TL: Tsubak
ED: Julsmul
That was something one could only hear if they had ears.
They could only feel it if they were stepping on the ground.
The battlefield that had two huge armies gathered on either side froze for a moment.
The noisy sounds of the horn trumpets were suppressed by an even louder noise.
The warriors that were yelling and raising their morale shut their mouths and stayed silent.
It didn't differentiate from the evil spirits, giants, or dead spirits. Everyone standing on the battlefield turned to look at the same direction in disbelief and witnessed a monster from the frozen silence.
It was a monstrous, dark dragon.
Its scales were darker than darkness, and its eyes were deeper than the night.
It was a black star located in the ash-colored sky.
That thing spread all its four wings and raised its four horns as if it would stab the sky at any time.
The roar covered the sky and ground one more time, and it sowed seeds fear across the entire battlefield.
The battlefield was wide.
The space that could hold a great army of three hundred thousand was really huge.
But everyone in the battlefield was overwhelmed.
The black dragon was huge.
No matter how big it was, it wasn't as big as the battlefield, but that wasn't important.
An individual that was a hundred meters long.
The marvel that size created.
Would ants looking at a giant feel like this?
Everyone in the battlefield held their breaths. The black dragon made them do that, and it made them breathe once again. It made them vomit out the fear that had surged up instinctively.
The black dragon fluttered its wings.
It charged towards the battlefield.
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It was really thrilling thing seeing more than three hundred thousand beings turned to look at you.
Nidhogg breathed roughly. She struggled at the joy she experienced for the first time in her life. It was hard to control herself because her body heated up.
The joy of receiving attention.
A situation where countless beings focused upon each action one made, and the situation that made one feel like a God for a moment.
That was a really big stimulation for Nidhogg who had been alone for a long time.
Nidhogg didn't know what to do. It was hard to express her current feeling with her short language, and because of that, she couldn't stay still. She shuddered while having her cheeks flushed and then turned around and embraced Tae Ho strongly.
Tae Ho felt Nidhogg and then concentrated on her. He hung on while being swept up by Nidhogg's worries by thinking of the experiences he had in front of millions of spectators when he was the best pro gamer in the world. He calmed down Nidhogg's excitement.
The hands that were placed upon the keyboard and mouse moved faster. Tae Ho controlled Nidhogg's movements more delicately.
'The Legendary Pro Gamer'.
The new saga was focused on manipulating something. Tae Ho could see Nidhogg's status through the data that appeared in numbers.
Her health, magic power, and even her concentration appeared in Tae Ho's head.
"Let's go,"
Tae Ho said to Nidhogg. He looked at the battlefield through her eyes. He flew over the dead spirits and charged towards the giants and evil spirits.
Actually, this situation wasn't the best.
The best was to fight while riding on Nidhogg just like he did with Rolo or Adenmaha.
But that wasn't possible.
Nidhogg fought too poorly to do that.
Rather than working together, it was more probable that she would have become an obstacle.
Because of that, Tae Ho chose to stay in the heart room. If he had to concentrate only on controlling Nidhogg, this was much better.
What the battlefield needed more right now wasn't a powerful individual that could defeat another powerful individual but a huge existence that could crush a huge army.
Nidhogg roared once again and then arrived in front of the giants.
Cuchulainn had said,
'Concentrate on destroying the army. Don't think of it as a spot, but as a side.'
Tae Ho also agreed. His words were right.
"Let's go."
In this moment, Tae Ho was the boss of a game. A raid boss that faced the attacks of several beings head on.
A smile appeared on Tae Ho's face, and Nidhogg howled once again.
Kwagagang!
The landing of the black dragon created a loud explosion. The giants could then finally realize how huge the dragon was up close. About ten giants were crushed to death, and about twice that number suffered serious injuries.
"Let's go."
Tae Ho said once again. He made the black dragon turn at that moment. Instead of using detailed attacks like biting or scratching a giant one by one, he used its huge body more efficiently.
The black dragon turned around in place. It's tail that measured a third of its total body swept the battlefield.
That was like a natural disaster. As the huge body of a hundred meters turned around, a radius of a hundred meters turned to ruins in an instant, and it crushed and destroyed everything in its path.
But that was merely the start.
The black dragon didn't fly. It just charged and kept turning around. But this time, it didn't only sweep the battlefield with its tail.
Venom was fired from the mouth of the black dragon. The giants that were covered by it didn't get infected. They just melted.
The width of that venom wasn't small. It was fired at an overwhelming range.
But of course, it wasn't strong enough to melt the giants in an instant. Only the ones that were closest to the dragon melted down completely. The remaining ones were poisoned, and some vomited out their damaged organs and suffered.
All of this happened in a few moments.
But the black dragon didn't stop.
It couldn't.
'It's coming.'
Cuchulainn spoke. The giant king, Hrumbak, had lost almost a hundred giants by the surprise attack and ordered his army to spread out. The lowest or inferior giants could only become sacrifices for the black dragon. It was much better to make them march towards the army of the dead.
He would gather the strength of intermediate giants or above and hunt down the dragon.
It was the right decision. The army of the evil spirits charged towards the army of the dead with the sound of the horn trumpet. The giants that wanted to get away from the dragon as fast as possible started running really quickly.
But Hela didn't stay still either. She didn't know the identity of the black dragon yet, but seeing that it had crossed over her army and attacked the giants, it could be treated as an ally.
No. If it was an enemy, she should have had to disperse her army and flee in the first place.
"Galeon!"
Galeon, who was next to her, blew his horn trumpet at her sharp order. The army of the dead pulled out their weapons to face the army that was charging towards them. The existence of the black dragon that seemed to be their ally gave them courage.
Clashes occurred in several places of the battlefield. The screams and yells of the evil spirits and dead spirits covered the battlefield.
At that moment, the black dragon moved. It showed an unprecedented action that got out of Hrumbak's expectations.
The black dragon didn't charge towards Hrumbak and his subordinates. It rather turned its back on them and chased the giants that were charging towards the dead spirits. And at some point, it started to roll on the ground!
A giant snowball.
The giants felt the dragon to be like that. They screamed as they were crushed under the overwhelming body.
In addition, the giants weren't the only ones to be crushed this time. A lot of evil spirits were crushed too, so many that the black scales of the dragon were dyed in red.
Tae Ho used the huge body the best he could.
Why did a huge dragon have to extend its head to face a small existence? Why did it have to lower itself to the level of lowly beings? Why did it have to face them one by one?
This wasn't a game.
It wasn't a boss that should be eradicated.
He chose the most logical option.
He would fight the most favorable fight.
Show the majesty of the real final boss!
"Nidhogg! Roll!"
A black dragon that was a hundred meters in size rolling on the ground would give anyone a real shock. It would have been better if it had swept its tail or fired venom.
But for it to roll on the ground....
Its actions were actually creating big damages.
That action that planned for at all by the giants paralyzed them, and that short moment created an even bigger tragedy.
Hrumbak opened his mouth widely with a dumb face and then barely managed to curse out. The giants that were in command let out orders once again. Spread out the most while dodging the black dragon. Enter through the breaches of the dead spirits!
At the same time, Hrumbak and his warriors charged towards the black dragon. They weren't accustomed to hunting beings that were bigger than them, but they couldn't do anything about it. They couldn't leave the dragon alone.
The situation was flowing just like Tae Ho had expected.
And because of that, Tae Ho pressed down his excitement. He said almost like whispering.
"It's phase two."
Tae Ho's left hand danced on top of the keyboard. A black dragon surged up while Nidhogg exclaimed.
And Hrumbak saw that dragon. He felt joy when he looked at the dragon that was about to charge towards them. He grabbed his huge axe and roared.
Hrumbak was 20 meters tall. It was possible that his huge axe would prove effective on the hundred meter-long dragon.
And Tae Ho also knew that. He looked at the giants that were firing and throwing weapons towards him. Nidhogg looked at the throwing weapons that covered the sky and squeezed out all the strength she didn't even know she had. She fired a strong magical wave to block the rain of arrows and then brought chaos to the giants and evil spirits with her Dragon Fear.
But it wasn't the time yet. Tae Ho pierced through the throwing weapons and opened his mouth. He activated the most effective saga in this situation.
And at that moment, Cuchulainn also opened his mouth. He shook his head and said while looking at his disciple that was really wicked.
'Ragnar, you were right.'
A cheat instead of a saga.
He wasn't talking about the 'Warrior that Rides on Valkyries'.
Nor was he talking about the 'Legendary Pro Gamer' that let him control the black dragon, Nidhogg, as if it was his own body.
The only reason he could allow the cute, pretty, good, and pure Nidhogg to give the black-hearted Tae Ho the best blessing several times a day.
Bragi's rune activated, and at the same time, the strength of the saga created another marvel.
[Strengthened Saga: The Warrior that had a Valkyrie Meet Him]
The black dragon howled, but there wasn't only one howl. Hrumbak grew terrified at the other howl that was heard above his head. He found himself at a loss for words at the big and dense shadow that had appeared suddenly.
[Fake Nidhogg]
[Odin's Valkyrie]
Another black dragon.
The next moment, two catastrophes danced over the head of the giants.
< Episode 39 - Hela (4) > End
TL note: Thanks for reading~