311 Chapter 311: Trojan Nightmare (2/2)
”The fifth and supposedly most powerful Celestial Guardian. Golden Kirin of the Center, who reigns over the element of earth.” I shrugged. ”If I can summon the other four Celestial Guardians – Green Dragon of the East, White Tiger of the West, Vermillion Phoenix of the South, and Black Tortoise of the North, why wouldn't I be able to summon this guy?”
In actual fact, it took me a long time to finally complete my conceptualization and creation of this guy, which was why I never summoned him until now.
Snarling, the Trojan horse unleashed a second fire spin attack at the newly materialized Golden Kirin, but he responded by stomping a single hoof into the ground and conjuring several walls of earth. Even as the rocky barriers were melted into molten magma, the flames failed to get past any of them. Instead, boulders levitated and flung themselves at the Trojan horse, almost like railguns firing off electromagnetically charged projectiles.
Or the reversal of gravitational forces. Well, I wasn't a physicist, so I had no idea how it worked, but I was aware of the concept of geomagnetism. The Earth had its own magnetic field, produced within its inner core, and my Golden Kirin was making use of that to charge its boulders into powerful railgun-like projectiles.
The Trojan horse was almost unable to dodge the gauss rifle like slugs, but it nimbly dove to the side, making use of its superb speed to evade the incoming projectiles. Even though the gauss slugs were being fired at incredible speeds, for the Trojan horse to still dodge them at near pointblank range, I couldn't help but be impressed.
Flames wreathing its body, the Trojan horse closed in on my Golden Kirin, screeching. Even so, my Celestial Guardian stood strong and conjured dozens of earth spikes that lanced out and almost impaled his opponent, forcing the titanic horse to veer off and alter its trajectory in midair. Stray fireballs crashed around the Golden Kirin, but he remained unperturbed by what would otherwise be close shaves. Ignoring the firery bombardment, he continued to unleash more earth spikes at the dancing Trojan horse, who made use of its amazing agility to avoid getting speared by the deadly stone lances.
While the two titanic creatures battled it out, I spun around to ensure that my friends were all right. Theodore was working together with Charles and the Knights of Pendragon Academy to fend off the smaller horses so that the civilians could escape. Even though the majority had already fled under the protection of the mercenaries, there were still a significant number of them left inside. It was only natural. We literally started off with thousands of evacuees. They weren't going to simply empty out the building in a matter of minutes.
Especially when the whoe situation was so chaotic, and the soldiers were working to ensure they didn't stampede over and crush each other in the mass panic. The mercenaries also fought to keep the horses off their backs, and as much as I wanted to help, I was currently too busily fighting against the main Trojan horse. If I could, I would have summoned more Constellation spirits to help out, but I had already expended most of my mana and time into summoning Golden Kirin. Besides, I realized that if I took out the main Trojan horse, it was highly likely that the other smaller horses would disappear.
Additionally, my friends and the Knights of Pendragon Academy were doing a good job of holding the smaller horses off and even destroying them.
Drawing Hei Yue and Bai Ri, I sprinted toward the struggling Trojan horse. It was still nimbly dodging the hail of stone lances that my Golden Kirin was firing at it, twisting from side to side and weaving through the rock-hard barrage. I leaped onto one of the lances and began hopping from one stone spike to another, closing in on the thrashing Trojan horse.
At first, it disregarded me as insignificant. After all, what was a puny human when compared to the likes of Golden Kirin or Black Tortoise?
However, even as I jumped off from an elongating stone spike and spun midair to avoid getting burned by its fire spin, it kicked out at me almost casually. I altered my trajectory abruptly and swung about to slash its leg. Both of my swords flashed out, the black and white blades cleaving through its black fur and leaving a geyser of blood.
The Trojan horse neighed in agony and whirled about to face me, its flames spiraling in concerted fashion toward my falling figure. Even as the flames roared toward me, I smiled.
That small moment of distraction was more than enough.
The guass rifle shot made out of solid earth tore through the Trojan horse's body, pulverizing it and leaving a massive crater in its figure. The Trojan horse actually shrieked as it crashed downward, blood and fire erupting from its fatal wound. The spiraling flames that would have engulfed me went wide, scorching the air just centimeters away from my face. What few deadly embers that rained in my direction, I managed to slash apart with my dual swords.
Landing on the ground, I rolled to avoid another shower of fire, and then glanced up at the writhing Trojan horse. Using geomagnetic forces, Golden Kirin launched another gauss slug made entirely out of solid earth and obliterated the remains of the Trojan horse again. It cried out one last time before it shattered into wisps of mana.
”?!”
Tyrant King froze for a moment, and was forced to duck when Troy punched him. Even though he avoided getting a fist in his face, Troy's attack caught him in the shoulder when he proved too slow in completely evading it and he was sent spinning to the ground.
”My Nightmare has been defeated?” he growled in disbelief. Troy stomped on him, forcing him to roll away.
”You underestimate my friends, Tyrant,” Troy sneered. ”And it won't be just your stupid horse. You're going down too, big brother.”
Tyrant chuckled as he hurled himself away, and back to his feet.
”We'll see about that, little bro.”
Despite his confidence, the smaller horses found themselves slowly disappearing the moment their primogenitor was slain.
”They're falling!” Yue Chu cheered as he punched a horse into oblivion with his flaming fists.
”Yeah. Looks like Richard did it.” Harrison glanced at me, even as his right hand unleashed a golden holy beam that sheared off the head of another horse.
”Leave it to the specialist to destroy monsters,” Theodore agreed as he hammered another horse, pulverizing it into wisps of mana. He then turned to the civilians and gestured for them to hurry. ”Get out of here! Now!”
”All…all right!”
Despite being shaken, the evacuees were able to leave the shelter in orderly fashion. Nodding to Golden Kirin and Black Tortoise, I proceeded to mop up the remaining horses that continued to stubbornly linger despite the demise of their parent. Despite their obstinacy, they were pretty easy to clean up. Between my Golden Kirin's earth spells and my Black Tortoise's water spells, we were able to crush any remaining resistance while allowing the remaining refugees flee from the crumbling shelter.
However, before long, I heard a massive explosion that wrecked half of the broken building. Spinning around, I caught sight of Troy vanishing in a shower of debris.
…and heard Tyrant's triumphant laughter echoing through the interior…