The dragon was hovering in the sky. And at the huge dragon's compound eyes, Tatsumi swung his sword with all his might.
While doing so, he channeled mana into the sword and activated 'Mana Strike'.
The sword then struck the flying dragon's huge compound eye as he intended. However, Tatsumi felt that he just struck a hard rock with the sword.
Although the sword definitely hit it, it hardly flinched.
Tatsumi then invoked "Instant Transition" while grimacing at the unexpected hardness. At the same time he disappeared in the air, he reappeared on the wall next to Calcedonia.
Accompanied by the sound of sparks, Tatsumi once again landed on the city walls.
Tatsumi looked up at the dragon, putting strength to his lower body and set himself up.
"…Damn! The compound eye is too hard!"
Tatsumi, who thought that the sky dragon's compound eye was soft unlike the rest of its body, aimed at the compound eye.
Certainly, the compound eye must be one of the softest part of the dragon. However, it's still considerably hard and attacking with an unstable pose in midair didn't do much damage.
It looked exactly like a dragonfly, and its body's features were also similar.
However, Tatsumi's opponent was a dragon. A beast with the title of the strongest in the sky. It was not merely a large Earthly dragonfly.
"You okay, Tatsumi?"
Bugarank1 rushed to help Tatsumi. Calcedonia was following right after.
"I'm fine. I think I can go on…"
"Is there a problem?"
Tatsumi nodded and told Bugarank of what he realized earlier.
"…I see. So that's why it doesn't use its legs in the air."
The two of them talked while the dragon watched them from the air.
It began to slowly approach the city.
The two amalgamations of eyes looked down at the defenders and seemed to be evaluating them.
But then again, it was impossible to tell where the compound eyes were looking at.
The dragon would soon enter the range of the defenders' attacks.
Calcedonia and the others of the restraining group were preparing to attack whenever Bugarank sent his instructions.
"It doesn't look like 'Mana Strike' is doing anything from the first attack. Though it was only the first attack."
"There's nothing else we can do… For now, let's just continue."
"I understand."
And at the same time Bugarank answered, Tatsumi disappeared with just those two words left behind.
Tatsumi teleported to the dragon's eyes once again.
He had a close view of the dragon's huge eyes, yet he could not read the countless cells at all.
Turning his eyes away from the dragon's eyes, Tatsumi searched for another spot to attack. And then, he found the place.
──If going for the compound eye doesn't work, why not go for the simple eye?2
The dragonfly had ocelli, or simple eyes, in addition to compound eyes. And this world's dragon was the same as an Earthly dragonfly.
There was an ocellus in the middle of its head, right between its two compound eyes.3
The Earthly dragonfly had three inner eyes but it seems this world's dragon only had two.
At this time, Tatsumi's body had already started to fall. Having calculated the speed of the fall in advance, Tatsumi slashed at the dragon with the momentum from the descent.
But just before Tatsumi's sword hit, the dragon moved
A dragonfly's sky-sidestepping that was unthinkable for a normal creature. The huge dragon slipped sideways right before Tatsumi's eyes.
With the movement of such a large object in the air, there would naturally be a disturbance in the atmosphere.
The sudden gust swallowed Tatsumi without giving him any time to resist.
"Uwaaaaaaa!!"
He was played around by the whirlwinds, and his field of vision was changing faster than an Irelia getting a pentakill.
Even so, Tatsumi frantically tried to get a grasp of his surroundings. In the rapidly spinning world that he was in, he noticed a large black thing.
Before he realized what it was, Tatsumi's chest was met with an enormous force. He couldn't breathe because of the shock.
Luckily, he had the beast-material armor, extra armor under those, and a shield placed preemptively. His ribcage didn't break, but Tatsumi was easily tossed away by the shock.
He was sent flying without being able to brace himself or resist.
"H-Husbandddddddd?!"
On top the city walls, Calcedonia's pained voiced shouted out
The things that happened up above the city walls were crystal clear to see
The dragon dodged Tatsumi's sword and created a violent gust. Tatsumi, getting knocked over by the wind, was blown off by the tail.
Tatsumi was tiny compared to the dragon and couldn't resist being swept away.
The dragon started to chase after Tatsumi after it knocked him away.
With the surprising speeds of the dragon, it wouldn't even be a minute before Tatsumi was caught by it.
"Don't do it!!!"
Twang. A steel arrow was shot at the huge insect.
The arrow was fired from Jadokh's bow, Lyurn's Strength. That arrow was wreathed in flames.
This was the magic effect of the greatbow. Any arrow that passed through the bow would have the power of fire added to its strength.
However, a normal wooden arrow would just burn out under the flames. That's why the arrows for the bow were made with steel.
The flaming arrow headed to the dragon, which was flying swiftly
But the dragon was just that kind of peculiar monster. It suddenly halted in the sky and twisted to avoid the arrow with ease.
"Miloulle!!! The next arrow!!!"
"I got it!!!"
Knowing that there was an arrow waiting for him, Jadokh reached his arm back.
Miloulle had already taken an arrow out of the quiver, and she placed it on Jadokh's outstretched hand.
Jadokh's entire body's muscles swelled.
He used two of his burly arms to firmly prop the bow into position, and the other two arms to pull back on the drawstring. Little by little, Lyurn's Strength, a bow that couldn't be used by an ordinary man, bent back.
Before long, he had stretched the drawstring to its limit. The arrow was fired once again.
The arrow wrapped itself in flames as it shot through the sky. However, this arrow was also dodged by the dragon.
That was fine, though.
A smile appeared on Jadokh's shapely face.
The dragon avoided the arrow, but it didn't notice the three spells flying to where it it dodged.
The wide-area attack magic of the Thunder System, Thunderstorm.
The piercing attack magic of the Flame System, Flame Lance.
And, the spell borrowing upon the spirits of the ice, Argentum Tempestate.