Chapter 222
The plan I had thought of did not give much consideration towards morals or whether it was humane .
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We would cause a stir by having the blood apes clash with the bandits . The wind dragon would be offered bait, and that’s how we would drag it down .
Maybe I was going mad . But I didn’t think there was any other way . I had checked with Eye of the God Wolf, and there were enough of them for this to work .
The wind dragon would likely forget about us when it saw so much food in front of it . Then we would cut off its wings . Then its limbs and head . Then it would be over . We would just have to deal with the remaining blood apes and bandits after that and then return to the city . It was honestly a smart idea .
After all, it allowed us to get rid of the blood apes and the bandits .
Now, in spite of my sincere wishes, the bandits were running away . This was no good . If they scattered like that, then there wouldn’t be anyone around when the blood apes arrived .
“Frostheim . ”
The boost to ice magic was magnificent . It wasn’t just a boost in power, but amount as well . In other words, the magic in my body moved faster and there was more of it . All of these factored into the boost in damage .
And so I was able to send magic into the ground and activate it immediately . It was easy enough to freeze them . Well, there was a need to send magic into the armor in advance, in order to activate the enchantment .
“I told you to be still . ”
“Damn it…Agghhhh!…”
“I can’t move…!”
“Bastard . I’ll kill you!!”
Frostheim was a magic that sent ice-type energy into the ground and froze anyone who was touching it . As most of them were running, they ended up being frozen in awkward positions . It was like modern art . Though, I didn’t know if it would be classified as good or bad .
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I could sense the large group of monsters and the single large monster coming towards us through Presence Detection . Obviously, the large group was the blood apes . And the big one was our wind dragon .
The wind dragon had followed us to the forest and had been searching the southeast area .
However, it had sensed the large amounts of magic I was using . And now it was coming towards us . Its speed… Yes, they would all arrive at about the same time .
Still, the fact that it had been searching for us in the forest showed me just how effective Presence Block had been . This skill really did affect anyone within range . Or it would have sensed Daniela . Even now, it was coming towards us because of the magic used .
“Pretty useful skill…”
I muttered as I tapped my sword on my shoulder . This was the kind of skill you wanted to use all the time in town in order to raise the level .
Speaking of skills that I wanted to level up, it was quite sad that I hadn’t able to do it with the spear, as there weren’t many places for me to use it . As I wasn’t confident with it, I always resorted to using a sword when it came to a fight . But it was those times I probably should be using it…except the enemy was usually the problem . It was really bad luck . Well, I could always try tomorrow .
“…And here they are . ”
I saw Daniela on her ‘Blast Board’(I named it for her . I think she was happy?) and the hoard of monsters behind her . And then in a different direction . The wind dragon was coming down from the sky in the east . It had flown here from the forest . Thankfully, it had detected me before noticing Daniela .
I looked at my surroundings again . The villainous bandits were all glued to the ground . They would have been killed by the military soon or later . And so they may as well die here in a useful manner . I knew that I was slowly being poisoned by the standards of this world, but I also understood that this was just how we had to work in order to survive .
I was always in my head . Thinking too much . I never found any answers, but I had to move forward .
“It’s hard when you can’t stop thinking . ”
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For the sake of the part of me that was dying, I said a silent prayer before beginning this inhumane plan .
I activated Presence Block just as Daniela arrived . Now that we were together, we were both invisible . The wind dragon and blood apes would lose their target .
However, they would find something else . Bandits all over the ground .
The blood apes were the first to fall on the feast before them .
However, the wind dragon continued to search for us . But it wasn’t easy . After all, there were too many people in the area .
Eventually, even the wind dragon changed its focus on the flesh below it . The bandits and the blood apes . They may not contain as much magic energy, but at least there were a lot of them .
And like that, my plan seemed to succeed .
“Ahhh! Don’t eat me!!”
“Giii! Giii!”
“Help me…Ughaaaaa…!!”
“Gg-ggeh…gahh…”
“GIIIIII!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH…”
What I had wanted turned out to be hell . ‘I hadn’t imagined this…’ That was not something I could claim . It was the result of what I wanted . But there was that dying part of me that now frowned and said that this was too horrible .
“Asagi . ”
“Yeah…”
I heard Daniela’s voice and looked up . The wind dragon’s wings were open wide as it descended . It was within range of my magic, but I stayed still . I would wait until it had landed . Then I would cut off one of its wings . It was too big for me to cut off both with just a one-handed sword .
Maybe if I had Schwarz Tempest, but it wouldn’t be much of an ambush if it sensed its magic . And at this range, it wouldn’t take much to be detected .
“Is this real!! It’s a dragon!!”
“Giii! Gii!”
One of the bandits felt the burst of wind from the dragon and started to scream . The others looked up and saw it . Then they stopped resisting . That’s when the blood apes tore into them . The blood apes were not intelligent enough to care about anything other than their meal .
And it was amidst this banquet of flesh and blood that the wind dragon landed .
The jade beast took in its surroundings . Now that I could see it closely, I was sure that it was larger than the one I fought in Nicora . Perhaps Eve could only tame small dragons . Still, it was bigger than any wyvern .
“GRRRRRRRRAAAAAA!!!”
It roared as if to warn any who might touch its food . We had moved close enough to launch a surprise attack, and I had to fight the urge to cover my ears .
Even the blood apes paused at the sheer volume of the roar . They froze and looked up at the wind dragon .
I knew it was bad .
Now they would surely run away . And I had brought them all the way here to be food .
Just as I prepared to send magic into the ground again, something very unexpected happened .
“GGGAAA!!”
“GII!! GIII!!”
“GGGAAAAHHH!!”
The blood apes roared back . And then they charged towards the wind dragon with their fangs and claws bared .
Was this really happening? Apes against a dragon?
“So, these guys are really dumb, huh?”
“Blood lust, perhaps? Nothing enrages them like someone trying to take their food . ”
“Still…that’s a dragon…”
“A monster . That is all it is . ”
I guess that was the extent of their intelligence . This was a little annoying in itself, but perhaps it was a good thing .
“We move as planned . ”
“Of course . ”
I used Legs of the God Wolf, which didn’t use magical energy and rose up into the air . Then I unsheathed my sword and prepared to attack . That’s when Daniela moved away and fell . This was in order to activate the Blast Board . While she was doing that, I shot towards the dragon at a speed that the eye could not follow .
Just as Daniela activated her magic, the wind dragon, who had a blood ape in its mouth, turned its head to look up . It had noticed Daniela’s magic, and it spread out its wings in order to take flight . However, My sword had already begun to fall .