𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞
“Ha ha ha ha!”
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Dragburn was rampaging.
Struck by the Holy Sword, wounded by Blade and the magic of the Elves, despite all his attacks being blocked by me in return.
Drenched in blood from head to toe, still showing no signs of weakening in movement, Dragburn continued to rampage.
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“『Explosive Twin Fists』!”
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Dragburn throws his fists towards me, who is protecting Stella and Blade behind me.
He thrusts both fists at the same time—a single strike with twin fists.
I have only one sword in my grip.
I can’t handle more than two simultaneous attacks. . . . . .or so he thought.
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“Second Strike Deformation━『Distortion Chain』!”
“Huh?!”
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I distorted the trajectory of Dragburn’s right fist with my distortion ability and hit it against his left arm.
His right arm knocked his left arm away, resulting in Dragburn’s attack failing.
And taking advantage of that failed attack, Stella and Blade launch their strikes—this has become the golden pattern of our combo in this battle.
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“『Holy Sword』!”
“『Destructive Sword』!”
“Gwah?!”
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Stella’s attack inflicts a new unhealable wound on Dragburn, while Blade’s attack digs into an existing wound, blowing him away.
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“””『Lightning Strike』!”””
“””『Blizzard』!”””
“””『Sand Storm』!”””
“”『Judgment of all Attributes』!”
“Gwoooooooooo?!”
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Waiting for the blown-away Dragburn is a hellish storm of magical attacks from the Elves.
Centered around divine protection, many other ordinary Elves use the same spells, combining all of them to produce a magical attack as powerful as a Holy Warrior’s.
Naturally, all of these are fully chanted spells.
With nine thousand wizards, even spells that take time to activate can be continuously used in turns.
Adding the final touch of despair is the double strongest magic by the genuine Holy Warrior, the Elf Chieftain and his mother with the divine protection of the Sage.
A series of brutal attacks that would turn any normal demon into ashes in a second.
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And yet, Dragburn has already endured such a brutal combo multiple times.
He must be accumulating damage.
The damage Stella deals doesn’t heal, and the wounds from other attacks are clearly regenerating slowly.
Scales shattered, bones broken, flesh torn, teeth cracked, wings in tatters, and blue blood flowing from his whole body.
Still, Dragburn does not fall.
There’s no sign of his movements slowing down.
No matter how much he’s wounded, Dragburn just keeps fighting.
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An extraordinary life force.
An irrational fighting instinct.
Truly, an insurmountable warrior.
Truly, the embodiment of battle.
Despite being cornered this much, I can’t imagine him falling anytime soon.
If anything, there’s a fear that he could turn the tables in an instant if we let our guard down.
How much more damage do we have to deal to finally bring him down?
This endless battle is severely wearing down our spirits.
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Still, I continued to swing my blade mindlessly.
I won’t let go of this sword until this guy’s last breath is snuffed out.
I am prepared for that much.
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“ROOOOOOAR!!!”
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Dragburn lets out a war cry and generates a mass of flames in his mouth.
The third breath attack.
With this repeated so many times, our response has become almost routine.
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“””『Quagmire』!”””
“””『Skyfall』!”””
“””『Lightning Strike』!”””
“””『Iron Chains』!”””
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A quagmire at Dragburn’s feet to entangle him, then pinned him down with a violent wind from above, paralyzed him with electric shocks, and finally immobilized him with iron chains.
From there, the plan was to bombard his mouth with concentrated fire and cause his breath attacks to backfire through magic.
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However, Dragburn repelled all of this.
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“Nwooooooo!”
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Before his feet could sink into the quagmire, he kicked off the ground, ascending against the violent wind with the fluttering of his tattered wings.
Even while struck by electric shocks, he tore off the iron chains entangling his legs and claimed the airspace above us.
Then he unleashed his breath attack.
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“『Heat Dragon Focused Cannon』!”
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What he released was a breath of condensed flame—a powerful yet narrow-ranged attack.
If he had targeted me, I could have repelled it with Calamity Return.
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But Dragburn didn’t aim for me.
He aimed for neither me, Stella, nor Blade.
Driven by either raw instinct or strategy, he ignored the nearby enemies and pinpointed the individual responsible for cornering him.
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“Huh?!”
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That individual was Rin, the linchpin of the barrier covering this field.
If she were to fall, the barrier’s strength would significantly decrease, allowing Dragburn to break through with his immense firepower.
Then we couldn’t continue our one-sided magical attacks.
That bastard’s not as dumb as he looks!
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“This is bad!”
“Rin-sama!”
“”『Holy Shield Barrier』!”
“””『Holy Shield Barrier』!”””
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Immediately, Auntie Elle and Eltrait-san intervened, canceling their attack spells to quickly cast a barrier spell without chanting.
Additionally, a group of Elves, who seemed to have been on standby for this moment, cast their own barrier spells.
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All of it was shattered by Dragburn’s breath.
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Did you pour all your magical energy into it? The Breath itself looks different from what it was just a moment ago.
Or rather, it looks slightly different just from its appearance.
Amidst the scorching red, there are occasional blue flames mixed in.
I don’t know what this means, but in reality, the power of the Breath has increased.
Even though it hasn’t been charged much, it seems to have a power equivalent to the Breath that turned the tide of the battle a moment ago.
I wonder why he didn’t use this from the beginning.
Is it because it consumes a lot, or is there some activation condition?
There’s also the possibility that he’s forcing it to activate.
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However, even Dragburn’s all-out breath attack couldn’t destroy all the barriers enveloping the field.
It broke through three of the five layers of barriers that Rin and the others had fortified with all their magical power, but that was as far as it went—his breath dissipated.
Another attack like that, and we’re in trouble.
We bombarded Dragburn with concentrated long-range attacks to obstruct him.
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“『Moonlight Blade』!”
“『Dark Moon』!”
“『Flying Sword』!”
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Our attacks exploded on the airborne Dragburn, centered around an attack from Stella, who had completed her incantation while Dragburn was breathing fire.
Next, the Elves fired a volley, all shots hitting their mark.
A massive explosion occurred in the air due to the bursting magic, giving Rin and the others a chance to hurriedly repair the barrier.
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“Nuuuuuuun!!!”
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Yet, Dragburn still didn’t go down.
Shaking off the explosion’s smoke, he aimed for the barrier under repair and charged at it with his body alone.
With his tattered wings flapping, he propelled himself forward at incredible speed, spewing intense flames from his back.
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“Not so fast!”
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Reading Dragburn’s movements, power application, and flow of magical energy, I leapt into the air using the gale-force winds from my leg armor and stood in his way.
We collided in the air.
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“『Flame Star Big Burst Fist』!”
“『Sky Rebellion』!”
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Dragburn accelerated his attack to the utmost speed.
However, he was still within the range of being prey to Sky Rebellion.
His overwhelming power unleashed its fangs on himself, dealing significant damage to his right arm and sending him flying.
But it seemed Dragburn had already accounted for this, utilizing the rebounding force to launch his left fist.
Sky Rebellion. . . . . .is not an option.
Especially at this distance, and right after swinging his blade.
If he couldn’t deliver a strike that would serve as the catalyst for destruction, Sky Rebellion couldn’t be activated.
In that case!
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“『Distortion』!”
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If it can’t be repelled, then dodge and defend.
Sealing off one technique won’t shake me.
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“『Explosive Barrage』!”
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Dragburn’s next move was a storm-like flurry of punches from both fists.
A simple assault of alternating left and right punches, but when executed by Dragburn, it felt as if engulfed in a storm of flames.
I blocked all of his strikes with Distortion.
Dragburn’s speed is dozens of times my own.
That means I have to move dozens of times more efficiently to sustain my defense.
No time to swing the blade.
All I can do is adjust my position, the angle of the blade, the amount of force, and the defensive stance.
But that’s enough.
If I can read all of Dragburn’s movements, there’s no issue.
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“Huunnuuuuu!”
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And finally,
When Dragburn, in his haste, executed a wide swing, I did not evade his attack. Instead, I redirected it, transforming it into rotational energy.
While rotating, I moved past the outer side of Dragburn’s arm and to his back.
There, I converted the diverted energy into a slashing attack and released it.
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“First Strike━━『Flowing Blade』!”
“Guaa?!”
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My blade Kurotenmaru converted Dragburn’s power into slashing force, cutting off his tattered wing.
We are in mid-air.
Losing his balance and support, Dragburn’s posture greatly wavers.
Then,
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“Ooooraaa! 『Destructive Sword』!”
“Nuo?!”
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Blade, who had jumped above Dragburn with all his might, drives a full-force strike into Dragburn’s back.
This chops off his other wing and, with a powerful momentum, sends him crashing to the ground.
The one aiming for this moment is the main force and trump card of this battle, the female hero.
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“『Holy Sword』!”
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While I was battling with Dragburn, Stella finished her incantation and attacks him with her sword enveloped in shining aurora.
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“『Fist of Flame』!”
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In contrast, Dragburn confronts head-on without any evasion or hiding.
With flames enveloping his battered fists, he fiercely counters Stella’s Holy Sword with all his might.
And then. . . . . .
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“?!”
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The time had come.
Unable to withstand a blow from the Holy Sword, Dragburn’s fist was vertically torn apart.
Dragburn immediately threw another punch with his other, still intact arm, but that too finally met its limit against the Holy Sword.
Into Dragburn, who had both fists ripped apart, Stella mercilessly delivers the finishing blow.
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“Haahaaa!”
“Gobaa?!”
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It slashed open Dragburn’s belly and sent him flying. . . . . .finally forcing that monster to its knees.
We won.
Many must have been overwhelmed by that sensation.
The Elves went for the final salvo to definitively extinguish Dragburn’s life.
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“Heh, heheh. . . . . .”
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However,
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“Kuhahahahahaha. . . . . .”
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This monster is still,
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“Hahahahahahahaha!”
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He was still laughing.
Flames burst out from Dragburn’s entire body.
It looked like he was exerting his last bit of strength, releasing explosive flames.
That negated the Elves’ barrage of gunfire.
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“Marvelous. . . . . .Truly, truly marvelous! The last one to push me this far was the Demon King!
I acknowledge you! From the bottom of my heart, I acknowledge and praise you!
You all are heroes worthy of taking my life!”
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Depending on how you heard it, it could be taken as an admission of defeat.
But to me, it didn’t sound that way at all.
The senses I honed in life-or-death training rang alarm bells.
Something. . . . . .Something is starting.
Something that could threaten our lives.
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Eventually, the flames emitted by Dragburn gradually turned blue.
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“If it’s against you lot, I have no regrets burning my life out here!
Feel honored!
I acknowledge you all as the final adversaries of this lifetime of mine!”
“What are you blabbering about, you waste of life!”
“?! Hold on, Blade!”
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Blade rashly charged towards the obviously transformed Dragburn.
Reckless and alone; he shouldn’t have gone.
I tried to tell him to come back, but it was too late.
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The flames subsided, and a different-looking Dragburn emerged.
Blue flames adorned his broken fists and shattered fangs, and the blue blood oozing from his wounds had also turned into overflowing blue flames.
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In that state, Dragburn swung his arm at the incoming Blade.
A light strike without any hip movement.
Just a casual arm swing, as if swatting a flying bug in front of him.
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Blade, having received such an attack, had his greatsword shattered in a split-second guard, was blown away, breaking through both the magical barrier and the iron castle walls, and was sent flying a considerable distance.
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“. . . . . .Huh?”
“『Blue Flame Dragon』. Burning life, burning soul, and in exchange, gaining immense power, it’s my final trump card.”
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Dragburn casually explained his current state.
Indeed, it’s an extreme power-up that made sense if he said it was at the expense of his life.
Both power and speed are vastly different from before.
In a flash, Blade, our main force, was blown away, the magical barrier was broken, and even the magical walls were destroyed.
In an instant, all our advantages vanished.
Oh, this is no joke.
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“Now, let’s fight. Until both of our lives burn out. Let’s enjoy it. My final battle. ━━ Here I come.”
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And so, the final form of Dragburn charged in.
The decisive battle at the Elf Village has irreversibly entered its final round.
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