Chapter 446: Crimson Saintess Versus Fire Blessed.

Chapter 446: Crimson Saintess Versus Fire Blessed.

Woah! I yelped as I felt [Foresight] activate once again, only this time it came from behind me.

My body fell backwards as I felt a foot sweep my feet out from under me, helping me narrowly avoid the arrow. Yet, as I was about to land on my back, I noticed the arrow stop right before where my head just was and swerve to the side, switching its target to the fire Saint like some kind of homing missile. Accelerating from the spot, it launched itself right at the tiger, lodging itself right into his shoulder.

Once my back hit the ground, I slammed my palms on it, pushing myself back on my feet just in time to see the fire swarming around the beastmans shoulder, turning the projectile into ash. There was a dent in his armor, but it didnt look deep enough to have hurt him. Still, it made me question what that arrow just now was.

Thanks, I told Vifi,

She pulled out her rapier and crossbow, tapped me on the shoulder, and turned away from me. All Im helping you with. Dont die, donut.

Why am I a donut, now? What is with these nicknames?

Vifi shot her crossbow at the salamandra, causing it to roar out and wiggle in pain. I planted my glaive on the ground, trying to find out where the archer was, but my senses couldnt detect anybody that resembled one. All the dots moving in my [Detection Sensor] felt more like they were attacking the monsters, with only a few exceptions.

One of them was the Saint before me while another group from where I found Saori and the others. Three of those signals were jumping around, fighting against a group of six. Who were they? Were they associates of this Saint? The Saints from the Aurena and Plesia Church all had knights to protect them, so maybe it was the same for Shiternos religion? Or, and this was a big or, it could be a Champion, since Champions were supposed to protect Saints.

Still, none of these people were that archer. This trepidation of the unknown, forced to be wary of an enemy I could not find, made my chest feel tight. My concentration was raised to the max, but it also meant I had to direct some of my attention away from the tiger.

Surge, come forth! Bright Flight! A magic circle appeared on the tigers staff, conjuring a flame bird. Raising its flaming wings, it soared up as the mage conjured even more spells before it charged at me.

Really? Reeeeally? Fire? Ha Panzer.

I stood my ground, holding my hand out. Custom spell versus custom spell; which one would beat the other? My defense or his offense? Well, the real issue for this guy was that my [Volcanic Blaze] had an [Inferno Resistance Lv. 10] integrated into it, and it wasnt a dragon skill. Nor were my custom spells.

As purple fire surged from the brown magic circle, it enveloped me in, hardening around me into a shell of obsidian. The flame bird hit me, exploding right on my head as I could feel the warmth of the spell. Oh yeah, without my scales, the heat actually felt hot. Goodness, once again I was reminded why I disliked being in my human form.

To ashes! The Saint continued spamming his fire spells on me, demolishing the area where I stood. Let my conflagration burn you, dear kindling! Let this glorious flame light up the darkness of this worl

Ding ding.

[Music Resonation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

Dang dang, ding ding dang.

Still, despite the ear-booming sounds around me, my music still pierced through, taking over the chaos and buffing everybody around me. However, instead of using a spell song, I imitated a synthesizer to create electronic punk rock, drums to drive the hype up, and then trumpets to drown out any blast, roars, and cries inside this black market, all to herald the climax of this song! Let my violin play, for nothing would stop my blood from pumping!

Gale Steps!

I dashed out of the fire while the Saint was confused by my battle theme, zig-zagging before I stood before him. I gripped my glaive and swung upwards, using [Spark Crescent], forcing the Saint to dodge. [Air Steps] then activated as I stomped the air, using [Dragoon Dive] to crash land, sending the tiger flying. With the momentum, I twisted my body, using [Volcanic Blaze] to control the flames created by his spells, using it against him as I blasted him away.

Humanize!

[Humanize (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

I used the obsidian armor to hide my features, so I wouldnt directly appear as a dragonewt and mostly remain anonymous. The armor imitated the form of an edgy knight, as my dragonewt snout appeared like a helmet, my wings like capes, and my coiled tail like a sash. With my form decided, I glared at where the tiger had landed and snapped my fingers, materializing a large fire magic circle in the sky.

The beastmen dug himself out of the rubble, snarling with a wide grin as his catalyst lit up bright yellow. Runes then appeared on his greatsword as it set itself on fire, scorching it until the metal was flaring hot. At the same time, his fur lit on fire, perfectly aligned with his red stripes, revealing two runic tattoos beneath them.

Glory to Danterno! You tru

[I am Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor, dragon princess of Kargryx, and Champion of Aurena,] I announced only to him. [I am not Fire God Danternos Saintess. You think you can contest with the fire of a true dragonkin? Against the daughter of Sixth Empress Melloxtressa, Ruler of the Great Blizzard? With your pitiful flames?]

I reached my hand out, ripping the flames surrounding his body and weapon off him, gathering them around me.

[Okay, you want to play? Lets play!] I raised my hand up in the air as the music once again reached its climax. [Symphonie des Feuergottes!]

[Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Allegro)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

A waterfall of fire flooded the area around me, scaring the salamander away and forcing the flabbergasted pantheon beastman to the edge of my spell. As it dissipated, I used [Dragoon Jump] to dash right at him, enhancing my speed even further with [Wind Blast] and my scale-dust boosters to make it to him before he could react.

Swinging my tail, I smacked him on the head, leaving a deep gash along his eye to his jaw, blinding him and ripping off a section of his snout. I then swung my blazing glaive, forcing him to move his greatsword up to defend himself as a reflex, only for the impact to cause an explosion from all the scale-dust detonating and blasting us apart again.

Allegro boosting my agility by half of its original amount meant I could reach the tiger without any special movement, as I was just that fast. As I was about to hit him once more, his catalyst glowed once again, bursting into flames before it entered his body through his arm. Red seams appeared across his body and staff, all flowing like rivers towards his heart, glowing brightly as if he had a sun core.

Mana Eyes.

Name: Sierras

Level: 110

Main Job: Ash Seeker

Unique Skill: [Ashbringer Wildfire Lv. 5]

Title: [Ashbringer of Renewal]

Thats enough information, judge the rest for me parallel minds, I ordered, as that was all I needed to know. The rest of Sierras Profile could be analyzed by my ten minds to help me adjust my battle style.

Ashbringer Wildfire: A unique skill to turn the old into ash and dust in the name of life, allowing the world to rejuvenate in the aftermath of the inferno. Allows the blessed to absorb the ashes around them, healing their wounds and strengthening their stats. Creates an ash shield, protecting attack from everything but water and ice elemental attacks. Reduces fire and heat damage by 50%

Ashbringer of Renewal: A title granted to a mortal recognized by the God of Trailblazing. Allows turning ash into [Healing Dust], scaling in effectiveness by [Ashbringer Wildfire]s level and the blesseds Intelligence. Able to absorb ash to apply [Ashen Heart]. The possessor of this title will also gain immunity to any fire spell that they cast

Ashen Heart: Healing dust absorbed into the blesseds mana paths, concentrated around their hearts. Turns 50% of all fire and lava elemental damage into healing. 50% of damage the owner causes on others through fire elemental spells is turned into healing. Reduces water elemental damage by 20%. Healing dust is constantly drained and once this buff expires, apply [Exhaustion (Minor)]

Sheesh! A drain and fire tank!

Searing Immolation! he shouted as he blocked my strike, directing his staff at me, before a magic circle caused an explosion. As my [True Draconic Barrier] shielded me from the attackcreating some distance between the two of usI noted how that didnt feel like a normal fire spell.

Searing Immolation: A defense melting fire spell, specialized in debuffing. Applies [Immolated] to reduce fire resistance by 20% and wisdom by 5%

Dont mess with me, was the declaration towards Carmaniate and the Church of Danterno. It also acted as a warning that things would be different the next time they did this, as I would consider it an actual threat and incompetence from the alliance. If they didnt want a dragon breathing down their necks, maybe try to control your stupid blessed? No?

Also, Mom would totally be angry if I cause another war before Im done with my current one. Sheesh, the scolding I would get!

Champion Ferrit, stand up! We must fight! For God Dantern

You said something? A womans voice interrupted him to the side.

HuhArgh! He kneeled as somebody kicked him in the leg.

I looked to the two women standing behind him, having just exited his shadow. Hey, Sis. Saori. Vifi and I were wondering where you three were.

Sorry about that. Saori scratched her neck, looking guilty. I was surprised when they appeared before I noticed Grimnir was attacking them.

I saw everything and went to help Neill shrugged. Nothing much to do, though.

Gahaha, they were nothing! Our smith bellowed. The new armor is working great! Im beating people far above my levels now. Could use some finetuning on the mana efficiency, but I feel strong.

It all started with a simple comment on power armor from sci-fi media, before it turned into replicating steampunk with manatech. There were issues here and there until we finally settled on using runes and manatech to create something more akin to high fantasy dwarven armor, until this final product. A combination of every single idea coupled with Ellaines and Daichis effort and continued training with the power of Grimnirs new blessing.

This was arcanatech armor!

Thats whyGet over here! The arcana crystal on Grimnirs left hand lit up green before it created a suction effect, pulling the Saint right into his grip. Holding him up by the throat, Grimnir tilted his head. Go to sleep.

He slammed the tigers head onto the building next to him, knocking the Saint out. With him carrying all the beastmen for us, we rendezvoused with Vifi, who was waiting for us with the unconscious spy. She had left the salamandra alive, as it fled after I cast [Symphonie des Feuergottes], so her job ended right there after she killed anybody in her way.

With our target acquired and our enemies defeated, we quickly fled from the scene, as I was still nervous of that archer. Once we reached the tunnel, though, all five of us felt something was wrong. Our [Detection Sensor] noted how there were more than three people at the end of the place. There were

Quatre! Saori shouted as the fourth fenrir jumped out of the shadow, charging right through the tunnel like a bulldozer. Leaving me to fortify the walls with [Terra Wall], ensuring the enlarged passage wouldnt fall on our heads.

We followed right behind him before somebody tried to attack our wolf, but due to his shadow armor, he was a literal tank knocking anything in his way away. Saori equipped her daggers and connected them with a mana thread before using them like whips, smacking our assailants down before summoning Rajah, having him carry the beastmen, the spy, and the two cloaked figures.

As Quatre reached the end, he howled before slipping back into a shadow, allowing us to see what was happening. There, we found Gael, Vangrim, and our informant lying in their puddle of their own blood, while multiple cloaked figures stood over them. In addition, there was a large hole in the middle of the room.

GAEL! Saori shrieked before her body turned into smoke, appearing right behind the person who attacked Gael, almost looking like she just teleported. She swung both of her daggers, far too fast to see normally, leaving the assailant riddled with wounds before he fell on the ground.

Experience for development Jobs has reached multiple breaking points.

[Star Idol]: Lv. 0 -> Lv. 1

[Fire Mage]: Lv. 0 -> Lv. 1

[Tyrant Hatchling]: Lv. 0 -> Lv. 1

Surprisingly, that was our first kill.

Go!

From the shadows of seven assailants, Saoris shadow pack emerged from them. The four fenrirs and Saoris mom bit the mens leg, ripping them off, while Rajahs mom pierced one with her sharp tail. The last was consumed inside Shoyis slime body.

Who are you! Saori demanded as red smoke appeared around her eyes, but before they could say anything, they jumped into the hole in the middle of the room. Tsk!

Go get them! I shouted before casting [Sacred Field] to heal the three injured. Having hopefully stabilized them, I then continued the treatment with my white flames. Saori, go! Get them!

R-right, please! Saori eyed Gael before running off. Grimnir and Vifi followed her upon my command.

As I stared at Gaels numerous body injuries, especially a knife hole in his head, I scowled as I knew this would be difficult. Vangrim also was in critical condition as a sword ran right through his heart. My healing magic was strong, but one false move could still ruin the operation, as I had no idea if I could restore brain matter, or a completely destroyed heartI still needed the bits of Vangrims original heart to copy it with [Miraculous Grace].

Hey, the girl! Neill urged me before turning her head around and scowling. Oh

Yeah

It was too late for her. Gael and Vangrim survived their wounds barely through their levels and higher health.

Neill clicked her tongue. Okay, cant do anything. You need my help?

[And me, Master?] Rajah asked.

Yes, guard those people for me, Rajah, and make sure to keep your nose open. Also, keep me informed on Saori and her location, I replied. Sis, open a portal for me. I need Asakas help to make sure I dont accidentally kill Vangrim by pulling the sword out. Afterwards, I need you to stand guard for me. This is no coincidence! The damn spy being around, protected by so many people, then those fire blessed, and then this ambush!

You told me that prince went crazy, but if this was done all under his orders, then you really shouldnt underestimate that Prince of Envy! Neill warned me before doing what I wanted. Our instincts knew what was up.

Gael, please! Dont die on me. Farrons and Yorshkas hearts would break if you die! Priscillas, too! Youre Saoris goddamn rogue mentor and drinking buddy, so dont you dare die!

I gave a silent prayer as I refocused and had my parallel minds start playing [The Heir of Hope]. This was what I had to do.

I had to leave the rest to Saori.

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