The Red Dragon is a giant lizard with wings. Eleven meters in length and six meters in height. Once it is flying at a low altitude, the shadow could cover a quarter of the city's area.
And here I am standing like a bit of dust in front of that giant.
The dragon spits its fire again. I rolled to the side to avoid the fire. The house behind me burned greatly, destroying the wood frame, and burnt it to crips.
I gulped.
The dragon charged towards me, diving from the sky. I dodged, the tremor of the impact reverberating and shaking the house around it. I already multicast the fireballs and hit the dragon repeatedly.
One hit, two hit, again. The dragon's head slapped to the right and left. Good thing that Nia can change the trajectory of the fireballs. So, even though it tries to avoid it, the fireballs will hit.
The dragon got annoyed and angrier, it is landing on the ground, and roared relentlessly. It spits fire again.
I run to the side, and the dragon head just follows my movement. The fire is following to the side while I run.
That is a long one!
Cr*p!
A building in front of me. My way is blocked, if I run toward the dragon, it will slap me with its feet. Meanwhile, If I run far, the fire will catch me.
-- Power jump! --
Energy is flowing on my feet, and the muscle in my feet get tougher.
I jump.
It is a three-floor building and I jumped on its roof. I am not used to it, so I feel like flying.
"Uwaah!" I flail my arm like swimming in the water but without resistance.
I grab the roof railing and almost fall because of the broken roof tile. Then I cast a whirlwind to hit the dragon's head and help me lift myself onto the roof.
The big whirlwind is enough to slam the dragon's head to the ground but not enough to knock it out unconscious.
The dragon is eyeing me and lashed its tail at the building. I runs and jumped to the next building.
Whoa!
The building's foundation got broken and the building got collapsed. I almost got myself buried there.
There, the dragon is chasing me away. I run along the roof, hopping from one building to another. The dragon runs and never ceases to blow its fire toward me, charging its head toward the building or lashing its tail.
Every building I hopped, destroyed. Leaving behind a trail of dust. The monster below got stomped by its feet. It just blindly stepping on them.
Bad luck. There are no more houses to hop on. I am in the last building.
When the dragon spits its fire, I somersault. The scene becomes slow motion. I can see the building debris passing around my body. Some pebbles flew mid-air while bumping on the dragon scale, and there, our eyes locked on each other.
Knowing there is a chance, the dragon spits its fire on me while I am in mid-air.
-- Whirlwind slash sword --
With the energy I gathered, I blow my body to make my body rotate while holding the sword. The fire got dispersed around my rotating body.
There I slammed my sword blunt side to create a force and hit the dragon right on its cranium.
BANG!
Its head is tough as f*ck. The sword is reverberating in my hand and it also shakes my arm. The dragon's head slammed to the ground but it is not enough to knock it out.
The dragon waves its head to the right and the left. It is trying to drop me on the ground.
"Uwaah!"
I grip the scale but it is too slippery. I pierce the sword into the dragon's neck trying to keep my body on the dragon's body but to no avail.
"Pierce d*amn it!" I am trying hard with my power to pierce the dragon.
The imagination of me dropping and getting crushed below the dragon's body haunts me.
[Mana sword!]
-- Right! Mana sword! --
How can I not think about that?
I am flowing the energy to the sword and the sword's color becomes bluish-blue. It pierced the scale from scratches then deeper.
GROWL! ROAR!
The dragon is roaring mad and hurt. It is prancing in chaos, the tremor is not stopping like a big earthquake. Some of the houses got broken and left with only dust.
The dragon flies away to the sky. Yet the sword still moving like slashing because I put too much energy into it.
If it continues like this I will fall.
I am stopping the energy flow to the sword and the sword gets stuck. My sword stuck right on the dragon's base neck.
I hold onto the sword as the dragon soars toward the sky.
***** ***** *****
"Run!" Aura shouted to the soldiers and some of the adventurers.
The building falls one by one and the monster either got stomped or buried in the building's debris. Aura can see Cory jumping around, on the roof of each building. Rolling to avoid the fire or sliding and somersault jumping.
She can see that Cory is finally able to hold onto the dragon's back. After being unable to get near the dragon because of its relentless attack.
Aura holds her breath while looking at Cory being dragged away to the sky while holding his sword on the dragon's body.
"Cory!"
They are getting far and becoming smaller in view, passing the clouds.
"Oh Blimey!" Parlow also looks at them fighting mid-air. Widening his eyes in disbelief.
Parlow just saw Cory single-handedly fighting the dragon with unbelievable agility, power, and dexterity.
Looking at him got distracted, Aura cast a fireball and burn the Goblin that is trying to attack Parlow from behind.
BAM!
Parlow got shocked and jerked to the front.
"Guild Master! Let's finish this here first!" Aura shouted.
A lot of soldiers and adventurers holding off the monster that already breached the city. Because the Dragon focuses its attention on Cory, they can fight evenly with the monsters.
Parlow looks again in the direction of the Dragon that is already vanished from his view.
"Cory can handle that! Believe him!" Aura said to him, then slashing her sword at the goblin in front of her.
Parlow nodded to her.
"Fight!" Parlow shouted to the other adventurers to raise their morale.
This is their fight right now.
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Name: Cory Grieves
Skill: Whirlwind slash sword, Mana sword
Mana cap: 10X Dark Turquoise
Magic: Fireball, Blue Fireball (Divine Flame), Healing, Air-suspended magic, Multicast, Whirlwind, Tornado, Fire Tornado, Fire Grenade
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Name: Nia
Skill: Auto body repair, body adaptation, auto mana regulator, extreme body battle mode.
Connection skill: Full Connection
sub-connection skill: Partial connection, non-human connection
Movement: Blood medium, the Water medium