Because of the frost falling from its pure white scales, it boasts a daunting and beautiful figure.
For the subjugation party, it was truly an irritating sight.
If possible, I would like to see a dragon spurting blood instead of a pure white figure.
The dragon let out a low cry, as if it instinctively hated the thoughts of the cunning humans, even if unconsciously.
At the same time, the Kaylan Fortress had to face a separate siege from a detached unit.
“It’s been a bucket from the start!”
The saintess clicked her tongue.
But it was something I thought was possible.
There was no great difficulty in defense because they were instructed to fully prepare for a surprise attack.
While instructing the knights of the Holy Kingdom to defend, Nelvenia was watching the dragon’s condition from the top of the fortress.
I guess that’s what I’m concerned about.
“…No matter how you look at it, that’s it?!
It’s our shield!”
Nelvenia, who witnessed the moment the ice breath was reflected, screamed.
Obviously, that effect is the same as that of the new weapon, the shield of protection, developed by the Holy Kingdom.
‘…Come to think of it, I did see reports that one of the shields was taken away.’
I never expected to use it as a breath defense measure.
It seems that it was not simply used as it was, but also improved to spread a more wide-area barrier with the shield as the main axis.
If you can use it, does that mean you’re going to use arms from other countries as well?
Nelvenia was astonished at that skill.
“In the world, Arele Ernesia is…?”
Nelvenia bit her lip nervously.
Obviously, the fact that her White Dragon is superior to her in the current battle will not change.
But why?
They just can’t annihilate that much army.
At that point, Nelvenia was feeling nervous that even she could not understand.
No, this side won’t change.
Nelvania calmed herself down and looked at the dragon again.
The white dragon was barely catching up with the unit’s movement, which seemed to still cause confusion.
“…It seems that you can’t catch that army with the current movement.”
Is it impossible to respond quickly by relying on instinct?
Reluctantly, Nelvenia took out the artifact she had received from the trainer girl.
“Then I myself…
It was the moment Nelvania was about to activate it.
I heard the breathing of the allies in amazement.
“…can’t we just let you intervene?”
At the same time, several fireballs rained down from the sky.
Nelvenia reflexively noticed it and swung her arm.
Then the flying fireball bounced back.
The source of the artifact that bounces off anything.
Of course, there is no way that she herself has not mastered the basic skills.
At the same time as the bounce, Nelvenia looked up in a puzzled way.
“Magic?”
A moment of puzzlement.
This time, a strong gust of wind blew around the wall she had climbed.
A gust of wind whirled like a wall, isolating her.
Since it wasn’t a direct targeting and casting magic, I couldn’t do anything about it.
“….this is?”
Nelvenia tilted her head and glared at the direction the fireball first flew.
At the same time, dozens of weakening spells entangled her this time.
“It seems to vary.”
Nelvenia took a clear liquid from her bosom and sprayed it over her head.
holy water
The effect is to nullify all magic and curses.
“Is there still more to test?”
Nelvenia asked while staring up.
At the end of her line of sight, a sorceress she had never seen before was floating in the air and looking down at her.
“…It was an attack that would have killed an ordinary human on the spot. After all, she is the woman who made that holy water.”
A sorceress who slowly recited as if analyzing the phenomenon of Nelvania’s magic erasure.
” you are?”
“Diareki. A magician affiliated with Pahilia. I am under the direct control of Arell Ernesia-sama.”
Landed two]. Nelvenia kept her mouth shut and showed her wariness towards the wizard who named Diareki.
“….okay. Were you going to dispose of me by pretending to target a dragon?
Assassination? Arell Ernesia also thought of a very nasty method. Did you think that defeating me would break the dragon’s control?”
This time, Dia kept her mouth shut and swung her staff as if in lieu of an answer.
A piece of ice spear flew and landed right in front of Nelvenia’s feet.
It’s not an attack, it’s a clear threat.
“First, let me correct that shameless misunderstanding. Regardless of your presence, the Ernesia Kingdom army can defeat the dragon.”
He explains with an expressionless expression that he will correct the misunderstanding, but there is a strange displeasure mixed in Dia’s voice.
“The attack on you was just a strategy to prevent you from directly controlling the dragon. And one more to vent my personal anger.”
personal anger?
Nelvenia frowned.
“….personal? do you know me?”
“I don’t know you personally.
You probably don’t even know me. We are first-timers.”
“So what do you mean by personal anger? I don’t understand.”
When Nelvania asked, looking as if she was dumbfounded, Dia quietly came down to the wall.
Outside, the soldiers of the Holy Kingdom, who noticed the change, tried to enter, but were prevented from interfering by a gust of wind and a longbow fired by Ernesia’s army from under the castle wall.
Enough magic could destroy it, but Nelvenia couldn’t do that.
Dia with a quiet gaze.
And it’s because he’s aiming his cane at it, revealing his blatant intent to kill.
If you show an opening to destroy the contained magic, you will definitely be shot with magic.
“First, let me ask you a question. No answer.”
Although the intonation is quiet.
What Dia was expressing was unmistakably anger.
“Were you the saint who spread the plague in the village where I lived 10 years ago?”
For the first time, Diarekhi spoke to others with open feelings, forgetting respect.
If there was anyone here who knew her usual behavior, she would have been quite surprised.
“I will ask again. Was it you, Nelvenia?”
“…I don’t know.”
“Ten years ago, a small village on the southwestern border of Ernesia. Because of the sudden outbreak of an epidemic in the village, the villagers had to die without even a cure.”
Nelvenia shut her mouth.
Eyes faintly tremble.
Seeing that, Dia squeezed her staff.
“The village is burning. Less than ten people, including me, survived.
We wouldn’t have been able to live if it hadn’t been picked up by a passing mage belonging to the Mage Tower.”
“okay. I thought there would be no survivors. After all, I should have experimented with more certainty.”
Nelvania gave a creepy answer as if she finally admitted it.
Her face is clearly smiling, but there is a cold madness in her voice.
“Experiment?”
“Yeah, it was just practice. Even if it is the same disease, the course of onset is different depending on race or ethnicity. I needed a sample to make it more clear. But this time too… I can’t use this method at all. It is too uncertain.”
After Nelvania said that, she looked at Dia.
“… even if I say that, you won’t understand. But that’s true. I’m sorry for your misfortune, but I have no grudge against you personally or the villagers. It was just an exercise to remove the flag of Ernesia Kingdom.”
As soon as those words, which sounded like complaints, were over, Dia fired a fireball without a word.
