Buying Time 1

Through the air, one could see a burning beam shooting through the sky at the speed of light. The beam moved at such high speed and quickly arrived where a group of soldiers sat along with some dragons, currently at rest.

But all of them instantly stood, on guard against this ball of fire. But the fireball slammed on the ground far from them, revealing a scarlet red armor. This was of course me, I should be the fastest mage in the world.

"I'm the Scarlet Knight, the personal Mage of Lady Irene," I said calmly while walking forward, a token in hand. This relaxed the army, and a red-haired woman stepped forward. This was Irene's cousin, Erza Dragneal.

"Irene told me all about you, so you're the brat who married that bookworm." She said with a grin, sizing me up and down. I wasn't offended by her lack of respect for Irene, for this woman was one of the main supporters of Irene taking the throne. She was also Irene's teacher, although Irene went on to become a better mage than her. Irene had a deep respect for Erza, seeing her as her mother.

"It's my honor I could be of use to the queen," I said calmly, to which she clicked her tongue. She sized me up for some time, while I also did the same. She was in her 40s, she still looked lively. She was covered in both scars and burnt marks, showing the year's worth of battle she had endured. She was a far better fighter than myself, that was something I could easily tell.

"Did Lady Irene tell you of my skills," I asked while creating golden flames, she nodded while looking at the flames with interest. Nodding, I threw the flames to the ground, controlling it to act like a door. She didn't think twice and walked through the door of flames, and as she stepped out from the flames, she felt like she was reborn.

She looked far younger, almost all of her scars had disappeared, all but the scar on his face. She now looked like a teen, at the peak of beauty, second only to Irene.

I snapped my finger, controlling the door of flames to grow in both power and size, before it moved at high speed, passing over both the dragons and humans, having them all return to the peak of health... no, they were better than when they were at their peaks. They were stronger, as they were all purified.

"You're going to be super useful," Erza said with a smile. To which I said nothing, and simply waited for the battle to start.

"Loosen up, this is the battlefield, and you never know when you will not see tomorrow. Party when you can, and get serious when you most. So, remove that helmet." She said wrapping her arm around my shoulders and forcefully dragging me over to everyone. I was left speechless as this was war, but she was more experienced than me, so I tried to do as she said.

"I'm Ryujin Dragneel, it's a pleasure to see you all," I said while removing my helmet since I would be fighting with them, they would be entrusting their life to me, and the least I could do was trust them.

"Haha! You are so stiff, loosen up. We are brothers starting today," A young man said with a grin. This was Erza's husband, a man skilled with the magic of destruction.

"Yeah, come on. Let's party!" A dragon, known as the Destruction Dragon said with a laugh, Everyone sheered, leaving me speechless as they began pulling out drinks, and began to start parting.

I joined them, although I couldn't loosen up as I was on guard against an attack... and an attack did come. From afar, a huge beam burst through the air, rocketing towards us. I thought I would be the first to react, but I was proven wrong as the cheerful air disappeared as if it never existed. The dragons opened their mouth, shooting forth a beam that clashed with the incoming beam, and shockingly that one beam was enough to cancel out all of the Dragon Lord's beam

"Fuck, a Dragon King. Kala, let's go." Erza said while jumping up, landing on the back of the Dragon of destruction. 

"Ryu, at my side, you land support when you see is needed. Until you get used to the air of battle here, you will take the supporting role." She said while Kala shot forward, followed by the dragons which had mages riding them.

I shot forward, flying at Erza's side. I watched as Erza went on to shoot forward to clash with the dragon at the Dragon King level, it was a fire dragon, although not as powerful as the current Fire Dragon King, it was still powerful.

Erza using enchantment magic, enchanted herself with Kala's magic, giving her Destruction Dragon Slayer Magic, it looked cool and all, but it had a lot of risks like her turning into a dragon, and going mad. Plus, this was temporary, and she didn't gain the full might of Kala's magic.

I watched as Erza went on to jump towards the dragon, while Kala opened its mouth, launching a Destruction Dragon Breath down upon the Fire Dragon. Erza was shockingly at the dragon King level, and with the magic of a dragon slayer, her magic wouldn't be so weak against this fire dragon.

The Fire Dragon dodged the attack while its dragon claw clashed with Erza, Erza was knocked up lightly, while the dragon claw was sent backward. Erza while doing a flip opened her mouth, shooting a Destruction Dragon Breath at the Fire Dragon, and of course, that breath attack was infused with her enchantment magic.

The dragon was about to dodge, but Kala using his magic destroyed the space opposite where the fire dragon was about to dodge, leading to space being sucked towards the destroyed space to fill up the empty place. This lead to the scene of the Fire Dragon being hit, and sent rocketing down toward the ground,

Erza shot down, wanting to finish this, but was this the only Dragon King? Erza's pupils shrank as she saw beams shooting towards her, beams of all elements, some from normal dragons, others from dragon lords, and the lowest among them being Dragon Kings.

She cursed deep down, wanting to order everyone to fall back instantly. She didn't expect so many Dragon Kings to attack Ishgar. They were going to be slaughtered. It would be beneficial right now if they had a few God Slayers to help out or maybe someone to summon the gods.

I moved seeing this, and at high speed, I spun around like a tornado, which ended up creating one that stretched out toward the incoming attack. This was a secret art of the Phoenix race, Blazing Phoenix Art: Raging Tornado.

it sucked all of the attacks towards it, which protected everyone. But I also knew I kind of messed up here, my act of slaughtering God Slayers truly weakened us. I made this hundreds of times harder for everyone.

"Ryu, draw the attention of the Dragon Kings... don't die," Erza said while biting her lip, this was going to be a hard battle, and she couldn't afford to hold my hand. To that, I agreed and at full speed, I burst towards the dragon, and while spinning, I pierced a whole straight towards the fire dragon below, 

I landed hard on the ground, bathed in its blood before I rocketed back up into the sky, heading towards one of the Dragon Kings.

"A Phoenix Slayer? We slaughtered the Phoenix race, and to think one of the fire chickens remained to pass on its magic!" A Sea Dragon King roared while shooting towards me while shooting a sea of water towards me. I moved, shooting into the sky where I pointed my finger into the sky,

"Sun Of Purefication!" I said while a huge sun formed at my fingertip, burning with such a strong heat, that it caused the air to burn. the battlefield instantly went still at this powerful attack, which would surely damage the whole continent. The Sea Dragon quickly got ready to wash away the sun which burned with the heat of the sun, but that was a mistake.

*Slash*

While everyone's attention was on the sun, the Sea Dragon King's head was cut. Everyone turned just to see I had cut the dragon in half with my sword, the sea dragon blood swallowing my body. That sun above was to simply distract them, allowing me to use my extreme speed to kill a dragon that could have taken me down thanks to its element.

Blood covered my armor, and it seemed to be absorbed by the armor. My flames weren't burning it, but instead purifying it. I wasn't doing this on command, I wasn't using my flames to attack, therefor they were not dangerous at the moment.

"Human, you dare!" A dragon king roared while exploding into lighting and shooting towards me. But with my back facing the sun I created, I just looked at him. He only noticed something was off when he saw the other dragons quickly running back, and the sun behind me growing bigger. Such powerful heat forced it to flee, but the sun fused into my armor, causing me to glow with heat.

"This here is the strongest mage, the husband of the Queen Of Dragons. Making him the King Of Dragons. Send forth your strongest dragon," Erza said with a laugh, not expecting me to be so powerful. but this was good, as a challenge to them in a one-on-one battle would buy them time, time we badly needed.

"Arrogance, a human dare have such a title!" The Dragons were enraged, to which Erza shrugged while looking at her nails.

"if you have a problem with it, then take the title away from him. It's that simple really, if we win we bring an end to this war. if you guys win, we will call you the ruler of this world. of course, if the only way you guys could win is through overwhelming numbers, then sure, let's continue. That would just make you a bunch of ants teaming up to defeat a dragon... oh wait." Erza said while covering her mouth as if realizing they were dragons, and we humans should be the ants.

This instantly sent the dragons into an uproar, all of them burning in rage at the hateful woman's words.

"Fine, I will defeat this brat and show you all your places." The Diamond Dragon King said while flying over. Since he had Diamond Dragon magic, he had high resistance to the fire. The Dragons were not fools, they were not from those novels where they had blinding pride. They had a long life and came to enjoy the concept of breathing and staying alive.

"Ryu, if you can't win, just draw out the fight for as long as you can. If you can win, draw out the battle for as long as you can." She said to which I nodded while flying forward, eyes locked with the Diamond dragon, and so our battle began.

My sword slashed toward the dragon, which didn't bother to dodge and instead used this chance to try and attack me. but seeing this, I realized it was slow, so I stopped my attack and quickly moved towards its back, which was its blind spot.

Just as I was about to land on its back, its diamond scales shot out spikes, which I panickedly dodged, with one of the spears stabbing through my armor and out the other side. I took zero damage from the attack, I had a body made out of fire.

'I could easily kill him. His body is strong, but his soul isn't as strong, I will use this as a chance to improve my instincts,' I thought, for others, knowing that in the back of their heads that no attacks would kill them, it would make it so that they can't give it their 100%. I was different for I had conquered my mind, and for that, it meant I could give one task everything I had. So I did that, and for the following hours, I moved around, fighting the dragon.

We were about equal in power, I could easily defeat this dragon thanks to the fact I learned Mind Dragon Slayer Magic. This gave me the upper hand in this battle, in fact, throughout the whole battle, I was reading its memory, gaining Diamond Dragon Slayer Magic.

'I will devour the minds of all of the dragons I kill from now on. I will help improve my knowledge of magic.' I thought seeing the Diamond dragon falling back with a cold smirk.

"Attack!" He roared, to which all of the dragons moved, they all thought I should have been weakened from such a long battle, and to that, I snorted while opening my mouth, devouring the flames which covered my body to restore my used-up magical energy.

"I expected more from the so-called strongest race, where is your pride as the strongest? What was with that cold smirk? You thought you did something?" I asked while pointing my sword at the Diamond Dragon. 

"how do you have so much Slayer magic?" he said in shock, for I had shown Phoenix Slayer magic, and although I hid the fact I had Dragon Slayer magic, the fact I just showed Devil Slayer magic was a shock. I will add Dragon Slayer Magic to my phoenix Slayer magic when the moment called for it, to land an attack no one was expecting. On top of that, it used more power to infuse so many different types of slayer magic into one, so it was best I stayed with phoenix slayer magic which used the least amount of energy.

The Sun I created was created using All 4 forms of Slayer magic, but its purification capability made it so others couldn't sense those other forms of magic, allowing me to hide trump cards.

"Come forth and find out, and this time I will not hold back. I will take on a group of you all by myself." I said as my body exploded with greater heat, for my magic was now infused with Devil Slayer Magic. Although not as hot as dragon fire, it was far hotter than that of a phoenix flame.

"Arrogant!" The Dragons were enraged, for this was the arrogance that dragons should have. I was left speechless as 2 Dragon King-level dragons stepped forward to join the Diamond Dragon King... it looked like the dragons were truly taking this war seriously. 

"Bring it," I said with a soft breath, my eyes growing sharp.