Dragon Slayer (1)
It is easy to take what belongs to others.
It’s fun to laugh at other people’s efforts.
Every time someone’s challenge is shattered, I feel unbearable joy.
Because your failures prove my perfection.
“Off…!”
The ominous piece in my hand burned hot.
The eyes, which had been blue as the blood flowed roughly, turned pale and the clenched fangs became sharper.
As if that was your original self.
“Huh!”
A piece of a dragon that has now been completely absorbed and has even lost its form.
Vlad pulled out his sword and tried to shake off the ominous energy.
“…You’re being damned!”
Sigh!
In the middle of a cliff, with a dragon howling behind you and jet-black waves crashing below.
In a precarious place that seemed to be sheer, Vlad plunged his sword into the middle of the cliff.
The upward motion was not a whisper echoing from within, but to keep the oath he had made.
Hum – hum, hum –
the sword was crying as it looked at Vlad like that.
Seeing his master trying to climb upward, trampling on the threats around him and the temptations within him.
The Sword of the World Tree, who was only a child, knew who he was, but did not know what he wanted to become.
Ahhh-!
“I am! I don’t want to live like that! “You bastards!”
And now I know.
What do I want to become?
Vlad’s harsh roar toward the dragons awakened the unfinished sword, and each gesture he made with difficulty showed the direction toward completion.
[okay! Look up as if you swore to me!]
Vlad’s heart was pounding as he followed Quihano’s cry.
To be exact, not from the heart, but from what Vlad has been carrying all along.
“Ugh!”
Vlad, who was climbing up the cliff following Quihano’s shout, suddenly let out a groan as he felt the heat deep inside his breastplate.
The pocket near the breastplate, which suddenly became hot, was where the coins handed out by the old knights were stored.
“…Kijano?”
[Your sword seems to be waking up.]
A rusty coin that old knights bought with their honor.
Although its heavily rusted exterior was unsightly, there was a sparkling silver light inside that Vlad could not recognize.
The color of the coin that the old knights were trying to hand to Vlad was true silver.
[By the Silver Knight.]
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Just as the boy wanted to become a knight, the unfinished sword also wanted to perfect himself.
And the reason Vlad was able to become a knight was possible because of the starlight that pointed him in the right direction.
Like the silver lights slowly moving from Vlad’s chest.
The sword in his hand was shining.
A sword that was born as a star but seeks to retain a dragon fragment for its owner.
The true silver flowing out according to the sword’s will protected the young sword from the dragon’s ferocity.
Now everything is pitch black and you don’t know where the sky is and where the sea is.
There was a star shining alone and trying to be born again.
The name of the star he wanted was Dragon Slayer.
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“……Why is he like that?”
Barbossa, who was standing in the distant sea watching the fight between the two monsters, made a puzzled noise when he saw Leviathan’s movements suddenly become stiff.
Even though there was a sudden Kraken attack, it was showing superiority until just now.
“Why did the guy who was winning run away?”
A dragon is essentially a being that is closest to perfection.
Therefore, it was a guy who should not have retreated, but the current Leviathan was releasing its slippery body that was wrapped around the island as if it was trying to escape in a hurry.
“One cliff… It’s scary high!”
And the place where the bewildered Leviathan is looking is right on top of the cliffs of Lemnos Island.
This is where Vlad was after crawling up the cliff from below.
“child. “It looks even uglier when you look at it up close.”
There was a Leviathan right in front of him so huge that it was hard to dare look up, but Vlad was just smiling as he wiped away his sweat.
The biggest dragon and the most perfect dragon sculpture.
The two bodies that faced each other were incomparably different, but in the world of dragons, Vlad, who held the most perfect piece, had no reason to be pushed aside.
“Isn’t it a little lacking?”
Exciting-!
Vlad was measuring the distance between the cliff he was standing on and Leviathan.
Just when I thought the distance I had to run was too far, an ominous red color began to flow from the sword I was holding.
It was a new possibility sent to Vlad by the Dragon Slayer Sword, which contained a piece of a dragon.
“…No, it’s not enough.”
A more perfect body with the ferocity flowing along the sword.
Vlad, feeling elated that he could do anything, glared at the biggest dragon in front of him.
“This is enough to reach.”
The place I was standing was still the same, but the world I was in had changed.
Vlad raised his sword as he saw Leviathan, who was now so close that he could see it at a glance.
“…Whew.”
Vlad crouched down, following the technique of killing with a single blow taught by Quihano.
It looks like an arrow about to be fired.
This swordsmanship, which began with the sword master, began as a gladiator’s swordsmanship that emphasized single strikes.
“going.”
[Yes.]
The sword master’s swordsmanship performed on the dragon’s body.
Quijano’s heart also seemed to be pounding at the possibility that he had never dared to imagine.
“Hmph!”
The ground where I had stamped my feet caved in, and Vlad, who had been there just a moment ago, disappeared.
All that remains is a faint afterimage of golden light and a small wind that blows late.
Geaaaa-!
The golden light that started on the cliff was already reaching the body, surpassing the Leviathan’s roar.
It was such a gesture that he was not afraid of the waves at the bottom of the cliff or the monsters right in front of him.
Crackle!
“Cheet!”
An eerie sound, as if splitting bone, was heard from Leviathan’s body where the sword was inserted, but Vlad ended up making a sound as if he was in trouble.
This was because, even though I did it myself, the unexpected speed exceeded the target location.
“yet again!”
However, even though it was a small sword that was stuck, what struck me was a threat to existence itself.
Gooooooooo-!
Leviathan, realizing the potential of the dragon slayer sword, let out a loud scream and swung his whole body to shake off Vlad.
“shit!”
The collapsed island of Lemnos shook precariously from that gesture, which was larger than most mountain peaks.
At that gesture, a wave so large that even the distant ships could not hold their own was spreading.
-……!
Kraken was also surprised by Leviathan’s sudden action, but the old spirit knew what he was doing.
The Kraken began to wrap its entire body around Leviathan, who was trying to dive into the sea again.
Reveal its huge body to Vlad so that he can no longer enter the sea.
The humans and dwarves could only stare blankly at the sight of the gigantic, majestic snake and squid gripping each other tightly.
“……see.”
It was as if two ropes were tangled and pulled taut.
Vlad, who felt the Leviathan’s body trembling on his feet, began to look at the huge body surrounding the island, not at the head that had already entered the sea.
The dragon’s sharp eyes had already drawn the optimal path that Auguste had told him about.
Clue-!
Vlad pulled out his sheathed sword, closed his left eye, and began to focus on his own world.
To go deeper and gather wider aspects.
In this way, he gathered the worlds that were in contact with him and began to build his own world again.
“Oh oh…”
Rukhta, who was crying on the collapsing island, let out an exclamation without realizing it.
It was because I saw a huge new tree rising from the ruins where everything was collapsing.
“Whoa.”
The world that supports me is the world of Quijano.
What I want to do is become an honorable knight.
What I am holding now is a dragon-slaying sword.
And the world that supports me is the world of spirits that guard the sea.
“Let’s end this.”
Phew!
A knight, dragon slayer, and savior of spirits. Vlad Aureo.
The world he summoned was immersed in the body of the largest dragon.
It looks like a mountain.
Geaaaa-!
“Hwaaaah!”
With Leviathan screaming, Vlad began to run.
Cutting open the body of the largest dragon.
Leviathan’s wounds, which started from a small point, began to gradually spread into a line as Vlad advanced.
“oh my god.”
A golden line slowly dividing Leviathan’s body.
The dwarves of Nidavellir could not close their mouths as they looked at that wondrous light.
Ahhh-!
A boy who was born as a dragon but dreamed of the stars.
A sword that was born as a star but contains a dragon fragment.
The light created by the two was already creating a large circle along the body of Leviathan that wrapped around the island of Lemnos.
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Hum-hum-hum-
“Hmm?”
A desolate desert full of sand.
In that place where everything was quiet, a man who had lost all color was looking down at his sword, crying.
“…You seem to be in a good mood for the first time in a long time.”
A silver knight trembling on his hand.
The sword had been silent until it had just cut through the dragon’s skin, but for some reason it was now trembling as if reacting to something.
“Is something wrong?”
“no.”
Frausen responded to the woman’s voice coming from behind him and quietly swung his sword to shake off the blood that was on it.
A knight who is now left with nothing but duty, without even an ounce of glory.
In front of him, the Death Worm, known as the toughest dragon, was split in half and soaking the dry desert with its own blood.
My heart is pounding…
Frausen’s heart stops little by little every time the death worm’s warmth cools down.
Frausen quietly placed his hand on his chest and closed his eyes as he felt the sound becoming quieter.
“…It finally stopped.”
The heart of something other than mine.
It was a guy who made my withered body run, but Frausen’s face when he felt the sound was only filled with a faint expression of discomfort.
“Do you think this guy will be okay with the material you mentioned?”
“of course. I’ve done it once before. Even though he was a young guy.”
“Then finish it.”
Frausen quietly walked away from the death worm’s body, leaving behind the woman whose feet could not touch the ground.
“Where do you plan on going next?”
Frausen quietly raised his head in response to Lamarshut’s question.
After looking west for a moment, he soon turned and started looking in the opposite direction.
“…To the center.”
center of the empire.
This is the place where the most perfect dragon was killed and now the oldest dragon is located.
Frausen walked towards the city he had built with his eyes without any emotion.
Hum-hum….
As he walked slowly, the swordsmanship was gradually fading from his hands.
Like the owner’s heart that no longer beats without the dragon’s blood.
Frausen’s eyes, which were looking across the desert, had suddenly become those of a dead man and were sinking little by little.
