Idris & Kauri Vs Dragons

All the people there get in fighting stance as Gibor gives order to his dragons to start attacking. As the dragons started spewing fire out of their mouth, Idris was made to use his magical shield spear to stop the attack, with five dragons it was even harder for him. He was slowly started getting pushed back but then, Livia used her magical bow, she draws it and suddenly two arrows appeared set to be fired, both had a bluish colouring and when they were fired, they hit the jaws of two of the dragons freezing it, that even made the other dragons stop due to confusion.

Idris was able to take a breath of relief but seeing that the bandits started their assault, till now Kauri was in the back as he could not do anything at this range. He jumped into action, and he quickly started killing the bandits one at a time." they are stronger than the ones I fought before", he thought. A man suddenly threw a fireball towards him, but thankfully he could dodge it, get behind him, and finish him off. He was leaving after images taking them down one at a time, but till then, the dragons were again on the assault, as they saw Kauri moving from the side all alone, they took him as their target. Starting a constant barrage of fire towards him, he moved quickly hiding behind a pillar there.

While this was going on Idris started using his special spear magic, summoning different powerful spears and throwing them towards the dragons but these dragons were able to react using their claws and teeth to stop the incoming projectiles. The same could be seen with Livia.

"Idris, stop them for a second!!", shouted Kauri from the back of the pillar, though he was protected, the heat was starting to hurt him too.

Hearing that Idris, through a high-grade sacred spear towards the dragon who was attacking Kauri, making him stop his attack for a second, seeing the chance Kauri moved in cutting down the men so quickly that he was leaving after-images, and he jumped on one of the dragons quickly he cut down tendons of one of his legs making loss his balance, then he moved to his face attacking the dragon's eyes. This made the dragon roar out in rage, other dragons saw this and so they attacked Kauri.

But seeing it as a golden opportunity, Idris quickly dispatched the blind dragon. With a laugh, he declared," One is down, now the next one. Time for me to show my full strength." and with that, he started charging a special spear. Unlike others, this one wasn't golden but much blacker and unlike others, it didn't emit mana out but absorbed it. At the same time, Kauri was struggling with dragons, he was fast but even with that speed, it was hard for him to dodge all the attacks." Dragons are higher grade or even legendary tier monsters, fighting them even with my awakened powers is hard", he thought.

"Idris, quick I don't think I will be able to do this for long!!", he shouted.

"Yeah, yeah but good things take time to get ready", he said and then, looked towards Livia, she was already exhausted by the fighting," Livia I will need you to freeze those dragons, Scarlett quickly, help her!!".

Hearing that Scarlett quickly moved towards Livia, who was still trying to catch her breath both her hands touching the ground, Scarlett placed her hands on Livia's back, and started chanting magic. Suddenly light blue mana enveloped Livia and she was back in action, her power increased tenfold, she quickly drew her bow and three arrows appeared she launched them, at the dragons.

The dragons were about to get a bite out of Kauri, but fortunately, the arrows hit the feet of the dragon freezing them, making the dragons an inch away from killing Kauri.

"You would have to pay me for saving you just right now, you idiot", she shouted.

"Sure", answered Kauri as he didn't have time to start another fight, he quickly jumped over one of the dragons and again slashed his eyes, after which moving back but this time it was only one eye.

"Damn it!!", Scarlett shouted.

"Don't you worry, I got this", said Idris, his spear was now ready and with great speed he threw it. One of the dragons tried to stop it but, he was killed.

"What about now, I thought that be enough to kill them all", said Idris, tension could be seen on his face, he was out of ideas.

" what about we just take out Gibor", said Kauri. That was a simple but still very difficult plan, as he was protected by the dragons while he stood in the back, for the whole time they had taken to take down two dragons and all his men, and got themselves all beat up, he had already summoned another dragon. This time it was an eastern dragon, with a long slender body just like a snake and a greenish rocky scaly skin.

Gibor then looked towards them and with a devious smile, he said," What happened, the legendary heroes are unable to defeat a peasant dragon summoner. I will place an offer in front of you, bring me the princess and I will let you live another day."

"Never in my life", answered back Idris and without looking back, he said to Kauri," alright then, this may be the only way, we will be able to win, so let's go for it."

Again the assault starts Kauri starts with distracting the dragons, he moves quickly even jumping high on the walls to get even a tiny bit of leverage in the fight, till now only the white, blue and the golden dragon have been left, so it was easier at the start. At the same time, Livia was giving support and Scarlett was trying to pump as much mana in Idris as possible, he right now was charging his Sunfire spear, fire from it was lighting the room. 

But the Kauri was such a good distraction that none of the dragons noticed it but as he was jumping from wall to wall, the blue dragon used his Freeze breath freezing the walls and making him slip and fall. 

Now he was in a three-way deadlock, by the dragons. There was no way for him to run or hide. In front were the three dragons while behind was a wall. In between was the golden dragon one eye scared by Kauri, his face showed the resentment, he had for Kauri.

"Idris, I will really need help here", he cried.

But unfortunately, Idris was already lost in thoughts about defeating Gibor," just wait, I am ready." he said very slowly and Kauri wasn't able to hear anything.

"IDRI-!!", he shouted but before he completed it, the golden dragon let out an enormous wall of fire, in a moment there was nothing left, only black soot on the wall.

And right at that moment, Idris was ready to throw his spear, but then suddenly a weird tendrils-like plant started growing around them, grabbing them and making them unable to move. And that was the moment they noticed the greenish dragon that had been summoned was using his shiny scales to make himself invisible., right now he was holding Idris, making him unable to move while the two ladies were held by his magical vines.

"Dammit, how the hell didn't we notice it, for god sake, we even wasted that trash for nothing", Scarlett said talking about Kauri.

But right now, Idris couldn't think less of Kauri, he had many urgent things to think about, he was trying his hardest to free his hand, so he could at least kill Gibor but the dragon was strong much stronger than Idris in physical strength.

Gibor burst out in laughter, laughing menacingly he declared," The heroes. What kind of trash are you, not even helping one of your friends and these two ladies always insulting him? I can say wherever he is, he is much better than whatever he had to endure here. You are worse than the demons."

"Why are you doing this", said Idris, his face shadowed as he was looking down, then jumping straight up," you can work with the heroes, I will take you as a part of us. Why don't you work with us? You are strong and with me, you will be able to get whatever you want."

"I already told you, I, want, the princess!!!" he answered

"You can't have her, I need her!! Other than that whatever want money, power or any other woman, just tell me."

"Aww..young love how cute, but Princess is the only one I need."

"But why?!!", he asked.

Gibor got back a bit and answered," For my sister, to save her."

he pointed towards the back where he was previously standing. That was the moment they were able to see a small elevated platform, due to the whole action going on till now, they hadn't noticed such an important piece of information. And on that platform, they could see a girl lying, she was about nineteen years of age, she wasn't conscious, and was lying there. But weirdly it looked like ice magic was being used to keep her cool.

"What happened to her?" Idris asked in a confused manner.

"She..she is dead", Gibor answered looking away so as to not show his sorrow.

This confused Idris even more, and he shouted," She is dead!! Then how are you going to save her? And for that what is the need of the princess?"

"You ask too many questions, don't you? Maybe cause you to look so stupid", he started by insulting him," She was killed by demons, the demons whom you were supposed to kill, that was not fair that she died while those nobles, see those demons as a very small threat. Living their lives in the best way possible. That is not fair to my sister, and then in this very cave I found this."

He showed them the back half of a book, it was almost black in colour and its cover was made of very dark leather, it was very old and rotten," this book is my key to bringing back my sister, it has a way to swap my sister's body with another girl. But for that, she must be a noble and her age must be in the range of half a year older or younger than her. And the only option is our dear Princess."

Idris was still not able to comprehend what he was saying. But Gibor understood everything, what he had done and what he had to do.

Slowly the vines started to move towards their necks," wait…wait what is happening", cried Livia.

"You people have no more use for me, to be honest, there was no use of you from the start, you were a nuisance from the very beginning. It would be better to remove you from this world or you will be bigger problems later on!!", he answered back.

The vines had started to wound around their necks but then a sound came from Gibor's back,

"Stop right now."

When he looked back it was Kauri, he was standing above his sister with his sword ready to sever her neck from her body.

"Hey stop that, don't hurt her!!", he cried.

"Alright, just leave my friends, and I will leave her, after all how can someone hurt a dead body," he answered back.

"Kauri, how!!", shouted the party. 

"I saw you turn into ashes in front of my very own eyes, how can you be alive", asked Gibor.

That was a good question as once those dragons were done with him, not even a single particle was left. But he is alive.

He remembered how he was countered against the wall, and seeing no way out he pressed himself against the wall and one of his abilities worked, intangibility. He was able to pass through the wall and go to the other side of the wall.

For a moment he was confused but then, understood the situation, he was in a pitch-dark place unable to see a thing, he tried again to move through the wall back to the other side but was unable. Though he was able to fully master his dimensional pocket but intangibility is still far from his reach. 

He remembers working hard the whole night, he was trying to place different things in his dimensional pocket, though the size wasn't an issue, the range was, and he could not place something even a bit more than a foot away. Placing things such as fire was possible to when he put a whole torch inside the pocket. But intangibility is a whole different can of worms, he didn't have a feeling for what to do, and whenever it happened it was an accident. Worse thing was that his room was just above the bathhouse, it was more than a few times when he had to come back totally wet and then, wait for his clothes to dry.

But then it came to his mind," the torch!!!", he shouted and took it out of his dimensional pocket, now finally he was able to see around. He was in some kind of ruin, the air was heavy with moisture, and a thin layer of water covered the ground. The walls were covered in moss, and short vines with large, dark leaves hung from the ceiling. As he made his way through the damp, dim space, Suddenly, he spotted something fallen in front of him. 

And at this moment, that was what he showed everyone in front of him. It was the first part of the book, seeing that there was a bright flash in the eyes of Gibor.

"Where did you find it? Wait that doesn't matter, give it to me fast", exclaimed he," as you can see I have far more hostages than you and you are a hero saving everyone is your job, so fast give it to me."

Hearing this he threw the book towards Gibor but with that, he said," It won't work, there is no way to bring someone back from death, only gods can do that."

"No, with this book I will be able to do it too."

"No, this book has been written by Nirav Mallya, he is a fraudster mage, making magics that are not possible and writing wrong methods to do it is his thing, unfortunately, you are one of his victims. There is no way to bring back your sister", saying that Kauri gently placed her sister down," your sister, she must have been a good person, so why are you dirtying her legacy, would she have liked to be called the sister of a murderer? Stop this, and just come with us."

"No...NO WAY, you are lying", but in Kauri's eyes, he could see that he was not lying.

"no..no way… there must be a way", with that he fell on the ground and started crying but then he got in his rage," No way I can let those nobles live, I will kill them if my sister can't live then...…I won't let that princess live either!!!"