"Sense of Thunder!"
I dodged the dragon's crush with thunder speed. This was Speed Enhancement Magic that made me like a spark.
[Haha High Sage! If you do this, you'll become a dragon's snack you know?]
"It's because of you! Your devil!"
Nine didn't stop laugh at all, damn. Babaragon liked thunder so much. He unstopped try to bite me. His killing intent was still affected to me, so I had to create more distance.
"Shit!"
Babaragon ran at full speed to tackle me. It was so sudden.
"Thunder Stream Comet!"
A giant comet with a thunder aura bumped into Babaragon. It made the dragon got pushed away and left the long light on the way. It was high-level Thunder Magic, a duplication of the comet.
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Thunder Stream Comet
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Maybe it was the helper from Nine. The screen had many names of high-level Thunder Magic. Liked sitting in a restaurant that had waiters serve many expensive dishes. So excellent of service.
[Hahaha.]
I would praise him if he had some nice.
Babaragon was dizzy. Unless he had no damage, the attack flew to his skin and collected in yellow stones. Babaragon used that power of the thunder to attack back.
I couldn't avoid it.
Sense of Thunder hadn't defense power.
"Three Bells of Heaven! Release!"
I stabbed my staff down to the ground. Three bells from the staff were eject from the top. Its were floating with a triangle shape and received Lightning Ball. Three bells absorbed power and exploded.
I could avoid damage from the attack, but it was exchanged with losing the staff.
I didn't have other Thunder Staff for a fight.
[It's not true.]
Nine laughed and gave a new staff, another Three Bells of Heaven to me.
[This staff was recorded in the infinity list. I can make ten or fifty pieces if you want.]
"Your devil hearts! I know it isn't expensive, but it has sentimental value!"
I stopped comment him temporarily. Babaragon was far from me. This was a good chance to lure him away.
"Nine uses magic! Three Bird of Vivik!"
Three lifeless small thunderbirds flew to Babaragon. They moved as a circle above his head. This magic control by magic commands.
Normally, it had to control every bird every second but if I modified it. Assigned the leader and command follower to followed him. The leader would bring others moved as circle automatic. It was no need to control.
This was my brilliant magic, so useful and saved energy. I would use this magic to lure the dragon.
Suddenly, Babaragon stood on his back leg and ate one bird.
He ate the bird leader!
"What?!"
When the leader was gone, followers were losing their way and eaten by the dragon too. My brilliant magic was ended.
Nine laughed as crazy.
[You use a toy to tempt the dragon! Hahaha, it isn't a cat!]
I wanted to hide in the underground. Excellent but couldn't use it, that was usually the phrase I got.
[As I see, you don't know the way to fight, Hm? Do you really pass Wizard level?]
"Yes! I passed and became Sage immediately! Do you have a problem!"
[Not anymore. My wise High Sage.]
People often thought Sage was stronger than Wizard, but our specialization was different. Wizard targeted at the result. Sage looked at the solution.
A lot of people thought Sage was stronger than Wizard, but we didn't use high-level magic much liked them.
Three snacks weren't full him, Babaragon growled and ran to me.
[If you want to seduce a cat, I suggest this way.]
Nine used magic by himself. The thunder with high density created the line of the bird structure, the giant thunderbird. The Magic Command made him cried and fought Babaragon.
"…Amazing."
The giant bird used his craw to grab the dragon's head. With the same size. It became like a battle between two high-level monsters. They were fierce. Their power. It was neck and neck, except for the inside.
So much disorder.
The magic flow inside this bird was unpleasant, untidy, and had a lot of mistakes. It bothered me. My habit wanted to fix it.
[Please stop comment on kid's work, High Sage.]
"What do you mean?"
[Continue on your quest.]
I came to focus on the situation. The dragon was absorbing power from the thunderbird. This could only buy the time.
"Nine, I want the Babaragon's data."
A data screen appeared in front of me, Babaragon data. It was too much information. Habitation, behavior, body structure, growth even reproduction. I skipped it and looked at tips for a battle topic.
Babaragon liked thunder. A yellow stone could collect thunder and release it. Adventurers shouldn't use or wear steel equipment. It didn't help me at all.
It had a limit of absorbed thunder. A child Babaragon couldn't absorb much thunder, a stone would be exploded. An adult Babaragon could protect that weak spot by stab tail on the ground, excess thunder would run to the ground.
His bottom was a weak spot. I could win if I damage that spot with high-level Thunder Magic but how I made him rolled over? I couldn't cut his tail too. A giant comet just made him dizzy.
Nine had everything, but it wasted time to test his every power. Just like reading interesting books, it made me lost. I had to find my way and came to pick it as a tool. If high-level magic power didn't work, I would go back to the basics. Basic of Thunder Magic, Property of Thunder Magic, and…
Yes, I found it.
[You… I present everything to you. It's not enough?]
"You don't have everything."
My answer wasn't in his everything.
"I have the solution. Take it and fulfill everything to complete."
[You're such…]
Nine was satisfy laughed. It was easy to test him in this situation because we followed the same thing.
"It's time to work! Number Nine!"
I swung my hand. Many Three Bells of Heaven staffs were put down on the ground as a wall in front of me, surrounded by two big monsters, and closed in the circle shape.
This stage was my working room.
"Stop Babaragon's move for me."
The bird pushed Babaragon to the center of the circle stage. I put down the staff on my hand to the ground and prepared the next step.
"The Thunder Staff, Charming of Vivik."
The long-burned wood stick appeared. The Charming of Vivik was the staff that real wood stick. The stick that burned from thunder. No gem. No decoration.
Vivik was a village that surrounds by lightning cloud. That village has a special big tree. The tree that was the target of the thunder. The story told, she had something that attracted lightning to her. When used her branch as the staff, it could have special power to control thunder.
I got her for long ago. I entrusted dad to buy it. It took a lot of time for him delivered to me. And it was a long time that I didn't touch her.
I kissed the top of the stick.
"Guide me to your loveliness, Vivik."
[Huh?]
Why were you surprised? It wasn't strange for used Holy Words. Just the normal way to show respect. Adventurer kissed their ring. Knight kissed their sword too.
[…]
He was stunned until,
'Did I lose to a branch?'
The way he called… I would deal with him after this. I closed my eyes and concentrated.
"Keep quite a bit."
I caught the power from the staff, followed the flow of the invitation. When I went deep, I saw a smile from a woman I couldn't describe in her image.
She accepted my request.
Babaragon absorbed thunder from a giant bird. A bird couldn't have much time. I continued to prepare. Because I hadn't MP to send to Vivik, I had to receive her guideline and sent it to Nine.
The spark was cut into many small light spheres. Floated around this area.
As a sea of stars.
If this time was dark, it must be an incredibly beautiful scene.
All the thunder in this area was under my control.
[It's time.]
Babaragon swallowed the thunderbird without trash. I became the only food in his land. He sent killing intent to me. I was shaking.
Hard to breathe, hard to fight. For stood in front of him, I had to change my viewpoint.
Because I wasn't an adventurer.
"You who love the thunder, Babaragon. I didn't come to take your life. I come to seek a new possibility. Please collaborate with me. With High Sage's declaration, it won't have anything lose in vain."
I touched my chest. My respect was finished. My body stopped shaking. I could look at the red-blood eyes without fear.
"Vivik. Nine. Let's do it."
With their power, a sea of stars released lightning. It made a high screech sound, but it wasn't enough. Nine created lightning spheres more, the sound was louder. The grass moved by this sound too.
If thunder was food, this sound was the smell. Babaragon wanted to test it. He ran to me.
"It's not the time!"
The wall of staff released a thunder to attract him. Babaragon confused. He looked after thunder that ran as a circle at the wall of staff. He was angry. The dragon used Lightning Bolt to destroy staffs.
New staffs appeared instead. The dragon stomped his feet on the ground for making a wall fell. Before he did it, all the light balls around me, and the screeching sound were disappeared. It left only silent and void.
The human's eye couldn't follow this magic, Dragon's eye too. But a magic stone and the nature of the dragon could sense it.
An invisible thunder that was running at full speed.
The stones tried to absorb it. The dragon tried to eat it. Unaware of danger made him to the end.
Babaragon was motionless. He was exhausted. His body was hot without knowing. His eyes blurred. Arms and legs were weak. He collapsed to the ground and twitched a little time.
Finally, the thing that beat in the rhythm stopped.
The dragon died in silence. The only sound in this area was inside of my head.
[The quest was successful.]
[Congratution, but you still use NUMBERS' power in the wrong way, High Sage.]
I smiled a little. He told me that, but he liked it. He got what he wanted and me too.
[Your payment completed. thank you for using our service.]
The dragon wouldn't move again. His red-blood eyes that were so powerful became toy marbles.
I couldn't remember the human face, but I could remember the monster's face. I should feel something for took another life, but I felt nothing. I lacked many emotions.
"Thank you for your cooperated, Babaragon."
I said to him for the last time. For the life that became part of my magic.
The Thunder Magic for killing Thunder Dragon.
The Lightning Howl of Death.