Chapter 211 - Dragon Slayer (1)

It's easy to take something from someone else.

It's fun to laugh at other people's efforts.

Every time someone's challenge shatters, I feel unbearable joy.

Because their failures prove my perfection.

"Grrr...!"

The ominous fragment he held in his hand burned intensely.

Following the violently flowing blood, his once-blue eyes now glowed a bright blue, and his clenched teeth grew sharper and sharper.

As if that were your true nature.

"Aaah!"

The dragon fragment, now completely absorbed and shapeless, disappeared.

Vlad drew his sword, trying to shake off the sinister energy.

"Damn it!"

Crack!

Behind him, the dragon roared and below, the black waves churned at the center of the cliff.

In that precarious place, Vlad drove his sword into the middle of the cliff.

The upward movement was not driven by the inner whisper but by his own vow.

Buzz! Buzz, buzz!

The sword wept as it watched Vlad.

Seeing its master trying to climb up, trampling the threats around and the temptations within him.

The World Tree Sword, which was just a child, knew who it was but didn't know what it wanted to become.

Grrr!

"I don't want to live like this, damn it!"

And now he knew.

What do I want to become?

Vlad's fierce roar towards the dragons awakened the unfinished sword, and each forward movement showed the path to perfection.

[Yes! Look up as you swore to me!]

Vlad's heart pounded as he heard Kihano's cry.

More precisely, it wasn't his heart but what Vlad had harbored all this time.

"Ugh!"

Following Kihano's cry, as he climbed the cliff, Vlad let out a gasp at the heat he felt from deep within his breastplate.

The pocket near the breastplate, which suddenly heated up, was where the coins given by the old knights were kept.

"Kihano?"

[It seems your sword is awakening.]

The rusty coins that the old knights had given him with their honor.

Though the rusty surface seemed insignificant, inside there was a silver glow that Vlad hadn't noticed.

The true color of the coins the old knights tried to give Vlad was a genuine silver.

[For a silver knight.]

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

Just as a child wants to become a knight, the unfinished sword also wanted to be completed.

And Vlad could become a knight because there were stars that showed him the right way.

Like the silver lights now slowly moving from Vlad's chest.

The sword in his hand shone.

Though born for a star, the sword wished to contain the dragon fragment for its master.

The true silver flowing according to the sword's will protected the young sword from the dragon's ferocity.

In that dark place where it was impossible to distinguish between sky and sea.

There was a star shining, reborn.

The name of that star, which it desired to be, was the Dragon Slayer.

***

"…What's wrong with that?"

Barbosa, watching the fight of the two monsters from the distant sea, expressed his bewilderment as he saw Leviathan suddenly stop.

Though there was an unexpected attack from the Kraken, it seemed to be winning just a moment ago.

"Why is it retreating when it was winning?"

Dragons are inherently the closest to perfection.

That's why it should never back down, but Leviathan was now unwinding its slippery body, as if trying to escape quickly.

"A cliff... It's scary!"

And the place Leviathan looked at with a puzzled gaze was the cliff of Lemnos Island.

Where Vlad had managed to climb from below.

"Wow, up close it's even uglier."

There was a Leviathan right in front of him, so large it was daunting to even look up, but Vlad was only smiling as he wiped the sweat.

The largest dragon and the most perfect dragon fragment.

Though their sizes were incomparably different, Vlad, holding the most perfect fragment, had no reason to feel inferior in the world of dragons.

"Is it a bit short?"

Thump!

Vlad was measuring the distance between the cliff he stood on and Leviathan.

When he thought the distance was too long to jump, an ominous red color began to flow from the sword he held.

It was a new possibility that the dragon slayer sword, containing the dragon fragment, offered him.

"…No, it's not too short."

Adding the ferocity that flowed with the sword, towards a more perfect body.

Vlad, feeling euphoric for being able to do anything, looked at the largest dragon in front of him.

"This is enough to reach it."

The place where I stood was still the same, but the world I was in had changed.

Vlad raised his sword when he saw Leviathan, now so close he could see it at a glance.

"…Huff."

Vlad crouched, following the one-hit kill technique taught by Kihano.

Like an arrow about to be shot.

This technique, started by a sword master, emphasized a single strike from the fencing of a duelist.

"Here I go."

[Yes.]

The sword master's technique deployed on a dragon's body.

Faced with a possibility he hadn't even imagined, Kihano's heart also pounded heavily.

"Haa!"

The ground where his feet had struck collapsed and the figure of Vlad who had been there a moment ago disappeared.

The only thing left was a faint residual image of golden light and a slight wind blowing late.

Grrr!

The golden light starting from the cliff already reached the body, surpassing Leviathan's roar.

It was a gesture that showed no fear of the waves at the bottom of the cliff or the monsters right in front of him.

Crack!

"Tch!"

A chilling sound, as if a bone was breaking, was heard from Leviathan's body where the sword was embedded, but Vlad ended up making a sound as if he was in trouble.

This was because, although he did it himself, the unexpected speed exceeded the target location.

"Again!"

However, despite being a small sword stuck, what caught my attention was a threat to existence itself.

Grrr!

Leviathan, aware of the threat of the Dragon slayer sword, let out a great roar and violently shook its body to get rid of Vlad.

"Sh*t!"

The gigantic body, larger than any mountain, shook the island of Lemnos dangerously.

At that gesture, a wave so large spread that even distant ships couldn't resist.

-······!

The Kraken was also surprised by Leviathan's sudden action, but the old spirit knew what it had to do.

The Kraken began to wrap its entire body around Leviathan, who was trying to dive back into the sea.

So it couldn't submerge again and leave its body exposed to Vlad.

Humans and dwarves could only stare at the sight of the gigantic majestic serpent and the squid holding on tightly.

"…I see it."

It was as if two ropes were tangled and taut.

Vlad, feeling Leviathan's body tremble under his feet, began to look at the enormous body wrapping around the island, not the head that had already plunged into the sea.

The dragon's sharp eyes now showed the optimal path August had taught him.

Crack!

Vlad drew his sheathed sword, closed his left eye, and began to focus on his own world.

Towards a deeper place and a wider surface.

Gathering the worlds touching his, he began to rebuild his own world.

"Oooh..."

Rukhta, crying on the collapsing island, let out an exclamation unknowingly.

It was because he saw a huge new tree rising from the ruins where everything was collapsing.

"Ha."

The world that holds me is Kihano's world.

What I want to do is become an honorable knight.

What I have now in my hand is a dragon-slaying sword.

And the world that holds me is the world of the spirits guarding the sea.

"Let's finish this."

Crack!

A knight, a dragon hunter, and a savior of spirits. Vlad Aureo.

The world he summoned was embedded in the largest dragon's body.

Like a mountain.

Grrr!

"Huaaaa!"

With Leviathan's roar, Vlad began to run.

Cutting through the largest dragon's body.

Leviathan's wounds, starting from a small point, began to gradually spread into a line as Vlad advanced.

"Oh my god."

A golden line slowly dividing Leviathan's body.

The Nidavellir dwarves couldn't close their mouths as they watched that marvelous light.

Ahhh-!

A child born as a dragon but dreaming of the stars.

A sword born as a star but containing a dragon fragment.

The light created by the two was already creating a large circle along Leviathan's body wrapping around the island of Lemnos.

***

Woong Woong- Wooong Woong-

"Hmm?"

A desolate desert filled with sand.

In that place where everything was silent, a man who had lost all color looked at his sword, crying.

"…You seem to be in a good mood for the first time in a long while."

A knight in silver armor trembled in his hand.

The sword had been silent until it cut through the dragon's skin, but for some reason, it now trembled as if reacting to something.

"Is something wrong?"

"No."

Frausen responded to the voice of the woman behind him and silently swung his sword to shake off the blood.

A knight now left with nothing but duty, without a gram of glory.

In front of him, the Death Worm, known as the hardest dragon, was split in half, soaking the dry desert with its own blood.

Thump, thump...

Frausen's heart slowed gradually as the Death Worm's heat cooled.

Frausen silently placed his hand over his chest and closed his eyes as he felt the sound grow quieter.

"…It finally stopped."

The heart of another presence, not his own.

It was a type that made my withered body run, but Frausen's face, as he felt the sound, was filled only with a faint expression of discomfort.

"Will this being serve as you mentioned?"

"Of course. I've tried it before, though it was just a young one."

"Then, conclude it."

Frausen quietly walked away from the Death Worm's body, leaving behind the woman whose feet could not touch the ground.

"Where do you plan to go now?"

Frausen silently lifted his head in response to Ramashthu's question.

After looking west for a moment, he soon turned and began looking in the opposite direction.

"…To the center."

The center of the empire.

The place where the most perfect dragon was killed and where now the oldest dragon resides.

Frausen walked towards the city he had built with a gaze devoid of any emotion.

Thump-thump...

As he walked slowly, the darkness of his hands gradually faded.

Like the heart of the owner that no longer beats without the dragon's blood.

Frausen's eyes, looking beyond the desert, had suddenly become those of a dead man, sinking little by little.

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