Chapter 60
As for why I’m brought along as support? It’s all because of my skill, “Rain of Holy Light.”
…I’ll say it again: Rain of Holy Light is not fireworks. It’s actually an incredible skill.
As everyone knows, a person’s magic power is limited. If overused, one’s magic will be depleted. But Rain of Holy Light can replenish the magic power of everyone within its range.
This way, everyone won’t get tired when they fight. See? I told you it wasn’t fireworks, right?
With the enemy approaching, Sister Mouyue gave me a look. I understood completely and nodded, releasing the Rain of Holy Light into the sky.
Pure white light transformed into a fine drizzle, falling from the heavens. I’m ashamed to say I can only maintain it for five minutes. Thankfully, in the past when I’ve been pulled along as support, the battles have always ended within five minutes.
Sister Liwei had an excited look on her face— “This feeling of infinite magic power is just too awesome!” The moment she finished speaking, she erupted with purple magic power. The rising airflow blew my hair about.
…As long as she’s happy.
I saw her imbue her sword with magic power, and in an instant, the sword became incomparably huge. I told you before, Sister Liwei is from the Enchantment school!
I saw that everyone basking in the Rain of Holy Light had a fired-up expression. This… is really not an additional effect of the Rain of Holy Light.
THUD, THUD, THUD.
General Dakisatharos’s approaching footsteps trembled the earth, making me feel unsteady on my feet.
“It’s coming to us. Saves us the trouble!” Sister Liwei gripped the giant sword, several times taller than herself, with both hands, ready to strike.
“I’ll draw it over! Everyone, get ready!”
Elves have much better vision than we do. An arrow automatically flew from the quiver on Sister Mouyue’s back, turning into a shooting star as it shot toward the jungle.
The shooting star streaked across the wetland and into the jungle. What followed was a roar that sounded like the earth itself was rumbling. General Dakisatharos’s massive body stomped out of the jungle. I finally saw this twelve-million-bounty Dragonoid in person. Urk… So big! It’s nearly five meters tall, humanoid, with the head of a dragon, and its body is covered in pitch-black scales.
However, in its dragon claw, it was holding the shooting star that Sister Mouyue had fired. I was secretly alarmed. It was clearly a sneak attack, but it actually caught it!? This thing is no joke!
General Dakisatharos spoke a string of words in the dragon tongue that I couldn’t understand, then grabbed its guandao1 and charged at us with the force of an army-sweeping torrent! tlnote add pic
Eek… So scary!
Sister Liwei met it head-on! She forcefully used the giant sword of light in her hands to block the guandao!
The instant their weapons clashed, the earth cracked apart, creating faults that rippled like ocean waves. The shockwave even blew all the way to where I was.
Alright… so this is one strike from a twelve-million-bounty monster. Thank goodness Sister Liwei was able to block it…
“Squads one, two, three, and four, circle around behind it!”— At Sister Mouyue’s command, the adventurers mobilized. With Sister Liwei blocking General Dakisatharos’s attacks from the front, these people circled around to its back to attack.
General Dakisatharos’s huge body was terrifying, but a larger body also means more people can surround it and hack at it. Our advantage in numbers came into play.
After the four squads, twenty people in total, surrounded General Dakisatharos’s back and hacked at it wildly for a bit, the General let out a furious roar! It swung its guandao in a full circle! Half the people managed to dodge in time, but the other half couldn’t retreat fast enough and were sent flying.
I was secretly alarmed again. It can’t be…? The attacks aren’t working?
“Hey—! Your opponent is me!” Sister Liwei didn’t let the opening created by its turn go to waste. The giant sword of light chopped down on its black scales, scraping out sparks!
Seriously, the combined hacking of twenty people didn’t work, and even Sister Liwei’s sword strike didn’t cause any obvious damage to its dragon scales. Just how thick are this guy’s scales?
General Dakisatharos gave up on chasing the people behind it and turned back to fight Liwei to the death. Their weapons clashed one after another, and bystanders couldn’t interfere at all.
“All units, fall back! Switch to ranged attacks!” Sister Mouyue made a split-second decision and changed tactics. Enchanted arrows fell like rain on General Dakisatharos’s body, but most were deflected by its hard scales.
“Dammit. Is wearing it down slowly the only way?” I heard Sister Mouyue whisper.
Time ticked by, second by second. The arrow rain continued, wave after wave, without stop. It was thanks to Sister Liwei that she could duel it for so long. The guandao and the giant sword clashed, dazzling my eyes.
Sister Mouyue controlled the arrows in her quiver to fly out automatically, turning into countless shooting stars that bombarded General Dakisatharos. They actually had an explosive effect!? It was clearly more effective than everyone else’s attacks.
After the arrows in her quiver were used up, she controlled all the arrows on the ground that had been deflected by the scales, making them all float up and bombard it in unison, trailing tails like shooting stars.
It worked! It staggered backward, and Sister Liwei seized the chance to slash it!
This Dragonoid let out an even more terrifying roar than before. Immediately after, it took a deep breath!
“Crap! That’s the prelude to a breath attack! Dodge!” Sister Mouyue shouted a warning.
Sister Liwei has fought dragons hundreds of times. It’s impossible for her not to know that’s the prelude to a breath attack. But— it was too late. The distance was too close. She was right in the breath’s range!
BOOM—! A sound like thunder suddenly erupted. Sister Liwei was swallowed by a white flash of light. My vision turned pure white! So blinding! I had to cover my eyes!
Immediately after, the ground shook a few times. I heard Sister Mouyue yell— “Watch out! It used the bright light as cover to burrow into the ground!”
What? This five-meter-tall monster can actually burrow? Sister Mouyue is an elf, so her eyes can withstand more than us humans. That must be why she could see it, right?
“Fei’er—! It’s coming for you! Get out of the way!”
E-E-E-EH????
You’re kidding, right…? Didn’t you say the back rank was the safest place?
I forced my eyes open, only to see a huge mound of earth rising from the ground and moving quickly toward me!
The target is really me!?
Alright, it seems this Dragonoid’s intelligence isn’t low. It knows that if it takes me out, the Rain of Holy Light will be interrupted.
C-calm down! If I freeze up in fear now, I’m done for!
I subconsciously summoned the “Hammer of Holy Light,” gripped the hammer’s slender handle tightly, found the right feeling, and, at the very instant it burst out of the ground, I smashed it down!
With a BOOM, the earth shattered. I didn’t see anything clearly. I just know that the moment it showed its head, it was smashed back into the ground by me.
And then…
It never got back up. I stood there holding the hammer, completely bewildered.
Footnotes
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偃月刀 (Yǎnyuèdāo): A traditional Chinese polearm, famously wielded by Guan Yu. “Guandao” is a common English term for it. ↩