Age of Heroes (Age of Heroes Chronicles)

Chapter 244: Two dragons (1)

DRAGON LAIR, INSIDE THE GIANT CAVERN

They are fighting in the air, with thunder and fire surrounding them. Both of these hero and heroine is emitting such killing intent that the group could feel it on the ground.

Sword strikes that pierces through space and causes the space distorted were executed from the two people.

Some of the mercenaries that is looking at this battle realizes that their hand is trembling and their eyes could not leave the scene of battle. It burned itself onto their mind.

Never to be forgotten as long as they lived

Arial can be seen jumping around the dragon using the cliff on the cavern to focus his attack on the dragon chest, his feet stuck at the wall, using his internal energy enabling him to stand straight on such smooth surfaces without falling down.

Velamina support Arial by providing distraction and attacking the dragon blind spot. They worked extremely well, their swords light spars with fires as it hits the dragon scales

The sound of Arial attack send fear to anyone could hear it.

It was like someone is pudding the sky as the shockwave of his sword strike emanated out crushing all the rocky surfaces on the caverns wall

And then there is the speed of Velamina attack which is unfathomable.

No one could see her but only for a second. Her movement made her to appear blurry because of her high speed.

Arial is focusing his attack on the dragon breast plate, slashing and stabbing it with increasing ferocity with each strike

The fact he could stab and slash while the dragon is on midair is only possible because of the stamina Arial have and that is thanks to his vast reserve of internal energy

He is enveloping himself with internal energy on his foot to make sure he could stick and running around the wall surface and at the same time to strengthen his body reflexes.

The clanging of the sword against the jeweled breastplate of the dragon reverberates in the cavern, creating sound wave that forces the mercenaries to close their ears with their hands.

Velamina looked nervous facing the dragon but Arial even in such situation have a calm expression.

He knows that being nervous, hotheaded when he is in such situation will decrease his chance of being alive at the end of this battle.

After the first attack, he nearly lost his cool head.

'I admire him' one Kobold said as they gazed on the battle with awe and admiration while at the same time, preparing to attack with his sword

The Dark Elves use arrows to provide even a little help for Arial and Velamina from below as they targeted the dragon tail and its feet.

The Orcs pushed harder as they tried to keep up with the dragon. They could not believe they will be outdone by a woman.

Arial even in such an intense battled had the time to look at Velamina. She has clear eyes even though she looks a bit nervous. Her translucent skin makes her easier to spot.

A mystical charm befitting of a half High Elven. She radiated elegance. But her combat ability is no joke.

Powerful skill, outrageous vitality, great sense of danger and even possessing surprising agility. She is godly.

If he had not seen it by his own eyes he would not believe it. With his strength and her agility, it could be said that they are holding their own against the dragon.

His technique is usually used to defeat multiple enemies, so one on one with such huge creature could prove to be at his disadvantage.

The Elves began their counter attack; sound of chanting filled the cavern. Even though their hands are shaking they resolved themselves.

Some of them are unlucky when the dragons fire attack them and their bodies caught on fire, burning them into cinder, and with that scream of pain before their death, the screams seared itself on the minds of the survivors.

Such a sight made the mouths of elves and the dwarves freeze. Trembling and frightened, cold sweats are all over them.

"By all the Gods. What in the world have we got ourselves into?" some of the elves said, their mouth trembling.

The gaps in their strength are too much, they believed. How could they even dream to fight a dragon and won? What illusive dream that they have?

The dragon red eyes glared menacingly at the elves and dwarves but more toward Arial. After all, Arial is the only human in the expedition.

Humans

It is a race that dragons hated and ironically also the only race that they feared. This fear resulted from the humans in generation past that hunts dragons and kills them

Any dragons that survive that dark era remember their humiliating defeat fighting the Four Brothers. Thankfully those four brothers died before they manage to destroy every single dragon in the world

But the damage was done. Only a handful of dragons are alive and survive the Age of Man.

So the dragon roared with furious anger, determined to kill this human that dare trespass his lair.

Whenever it roared the cliff around him crumbled and the ground shakes and tumble, cracks appear in the ground that the mercenary's troops are standing, and some of the unlucky ones falls down onto the crack of the cavern that opened up

The dragon did not only attack Arial as it uses its feet.

It uses its feet to pick the Orcs below it and throw them into the air, straight to its mouth and swallow them

But still the others Orc and Kobold endure. They felt fear of course. But if they do not kill the dragon, then they know that they will all die.

Despair filled the eyes of the young elves before suddenly they are burned in the dragon fire.

Some even bravely rushed the dragon to avenge their friends but they turn to charred corpse, melted into the ground.

Arial yelled and ask all his troop to use all that they had to attack the dragon.

WATER!' Some of the Elven yelled as the surrounding becomes chaotic with debris and fires and spars of thunders all around

The Elves used all their mana at once for their magic attacks.

They used the water at the ceiling of the cavern and the pool around the dragon sleeping area to create a water barrier to protect the Orcs from the dragon breath.

It may not protect them from physical attack by the dragon but it will help them from the dragon fire.

Arial understand the need to keep the battle in the ground instead on the air.

'Get down!' he yelled as he brought down his sword, a powerful strike boosted by his internal energy was unleashed, as wind swirls around that strike, visibly travelling through the air as it disrupts the space around it and heading toward the dragon

So with one powerful strike, Arial concentrated his power and attacked the dragon, one that produce such energy waves that Velamina were thrown back from the area and hills and cliffs around the area crumbled and shattered.

It was like an explosion of power, affecting everything in the cavern.

People on the ground can feel the tremors and a gust of storm passed them by, and some who are weak are even thrown back because of the impact between Arial and the dragon, a fight on top of the ground.

Such strong attack forced the dragon that is rising up to crashed back down to the ground, killing a considerable Orcs and Kobold, who were trapped underneath the dragon massive frame

A human is pushing back a dragon by his sheer force. Such unbelievable scene burned itself into the eyes of the survivors.

'Attack now before it tries to rise up again!'

'Now is our chance!' the Orcs that survive yelled.

'Attack!' Orc Fera yelled.

The Orcs and Kobold rushed toward the fallen dragon.

'ROARRR' the dragon roared, its power is still maintained, and some troops are thrown back because of the sound wave coming out from that roar, while it moved it tail to protect itself from the barrage of arrows.

'SHOOT MORE!' The Archer division yelled.

'KILL THAT FUCKING BEAST'

'KILL IT!'

Velamina regained her composure on the ground, no internal injury on her body, only external injury, some wounds and gash. It is nothing to her.

She spotted a chance to execute her technique and jump with rotations in the air, accumulating mana in her movement.

Arial see what she is doing and once again he is shocked.

The reason why Velamina could inflict damage to the dragon without using Enochian blade is because she infused magic in her attacks and slashes.

Arial never thought that was possible.

'Thousand Blade style' she yelled.

And when she is near the dragon, the group quickly jumps out of the way and she unleashes a barrage of stab attack, so fast and swift, that no naked eye could see how many times she stabbed the dragon scales as the dragon winced in pain.

It is a high level technique of swordsmanship.

The others began approaching the dragon after the attack as Velamina jumped back on the opposite side to catch some rest.