Chapter 1490 December 15th: Fear My Name, Fear My Roots

Looking down, something shines and scatters from a large block of steel in the dim light. It is said that the fusing has been achieved with a certain response from Aradval.

「Well then…… What should I do from here?」

Now I am in a state of being launched high in the sky because I fell upside down by combining the skill of changing the direction of gravity and the skill that accelerates the fall speed.

Of course, when the skill’s duration expires, I will fall in the right direction once again…… that is, towards the ground below.

「You think I can get another shot at this?」

On the ground, it seems that other people are about to move on the offensive at once, with me severing that arm-blade serving as a trigger point. I can’t see it well, but my current point of view happens to be a bird’s-eye view, so if you look at the movement of the others, I can understand it to some extent. But I don’t really know…… I can see someone shooting a magical arrow in front and behind them, and someone else is doing some sort of a two-sided operation.

Oops, it seems that the effect time of Weightless Grace is over now. The feeling of floating upwards gradually disappears, and this time around the feeling of floating downwards is applied to my body. It feels pretty unpleasant if you don’t get used to it, but for me, who is also a speeding bullet that cuts through the air, the floating feeling of a natural fall is terribly familiar.

By the way, the bullet speeding through the air is supposed to compete for the artistic point of gravity graffiti, but for some reason it has made an extreme evolution in the crazy direction that it is better to paint the opponent’s eyes with a spray with your own hand, because of the interpersonal elements involved in it. It refers to a game with a somewhat crazy direction from the very beginning, “drawing a picture with a spray in the void while skydiving from the sky”, and its Players as well (a game with some Player Versus Player elements implemented in it).

But now, that game was doomed to fail right from the very moment it was conceived, all the way until it finally died.

However, no matter what kind of game you play, you will basically die if you fall from the sky. It’s better to use the fall as an attack judgment and aim for good luck to survive, as in the case of breaking through the Mud Digger fight for the very first time…… But that being said, going against the Tomahawk with one HP is probably a very bad idea.

And most importantly, I’m sure that the Blade Dragon is far from saying its last word. I know that I managed to wound it with cutting its blade-arm like that off, but I don’t feel like I’ve cornered it at all. Most of the time, I’m sure that the whole body shock wave will be concentrated on the arm or tail and released, but … maybe it’s a normal skill when you get down to it?

I am more than sure that upon being cornered, Tomahawk is going to bust out a one-shot killing technique, but I also have a really bad feeling about this whole situation. In the first place, Tomahawk is like double-meaning because of its name……

And then,

「Nufah!?」

An arrow of light that flew from somewhere hit me on the crotch ─── I noticed it at the last possible moment and tried to twist my body to avoid it, so I hit the area around my right hip bone ───.

At that moment, some effect started to cling to my body…… I see, the fall damage is reduced now. And judging by its homing effect and range it couldn’t possibly be something that Karoshis would use, and then there was that whole aiming for the crotch kind of schtick……

「That asshole, playing around in the middle of battle like that……」

No, I guess that it’s pretty normal for her, since she is always behaving like that, huh? Seriously, you would be a whole lot better of a person if you only weren’t like that……

However, unfortunately, it is difficult for me to trust Deepslaughter, but her magical performance is second to none. Now that I don’t have to think about the risk of falling to my death, I should do my best to participate in the offensive.

「Aradval!!」

When I shout out the name of the sword that burns with the silver flame, Aradval shines as if its momentum has further increased. I’ve been skeptical about it for a long time, but isn’t it responding to voice authentication? I talk to him once in a while, but I haven’t heard anything back yet, so… …

Should I aim for its head next? I’m wondering if it’s really a creature bestowed with intelligence, but I don’t think there’s a creature out there who is going to be unharmed by having its head slashed off…… Maybe. Sometimes, there are creatures who have their cores somewhere inside of their bodies, and their head is clearly for decoration, so is it dangerous to be convinced that easily here? Besides, Yashiro Bird is attacking its head intensively, and there is a danger of the worst friendly fire if I interrupt him in doing that.

I don’t have time anymore, so I’ll let Yashiro Bird to handle the head. My target is the upper body, which is difficult for Survival and Urdim to aim at, since they are both on the ground.!

Sufficient power can be obtained only by accelerating by falling, but it is better to turn to the skill after landing. The stance is on the upper level, but even if I swing it down as it is, it will only be flipped, so rather than slashing it, it would end up scratching it…… So the aim will be for its back! I’ll carve it, so if you want to avoid that, better start running in shame!

「It feels like sinking a knife into a fish!」

***

Tomahawk was thinking.

It is a policy of action based on distorted rationality and foreign priorities, unrelated to emotions and instinct.

A True Dragon species is a great enemy of the “fear” of living one’s life. Since the first True Dragon, the origin of them all, was based on the awe of the Golden Dragon King, it is only understandable that the subsequent “fear” would be in the form of a dragon.

─── The essence of a True Dragon species lies in the “nature” of the dragons themselves.

Just as the fifth True Dragon lurking in the darkness of the labyrinth had the essence of the darkness of nothingness as its core. Just like the seventh True Dragon, the new tyrant of the ocean, was the essence of the overwhelming unknown, forever intimidating.

The essence of the tenth True Dragon Tomahawk is not that it is a dragon, but that the whole body is a sharp blade.

And there is also one more thing, the True Dragon species has a meaning in the name that refers to its existence. For example, the fifth dragon, which has a technique likened to a certain story, such as enormous growth, reduction of damage, magnetism generation, etc., The name of that Dragon is “Gulliver”.

「Girirororororororo ………」

Tomahawk. Its essence is an ax tomahawk, a tool meant for cutting……

「Giririririririririririaaaaaaa!!!」

Even before the Era of the Gods, or its origin. It is a double entender with the flying tomahawk missile that appeared in the history of earthly civilization.

At the same time as the roar of a dragon whose body embodies the fear of “flying objects” and “cutting through”, its bladed wings, which can only be said to be a metal blocks growing from its back, are separated……

「What the!?」

Someone raised an astonished voice, faster than anyone could move from a forward-looking offensive to a sneak peek.

「Gyararararararararararararararara!!!!!!!!!」

A guided blade wing missile “injected” from Tomahawk’s back attacked those who challenged the dragon, with a dissonant roaring scream that seemed to resemble scraps of metal rubbing against the scraps of metal.

All to show the significance of its existence. To engrave the fear of itself in all that is alive. That’s the only meaning of a dragon’s existence.