I descend on Earth with Wings of Death!
A Storm of Fury
Creating Ash and Dust
I am the Incarnation of the Sun
I shine so brightly, I bring your death
My lineage belongs to the God of Dragons!
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Scales of steel, claws of destruction
The Dragon Fire will scorch the lands
The Idol will never fall
She will bring Absolution!
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GRAWRRRRRRRRR!
KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
Accompanied by a buffet of ear-shattering roars, white flas erupted out of my draconic mouth and engulfed the area in front of . Having already felt the sting of my [White Flas] in our previous bout, the onnikai beast wasted no ti and imdiately dodged to the side and launched its counterattack.
Using the shadow cast by my flas, the onnikai beast drove its arms into them, causing large black spikes to erupt from the ground. Instead of avoiding them, I ground my tail on the ground to set it on fire, then turned the crimson fire into holy flas. Seeing as I was about the size of a larger elephant with scales harder than conventional armor covering my whole body, simply brute forcing through attacks and then healing myself would save from doing unnecessary moves.
I still rember how the guild master would tank a few attacks to create a more advantageous situation for himself. To win battles, I should learn when to dodge and when to tank attacks. A fight is settled not by who took the most damage, but by who is standing at the end of it all.
With my tail covered in white flas, I slashed at the shadowy spikes with it like a sword. anwhile, I turned my head towards the onnikai with my breath attack still active, the flas chasing after the beast. The beast, realizing that its large size was becoming disadvantageous, contorted its form into sothing smaller and more agile. It abandoned the hands it had in the shadow, disabling the spikes attacking , and deftly moved to avoid my flas. As it was a being of mana like Silva explained, its hand quickly regenerated from the surroundings manaand mine as well.
Even with [Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 10], my mana was still being siphoned by the beast right now. As it seed like the beast is the cause for the siphoning mana, my partys plan was for to beco bait and prevent the beast from protecting its core, the onnikai inside the orb. While I was buying ti by fighting this thing, my party would sneak into the ruin and fulfill the Quest.
Silva explained that, as this onnikai beast was a concentration of mana, the orb would lose a ton of its accumulated mana if this thing were to separate from its core. It could probably protect itself with so attacks and control the surrounding onnikais, but the boss onnikai wouldnt be able to create another onnikai beast while the first was away.
Thats why my job was to stall this thing as the one with infinite regeneration under the sun. A sustain tank vs. a sustained tank. With the beasts ability to suck the mana from my fire and from , wasnt it bad for if this fight took too long? Well, yeah, but what can you do? I have to trust in Saori and the rest to finish their battle as soon as possible while I keep this thing pre-occupied.
I know I got myself into this but now that I think about it, isnt this guy an infinitely regenerating opponent bent on killing ? Urgh, why
With my inner turmoil still on-going, my parallel minds imdiately went to work and began casting spells distorting the ground with earth spells, distracting the enemy with wind spells, shooting out pain with holy spells and controlling the white flas surrounding and the area with [Pyrokinesis]. Although they werent a threat to and I wasnt targeting them, the remaining onnikai zombies were getting decimated through the collateral damage caused by my attacks. Whether the onnikai themselves survived, I didnt think about it.
The onnikai beast, having adapted to the situation, decided its more imposing form was just a hindrance to it and began moving around by contorting its form. Its limbs would grow in numbers and turn into spider legs whenever it needed to move or jump, its torso would transform into a snake-like form to slither through my attacks, and it would conjure up shadowy spikes or hands from shadows to attack . In a way, this beast was acting extrely similar to a sli, using its special physiology to its advantage.
Kraaaaaaaaahhhh!
My roar resonated with my music and a blast of loud sounds pushed the beast back even as it tried to cut with hands shaped into mantis-like claws. The push back worked, but the damage part wasnt as effective. For one thing, I dont think it had eardrums. Secondly, the damage caused by the sonic vibrations was quickly healed up as it sucked in mana from the area.
Honestly, seeing it do that made annoyed. I still rember the evolution option of becoming a mana dragon and gaining a mana body like this beast. I dont know why I was feeling like this right now, but I felt a bit envious. Verdammt, couldnt my tanking ability be like this beasts if I had chosen that option back then? I thought, but I shook it off completely the next mont. I had no ti to think about spilled milk.
The continuous shadow spike attacks repeated once again, but this ti, I controlled the flas surrounding from [Symphonie des Feuergottes] and used them as a shield against the spikes. Coating my tail and using it to get rid of this attack was viable, but I felt I would be wasting ti.
Deciding Farrons tips during our spars werent working for right now, I forwent with a proper magicians battle style of keeping a distance and temporarily returned to my normal battle style. I was a dragon right now, not a mage.
Using the flas of the Symphonie as armor, I rushed into close combat with the beast. With my tail still covered in white flas, I twisted my body and slamd my blade-like tail down in an arc. [Hellblade Edge] was fully online. The onnikai sidestepped the attack, but it seed it forgot about my scale-dust. Once my tail touched the ground, a scale-dust explosion ignited, spreading so of the white flas around with it. The beast staggered from the damage.
A chance! Exactly how he did it!
Imitating Farrons [Storm Devastation], I swiped my tail back and twisted my body and jumped, turning my body around to slam my tail onto the onnikai once again in a quick motion. This ti, my aim was true and sliced a few of its spider-like limbs off. Without wasting another second, the third slash of my imitated [Storm Devastation] continued with another twist and jump. I sorsaulted and slamd my tail for the third hit like a hamr onto the ground, carving not only a large chunk of the onnikais body but also the ground.
Split apart due to my experience with my past opponents, it should be my win but the onnikai beast wasnt exactly restricted to the concept of dying when your Health reaches zero. As long as it had mana, it would always co back, just like it did when I destroyed it in our previous fight. That was the advantage of being a mana-based creature.
The beasts split body enlarged into an opened giant mouth with long tusks and fangs just large enough to swallow whole. It attempted to crunch like an oreo, but by using [Wind Blast] on my wings, I made a quick escape from its attack.
Once I gained so distance, spells began flying toward the onnikai. It shapeshifted back into a more maneuverable form and avoided them, but I didnt let it get away from . Like a jaguar, I pounced at the beast and used my tail once again to cut away so of its regenerated spider legs; however, I additionally used this chance to grind my teeth, setting off another scale-dust explosion.
Mangled, the onnikai beast reappeared out of the shade from a nearby tree, having probably escaped through a shadow.
Kuruuuoooooh!
Its mouth transford back into that weird cone-shaped face it had when it shot that lilac exploding shot. That very sa dark aura began accumulating around its body, signaling it was about to shoot out that attack once again. However, I was prepared for it this ti.
Instead of letting it shoot the attack, I used [Rumbling Might], causing the very earth to shake violently like an earthquake. To add to the disruption, [Bedrock Blades] erupted from the ground. The combined power of these two spells stopped the shots build up and created an opening that I very gladly took advantage of.
I blasted the beast with more spells to weaken it, then used [Earthen Shackles] to wrapped it up in vines of rock, restricting it from moving despite having regenerated its limbs from my spell barrage. Then, with [Pyrokinesis], the white flas forming my armor separated from and surrounded the beast in them, continuously dealing damage and forcing it to regenerate. anwhile, [Dragon Fire] was still playing and creating new flas to erupt from the ground, supporting by dealing even more damage to the onnikai beast.
Continuously fighting the beast would prove too much, even for . The sun might be helping my regeneration, but the constant action would drain my ntal fatigue. I an, dealing with a constantly regenerating monster is plainly no fun and just annoying. Instead of fighting it, I decided that capturing it should be far easier.
The onnikai was struggling inside its shackles and Ive already checked with [Detection Sensor] that all the remaining zombies inside my [Dragon Fire]s arena were defeated already. It was only the beast and inside this area now. Ill just keep this thing down and hope my team will deal with this situation soon.
While I was taking a breather, seeing as the situation seed to be in control, my [Foresight] and [Danger Perception] strangely began to warn about multiple attacks coming from many different directions. My skills were telling I was surrounded by attacks, but my parallel minds and I were just confused. What attacks? I couldnt see anything coming from the ground. There was nothing.
Krikrikrikrikri! Onniiiikaaaiiii, neeeevvveeer aloooonnneee! A creaky voice ca from the beast, sending a chill down my spine when I suddenly noticed a few black veils of mist appearing around . From thin air, the mists materialized and beca thicker, before a black goo-like material was ford and turned into several cone-like heads with opened mouths.
Onnnikkkaaaaiiiii reeeeeeveeeengeeee! Paaaiiiiiiin toooo huuumaaaanssss! Kiiilllll iinnnnteeeeerrlopeeerrrrr! Feeeeeellll! Ouuurrrr! Paaaiiiiiiiiiiin!
I didnt have a defensive spell on hold and a dark aura was already surrounding the floating heads. I recalled the white flas surrounding the onnikai beast and used them to reform my armor in the little ti I had before the heads opened their mouths. Unfortunately, I wasnt fast enough. The flas didnt make it ti and I had to use my wings to defend myself.
Balls of dark energy began to bombard . They were less in intensity compared to the onnikai beasts, evident from the lack of urgency that my [Danger Perception] sounded the alarm with, but the attacks still stung , penetrating [Draconic Barrier] due to being a dark elent. I was caught off-guard, I didnt even think the onnikai beast was able to give its mana to the surrounding onnikai without its core.
Honestly, how did the onnikai controlling the zombies survive in the first place? I thought I destroyed them, but they were appearing around like flies. I also dont know how the beast was able to give these onnikais mana to form that dark sli, but who cares right now. I needed to get out of this predicant.
The mont my white flas began blocking so of the attacks, I activated [Dreadflare Aura] for a mont and sent the flas at the floating heads with a heat explosion, causing them to disappear. Once freed from their attacks, [Sanctified Blaze] and [White Flas] began to automatically heal , while I materialized two [Molten Guard] to protect .
This lava spell was similar to Tasiannas [Frozen Shield], as it ford a shield-like construct. It couldnt float on its own, similar to [Frozen Shield]; however, with [Pyrokinesis] and [Cryokinesis], Tasianna and I could control our respective spells and have them hover around us defensively. The only problem was that mine was only able to move slowly, as lava was a combination of fire and earth, and I couldnt control earth as I didnt have the associated -kinesis skill for it.
Focused on protecting myself, the beast freed itself from its binding and began attacking once again with shadow spikes and its nurous growing claws. In addition, the smaller onnikais supported it by forming coneheads to shoot at with their dark balls. The onnikai was adapting more and more the longer we fought.
While it had the ability to continuously suck mana and adapt to its body to suit a new situation, it still had the sa flaw it had since day one: it lacked fighting experience.
I didnt exactly know how high level it was, as I didnt want to activate [Mana Eyes] to look at its profile. My brain always began hurting when I activated the skill in a mana filled area. However, I do think I have an upper hand when it cos to pure stats due to all my buffs and skills, in addition to the fighting experience I gathered until now.
The onnikai beast, on the other hand, didnt seem very capable up until now. Sure, it was adapting and using new strategies to fight against , seeing as it did catch off-guard just now, but that was it. Even now, with all the abilities it was showing and with the help of the nurous onnikai in the surrounding, I wasnt feeling very pressured.
[Symphonie des Feuergottes Movent (Adagio)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]
With spells and dragon abilities, I kept the nurous floating heads at bay and adapted to any changes and moves the beast did. Whether it assud a new form to fight and gave the weaker onnikais more mana and new forms, I countered them and always dealt so damage to the beast.
This ping-pong match continued and continued. Ti wasnt even a thought for at this point. The only reason why I was keeping an eye on how long this battle has lasted is due to my buffs. Until now, I had to renew my whole buff line-up twice. Sothing like more than an hour should have passed already.
There was also the case of my [Symphonie des Feuergottess] having switched to the next movent: adagio. In a normal musical symphony, the first movent is usually either a sonata or allegro. In simple terms, allegro and adagio are terms used to determine the tempo of the music played. Allegro ans fast and bright, while adagio is a slow movent.
Symphonie des Feuergottes Movent (Allegro)
Flas burning as fast as flashfire, increasing the casters Agility by half of the base amount. All fire elental attacks increase in strength
Symphonie des Feuergottes Movent (Adagio)
Flas burning slowly with powerful notes, increasing the casters Strength and Intelligence by half of the base amount. Mana consumption of all spells is reduced by 50%
These were their effects created through [Symphonie des Feuergottes]. I can shit-talk Shiterno as much as I wanted, but I must admit he did well to properly represent the different movents of a symphony in a spells effect. It worked similar to a boss multi-stage battles.
Allegro made super fast and strong, increasing all my fire attacks greatly. It rewarded for pushing myself to end a battle as soon as possible, like a blitzkrieg. Adagio on the other wants to fight slower, increasing the damage from my attacks while also decreasing the mana costs of all my spells. It was the perfect stage for a more mage-like battle plan.
But that wasnt the point, the point I wanted to make is that a ton of ti has gone by already. And the attrition was wearying down.
I was doing fine with my Mana as the sun was still blazing, and as I burned down the portion of the woods inside [Dragon Fire]s arena, nothing was blocking from absorbing solar rays. The beast hadnt noticed my reliance on the sun yet, but it did try to attack my core once or twice. After blocking those attempts, I shielded my precious core with [Corrosive Fire]s purple obsidian armor.
However, while Mana wasnt a problem, Stamina was. My racial unique skill [Solar Core], which enabled to transform solar energy into Health, Mana, or Stamina, could only turn the sun rays into one of the three resources at a ti, not all at once. [Insatiable Glutton] was gone and I was feeling a bit winded.
Through stuff like the adagio stage, [True Draconic Lineage], and my many mana cost reduction skills, the costs of my spells, dragon abilities, and keeping up my song active, wasnt a problem for . In fact, I felt so amazing that I was able to use these many attacks for the fraction of their actual mana costs. The magic slinger dream was becoming true with my skill set.
So, its just a bit annoying that I couldnt exactly afford to switch from transforming solar energy into Stamina to feed . I was still using mana like crazy, and that was becoming a detrint to my Stamina. The attrition battle was making tired.
I eventually decided to stop putting all my focus on Mana. Dont put all your eggs in one basket, right? In the ti adagio was active, I should take care of my Stamina. I wasnt doing this battle correctly. I shouldnt be fighting crazily, I should be taking it slowly and prioritize sustainability. This battle was a good lesson for to learn how to fight slower, instead, of my usual rush down tactic.
After another rotation of buffing spells, the onnikai suddenly stopped moving and directed its head towards a location. It shrieked for a mont and ran off in that direction.
Is that the ruins? Ah! It has to be! You guys!
Were they fighting the onnikai boss right now and putting it in a corner, or did they reach the chambers right now? I didnt know what they were doing right now, as we had no way to communicate. Have they been fighting the onnikai up until now or were they starting it now? I had no clue.
But what I did know was they just caused the onnikai beast to panic. Whatever they were doing, this single act was enough to relight my motivation. The fatigue inside my muscles and mind vanished without a trace. I was fired up and ready to rock!
Smirking, I watched as the beast and lower onnikai rushed desperately to the edge of the arena, slowly following them as I knew what would happen. Once there, I saw the onnikais storm at the large inferno wall roaring, as if the flas were singing along to [Dragon Fire]s lyrics. Expectantly, the onnikai couldnt break through the wall.
It is for one reason only.
Dragon Fire
A song created by the Idol [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]. Through the image of becoming the epito of challenge and opposition, clad in the fiery inferno of a dragons lair, this song will create a stage fit for an idol dragon to fight. Through the power of song and fire, enemies must fight against the ruler of this hellfire as the spotlight is shined on this battle between fates. An arena of fire is created while this song is active, preventing every entity from exiting the arena. All enemies affected by [Music Resonation] will receive these effects: Beco the target for periodic fire attacks created by this song. Receive 10% more damage from all fire and dragon attacks and abilities. All entities affected by [Music Resonation] will receive these effects: All water spells and abilities will lose 50% of their effectiveness. All ice spells and abilities will lose 50% of their effectiveness
[Dragon Fire] didnt have as powerful of an effect as [The Will to Fight and Survive] in my opinion; but I couldnt say it was weak. It was powerful, as expected of a song created through my unique skill [Idol]. Honestly, it took a while to realize that a more tal song would fit pretty well with a damage-based song. The additional effects, like making water and ice spell practically useless inside the area and creating an inescapable arena were aweso add-ons, though.
[The Will to Fight and Survive] is a great boss song to make and my allies more powerful, but I have to admit that [Dragon Fire] was the more fitting boss battle the. It even created a debuffing aura to weaken my enemies while creating my fire arena. I couldnt be more proud of the song, I must say.
For this reason, the onnikai beast couldnt escape. No matter what it tried, the flas rejected the beast and floating heads, keeping them inside. It was similar to those irritating invisible walls that ga developers put inside gas to annoy players.
[I descend on Earth with Wings of Death!
A Storm of Fury
Creating Ash and Dust
I am the Incarnation of the Sun
I shine so brightly, I bring your death
My lineage belongs to the God of Dragons!
Scales of steel, claws of destruction
The Dragon Fire will scorch the lands
The Idol will never fall
She will bring Absolution! ]
I sang while transmitting it telepathically to the onnikai beast, literally taunting it.
[Sorry, sorry, but you arent going anywhere. My party will finish your core. You will lose this fight,] I told the onnikai. [Until then, lets continue dancing together, alright, partner~]
Kraaaaaaaahhhhhh! Freeeeeee eeeeeeeee!
Unfortunately, I refuse.
Saori, Tasianna, Silva, you guys can do it! I believe in you guys! Until we et up again, I will do my part.
With the music booming in the background, our fight continued.
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You have bought [Mind Protection Lv. 1] [ntal Corruption Resistance Lv. 1] [Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 1]. Your current SP is 3200
Multiple proficiency requirents fulfilled. [Mind Protection Lv. 5] [ntal Corruption Resistance Lv. 5] [Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 10] gained Your current SP is 250
[Lifetaker (41 Kills)][Sanctified Blaze][Shadow Armant (Full Body)] [Various Spell Buffs] inflicted on [Young Shadowstalker Cadejo, Saori Segawa]
All buffs are up, but we lost Hestias buffs aside of [Sanctified Blaze]. Maybe sothing like thirty minutes has passed? I am not sure, I told Tasianna and Silva as we finally reached the last floor of the ruins.
Sister Tasianna, you should take most of the mana potions to keep yourself safe and at full power. Miss Saori and I should take one mana potion each and divide the rest of the Health potion amongst us, Silva stated. My offensive power is the weakest, so I will take care of healing and support. Once a path to the core is made, I will begin the rite. Igniculus will support in my stead, but I cannot support with wind magic once I begin. Please, protect .
Tasianna nodded and attached all the mana potions to her belt. You may count on us, Sister Silva. Ice magic is a defensive elent. As Lady Hestias retainer and maid, I swear I will protect you. We will free the onnikai and aid Goddess Zephira in her task!
I had no idea how long it took us to reach the last floor. Hestia did a fantastic job by clearing and luring the zombies up to the surface, which made our way down easy. There were a few zombies that we had to fight our way through, but otherwise, we did our best to rush down the ruins as fast as we could. This was a ti-based battle, after all.
I didnt know how long it had been; was Hestia still luring the onnikai beast to a spot she deed suitable, or was she fighting against it right now? I had no idea about the timing of everything. All I knew is that our part of the fight will begin soon.
And we had to hurry. Hestia was strong, but we had to finish this before the sun set.
Once we made sure our preparations were done, we entered the room. Unlike the previous ti we visited it, the room had four imposing giant zombie wolves guarding the pedestal where our goal laid.
H-Hooowwwww?! Whyyyyy arreeee youuuu. Heeerreeee?! Fiiiight?! Whyyyyyyy?!
The onnikai boss seed distressed when it saw us. Concurrently, the zombie garms assud a combat stance and began growling, their eyes glared at with ferocity. At that mont, strange thoughts began to enter my mind, sounding sothing like HIieeeerhaaaaaZZuddaasNNNddas or sothing gibberish. I felt not only so slight pain but also anger and sadness from those thoughts, but unlike last ti they did it to , I endured.
It was the right choice to buy [ntal Corruption Resistance] and [Mind Protection] like Hestia recomnded in addition to leveling them up a bit through SP. I also bought and fully leveled [Mana Leak Resistance] for safetys sake. My Mana reached zero last ti due to not having this skill back then, and I really wanted to be sure that nothing would cause that again. Even if the onnikai beast was the primary cause for the mana drain, I wanted to be sure and cover all my weaknesses.
Unfortunately for , despite having those two new ntal protection skills, I still felt this desperate desire to prove myself before these four garms. I dont know why I was feeling it and I didnt want to feel it. It was like a terrible itch that I needed to scratch. I hated to admit it, but maybe Tasianna and Silva were right. Maybe my instincts as a wolf or as [Belzacs Successor] were the cause for this.
In any case, we had to fight anyway. Unlike Hestia, who has embraced her draconic life with pleasure, I didnt like being a pawn to my instincts. I hated being covered in fur, so I barely showed any skin with my outfit. I hated being bloodthirsty and a battle junkie, so I tried to be more aloof than how I was on Earth.
Its funny how my students sotis called scary when I was strict with them. How would they react to how I act now? Well, I guess they would comnt about the fact that I looked younger than when I was their horoom teacher, but, well, whatever.
Concentrate, Saori. We need to fight.
With [Multi-Cast], I invoked both [Shadow Clones] and [Shadow Pack]. With a shadow clone of my cadejo form and a shadowy giant wolf, this battle party was now a six-man, including Silvas Igniculus.
[Humanized (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Shadowstalker Cadejo, Saori Segawa]
With my two shadow wolves flanking my sides, I pulled out my two daggers and transford into my werewolf-like form. I was thinking of assuming my cadejo form, but I wanted to test the waters first with my two daggers. Could good equipnt cover the difference in stats or will my additional stats and size from my true form be more useful?
Let us put this hypothesis to the test.
For what you four did to in our last eting, let reward you by giving you a personal lecture!
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