chapter 97
97 – Stay away from me
It was rare for Iris to come to the dark mage’s lair, which is the nemesis of the temple.
The people of the temple are said to be the natural enemies of warlocks, but they also hate warlocks extremely.
That’s why, if possible, he hates even breathing in the same space as a warlock.
Rail asked Iris, who was catching her breath carefully with her head tilted.
“Did you get permission to go to the temple?”
“No. The Pope and all the people in the temple stopped it?”
“So, how did you get here? If you disobey the words of the temple, won’t you lose your position as a saint?”
No matter how much she is loved by her god, if she doesn’t listen to the temple, she will lose her status as a saint.
But at Rail’s question, Iris looked at Rail with her slightly serious eyes.
“No matter how omniscient and omnipotent God is, he cannot even bring the dead back to life.”
“… ….”
“And God would have wanted me to come here. Didn’t Rail-sama feel that she needed me just in time?”
“Yes. Black magic is particularly vulnerable to Holy Spirit power.”
“Right. And since I have more spiritual power than the people in the temple, it will help me a lot.”
Iris also wouldn’t have expected that they would resurrect the dragon with black magic.
But she’d rather deal with the dragon, and she knew she needed herself, and she’d rather speed her up to where the rails were to be her power.
It was also a dangerous situation where her status as a saint could be stripped.
“What if she loses her status as a saint? Just like before, you can stay at Rail-sama’s mansion and help out. Isn’t it? Mr. Rail?”
“Of course.”
The mansion I live in is also too large compared to the number of people staying.
If you defeat the dragon that is still raging in the sky, you will not only be able to advance to the center with Helena’s promise, but you may also receive a better mansion than you have now.
‘In a house like that, it wouldn’t matter if I added at least one Iris.’
Iris is one of the main characters in this dragon subjugation.
It’s not that difficult to give up some of her rooms for her.
I nodded, and Chloe, who was next to me, opened her mouth.
“It looks like our mansion will be damaged quite a bit during the subjugation, so can I take care of you too? Because we are a ‘couple’.”
“I can give you a few rooms if there is any damage.”
Certainly, excluding Iris, it was Chloe who would suffer the most damage.
I didn’t know why they used the word couple, but it wasn’t wrong, so I got over it.
Rail turned his head again and looked at the personnel for a moment.
Iris and Chloe’s conversation eased the heavy atmosphere a little.
It seemed that the two of them relaxed the atmosphere so as not to be as nervous as possible.
“Are you all ready now?”
Penia and Allin immediately answered Rail’s question.
“Of course not.”
“The preparations have already been completed.”
Seeing that the other teammates were also full of determination, Rail nodded his head in satisfaction.
“Then, let’s start right away.”
As soon as Rail finished speaking, their eyes changed.
And so that the dragon would not rampage any more, I immediately moved to the battlefield where I was facing the dragon.
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With the dragon’s resurrection, all the knights and wizards of the imperial family gathered to save Claire, as well as the northern part.
“All ready to shoot! Launch!”
As the commander-in-chief shouted loudly, the archers fired arrows filled with mana at the dragon’s head.
Hwieeiik-!
Along with the sound of cutting the wind, hundreds of arrows are fired at the dragon’s head.
Dududuk! Took!
The arrows of the soldiers were right in the dragon’s head.
‘It’s a success!’
All the arrows couldn’t reach the dragon’s head, but over 70% of the arrows succeeded, so the soldiers thought it was not impossible to deal with the dragon.
However, their thoughts did not last long.
“The attack works! Prepare the next arrow!”
“Yes!”
“Wizards also prepare attack magic in advance!”
“Yes!”
At the commander’s words, they immediately prepared bows and magic.
And after confirming that the bow was ready, he opened his mouth again.
“Fire!”
Once again the bowstring was drawn, Taang! With the sound of air bursting, hundreds of arrows filled with mana flew towards the dragon again.
Wheek.
And once again, the dragon confirmed that the arrow was flying and turned its head slightly to look at the hundreds of soldiers gathered.
Flinch.
The bodies of the soldiers who met the dragon’s eyes trembled at the sight of the ancient existence for the first time.
But after their arrows have already left the protests.
Even though the soldiers were trembling, their bows were already pointed at the dragon’s head.
Just before hundreds of arrows hit the dragon’s head once again.
-Kooooo!!!
The dragon let out a roar that would tear the eardrums apart.
The soldiers used mana so that their eardrums were not significantly damaged compared to the others.
However, hot blood was flowing from the ears of the wizards who were unable to use defensive magic due to the momentary roar.
And the dragon, disturbed from enjoying the night sky for the first time in a while, waved his hand lightly at the flying arrow.
It was a gesture that he swung as if he was catching an insect, but the storm-like wind created by that gesture deflected all the arrows.
Hui-Iik-! Hooked!
Then the arrows bounced back towards the soldiers and wizards.
It would have been fine if the arrows they shot were ordinary arrows, but the arrows they shot were full of mana.
When that arrow hit a human, not a monster, no one could stand the pain.
“Quaaagh-!!”
“Pa, pal!!”
The soldier whose arm was pierced by an arrow screamed.
Unfortunately, the person whose whole body was pierced by arrows collapsed on the spot without being able to scream once.
After dozens of soldiers died with a single gesture, the commander, who felt impatient, shouted at the wizards who had not finished casting yet.
“Do, use magic!”
“… Yes!”
The wizards hurriedly prepared the magic and used it toward the dragon.
Then, dozens of magic circles floated up in the sky. However, not all wizards used magic.
Magicians who couldn’t hear their voices due to eardrum damage belatedly followed the magic and used it.
The reason magic is more powerful than weapons like arrows is that it consumes a lot of concentration and mana.
However, arrows stuck in their bodies and their eardrums ruptured, so there was no way the magicians could use normal magic.
Various magics were directed at the dragon.
However, no matter how imperfect the magic, they are the elite mages of the imperial family. No matter how much the opponent is a dragon, there will be no damage from their magic.
The dragon also moved its huge body, probably realizing that the incoming magic was not formidable.
Koo-goo-gu-gung!
I had only moved one step, but the floor trembled as if a major earthquake had occurred.
And the dragon opened its mouth wide as it watched the magic flying towards it.
Then a huge magic circle formed in his mouth. And the eyes of the wizards opened wide at the incredibly deep magical power that they felt at the moment from the guy’s mouth.
It wasn’t just wizards.
Knights who couldn’t feel the mana felt the thick mana, and ordinary citizens who were trembling far away from the battlefield also felt the guy’s mana.
And then a huge flame rose from the guy’s mouth, and he fired his breath at the flying magic.
-!!
The terrifying breath that killed countless soldiers decades ago collides with dozens of spells used by wizards.
Kwagwagwagwagwang!!
There was a loud explosion that made the ground tremble.
All magic used by the wizards was destroyed by the dragon’s breath.
However, the dragon’s breath did not dissipate, and the flames were still burning.
The commander trembled as he saw the breath flying towards them.
That can’t be avoided.
If you get hit by that, you’ll die without even being able to figure it out.
The commander urgently shouted at the mages.
“Ba, use defense magic! Hurry!”
“Yes, yes!”
The wizards, who had been staring blankly at their magic being pierced at once, regained their senses at the commander’s voice and hurriedly applied defensive magic.
Then dozens of barriers were created in the sky.
It was such a great defensive magic that someone would open their mouths if they saw it, but the human strength was too weak in front of the dragon.
Kwajik-! Quadduk-!!
Dozens of layers of barriers made by wizards could not withstand the breath, and all of them were broken.
Magicians and soldiers who failed even to reduce the power of the breath stared at the breath in awe.
And I felt it.
Mere humans can’t stop dragons.
Even if there are humans who can block it, it’s impossible with the people here.
Soldiers who had given up fighting collapsed on the ground helplessly.
And I closed my eyes watching the hot breath that would burn everything.
However, the familiar voice from behind opened the soldiers’ eyes again.
“Fire up.”
‘This voice?’
The imperial soldiers recognized that the voice coming from behind was the voice of the third princess, Claire, who had been kidnapped by a warlock.
And with Claire’s chant appearing from behind them, a huge wave of flame was shot towards the breath.
Fire-!
Her magic was also high-level magic that surpassed even the royal mage, but she couldn’t block all of the dragon’s breath.
But despite the failure of her own magic, Claire wasn’t disappointed in the slightest.
Because she was sure that her comrades by her side would fend off that attack.
“Ice Wall.”
A wall of frozen ice blocked the breath from Chloe, the princess of the north who was as cold as ice.
Damn it-!
The ice wall created by Chloe begins to melt in an instant. Then, the breath that melted all the ice was fired at the soldiers once again.
However, her breath was still threatening, but compared to when she first used magic, her power was incomparably lower.
Then, in front of the soldiers who were sitting down, a woman with gray hair that reached her waist appeared.
If someone saw her, he would have shouted to run away urgently, but he had worked in the imperial family for over several decades and knew who the woman in front of him was.
The only archmage on the continent.
The woman who sealed the dragon that appeared in the world decades ago.
Her appearance has become younger because of the curse, but her appearance is the same as when she sealed the dragon.
Archmage Fenia lightly swung a staff slightly shorter than her own height at the breath flying towards her.
Hwieeiik-!
Then, a tremendous wind shot towards her breath, and her breath, which seemed to burn everything, was completely erased.
Lightly blocking her breath, Fenia turned her head to look at her commander.
A normal person would have asked if the wound was okay, but she didn’t put on a show.
“Keep away from me because you’ll get in the way.”
The commander nodded her head without the slightest resistance to Fenia’s words.