14 CHAPTER 14 - LORD DRAGON

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"Feeble human! How dare you try to steal my elegant gold!" Zialbayss got up from his position and spread his wings wide, only increasing the fear in Keagen's heart.

Keagen looked back at Jonah with a worried expression, but as his eyes landed on Jonah, he only saw him sitting in the corner playing with Noire.

Noticing that Keagen was looking at him for help, Jonah started to motivate him. "~You can do this~"

"..." Keagen practically accepted that Jonah was going to be useless for the next few minutes.

Removing the hesitation and panic from his mind & heart, Keagen focused on the opponent in front of him.

With a tight grip on his silver longsword, Keagen began thinking of a plan to defeat the dragon.

'Thankfully, we're inside a closed space. If we were out in the open, then I wouldn't even have a chance of survival, much less of defeating him... The dragon doesn't have that much space to move his body here, so I need to take advantage of that. Since he can't fly while inside, he'll only be able to walk or maybe use his wings as a speed boost. From what I read, dragons aren't very fast with their legs, so I still have a solid chance of killing him...' He quickly thought.

Staring at the dragon with fearless eyes, Keagen disappeared from his previous position and appeared right next to Zialbayss' head a second later.

"Sword Arts: Beastly Slash!" Keagen shouted as he swung his sword down on the dragon's head, aiming to quickly behead him.

*TICK!*

Unfortunately, Keagen vastly underestimated the Zialbayss's defense. The dragon's red scales easily repelled his attack, putting him in a tough position by being right next to the dragon's big head.

"You have courage, human! Not many have dared to attack this Lord Dragon! Entertain me more!" Zialbayss said in his powerful voice.

"Dammit!" Keagen said as he immediately tried to get away from there.

*BOOOOOOOM!*

Zialbayss used his large wings to hit Keagen in the torso before he could escape, launching him towards the rocky walls, which broke and created a perfect silhouette of Keagen's body.

"Urgh!" Keagen grunted before removing himself from the wall with blood dripping from the back of his head.

"~Go Keagen~" Jonah cheered him on along with Noire, who had his small front paws in the air.

Surprisingly, Jonah's cheer actually motivated Keagen, making him focus more on the fight.

Now standing on his 2 feet, Keagen removed one of his hands from the sword's grip and only held it with 1 hand, showing some impressive strength.

'It's too difficult to penetrate his scales! I need to find his vulnerable spot!' Keagen thought.

Slowly walking up to the beast, Keagen inspected the dragon's body, but no vulnerable points were found from his line of sight.

Deciding that he had to make the dragon move more to show him his entire body, Keagen quickly threw the huge sword in his hands towards the dragon.

As the sword moved at astronomical speeds towards the dragon, Keagen instantly began running to the top of the mountain of gold that Zialbayss was standing on.

"Too slow, human!" Zialbayss said right before Keagen went to grab his sword from the air and hit him with it.

The dragon moved his right-wing and once again went to hit Keagen with it, but that also slightly worked to Keagen's advantage.

"!" He managed to finally found a weak spot on the dragon's body,

*BAAANG!*

Keagen's body was sent towards the wall like a ragdoll.

As the scenes from before played out once more, Keagen removed himself from the wall and landed on the ground. Now with blood dripping out from his forehead, he knew that one more of these hits would mean his end.

'His underbelly is not covered in scales...' he thought.

"You have not managed to entertain this Lord Dragon enough! For this, your punishment is death!" Zialbayss said before he opened his mouth wide.

*ROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR*

With the deafening roar from Zialbayss mouth, a large beam of fire emerged from his throat and headed towards Keagen.

With his last bit of willpower, Keagen jumped to the sides to dodge this fire breath that Zialbayss released. However, he didn't come out of this unscathed. His entire right arm had been hit by the fire beam, burning it whole and making it unusable.

"ARGH!" He groaned while lying on the rocky ground.

"~Remember the word~" Keagen heard Jonah's voice from afar.

"Shit... Guess I'll have to try this out..." He slowly stood up from the ground and looked at his charred arm. Taking a deep breath, Keagen finally said the word.

"HESOYAM!"

Instantly, Keagen began to feel a wave of vitality running through each cell in his body. His armor that was cracked and bent and several places was also fixed, becoming better than ever. He really did feel more alive now than ever before. The cuts on his head were completely healed, even returning the blood to the inside of his body. His right arm began to gain color once more, completely shocking Keagen. In moments, he felt that his arm was completely healed with no side-effects present.

"What...? Just... How?" He asked himself after inspecting his entire body for any bruises, finding none.

"I'll ask Jonah about this later. For now, this dragon has my entire attention..." He shoved his confusion to the back of his mind and focused on the action.

'GTA cheats never fail to amaze me... At least I removed the 250.000 dollars that came along with it. I'm sure he'd be even more weirded out from the pile of cash that would appear before him.' Jonah thought on the corner as he watched the renewed Keagen.

Now with his entire health and energy restored, Keagen felt like he could defeat the foe in front of him if he was smart and used his intelligence.

"Interesting! You, human, have now gained this Lord Dragon's attention!" Zialbayss said after seeing Keagen recovering from his injuries instantly.

Ignoring the dragon's words, Keagen quickly dashed using his amazing speed and ran towards the sword that was behind the dragon.

Swiftly arriving there, Keagen picked up his sword with both hands. Moments after picking it up, the whole blade of the sword was encircled by a blazing red glow.

With one foot in front and one behind, Keagen moved his sword to his torso and chanted an attack aimed at Zialbayss underbelly.

"Omega Sword Skill: Fragmenting Thrust!" He shouted his sword's unique ability.

At the end of his sentence, the sword flew out from his hands as if it had a mind of its own and launched itself towards the dragon's weak spot.

Arriving at the target in less than a second, the sword thrust itself with all its might and managed to penetrate the dragon's skin.

The sword then fragmented itself inside the dragon into thousands of smaller pieces, each one penetrating and cutting the veins, arteries, and organs of the dragon.

"Ha! I... I did it! I killed a dragon! An elder dragon at that!" Keagen cheered after seeing that his tactic worked. He then turned towards Jonah with his arms in the air, celebrating. "Jonah! I killed the dr-"

"INSIGNIFICANT WORM! YOU WILL PAY FOR INJURING THIS LORD DRAGON!" Zialbayss interrupted Keagen with a loud roar.

With a rage-filled heart, the dragon moved his long neck towards Keagen and opened its mouth near him, aiming to eat him whole.

Everything happened so fast that Keagen didn't even have the time to react, not even with his above superhuman level of reaction speed.

Just as Zialbayss' head was nearing Keagen's body, a human finger suddenly touched the dragon.

"That's enough," Jonah said with his index finger touching the dragon's lower jaw.

'I-I can't move!' The dragon thought. Naturally, Jonah's finger was the cause for his sudden paralysis.

Turning towards the frozen Keagen, Jonah smiled and motioned for him to go the corner to stay with Noire.

Too shocked to respond, Keagen did as he was told and ran to the corner.

Removing his finger from the dragon's jaw, Jonah waited until Zialbayss said something.

"You fool! These tricks will not stop this Lord Dragon!" Zialbayss loudly exclaimed after he noticed that the paralysis had worn off.

"Jesus, stop saying 'Lord Dragon' man... You're nothing special, much less the 'Lord Dragon' that you think you are." Jonah casually replied.

"You... All of you deserve death!" Zialbayss said with wrath clear in his voice.

He then distanced his head from Jonah and opened his mouth wide.

"Shut it." Jonah waved his hand and the dragon's mouth instantly closed.

"Keagen, what do we need from the dragon again?" He shouted his question.

"Uhh... the heart..." Keagen simply replied. It seemed that he was still a little in shock.

"Alright," Jonah nonchalantly said.

With a simple air-chop of his hand, the dragon's head fell from his body and down to the floor. He also removed the blood that was gushing out from the decapitated dragon's body because he didn't want to take a shower of blood.

Snapping his fingers, he removed the huge heart from the inside of the dragon's body and teleported it next to Keagen.

*DING* He heard a sound in his head.

[Level 1 → 104] The screen in front of him displayed.

'Oh, I forgot that I was still level 1...' Jonah thought after seeing that he leveled up.

Brushing it aside, Jonah stuffed the dragon's body and head inside a dimensional storage he just created.

Finished with everything, Jonah clapped his hands together and walked towards Keagen and Noire.

"Noire, come." He gestured for the cute creature to jump on his shoulder.

The cute creature quickly flew to his shoulder and sat there like a divine mascot.

"Jonah... who are you?" Keagen couldn't help but ask. He had seen such an insane display of power that his whole worldview did a 180.

"I'm me," Jonah cheekily replied. "C'mon, let's hunt for a unicorn. We'll need to fly all the way to the Auzeth continent to find them."

"..." Keagen was speechless but decided to hold his ground. "No. The power you just showed me is something that shouldn't be possible to exist. You killed a DRAGON with a chop of your hands. IN THE AIR!" He emphasized the last part.

"Haha... Alright, since you want to know so badly, I'll inform you. I'm God." Jonah replied while caressing Noire in his shoulders.

"...What? God?" Keagen was confused.

"It's easier if I just show you," Jonah walked up to Keagen and hit his forehead with his index finger.

With just that slight touch, Keagen's mind went into overdrive, and he saw what was out there. He saw the gods the people of this world worship, he saw the celestial creatures that roam around the cosmos, he saw the countless pantheons of gods out there, he saw the Gods that even these other gods worship - the Primordials -, and lastly, he saw Jonah. The one above all.

After seeing and understanding all of this, his consciousness returned to his mortal body and he passed out.

"Makes sense... Even the most strong-willed people would not be able to fully comprehend and digest everything without fainting... Oh well." Jonah shrugged and sat beside the limp body of Keagen and waited for him to wake up.