Chapter 285: Edmund, The Protector of Avalon (1/2)

Becky could only stare in shock as she felt the Dragonoid's nails scraping her back. Its attack managed to go through two sets of protection from Ed's special jewelry and the heart of Edmund as well.

Bard and Audun couldn't move either, they saw the degree of damage that Edmund took, and deep in their hearts, they realized that he was too far gone to come back from such an injury. They wanted to attack the Dragonoid, but their aching hearts dulled their movements and blocked their senses.

The raging winds burst forth into the streets of the city, mad at the despicable Dragonoid and its actions. Yet, the monster in question continued to snigger. This time, it thought, I've finally killed him. It could feel the sensation as it crushed Edmund's heart over and over; its expression grew more disgusting by the second.

The Dragonoid slid its hand out of Edmund's chest slowly, as if it wanted him to suffer more. However, its snigger turned into panic once it felt his chest muscles tighten.

”And where do you think you're going?” Edmund said as he coughed up all the blood that had built up in his throat.

Becky and the other two snapped out of their dark thoughts and tried to help him, but they stopped in their tracks. He raised his hand in protest and switched his attention back to the Dragonoid. He caught the hand that pierced him with his right hand, so hard, that his nails punctured the tough scales of the Dragonoid, while his left hand caught on to the shoulder of the monster.

”This thing here is smart, it waited for us to come back and ambushed us,” he explained. ”I don't know where it came from, or who sent it, but it targeted the castle, the king.”

Bard wanted Edmund to stop talking. He saw the amount of blood he was losing and wanted to do nothing except help his old friend, but he held his tongue and chose to listen to the final words carefully instead of interrupting him.

”However, he was no match for Edward Avalon after all!” Edmund smiled from ear to ear, his bloody teeth reflected deep into the eyes of the Dragonoid. ”The king isn't even in this city, you dumb lizard. We already foresaw this sort of attack coming, and only the weaklings were left in this city to handle the trap that leads to the black dragon. The king and the strongest fighters spread all over the world to stop you idiots from doing more damages.”

The raging winds calmed down as Edmund's roaring laughter broke the Dragonoid's self-confidence. It could understand the speech of humans, although it was incapable of conversing itself, and thus it knew that the mission it was sent to fulfill was not going to work from the moment it set its foot into the city.

”What's wrong?” Edmund asked it. ”Never thought you were going to be outsmarted by 'humans'?! How does it feel, that even though you brought millions of monster, you only managed to kill one human from this city?!”