Chapter 80: It’s A Child
BOOM!
The attack slammed point-blank into the Queen Ant Rook, and there was hardly any damage on the ant! The ant screeched as it reached down and bit into the dragon’s neck with its mandibles and dragged the sharp appendage back hard! A loud ’squelch!’ echoed through the air as the dragon suffered a massive cut on its neck, and it roared as it unleashed another blast toward the Ant Queen!
BOOM!
The Ant Queen tanked the attack once more, and Jason put his hand forward and told the other rooks around to join the Queen in attacking the dragon! The dragon continued to fight against the Queen Ant, holding it down easily and it was starting to gain the upper hand as its sharp talons cut into the Queen’s eyes, but once it saw the other rooks were coming, it immediately beat its wings and took off into the sky as it realized that it was vastly outnumbered! It had to get away and draw them into an ariel battle so it would have the upper hand once again! The Ant Queen wouldn’t let it happen though, as it reached up quickly to grab one of the dragon’s wings in its mandibles and tore the leathery flesh apart!
ROARRR!!!
The dragon roared in pain as it was grounded, and the Moonlight Wolf Rook came around and bit down hard on the dragon’s neck to give the Ant Queen enough time to finish it off!
On the other side of the forest, the Dragonrider was doing his best to fight back against the two Pawn Rank II subordinates who were attacking him! The Dragonrider had lost one of his arms already, but he was swinging his sword around with the other one and unleashing blasts of fire that were pushing the Pawn Rank II subordinates back!
He gritted his teeth and dashed forward to the Pawn Rank II in front of him before using a special fire-based skill to double his momentum at the last minute with a well-placed blast! This allowed him to slam his shoulder into the Pawn Rank II, and he coated his sword in flames before using it to stab the Pawn Rank II in the neck and kill it! The dragon rider was on the same level as a B Rank, so he had enough strength to take on a Red Gate boss all on his own!
He got up after seeing the Pawn Rank II under him dissolving into dust and he glared at the remaining Pawn Rank II wolf before looking up at Jason, who was glancing down at him with complete nonchalance. The Dragonrider swore that he was going to kill that man even if it was the last thing he did. How dare he look down at him like this!? Who did he think he was!?
The Dragonrider felt adrenaline filling his body as he prepared to fight against the remaining Pawn Rank II, but before he could even take a step, he felt an ominous feeling engulf his body! A strong mana surged across the area, and right before his eyes, the monster that he had killed slowly rose from the ground and came back to life. Then another monster joined it, and then another, and then another, and then another.
Slowly, the feeling of dread changed into pure terror in the man’s heart, and it wasn’t long before his fear changed to despair and hopelessness.
’Who is this monster?’
the Dragonrider looked up at Jason who was still looking down on him in nonchalance, and he knew at that moment that he had picked a battle he was never going to win.
But even in the face of such daunting odds, the Dragonrider refused to give up. His one hand held onto his sword tightly, and he grit his teeth while glaring at the monsters around him with pure wrath! They wanted a fight!? He would give them a fight that they would never forget!
"If you want my life, then come and take it! I will not yield! But know that you have signed your death warrant this day! The Dragonborn will come for you and we will kill you in cold blood! Ptoo! I swear it on this soil!"
The dragon rider shouted loudly at Jason as he spat blood on the ground in front of him! A threat like that would have been enough to put fear into the heart of any normal man because of the sheer hatred present in the Dragonborn’s eyes, but Jason was no normal man, and he simply put his hand forward as he spoke.
"Let them come. As long as they draw breath and there is a heart beating in their chest, then they will also fall to my army."
Jason ordered the Pawns to attack, and they rushed forward!
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From his place up in the sky, Jason watched as the Dragonborn was torn apart by his pawns. The man tried to put up a fight, but there was no chance for him to survive against six pawns on his own, so it wasn’t long before his body was dismembered and broken on the floor. On the other side of the forest, the large dragon was lying on its back without moving a muscle. Its wings had been torn apart, and the large Moonlight Wolf had grabbed hold of its throat and was biting down hard to make sure that it lost as much blood as possible.
After a while, the dragon finally stopped moving as it died, and Jason watched as his system brought up the kill notifications.
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The user has killed [1] Radagan Dragonborn
+150 Kill Points
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The user has killed [1] Firebreathing Ashenvalley Dragon
+400 Kill Points
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[Moonlight Wolf]
[Rook Rank I]
[Hierarchy Level: 1 [50.5%]]
[Subordinate Count: 10/10]
[Upgrade Points: 0/50]
[Upgrade Limit: Rook Rank III]
[MP: 2000]
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[Adamantine Ant Soldier]
[Rook Rank I]
[Hierarchy Level: 1 [59.2%]]
[Subordinate Count: 9/10]
[Upgrade Points: 0/50]
[Upgrade Limit: Bishop Rank I]
[MP: 4000]
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[Adamantine Ant Queen]
[Rook Rank II]
[Hierarchy Level: 2 [10.1%]]
[Subordinate Count: 30/30]
[Upgrade Points: 0/150]
[Upgrade Limit: Bishop Rank III]
[MP: 5000]
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Jason sighed as he turned down to look at the girl in his arms. The man said she was a princess, didn’t he? What could have possibly happened that would make him attack a princess like this? Was there some kind of war happening out there?
The Dragonborn had said that the princess was promised as a wife to some ’Sovereign’ and he immediately wondered if she was used as a bargaining chip in the war. Jason couldn’t deny that the princess was a beautiful woman even with all the blood and mud on her face and it wouldn’t be a surprise if her parents had given her to this ’Sovereign’ to save themselves.
Jason turned away from the process as he shook his head and looked over at the dragon with a small grin. Regardless of what happened, things could have gone badly if the dragon was stronger than the Ant Queen Rook.
’I wonder if it’s normal for dragons to be this weak. If it is, then I won’t have to be worried about running into any other dragons in the future.’
Jason had this thought while looking at the dead carcass of the dragon in front of him, but a message from the system immediately destroyed his delusion.
[The dragon the user faced is only a youngling of the dragon race. In human years, this dragon would be no different from a five-year-old child.]
Jason blinked in surprise before turning to look at the dragon again. What? Wait, so this dragon wasn’t matured yet!? Jason has been fighting a child this whole time!? Jason was in shock for a few seconds, and he closed his eyes and sighed before he asked a damning question.
’How strong is a fully matured dragon?’
[A dragon at full maturity will possess a body mass equivalent to the weight of four cargo ships and a wingspan covering the length of nearly two kilometers. They are Indigenous to most Dragonborn worlds, such as the world of Radagan. At its current power level, the user’s world is incapable of standing up to such creatures, so should a single dragon find its way across the primordial Expanse and into the user’s world, the user’s world will most likely cease to exist. But the user does not need to worry because dragons are very prideful creatures, so it is unlikely that the Dragonborn on Radagan managed to tame a mature one. Only the younger dragons allow Dragonborn to ride them.]
Jason couldn’t do anything but chuckle at that. So he was fighting against a child, and he had to use two Rook-based subordinates that were almost S Ranks, along with more than five B Rank pawns to defeat it? If he tried to fight against a grown dragon with these numbers, then he was going to be killed without question.