anwhile, the mont the Wyverns appeared, Asmodeus and Ciela suddenly stopped investigating the ruins, hearing their load roars.
Levia reacted the fastest as she imdiately transford her armour into the full plate suit, with her long tail covered in tal chevrons and holding a huge kite shield and black spear, gazing at Asmodeus as if waiting for his order.
"Master!"
The mont he heard the roars, his thoughts lingered about going to help them.
There was sothing he could sense deep in the earth, twisting and turning. Under his feet, sothing was alive: madness and anger, but most of all, a magical aura this powerful was beyond the weak dragon he fought in the mountains with Velvet.
"Levia, rush to the aid of Erika and the others... Ciela, can you help Paul, Simon and Baku?"
He couldn't afford to let them both remain here because the point the strange man was coming from was directly beneath this cave.
"My dear... are you sure?" Ciela's voice seed confused and worried, but her hand gripped her bow nonetheless before seeing Asmodeus nod back at her—with a bitter smile. She could only return the smile even despite knowing sothing was off.
"Master... I am off!" Leviathan didn't waste ti.
The mont he requested, she showed him a bright smile before closing her black tal mask across her face, hiding everything but her eyes.
Asmodeus took a deep breath, his eyes shimring with deep blue light.
After the two vanished, he started creating magic circles around the canyon, preparing to fight.
Ciela's light body darted across the obsidian slates, rushing to the eastern passage to help Baku, Paul and Simon. anwhile, Levia, like a rocket, used her wings to jet towards the west with imnse speed, like a bull.
anwhile, Erika's body dropped from the wall, her abdon on fire as the black tal armour dented into her chest from the impact of the wyvern attack.
—Clang!
Erunda's axe clashed with the first Wyvern's claws, creating a burst of flas and sparks, while Arinea's frozen shards wrapped around the second Wyvern, piercing its chest, causing it to lift out of range and circle the skies.
The third Wyvern, however, seed more intelligent. It sat on the canyon wall, gazing, observing them quietly, and tapping its claws as if to order the other Wyverns.
"Fuck!"
With the sound of wind and reverberation of rocks cracking from his wild swing, Erunda shouted in frustration, his body covered in small claw wounds cleaving the lower jaw of the first Wyvern before it took off into the air and stopped fighting directly.
The two of them, like a coordinated team, circled the canyon in the sky above the cave.
"Erika! Can you keep fighting?" Arinea's warm magic flowed into Erika's body, healing her wounds while pulling her from the rubble.
"Y-Yeah..."
Erunda and Arinea stood side-by-side, their eyes scanning the Wyverns above them and the third Wyvern standing on the wall.
"This isn't right. How can a Wyvern look so strange?" Arinea's lips trembled slightly, and her magical power fluctuated as she heard the roars in the distance.
'Is the princess safe?!'
Her partner closed his lips while narrowing his gaze, the axe heavy in his hand as he breathed slowly. "Are they not drakes, this is the dragon's canyon after all."
ROAR!
"How can they be drakes! Only a dragon mating with another can create... N-No... you're not saying?!" Arinea understood Erunda's words and then snapped her gaze to the most intelligent beast, focused on its shape and the way it moved, and then realised that it wasn't a pure drake but seed closer to a drake and wyvern hybrid.
The third Drake sneered, its lips curled as if able to sense their thoughts and feelings.
"We need to hurry, the princess and others might be in danger..."
A doubt ford in the minds of Erunda and Arinea, those who dwelled in the silver forest and knew its surroundings well, especially the monsters and thus ca to this conclusion.
"Miss Erika, these monsters are Drakes, a subspecies of dragon. Don't lower your guard or treat them as normal monsters."
Erika, wiping the blood dripping down from her lips and a pale face, looked up at the sky. She was shocked at first, but then her mind returned to Asmodeus and his broad back, which always stood in front of them. "I'm ready to fight!"
"Good, we need to draw the third one into battle, so can you follow my plan?" Arinea gazed back at the young demon knight with a sparkle in her eyes. "You're brave. I like that."
Erika's face beca serious. She was no fool, knowing full well that with her strength, she couldn't fight them alone.
"Go!"
ROAR!
As if on queue, the third Drake tapped and roared before the other two beasts swooped down. Their speed rapidly grew as they lunged at the trio.
"Erika, can you hold one off, for a few monts?"
"I'll try!"
"Erunda, let's do it!"
The two warriors charged toward the lunging drakes while Arinea stood in the back, her hands holding her staff and twirling it around as a magic circle started growing beneath her feet—each mont, it expanded and glowed brighter, runes and shapes forming in a complex pattern.
"Oof!"
—CLANG!
A massive impact sounded, followed by the shattering of rock and stone as Erunda and Drake's bodies slamd together. The Drake's body then thrashed into the cliff, causing the rock face to crumble, but the warrior wasn't unscathed either. Drake's sharp claws tore open his right leg, causing him to grunt in pain.
anwhile, Erika's body twisted and avoided Drake's claws before kicking the side of its face into the opposite cliff wall, causing her leg to tremble from the impact and leaving the beast to roar and recover itself, ready to pounce again at any mont as her body slid backwards from the clash.
In the background, the third Drakes' golden eyes narrowed, peering at Arinea as her body fluttered and crackled with pure mana. The magic circle grew to double its original size, vibrating along with the earth.
Grrrr~
Its lips parted, showing long, crooked teeth, sharp and deadly.
"Erika, Erunda! Thirty seconds!"
The third Drake unfolded its wings and spread wide, blocking out the sun's light as it flew into the sky. Its tail swayed behind its colossal fra.
There was sothing that a drake could do differently from a wyvern.
"!!!"
Flas swirled as the Drake started to suck in the surrounding mana, creating a vortex. Then, like a miniature sun, it gathered them into a ball inside its throat.
As if to protect and help the third Drake, the other two beca more active, one swiping at Erika with its claws before lunging forward and slamming into her body, while Erunda's axe flicked back as the Drake deflected his blow with its tail, slamming him into the ground with its front foot.
Both warriors struggled to keep the monsters occupied.
The mont they saw the third Drake fireball, their eyes widened as it lifted its head and snapped down, the imnse fireball shooting at Arinea.
ROAR!!
The world shook as if thunder crackled across the sky—the explosive ball tore through the air, sending a wave of dust, rock, and flas outward as it closed in on Arinea. Erunda's body pushed off the ground, but the first Drake bit at his body, forcing him to block it by holding his axe with both arms.
"Damn it! Arinea, dodge, forget the spell!"
As his eyes gazed at the ball of fla approaching, his heart pounded. He was desperate to stop it, but the two Drakes stopped him. Erunda scread back to his beloved, only to watch in shock as the fireball exploded.
—BOOM!
The fireball exploded, sending waves of fire and dust in all directions, creating an enormous mushroom-shaped explosion.
Erunda, the Drakes and Erika tumbled, and the surrounding canyon walls were scorched black. The fireball's force destroyed the canyon walls and caused a massive avalanche that buried everything in its surroundings.
Arinea, however, remained unscathed, her figure standing still and seemingly unaffected by the explosion.
"Eh?!"
Her eyes widened as she watched the figure standing in front of her. The figure was wearing a black cloak and had a tail covered in black tal. It was a huge black shield that was now shining orange from the heat and sizzling like bacon on a grill.
"Haaa...." Levia's mask snapped apart as she let out a deep breath, the hot air making it visible, as she dug the massive kite shield into the molten ground wrapping around her and Arinea. "Are you safe, Lady Arinea?"
Leviathan, the demon paladin of envy, gazed at Arinea's shocked face.
She then turned to gaze at Erunda, the warrior covered in dirt, and Erika, who looked battered from being tossed. Levia showed a rare smile, her cheeks slightly pink from the intense heat, while she gazed up at the dragon with shining eyes.
"Finish your spell, I will protect the mage. Keep fighting without losing focus." She seed like a different person, but her tone wasn't arrogant.
Leviathan's eyes shone, and her black armour cracked from the intense heat.
The edges turned red as they dropped off, forming a tallic bikini, while her tight muscles looked slightly tanned.
"This dragon... my fair skin is now dark, will Master hate it?"
'That's what you care about?!' Arinea thought as she once again focused on the tactical class magic.
The third Drake's eyes narrowed, and the canyon looked devastated, now filled with molten obsidian and bubbling rocks. The two lesser Drakes faced off against Erika and Erunda, who were now covered in wounds.
However... in the distance, a roar that made the Drakes seem like children echoed through the canyon before a devastating earthquake.
ROAR!!!
The bronze dragon... was no longer asleep.
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