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

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73. The helplessness of middle management

night.

In a city in Japan.

A man with glasses and wearing thin clothes stood under a street lamp, seemingly waiting for someone.

As footsteps were heard, the man turned around, smiled and waved: "Welcome back - it seems that you have failed."

"Yes, I'm so sorry."

The person who came forward while talking was none other than the Machine Dragon Grestenovak who had transformed into a human form. He was currently wearing a black, neat suit, but his refrigerator-like figure now looked a little shriveled, and his arms were even wrapped in bandages.

Seeing him like this, the bespectacled man - the Eye King, [Blind Dragon] Sigmario - adjusted his glasses and said, "When was the last time I saw you in such a mess? I didn't expect that even you and Bagram could not defeat the Thunder Beast and the Flame Beast together. Have the two of them grown to this level of strength?"

“Yes. Both Flame Beast and Thunder Beast have undergone tremendous changes in strength compared to eight years ago.” The Machine Dragon said in a deep voice, “Thunder Beast has obtained the magic sword of the King of Claws, and even my machine suit cannot completely defend against it. And Flame Beast is even more abnormal. Although it seems to be a secret technique that temporarily greatly increases its own strength, his attack is enough to be comparable to that of Master Tianlan.”

"Really?"

The King of Eyes was a little surprised.

He had indeed anticipated that the growth rate of the Thunder Beast and the Fire Beast would be abnormal. After all, the two were now in the growth stage, so it was reasonable for them to progress faster. However, in just eight years, they had grown to the point where they could be compared with the oldest and strongest second-tier beasts, and even with the Dragon King... This rate of progress could no longer be described as [abnormal].

"Director, the uncontrollability of the Thunder Beast and the Fire Beast is too high. It is not recommended to take a gentle approach. The best countermeasures are to leave them alone or destroy them."

“Hmm~~~~ Kiryu, your opinions are never wrong~~~ Indeed, if it’s an opponent of this level, it will be very difficult to capture them alive for some experiments - well, although it’s a pity, but I can only give up. You’ve worked hard this time, Kiryu, and you should have a good rest later, especially your hands, which have suffered this time.”

The Eye King patted the Machine Dragon’s shoulder gently and said, “I will give you a vacation, as long as you want…but when you are gone, I have to find a temporary driver.”

The Machine Dragon shook his head. “I am not so seriously injured that I cannot drive. Please rest assured. Also, I have one more thing to report about the Roaring Blood Clan.”

"Oh? What's the matter?"

"The second rank of the Roaring Blood Clan, the [Heavy Armored Dragon], is suspected to have broken free from the constraints of blood, and has a close relationship with the Flame Beast. In the end, it was she who withstood the attack from Master Tianlan, and her strength is also a world apart from eight years ago."

"..."

Hearing what the Machine Dragon said, the King of Eyes’ expression suddenly became full of different meanings, and a meaningful arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"This is really... interesting."

"It seems that we need to talk to Bagram again."

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at the same time.

The deepest part of Hell Valley.

In Bagram's personal room.

Standing in front of a mirror, Bagram looked at his own body in the mirror.

Wound healing

“Sizzle~~~~~!”

The wounds all over his body suddenly made a grilling sound and healed in an instant.

But the next moment, the body that should have recovered showed a lot of wounds again.

"...Is it really a difficult wound...a sword skill that interferes with [Cause and Effect] and [Fate]?"

Bagram put on his clothes again, and the image of the female swordsman who fought with him yesterday emerged in his mind. Although it was not the first time that Bagram had encountered similar situations, this was the first time that he had encountered such a serious situation as yesterday.

His magic had no effect on Edwards at all.

No, it can't be said that it didn't work. He was sure that his magic worked, but it just couldn't have any effect on her.

"A demon who distorts cause and effect and fate with his own will?"

Recalling Edwards's self-proclaimed identity, Bagram gritted his teeth and said, "It is indeed a difficult target, but if it stops here, it cannot pose a complete threat. Next time, I will definitely destroy it completely."

Having said that, Bagram himself didn't know whether there would be another battle between them.

Moreover, he was sure that if Gargantina had not been present, his opponent this time might not be Edwards, but the fire beast.

(He was able to repel the Drag-Ride and even take on the attack of the Scale King... His strength is simply a world apart from what it was eight years ago, and his last state... Even I can't take him down without any damage.)

Thinking of this, Bagram's eyes revealed a trace of solemnity, then he turned around, opened the door and walked out of the room.

As soon as he came out——

As if she had been waiting outside the door for a long time, Gargantina, who was wrapped in black heavy armor, immediately knelt on one knee: "My king."

"...Gargantina, are you healed now?"

"Yes. The injuries I received from the previous battle with Stella have been treated on the Krenshid. The side effect of resisting the attack of the Scale King yesterday was just excessive physical exhaustion. I have now fully recovered. Thank you, my king, for your concern."

After listening to Gargantina's explanation while she knelt on the ground, Bagram was silent for a moment, then asked in a deep voice, "You should know what you did this time. If you hadn't resisted that attack in the end, the Thunder Beast and the Fire Beast would have completely disappeared by now. Your unauthorized actions caused the plans of those two adults to fail."

"...I understand." Gargantina lowered her head. "It's just that - the Thunder Beast is fine, but the Flame Beast... I don't want to see him die of exhaustion. Even though he will definitely not die at that time, but... before thinking of this, I have already taken action."

This is the truth.

Yesterday, when Tina opened her eyes from the healing hot spring, the first thing she felt was an indescribable sense of security.

That was different from the sense of relief I felt when I returned to Hell Valley.

If I had to describe it, returning to Hell Valley was like returning to the hometown where she was born, but when she opened her eyes in the healing hot spring, Tina felt like she had returned to the home where she had lived for a long time.

She accepted her current situation very naturally, and there was no barrier in her communication with Brunhilde and Em afterwards. She was still as natural and harmonious as in the past eight years, as if she had never left the Cresthill and had always stayed on that ship.

After observing the attack from the Scale King across the continent, just as she said, Tina really rushed to the teleportation room as soon as possible and teleported to where Sieg and Edwards were at the fastest speed.

Then...he used [One Sword Shura] so naturally, and used [Pseudo Black Hole] so naturally.

She had never thought that she could do these things before, but the moment she did it, she didn't feel any surprise.

[Magic is a world of imagination. As long as it can be imagined, the magician can rewrite the world at will.]

This is the basic theory of magic that Em has said many times.

"...Then I think you should be ready to be punished."

Bagram stared at Gargantina coldly.

The King of Eyes had high expectations for this operation, and his words hinted at a meaning that it could not fail, but now the plan has failed, and the final measure was blocked by Gargantina - the King of Eyes would not overstep his authority to punish Gargantina, and would only hold Bagram, the leader of the clan, accountable.

I'm afraid that in a few days, the King of Eyes will come to question me about the incident.

"Regarding this... I have brought a message from that guy... the Flame Beast's subordinate."

Gargantina said.

"If possible, could you please listen to it?"

"...Let's go in and talk."

74. A world where only eyes and scales are injured

"——So, you asked Tina to bring you a message?"

The third day of the bombardment of Japan.

Sieg, who had fully recovered and started to move, was now sitting in the garden outside the mansion, drinking afternoon tea alone while communicating with Em on the Crest.

By the way, the Saint of Time is currently helping clean the mansion.

What the two are communicating about now is exactly about Tina.

[Aiya~~~ There's nothing I can do. Judging from the result, Tina-chan will definitely be punished. She will either be fired or pushed out as a sacrifice to appease the anger. After all, she is a good sister who has lived together for eight years. I just want to help her a little bit~~~]

Em said with a smile.

[You don't want to see Tina-chan die like this, do you? From what I know about you, if you knew that Tina-chan was in trouble, you would definitely call us to accompany you to fight through Hell Valley, or really sink the entire Japan~~~~]

[By the way, today's bombardment just ended, and the Scale King was furious and fought back, but his attack missed.]

"Stop talking nonsense. Why should I fight through Hell Valley just for Tina?"

Sieg took a sip of the black tea brewed by the Saint of Time, then picked up a piece of dessert and put it in his mouth: "Whether she is dead or alive now has nothing to do with me."

[Yeah, I'll take it seriously.]

"By the way, how did you help her? What was the message?"

[Nothing much, I just objectively explained the current situation and asked Tina to tell us about our next plan.]

Em gave a somewhat seductive smile and told her the content of the message that Totina had conveyed to her.

First of all, judging from the current situation, the Roaring King, the Eye King, and the Scale King are definitely not of the same mind. On the surface, the Roaring King is a subordinate of the latter two, but judging from his previous spies with Sieg, he is very dissatisfied with the current situation.

So you can start from this point.

Judging from the current situation, the final result of the battle a few days ago, although completely inconsistent with the idea of ​​the King of Eyes, is somewhat consistent with the idea of ​​the King of Roar. At least it avoided the worst situation and achieved the minimum situation envisioned by the King of Roar.

The Roaring Blood Clan was completely unscathed except for the Hell Valley, the Machine Dragons retreated with heavy injuries, the Eye King's plan failed, Sieg and Kamuy were still alive... In a sense, this situation was exactly what Bagram wanted.

[So, even if the Roaring King is angry now, the only thing he is angry about is that the Hell Valley was destroyed. And judging from the process, it was the Machine Dragon that destroyed the Hell Valley, and the pseudo-black hole created by Tina-chan later also caused such great damage in order to resist the attack of the Scale King.]

「After all, if it weren’t for the attack of the Machine Dragon and the Scale King, the Hell Valley would not have been destroyed to this extent──Although our attack also caused damage, it was not even a little bit compared to the Machine Dragon.」

"...It somehow makes sense, but I also feel like something is wrong." Sieg couldn't wrap his mind around it.

[Aiya~~~~ Anyway, we need to convey to the Roaring King that he should figure out who he should vent his anger on, and transfer his anger to the Eye King and the Scale King to intensify the conflict between them.]

[Well, I also asked Tina-chan to tell us that we are going to bombard Japan and take revenge on the King of Scales and the King of Eyes.]

[As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Since we both dislike the King of Eyes and the King of Scales, aren't we in the same group? Even if we can't be friends, it would be great to return to the non-aggression situation at the beginning~~~]

"...So...what's the situation now?"

Sieg was a little confused about Em's plan.

And Em smiled slyly.

[We successfully got rid of the wrath that might have come from the Roaring Blood Clan, and lived a leisurely life of firing a shot at the location of the Eye King and the Scale King every day and running away.]

[The Roaring Blood Clan was able to focus on dealing with the Cult's troops, while at the same time being able to watch the Eye King and Scale King suffer from the fire from the other side of the river, laughing secretly]

[As for Japan... the Scale King will counterattack, but we were teleported back to the back of the moon after firing a single shot. If she wants to hit us, she can just smash the moon first - provided that she knows our exact coordinates.]

[Even an attack that can cross a continent is just a glimmer thinner than a hair compared to the universe.]

In other words, are the Scale King and the Eye King the only ones getting beaten up now?

Sieg took a sip of tea, and raised his lips slightly: "There are still twelve shots left, so keep going like this."

【OK~~~】

[But you have become cunning. In the past, you would have used the maximum power of the main guns to sink the Scale King and the Eye King along with the entire Japan. This time, you only wanted to harass them - your methods were gentle.]

"Now is not the time to kill them all." Sieg clenched his fists slightly. "It would be easy to just bomb them to death, but I want to kill them myself. So before I can destroy the two dragon kings at the same time in the future, these bombardments will be regarded as interest."

「Yeah, that’s a good consideration. By the way, I didn’t mention it just now, but Tina-chan also made some suggestions at the end of my arrangement.」

"Eh?"

Zigg was stunned for a moment: "What did she...say?"

[Just now, I received a reply from Tina-chan, saying that the Roaring King accepted my statement and will focus on dealing with the Cult troops from now on. At the same time, he hopes that we can bombard them more fiercely. It can be seen that he has been holding a grudge for a long time~~~]

[At the beginning, according to my own arrangement, this matter actually ended here, but now——Tina-chan will serve as the main force of the Roaring Blood Clan to fight against the Sun God Cult and go to fight against the Sun God Cult.]

"what?"

[This seems to be a joint decision between Bagram and herself. Although it seems that the Eye King is not available to deal with Tina-chan's affairs for the time being, they will definitely come to settle accounts with us after our bombardment ends in half a month and they have a break.]

[By then, something will happen to Tina-chan - if she continues to stay in the Roaring Blood Clan. ]

"...Hey, could it be——"

Zig couldn't help but put down his teacup.

Em also smiled and said:

[Tina-chan is actually quite confused, you can tell. She wants to stay in the Roaring Blood Clan, but the eight years she has lived with us makes it hard for her to completely give up, so this time she made a decision with the permission of the Roaring King.]