----------------------Elise POV-----------------------
The summoning magic is starting, and all the mages began pouring mana in the circle, because of the huge amount of mana, the dragons immediately looked at us like we were a very good snack.
Together with me, my mother and two hundred soldiers are ready to bet our lives in this circle, so we will protect those mages to our last breath, hopefully our dad will be able to delay the red dragon for enough time to complete the summoning.
As the first wyvern was coming at us, I disappeared with the stealth skill and sub skill, while my mother took aim and released her first arrow. In less than a second, the arrow traveled the distance between us and the wyvern, effectively blinding it in the right eye.
As the wyvern crashed on the roof, I jumped and used the chance to aim for the other eye with my daggers while activating the assassinate skill.
You leveled up.
You reached level ten, you can now choose your class. You can choose between:
Fuck, this is not the time, although the other dragons are far from us, they will be on us in thirty seconds at best, as I swiped aside the windows...
Congratulations, you have chosen the
Ultimate assassin class: this class grants a bonus of +2 agility, +1 strength and +1 intelligence each level up. This class grants you extensive knowledge over poisons. This class grants you the title Illusionist.
Illusionist: from now on, you'll be able to use the skill Stealth and the sub-skill Optical camouflage even when fighting. You can also apply the sub-skill Optical camouflage to small weapons, small throwing weapons and to your skills.
Because of you class, the skill Optical camouflage evolved in the skill Optical illusion.
Optical illusion: if before all you could do was to disappear, now you can also place an illusion on yourself to change your apparences.
H.E.I_.P.This is a one-time favour, don't expect it again.
I hurriedly read through all the notifications, and when I reached the end, a smirk left my lips; it seems that I benefited from the ability of Julie in making friends, there are so many ways to use my new-found sub-skill that I don't even know where to start, but complicated things will have to wait, another dragon is coming.
While I was reading the notifications, mother killed another two wyvern who were coming at us with some kind of skill that let her shot four arrows at once. Once the arrows left the bow, they were like homing missiles and pierced the brains of the wyverns through the eyes.
As another wyvern came, I speed up in its direction, then I made three clones enter its attack range while hiding myself; the moment the wyvern came down to attack the clones, I blinked near the eyes and executed the assassinate skill with both the daggers in the wyvern eyes.
You leveled up.
Again with this windows? I can understand that there aren't dragons around me, but I'm sure this will get me killed if nothing is done about it... I'll ask Julie about it.
Behind me, I could see a lesser dragon kill five guards with only one hit, I was going to help them, but at that moment, the lesser dragon brightened up and died, after some seconds not even ashes remained of that dragon... what's going on?
It's from the beginning that I feel something is off, and now when a dragon attack, it dies without a reason? I don't know why but I can determine that those monsters are weaker in comparison to how the books describe them, at least we should not be able to kill them as easy as this.
Is there a reason for which if they attack they die? Then what about the red dragon? He seems to be ok to me, ready to kill us all, but the horde that he bringed with him is getting weaker and weaker, and now that a lesser dragon died from attacking, all the other lesser dragons are keeping their distance from us.
This being said, the wyverns are still trying to kill us even after some of them died from auto-combustion, or something like that.
Thanks to this situation, we may be able to hold until the end, what will happen after that, no one knows.
----------------------- King POV--------------------------
Thanks to the ancient armor, I was able to soar in the skies in the direction of the ancient dragon while holding the dragonner's sword; not even a lesser dragon obstructed my way, they could feel the power of this sword.
Once at a reasonable distance from the red dragon, I tried to delay as much as I could, while cladding myself with my
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-Hah, do you want me to negotiate with the kidnappers of my son? On what basis should I believe you?- said the red dragon; in his eyes I could only see hatred, no negotiations will take place today.
-My sons and daughters are responsible for taking your egg, I let them enter in the valley thinking that they would be able to at most retrieve wyvern's eggs- a self-reproaching smile appeared on my face -I never expected them to raid a lesser dragon's lair, I didn't even know that they would bring back an egg of ancient dragon-.
The red dragon looked into my eyes, searching for even the smallest lie, fortunately what I had just said was only the truth; -do you think that what you just said makes any difference? Why didn't you bring it back to the valley? To dare and enter in the daragon's valley, you lesser beings actually forgot our pact; I'm here to remind all the lesser races of the consequences of doing so-.
As he said that, the dragon took a breath; I had only the time to avoid the flame that came from its mouth, it's still too early for me to die, and I couldn't have blocked that magic attack.
Behind me, the walls of the city and some buildings became magma, and the people inside them burned to death.
-I kept your egg in a safe place inside the capital and not bring it back into the dragon's valley because it could have been destroyed by something there, I hoped to resolve the situation when you came here to retrieve it-.
The dragon stopped his attack to the walls and looked at me again: -I'd like to see how something else apart from a high dragon would be able to destroy the egg; my wife is still recuperating her strength from when she laid that egg-.
It was true, when I saw the egg, I knew nobody or anything in my kingdom would be able to damage it, or I would have used it as a hostage to stop this dragon.
-Then why was your egg inside the lair of a couple of lesser dragons? Why did you bring a horde with you when they're getting weaker by the moment they left the dragon's valley? Why are making them attack when all of them will die after hurting even a single human?- as I said that the dragon looked at me in a new way, he understood that I knew about their oath.
-You and your wife should be the only ones able to come out of the valley without getting weaker, but you're injured, why did you come here in your condition? From what I can see, the egg still don't have enough mana to hatch, it would need at least five hundred years for it to happen-.
The dragon started to laugh, but with all those teeths, his laught is something of nightmares; -I came here to teach you lesser races a lesson, as you dared to enter in the valley, you should pay the price for it; regarding those lesser dragons, they're fodder, it doesn't matter how many of them die to me-.
The dragon then looked at me as if looking to an ant: -I will wipe out this city and all the people in it as a reminder of never mess with us dragons-.
After he said that, he swiped at me with his claws, but as the blow neared, I used my sword to knock it away, fortunately he's injured, else I would be already dead.
My actions gained the attention of the dragon, which once again prepared his breath, however before he could execute his move, I flied under his chin and relying on the sword, I swinged again the dragon's jaw, that closed his mouth and his own skill backfired on him.
Black smoke started to come out of the dragon's mouth, at least with this I should have been able to limit his breath for twenty four hours.
Looking at me with hate, the dragon said: -then look as I destroy your city-.
That phrase astonished me, I thought he would confront me before heading for the city; as he went in the direction of the capital, I chased him, fortunately with this armor I could beat him in terms of max speed.
As we neared the capital, I attacked its wings, successfully damaging one of them, but just as I was going to the other, the dragon's tail hit me in the chest with fll strength; the strength of a dragon.
While heavily crashing in my own palace, I understood how the dragon tricked me; because he couldn't hit me, he baited me near his tail; quite the plan, and I fell in it, now no one will be able to stop the dragon.
*Cough*, blood started flowing from my mouth, I probably have all my bones broken and my internal injuries are killing me; in this moment my only regret is not being able to stay with the only woman I truly loved and not being able to see the daughters she gave me.
While my eyes were closing, I could feel the mana concentration near the palace shift, then only a shout: -I request the assistance of the queen of the skies, appear in front of me, ICE PHOENIX-.
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