Chapter 16: dragon attack( Vrisha's POV)

I am the new Karna's shadow as his previous one has reunited with him. I can tell that master is still quite sad about his previous shadow, who did not consider himself a true being, but only a fragment of Karna. Master considers us shadows as his brothers and it's not a mere speech, as I came from his soul I can tell what's within his heart.

I am worried did these dragon riders fly directly here or did they make a stop at Volon Therys? As I climbed to the top of the Sar Mell walls, I began to see ten dragons flying closer to the city.

I took my bow and became shooting arrows at the dragons, most perforated the dragons' skulls but not deeply. I have to be very careful not to break this bow, it's a pity that I don't have any divine Astra as normal weapons are too weak for me to use all my strength, so my fists end up being more useful.

Then, I performed what would seem like a very fake action scene even in fantasy lore. I threw a spear-like device I made with a giant rope tied to it at a dragon. By its mechanism, when the metal spear pierced the dragon, two vertical spikes from its head opened, giving me a sort of support to climb by the rope. Then, I started to climb very fast.

Another dragon rider tried to attack me with his dragon. When the dragon got very close and opened its mouth to burn me, it allowed me to use my unoccupied hand to, by putting the dragon bow on my shoulder, fire an arrow killing his rider. So I took a spear at my back and threw it at its head, and stretching my arm, I grabbed the spear and put myself above its head before he started to fall I made a frontal jump with my feet on this head jumping up to reach the dragon I pierced before firing another spear killing this other dragons rider.

So I took his place although the dragon did not recognize me as its rider and tried to make me fall, I pierced him with my hand, while it was doing its crazy maneuvers, and with this support, I started firing arrows, with the dragon still on the move. Killing dragon rider after dragon rider. Until all dragons were riderless. Without any human bonded to them, the dragons gave to their primal instincts.

They encircled me from all sides and tried to get rid of the small human day fell was treating. I fired a ballista into two. After beheading the one I was previously in jumped into another killing it as well. Jumped into another, firing an arrow at each of the remaining dragons' eyes, blinding them.

So, I kept jumping and eliminating the dragons that were behaving like the mindless beast they were. Some may say dragons were smart and they were for an animal standard, not a human one. The last one, I only hurt its wings so it could not fly well, I waited at the top of the dragon, as it felt.

Even with the dragon reducing the fall's impact I still had some of my bones broken. I was very lucky because I found a still well-preserved dragon egg in the dragon rider's bag. It seems this dragon has given birth on his way here. This gave me an idea.

Finally, the guards came. Karna needs better equipment. He had already introduced the Bessemer steel method to improve steel production and quality on both Sar Mell and Volon Therys. I believed with better steel quality I could produce better aquamarine steel. Following my instructions with several carriages, we were able to transport the dying dragon to Rhoyne shores. There could be found several Bessemer converters with hot steel.

The process of making aquamarine steel follows these steps: a steel weapon is made at a forge near Rhoyne waters; a blacksmith helps transport it to the Rhoyne shores, where it is gently put at the Rhoyne waters; a water mage sacrificed a fish and speaks a long spell and the magic made the water bless the metal turning it into aquamarine steel.

Rhoynar never used human sacrifice, as it is not generally well seen in the Rhoynar culture, in the process it was always a fish, when the spell was not much developed the improvement to the iron was little, but the highly efficient process spell that is used today make great changes from crude steel to magic steel.

Aquamarine steel is much lighter, more flexible, and strong than normal steel. Besides, its strong water magic properties rival the fire properties found in Valyrian steel. It was also unique and beautiful with its aquamarine color.

The truth is that we could not even use human sacrifice to make aquamarine steel, because modern spells were so efficient that the quantity of magic, put in the iron with such a strong sacrifice may make it explode.

This time I am using a dragon, however. You know, when such a large gift is present at your doorstep, you should enjoy it, and thanks the gods for your luck.

Though I plan to force a very large amount of aquamarine steel. At the same time, as crude steel can allow for better results than pig iron, I believed better quality steel may be able to bare with stronger magic.

I killed the dragon and performed the magic making nearly a ton of aquamarine steel, and putting the dragon egg into the mix. I will use this steel in other to produce better ballista, swords, and spears and to improve my bow. I also thinking of using a tendon from this dead dragon to substitute the weak cord in Karna's present bow.

As the magic nourished the egg it broke, releasing a small aquamarine dragon from it. It was so cute and I feel a sort of connection with it. His scales seemed a lot like aquamarine steel and seem to be as resistant as it.

"Little one, your name shall be Vorian." the dragon seems to be happy with his new name.

I was here to protect Sar Mell, as it's the city Karna believed to be the one that would suffer the most ruthless attack from the Valyrians. Probably, Volon Therys would not be destroyed because the Valyrians consider it their property. I can't help, but be worried. I hope ever think is ok there.