Chapter 23 (1/2)
Shin was in the sky flying towards Dragnof at high speed.
On the way, he felt again many presences gathered in the same place.
He knew that this place was the battlefield he was familiar with.
It was almost like a second home since he fought there for 6 months.
Seeing that a new battle had taken place, he thought he could participate in it before going to Dragnof.
He had nothing to lose, he could test his training with his spear and then he could go to Dragnof along with the soldiers which would allow him to come back more unnoticed... he thought.
”It's decided.”
Having made his decision, he turned left towards the battlefield.
After a few minutes of flying, he arrived at the battlefield he knew so well.
And he hadn't changed during those 6 months of absence, except maybe more craters, holes, destruction, nothing very strange for a battlefield with dragons.
Except one thing that was different from before.
Humans, who used to rely on allied dragons, now fought with enemy dragons on equal footing.
Humans were now using dragon slayer magic even though it was a bit clumsy since it was invented only a few days ago.
The battlefield was even more chaotic and intense with the arrival of dragon slayer magic.
Humans wielded fire, wind, earth and other elements.
Explosions exploded everywhere, in the air or on the ground, the fighting was intense and difficult to judge.
But usually the losses were equal on both sides, as many enemy dragons as humans and allied dragons.
But it was quite admirable to see how the humans managed to get away with it when they had the magic of a dragon slayer only a few days ago.
Shin understood why the humans were in favor of winning the war despite the numerical superiority of the enemy dragons.
Finishing watching the fighting, Shin headed towards a dragon before the battle was over.
Arriving behind the back of a flying dragon, Shin retracted his wings to drop on the dragon's back.
Just before landing on the dragon's back, Shin extended his arm into the void to pull his spear out of his personal space.
Landing on the dragon's back, he didn't even give the dragon time to notice a presence on his back that he cut off his head.
Losing its head, the dragon's body began to fall to the ground.
Before that, Shin did a back flip and landed on a small platform made of fire under his feet.
He had named this technique ”Flaming Aerial Walk”.
No judgment on the name, Shin preferred a simple and informative name.
Anyway, he gave names to his techniques to be able to differentiate them and because it was pretty cool.
He succumbed to this childish urge but don't blame him, everyone would have done it! Then he wasn't going to say them out loud every time he was going to perform them; at worst in his head.
No sooner had he landed on his platform than he projected himself in the direction of a dragon and sliced it in half.
Then he landed on a platform again and projected himself onto a new dragon and cut it in half.
He did this trick for a few minutes and killed hundreds of dragons.
Then he landed on a new platform but stayed there this time.
This little trick had attracted the attention of several dragons and dragon slayers.
Seeing the silhouette standing on the platform in the sky, the eyes of the dragon slayers widened and immediately flickered.
”Look, the Celestial Phoenix”
”He's back!”
”Look at those moves, he's killed a hundred dragons in seconds!”
”Unbelievable!”
Fanatical cries of disbelief, surprise and happiness could be heard throughout the battlefield.
”Celestial Phoenix?” Shin scratched his cheek with a small smile when he saw the commotion and heckling he caused.
He felt like he was even more ecstatic and fanatical than the last time he had come.
Then Shin resumed his activities but before he could move from his platform, he heard several roars close to him.
*ROAR*
*ROAR*
*ROAR*
*ROAR*
*ROAR*
*ROAR*
Quickly looking around him, he could see that he had been surrounded by several dragons that were coming at him.
The dragons coming at him were stronger than average and perhaps one rank below Shin.