Chapter 182 (1/2)

Kiiiik-!

The terrible scream blew the ears of everyone.

Horrifying echoes reverberated in the sky, and every being that witnessed the dragon looked very fascinated.

“Dra, Dragon!”

Belfair, who had witnessed the incredible being, sat down.

His stiff eyes looked at Luke, who was right in front of the dragon.

Luke couldn’t get stuck mid-air. He saw a shocking situation, and his mind and body just stopped as he saw the dragon appear right in front of him.

But his instinct for survival was desperate. His consciousness was had awakened, and his stiffened body began to try to move.

‘Is this really a Dragon? No, the dragons had gotten extinct a long time ago. Then the one here is…’

He heard from Katarina more than 500 years ago… That a dragon would appear from God’s pride and lust.

The last dragon that stood on earth was Tiamet.

A descendant of Tiamet would inherit the power of a dragon—knowledge and magic, half-human and half-dragon.

In a world where the dragons cease to exist, their successors were meant to carry on their legacy…

‘Dragonian! Shaikan is a dragonian!’

Apparently, he wasn’t a normal orc, but Luke didn’t think that things would turn out like this.

It had been so long since the dragons and dragonians had made an appearance, and people were almost on the verge of forgetting about them.

But surprisingly, this happened.

Shaikan, who turned into a red dragon, was still feeling hostility toward Luke, and as of the moment, Luke would easily lose.

‘Move! Move!!’

Grrrr!

Luke wanted to move, and he was desperately trying to do so, Shaikan growled. The air started to get sucked in with a heavy sulfur odor and malignant toxic gas.

Puahhhh!

There were sparks between his teeth. Shaikan’s mouth released Breath.

Breath, which struck Luke in an instant, blew half of the southern hills to the ground.

During the process, the Life Steal circle had been destroyed. The monster army got saved from the mana absorption.

“Kyaak! Monster!”

“Run! Run away!”

But ungratefully, the monsters were busy throwing weapons and running away from the place. Many of them peed themselves out of fear.

Shaikan, enraged because of it, yelled at them, “You stupid one! Where do you think you’re going, leaving your king alone?!”

However, the voice coming out of Shaikan’s mouth was more like a cry.

Monsters screamed out of fear while laying down on the ground.

In fact, there was a reason as to why the monsters had reacted in such a way. Shaikan showed dragon magic, which was mysterious, but he never showed them his dragon form.

In addition, in the process of becoming a dragon, Shaikan temporarily lost consciousness and wasn’t able to control the monsters.

He tried to take control again, but the monsters were scattered like ants, and that upset him.

“Dark Bullet!”

Suddenly, a flying purple magic bomb hit Shaikan’s body.

The magic bullets were much bigger and stronger than before.

But, in that situation, Shaikan could see who did that.

“Kuk, you’re still alive?”

“Yeah, somehow.”

Shaikan turned to Luke.

There was a steel Gigant about 15 meters tall.

With a blue glove and sharp armor, the Gigant seemed incomparable to the antique and scrap ones he witnessed in the Navarre Duchy.

“Kratos.”

Hero-class Gigant, Kratos of Altica Magic Tower.

Shaikan had seen Kratos when he was a kid. At that time, Kratos was assigned to the Imperial palace as a guard.

However, its existence showed him that he was the enemy.

“You did well bringing him here. If you would have left it back…”

Shaikan moved closer to land.

Luke barely managed to escape Breath with Blink and immediately took out Kratos from his subspace bracelet. As the opponent turned into a dragon, he felt that he had to add more power.

Even if he could ride a hero-class Gigant, he wasn’t sure if he could catch a dragon with it.

But as his size grew with the help of a Gigant, his chances of winning were a bit high now.

“Take this! Black Spear!”

When Luke produced dark magic with Kratos, the core engine of the Gigant reacted to amplify the dark magic.

Its power was more than 10 times the original Black Spear. It flew toward Shaikan who was looking at Kratos with anger.

“Nope!”

Shaikan turned around and hit the spear with his tail. Black Spear got destroyed in a split second.

Not panicking, Luke kept on attacking.

He used Fly Magic to get Kratos closer to Shaikan and tried to knock him down with a huge aura sword.

“Dragonic Shield!”

As Shaikan released his magic, a red curtain appeared in front of him.

However, it couldn’t completely block the aura sword of the Gigant.

Strike!

“…!”

As the Gigant’s sword split the shield, Shaikan hurriedly crossed his arms to stop the attack.

Luckily, due to the Dragonic Shield, the smash attack had been weakened considerably.

After the attack failed, Luke, while frowning, moved back.

“This is really strange. Is this the dragon magic used by the dragons?”

Whether it be white or dark magic, magic was based on the mana built in the heart.

However, Shaikan’s magic was different. While reciting the spell, the mana surrounding him reacted in a flash.

The activation of the spell was short, and there was no circle around his heart.

‘Is dragon magic based on a dragon’s heart?’

It seemed like Luke would find out the answer to that later in the future as no one knew about the dragons.

A dragon’s heart played a huge role in maintaining a dragon’s life and using the combats was based on Dragonic Aura.

A race blessed with mana, the dragons were able to activate magic in a split second.

That was why thousands of years ago, the dragon race was able to freely use 12 circles.

But…

‘Tch, even if I have the blood, a dragonian isn’t a real dragon.’

Shaikan clenched his fists in frustration.

An awakened dragonian could turn into a dragon with dragon magic but not a real dragon.

They would only be half the size and only have one-third of a real dragon’s power. They could use a few magic spells, but their power was still inferior to a real dragon.