Man is infinite, and his ambition is to slay the dragon

Tina knew why she felt bored and tired.

It was just like what was said in a fairy tale - the maid who had lived in darkness and was beaten by her master for years was taken to the outside world by her master one day and saw the light that she had never seen before. However, not long after she went back, she returned to darkness and committed suicide.

She could have endured the darkness and beatings indefinitely, because that was her whole world, her whole world. But after seeing the beautiful light once, she could no longer endure the darkness surrounding her.

Tina certainly doesn't think that she lives in darkness. Returning to the Roaring Vampires has been her biggest wish for the past eight years. She always thinks about returning to Hell Valley, returning to the side of my king and the vampires.

But after she came back, after experiencing the initial joy, she faced the empty flat land again and felt things she had never felt before.

【Loneliness】

【open】

【silence】

These were actually things she had known for a long time. She knew that the flat land she managed was such a place. However, after coming back this time, she felt that the existence of these things had been infinitely magnified.

She knew the reason, of course she knew it.

(Because I am really alone now.)

On the Crinshid, Tina definitely has her own space and time. She can move freely in her personal room. Although the size cannot be compared with the flat earth, she feels that such a space is just right for her.

If she were on the Clinshid, she would hear the alarm clock ringing at 7:30 every morning. After washing up in the same bathroom with Sieg, she could enjoy a delicious breakfast in the kitchen. Then she would have a whole day of free time.

Sometimes she would serve as a sparring partner for others in the training room, sometimes she would go to the database to read some information about other planets, sometimes she would be dragged into the kitchen by Edwards to taste new desserts, and sometimes she would be called by Em to test new magic... To be honest, although every day was noisy and she had to run back and forth for something every day.

But Tina felt that such a life was much better than her current life where she had to face the lonely world all the time.

"Wow~~~~"

Tina leaned her body sideways and rested her head on the soft pillow again, looking at the photo on the bedside table.

It was a very ordinary photo, a group photo of everyone on the Crainsheed taken on a whim by Stella one day after Setsuna boarded the ship.

She stood closest to Sieg, with Brunhilde on her left and right.

“Have I been changed?”

"Just eight years, just a human being whom I once hated to the core..."

Tina wanted to think of this as a humiliation.

but she......

[Tina-chan, are you there? ]

The conversations between the vampires suddenly rang out.

Tina quickly sat up from the bed and quickly returned to her normal state.

[Elune? What happened? ]

[There is one thing I think I need to tell you about. It happened yesterday. Do you still remember the Thunder Beast? ]

Thunder beast.

Tina still has some impression of this title. It was a berserker who appeared near Hell Valley eight years ago.

【What's up with him? 】

[He attacked the Sun God Cult yesterday. Among our dragons, my Jackie Chan led a group of dragons to attack after realizing that there was a flaw in the Sun God Cult's frontline stronghold.]

This is a common occurrence for both the Roaring Blood Clan and the Cult of the Sun.

Tina frowned.

[Shouldn't you report this to me? ]

[Yes, but... that Jackie was destroyed ten minutes ago. According to the information sent back, the one who destroyed Jackie was the new Dragon Slayer of the Sun God Cult, who was... the one who sent you back, Tina-chan.]

[He is now called the Saint of Flame by the Sun God Cult]

"------!"

Tina immediately jumped up from the bed.

(Siegtah...became a dragon slayer of the Sun Cult? The Sage of Flame?)

"......Why?"

In the empty flat land except for herself, Tina raised a question that no one could respond to.

30. Attack range 70 kilometers

The Sun God Cult is located in Hell Valley, the 61st frontline outpost.

at night.

“Bang, bang, bang———! Bang, bang, bang———!”

Sitting on the roof of the stronghold, Sieg continuously created compressed lightning guns around him and projected them toward the nearby lower part. Looking at the dragons that were blown to pieces by the lightning guns, he yawned slightly.

"Hah~ah~boring."

At the request of the Sun Saint, he had only been a dragon slayer for three days, and now he was sent to the front line to prevent the battle line in this area from being completely defeated.

After all, he was a newcomer who had just joined the Sun God Cult, so he would definitely be ordered around for a while. Sieg knew this, so he took on the task without hesitation. Moreover, this was a task that would allow him to encounter Shenwei. He hadn't seen that guy for more than half a month, and this time he had caused such a big incident. From his current standpoint, Sieg felt that he still had to give him a good talk.

However, although he said he was maintaining the battle line, all he had to do was to smash all the attacking dragons.

Through the positioning system of the Clinshid, he locked onto all dragon groups within a radius of twenty kilometers with him as the center, and then condensed a lightning gun to achieve ultra-long-range targeted strikes - if you have to say it, it's such a simple thing.

Of course, the battle line he needed to maintain was definitely not just 70 kilometers, but he could provide timely support to farther places through the teleportation magic array set up within the Sun God Cult. In fact, the radius of the area he was responsible for was more than kilometers.

This is something only he can do.

But even this seemingly amazing thing was extremely boring in Zig's eyes.

【Senior】

Setsuna's voice came from the headset hanging on her ear.

[We have received information from other bases that the dragons have temporarily retreated. Senior, you can come back and rest for a while. Miss Carula and I have prepared a midnight snack for you.]

"Yeah, I'll be right there."

Sieg nodded and waved toward the sky, signaling the Crainsheed to continue surveillance. Then he jumped off the roof and returned to Frontline Base No. 61 through the main gate.

As soon as he entered——

"Master [Flame Saint]!"

"Lord Ziegfell!"

A group of people shouted his name and came to him with fanatical expressions on their faces.

Each of them had bandages wrapped around their bodies, and some were even using crutches. It was obvious at first glance that they were wounded, but in fact they were all soldiers of the Cult of the Sun God, ranging from fourth-class to third-class citizens.

"Thank you so much for coming to support us!"

"Thanks to you, we were able to destroy the evil dragons!"

“Thank you very much!”

"Once we recover, we will fight alongside you!"

Listening to what the soldiers said, Sieg sighed slightly, said nothing, and just nodded to them.

This is a common phenomenon in the Sun God Cult.

One of the doctrines of the Sun God Cult is [Destroying Dragons], which is the most important doctrine. Anyone who joins the Sun God Cult's army and is committed to destroying dragons is deeply influenced by the Sun God Cult's doctrines. As long as they can destroy dragons, they are willing to sacrifice their lives.

Even if their death will not have any impact on the overall situation.

The reason why they are so fearless is one of the most important dragon slayers in the Sun God Cult, but also the most worthless - the [Saints of Time].

"Setsuna, Karula. I'm back."

Arriving at the restaurant assigned to him for dining alone, Sieg spoke to Setsuna and Carula who had been waiting there for a long time.

In this mission, in addition to him, Setsuna was also explicitly asked to be brought along - she is now a special second-class citizen of the Sun God Cult, but this status is due to Sieg becoming a dragon slayer, so Setsuna, as his woman, was specially granted this status.

The reason why they asked to bring her along was probably because the Sun God Cult wanted to see her level.

Sieg had no interest in this, but it was a good thing to let Setsuna experience more battles with dragons. The more actual combat experiences she had, the faster she would become stronger.

"Welcome back, Senior. Thank you for your hard work."

"Thank you for your hard work, Master Flame Saint."

Setsuna and Karula looked at Sieg one after another.

Among them, Carla's face was full of surprise: "I didn't expect that you could take care of such a large range of dragons by yourself and maintain a battle line of more than 140 kilometers. It's really amazing! This is indeed a power that can match the [Miracle of God]!"

"It's just a trick."

Sieg was able to do this basically entirely thanks to the precise positioning of the Kreinshede and the assisted aiming of the Dragon Slayer System. If it were just him, it would be impossible for him to accurately hit a target twenty kilometers away. His physical eyes were not that powerful, unless he had a magical eye like Clairvoyance.

But even a clairvoyant can't accurately snipe from 20 kilometers away, right? It seems that the horizon that the human eye can see is only about four kilometers in reality.

"Besides, I didn't kill all of them. At least in this base, I only killed lower-level dragons and middle-level dragons. The first dragon was killed by Xue Cai and you - we had noodles for supper."

As Sieg said this, he sat down at the dining table, picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and put it into his mouth and slurped it.

When Sieg mentioned this, Setsuna sighed and said, "I didn't do anything. I just went over and dealt the dragon a fatal blow after Miss Carla stopped time. I really didn't do anything. Miss Carla was the one who was awesome."

"But I think it's a little strange."

"Strange? What's strange?"

"Because after I came here, I saw a lot of Miss Carla - they are called [Time Saints], right?" Setsuna looked at Carla, "There are so many Time Saints. When we fight, we only need to cooperate like Miss Carla and I do, then we can easily defeat the dragons, right? Why did the battle line collapse?"

This is indeed true.

The time magic of the Saints of Time is a kind of magic with absolute priority. Although their magic is effective on the same objects, they can exclude [selected objects within a specific range from the effect of time magic] through subsequent adjustments.

In other words, only enemies will actually have their time paused, and friendly enemies will never have their time paused.

"There's no special reason, it's just that [it would be a big loss to do this]."

Sieg answered calmly.

"That's actually true, Carula. As the Saint of Time, you will surely understand what I mean."

"........Yes, I understand."

Carla nodded with a somewhat sad look on her face: "The reason why we, the Saint of Time, do not participate in direct combat on a large scale is indeed because of [inefficiency]."

31. At least we can mourn each other

The founding time of the Sun God Cult cannot be traced. We only know that the Cult has existed in the world for a long, long time and has been fighting against dragons.

During the long war against dragons, the Cult had to begin to pursue efficiency. As long as the purpose was to destroy the dragon, and as long as it could be done more efficiently, any means could be used.

Therefore, various weapons were developed, and the Dragon Slayers, the strongest dragon slayer group, was established.

And in a large-scale war, no matter what kind of character the people in charge have, for the war itself, [life] is just a [number]. The factor that determines the victory or defeat of the war lies in which commander of each side can use these numbers more efficiently and maximize the value of these numbers.

"Although the Maiden of Time is a consumable item, even the Sun God Cult cannot produce a large number of Maidens of Time. From the time the clone is completed to the time it can be deployed on the battlefield, it takes at least several months of training time."

"It takes time to adjust body functions, use magic, and transfer technical experience. So even though she is a consumable, the Saint of Time can be said to be the most expensive consumable in the Sun God Cult. Even though she can be replaced, she can be discarded."

"On the other hand, the dragon soldiers of the dragon clan—lower dragons and middle dragons—do not require any manufacturing time."

The lower dragons and middle dragons are nothing but the blood of the upper dragons, and are beasts born from their blood. As long as the upper dragons are still there, there will be as many middle dragons and lower dragons as you want. It is not surprising to pull out ten thousand of them at once.

In fact, in just a few hours since arriving here, Sieg has killed more than five thousand lower-level dragons and one thousand middle-level dragons. In addition to the one knocked down by Xue Cai, Jackie Chan also killed about twenty dragons in other strongholds.

In terms of military strength, the dragon group has always had the advantage, both in the past and now.

"Not to mention, there are individual differences among the Saints of Time."

Sieg looked at Carla and said, "As far as I know, an ordinary Saint of Time can only stop time for about a minute at most, and needs to rest for a few seconds after each stop?"