Chapter 304 – Dragon’s Will
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The moment Cleon’s fingertips touched the armor of blue scales.
The white dragon inside Amelia felt that he and Cleon were connected.
As a result, Amelia’s vision his, which he had possessed-no, was forcibly possessed-was seen through an eye patch, not a distorted vision.
She noticed a human being reaching her through her soul’s vision of her.
And at the same time, a very familiar feeling from the ring he has.
[This warm feeling… The World Tree… And the magic of the same people…?]
The sense of time felt by the soul passes faster than time in the material world.
When the communion between the two souls began, the surrounding time stopped as if it had stopped.
The point of crossing souls that only Cleon and the White Dragon can recognize.
A white aura flowed from Amelia’s back her and slowly took on a human form.
A beautiful woman with long white hair down to the ground, with her pointed ears and broken horns on her head.
At the same time, the bent wings growing from the back of her and white scales all over the body of her.
It was not difficult for Cleon to see that it was the white dragon possessed by Amelia.
“White Dragon, Asteropetes…!”
Cleon called out the name that existed in the lore and directed her consciousness towards him.
Asteropetes’ eyes are closed, but he hears the voice and looks in Cleon’s direction.
“Human voice… It’s not a roar I’ve heard in a long time, it’s a normal voice.”
It was a quiet, composed voice, the opposite of hers as she continued to howl of her hatred towards Edin.
“I feel a piece of my soul in you that resembles mine. …Two of them. Tell me, who are you and why are you able to have this kind of contact with me?”
Asteropetes’ voice was calm, but at the same time determined.
Depending on her answer her, she seemed to consider ripping out the soul of Cleon who confronted her.
She already remembered having her own soul stolen by her mortal her.
The man in front of me – If the magic swordsman of the Dark Demon clan is the same as Edin, I felt that further conversation was unnecessary.
“I… Cleon. I’m from the same world as you. I think it’s because of this ring that I was able to contact you.”
Besides that, Yggdrasil’s help.
When Cleon added that, Asteropetes’ one eye opened slightly.
Her eyes of her were white, unfocused, like those of a blind person.
As if following her presence her, her eyes her turned to the dragon ring worn on the ring finger of Cleon’s left hand her.
“I can feel the magic of pink, white, and red. …It’s a crystallized gem of the souls of three dragons.”
“Yes, that’s right. I made a connection with them and received this ring. This ring is-“
“It’s for the responders. I’m not sure what era you’re from, but my descendants seem to have come up with something interesting.”
Asteropetes cuts to Cleon’s story her, and she puts the results of her analysis into her mouth her.
Cleon nodded her head because she was right, but she said nothing more.
Because it was her job to judge her.
“You are the dragon’s sensor. Are you saying that you are one of the few humans that can bond with us dragons?”
“I think so. …I still don’t feel it, but- more than that. Do you know what situation you are in right now?”
At Cleon’s words, Asteropetes closed his eyes and looked around.
“I can’t forget it. In the fortress of Edin, in the workshop. It was here that I first met the dwarves. The army of dwarves began to invade the realm of humans and nature gods, plundering resources and destroying the land and mountains. It was devastated. I came here to tell Edin to quit.”
“…Then, did you fight Edin back then?”
To Cleon’s question, the white dragon shook his head and answered.
“No. At that time, neither I nor I had any intention of fighting him. Edin also lied that he knew that the fortress would collapse if I returned to its original form, and sent me back.”
After that, Edin began preparations to defeat Asteropetes.
He made armor that could withstand the white dragon’s lightning strikes, and also made a hammer that could swallow the lightning strikes and do it with his own power his.
He distributed the same armor to the soldiers under his command, and urged his adventurers to find the nest of Asteropetes.
At that time, Valhalla, the fortress of Edin who could not fly, was a mobile fortress that could move on the ground even if it could not fly.
Edin went to the nest of Asteropetes he had found, surrounded it and opened fire.
Edin, who intended to end the battle quickly so that other dragons could not intervene, poured everything into it without looking back at the deaths of his soldiers.
Because anyway, it was calculated that if he killed the dragon he would get back everything he had lost.
And- the decisive factor in Asteropetes’ defeat was her egg.
Asteropetes had a long-dead sensor.
In order to protect the pair of eggs born between the sensor, she did not hesitate to fight in unfavorable terrain.
To keep the dwarves from noticing the existence of her egg her, she became a shield herself and did not move from the spot.
And-what she met as a result was her own death.
Her horns were broken, her heart gouged out, her wings snapped, and her scales ripped off.
What happened to her own egg her?
That part, even Asteropetes did not know.
Her life was cut short, retaining only her hatred for her dwarves.
Baekryong, remembering his past his, clenched his fists as if he could n’t stand the hatred and anger.
His sharp fingernails made blood flow from his palms even though he was a spiritual body.
“I cannot forgive Edin. I must kill him. With my own hands…”
“… Understand, that vengeance is justified. You deserve it, you deserve it.”
Cleon nodded and understood the white dragon’s feelings for her.
“However, the girl you possessed is getting caught up in it and dying.”
“…”
At Cleon’s words, the white dragon knelt in front of him and saw Amelia standing still, facing Cleon.
“The armor made of my scales – those who wear this item with my soul and curse engraved on it will borrow my hatred to fight. And the target is only for Edin.”
“…But you attacked me.”
At Cleon’s words, the white dragon showed a slightly apologetic expression and pointed at the blindfold on Amelia’s eyes her.
“Somehow, that eyepatch seems to hallucinate your vision and make everything that animates appear to be Edin.”
Cleon also looked at the patch and nodded.
Certainly, I felt a kind of magic that was like a curse.
The dark magic felt in the armor of the blue scales was stronger than the eyepatch, so the magic of the eyepatch was relatively buried.
“Then should I destroy the eyepatch?”
“No, the eyepatch is protected by absorbing my curse. As long as my will remains in this world, destroying that eyepatch will eventually leave great pain and physical scars on its wearer.”
At the words of the white dragon, Cleon’s body her flinched and stopped.
As expected, if it continues like this, only the ending where Amelia gets seriously hurt is left?
Cleon’s face darkens, and he feels impatient with the time limit of this soul’s communion, which is slowly approaching its end.
At that time, the white dragon grabbed Cleon’s hand and inspected the ring.
“…If I use the power of this ring, I might be able to save this girl.”
“The power of the dragon ring…?”
When Asteropetes nods her head, she talks.
“I will use the power to purify the dragon’s soul contained in this ring to refine my soul into a jewel. Then, all my thoughts remaining on my scales will disappear.”
“—But, if you do that… “
If you do so, her soul will completely dissipate and only that power will remain.
Because of this, she will not be able to achieve her revenge against Edin on her own.
“If my hatred hurts anyone other than Edin. I’ll need to stop myself.”
Baekryong nodded his head as if he was determined and put his hand on top of the ring.
“I did n’t spend very long with my transponder, because my transponder lost his life early because he could n’t stand my power in his. … If you have this ring, that won’t happen…”
And he held onto Cleon’s hand her with the ring on it.
“Please spend a lot of time with them.”
“…Of course.”
Cleon nodded her head and put his hand on Asteropetes’s her.
In the next moment, her body slowly begins to fade.
Her soul was fading in order to be refined into jewels.
‘My children… If they are alive, please, in a world where there is no war, may we live in peace with all races…’
For her wish her, why?
The two jewels in the dragon’s ring – pink and white jewels seemed to shine and shine.
“…This-“
Asteropetes felt her memories her flow through her ring her at that moment.
And—a little sad face, but then he shook her head and smiled kindly.
“That’s it. …You, the two children…”
“…?”
Cleon looked as if he wasn’t sure what she was talking about.
“Even though fighting hasn’t disappeared in your world yet. The children and you definitely have the power to stop that fighting.”
And as the body of Asteropetes became almost completely transparent, only a jewel in the form of a refined horn remained in its place.
As the white dragon’s soul disappeared, the stopped time began to flow again-
Cleon, returning to her physical vision of her, quickly grabbed Amelia’s shoulder of her.
“Amelia!”
“Close, Leon…”
Amelia, freed from the white dragon’s spell, let out a difficult voice.
Although Asteropetes disappeared, neither her magic power her nor her life force that her armor her absorbed in the meantime returned.
“Now, the healing magic…”
Saying that, Cleon tried to borrow Yggdrasil’s magic once again, but she was cool and saw blood flowing from her own mouth her as well.
‘Kuh… I was overdoing it…!’
Now, without Galatea’s magic control aid, there was a limit to borrowing the power of others through imprinting.
In particular, Yggdrasil was far from Cleon, and the magic of the earth was too thick for humans to use.
As if the previous use of magical power was the limit for Cleon, he tried to use recovery magic once again while wiping away the spilled blood.
“This is impossible now!”
Gray’s voice was heard, and as the weapons blocking her Mjolnir shattered, Mjolnir flew towards Sif once more.
[I can’t move my body…]
The golem, too, was frozen in place, as if her shattered limbs were limiting her ability to move.
Peru Luca, of course, and Gray’s body her froze for a moment from the recoil of the weapons she was controlling.
Then-
“…Sorry, Amelia! Wait a little longer!”
“Cleon…?”
Cleon threw himself at Sif.
When she gets hit by Mjolnir, she becomes unable to stop her thunderbolts pouring down from her sky.
And at the same time, it was clear that Mjolnir would crush her head her and kill her.
“Wait, Claire!”
Sif must have seen Cleon running towards him.
If there was a problem, it was that Cleon was as light as himself.
His physical condition was also in a mess due to repeated battles and excessive use of magical power.
Fuck! Lightning exploded with a sound.
Of course, it was Cleon who was hit.
Fortunately, it was not a vital part like his head of her, but he raised his arm of her and blocked it.
“——!”
An excruciating pain that he had n’t experienced in a while was felt in his arm.
“Cleon!”
A scream of unknown origin broke out.
Cleon’s arm his, whose bones were harpooned, he had to roll on the ground without even having a properly equipped fall technique.
Fortunately, the group who bought time were able to get out of danger when Gray jumped in and knocked Mjolnir out with the blackout suit.
Peruluca repaired the golem by attaching pieces of broken equipment to the golem’s body, blocking the lightning from falling from its head.
“Amelia! Is it a sword that comes to mind?”
Gray, who had knocked out Mjolnir, quickly approached Amelia, who followed her voice and turned to Gray, as if she was still blinded by her eyepatch her.
“Yes, yes…More than that, Cleon…”
“I’m injured, but I’m alive! Amelia is also coming this way…!”
Gray supports such Amelia and comes behind the wall guarded by the golem.
“Uh, what should I do? Should I call Master again…”
[Do not weaken your will. If that happens, he will try to completely control your body again.]
Hermes advised Peruluca, and the Golem nodded as well.
Thud! Thud! It sounded like he was about to break his body again with Mjolnir.
“Cleon, are you okay?”
Sif, now free of movement, went up to Cleon and examined his arm her. There was no bleeding, but the bones inside it were shattered.
“Ah… It hurts… But it’s okay.”
“It doesn’t look all right at all…! It’s impossible to fight further with these arms…!”
It was impossible to completely restore this arm even if Freya, who was still unconscious, used recovery magic.
Indeed, unless there is even a priest with a saint-level healing technique.
“Because I can’t help it… Look at Amelia… The armor of scales has taken too much of her vitality her and her mana her… She’s in a dangerous state.”
“Amelia, your body is too light…!”
As Gray also supported Amelia, her expression her turned pale as if she sensed that her condition her was not normal.
“Hermes… Control her blindfold her and take it off.”
[Is that a mechanical device? I get it. Grey, put your hand on her eyepatch her.]
Gray quickly put his hand on Amelia’s eyepatch on her, and Hermes penetrated her eyepatch and undid the lock on it.
With a click, the patch fell off Amelia’s face her, and Amelia blinked her eyes, drawn in dark shadows.
She was getting used to the light coming in, and when her gaze her was directed at the fallen Cleon, Amelia struggled to get closer to him.
“Cleon, I’m sorry… Because of me…”
“It’s okay… It’s okay. Calm down and listen… Because we need everyone’s strength to defeat Edin.”
At Cleon’s words, Amelia nodded her head.
“…From now on, I will hand over most of my remaining magic power and physical strength to you through the imprint.”
“But, if you do that, Cleon will-“
“Haha… Unless I fix this arm, I’m not at my full strength…”
At Cleon’s seemingly self-help remark, Amelia clenched her fists and made her sad face.
“Don’t worry, I’m not dying. You can get better with a little rest.”
Amelia shook her head with difficulty once more.
“But, but I… I don’t have the confidence to fight as well as Cleon… In a place without the power of the Holy Spirit… I’m not a Saint Princess or anything…”
Having her hammer taken away and her body her being manipulated, Amelia realized her own powerlessness of her, and her will her as well as her body her was weakened considerably.
But Cleon shakes her head.
“You are strong. The power of the Holy Spirit is just the power to help you. It is your ability to handle it.”
As Cleon said, she placed her own, unbroken hand on Amelia’s hers.
Then, through her imprint her, Amelia felt the return of her magic and vitality her that she had slowly lost.
With that, as she regained sensation in her hand, which had been in her missing state, there was the touch of something in her own hand her.
It was a crystal made of pure magical power.
An object with a materialized soul, as seen behind the Frost Queen’s throne.
It was the horn jewel of the white dragon Asteropetes.
Amelia recalls a story she once heard from Aurelia.
Saint Princess is a warrior of Amelia and Amelia’s clan who can exert powerful power through magic crystals.
Like the pendant of the holy wings processed to best draw out the power of the Holy Spirit, any magic power can exert power beyond common sense if it can borrow the power of its medium.
Amelia looked down at her returned power to her and at the dragon’s horn in her hand her.
At that time, Edin, who was looking at the golem holding up better than he thought, got up from the throne as if he was annoyed.
The white dragon’s armor seems to have stopped rampaging, and all remaining weapons have been absorbed.
Even under such circumstances, is it because they succeeded in neutralizing the two most powerful warriors among their enemies, Cleon and Freya?
Edin had no idea that he would be defeated at all.
Even so, he moved directly.
It was to put an end to this annoying fight.
Even if Mjolnir’s automatic strike ability was used, its power was less than 1/3 if he fought while away from his user’s hand.
After all, tools shine the most in the hands of their masters.
Mjolnir returned to the hands of Edin, who came down from the throne and stepped out of the station field.
“You’re not the first to bother me here…”
Mjolnir spun around in Edin’s hand.
For some reason, he was wearing a much stronger thunderbolt than before.
“This fight doesn’t make me happy at all. You guys are so… Tough, annoying bugs.”
If Edin directly swings the golem the next moment.
The golem disappeared as if its parts were made of biscuits.
[…
The golem fell to the ground without saying anything, leaving only the core.
When the figure of the party that was covered by the golem is revealed.
Edin saw the patch disappear from Amelia’s eye her.
“What is it? Have you escaped from the White Dragon’s spell?”
“Edin…!”
Sif and Gray blocked Cleon and Amelia as if they were protecting them.
If Peruluca also summons magic to cast a curse.
The next moment, a bolt of lightning from the sky hardened the three of them on the spot.
“You fools… You can’t even notice the difference in my ability with the other person. I am the ruler, ruler and god of this realm. What do you guys think you can do with me? This power rivals that of a dragon. That’s what I mean!”
Edin laughed while yelling so loudly.
Cleon let go of Amelia’s hand hers.
Amelia slowly rose from her seat and looked at Edin.
“Your guy is no longer useful… That’s good. The useless tools should be disposed of.”
When Edin says so, strike her with her thunderbolt as well.
In response, Amelia raised her horn, which she held in her hand, and let her thunderbolts rain down upon it.
Her horns her act like a shield, protecting Amelia’s body her from her lightning strikes her.
No, she rather absorbed the lightning and she began to throb, thump, and pulse.
“I—I will not forgive you. You hurt my comrades and important people… While treating your subjects and people as tools… And bringing sorrow to so many people… !”
“What…?”
The next moment, as if responding to Amelia’s will her, the white dragon’s horns began to shine brightly on her hand her.
“Amelia Chaldearis… In the name of Saint Princess. The kingdom- no, I will defeat you who pose a threat to everything precious to me!”
And, the light from her horn engulfed Amelia before long.
From the armor of blue scales draped across her body her-the dirty blue color was peeling off.
Back to pure white.
Then, in Amelia’s hand her, a huge battle hammer shaped like her dragon’s head was clutched.
Wings, tail, and horns made of magic grow from her body.
Eventually, Amelia succeeded in transforming into a new type of Saint Princess.
“… What is that power…”
“The power of fate…! To defeat you!”
Amelia shouted excitedly, grabbing her hammer and leaping at Edin.
