Chapter 271: Let’s Fucking Do This!
The dragon opened its mouth and prepared to unleash its flames, but Keith formed his sand into a long polearm and threw it straight towards the dragon’s eyes! The polearm flew straight for the dragon, but just before it could hit, the dragon turned to the side and avoided the attack easily! The dragon turned its attention to Keith, and Keith noticed that the superhumans he had just saved were successfully running away! Keith felt glad that he was able to save their lives, but now he had a new problem to deal with!
ROARRR!!
The dragon roared with intensity, and Keith turned and ran! Keith gathered sand from around him and used it to launch himself up and over a large building that had fallen on its side! The building was angled upwards like a ramp, and Keith landed on the side and began to run along the body as the giant dragon followed behind him!
[Sir, we’re going to distract it for you to get away!]
A voice suddenly echoed from Keith’s comms, and Keith recognized it as one of the other Lieutenants who had been hiding with him, but Keith immediately shut down the man’s idea!
"No! RUN NOW! ALL OF YOU RUN!!"
Keith wasn’t going to allow his effort to go to waste! He knew that if they tried to distract the dragon for him to escape, then the dragon would just turn its attention to them instead! So Keith was more than willing to take all the heat from the dragon to give them a chance to get away! A loud roar rang out from behind Keith, and Keith felt all his survival instincts come to life at the same time and screaming at him to dodge!
Keith slammed his foot into the ground and used that as momentum to jump to the side and began falling off the huge building, and no more than a second later, a wave of superhot flames slammed into the spot where Keith had just been! Keith could literally feel the heat from the fire scorching his skin even though he was already far away from it, so Keith knew without a doubt that he would’ve died if that hit him! Keith stumbled on the ground with a grunt as he landed harshly, but he didn’t waste a second as he ran under the building that he had just fallen off and hid in the shadows! The large dragon released another roar as it looked around for Keith, and Keith tried his best to calm his heart rate as he pressed his back against a large slab!
The ground rumbled as the dragon landed just two hundred meters away from Keith, and Keith took in a breath and held it in as he saw the dragon looking around with furious eyes! Keith didn’t move, blink, or even fucking breathe! He practically melted into the rock behind him and became one with it! The heat from the dragon’s body was still reaching Keith even from this distance, and Keith felt his heart rate spike when the dragon suddenly moved close to him and sniffed along the ground like a hound smelling blood. Keith prayed to every god out there that the dragon’s sense of smell was bad! There was no way he would survive if it attacked him in here!
BOOM!
And it was as though there really was a higher being looking out for Keith at that moment, because just as the dragon was about to sniff him out, a loud explosion echoed through the air from high above! A voice screamed out a laugh at the top of her lungs, and Keith was able to immediately recognize who it was!
’Commander Agiel!’
BOOM!
Another explosion rang out from above before a body suddenly rocketed through the air, slammed into the ground, and dug a large crater in the concrete as it slid back! The dragon that had been searching for Keith suddenly turned its attention to the crater, and Keith watched as Commander Agiel slowly began to drag herself out from the ground! She looked like she had gone through hell itself! Her clothes were already gone, so she was only wearing a pair of tight shorts and a sports bra. There were large burns around her body that had turned red and were letting out a lot of blood! Her white hair was black and smoking in various places, and one of her hands had a nasty cut along it that looked like it was made by a sword, but for some reason, Commander Agiel was still smiling!
Commander Agiel stood at the edge of the crater, and she let out a long sigh as she watched a second dragon appear from her left side. The dragon that had been chasing her was currently clinging to the side of a tall skyscraper, and it looked down at her and released a loud roar that shook the city to its foundation! There were a few large bruises on the dragon’s body, and one of its eyes was red and swollen from a punch that Agiel had given it, but Agiel could tell that its injuries wouldn’t be enough to take it down! Agiel let out another tired breath as she tried her best to stay on her feet. She was running low on mana, and when she looked inside herself, she could tell that she barely had two thousand units left from the initial ten thousand! If she had only been facing one dragon, then maybe she would have still been able to fight for a few more minutes, but now that there were two of them, there was no chance of her living through this.
But was that going to stop her from putting these fuckers through hell!? Of course it wasn’t! Commander Agiel ran her tongue around her mouth and spat some blood to the side before turning back to the dragons with a wide, bloody grin! She raised her hands to the side and shouted at the dragons with the confidence of a thousand soldiers!
"Are we going to do this or what!?"
ROARRRRR!
Both dragons let out world-shaking roars as they prepared to attack, but everything suddenly stopped as the dragon riders felt something in the distance! The dragon riders turned their heads towards the northern part of the city, and one of them felt his eyes widen when a familiar mana signature washed over him!
"The princess!"
The dragon rider immediately turned his dragon around and told it to move towards the north, and the second dragon also followed after him so they could reach the princess quickly! The dragon riders were soldiers who had been given a mission, so they didn’t really care about the people of this world! Their mission was to find and retrieve the princess, and nothing else mattered once their mission was in sight!
Captain Agiel watched as the dragons took off and began heading towards the north, and for a split second, some part of her felt like following after them. But the moment she tried to take a single step, all the energy in her body abandoned her, and she began to fall forward immediately!
"I’ve got you, Commander."
A hand suddenly grabbed Agiel’s body before she could reach the floor, and Agiel raised her head and saw Keith’s blurry face through half-lidded eyes. Agiel let out a scoff as Keith put her hand around his shoulder, and she spoke in a low voice.
"And where were you all this time? Hiding like a coward?"
Keith felt a dagger pierce his heart once Agiel said that, but he couldn’t say anything to counter her since she was right. Keith knew he was brave, but he wasn’t a suicidal maniac, and he knew there was nothing he could have done against those dragons.