14 Fighting the Dragon
Byeol was thinking of more kinds of tools that his company could develop and sell. The tools for mining and collecting inside gates have been developed and are currently in manufacturing. They are expected to start selling them after a month.
He suddenly heard an alarm on his phone. He dismissed the alarm and switched on his television. All the channels showed the news about the S-Rank Gate in America.
He watched a little tense, as the dragons came out of the gate by the dozens. He was surprised at first but saw as the Hunters easily dispatched off of the monsters but suddenly the number of dragons increased, overwhelming the Hunters leading to the death of many. That was when the broadcast cut off.
Byeol now realised that the situation was really bleak. If the television networks have stopped broadcasting something that will help increase their ratings by leaps and bounds, then something really bad must have happened.
But he decided to believe in the Hunters as he needed to stay in Korea because if any monster escaped from the American West Coast, then crossing the ocean would be very easy for aerial monsters like dragons.
He waited for the broadcast to start up again, but surprisingly it never did. That was when the channels started showing something different. It was the footage of a dragon, but this one was humongous in proportion to the earlier ones. It showed as the dragon easily tore apart through buildings and breathed out fire.
It showed as the dragon sat over the Golden Gate Bridge like it owned the bridge. Byeol suddenly felt a vein popping in his head. He felt unknowingly extremely angry.
'How dare a lizard…' he kept on repeating in his head as he unconsciously got out of his own house and stood in the garden. Taking deep breaths to calm himself down.
Suddenly he heard a roar. Though not audible for most people out of the State of California, where the dragon was currently situated. It was audible to him.
In fact, that was the only thing audible to him. As if everything else was tuned out. Everything was unnecessary to him.
The only goal in his mind right now, to kill the "lowly lizard".
He jumped up and tried to fly. He flapped his wings hard. He flew so fast that he crossed hundreds of kilometres within seconds. The skin on his face started tearing away but was instantly healed. His dress and the rest of his body was protected from the wind by his humongous wings.
Within two minutes he had crossed the entirety of the Pacific Ocean and reached San Francisco. He appeared in front of the dragon and looked down on it with a condescending look on his face.
"How dare a lowly lizard declare itself as the king?" He declared while lifting up his fire sword.
He slashed downwards towards the dragon. He expected the sword to cut straight through the scales and cut the dragon through the middle.
But surprisingly the sword was only able to cut through a layer of scales, being stopped by the hard skull of the dragon.
He then noticed how the eyes of the dragon turned from yellow to red. But instead of the berserk mode that happens in other monsters when their eyes turn red. An ominous calm seemed to set in the monster.
Before he could do anything more, the dragon smashed its head into him. It's horns piercing through his arm. He pulled his arm out from the horn as he flew backwards to heal up the large hole in his arm. The dragon reared its head back and tried to blow jets of fire on him but Byeol was too fast for him.
The dragon opened its mouth but instead of attacking, it instead started talking.
"I didn't expect a ruler to steal the body of a human and descend into this world." The dragon declared.
Byeol narrowed his eyes, seeing that the dragon could speak. But what confused him was that even though the dragon was not speaking any kind of human language, he was able to understand it's words.
Though he realised that it was not the dragon that was talking to him. Instead it was someone who was possessing the body of the dragon.
He slashed his sword again and again over the neck of the dragon. Though to him it might seem as if he was attacking at normal speed. To a normal human or even to most S-Rank Hunters he appears to not move his arm at all while hundreds of slashes formed over the neck of the dragon.
Suddenly the aura of the dragon burst forth. A aura containing so much mana that everything within a few hundred metres started getting damaged from the oversaturation of mana in the air.
The dragon narrowed it's eyes while looking towards Byeol.
"You are not a Ruler are you? Rulers don't fight like you."
Byeol didn't reply and kept on weaving around its body and kept on attacking it. Though the only thing it managed to do was irritate the being possessing the dragon.
The body of the dragon inflated up. The scales expanded outwards and started cracking, unable to handle the growing mass within. The mass bubbled out of the scales as the dragon started growing in size. If earlier it was only the size of a playground. Now it was the size of a stadium. The road started cracking under the weight of the dragon.
The monster looked down on Byeol. It waved its wings a little, but it was enough to completely shred entire blocks of buildings.
*Boom boom*
Byeol suddenly looked backwards hearing the loud sounds coming from behind him. He saw as five humans landed on the ground from the skies.
He identified all of them as the five Hunters that he saw on television leading the others during the descent of the dragons.
None of them said anything and just looked at each other. All of them have a single nod as acknowledgement and take a fighting stance.
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AN: It has been an extremely bad few days for me. A few weeks ago, my tooth had broken, so I decided to go the Dentist. But due to holidays, none of them were available. After the holidays, my exams started so I wasn't able to go.
Since last week my tooth has been aching so much that I was unable to sleep at all for 3 days. After finally visiting the dentist, he told me that I've got an infection and that I would need to remove my tooth.
God fucking dammit!!!
Anyways, some of you told me to use different POVs. I will be trying it out from my next chapters~
