Chapter 64 – Demon King’s Spear
Everyone gathered on the deck, including the hero, looked at the dot on the moon with a serious expression.
The dot, which was like a small dot on a large sheet of paper, was growing bigger and bigger even now.
As the spot grew larger and more distinct, the sudden feeling of intimidation increased, and I soon realized that it was not growing, but was approaching.
As the dots got closer, the shape became clearer. If that small dot was the body, then the thin line next to it should be called wings.
“Hero, that…”
“Huh…”
There are not many giant creatures that can fly at such high altitudes and at such high speeds.
As if to say that the prediction that popped into Mirian and the hero’s head was the correct answer, the dot that could be seen from afar passed right near the airship.
It was a brief moment when it flew past the airship, flying at tremendous speed through the wall of air.
However, despite that short moment, everyone gathered here could identify it.
“Dragon…”
The black dragon’s horns, which were covered with hard scales that were incomparable to steel, were as sharp as spears and blades, and seemed capable of cutting and tearing anything.
As the sharp horns tore through the walls of the air, shockwaves hit the airship and the airship rocked greatly.
“Eww… !”
Everyone was taken aback by the unexpected shock, but Rose and Yuria, who came to their senses for a moment, immediately cast magic at the dragon.
And Mirian and Martha, who were next to each other, fired swords and spears of light at the dragon.
However, all of the attacks flew through the air without even hitting the afterimage of the dragon flying through the sky at the speed of sound, and then disappeared naturally shortly after.
“Tsk… If you don’t stop moving, you won’t be able to match.”
While Mirian was clicking her tongue as she said that, Lina heard the sound outside her and hurriedly climbed onto her deck.
“What?! Uh, what happened… !”
“Kueeeee!!!”
While saying that, Lina saw the roaring dragon in the distance and nodded her head as if she understood everything.
“… It’s a dragon.”
“… Yes. He must be an assassin sent by the demon king to kill us.”
Does that mean that the Demon King is wary of the hero to that extent? Seeing the black dragon flying through the sky, he shouted as if he remembered Rose.
“I was momentarily taken aback… I don’t remember. I barely remembered That’s the devil’s spear!”
“The Demon King’s Spear?”
That dragon’s name was Carmion, and although it was originally a powerful beast that was on par with Behemoth, it was called the Devil’s Spear after becoming subordinate to the Devil.
“There was a time when he came to a difficult front and turned the tide in an instant… And this is just a rumor, but there is a rumor that if an officer who is the commander of the corps gets out of sight of the demon king, he will come and purge it with his sharp horns.”
“… The demon king is surprisingly narrow-minded.”
Anyway, the important thing now was that I had to do something to make Carmion fly faster than sound.
“Can’t I slow it down somehow with slowdown magic?”
“There’s no way I could hit him that fast… Even if it succeeds, the effect will be minimal.”
“Then… Shall I fly with flight magic and block the movement?”
When the hero said nonsense as usual, everyone looked at the hero as if they were serious.
“Hey, didn’t you feel the shockwave earlier? That bastard is flying at the speed of sound right now, so how are you going to keep up with it with flying magic?”
“Wouldn’t it be somehow possible to use a lot of mana?”
“Oh, no… Even so…”
Even if it can catch up with speed, whether it can respond to that speed is another story.
Rose and Yuria looked at the hero with worried eyes, but the hero didn’t take it seriously and said,
“I’ll try it once. It’s better than waiting here all the time.”
Saying that, the hero soared high into the sky and, like Carmion, tore the air wall and flew towards Carmion with a tremendous shockwave.
Rose muttered softly as she saw the hero gradually turning into a small dot and disappearing.
“… This is it.”
*****
Carmion, who failed the first attack because the size of the airship was smaller than expected, retreated greatly again.
And this time, as he prepared to attack, vowing to shoot down that airship, he saw the hero standing right next to him and his eyes flashed.
Until now, no one has been able to catch up to Carmion’s speed except for one time.
But now, seeing the warrior approaching him with his sword drawn from his waist, Carmion remembered an old memory he didn’t want to remember.
“Kuuuuu!!”
Perhaps the memory became a trauma when he was subordinated to the Demon King, Carmion forgot the purpose of attacking the airship and spread his wings even wider and fell away from the hero.
As Carmion sped up even more, the hero also mobilized acceleration magic to speed up even more, and soon after speeding up, he caught up.
Carmion, who felt the thick aura of death in the back of his neck, immediately gave up running away.
Then he immediately turned around and struck the hero with his sharp, blunt tail, though not as much as the horn.
“Oh… !”
Embarrassed by the unexpected attack, the hero was able to barely raise his sword to block the attack.
However, because the defense was too late, it could not fully absorb his impact and was pushed back significantly.
“…”
“…”
In the cloudless sky, Carmion and the hero slowly raised their heads toward each other.
And when our eyes met, the Demon King’s spear and the warrior’s sword collided with each other.
The sight of the sword made from the horns of Behemoth and the horns of Carmion colliding with each other was like watching a confrontation between two monsters that could not be achieved anymore.
Behemoth vs Carmion. It was a topic that any adventurer would be interested in, but for the two of them, it was okay.
Carmion flapped his wings with the intention of piercing through the hero as soon as possible, and the hero swung his sword with the intention of cutting off that long neck.
‘It’s heavy… !’
Carmion’s attack was not as powerful as the massive Behemoth.
However, Carmion had agility and speed that Behemoth did not have.
The continuous claws and roar started to push the hero, and the hero had no choice but to use the technique he had been trying not to use.
“Kuuuuu… !!”
The hero’s body turned golden, and Carmion’s fingernails, which had been swung by the hero, bounced off.
Carmion, realizing the strength of the hero with the tingling feeling from the propelled hand, cautiously continued his attack again.
Their attacks, which exceeded the speed of sound, exceeded hundreds in an instant, and as time passed, both of them slowly got tired.
At first, Carmion, who had much more experience in air combat, seemed to take the lead in the fight, but as the hero got used to air combat, he began to take the lead in the fight.
“… !!”
Carmion’s body turned into scars before he knew it, and Carmion pondered whether to step back from here, but soon remembered his first purpose for coming here.
Yes, there were things that came here to kill the hero, but there were also things that killed the hero’s comrades.
Deciding that there was no chance of winning head-on, Carmion changed his target and headed back to the airship.
No matter how strong he is, if he sees his comrades die in front of his eyes, he will be a little shaken.
With such a calculation in mind, Carmion headed for the airship the hero was riding at full speed.
Belatedly aware of Carmion’s thoughts, the hero also followed him, but it was too late.
Carmion, who caught the airship faster than the hero could catch Carmion, directed its sharp horns toward the airship and flew faster.
The remaining distance to the airship was about 30m, and it was not an unavoidable distance, so Carmion smiled triumphantly, expecting the airship to be destroyed.
But that’s for a while…
“Kuuuuu… !!”
Carmion’s charge was blocked by something like an invisible film, and stopped before going far.
“If you thought you would leave everything to the hero and just suck your fingers here, you are very mistaken.”
Just in case something like this happened, Marta put up hundreds of layers of protective film.
Rose and Yuria’s magic fired at Carmion’s gigantic body while Carmion hesitated because of Marta’s shield.
‘Those scales will deflect all halfway magic. Then…’
Because Carmion was in close proximity to the airship, he is unable to use large-scale magic that damages the airship as well.
However, if they use ambiguous anti-personnel magic, it won’t work, so what the two chose was weakening magic.
Slowing down, lowering defense, lowering strength, etc…
All the weakening magic in this world poured into Carmion’s body.
The dragon’s scales deflected most magic, but since the two 7th circle wizards fired so much magic, it couldn’t deflect all magic.
As weakening magic was applied one by one, breaking through the magic resistance of the scales, Carmion, who felt a sense of danger, fluttered her wings and tried to fall.
“Yeah~ no~!”
However, Lina’s arrow, strengthened by Marta’s miracle and Yuria’s magic, pierced Carmion’s wings faster than that.
Originally, no matter how thin her wings were, there was no way Lina’s arrows could pierce it, but it was weakened by the magic of the two 7th Circle Wizards, and in addition to that, the support of the Saint and the 7th Circle Wizard was added.
“Quooooo!!”
As hundreds of arrows fired in an instant pierced her wings, Carmion folded her wings and raised her hands to keep from falling, but…
– Bang!!
Mirian and Grindella, who were waiting in advance on both sides, kicked Carmion’s hand as hard as he could to grab hold of the boat.
Even the last resistance returned to failure, and in the end, Carmion fell straight to the ground.
However, because the altitude was so high, and Carmion’s body was huge, there was still a considerable amount of time left until Carmion fell.
The dragon’s unique tremendous magic resistance, all the weakening magic that ate away Carmion’s body, disappeared and the wounds on his wings healed right away.
Carmion, who spread his wings again, soared upwards, vowing to attack from below and kill him without knowing what he had suffered.
But the enraged Carmion forgot. She knew what she was running away from and was aiming for them as her next best option.
Carmion, who had risen to break the airship’s keel, flinched at the moment when he saw the warrior falling vertically toward him, but continued to move forward, determined to pierce the airship with the hero.
The two, who did not back down from each other, collided as they were, but neither the hero was pierced by Carmion’s horn nor the carmion’s horn was broken.
The warrior who narrowly avoided Carmion’s horn jumped into Carmion’s mouth.
Although the whole body is protected by hard scales, the inside was soft unlike the outer skin.
The warrior’s sword, imbued with thunderbolts, hacked through Carmion’s interior, severing all her flesh and organs, tearing her skin and scales, and coming out of her body again.
The warrior, covered with Carmion’s blood, came up again after watching Carmion fall to the ground with his heart and other vital organs torn to shreds.
‘The Demon King’s Window… Sending things like this means that he’s nervous too?’
In the eyes of the hero with such thoughts, the moon, which felt exceptionally large today, entered.
Even though it was a full moon instead of a crescent moon, for some reason the moon seemed to be smiling at him.
