Chapter 237: The Premature Demise of the Dead Red Dragon (1/2)

Did anyone have this feeling before?

When you noticed a cockroach in the corner of a room and you picked up a sandal or rolled up a magazine as you carefully approached it, bent on killing that uninvited guest with a single strike, the cockroach suddenly turned around and agilely lunged at your face?

It was as if the bug was saying ‘Surprise! This is how I’m making my escape!’

Now, imagined that were a swarm of said cockroaches rapidly climbing up your body without you knowing—a scene only too fitting in a horror movie.

That was what Sakasugi, the Dead Red Dragon was going through right now.

Under Edward’s command, many Players had given up on their strategy on using skills to chip off the dragon’s by force and were attempting to climb on to the creature’s body, hanging on to it while searching for a weak spot.

And like a person who had cockroaches crawling all over them, Sakasugi kept shaking its body vigorously while roaring deafeningly.

To the ears of those scouts from other churches too afraid to get an inch closer to the battle and only lingering at the edge, all of them assumed that the ragtag army had finally angered the zombie dragon and that the beast was now serious about killing them all.

But to the Players, Sakasugi’s roars were no different from the hysterical screams of a human whose face was crawling with cockroaches.

Being a prideful Red Dragon, Sakasugi never had a single human make it near its own body, and certainly never experienced a swarm of them climbing up every nook and cranny of its body, unaffected by its Dragon Might.

Having never experienced such a thing in the centuries that it had lived, it was becoming flustered.

Moreover, the Players who climbed up on it were making new discoveries.

Dragons truly had incredibly durable bodies—only the softer parts inside Sakasugi’s body had rotted away even though it was dead for over a thousand years, while hard places like its scales were no different from before.

Be that as it may, be it a side-effect or some other reason after its zombification, the Dead Red Dragon’s muscles and skins were showing signs of rot.

As the saying goes: ‘hair could only grow out of skin’, the dragon’s scales were growth that formed over its skin, and was basically sticking to its skin and muscles.

Since most Players’ skills were striking it with external attacks before it, each hit would be completely stopped by the dragon’s scales since most of the body was still intact.

No matter what skills they were casting, what actually hits the zombie dragon’s body was whatever concussive force remaining from the skill itself after it was blocked by the dragon’s skills, and because undead were mostly immune to physical attacks, it was almost ineffective against the Dead Red Dragon.

And yet, the Players who climbed up its body realized that such a defensive mechanism wasn’t omnipotent—all they had to do was find a spot where the skin was rotting, and they could use their bare hands to rip out the scale growing over it!

Without the scale interfering, what they were attacking was no other than the decaying flesh of a dragon. Their skills would strike a wound hard and deep into the creature and directly cause devastating damage!

One should know that in the Players’ fight against the zombie dragon that lasted over a day, the damage they could inflict were only mandatory -1 HP. Only Gou Dan’s AWM and Joe’s Giant Toe could penetrate the beast’s defense effectively, causing two-digit damage!