~ Princess Luna POV ~
I am Luna Lumisiera, the fifth princess of the Elves. I am the higher being of the elf race called high elves. During my mission to offer tribute to the God of Elves, I was a target of numerous assassination attempts. But thanks to my escorts, Kiera, Liana, and Phana, I was able to survive and accomplish the mission given to my father, the king.
During our way back, we were once again submitted to numerous attacks by some organizations that wanted my life. Again, these were all dealt by my reliable escorts. When they found out about the organizations wanting my head, they notified the guards inside the town or city to arrange a sortie to destroy the organizations found. Although some of the organizations were able to escape, most were destroyed and the members, killed, imprisoned, or executed based on their crimes.
But there was a time where my three escorts, who were also among the top of the elites in the Elf Royal Guards, were pushed back by some unknown group. They were dressed as bandits, but somehow, they felt different from ordinary bandits. Polished swordsmanship, great teamwork, and skilled individuals that was greater than the three who were my personal escorts.
When Kiera, Liana, and Phana were exhausted, that’s where I encountered him. He had white hair and golden eyes, with a silver tail growing out from his waist. The tail was composed of silver, lustrous scales that can charm those who can see it’s splendor.
When he appeared, the tide of the battle was turned around and the assaulters were all killed and burned to prevent them from rising to an undead. I was able to take a peek at him when I peeked through curtains and window inside the carriage when they were fighting. When Kiera informed of me that he wants to tag along, I agreed and decided to observe him longer.
At night, when I went to sleep, I had a dream, a lucid dream. I heard a voice saying that a human with white hair and golden eyes was a hero who would one day, save the world from the tyranny of the Demon Lord. I opened my eyes from the dream I had experienced and took another peek at the window. There, I saw him chatting with my escorts while eating some of the food that they hunted and made.
I promised never to use this skill again as this can put the user, and the user’s surroundings in danger, but decided to use it to gain information about the white haired man.
“[Eye of Discerning Truth]”
My right eye throbbed in pain as blood began to flow down my cheek. This skill apparently is gifted to a high elf once every generation, but with its advantages in information gathering, it also has its demerits. Much more if the user is an inexperienced user. Its effects are mainly seeing the past of a target, and also noticing the user whether the target is telling a lie or a truth. Although I can discern a lie without any demerits, once I use this to see a person’s past, my right eye throbs in pain and tears of blood come rolling down. This also reduces my MP by half and my HP by a fourth, and also leaves me in a weakened state for 30 minutes.
I grit my teeth as I focused on the mysterious man. Information about him entered my head and I finally knew the truth about him. His name is Endou Kouta, an otherworlder summoned as a hero along with others. He has a sister named Endou Kayaka that is good at crafting. During the summons, Kouta was gifted no skills except for understanding language, but that all changed half a year later when they encountered a Demon General. Kouta’s companions escaped while he was killed, or not, instead, because of gaining a skill, he was able to revive inside the 50th floor of the dungeon they were in.
While looking for a way out, he encountered a Fluffball and a girl and headed off towards the exit. That is where they encountered another Demon General, and where Kouta perished, or so he thought, but was reincarnated in this continent.
Because of that very complex past that I saw in Kouta, my right eye was about to burst so I cancelled it immediately before my right eye really burst into pieces. Just when I was about to go back to sleep, we were attacked by people wearing black all over their body, with no openings except their eyes. The three were escorts were taken down by a surprise attack and were paralyzed, but Kouta repelled the others. During his fight, the door to my carriage opened and there I saw another one of their members. My consciousness was cut short after.
When I came to myself, I realized that I was sleeping in a luxurious bed. The room where I was at was just like one made for a noble, but when I went for the door in hoped of escaping, it was closed. There were also no windows at the room where I was at so escape was impossible for me.
I spent my time there until I heard an unlocking sound from the door, and a person came in. He had a fang protruding out from his upper lip with red eyes. He had grey hair and was wearing something a really rich noble would wear.
“Forgive my intrusion princess. My name is Kuhaal and also your captor.”
With a grin, he looked at me and gave a graceful bow.
“What do you want from me?”
I asked in a curt manner with the the person who called himself Kuhaal.
“No worries princess. I am just here to check up on you whether you need to eat or drink or go to the toilet. Of course, your sexual desires can also be fulfilled if you asked.”
“Shut up!! W-What makes you think that I would need my sexual desire to be fulfilled!?”
I shouted in a loud voice to retort at his remark about me wanting to release my pent up stress. My face was dyed red up until my ears, while my hands were pointing at Kuhaal while trembling.
“Forgive me for my rudeness princess. Anyway, to the main point, you will be locked in here for a few days until the commotion back at the sacred tree subsides. For now, help yourself to the food given, and farewell.”
“!? Wait!! Vampire!!!”
Kuhaal, the vampire left a basket filled with food and water while leaving through the door. The door was slammed shut and waslocked from the outside preventing me from escaping.
“Let me out of here!!! Vampire!!!”
My screams echoed through the room, but no one ever responded to it. I went back to the bed while carrying the basket filled with food and placed it on the table next to the bed. After that, I just lied down on the bed, trying to get myself to sleep.
A few days later, Kuhaal came back and discussed with me about the motive about my kidnapping. While he was giving me those information, a robed man came in while giving news about someone wanting to join their group. It was Kouta, the person who was a hero and someone who can defeat the Demon Lord. Both of them left while leaving me behind inside this cursed room.
“… Why did you come here? Hero-sama?”
A murmur escaped my lips as I questioned the reason why he would come here to join. Hors (Should I stop typing these ‘not a typo thing’?) later, the sound of something crashing through a wall was heard. Moments later, the door was cut open, revealing a white-haired, golden eyed half-dragonewt, who I know is a human.
While trying to rescue me from this place, the vampire appeared behind his back with torn clothes and fought him.
And this brings us back to the present, me running while fighting my way through the mansion. The guards were strong, I can give them that, but none of them can stand up to my magic. Us elf princesses were not only taught about etiquette or politics, but also in the way of combat. I am the second strongest among the princesses while my elder sister being the first. As for who she is, I’ll tell you later.
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Behind me, a dragon and a vampire were fighting while decimating the place with no caution whatsoever.
Minutes later, I was able to reach the gate, while finding my three personal escorts, Kiera, Liana, and Phana.
“Princess!!! Over here!!!”
“That damn Kouta turning into a dragon during night and roaring caused the whole town to wake up! Princess!! Quickly! The soldiers are now gathering to subjugate the dragon!! We need to stop them at once before Kouta is put on the wanted list!!!”
“No!! We need to evacuate the citizens before they are dragged into the fight!!”
I retorted when Kiera told me to stop the soldiers trying to subjugate Kouta. That cannot be done, and even if we stop, damage will not be minimal when their fight continues. I mean look at that, flame breaths that can burn a house into nothing, magic that can decimate a thousand people in one strike, instead of trying to stop their fight, how about evacuating the people and abandoning the town before casualties appears.
“But…”
“This is an order from the fifth princess, and I will take full responsibility about this situation!!!”
“!? Yes!!!”
Kiera quickly turned around and went to the soldiers, while Liana and Phana waited for me at the gate. Hero-sama, I wish you safety.
…
~ Kouta POV ~
The mansion right now is reduced to rubble after our exchange. My charge, flames, and needles were able to somehow hit Kuhaal, causing some wounds to appear on his body.
“HHAHAHAHAAH!!!!! MORE!!! COME HERE!!! DRAGON CHILD!!!”
Kuhaal charged at me while conjuring black balls of mass and flinging it towards my direction. As a dragon, my body must be big enough for it not to miss. But thanks to my scaled, the balls were repelled. Seriously, these scales are saving me every time during a fight.
When Kuhaal was near my location, I used [Dragon Tail] in hopes of hitting him. My tail connected with his body, causing him to fly in the air towards the slums.
“GUAAHH!!!”
(SHIT!!!)
I quickly flapped my wings in order to chase after the shooting star that was going to land at where people’s residences are, in this case, the shooting star was Kuhaal.
Kuhaal landed in the middle of the road with some soldiers surrounding him. The soldiers raised their spears and directed it at Kuhaal upon seeing his black ominous wings. The soldiers charged at Kuhaal seeing as he was still immobilized.
“SMALL FRY!!! DON’T GET IN MY WAY!!!”
In an instant, the soldiers were all shredded, and blood painted the streets. The soldiers were not only the victims, the houses surrounding him were also destroyed. As the place was a slum, the housed were packed closely together. Fortunately, nobody was inside the houses so no innocent life was lost, except for the soldiers.
I arrived a few seconds later and delivered Kuhaal a charge at about 200 kilometers per second. The result is a huge crater where I landed with me and Kuhaal at the center.
“GEH!!?? GAHAHAHAHA!!! THIS IS FUN!!! AS EXPECTED OF A DRAGON CHILD!!!”
“GRUOOHH!?”
(GAHH!?)
While Kuhaal was coughing up blood, he rose and gave me a punch to the chin. The power was enough to send me flying for about 15 meters in the air. While I still had no control over my movements, Kuhaal appeared beside me and gave me a kick to my side, causing me to fly and crash towards another part of the town.
The houses I landed on were utterly destroyed, luckily, there were no civilians around my area. While I stood back up, I saw a pair of children on the road beside my landing spot. One was a boy about 9 years old, while the other was a girl about 6 years old. Both of them were scared shitless upon seeing a dragon land before them. Then, I saw Kuhaal charging towards me. When he saw a pair of children, his face broke into a frown and changed his course to them.
“NO INSECTS SHALL RUIN THIS FIGHT!!!”
The pair of children hugged each other tightly as they screamed into the heavens with tears and snot going down their faces.
“GROOOOOHHH!!!”
(WHY THE HELL ARE YOU BRINGING CHILDREN INTO OUR FIGHT!!!)
I quickly stepped in between them and took off some of my spikes and grabbed them in my hand, and tossed them towards Kuhaal who was charging in without a second thought.
Kuhaal dodged all of the spikes with minimal movement like he was dancing in the air while continuing to charge at the two children behind me. Since he was just charging, he didn’t notice my preparation to my attack.
I used [Creation] to create countless of silver spikes that is equal to 1 kilogram. I held it in my hand and when Kuhaal was close to me, I used the same hand that I used to throw the silver spikes earlier, and hit him with it. Kuhaal was shocked to see that there were still spiked in my hand, reducing his reaction speed, causing my attack to hit. He flew through the air with spikes impaled on his body for about a hundred meters before crashing.
I extended my wings and flapped it down to raise my body and charged went to where Kuhaal landed with a quick speed. I didn’t forget about the children, so before I flapped my wings, I looked towards the two frightened children and growled, causing them to run away while screaming their eyes out.
When I arrived at where Kuhaal was, I saw him standing up with numerous wounds on his body while blood gushed out of them. The creepy thing is, he had a smiling face, while he was laughing like a madman.
“HAHAHAHAHA!!!! THE FIGHT THAT I WAS YEARNING FOR HUNDRED OF YEARS!!! AHAHAHAH!!!! I NEED MORE!!! MORE UNTIL I CAN MOVE NO LONGER!!!”
Kuhaal locked eyes with me and flapped his two black ominous wings. This time, he didn’t charge, but just fly in front of me.
“TAKE THIS!!! MY STRONGERST ABILITY THAT I WILL SHOW YOU!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! SURVIVE THIS IF YOU CAN DRAGON CHILD!!!”
In his hand, blood was gathering. His own blood, blood from the surroundings, blood from the corpses, it was like he was gathering blood from the town. When I took a closer look at the town, I saw that people with wounds were having their blood drained out as they writhe in agony.
“GROOOOOOOHHHH!!!!”
(YOU BASTARD!!!)
Without wasting any time, I quickly charged in for the last clash between the fight of a vampire and a dragon. This will surely end in the destruction of the town, but if I leave this psycho alive, more people will fall victim to his acts.
“DRAGON CHILD!!!! FEEL MY STRONGEST ATTACK!!!! [BLOOD METEOR]!!!!”
A giant ball of blood appeared overhead of Kuhaal as it continued gathering blood to enlarge its size. When Kuhaal finished the gathering, the ball of blood was the size of half the town. If this lands, who knows what damage will await for this town.
The giant ball of blood went flying towards me. I can dodge this easily, but if I do, then the town will be ruined. So there is only one choice left.
“GRAAAHHHH!!!!”
(AS IF I’LL LET YOU!!!)
I gathered air in my lungs and breathed a ton of fire, hoping to burn out the blood meteor before it hits me and lands.
“DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME!!!”
While I was busy burning the blood meteor, Kuhaal came charging at me while holding a blood sword. He swung it at me but I blocked it with my tail. He kept on swinging his sword at me in hoped of tiring me out while I was trying to burn the blood meteor. The meteor was about half of its size, but it was already directly above me. If I dodge, there will be countless death in the town, so I mustered up my strength and charged towards the meteor while spewing out flames from my mouth.
“AHAHAHA!!! TAKE THIS!!! AND THIS!! THIS!! THIS!!! AND MORE OF THIS!!!! AHAHAHHAA!!!!”
While I was busy pushing the meteor to soften the landing or even burn it all up before it lands, Kuhaal was busy slashing at me. I’ve long forgotten about defense and numerous wounds appeared on my body. Somehow, that blood sword is capable of wounding me as you can see from the wounds on my body and tail.
“AHAHAHA!!! BLOOD!!! MORE BLOOD!!!!”
“GROOOOOOOHHH!!”
(YOU WON’T WIN THIS FIGHT!!!!)
Kuhaal used his [Blood Drain] skill to siphon the blood out of my body. This hurts like hell, but thankfully, when he did that, the meteor was already burned up.
[Creation]!!! [Dragon Tail]!!!
I used my [Creation] skill to create a silver spike worth two kilograms. During this fight, I was able to regenerate my MP from using potions. Since I had no time, I swallowed the potions, along with the bottle. If you’re asking me where I got this, it was inside my item box.
The spike was created pointing towards Kuhaal and near my tail. And using [Dragon Tail], I hit the spike, causing it to fly towards Kuhaal, piercing through his body and heart. A huge hole appeared on his chest, showing that his heart and lungs were obliterated from the attack.
“GAAHAHAAAHA!!! SPLENDID!!! Dragon… Child…”
With his last words, Kuhaal created another blood meteor from his blood and my blood and sent it crashing down the town.
“GOOOOHHHH!!!!”
(WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO!!!!)
Kuhaal crashed to the ground, never to move again, but the blood meteor claimed countless of lives upon impact. The town was reduced to rubble, and it is mostly impossible to repair.
Now that Kuhaal was dead, the surviving soldiers directed their hatred at me. Some of them were throwing stones, others used magic, some threw their weapons, etc.
Somehow, this doesn’t feel like a victory at all. I saw Luna, Kiera, Liana, and Phana looking at me with a worried face as they knew what truly happened, but this is where we part ways. I flew away from the town in hopes of getting away from the scorn and hatred of the citizens and landed in a forest where there were no signs of life that was far away from the town. I also reverted back to my human form.
“…Shit!!”
I punched a tree, cursing my own incompetence for being unable to save most of the citizens in that town.
“AAAHHHHHH!!!!”
Countless punches assaulted the poor tree as my angry shouts echoed through the forest.