Interlude

|Eveline Lionheart POV|

I looked at the incoming ship in the distance and frowned. I did not want to say this out loud because I respect the former Queen Dowager, but his son is a cunt. Valerie knows his son really well, and she already knows that it was her son that hired the pirate in front of me.

The old Queen said that the previous king hired this group to attack the Sea Dragon City a few weeks before he died from poisoning. It looks like the Black Heart Pirate just finished their preparation, and now they get ready to attack the Sea Dragon City.

"Richard. Have all the ships we currently have already been docked?"

"Yes, my lady. The ship has been secured in the port."

"Good. Because I did not want them to be sinking to the bottom of the ocean."

I look at my right hand and see a particular symbol before nodding my head. Flowing Rune, the rune that controls the ocean. I chose this rune because it was a rune that had both offensive and support spells. While yes, that this rune is focused on support and healing, there is a good passive ability given by the rune.

Complete control over seawater.

I can control the seawater around me with a radius of five hundred meters. So here I'm standing on the western wall of Sea Dragon city above the cliff facing the sea where the pirate is coming from.

I take a deep breath and raise my hand.

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|3rd POV|

"ARGH"

That is the scream of terror from the pirate member of the Black Heart Pirate group. Coming from the deep of the ocean is a massive tentacle made of water that begins attacking their ship. The smaller ships on the convoy get destroyed by the tentacle, but most of the ships did not get destroyed because there is a bubble protecting them from the tentacle.

"Keh! It looks like they have a magician on their side. No matter! They cannot penetrate our barrier! Full speed! The wind is with us today!"

What people did not know is that Darius is a mage. A rather prodigious mage at that. If he joins the Tower of Magic, he will become an Archmage by now. His specialty is both Runic and Summoning magic.

He knows magic even though the magic book is stored in the tower of magic because he got the book from a mage. His father is a bandit and a rather powerful bandit at that. His father and his group successfully ambush a group of mages and kill them all before they could cast their spell.

That day, Darius hit the jackpot when among the loot that his father brought back home was a box full of magic books. He studies those books and practices them by robbing people on the street using the spell he just learned.

He became a successful pirate because he carved a runic symbol on his ship not to be burned and destroyed easily.

So that is what is happening right now. Eveline frowns a little when she sees she cannot destroy most of the ship. Seeing there is nothing she can do right now, she looks at Elizabeth, her good daughter.

"Elizabeth, I need some lightning."

"Of course, Good Mother."

Elizabeth raises her right hand, and suddenly a symbol of Thunder rune appears above her head.

"Thor's Hammer!"

When she invoked the spell's name, a black cloud began to gather up above the fleet, and a few seconds later, a bolt of massive lightning struck down on the biggest ship in the front.

Darius widens his eyes when he sees one of his main ships get struck down by the lightning. He did not know how much the mage in the Sea Dragon City could cast that spell, but he needed to make sure his fleet arrived in the land before another lightning struck them.

"O Southern Wind!"

*KARATHOOM*

Darius winced a little when another thunder struck down another ship next to his ship. However, he ignored it and continued his chant.

"Grant me your strength and show us your might!"

After he finished his chant, a wind blew from behind their sail and sped up the entire ships in the fleet. Darius predicts that they will arrive on the land in ten minutes with this speed.

*KARATHOOM*

He winces once again when the thunder hits his ship, and he can feel the water tentacle keep attacking his ship from the side. He also can see his barrier start to crack. Darius grits his teeth in frustration and begins to think about how he can escape this situation.

While the wind is with them, the tentacle decides to hold them up. His man cannot attack the tentacle because it was made of water, not a physical body.

"Tch. It looks like I did not have any choice."

Darius took a deep breath and prepared to summon his contracted monster. There is a reason why he is called the butcher. He killed too many people when he decided to raid a town or ship that passed by. However, that is not the only reason.

He like killing human and torture them but that is not the only reason. He has a contracted monster. It was a Black Dragon. To keep the dragon as his contracted pet, he needs to kill at least killed Fifty people every five months, or the Black Dragon breaks the contract they had.

After taking a deep breath, a contract symbol on Darius' back begins to glow, and suddenly a massive black dragon appears above his fleet. The length from its head to the tip of its tail is 20 meters long. The length from the tip of its left-wing to its right-wing is 60 meters long.

"Darius. Do you know the cost of you summoning me, right?"

"Yes. Two hundred souls. In that way is a city that has at least ten thousand souls. You can eat them all."

"Good."

While Darius is busy talking with the dragon, the people above the wall of Sea Dragon City have a cold sweat trickling from their foreheads. They did not know if the barrier Isaac created could handle a massive dragon.

However, before they could prepare something, Eveline saw someone standing next to them. It was Ophis, and she had a cute frown on her face.

Ophis is a possessive dragon, just like any other dragon. She already marked Sea Dragon City as her nest, and she was not amused when she felt the presence of another dragon that tried to attack her nest.

Ignoring the question both Elizabeth and Eveline ask her, Ophis jumps high to the sky, and suddenly her body begins to change.

Her usual small body changed into a massive dragon with a majestic royal purple color as her scale. The length from her head to the end of her tail is one hundred meters long, and the length from her left wings to her right wings is six hundred meters long.

Her dragon form alone already covers the entire city of Sea Dragon City, denying them from seeing the sun.

What makes it more fascinating is that this form is not her true form. Her true form is too big, and Ophis knows that she will destroy the mountain three kilometers to her right if she uses her true form.

Darius widens his eyes when he sees a massive dragon coming from the city. He looks at the eyes of the dragon in front of him. There is only one thing he can see.

Death.

When Ophis opened up her mouth, Darius did not know anything anymore as darkness consumed his vision.