I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

"Well, that's why Camisia and the others aren't here—"

Roar--

A violent tremor was heard in the distant woods, and at the same time, countless birds and beasts flew away. Many bandits who were salvaging the "Dragon Stone" in the river also fell into the water because they did not stand firmly. Camisia stopped the black dragon on the other side of the mountain when it returned, and chose a place to fight far away from the villagers.

"senior."

Shen Gan looked at Ella.

Ella, understanding the development of the situation, sighed in frustration.

"Phew—please tell me in advance next time, Iris."

"This would be more fun, wouldn't it? Is it okay for Fukan-chan to do the 'Floating Technique' and 'Flight' on her own?"

"I don't need your help."

After a dissatisfied snort, Shen Gan poured strength into his feet, and with the speed of countless stones flying, he jumped and disappeared into the woods.

Looking at Shen Gan's back, Iris sighed softly.

"Still as stubborn as ever? Well, never mind. Let's go to the Black Dragon first."

Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, Iris took Ella away from the riverbank. Although the robbers might have a chance to escape under normal circumstances, this possibility disappeared under the special chain that Camisia took out. Even if the chain was not so hard that it could not be opened except with a key, it was impossible for the robbers whose average level was less than 8.

The place to fight with the black dragon was chosen behind the mountains. With the mountains as a barrier, it would be difficult to accidentally hurt the villagers and others on the other side. This should also be in Camisia's consideration. When thinking about this in her mind, Ella saw the full appearance of the black dragon while flying.

Chapter 13: The First Collaboration of the Branch of Disaster

The massive, scale-covered black dragon appeared before their eyes. Although not as tall as a mountain as the village chief had described, it was at least sixty meters larger than the Deep Sea Lord, with a body length of at least sixty meters. Its black wings fluttered continuously as if in a warning, and its red eyes held a vigilant glint. It completely ignored Angeline and Lotte at the foot of the mountain, and focused its gaze on Camisia, who was hovering in mid-air.

The fangs at least two stories high that protrude from the corners of its mouth are constantly opening and closing. Their sharpness is enough to make people feel that if they are bitten, they will be broken into two pieces in an instant. Even though they are hundreds of meters away, the skin feels a tingling sensation. If one must use an adjective to describe the most prominent feature of the black dragon, it is ferocious, which makes people subconsciously want to turn around and run away.

Although he had seen sea dragons of the same giant species on Dragon Island, the sea dragons at that time did not have the oppressive power of the black dragons at all. They were not in the same league at all. In fact, the black dragon was the most powerful among all the giant dragons. The only giant dragons that could fight against it were the bone dragons, which were undead creatures.

The huge wings blew up a strong wind, and countless plants were broken and flew out backwards. The black dragon, who had been staring at Camisia, spoke for the first time.

"Demons, if you want to challenge me, we can talk about it later. Now I want to complete my revenge first."

There was a hint of seeking peace in his calm voice, as if he had realized that Camisia was an opponent no weaker than himself.

There was no response. Camisia remained suspended in the air. From the Black Dragon's perspective, it looked like she was gathering strength, using her powerful aura to oppress herself. But in reality, Camisia was simply waiting for Ella and the others to arrive.

Although this black dragon looks powerful, it is actually below the heroic level, that is, below level 50. With Camisia's ability, although it will take a certain amount of time, it is not difficult to defeat it without taking any damage.

After waiting for a long time and finding that Camisia did not respond, the black dragon exhaled a long breath, and the black air mixed with it wrapped around the mountainside, causing a large area of ​​plants to wither instantly - this is the innate skill of all dragons, "Breath". The "Breath" effects produced by different dragons are different. Taking the 40-50 level fire dragon as an example, each breath can produce an effect equivalent to the second-level magic "Dense Fireball", while for the black dragon, it is equivalent to the second-level magic "Dark Tentacles" in the dark magic. It is a skill that will instantly deduct a large amount of health points once hit.

"As a powerful demon, the Black Dragon always accepts challenges from anyone, but I have more important things to do now."

The dragon's claws scratched the ground lightly, creating countless grooves.

Noticing that Ella and the others had already gathered on the ground, Camisia retracted the Sword of Disorder, which was in the form of a black giant sword. After snorting coldly with the majestic tone of a queen, she transformed into a red meteor and disappeared into the sky.

This was also part of the plan. If Camisia told the Black Dragon, "The challenger is not me, but the people below," the Black Dragon would definitely be wary of Camisia and would not use his full strength, or even run away. The challenge from Ella and the others would then lose its effect, so the Black Dragon had to think that Camisia had left.

In fact, Camisia is now hiding her presence at the foot of the mountain, waiting for Ella and her group to be unable to resist before taking action. All of this has been reflected in Ella's terrain search.

Since the black dragon was located in a basin between mountains, Ella and the others gathered at the foot of the mountain. While receiving Ella's strengthening magic, Iris asked questions with a serious expression.

"Ella-chan, will there be any side effects after using that magic that can unleash a powerful force in a short period of time? For example, demotion or being unable to move for a long time?"

According to the information Iris knew, after encountering danger on Dragon Island, Ella did not seem to feel unwell, but instead leveled up. Not only that, after being knocked off the city wall by Jörmungandr, Ella even immediately ran to the north of Helkar on the main island and knocked Wiji away with the "Fire Arrow". If she did not use some kind of medicine that could offset the side effects, it could only mean that this skill had no side effects at all.

With almost no hesitation, Ella gripped the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment and nodded.

"There are no side effects, you know? It just consumes a lot of mana."

The magic that Iris mentioned that could unleash great power in a short period of time should be referring to the "power boost" that she had used countless times on the city wall. It was only at that level, and there would be no problem as long as there were enough magic potions. Although the magic potions in this world took effect slowly, she still had a lot of reserves in the "F.Wing", so there was no problem.

It's worth mentioning that after what happened with Wizhi, he could now use the "Holy Pestle" magic freely, just like casting "Ice Ball". Although it can only be used in close combat, it is more or less an attack skill - if it is cast through "Fire Arrow", the "Holy Pestle" can even be expanded to a size of tens of meters.

"It consumes a lot of mana, doesn't it? I was originally planning on having you take the vanguard role, but since it consumes so much mana, forget it. If you can't replenish your magic potions, the challenge will fail. Ella-chan should be responsible for protecting Lotte-chan. I know it's difficult, but Angeline-chan and Fuka-chan should be responsible for holding it back. Be careful not to climb onto the black dragon's back, otherwise, if it flies away, only Camisia will be able to save it."

"Yes~"

"I know that without you telling me."

Taking on such a huge monster as a target is almost an overwhelming disadvantage for Angelica and Fukada, especially for Fukada who practices assassination.

The two were too low-level, not even at level 30 to learn flying magic, so they could only flip in the air with a skill similar to "multi-jump". This method meant they could only attack the black dragon's ankles, which served as a restraining force. Although they were not unable to break even the scales, any movement of the black dragon would be very difficult for them to dodge.

As for why Loti was not ambushed on the hills on both sides, it was to prevent the Black Dragon from defeating them one by one. Loti possessed destructive power no less than that of Iris. If Loti was defeated, then with Iris's magic alone, it was very likely that her MP would be exhausted before the Black Dragon's HP was reduced to half.

Therefore, it was a wise choice to place Lotte, who had almost no means of defense, next to Ella. Ella had the assistance of a magic shield and fire arrows. Even if she could not completely resist the black dragon, she could buy time for Iris to use magic to rescue her. Although using "fire arrows" might be cheating, only a fool would think of leaving a powerful weapon unused.

"Well then, let the challenge begin, ――Reverse Cross Thunder."

Starting with a violent flash of light, Iris kicked off the challenge.

Chapter 14 Unfavorable Cooperation

“Hoo—a mere ant!”

When he was relaxing, Iris attacked his eyes with a third-level magic. This sneak attack made the Black Dragon extremely angry. When he found out that the attackers were just a group of people under level 40 who he could kill with one kick, his anger immediately turned into rage.

In response, he was met with a slowly flying red magic.

Disaster

This is the fire magic that Luty once wanted to use in the lava cave. When the same amount of magic power is charged, it can maximize the damage. However, the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot control the damage range. After use, it may be a wide-area annihilation magic or a single-target damage magic. Under normal circumstances, it is almost useless, but it is a suitable skill here - the melee Shen Gan and Angelica have not yet approached the dragon, so even if it is a wide-area annihilation magic, it will be no problem. If it is a single-target damage magic, it will be even more perfect. For attack magic of the same rank, the smaller the range, the higher the damage. This rule applies to almost all-rank skills.

But unfortunately, when Disaster was about to fly into the black dragon's open mouth, it was blocked by an invisible transparent light shield.

While preparing her next spell, Lotte, who was lying in the bushes, tilted her head to look at Ella.

"Blocked?"

"Hmm, that should be the Black Dragon's passive magic."

It was normal for a large boss to have passive defensive magic in Ella's opinion. Rather, it would be worthy of vigilance if there was no passive defensive magic, because it often meant that the boss had other hidden powerful skills.

For example, Ella once fought against the level 900 boss "Guardian of the World Tree" in "F.Wing" together with other players. Because it had no passive defense skills, its HP was quickly consumed to less than 10% by the players in a round-robin battle. When everyone thought that the battle would be successful, "Guardian of the World Tree" activated a hidden skill, which made all players become the same state as itself - HP less than 10%. Although the battle was finally completed at the cost of countless players' deaths, the experience points deducted due to death and the gold coins and rare items dropped made many players heartbroken.

Due to the level difference, Ella cannot directly observe the Black Dragon's status, so she can only use "Fire Arrow" to amplify the skill effect.

『Low-level identification』

"Didn't your HP start out as maxed out after fighting that cloud? Passive skills include 'Light Shield Array' and 'First-Order Magic Damage Reduction'... Wait, is this a game?!"

"Ms. Ella?"

Ella's sudden rise in voice made Lotte look puzzled.

She coughed twice, and since she didn't need to take action yet, Ella continued to keep her eyes on the black dragon.

"Ahem, nothing."

Judging from the effect of the black dragon's protection against Lotte's "Disaster" just now, that almost invisible transparent shield must be the higher-level skill of "Magic Shield", "Light Shield Array" - a defensive magic that combines multiple "Magic Shields" into an array.

As for the reason for his astonishment, it was the "First-order Magic Damage Reduction". Taking himself as an example, if he used "Ice Ball" through "Fire Arrow", it could normally exert the power equivalent to fourth-order magic or above, and the destructive effect was no different from the wide-area annihilation magic "Ice Storm". But in the final analysis, this was only a first-order magic. Even if it had the same power as fourth-order magic, it would still be affected by the damage reduction effect when it acted on the black dragon.

As for how much reduction you can get, you can only know by trying it yourself.

While Ella was thinking, the battle was still going on. Shen Gan and Angeline had already approached the black dragon's scaly legs, while Iris was attracting the black dragon's attention in the sky - she didn't fly too high, but stayed close to the black dragon, keeping it within reach. Generally speaking, this behavior was almost equivalent to suicide, but there was no way around it. If Iris flew too high and used magic to carpet bomb from the sky, it would be easy to induce the black dragon to fly up as well. In that case, the balance of victory would be completely tilted towards the black dragon.

Now all the premises of the battle are based on the fact that the black dragon will not choose to fly into the air.

The extremely angry black dragon spread its wings and roared continuously with a voice close to that of an adult male. The strong wind carried the smell of burnt black dragon scales and filled the mountains.

"Dark Shock."

As the black dragon exhaled a breath that dimmed even the sunlight, it lifted its right leg, supporting its body, and kicked out like a human warrior. The target of the kick was Angeline, who was "charging her strength."

'Charge' is a common skill for warriors. It can add high damage to the next attack, but it also requires a certain amount of stiffness and magic power. The longer the 'charge' time, the higher the damage, and the more magic power is consumed. It is a skill with very obvious advantages and disadvantages.

Noticing that the black dragon had locked onto Angelini, Ella, who was hiding in the distance, immediately raised the Fire Arrow and superimposed fifteen layers of "Magic Shield" in front of Angelini. Normally, the release range of the "Magic Shield" could not reach a distance of more than one hundred meters, but with the enhancement of the Fire Arrow, it was not difficult to achieve.

A dramatic scene happened.

As many as fifteen layers of magic shields were shattered one after another, and the black dragon's kick was blocked. However, Angeline stopped "charging power" on her own initiative, jumped up from the tree branch, and slashed the giant sickle at the black dragon's right leg, which had run out of momentum and was about to retract.

『Giant Scythe Slash』

With a momentum that seemed to be able to cut through everything, the giant sickle broke through the defense of the "Light Shield Array", cut through the scales, and left a tiny scratch at least three meters long on the black dragon's leg.

At the same time, the Black Dragon's HP decreased slightly in the "Low-level Appraisal" skill, to less than 1%.

If an outsider saw this, they would definitely cheer excitedly for this attack and defense, but in fact, this was not the case. Judging from the fact that the black dragon had exhausted all its strength to retract its right leg, if Angeline had continued to maintain the "charging power" state, she would definitely cause greater damage to the black dragon. However, Angeline did not expect Ella to be able to use the "magic shield" at such a long distance and defend perfectly, so she ended the "charging power" early and used up the accumulated power.

With the Arrow of Fire, Ella, who was responsible for battlefield support, had greatly improved her strength. However, since everyone did not get to know each other's strengths after that, the current poor coordination phenomenon occurred.

While Angelica immediately jumped away to dodge the black dragon's counterattack, Iris, who was attacked by the black dragon's "Dark Shock", also completed her resistance to the magic.

“So annoying!”

The black dragon vibrated its wings, trying to take down Shen Gan who was jumping in the air. Before this, although Shen Gan was unable to use his assassination skills, he was able to leap between the black dragon's wings and legs with multiple jumps more skillful than Angelini, and kept inserting the sharp points on his fingertips into the scales, as if drawing a circle, and rotating slightly, as if he had already parasitized the black dragon, constantly eroding the black dragon's health. When he was close to almost zero distance, even the "Light Shield Array" could not separate Shen Gan.

Chapter 15: Maximized "Holy Pestle"

Naturally, this kind of attack that can only cut the scales and penetrate less than a finger deep into the skin cannot cause fatal injuries to the black dragon, but the endless and repeated shallow pain and the continuous bleeding will make people more anxious. If it were a human, it would have been chopped into pieces by now. Only a huge body like a dragon can withstand it.

The black dragon's flapping wings didn't knock Shen Gan down, but instead gave Shen Gan the opportunity to attack the flesh membrane on the wings. He pierced his fingers, which were so thin that they seemed to break if he squeezed them hard—or more accurately, the spikes on his fingers—into the flesh membrane connecting the dragon's bones. Then, the spikes continued to extend to half a meter in length, visible to the naked eye.

"'Acceleration', 'Concentration', 'Perception Enhancement', 'Power Enhancement', 'Iron Wall Enhancement'."

Ella in the distance once again added strengthening magic to Shen Gan, and the various colored lights hit Shen Gan hanging on the black dragon's wings with almost no deviation.

Then, like a stuntman in a movie, Shen Gan ran from top to bottom along the almost vertical wings. Without any resistance, a shallow scratch was made on the dragon's wings, which ran through the entire wing.

“You guys—Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

Roaring, the black dragon's eyes seemed to be spewing flames, and as an ominous black light ball gathered in its mouth, it flapped its wings and prepared to take off.

"Iris, he's about to take off!"

"Got it, ――"Wind Pestle"."

The black dragon, having already taken off several meters, crashed back to the ground as if hitting a wall of air. The light ball in its mouth, which had been fully charged, dissipated under Lotte's sniper fire. Magic destruction wasn't a skill, but a technique. At the moment when the opponent's magic was about to be used, the attack would cancel the opponent's preparation. This would not only cause the opponent to fail to use the magic, but also prevent the return of magic power.

However, with Lotte's level of 20, it would be impossible to destroy the fourth-order magic that the black dragon wanted to use without using all her strength, so this single attack consumed most of Lotte's magic power.

As for how Lotte knew that the black dragon was about to cast a spell, it was entirely due to Ella using her detection skills to observe every move and issue orders.

If the Black Dragon was in its full state, everyone might have failed in the challenge by now, but it is a coincidence that the Black Dragon's HP and MP are both below 50%, so it is not incredible that it would be suppressed by Iris and others. Of course, if the Black Dragon used magic to suppress Iris from the beginning and flew up at this time, it would be a complete victory for the Black Dragon now.

Suddenly, he felt as if he was being stared at by something, and when he realized it, his right hand was already firmly grasped by Luti.

"Ms. Ella, you're being targeted!"

The slightly anxious cry made Ella immediately put away the various data that completely obscured her vision. She ran in the direction that Lotte was pulling her, and turned her head back. With a sound that shook the earth, the black dragon gave up flying and began to run towards her step by step.

"[Catastrophe Fire], [Ice Wolf Attack], [Collapse], [Thunderbolt Strike]."

Iris began to rain down attacks from the air, but the black dragon was completely oblivious to the various spells exploding on its back and charged straight towards Ella.

From the very beginning of the battle, the Black Dragon discovered two auras hidden in the woods. If he had not had to deal with Iris flying in the air and Angelica and Shen Gan who were constantly causing him pain, he would have long chosen his target as the person in the distance who was sniping him with unknown magic.

——But now he has a more important goal, which is to eliminate the healer who can use long-range support magic and expose his purpose at the critical moment.

If his perception was correct, the two people hiding in the woods were standing together. If he could get rid of them together, it would only be a matter of time before the other three people's magic power was exhausted. So he just needed to ignore the three people who kept causing harm for the time being. Focusing on the woods was the key to solving the problem. At least those two people seemed easier to deal with than the other three.

Although under normal circumstances one should choose to use long-range magic to attack the two people in the woods, it is difficult to guarantee that the magic will not be interrupted again in the current situation. Instead of wasting magic power in vain, it is better to directly bite them to pieces with dragon teeth that can penetrate everything.

Every step the dragon's claws took on the ground would crack the solid rock, and countless sand and gravel mixed with dust would spread out in a ring shape. The huge existence itself was a deterrent, and it was even more obvious when it came to the black dragon.

No, I can't outrun it at all.

This was Ella's first thought.

Although it's not impossible to stack and use "Speed ​​Up", running at an unfamiliar speed in the woods is no different from suicide. Even though he has focused all his attention on avoiding obstacles such as tree stumps and pits, there is still no sign of escaping the black dragon's pursuit.

I could hear the voices of Iris and others trying to stop the black dragon, but I had no chance to look back to see what exactly happened.

However, even so, he still had to buy time for Iris to use large-scale magic. After all, as long as he showed signs of being harmed by the black dragon, Camisia would step in to stop him, and the challenge would be over. But in the final analysis, even if he avoided the black dragon, this challenge would fail. A series of coordinated efforts seemed to have completely suppressed the black dragon, but in fact, so far, only less than 20% of the black dragon's health had been consumed, and the magic power of the others had already reached the bottom.

——The dragon is indeed a powerful creature. It is incredible that I just grabbed the dragon's tail and threw it away when I was on Dragon Island.