Chapter CLXII - All Out War (part 1)

"Emily, attack them from a distance. Above the wall is preferable. Cane, guard Emily. If a dragon gets too close to her, do your dragon slayer thing."

Fran commanded the two and the two nodded before she leaped to the top of the newly made giant walls to see Rath and Brod.

The walls are three meters thick, and the top is traversable. The villagers and adventurers have worked together to set the weapons up above the walls, that way they can shoot the dragons much easier.

Rath and Brod are currently helping the people with the weaponries, and Fran approaches Rath first.

"Rath, how are the weapons?"

"Every single arrow is now capable of piercing through a dragon's skin. Only issue is, we have a very limited amount."

"Then make it count. Tell the adventurers that we might not be able to protect them completely, considering how many dragons there are. So when it comes to it, jump down from the walls."

"You got it."

Fran turned to Brod, who is not far from their position, also listening.

"Brod, you and I will face them head on."

"Aye-aye, ma'am."

Fran turned around, and she stared into the distance as the dots in the skies slowly grew bigger and bigger.

"Let's just hope things won't go disastrous in the end…"

The dragons in the distance started moving again, and they were howling like crazy. The air and the skies shook from the dragon's screams in the distance, and everyone in the village became more agitated and frightened by the dragon taunts.

Emily moved to the top of the walls, and she started concentrating.

The pressure around her turned insane as her eyes glowed intensely, all while her hands were charging some insanely powerful magic towards the dragon. 

The barrage of combinations of powerful magic attacks was formed in an instant, and was immediately sent flying towards the dragons at high speed and at a high quantity.

BOOOM!!!

BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!

Large explosions occurred in the distance thanks to Emily's firebombs and lightning strikes. Her wind magic turns the weather above their heads dark, and the lightning becomes more and more frequent, making it so much easier for her to conjure lightning strikes.

It's like watching the goddess of destruction cursing at whatever is their target over there…

Fran can only watch as Emily floats a meter above the wall while being surrounded by the powerful magical augmentations around her body, and she can only chuckle out of amazement.

Emily was previously the weakest amongst her team, long before she met Rize. She was so timid as well, adding more minus to her adventurer capabilities. 

But now, she is currently their largest firepower.

Aside from Emily, the other adventurers who are at the top of the walls have also started firing their ranged attacks, and some managed to reach the dragons that were still very far away, but it didn't really hurt the dragons as much as Emily did.

The dragons obviously did not want to stay silent about this, and they started to shoot their counter attack when they had gone close. Seeing that the dragons are countering, Brod immediately lifted a gigantic stone wall in the air, right in front of the villagers.

BAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!

The floating wall exploded to pieces and melted when it collided with tens of the dragon's fireballs. It wasn't that the wall is too weak, but it's because the fireballs are simply too powerful.

These are dragons we are talking about. The strongest beast, that even at their weakest, can already be a threat to the kingdom.

And there are over twenty in the distance. This fight is going to get ugly.

Seeing that the dragons have gotten much closer, Emily also started to turn defensive, by maximizing the use of her wind magic to create wind barriers. Her main goal is to take down as many dragons as possible, but she also needed to cover for herself from the dragon's fire breaths.

Cane also started shooting from his side. The range of his light magic is really short, so he needed the dragons to be at least thirty meters away from him. Unlike Emily who can shoot from nearly hundreds of meters away, Cane's range is much shorter. 

But it is nonetheless the deadliest.

ZIIINGGG!!!!!

Cane fired an incredibly dense light beam from his palms, and the beam pierced through a lesser dragon's brain with ease. The dragon fell to the ground immediately, making the dragons more and more agitated.

The shoot out continues, but the dragons are still getting closer and closer with their fire breaths and fireballs. Explosions are occurring everywhere, and neither side is giving up.

After a while, the dragons are finally in melee range.

That's where Fran came in.

The front line of dragons finally reached the twenty meters mark, and Fran can finally act. She dashed forward against the two lesser dragons on the skies in front of her, and she danced in the air really fast. 

SRING!!!

SRIINNGG!!!

The two lesser dragons were slow and panicking, so it wasn't too hard for her to slice their heads.

After slicing the two dragons, Fran noticed that the other dragons are now approaching her. She used her lightning movements to bounce from the dragon's bodies mid-air, and leap back to the ground in front of the wall just in time before the fire blazes reached her.

Eighteen dragons are left… This is winnable.

"Come on!! We are doing this!! Keep taking them down!!!"

Rath shouted as the villagers shot more and more magic enhanced arrows towards the dragons. 

Rath had inserted some magic abilities to the arrows, like explosive, magic utility such as lightning, and wind reinforced arrows. He also gave the villagers the custom made arrows that he bought from the adventurers store, so he is losing quite a lot of money from this. 

But to kill those dragons? That price is very cheap.

The villagers and adventurers fired those magical arrows, and one of them managed to land inside a regular dragon's chest. The lightning trait from the arrow started spreading and stunned the dragon. 

BOOMM!!!

It fell to the ground and quickly arrived in front of Brod and Fran who were waiting for it on the ground. The two deadly humans stared at the fallen prey with bloodlust, and the dragon knows that a grounded dragon is simply a dead dragon.

Brod and Fran wasted no time and used the lightning stun to their advantage. While the dragon was still stunned, they quickly moved in and attacked the dragon. Even though it is stunned, this guy is still a regular dragon, and it is quite powerful.

It can still move, but the speed of its movement is only the same level as a lesser dragon, thanks to the stun effect from the villagers. 

It is now merely a lesser dragon with a larger size and a thicker skin.

A grounded dragon is the same as a dead dragon.

On the walls, Cane and the other melee adventurers are also fighting the dragons at close range. 

Emily stopped going on the ranged offense and began attacking at close range, but she wasn't as deadly as before on the closer range. Her attacks are mostly areal, and if she wasn't careful, she can harm her allies. That's why she stopped doing anymore deadly attacks and started doing focused strikes.

On the other hand, Cane is doing most of the work just nicely. He wounded two dragons by himself and left them to the adventurers to take down. It was still difficult fighting a wounded, nearly evolved lesser dragon, but they will have to do it, because Cane is only one person.

ZIIINGGG!!!!!!!

Using his light speed, Cane traverses above the long wall at high speed without anyone ever noticing, doing his best to protect the people from the dragons while they try to kill the dragons. He is also occasionally going on the offensive sometimes, whenever he sees the chance.

He is also being backed up by Rath and Emily above the walls, but it is still a difficult and daunting task for one man.

For one man, maybe. But as the dragon slayer, this is nothing.

"Keep going!!!"

Cane shouted as he continued running on the walls.

Meanwhile on the ground, Fran and Brod are nearly finished.

Brod took the dragon's attention while Fran dashed in at high speed. Her sword tried to cut the skin, but the scales were really thick. Her cut on the neck was shallow, but Brod moved in and stuck his blade into the wound that Fran had made. 

BRESSHHH!!!!

The blade went through and slit the dragon's throat. That's one regular dragon down.

After killing the regular dragon, Fran stood above the dead dragon's body and began looking around.

"That's one more regular down. Let's--"

BAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

Fran did not expect it when she got knocked away by the fire blast. She did not know what hit her, but she was taken quite dead on by the powerful explosion.

"Fran!!!"

Fortunately, she is not that weak. She was able to land on her feet after getting thrown, but she still coughed some blood from the sudden attack. Her lower clothes were messed up, showing the burned wounded skin underneath.

The blast was powerful, but it was inaccurate. She was very lucky to stay standing there, and she quickly looked up to find which dragon caused that explosion.

Once she noticed, her hopes disappeared as she stared blankly towards the skies. 

Brod ran to her and tried to aid while also looking up. He too, stopped breathing and stared upwards.

Four large wings, flapping in the air. Two large fangs coming out from its large mouth, which is already much larger than four times Brod's body size.

A nearly evolved regular dragon… an incredibly large one.