Timothy tried his best to nudge, crack, or even break any tiny portion off of Iron Claw's spine, he tried everything, but it didn't work. It would appear that just like his claws, the dragon’s spine could be considered iron-like as well!
Considering that he just spent thousands of mana points on this attempt, he decided to stop trying. It was a failure of a plan. He was down to twenty-three thousand points of mana now too, and it was best to hold on to them!
“Bastard…” He grunted, and figured that he'd rather not try the rest of his pre-necromantic powers on this beast, because they'd fail as well. He couldn’t do much alone.
Since he couldn’t do much alone, he then decided to return to his group. Even though he believed that their collective attempt to kill the dragon was just as futile as his personal attempt, he still decided to re-join them. He figured that if Iron Claw launched a counter-attack, he could use their bodies as shields. He didn’t want to die today.
However, before he could return to his group, he got distracted by something. Since he had crouched to have a better look at the massive dragon, he saw everything that was happening below the roaring fire!
For one thing, he noticed that Iron Claw was standing on his hind legs right now. His torso, and widely spread wings were taking all the damage, but he did not budge!
Seconds later, he also noticed a single goblin suddenly appear out of nowhere. This goblin was very close to the dragon, so plenty would assume that this course of action was nothing but a deathwish!
It didn't take more than a blink before that goblin attacked the dragon, and once Timothy witnessed how much power was beaming out of that one, single man, he immediately knew who that man was!
“Zedim… what a brave motherfucker.” Tim sighed, and continued to watch the Guard Master from afar, in admiration.
Zedim was a true force of nature, he was shooting four kinds of attacks all at the same time! He was shooting fireballs, laser beams, lightning strikes, and lighting circles all together, and the heat those attacks brung, immediately shifted the waves of battle!
Everyone in the vicinity could hear Iron Claw screech, and then roar, though most were unaware that it was the Guard Master who caused this! They were clueless of his plans, but a screeching dragon raised the overall battle morale nonetheless.
Zedim left a large burn mark on the dragon's underbelly, he burned the scales of that area badly, almost enough to break the scales all together! If he had been about twenty meters closer to the dragon, he would've torn through its belly, but that situation didn't occur, because Iron Claw hasn't taken a single step away from his original spot, he hadn't walked forward. Zedim had to work with what he had here, he couldn’t stop attacking, not now.
With his help, they even managed to make the dragon back away a few feet. This happened just moments later, and it was the kind of abrasive progress that they were hoping for!
“Haha!” The platoon laughed in union, they mocked the dragon's pain openly.
The cumulative morale right now was strong enough to move the planet, the absolute power everyone felt on their palms was groundshaking! They kept pouring mana into this battle as if there was no tomorrow!
Furthermore, since they managed to make the dragon back away, the next part of the plan could now go into motion. Nine, power-amped mages hit the sky!
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These mages left their groups, hopped on to the dragons that were to their disposal, and started attacking Iron Claw from a closer distance. The dragonflies were tiny, and agile, so it was unlikely that they could ever be hit by any of the enemy's attacks!
These mages on the dragons were amongst the strongest, so the damage they dealt on closer range was beyond terrifying! They flew thirty meters above the waves of fire that their platoon was unleashing, and were trying to meet Iron Claw eye to eye!
Being this close, they finally started to rely on thunder as well. They alternated between large fireballs, and thunderbolts, in order to deal more variations of pain against their target. They managed to leave huge burn marks on the dragon already, and another roar from the dragon's side confirmed this!
“Haha!” The entire platoon celebrated his pain.
“These bastards are really onto something! Maybe we won't die after all.” Tim said, because after he returned to his group, he saw the multiple dragons in the sky.
Originally, he had pitched to ride a dragon himself, he felt entitled to fight with Billy up there in the sky, but perhaps it was best that he was refused the opportunity. He was sure that he would have defecated, if he saw the dragon's twelve meter wide head moving along the sky, he'd defecate if he saw it up close, so this task wasn't for him.
Anyway, after Iron Claw was forced to back away once more, the dragon still managed to sneak in a counter attack. Despite the pain he felt almost constantly, he managed to flutter his wings forward just once! He had tried to flutter them before, but at least one-hundred mages had been hitting his shoulder blades every second, up until now! Moving his wings forward hurt more than the deep, burning fire of hell, but he did so anyway!
Once he did, the wind he caused redirected most of the fireballs that were being launched towards him! Some fireballs dissipated, while the stronger ones were knocked back like ping pong balls, and they were heading back towards their casters!
Normally they would be able to dissipate their own fireballs upon will, but the wind knocked half of the platoon off of their feet! Some of them landed on rocks, some were protected by the outlay of the mountains, but paired with the ricocheting fireballs, the overall damage the platoon then withstood was significant! Twenty people died on the spot, just because of the strong wings that Iron Claw had flapped towards them!
“You can flap your wings all day…” Guard Master Zedim muttered.
The wind had knocked him down as well, but he didn’t die, his armor withstood most of the damage. He then saw that the dragon was about to breathe fire, and understood that he’d lose a lot more men if the dragon had managed to figure out where the groups of warriors were! He couldn’t allow that to happen, because the battle would then be lost, almost immediately.
The men and women in the sky were in the most immediate danger, especially the couple of them who were riding on Georgie the dragon, so they moved out of the way quickly! They could see a roaring wave of dragon fire float above their heads afterwards, and although it missed the men that were riding on dragons, the fire surely still had a target!
The fire was forty-meters wide, and it was heading to wipe out an entire group of people, sixty of them to be precise! Zedim couldn’t prevent this attack on time, even though he did something rash to try and distract the dragon! He hit the dragon on one of its eyes to catch its attention, but it didn't work. Zedim tried, but he failed.
The wave of fire hit the group afterwards, and everyone assumed them dead, but when the dragon fire then dissipated quicker than it was supposed to, the rest of the platoon noticed that something was odd. The fire dissipated, and then a counter-attack of multi-colored fireballs, was the response of the men and women who were supposed to be dead right now! The assumed victims of the dragon fire survived, and fought back.
Everyone was surprised, even the dragon, but their survival wasn't random. Ortana had been within that group, and she just spent five-thousand points as she had cranked her forcefield ability up to the max, in turn, protecting her comrades as best as she could! Her contribution was golden, but it alone wasn't what saved the group.
The strongest mages had already tried to dismantle Iron Claw’s fire attack, they spent thousands of mana points towards this. Paired with Ortana's protective forcefield, they escaped this grand attack without as much as a light burn on their skin! With such a result, the overall battle morale of the platoon bounced up again.
Zedim noticed what happened, and as another wave or roaring fire started overwhelming the dragon, he decided to use his greatest ability to his disposal, his ace card. They needed a great advantage if they were to win, so he decided to summon some White Flames!