Battle That No One Knows

At the top of gigantic mountain which is surrounded with 3 great elf nations, there was a single giant dragon covered in green scale sleeping.

Under the mountain, an red-haired man were climbing. One could call him idiot while the others could call him as courageous.

From the look if it this man's intention was obvious. Steal the treasure trove while the dragon was sleeping. But that was now an idiotic because the dragon nest he was going in…

Was the Gale Dragon King—one of the mythical creatures' nest.

It's already a miracle that the dragon still hasn't noticed his presences when he is climbing this mountain.

Strange enough, the forest surrounding the mountain were quiet avid of life, while the trees fluttered slowly… too slow more accurately.

When the man reaches the top, the dragon finally opened his eyes. But that action itself were too slow.

Without giving a time, the man rushed toward dragon and from his space-time storage, he took out an strangely shaped daggers and stabbed it directly to dragon.

The dragon couldn't dodge it because it was too late when it noticed the dullness in it's body.

But the stabs of dagger itself wasn't too deep nor too big so in conclusion, it was like a bite from mosquitoes.

Just when the red-haired man went for the second strike, the gale dragon has gotten used to the change in it's body, with great speed, it dodged the dagger.

"Hoh… as expected of Agility Level 5.69 monster." The red-haired man laughed at the sight of how fast the dragon got used to the slowed state.

"State your name! How dare you trespass this area!" The gale dragon were very angry.

The unclear humans trespassed its area, nevertheless disturb it's sleep, it even tried to assassinate him.

"Haha, don't be so mad. I am Aera. I am here to kill you for… let's say… greater goods? Listen, handing me your Cores is for greater good! If you give that to me, I can save this planet! What, I am lying? No, I am not. Look at this eyes of mine it is filled with truth. You won't be able to reincarnate if your core is taken? Of course, why not? You just need to wait for 1,000 years for it to grow back. So why not just give your core to me and let me leave this place? You see, I am really a busy person filled with schedule. Ironic enough, although I am great at time, I really have no time. It's so close… around 10~20 years or so…? I forget. Anyway, if you don't give me the cores, I have to force myself to kill you, are you really sure? My method is really painful, hurtful, slow it takes eternity, because I am that weak. How can I kill you if I am that weak? Oh come on, even right now, can think of a thousands way to kill you… although it pisses me that it's lesser than the count you killed me… oops, whatever. So, please, choose your choice. Will you get yourself killed by me, or will you give me your cores?

Aera talked really slow but his sentences were long.

"You're overestimating yourself, you mere mortal. How do you expect that I would willingly hand over my core to you? I, the Great Gale Dragon King, will refuse!"

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After a long pause, Aera sighed as if he knew that tis was going to happen.

"Fuck with your prides. Whatever wasting 10 minutes even before the fight is good enough."

Afterward, something suddenly appeared out of nothing…

It was hidden… no, it was 'paused' before the time it existed. While being paused outside, inside, it's time was moving. So until that time, Gale Dragon couldn't see it.

Nevertheless seeing, until the time it resumed, it didn't even existed. How could you possibly see such a things?

That's right, surrounding the gale dragon king, millions of chronosphere popped out suddenly and it moved toward the gale dragon.

"Amateur! Did you think that just by increasing the numbers in your attack could beat me!?" It's body glowed in green light as it showed the full potential of 5.69 Agility.

It moved faster than the wind could travel—it moved faster than what sound could travel.

A huge sonic boom spreads around the atmosphere 'slowly' it's speed were terrifying while it's control over it's body were even terrifying.

In a single instant, it dodged over a millions of chronosphere and bit over Aera's body—his body missing a huge chunk and… it turned into a liquid melting down to the ground.

"Agility 5.69… Strength 4.51… Constitution 3.91… Technique 5… Arcane 5.13… Have a bad habit of using bite as the first attack… and an urge to show-off it's speed. It's durable but Mytholocid is able to melt it, of course."

Aera lost it's previous playful attitude, his eyes looking carefully at the mythical creatures in front of him.

"S-so what!? Even if you melt one of my fangs, I will just… why!? Why doesn't it regenerate!?"

"Because it's Mytholocid. It has a feature disabling your regeneration. If an Immortals were classified as mythical creatures, this Mytholocid can even kill the immortals."

Feeling the dangers in it's life, the dragon flew high-up the airs and without a care of it's nest, it directly brought its strongest skill.

"D-DIE! [Gale Of Apocalypse]!" After a single word and the epic marks in it's wings glows in green light, an huge tornado appeared.

The tornado were even bigger than mountain itself, and the colors it emitted were black. The desolation.

The air it travelled desolated and turned black, a single touches of these air can cause an irritation to skins, kills your immune system and strengthen the cancer cells while collapsing the DNAs.

The tornado itself were even terrifying. Because inside the tornado, a millions of swords-like winds were spinning around, just a millisecond inside it can shred you to dust… not even dust would remain due to the effect of desolations.

But… but instead of reassurances, the dragon paled in fear.

"Why… WHY! WHY!?" In high-up the sky, almost touching the seals of world, the dragon screamed in confuse.

"Why are my Gale of Apocalypse so weak!?" The Dragon questioned the man in front of him—the roaring echo question the heaven itself.

Why does its breath feels so heavy. Why does it feels so lifeless? He didn't know and he wanted to know why.

"Mythical Dagger. The Passages of Eternity and Sin of Ignorant. The Mythical Dagger is a weapon made just for piercing the mythical creature's skin. I used that to stab in your hard scales to insert PoE."

"The Passage of Eternity, will make you age 10 years every second. Did you count how much time has passed since I stabbed you with Mythical Dagger coated with Passage of Eternity?"

"Impossible! It doesn't make sense! It has only been 20 minutes and at best, I have only aged by 12,000 years!" The dragon complained.

It's lifespan was longer than that.

"You still haven't noticed it? As expected of the first mythical creature I tried to hunt in this timeline. To explain it…

First, I coated around this area with [Pause]. The passage of time inside [Paused] area is the same with outside. But from outside, the [Paused] area will look stopped.

When I [Resume], the time will move in an instant to the [Paused] area's timeline. Of course that's not all as it won't explain why you are so lifeless right now.

It's called Second-Layer coating, along with [Pause], I coated this whole land with [Decelerate], the time is 1,000x slower. And even despite that, you who's agility is Level 5.69, you can still move at 100,000m per second.

So I had to coat myself with 1,000x acceleration to b able to keep up with you. So going by the same theory…"

The chronosphere which Gale Dragon thought he dodged, continued to exist and engulfing the nearby chronosphere, its size growed as it combined… until finally, it was big enough and engulfed the [Gale of Apocalypse] into its sphere body.

Suddenly, the tornado in the chronosphere slowed to the point of not moving as if the time has stopped.

"This one has 5,000x deceleration in it and…"

The tornado disappeared.

"5,000x acceleration inner."

"You see, time is rather interesting and… really complicated. The acceleration gains the upper hand than deceleration you can coat the enemies' attacks with acceleration while coating it's surrounding with deceleration. That way, enemies' attacks disappear faster while it's almost as slow as snail."

"Do you understand now?"

Aera gave the Gale Dragon a question.

"Y-you… you made only my inner body accelerate while decelerate my entire self!?"

The Gale Dragon has never seen such a person. Nevertheless, the way it fights. If what he said was right, the moment the dagger stabbed him, he lost.

"Yep. Inside the decelerated time, your time has accelerated by 1,000x like me. It's something small but it'll provide a big effects. So going by the calculation, you have aged by 12,000,000 years. Poison is really effective with time magic."

The dragon sighed as the effect of Sin of Ignorant disappeared.

The final item, Sin of Ignorant. Because of this, it could not detect the oddities happening inside its body no matter how much he had the perceptions of mythical creature. He was lost. And the reason for his lost was his arrogances and ironically, ignorances.

It made him learn a lesson using his life but… he won't fall down shamefully.

It can fall at any times, it can't even bring up a strength to lift up it's claw anymore. However, it has it's pride to stand almighty until it's death.

"Finish me."

Using all it's strength to stand up, it proudly said. A worthy opponent to be defeated off. Although he used all sorts of petty tricks, however it was that tricks that caused the dragon lose to. So he'll admit that this person is indeed strong.

A worthy opponent to kill a mythical creatures such as itself.

"Gladly."

The dagger beheaded the Gale Dragon as it's large body fell into the ground.

Even at the last moment, the dragon was still standing a tall—proudly.

Nothing from outside world shall ever knows of this history as its time is paused…until the moment he [Resumed] the time of this small world, this history of epic shall be buried in the stopped time.

Finally with the end of battle, Aera fell to the ground. Although it didn't touch his meager body, the Gale of Apocalypse desolated a part of his body and if it wasn't treated, he'll die.

Decelerating the time to slower the desolation, Aera accelerated the time in the gale dragon' corpse.

Gale Dragon King's flesh rotted in an instant and soon it's flesh even disappeared... only the huge skeleton remaining. Finally, not even the bones remained as the eggs popped out of nothing.

He picked up the core.

"…10 more… left…"