-Midday - Nefiru's POV-
After capturing what could be the leader for interrogation, I realized the five attackers might have been part of a larger force judging by the people on the rooftops and Liana's call for help. I intended to rush back, but unexpectedly crashing down a house delayed the rescue.
Fuck! I can't take off with all this crap! I swear hoping the girls can endure a little longer.
I shake the wreckage off me and ropes entangling my wings to fold them.
"OHF! What happened!?" A trapped man under me questions with a muffled voice.
"HELP!" A woman shouted under the wreckage behind me in the same manner.
Get out on your own. I asserted putting out the fire from a broken lamp and focus on hearing any more from the girls over the noisy town.
Come on Liana, use the bombs. You should know by now how they work since Lester even sleep with them... I wait for a sign of their location before rushing over.
*BOOM!...BOOM! BOOM!* Three explosions almost simultaneously sounded from half a block away before the town went dead quiet.
"Gah! My Arm!" Echoed a man shouting from afar
"Ahhh L-L-Leg!" Another one stuttered.
"Nooo! My Dick!" Complained a young man before many people in the houses started laughing.
"Uak! Goh! Ohn!" The three utter before things went silent on their end.
Uh... Okay...that'll do.... Good girl! I rejoice and turned my attention to the canned magician nearby.
I don't need you alive anymore... I decided to end the person struggling to get out using wind magic to cut the metal.
It's more efficient using compressed water which consumes large amounts of mana to kill the person than producing a magnetic field strong enough to crush him with his own armors and the distance is another factor to consider.
Three meters above the metallic burrito, I make a thin ice lance meter long with compressed tip and propelled it downwards.
*Boom!* The top exploded accelerating it downwards. *SHUAK!* The ice javelin pierced through the metal panel and the neck of the person. "GU-ack!" He uttered gagging with the impaled throat before the mana wave washed over my body replenishing my reserves a bit.
""AH!?"" The two people trapped uttered feeling the wave too.
After noticing the ground is not solid enough to jump high, the roofs around aren't sturdy, and there isn't enough space to open the wings, I sent a probe to the surroundings and identified the easiest path before putting strength in the legs while closing my eyes.
*WHOOooosh...! CRACK...! CRASH...! THUMP! BAM!* I demolished house after house in a straight line towards the street.
"Kyaaa! Ahhh!" The people scream around my path of destruction.
Halfway through, I detected the smell of the frozen Earth magician and took a turn to him while sending lightning elementals ahead of me.
*Crack... Crash!* I poke my head into a wall and see a woman pouring hot water on the blond person's frozen back.
"EH!!?" He uttered before was promptly electrocuted. "GAAHHH!" He screamed while spasming on the bed.
"EEEK!" The brown-haired woman in her thirties shrieked backing away.
I ignore her and extend my neck further inside.
*Whap! Riiip!* I lashed at man head and rip it off. *Gulp.* I swallow his head along with the helmet that shows his face.
Lester is not going to like the repair bill, but it's not like I can teleport... I mused continuing my rampage as my blood boils with excitement.
Not knowing what to find after coming out of the houses, I swallow the mana bottle and inspect my mana reserves before grabbing four iron rods from the titanium collar in my mouth and track Shaila's scent.
*Bang! Plaf!* I come out of the last house knocking the wall over and look around.
"SLOW!" Liana yelled holding a shield and bloody sword in the middle of the street.
...I thought you liked men too much to kill them. I retorted smelling sweat, iron and blood.
I look at the three corpses dressed in leather oozing fresh blood that slowly moves to form puddles around the two girls, then turned right where the street leads to the river and a group of ten people approach calmly.
"Nef..." Shaila called holding both hands while slightly trembling.
I rushed between the girls and the approaching mix of magicians and auramancers wielding large wooden shields enough to cover a crouching person or huge crossbows that would take quite a few normal people to pull. Behind them, a stone wall is erected closing off the street while people holding nets and ropes peek on the rooftops.
"HISSSSS!" I hissed showing my teeth menacingly at the approaching group which didn't falter and continued a calm march.
I hear noise from behind and turn my head to see an even bigger group forming as they come from around the corner of the plaza while more on the roofs following outside my magic range. Stone walls began erecting where I came out from while they reinforce all the house walls facing the streets turning it into a square canal eight meters wide by five tall.
"GRRR..." I growl annoyed of being cornered.
Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me! I cursed at being surrounded by such a large force composed of different magicians and Aura users.
"W-what do we do? They are after Shaila.... The guards in town--" The blond woman asked with a shaky voice.
"Are all dead. There's little wind, but the smell tells me they even killed several bystanders." I interrupted creating a soundproof veil of water around my head and the girls.
A shame...I knew some of them. Marlo is probably dead too which means Reylus lost his Auramancer teacher and no one else wants the risky job. Damn! He was so close to learning... I lamented.
"Gasp! They dared do such a thing...?" Liana inquired aghast.
Yes, they are too confident... Some other noble or maybe even a royal could be behind this. I assumed and ignored the walking mercenaries to strategize.
"Calm down. We will make a stand here to gain time and hope the news reach Lester soon." I comforted.
"That won't be easy... I know those two are high ranked Earth Magicians, these two are Fire and there's also one of the Kalio brothers which are wind users, so the other must be somewhere too. The rest are auramancers and magicians around Rank 6." She revealed pointing at them.
Yes... She had sex with many of them.... I recognized their smells were on Liana before. Ugh! I just spent 15% mana fighting four Rank 6 and got the auramancer off-guard, but I don't have enough mana to kill all of these people... Most dragons can handle ten people of the same rank but these fuckers have six high rankers which are equivalent to ten rank 6s each in magic terms adding to more than twenty of my rank! I analyze the precarious situation. Who the fuck set this event to impossible mode?!! I retorted angered and turned to the white-haired girl.
"Eat them all!" She ordered under my gaze.
...She's not one bit thrilled to be surrounded either. I affirmed staring into her clouded eyes.
"Don't be unreasonable...my stomach only fits four-five people," I said calming down before finding solutions and not dwell on the problem.
"Auuug..." Shaila uttered scrunching her face. "I-I don't want to be captured..." She said in a low voice while tears stream down her pale face.
"I know." I warmly said before rubbing my snout on her. "When I was little-er... I heard a voice warning me to find you before it was too late and I think it was about people coming after you again. I'm prepared to die for you...to lose who I am now." I revealed solemnly.
"Wha-?!... B-but they can't follow us in the wild! Let's fly away! You don't have to risk your life!" Shaila blurted with a worried face while wiping her tears.
"Look around." I glanced at the people closing the encirclement. "They seem prepared to deal with the consequences which means that whoever is behind everything would chase us across the world and these idiots could just follow us to the wild. So, they must all die before you are truly free." I declared.
"The-then... What should I do?" She stammered asking while placing her hands on my nostrils.
Sadly, her magic reserves are at half.... I confirm our disadvantage before pondering what to do.
"First of all, turn that fear into rage. Then keep pretending to be defenseless, and use illusions to avoid capture while charging Lasers with all the mana left to kill as many as you can." I instructed the light user.
"So... Disrupt their magic, throw them off and fire once they all gather around me? The ME from before would freeze..." Shaila reaffirmed while her loose hair sways from my breathing.
Shaila is higher rank than me, so they can't stop her directly and she can disrupt high rank magic better too. I review before showing my worse case scenario.
"If I can't kill them...I'll hold the large force until my corpse can't move anymore, so you can escape through the gap I'm going to open with Liana," I announced.
"Let...Nefi die...? I-I can't allow that! I can do this! I will do this! I want to kill them! I must! You can't leave me!" She encouraged herself gripping the little fists until they turned red before declaring.
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Good wolfie! She also looks nice in these clothes... I appraised before licking her face and turned to the sister.
"I smell assassins, so watch out for sneaky-stabby," I advised the auramancer woman.
Ugh, I always hated playing assassins or fighting them in games. They smell disgusting here too... I affirmed.
*Glurb.* Shaila swallowed loudly. "You can't leave me again..." She muttered in a low voice barely audible.
Hm? We'll talk about what you mean by that if I survive this... I realized Shaila is hiding something she's afraid to tell me. Also, did you just drank my saliva? Whatever, not important. I dismissed resuming the plan.
"I will attack the group coming from the river using long range, and you use that last grenade on the people left standing before I throw you to finish them off... I take on the other twenty after." I explain the strategy.
"Wait-wha?! Throw me?" Liana questioned with wide eyes.
"They have magicians and crossbows...you won't make it to them even with that small shield." I reasoned.
Liana nodded and I turned to watch the formations outside of my magic range.
There are Auramancers holding wooden shields, muscular men with Hammers, Swords or even Gauntlets, and behind them stand magicians of different elements judging by all the range of hair colors. I watch them conversing with serious faces before dispelling the veil and turned in the direction of the plaza.
"Should we attack them while they talk or?" A bearded old man voiced doubts.
"Nono... That's common courtesy. We should wait until they finish talking--of course we should attack!" A high-rank wind magician said maliciously.
"No hurry. They can't get away even by air and the cornered must realized they have no way out before giving up." A water mage with a long ponytail commented.
"Well. Well, if it isn't the Ragefires and their lizard pet." A black haired man said walking in the front with a red-haired woman, bald guy, and a young man.
"You mean the broken doll kekeke." A creepy black haired guy said.
"I thought it was a subjugation for big red but this beast is rank 6..." A mustache guy commented.
"Bah! Nobles using our tax money to buy mana crystals for their pet." A dark-skinned person with an afro remarked with scorn.
"Tayuma, what should we do about the greedy fools who went ahead of the plan?" The mustache guy asked.
"Leave him be. He's dead, so his problems are over." Tayuma replied with contempt.
"I'M NOT DEAD!" The auramancer torso yelled.
...Holy fuck. Just how tough are these auramancers...why is he not dead?! I left him to bleed out slowly and he might live! I retorted.
"This was a high risk-high reward mission and you blew it. You are dead." The leader declared with a cold tone.
"Ugh! Stupid Dragon pet was stronger than we thought..." He mumbled cursing.
"At least they drained his mana and there's more money for us now!" The creepy guy announced.
"Don't do this Tayuma... We are Nobles!" Liana reasoned in a familiar tone with the person.
"Shut up! The Royals won't give a crap about a noble family without purpose." The green haired man argued.
"We'll blame everything on the dragon going rampage, and the inspectors will believe it." A bearded man said.
"This is justice! Your family only causes trouble and his brother, Yumeno was assassinated because of you. Damn whore!" The young man next to the leader spoke with hatred.
"Agh! That's not my fault!" Liana protested with an ugly face.
Well, Lester does fit the evil boss profile and these guys are heroes--puahaha! Truly, justice seekers are boring in the eyes of those who see the world in many shades. I affirmed.
"We want to avoid casualties, and you three getting badly hurt, but we will accomplish our mission." Tayuma declared before a combined intimidation wash over us.
"Ack!" Shaila uttered grinding her teeth and hugs my right foreleg.
Mehh! This would have affected me before meeting Erina and the other wolves... I realize adjusting the influence before sending my magic inside Shaila to help her endure. Although their threatening magic reminds me that I haven't pissed in over a day... well, it's a source of water elementals. Ah, they will think it's having an effect! I realized before deciding to relieve myself.
*Pshhhhh...* I started urinating.
Ahhh... I felt relief releasing litters of liquid while making me lighter.
"Nef?" Shaila looks up at me calling.
"HAHAHA! The Dragon's afraid!" The creepy guy laughed out loud before saying.
"What? I couldn't hold it anymore and I'm not wasting magic to absorb it." I explain my conduct.
"Warn next time... You splashed my legs..." She said stepping on my paw to avoid the urine mixing with the blood from the corpses.
"Oops..." I admit controlling the wastes with water magic.
"You pee like a girl!" Liana teased trying not to sound tense.
I ignored the blond woman launching two ice needles finger-thick towards the distracted auramancer who is laughing his ass off while using light magic to hide them until it was not possible to hold the compressed water anymore.
*Pah!* The bottom burst to accelerate the urine ice shard forward. *Shaack! Crash!* One of the icicles entered the eye of the person and broke through the bone protecting the brain while the other was stopped by a steel glove.
"AHH--!" The man uttered while reflexively reaching out with his right hand to grab the object lodged in his brain before falling forward. *Thud! Klang!* He fell down twitching while the others didn't bat an eye.
Bullseye! I'm getting better at this... I affirmed using the casual mood created to prepare.
"Annoying moron...making fun of a dragon who can understand you. Act professional-oh wait...you can't anymore!" The person who crushed the icicle rebuked the corpse.
"Surrender! We just need to deliver you three, so behave until then." The person in charge ordered firmly before offering without finding me suspicious.
Hehe. Just because my magic isn't spread out doesn't mean I'm not preparing for combat. I asserted their common sense to find me hostile as I'm acting natural while the girls calm down.
Magic control is stronger closer to the body, hence the reason for beasts using breath attacks, especially dragons. Moreover, Elementals can oppose forces like gravity, inertia and even have a fixed or moving coordinates in space which all consume much mana to stay in place briefly before disappearing, but said effect is efficient closer to the body.
Now for the next trick... Coil Gun! I review loading the first projectile in my mouth and manipulate elementals.
Give lightning elementals commands to spread and absorb residual magnetism that might affect biological functions. Magnetize steel projectile and levitate. Creating elemental Rings with assigned coordinates...five...twenty...forty-eight magnetic loops ready. Set polarity and field strength in standby mode. Prepare magnetic catapult to compensate for inertia.
"We surrender." I declared making some of the men brighten up and relax while others keep their poker face.
Over my corpse! I resolved turning around and opening my mouth wider before extending the guiding magnetic barrel outside in a straight line extending two meters. FIRE! I initiate powering each loop with a magnetic field strong enough to repel the saliva in my mouth and released the iron rod vibrating on the spot as if waiting to be released.
*ZHUOOONN!* The bullet-shaped rod flung out almost instantaneously as if inertia didn't exist before accelerating through each suspended ring towards the group of ten people who couldn't react. *BANNNG!* The projectile pierced through a wooden shield and the armored person holding it while launching the magician behind several meters on the street.
*Crashhhh...* Three people were affected and their formation now has a hole in it.
"AHH! MY ARM!!" A guy screamed missing his entire left arm.
"ATTACK!" The leader shouted after realizing he was tricked.
However, I didn't stop and quickly reloaded three more bullets in under four seconds, then fired readjusting after each recoil and enduring the heated air from friction inside my mouth. *WUOOOOONN!!!* The three consecutive shots shook my head and affected my consciousness but quickly recovered.
"WHA-!?" Some uttered surprised but reacted slow.
*BANNNG! *BANNNG!* *BANNNG!* Three more holes opened up in their flanks as they look around surprised their shields and armors are useless when another flying object came. *BOOM!* The last grenade exploded, sending out a shockwave resouding within the homes.
"AHHG!" The people screamed.
I grabbed Liana by her waist with my left paw which ripped the dress and wounded her skin, then threw the woman carrying shield and sword over to the three remaining people standing.
"KYAAAHH!!" The blond woman screams flying through the air. *CRASH!* She landed over corpses and got into action while I focus on my fight.
*Bang! Bang! Pang! Thonk! Shuak! Crack!* Several meter-long steel arrows impact my scales on the left flank and shake my body while some lodging.
Arrgh! I endure the couple arrows which cracked the titanium reinforced scales and penetrated into my flesh. I would be a pincushion with normal scales... I asserted using lightning bost to rush when the stone grows around my paws.
With Lightning elementals almost depleted from magnetism, I quickly made boots of ice to stop the growth from trapping me and expanded the ice to break the stone.
*Crack! Prak!* I break free and faced the larger group.
"GWUOAAAAA!" I roared loudly which echoed through the streets and charged towards the auramancer shield wall protecting the magicians along with the crossbow users.
However, a large mass of magic formed in front after taking a few steps away from Shaila who crouched covering her ears.
*BOOOMM!* An explosion in my chest threw me back while cracking and bending the big scales.
*SRRRrrr...* My body skids while the claws scratch the pavement leaving marks for a meter.
Argh! I felt the throbbing pain in my chest but ignored it.
*FOOSH!!!* Dozens of red fireballs bigger than human heads impact my body and continue burning for a few seconds.
"HNNG!!" I achieved a foothold and sprung forward again watching the wind users point their hands towards the crossbows.
Ah! I realized their method for piercing my scales is accelerating with wind vacuums.
*Bang! Bang!!* More steel arrows impact my moving body but were deflected while ripping some scales in their path and more fireballs hit my wings. *FOOSH!!!* The fire landed and stuck to my wings burning.
MY WINGS! I panicked putting out the fire burning my fleshy membranes.
"He has metallic scales!" Someone shouted.
I continue advancing while losing speed from breaking the ice spikes forming at an angle from the street.
*Crash! Crash!* I break through the brittle ice with no additional property.
Another mass of magic quickly formed in front but dodged in time when holes opened around my paws as if their aim failed to predict my landing.
*BOOOMM!* The explosion on my side made my body wobble and lose speed when the ground in front turns red with smoke raising up for several meters.
Lava! Can't fly...my wings will shred or burn to ashes... I discover a combined ability of earth magicians before coating my paws in ice to jump in it.
*KSSHH!* I sink half a meter in the sticky molten rock but the ice reduces friction, allowing me to run inside of it.
The magma splashes under my body feeling the hotness in sensitive parts before a dark cloud covered my vision.
Not this again! I complained tunning my eyes to see ultraviolet wavelengths. Ah, they don't know I'm also light affinity... I realized their flaw continued to the edge of the lava.
A large trench more than a meter deep and three long opened in front while a shower of rocks fell above me.
*Thud! Bang! Thuak! Cush!* The stones damage my wings further while others hit the uncovered wound along with more arrows. *Bang! Tonng! Shuu! Psh! Ting!* They aim for the side without Shaila behind.
Agh! Fuck... I endured the barrage and jumped over the trench while forming ice heels under my paws.
*Thump! Skhhhhh...* I landed and skated over the stone road and made it quite a distance until they broke, but I was unable to dodge another mass of magic in my path.
*KABOOOOMMM!!!* A huge explosion occurred in my chest again but this time, it was strong enough to lift my front body, shatter the scales and made a crater in the stone under me judging by the debriss flying off.
"URGHH!" I utter feeling an immense pain that paralyzed my toppling body temporarily.
*BOOOMM!* Another small explosion followed by fireballs. *FOOSH!!! Crackle!* The sticky fire lands on my scales and sets me on fire. *Bang! Pang! Thak! Shuak! Crush!* Another shower of arrows lodges themselves in my chest missing or bent scales providing fleshy spots.
"GHUAA!!" I cried out in agony standing on two legs but they didn't stop.
*FOOISH!!!* A hot fire blasts on my neck like a large welding torch and starts cooking me alive, but it didn't end there. *FOOOIIIISH!!!!* The exposed Titanium inside the scales ignited from the high temperature and large surface area burning brightly.
It hurtsssss... I feel an unbearable pain in my chest and neck stopping me from breathing.
"NOOO!" Screamed Shaila. "YOU ARE KILLING HIM!!! STOOOP!" She pleaded crying from a distance over the noisy combustion on me.
Will I die a virgin in this life? I thought unable to breathe while my head comes out of the dark cloud. I never even got to fuck a large dog... I recall the golden wolf while my body becomes weaker. Ah, there's always regret when dying... I affirmed as the sun comes into view from my elevated head and my hind legs start to give out.