103. Battle with the Guard Dragon (1/2)
The dragon realised that I am responsible for defending against the breath.
And it must have decided that I should be crushed first.
As expected of a dragon, it chose me instead of the ones who were relentlessly attacking it.
The less intelligent demon beasts are those who want to crush the things that attack them more violently first.
In other words, this dragon understands the importance of defence.
It also knows that humans are more fragile than dragons.
This might not be the dragon’s first time to fight a human.
As I tried to calm down and respond to the fireball,
「HAAAAAAA!」
Tina shoots the enormous ice block that she had prepared at the fireball.
The fireball flew down at me from above.
Inevitably, Tina’s ice mass took a trajectory from down to up.
(But I told her to leave the defence to me though…)
Nonetheless, I can’t say that Tina’s decision is wrong.
If Tina hadn’t made this decision, there would definitely be a casualty, assuming that I wasn’t present in the party.
In a general party, this is likely a natural or an essential behaviour of the mage.
While I was thinking about that,
「HAAAADAAAAAAA!」
Tina raised a war cry befitting an imperial princess and immediately changed the trajectory of the ice mass right before hitting the fireball.
From ascending to descending; Acceleration in a horizontal direction is added to the free falling ice mass.
The ice mass hits the dragon at a tremendous speed.
The dragon decided that the ice mass would hit the fireball and had just begun to prepare a new fireball.
Currently, the dragon’s magic resource is divided into the storm breath and the fireballs.
Therefore, almost no resources remained for defence.
「GAAARAAAAAAA!」
The ice mass that flew at high speed hit the dragon and shattered its scales.
「Not yet!」
When Tina shouts, the ice mass changes form.
The ice mass instantly dispersed, and while whispering a humming sound it froze the dragon’s whole body in place.
Even the mouth which was shooting out storm breath is frozen.
This stopped the storm breath.
I was completely surprised at Tina’s quickness and skill in converting her magic.
The ice mass was converted into magic with pure cold effect in a very short time.
「As expected of Dion’s disciple」
While praising Tina, I wiped out the fireball that was flying towards me with my left hand clad in magic.
「GU……」
The dragon stared at me rather than Tina.
And while vibrating its body incessantly, it emanated magic.
The dragon shook off the cold magic.
Tina’s attack broke one scale on the dragon.
But even that doesn’t seem to have caused much damage.
A dragon’s vitality is terrifying.
「guuu…」
As the dragon groaned softly, it slowly turned into a supine position.