Chapter 174

Chapter 174 – Chapter 35: Battle

The wind blowing from the limit line was cold and dry . However, those on the battlefield didn’t feel that cold . A much colder and ruthless breath swept through the battlefield .

Chwaaaaah!

The ice-filled dragon breath poured down from the sky . Even a zombie drake wouldn’t be able to resist a direct hit from it . The air around them froze and shattered into pieces . The sight of 20 zombie drakes being frozen and destroyed in an instant was truly spectacular . The Dragon Breath spread out in a fan shape to cover dozens of meters on both ends . It was like a natural disaster . The aftermath of the cold air influenced the atmosphere on the ground, and the cold air seemed to turn their blood cold .

The owner of the breath was the ice dragon, Quanta . She was an evil dragon in the vicinity of the Northern Limit Line . Covered with blue scales, she burned with a violent anger . It wasn’t just anger at those who dared to challenge her; the anger contained an impatience and anxiousness which couldn’t be concealed .

“A breath was shot out! Bypass!”

A soldier outside the range of Dragon Breath shouted . As an orc and junior general, he couldn’t even dream of being a match against a dragon . However, he was now facing a dragon, and he wasn’t alone . There was a leader!

Brig, the junior orc general, sped up on his boar as he stared at Quanta . Following him, there were dozens of soldiers with crossbows .

Papapapapak!

There was the sound of arrows penetrating the cold air, but it was unreasonable to pierce a dragon’s scales with crossbow bolts . The difference in size was too big . Brig knew that, but it wasn’t useless .

“Pay attention and disperse! Bother it!”

The soldiers fired the crossbows again . It was the same with the units deployed on the other side . 300 cavalry members fired crossbows in different directions, filling the sky with arrows . The ice dragon, Quanta, felt annoyed . She flapped her wings and used Dragon Words, scattering the arrows with a strong gust of wind, while a rain of icicles fell onto the cavalry .

Screams burst out as one group of the cavalry was practically wiped out . However, Brig smiled despite his fear . He looked at a place above Quanta’s head .

Kwa kwang!

A huge explosion occurred above Quanta . It was the power of the energy shots fired by the wyvern strike force . Quanta, who had been attacking the cavalry on the ground, couldn’t escape the energy shots, and the explosion on her back pushed her down to the ground . The length from her head to tail ran for hundreds of meters, and her weight was also terrifically heavy . The earth shook when Quanta fell, and the frozen ground cracked and broke .

“Trivial things-!”

Quanta burst out . The cavalry with a relatively close proximity to her couldn’t withstand the fear and collapsed . However, there were those who weren’t affected . The wyvern strike force once again used the energy shots, and there was a deafening roar as the explosions covered Quanta’s head . Smoke emerged and disturbed the soldiers’ view of Quanta .

“Noohm!”

“Aim for the throat!”

The cries of Quanta and the intermediate general Paragra rang out at the same time . On the left and right sides of Quanta, several huge harpoons were fired . They were terrible objects with a length of seven meters .

The harpoons were trump cards which had been hidden before the battle began . Quanta instinctively felt a sense of urgency and cast a defensive spell using Dragon Words, but it was useless . The army had no intention of piercing Quanta’s scales in the first place .

“Curve!”

The soldiers instantly used Telekinesis . The harpoons, which had been flying in a straight line, changed course around Quanta’s neck . They circled Quanta’s neck repeatedly, trapping her neck with the thick chains at the ends of the harpoons .

Quanta was confused . The demon king’s army hadn’t broken, and Paragra, who was also a powerful magician, commanded the magicians to cast their spells . 20 magicians aimed spells at the chains .

“Kuaack!”

Quanta screamed as chains coiled around her neck, and there was now a different magic running along those chains .

The combination of water-based magic and lightning magic created a powerful synergy . There were curse magic, to lower Quanta’s magic resistance, and amplification spells, to amplify all the magic . Even the ice dragon, Quanta, couldn’t hold out against all of this .

Quanta shrieked . In the meantime, new chains were wrapping around her neck .

“Pull!”

There was no magic in the new chains, but frost giants were holding the ends of these new chains, and all of them were undead . The frost giants, who had been in hiding previously, rose up at the same time and pulled the chains with tremendous strength . Quanta screamed as her head was forced to the ground .

The wyverns fired their energy shots again . Their purpose was to prevent Quanta from using magic by distracting her . However, Dragon Words was different from normal magic . Quanta’s scream soon became magic, and the violent spell Dragon Words created surrounded the chains with a strong chill which was Quanta’s very essence . Just as the magic of the soldiers reached Quanta, her cold was also running along the chains!

The frost giants, holding the ends of the chains, froze in an instant . The magicians casting a different type of magic suffered considerable damage as well . It was an expected attack, so they rushed to avoid it, but almost half the people were swept away by the cold .

However, that didn’t stop the army . The ballistas used for destroying gates and giant monsters hit Quanta’s back . Attacks were aimed at her body constantly .

Quanta felt a sense of crisis . She couldn’t determine the number of soldiers from the demon king’s army, nor did she have any idea of how much preparation had been put into this battle . However, she knew it had been a planned encounter, and that she needed to escape .

Quanta’s body trembled as that thought popped into her head . She couldn’t bear the shame and anger…

However, she had to run away . Despite being battered by attacks, Quanta focused her mind . She used Dragon Words to change her appearance, and her body shrank by hundreds of meters as she became a gandharva female with blue hair . This was the usual appearance that Quanta enjoyed . The chains which had been wrapped tightly around Quanta’s neck loosened instantly . The attacks simply hit the ground with the loss of their target .

Quanta gasped for breath and prepared to use a spell to fly into the sky .

Then at that moment… Someone approached her through the bombardment . Quanta felt his presence when the distance between them was less than 10 meters . That was how fast his movements were .

“Ka! Ramus!”

The person moved forward boldly . It was the roar of Dragon Style . Quanta had shrunk . Her blue eyes saw a red man, with red hair and eyes, and a sword in his hands . Even though she was currently in the form of a gandharva, he was using Dragon Style to try and defeat a dragon .

She knew it the moment she saw this man . This person… He had planned all of this . He had used the army to push Quanta into a situation where she needed to transform into a gandharva . It had been for the purpose of reducing her size so he could attack her!

Quanta pulled out a sword like lightning from the air . It was a sword created from her teeth . However, the man in front of her—Zephyr, who was called the strongest magic swordsman—was faster . He raised his sword instantly and blocked Quanta’s . It wasn’t a simple sword . Quanta was able to tell the moment their swords collided . The common power of a draconian wouldn’t be able to win .

Quanta reinforced her muscles using aura, while her body was strengthened by magic . There was also the addition of Telekinesis! As she moved her arm which held the sword, Zephyr didn’t slow down and wielded his sword in rapid succession . Quanta’s sword-holding hand was cut off and thrown into the air .

Quanta shrieked as blood spurted out like a fountain from her arm . Her blood had a sweet scent, but that was because she had shifted to a gandharva . She went on to try casting several spells at the same time . Her scream was filled with enchantment magic . It was powerful enough to force the one wielding his sword at Quanta to put his sword down and beg for forgiveness .

Quanta would buy some time with this enchantment . Then she would transform into something more warlike, instead of a gandharva . However, all of this was just a wish . Her opponent wasn’t enchanted . Zephyr must have a mental resistance beyond imagination as his expression didn’t even change .

Zephyr’s left hand dug into Quanta’s abdomen . His uniquely sharp draconian nails ripped through Quanta’s abdomen easily . Quanta wasn’t used to feeling pain . She screamed once again, but this time it wasn’t Dragon Words .

Zephyr exploded the aura in his left hand and wounded Quanta’s insides . He didn’t forget to use the various curse scrolls hidden in his magic pockets . Once Zephyr pulled out his left hand from her abdomen, cursed blood poured out .

Zephyr didn’t stop there . As he pulled out his left hand, he swung his sword and cut Quanta’s neck . He deliberately used enough strength to only make her bleed .

“Cough!”

Quanta covered the wound on her neck with her one remaining hand . Now, she couldn’t even scream, so Zephyr was satisfied . After the consecutive strikes, he pushed off against the ground and did a sharp spinning kick . Quanta couldn’t endure it . The world seemed to be turning upside down, and her back soon struck the ground .

As Quanta squirmed on the ground, Zephyr’s knee held her down . He broke her ribs instantly and pressed against her heart . Zephyr then used Telekinesis to strike Quanta’s hand which was covering the wound on her neck . He put away his sword and grabbed Quanta’s neck with his right hand, whispering as he poured magic power into her .

“This is going to be painful . But don’t give in too quickly . If you can’t endure this much, you won’t be worthy of being my subordinate . ”

Quanta’s eyes widened . What was he talking about right now? Become his subordinate? She who had reigned over the earth for 700 years like a god? She couldn’t say it . The miserable scream in her throat was suppressed before it could emerge .

In the meantime, Zephyr continued his work . A spell of obedience was spoke at the same time as he used Telekinesis . The seven swords Zephyr carried on his back flew into the air and fastened her arms, legs, abdomen, and the rest of her body to the ground . The different elemental spells, which had been stored in advance into the swords, tormented Quanta .

It was a gruesome attack which would have killed an ordinary gandharva dozens of times over already, but Quanta was a dragon . So, she didn’t die . She just felt tremendous pain which made her feel like she was dying .

The soldiers of the demon king’s army watched as Zephyr overpowered Quanta . Most of them had grown up on these lands, so they knew about Quanta . She was famous for her strength and being a disaster from the sky . Yet that Quanta was now being suppressed .

Everyone was overwhelmed by Zephyr . They admired him and understood why he was called the most powerful prince of the Demon King’s Palace .

There was also someone who was thrilled in a manner different to the soldiers .

War… One of the Four Riders of the Apocalypse . She watched Zephyr through the eyes of a warrior . The amount of darkness inside Zephyr was enough to cause her pleasure .

War had seen everything . Zephyr had used his soldiers to hunt Quanta . He showed a precise and thorough insight . Aside from his individual strength, he was also perfectly capable of commanding soldiers .

It was attractive . Then War came to a conclusion . That was Zephyr Ragnaros… The 2nd Prince of the Demon King’s Palace, the most powerful prince . Both his soul and body were tough . War now understood why Death was paying attention to him .

‘It is more than enough . That man can do it . ’

War shook with pleasure once again . She was in just as much awe as the soldiers while she watched Zephyr make Quanta submit to him .

At that moment, one of the swords stuck in Quanta’s body was pulled out and flew at a fast pace . The cheering soldiers focused on Quanta didn’t even notice the sword had struck someone’s neck . The same was true for War’s warrior . He couldn’t react and lost his head . The head of War’s servant then fell to the ground .

The connection was closed; War could no longer look at Zephyr . However, she still felt a great joy . The last thing she saw before the connection was broken had been the face of Zephyr, who was staring at War with cold eyes . He had an intense aura and magic power wrapped around him .

She was thrilled . Zephyr was beautiful, charming . War liked what she saw, and she desired it .

In the darkness, she lifted her head . She could feel something in the south, heading toward the War Knight in the north .

Guardian Queian… It was the Drakon Kechatulla he had prepared—a human warrior .

There was also another one, the Conquest Knight with the power of a dragon . He was a child of Conquest, who had been corrupted by the hateful Ainkel and Torres .

War smiled faintly . The time was approaching .

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“Master, the talking raccoon has become a pig raccoon . Fat . ”

“No? I just became slightly overweight from relaxing and sleeping a little bit!”