LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 56 - Could we really win?!
Chapter 56 Could we really win?!
“Appear.”
With Lee Seok-gyu’s brief command, ‘she’ began to gradually emerge from the widely spread shadow.
Had she existed in the animal kingdom, she would have been called the top predator.
Despite being a monster, she was revered to the point that there were countries in the past that feared and even worshipped them.
Her scales, which she was born with, deflected any weapon that humans had in the past, and before humanity conquered the skies, she and her kind ruled the heavens.
Humans unanimously called them:
“Dragons…?!”
“Yes, I am the future leader of the great Dragon clan. Lartania Amadeus Brotten Harmania de Ridras Condre Kersy.”
“Such a long name…!”
The humanoid monster that appeared with a flourish before Lee Seok-gyu.
She could converse with people, and except for the horns on her head, the tail that grew like a lizard’s, and the two wings on her back, she looked just like a human.
However, she was a noble dragon.
“Humans! Obey me! Then I might spare you.”
Once the ruler of the skies, she commanded the foolish beings born on the ground.
“Ahh! P-please spare me…!”
Seeing Dorothy of the villain group immediately grovel and beg for her life, she seemed satisfied and laughed more heartily.
“Kuhahaha! Very well! I shall spare you!”
“Th-thank you! Thank you so much!!”
“…Leader. Should I hit Dorothy?”
“No, just leave her be. Dorothy is useless for anything other than extracting information anyway.”
“Ah, yes…”
Thus, the villain group sighed because of Dorothy.
Meanwhile, sighs also came from the other side.
Thud!
“Ow?!”
“Hey, you. How could you say you’ll let them go just like that? We need to capture all of them.”
“R-really?! Then should I just kill them all?”
“…Not kill, capture. Cap-ture.”
Facing this innocent dragon, Lee Seok-gyu couldn’t help but worry once again.
Lartania Amadeus Brotten Harmania de Ridras Condre Kersy.
In short, Kersy was a truly powerful monster, classified as A+ level danger even by American standards.
From the start, the ‘Dragon’ race itself could transform into humanoid monsters, and with their strong lineage, they inherently began at A-level danger.
When Lee Seok-gyu first learned that he could command her, he felt as if he could fly.
No wonder, taming a dragon!
‘Dragon Tamer’ was a title that only a few of the greatest Beast Hunters in history could attain.
The thought that he had become one filled Lee Seok-gyu with pride.
Yes, at first, he believed only a bright future awaited him…
“She ate a year’s worth of combat rations from the army?!”
“Don’t be stingy~. You’ll throw them away later anyway.”
“Why are you chewing on shells?!”
“Dragons find gunpowder delicious!”
“…What now.”
“M-master! Master! I’m in heat! Let’s do it~ please?”
“Haa……”
Was my dragon faulty in many ways?
After numerous incidents and accidents, Lee Seok-gyu decided to summon Kersy only when necessary.
And he made sure to give her strict instructions, leading to the current situation.
“Listen carefully. Kersy. Capture alive! Got it? Cap-ture them alive! Do not kill them. I’ll handle the woman in front, so you take care of the three people behind. Can you handle that?”
“Uhahaha! Only three? I can handle all of them!”
How nice it would be if she simply followed orders.
Kersy flicked her green hair and grinned with her sharp teeth.
“Just leave it to me!”
Although she was confident, Lee Seok-gyu felt even more uneasy.
Recalling the time during the joint US-Korea training when she mistook US soldiers for enemies and captured them, he could only make a PTSD-stricken expression.
“…Please. Just this once, listen to me. Then I’ll buy you as much delicious Korean beef as you want later.”
“B-Korean beef?! Really?! Then I’ll work even harder!”
“……Alright.”
—
Anyway, with their preparations for battle complete, the two of them.
The villain group’s four members swallowed their saliva almost simultaneously as they watched the pair leap to the ground and the sky with sharp eyes.
Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp!
“……”
“……”
“Dorothy…”
“S-so scary! Are we going to die?!”
Especially Dorothy, who was swallowing so much saliva that she could drown in it.
However, even such a ‘pathetic weakling’ was still a member of the villain group!
“Dorothy!”
“Y-yes! Leader!”
Katarina, smiling broadly, turned to look at the terrified Dorothy.
“Do you think we will lose?”
“…!”
“Tell me, Dorothy! Do you think your comrades will lose?!”
Hearing the leader’s words meant to boost morale,
“Honestly, so far, it seems hopeless!!”
…Dorothy had no sense.
Her genuinely dejected words lowered the morale of all her comrades.
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“It’s a dragon! And that guy, who has national power, is stronger than I thought! We can’t win! We’re going to lose!”
“…Should we just knock her out? Leader.”
“…No, Paul. It’s Dorothy. Let’s understand her to that extent.”
“Sigh…”
Dorothy, who was wailing and begging to be spared.
Seeing her, Paul, Katarina, and Riverrin could only sigh.
And then it happened.
Whoosh!
Clang!
Katarina blocked Lee Seok-gyu’s sharp hand strike aimed at her neck with her self-destruct dagger.
Paul also descended rapidly, almost at the same time as his master, the dragon.
Timing his move perfectly, he drew the black sword from his waist and managed to strike Kersy.
However, it was just a hit, not a slash.
“Kuhahaha! A dragon’s scales are powerful!”
Although the equipment was refined with decent iron,
Even the surprise attack left the black blade held in the dragon’s green hand, threatening to break at any moment.
But at that moment.
“Paul! Hold on!”
Riverrin’s shout urging not to give up.
At the same time, as she began to create magic threads with her fingers and started moving them here and there.
Smack!
“Ugh?!”
Something ran out from the collapsing abandoned factory at terrifying speed and kicked Kersy’s side.
“Kersy!”
“I-I’m okay! …No, honestly, it hurts! My scales! My scales are broken!”
Kersy spat blood from her mouth and turned her head to see who dared to injure a dragon.
And seeing what it was, she shuddered for a moment.
“…Shin?”
“Riverrin! Can you control it?!”
“Hoo… I can do it for about 3 minutes!”
Answering the leader’s question, Riverrin began to move her fingers here and there like typing on a keyboard.
Under her control, the lower half of the angel’s corpse ran out again and kicked Kersy.
“It hurts?! It hurts! Damn it… It hurts!”
Dragons are generally sturdy.
And they are known for being tough and strong.
Therefore, a dragon’s combat style typically didn’t involve much technique but relied on overwhelming physical ability to charge at their enemies, a straightforward fighting method.
But that changed when faced with a national disaster-level threat.
“I-I need to escape to the sky…!”
Feeling threatened by the angel’s lower half, which was shattering her scales like cookie crumbs, Kersy tried to fly up to the sky.
However, the moment she leapt slightly backward,
“Hup!”
Above her head, Paul, who had been preparing to strike at just this moment by bending his knees and jumping, was already there.
Clang!
“Argh?! These bastards! So sneaky!”
Although not in pain, Kersy, who had been slashed from behind, fell back to the ground.
And then,
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack.
“Aaah?! It hurts! Damn it! I said it hurts!”
“Riverrin! Keep stomping her!”
“Yes!”
“I-I’ll help you, Riverrin!”
The lower half of the angel’s body continued to kick Kersy, preventing her from getting up, while Dorothy(?) joined in, mercilessly stomping on her together.
It was like a scene of school bullying.
“D-don’t get up! Don’t get up! Stay down!”
“You, you blue human! Are you betraying me?! You, you liar! You said you would stay still a moment ago!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry-!!”
Even though it looked like they might win, Kersy was still struggling.
Riverrin, drenched in sweat from controlling a national disaster-level entity for more than two minutes, and Dorothy, unable to stop kicking out of fear for her life.
Finally, Paul, scratching his head not knowing where to jump in, made Katarina think the situation was turning into a complete mess.
And Lee Seok-gyu felt the same way.
“How long do we have to keep doing this?”
“Until we capture all of you.”
“Mister, can’t we just back off now?”
“If you surrender quietly, we might consider it.”
Covered in various minor wounds from Katarina’s dazzling dagger skills, Lee Seok-gyu was far from fatally injured but still hurt.
However, in the next moment, he grabbed the blade of the dagger aimed at his abdomen, breaking it with his bare strength as he urged surrender.
“Surrender.”
“Tch! One dagger isn’t enough, at this rate, I’ll have to try again next time…!”
Katarina, realizing she had lost one of her weapons, immediately attempted to self-destruct.
Boom!
At that moment,
“?!!”
“W-what?! What’s that?! What’s that, what’s that, what’s that?!”
“Something fell from the sky…”
Something fell before them, piercing through the clouds.
Like a meteor.
The person who appeared, causing the entire mountain to quake with a powerful tremor, shaking the entire leveled mountain,
Was neither on Lee Seok-gyu’s side nor the villains’.
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“Give me back my mom’s body.”
“…!”
“I need to bring it back so my human mom will love me again!”
A young monster, who had entered ‘battle mode’ without permission and flown from the Hunter Association branch to here, releasing energy to calm the angry heart of Jin-ah Lee.
It was Eve, who was very, very angry.