664. [STAGE 40] The Black Dragon Subjugation
The only connection between the 10th and 9th districts of the Lake Kingdom is the ‘Great Bridge’.
An ancient bridge that is long and huge, and you can’t even see how deep the bottom of the cliff is.
After occupying District 9, we camped in front of the bridge here and waited for the Black Dragon. It was because he had to pass through this place in order to go on a campaign against Inse.
How long did you wait while preparing for the battle?
Thump… thump… thump…
Finally- the black dragon appeared.
On the other side of the bridge, in the deep darkness of District 10, the evil dragon announced its presence with a thump-thump-heavy stomping sound.
Hook…
The lights on the left and right sides of the huge bridge shimmered all at once, and the next moment they all went out.
In the obnoxiously thick darkness, the beast glided like a whale swimming in the deep sea.
He was bigger than any dragon he had ever faced.
The black body, immersed in darkness, boasted such a brutal size that it was difficult to determine where it started and where it ended.
The huge scales that covered the whole body were in a row as if they were surging towards the sky.
Beneath the two gigantic wings attached to its back, countless small wings sprouted.
Atop its long neck, which loftily towered toward the sky, its main head flashed a golden gaze.
And at the junction of the neck and body, six dead heads were attached in a row like a necklace.
Our heroes swallowed dry saliva all at once.
Nightmare corps commander rank 1.
Black Dragon Lord. Black Dragon.
The owner of the late night. first midnight.
Darker than the deepest night. the one who brings down the sun the one who swallows the moon The World Closer –
“Nightbringer….”
Clap-!
At the same time as I chewed and spit out, the heroes under his command aimed their weapons at him in unison
[…]
The Night Bringer looked at us closely as if observing them.
[To be called the last death squad of the royal family…]
Then, he vomited his characteristic bored and blunt voice.
[You’re too small.]
The next moment.
Geeying!
As if the power of a drone was turned on, the six dead heads that hung like necklaces from under the creature’s neck opened their eyes all at once – golden eyes flashed.
The six heads formed a circle, spun and floated into the air. And around the center of his head, he scattered evil eye-lights.
The Nightbringer stared at me while manipulating the six heads under his command.
[My last play seems to be far from enough.]
“Stop worrying about unnecessary things, sir.”
I pretended to be relaxed, and to relieve the tension of my subordinates… I skillfully threw nonsense as usual.
“Because once you catch it, your stomach will explode…!”
[Haha.]
Then the Night Bringer opened its huge mouth and laughed.
[It’s fun to watch your bravado, but I’m most looking forward to seeing you crying after losing everything.]
“Guests, please solve your ideal sexual desires by yourself. This is not a shop like that.”
[Where should I look? How long can you leisurely talk like that…]
The next moment, the black dragon closed its eyes.
The six heads rotating around its middle head also closed their eyes at the same time.
His golden eyes, which had been lighting up the surroundings, closed at the same time, and for an instant, the area around his head was plunged into darkness. Flashing
the next moment-
!
Seven pairs of eyes opened at the same time and stared at me.
‘It’s the strongest pattern from the beginning?’
I grinded my teeth. This despicable bastard has a bad temper from the start!
Fourteen [Evil Eyes of Darkness] concentrated their output, and an invisible, intangible power… No, ‘Night’ swarmed.
It was the same blow that had annihilated Lord of the Flies – Midnight Sun in one fell swoop.
Refine the overlapping darkness with the Night Bringer’s own hatred or hostility… to destroy the opponent.
I don’t know how he used this attack in his human form back then, but that’s not what’s important!
‘I know that this is your strongest attack aircraft!’
After all, it is a pattern used in games.
And the word pattern used in the game means that the law of destruction exists!
“[Shining Dark] ready to activate! and!”
After ordering the activation of the artifact made from Ipian’s magic core, I called a defender to mark the attack.
“Skerian! It’s your turn-!”
As I shouted my name, the skyrians tore through the subspace and came out. This one, too, had already changed to its original form – the form of a gigantic oriental dragon.
[Huh-!]
Darkness spewed out like mist from Skairian’s whole body, which rotated its long snake-like body in the air, and Skairian took a defensive posture with its body wrapped in darkness.
Darkness and darkness that poured like waves collided.
The darkness emitted by the artifact [Shining Dark] primarily received the Night Bringer’s darkness, and Skairian directly received the attack that pierced through the darkness.
Whoa-!
When the Night Bringer’s attack hit, all the scales covering the Skairian’s body were shattered, and rainwater poured down in all directions
.
New scales immediately sprouted from beneath it.
Shaking his body, the Skairian spat out.
[Ugh, it’s the first time I’ve been beaten by my father…!]
“I’m sorry I led you to the scene of domestic violence!”
The black dragon’s pure-in other words, this guy’s ‘scale’ ability is specialized in defense, as well as defense such as supernatural powers and magic.
Moreover, Skairian himself is also a member of the Black Dragon Corps. In other words, because it has the dark attribute, it was able to safely withstand the devastating blow of the Night Bringer.
In the game, I used to block that attack by using both an artifact made from Ipian’s magic core and an artifact made from Skairian’s magic core at the same time.
[Skerian?] When
one of his legion members appeared on the human side, the Night Bringer questioned his name. Skyrian said shyly.
[Sorry father. But there’s something I really want to see.]
[Oh…. That’s good. I don’t know what it is, but come see it.]
The Night Bringer spoke in an unexpectedly friendly tone.
[If he survives in front of me.]
A tremendous amount of mana boiled inside him.
Before the full-scale battle began, I waved my flag and shouted.
“[Goddess Blessing] activated!”
On Stage 40, activate the Goddess’ Blessing – [Goddess Blessing]!
The activation effect is ‘warm starlight’. All heroes belonging to the front line have resistance to the dark attribute throughout this stage 40 and form their inner light to produce a weak luminous effect on their own.
It’s blurry like a real ‘firefly’, but it emits light on its own…!
I waved the flag loudly. As the magic wall rose, all the buffs I possessed fell on the heads of the heroes.
“Tell me!”
With their respective dragon slayers and nightmare slayers drawn, the heroes prepared their deadly skills that they had honed.
“This is a battle for the fate of the world…”
I shouted with a bloody voice as I threw the flag forward.
“Let’s go ahead and fight, my people!”
As if in response to my cry, all the heroes under my command shouted with all their might and ran forward- the
night bringer’s breath, magic dragon lore, and darkness descended upon them.
***
…Forgetting the flow of time, the battle continued.
It was a bloody battle. Neither we nor the Nightbringer took a single step back and fought fiercely.
I and my heroes fought to the best of our ability, following the tactics we had trained and using our improvisation and honed senses.
But- the black dragon was too powerful.
Wounded by our attacks and splattered with blood by our attacks, he endured.
Even after struggling to bring down its six heads, creating a weak point by focusing light on the body, and then pouring firepower on it, it did not collapse.
‘In the game, if you repeat this difficult thing four or five times, you can knock
it down…’ I gritted my teeth and looked around.
If it had been in the game, I would have been able to repeat this over and over again.
You only need to worry about skill cooldowns and consumable items. He was able to recover the lost HP with recovery magic and potions, ignore injuries, and give orders to the heroes.
But this is reality.
Even just brushing against his breath caused burns, and the wizards who received the magic collapsed from overload.
I lost my sense of balance after the dragon roar swept through, and my bones would break if I got caught up in its massive feet and tail.
“Heo, heo, heo…”
“Whoa! Whoa…!”
“Still ha… I can still fight more…!”
During the hours of fierce fighting, the bloody heroes breathed heavily.
All of them were extremely skilled heroes, but the battle with the black dragon forced them to inevitably wear out.
Injured people poured out like an avalanche, and each time they were replaced with reserve heroes and continued the battle….
In the end, everything from the reserve to the captured monster corps went out, and they fought by administering healing magic and potions in the field, but that was it.
The fighting power of the heroes was drastically reduced due to the long battle.
We have reached the end point of the offensive.
We cannot afford to repeat this grueling operation any longer.
Gooooh-
On the other hand, the Night Bringer was alive and well.
Of course, he was never perfect.
It was a subjugation operation carried out by the best heroes on the Inse side. The blood he spilled all over the floor.
However, that mighty vitality did not run out.
He was still looking down at us with an arrogant gaze, as if he had nothing more to show, with his neck held high.
I hate to admit it, but this is the reality.
‘This subjugation failed.’
In an MMORPG, methods such as quick annihilation and then retry would be possible.
this is reality therefore.
“…Retreat.”
We must keep our forces intact and flee.
Only then will the next opportunity remain. There is a chance to try the raid again.
“All prepare to retreat…! Back to Earth!”
“Yes sir!”
Lucas nodded heavily.
This guy, who fought the hardest at the front, showed no sign of pain even though his left arm suffered a severe burn injury.
Lucas asked, turning around with his right arm instead of his motionless left arm.
“Should I use the dungeon escape teleport scroll?”
The teleport scroll was a means of escape given to each party leader as they began subjugating the Black Dragon Corps.
It seems that Lucas naturally thought that he would escape with this.
But I shook my head slightly.
“No… that doesn’t work.”
“yes?”
In the game, Night Bringer was a monster that entered the final boss line along with ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’.
In terms of simple specifications, there are parts that are rather overwhelming.
Even in this hell, he is the ultimate monster. There’s no way someone like that would let you escape so easily.
“It is impossible to escape using teleport in its territory. He will forcefully dispel it.”
Even in the game, it is a gimmick that made all the users who tried to raid lightly, thinking that they could escape with a teleport scroll, vomit blood.
The same goes for ‘The Lake Princess Who Can’t Sleep’… When fighting the final boss level monsters, you should fight as if there is no second chance.
Lucas’ face went pale.
“Then how can I retreat…”
“…”
More than anyone else, Lucas knows how to calmly grasp the situation more than me.
It was a situation where the odds were running out, so it would have been considered a reasonable decision to retreat.
However, you probably didn’t expect that the teleport scroll was dead.
Jwaok-
The Night Bringer opened its gigantic mouth. And among the six heads, the two heads whose jaws were not crushed opened their mouths together.
Soon, the pitch-black darkness began to rage in his open mouth, containing heat. Needless to say, it is a breath pattern.
If you take that bastard’s breath head-on, you’ll die in 99 out of 100. Instead, since the trajectory always draws only straight lines, we have been coping with it in an evasive direction.
Again, the heroes held their breath and prepared to evade, but I knew it.
Heroes who have lost the ability to evade are the majority.
When that breath comes, half will die. We, who had been barely holding on, will then collapse and be annihilated like a sandcastle collapsing.
This is the end point of our offensive, the breaking point, and-
“Nightbringer!”
This is the last moment I can pull out this card.
After calling his name, I staggered forward and walked out.
The heroes standing in front of me, who seemed to be thinking of taking the breath with their bodies, looked back at me in a puzzled way.
I stepped forward, patting the shoulders of such heroes.
“…ash.”
[Owner of the High Tower] converted into a shield form, and Dusk Bringer, who stood at the front, shook his head.
“No, please…”
After giving her a smile,
“Black Dragon!”
After calling the monster’s name once more, he stood at the front.
To the strongest and worst evil dragon looking down at me as if asking why- I brought up the main topic.
Boss stage special gimmick.
100% success rate.
Commander characters become inviolable with each other for 30 minutes –
“To you as king to king – I propose a meeting!”
One-on-one conversation with the guy.
It was a request for a ‘commander’s meeting’.
