Haruka POV
"This is bad!" I said
"What is?" Said Misaka in a questioning tone
"He went inside to see that thing, though I want to see a dragon too, I wouldn't dare try to do that to something as vile and wretched as this! Look at the ground it is all corrupt and damaged, it is as if the very presence of this dragon is foiling everything around here…"
"He said he wanted to take a look, it shouldn't take too much time right? I hope he doesn't get into any trouble though. It is never a wise choice to awaken a dragon…" Misaka replied
"Not only that" Said Haruna…
"What do you mean?" asked Misaka once again
"If, by some unlucky chance, he awakens it and it kills him…I think we would die too."
She is right! Why didn't I think about this earlier! If something bad happens to Daiki…no I don't even want to think about it!
A moment later an enormous explosion sound was heard, and as if the mountain was shaking from the impact, another explosion soon occurred.
"Damn it! I think it woke up! We need to get Daiki out of there!" I said
"I don't think we have the strength to do that…what a stupid contract! It binds our lives to that idiot!"
"Don't call him that!" I shouted at Haruna
This is the first time I ever raised my voice at her…but they need to understand something
Her face paled for a moment after hearing me burst out, but then I added
"You seem to forget that if it was not for him, we would have been slaves for some random pervert…we owe him our lives and I am not going to let him die on me again!"
"But don't you agree that he did something stupid this time?! He went to check upon a dragon! And now it is awake! You think that these are the actions of a sane man?!"
…she is right, perhaps him dying too many times in hell made him forget about his mortality…
The rules of the living are different than the ones of those that already passed…
"I am going to help him, whether you follow me or not…there is no way I am going to let him die again! Not after all of that, even if the odds are against me I will try to help. I hate being a liability, I hate being weak…damn it!" I said and headed towards the cave
Your master has decided to void the slave contract
You are a free person now.
"Huh?"
I turned around to see the look of the other two girl's face…
"This can't be!"
Another explosion soon followed which made me fear the worst.
Why did he release us? Did he die? No if he did we would have followed suit…is it possible that he…no it can't be!
I then dashed towards the cave with all my might, though I feel that my body became weaker due to the stat loss that were nullified once the contract was removed, I still need to help.
I unsheathed my sword, and went inside the dark cave.
There was a thick layer of black smoke was blocking the way but I passed through it with ease
You have entered the nest of a dragon
Dragon's effect will be activated
Black dragon's nightmare
You have been stricken with fear.
Due to the difference in level and lack of resistance towards fear inducing magic
-220% damage to all spells.
-220% towards all healing magic
-100% damage from all physical attacks
Nauseated
Fear induced
Slowed
Title Unbroken hidden passive activated
For 10 Minutes you are able to resist all current debuffs.
Oh my god! What the hell is this! This is frightening why would he even try to face something like this?!
I walked inside knowing that I only have 10 minutes before all those debuffs would activate.
I need to get him out of this place
You have been trapped within the territorial spell
Glory of the dark.
You have been separated from the outside world.
All holy-Light attributed spells have been voided and nullified
-50% resistance towards all elements
-50% fortitude.
-1000 willpower
-25% stamina regeneration
-25% health regeneration
-25% mana regeneration
God damn it! So many debuffs how the hell is something this strong is even existing.
Your body still remembers what once was a part of you
Skill gained
Guiding light.
Your right hand emits a light that could scare away the darkness.
My right arm then shone in a green light, pushing the abyss away, only this light was barely enough for me to see where I could set foot on. It was too dark to see and too bleak to feel at ease…
Moments later, I saw something, there were two giant red orbs floating and under them was the silhouette of a person.
Covered in dark matter, eating away at him and his flesh.
Yet, though his body was being dissolved, a grin was showing on his face…
It was Daiki…
Yet something was off…his bones were black, and whatever remained of his flesh was ignited as if it was an ember… he was smiling against these odds as if he knew that he would win.
It was but for a moment that I felt relieved, until the red orbs made sense.
The physic of a dragon showed itself as the red orbs were but its eyes…a dragon made of smoke and darkness…a foul and horrific creature…something that I cannot fathom its weakness or invulnerability…an impassable obstacle of terror and might…this was the true definition of fear.
Both things grinned at each other…that is if one could consider a dragon being capable of grinning, or it might just be showing its teeth…
A moment later, the dragon swiped its hand at the immobile Daiki destroying body bone and flesh in a moment…
Daiki once again died…while I could do nothing to help.
I walked towards his shredded corpse, it was melting due to the ichor that was eating away at it...
I turned around in tears unable to suppress my anger or sadness…tightly gripping my sword and under the unsurmountable odds I faced an enemy that I knew I was not going to win against…
Yet I jumped forward stabbing at its paw hoping to deal any amount of damage no matter how insignificant, but my sword broke from the hardness of its scale…no wonder, how could steel fare against the strength of a dragon's scale…this situation was hopeless, only death awaits, but even when facing death, one could only hope to survive…
Daiki POV
Listen to this while reading this fight scene
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiOo56N0Om4)
The dragon shot a dark ray of black magic towards me, something that I didn't even bother to dodge.
The ray broke through the ground and passed right through me as if I was but a shadow.
Due to my resistance towards the dark element his spell was ineffective.
Another shot that did no damage, but this time I was not going to wait for it to come. I used shadow step and instantly followed up with an uppercut, as my hand was wrapped in chains and imbued with soul burst.
Black dragon
Level???
(Corrupt)
-88 000 blunt damage
-17600 Soul damage
-17600 Fire damage
(Stun immune)
24876800/25 000 000 Hp
What the freaking hell??!!!
Twenty five million Hp. That is more than Ravana's Hp and it was a damn god!
And the damage I dealt is even less than expected…I should deal at least 150 000damag to it…it is possible that the scales reduce the incurred damage?
And it is even stun immune…
This fight is going to take a lot of time.
"Banished one! You dare transgress my lair? Your end is all but certain."
The dragon swiped its hand at me, so fast that, even with my perception ability, I was unable to dodge so I used the metamorphosing blade and changed it into a shield to block the damage.
Yet all it did was reduce it as I received enormous amounts of damage as I was sent reeling with the shield into a nearby wall.
-88 4500 Blunt damage.
This thing is impossible to beat…I will probably just leave this place…
I began shadow stepping towards the exit, after verifying the impossibility of defeating such a creature.
Yet right before I left.
"You will go nowhere banished one!"
Territorial ability activated.
You have been trapped within the territorial spell
Glory of the dark.
You have been separated from the outside world.
All holy-Light attributed spells have been voided and nullified
-50% resistance towards all elements
-50% fortitude.
-1000 willpower
-25% stamina regeneration
-25% health regeneration
-25% mana regeneration
What??
A wall of smoke prevented me from leaving the place…I tried shadow stepping beyond it but nothing happened, I even used Abyssal projection trying to force apart the wall but to no avail.
God damn it.
I looked at the dragon and it looked back at me, eyes filled with rage and hatred.
This is going to be a hard battle.
Jumping forward with another shadow step I landed on the dragon's back. I instantly used decay on it trying to make it grow weaker.
To my idiocy this only backfired.
As nothing seemed to have apparently changed at first I inspected the dragon only to be utterly surprised
Black dragon
Level???
(Corrupt)
Dragon of end
A black dragon that has been fully corrupted, the time it had spent with the living made it reach ample strength and full corruption as its dark nature clouded its mind.
30 000 000/30 000 000Hp
It healed back everything! No…it became even more powerful!
I am such an idiot!!
Dragons become stronger the longer they live! And I just increased its lifespan with this ability!
I always thought this thing to be overpowered but now, seeing this aftereffect, I can only understand its uselessness against immortal beings…
The dragon roared one last time with an explosion of dark magic that shook me from where I stood forcing the second and last Perception to activate.
I dropped from the dragons back and stood right in front of him…
This battle will not end without me dying a few times.
This fight is going to force me to go all out…yet I felt thrilled
A being that is going to make me use everything in my arsenal is rare to find, and this is a chance that I will not dare waste…
I need to do something first