Chapter 298 (2/2)
Riding on Miru’s back, Su-hyeun neared the cloud cover, but just as he began issuing his command…
“Somersault…”
“Come, descend to earth—”
Bradley’s loud voice reverberated throughout the sky.
“Meteor.”
Gu-woooo—
A huge shadow was cast over the head of the predator.
The moment that “thing” began its descent, Su-hyeun urgently placed his hand on Miru’s back and shouted, “Dodge that!”
Gya-ong—!
Miru didn’t hesitate for a second when Su-hyeun shouted and quickly changed its direction. Not even a few seconds later, right after Miru had managed to create some distance…
Ka-boooooom—!
Kiii-aaaah—!
A massive piece of meteorite slammed on top of the predator’s back. The black dragon couldn’t withstand the impact force, and its entire body staggered before its wings snapped upward as the huge monster began crashing right down to the ground below.
Su-hyeun and Miru barely managed to distance themselves from it in time and avoided getting swept up in the crash. All they could do was watch the ensuing spectacle with dumbfounded expressions etched on their faces. Eventually, they spotted Bradley standing on the ground with his hand raised up high.
“He…dropped a meteorite?!”
This was not the result of a magical spell. No, this attack closely resembled Sun Wukong’s ability to control the clouds via the Sage Arts. However, the scope of the effect or the overall destructive power was completely on another level.
“He’s stronger than the third brother in terms of the realm that they have reached in the Sage Arts.”
Whether clouds or a meteor was used, it didn’t take a genius to tell which of the two would be harder to control.
Compared to the clouds that were closer in distance or even lighter in weight, a piece of a meteorite was located much further away and weighed far greater. Therefore, obviously, controlling the latter would eat up a lot more energy.
Of course, Sun Wukong’s true strength wasn’t controlling the clouds but his marvelous and brilliant combat ability that utilized the Ruyi Jingu Bang, plus his near-infinite energy reserve.
KWA-BOOM—!
The predator’s body, which was still pinned by the fallen meteorite, crashed to the ground. Due to its humongous size, quite a few people got sucked in by the impact and lost their lives, but that only served to boost the overall morale instead.
“The monster has fallen! Go! I swear that the one who kills the monster will be crowned as the next emperor!”
Bradley panted heavily after dropping the meteorite but still managed to roar out at the top of his voice, and those words brought about a momentary silence in the surroundings.
The next emperor—that one thing alone managed to ruthlessly suppress any confusion and fear in the hearts of the crowd and pushed them into the pit of wild frenzy.
“I don’t know where that damn thing appeared from, but…”
“Slay it for the time being!”
“Right! His Majesty will fight with us, after all!”
Uwaaaah—!
And that linked up with the morale as well.
Despite the sudden appearance of a massive monster, Bradley’s pre-emptive strike still caused it to crash to the ground, causing the crowd to see their emperor as an even bigger and mightier being than this black dragon.
After all, this would be a battle where they fought alongside the living legend, Wick Bradley.
Moreover, they could become the emperor that lorded over the whole continent after this.
No, even if that wasn’t it, there wouldn’t be a greater honor than to survive a battle of this magnitude.
“I don’t like it.”
Su-hyeun was aware that what was happening here was not real.
If what the administrator had said could be trusted, then all these people were simply “data” of those who existed in the past, which naturally meant that whether they lived or died today made no difference whatsoever.
That’s what his rational mind told him.
However, he still couldn’t do anything about his moods souring gradually, especially more so because he knew that this whole stage had been set up by Bradley himself.
Indeed, the emperor was truly thinking of these people as mere pawns or, more correctly, as meat shields.
“I need to wake up.”
Su-hyeun soothed himself like how he would usually do and took a cold, hard look at the current situation. He needed to remember what he was here for.
“For now…”
Su-hyeun’s eyes gleamed sharply as he stared at the predator as it shook its head in dizziness after getting struck by Bradley’s meteorite.
“I must focus on killing that thing.”
Su-hyeun sucked in a quick, soft breath.
Organizing his thoughts helped him feel lighter inside. His goal was now set, so it was about time he moved toward achieving that.
The predator had crashed to the ground. In that case, the first thing he had to do was obvious.
[The trait “Necromancer” has been activated.]
[By using “Death Aura,” you can now see or command the dead.]
“Arise.”
* * *
Clang, claaang—!
Staaab—
Humans climbed on the predator’s body and stabbed their blades into the dragon’s neck area or sliced off its scales.
Even though the scales proved to be especially sturdy, people hacked away at the same locations over and over again, plus some of them were powerful individuals capable of using their own aura blade as well.
Wounds steadily and gradually accumulated on the monster’s body. Even if each wound was no more than a small scratch, the overall damage would still be great when such wounds numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
“The bastard is about to wake up!”
“Those who haven’t managed to climb, get away from here!”
“Hurry the hell up!”
Even if the monster was struck by a meteor, it would not stay lying on the ground forever.
Despite being pinned to the ground by the meteorite, it began to gradually lift its body up little by little. That simple movement alone caused quite a lot of warriors to hurriedly get out of the way to avoid being crushed to death.
Krrrr—
The predator’s mouth slowly opened up.
And at that moment…
“Go and duck behind the creature—!”
Bradley’s command loudly rang out.
“B—behind it?”
“Could it be…?”
A massive amount of energy could be felt gathering on the predator’s maw.
Every single one of the humans gathered here were powerful warriors who had trained in aura control and were capable of sensing what was going on. Therefore, many of them instantly realized what would soon be pouring out from the predator’s mouth.
The symbol of all dragons, as well as its deadliest weapon…
“It’s going to use the Breath—!”
An attack from a dragon, a species that had disappeared from the continent’s history but was still recorded in the history books regardless, was about to be unleashed. Knights instinctively realized it and loudly shouted out.
But just before the black Breath accumulating within the predator’s maw could be fired…
Chwa-rarararararak—
Countless steel bars suddenly materialized around the predator’s maw and connected to each other as if to create a magic circle.
“Con…fine…it…”
And so, the spherical enclosed space made out of steel clamped shut and exerted enormous pressure on the predator’s maw.
“Yogoe…Capturing Rope…”