Vs Dragon King (part one)

Hi, Hi, Linnaeus desu. (10 years old)

Although it's a bit sudden, I must confess. I have no experience in actual battle.

Even though I've undergone countless simulated battles with Grayfia, most of it is self training plus lukewarm sparring and we haven't reached the point of trying to kill each other yet.

It is simple reasoning. There is no space for life-threatening situations in normal life. But yes, in that regards, I'm definitely lacking in personal experience.

Well, it doesn't matter much that I don't have personal experience in life and death battles.

That's what I thought. ――― I should have noticed at that time the severity of this oversight

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Location - Familiar Forest

It dawned on me recently that I do not have a familiar, so I decided to take a trip down to your local wall-ma... Familiar Forest to grab one.

with my current strength, there very few places in the world where I cannot go. So I decided to test my luck.

the second reason being that actually one of the fight against something.

I desperately wished to heaven in my heart that I would bump into some strong, kingly magical beast, brawl with it, and after showing my strengths, tame it and bring it home as spoils of war to show off.

Since I won't be getting my evil pieces until I'm a little older, I thought it would be wise to acquire some extra minions.

And not even 30 minutes after I entered the familiar forth with these brave and stupid legs of ... I wanted desperately to go home.

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――― I am now in a pinch.

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Here is a brief explanation.

・ Enter a cave found in the corner of the familiar forest

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・ "Accidentally" cracked some interesting looking magical security system.

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・ Discovered small pocket dimension built within said cave

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・ Woke up the landlord of the cave.

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・ landlord was one of the dragon kings, Tiamat the "Chaos Karma Dragon"

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・ Awoken dragon king is very pissed (now here)

..... No matter how how you look at it, I'm going to have to die.

isn't it stupid?

The opponent for my first real battle is going to be a raid boss class dragon king?

The opponents I had envisioned for my first real life threatening fight was something along the lines of a member of the old Maou faction, or some ultimate class mob trying to put his their hands on my harem members.

Or fucking Vali or Cao Cao.

But a dragon king is my first opponent?

if this was Dragons Quest, I'm basically facing the last boss for my first tutorial match.

Moreover, the opponent in front of me is someone that even The Red Dragon Emperor seems to be a bit wary of. The strongest of the dragon kings and the one I had least information on in my past life.

Even if you say run away, it seems likely that I will be turned to cinders the moment I turn my back.

... Ha.

――Well, if you don't want to die, there's only one thing you got to do, right?

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The dragon was bored.

No fighting, no looting, no rating games as they were in off-season.

Absolutely nothing to do.

Then, a "boy" brazenly broke to the area she had set up camp in, hoping for a quick nap.

Looks to be about 10 years old.

Demonic power that is somewhere in-between the high-ends of high class and the beginning stages of ultimate class.

And --- that life force --- that aura. there's no way a normal devil, let alone a child, has life force as vibrant and as radiant as that.

Not to mention, this strange attractive feeling...Bune?

verrrry interesting.

At a glance, she knew the boy was somewhat related to her friend Sirzechs.

She remembered the boy was present in the VIP booth along with Sirzechs and his sister in the finals of the last season of the rating games.

At a glance, she had strong interest in the boy who not only had great strength, but also descendant of a great bloodline, and urged him to fight.

To satisfy her burning curiosity, she pretended to be enraged at him for intruding into her territory, waking her up.

after she came up with some nonsense about punishing bad little boys, she blocked off the exit with ice, and sealed off all teleportation with into space using the same method as those used in the rating games.

having all his escape routes blocked, he had no choice but to comply with her demands

as a dragon, she has a unceasing desire to fight against the strong. she has expectations for the boy based on this desire..

Well, in the first place, she probably would have picked a fight with anyone who came in through that passage.

She was that bored.

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In an unknown cave in the back of the Familiar Forest.

the sound of Iron and steel resounded as they struck each other.

There, the Blue Dragon King and the Blue haired Devil were fighting.

The Blue haired Devil- Linnaeus, initially begin the battle from a distance, releasing a maelstrom of rapidly cast out magical techniques, but it was all to little avail as they were all wiped out by one of the dragon king's immense defensive aura.

And to add insult to injury, she turned the entire space into a type of anti-magic field. greatly reducing the effectiveness of long-range spells.

so now all auxiliary power is used for strengthening and healing and the main combat strategy has shifted to full contact melee with the occasional use of various weapons such as swords, spears and bows

The battle was undoubtedly a up hill climb for Linnaeus.

-A Dragon king and a devil child were fighting after all.

Tiamat won in all categories as far as basic abilities were concerned. strength, defense, aura, in those categories she was many his is superior.

Naturally, the body of a dragon king and the body of a 10 year old devil child cannot be compared to each other.

――― so how was Linnaeus still able to fight despite these monstrous disadvantages?

This is because Linnaeus far surpassed Tiamat only in one area, "skill".

With a simple action, he Dodges, mitigates, and counters attacks which would be instantly fatal if taking properly.

Armor-like scales that would have easily blocked the blows of an average ultimate class individual, are shattered one by one by via the usage of original techniques such as [Maki-hakkei]. a technique that ignores defense by sending magic and ki directly into the target and detonating from inside,

and by fusing all power into the fists through the usage of micro level precision level control, creating instantaneous burst of high powered strikes used for offense and defense.

Using fists that exceed the speed of sound, he deflects claws and tail strikes approaching at a bullet-like speed.

[Tristram] is then utilized at full blast, as another spell is activated.

[Automatic melee combat]

A martial arts magic program for fighting that guides the user to take the most optimal action with reaction speeds that far exceeds mortal reflexes.

it analyzes visual information, body information, the feel of wind on the skin, vibrations on the ground. It then calculates them all and runs them through the pre-made response database containing tens of millions of possible patterns. Then based on those calculations, it automatically moves the body in the most appropriate manner.

Once activated, the user surpasses any master.

Using everything from fists, to kicks, to elbows attacks, to weapons. Attacks from every angle are countered with near perfection.

At first glance, it looks like linnaeus has the the upper hand.

――However, a dragon king is not such a sweet being.

Sure, Linnaeus has the abilities to fill in disparaging gap of physical ability, but it is not perfect. He still gets damaged little by little.

No matter how much the [Automatic healing] magic heals the wounds, the stamina exerted and the blood that is lost does not return.

The difference in physical strength cannot be fully covered by skill.

And after a few moments, that difference broke the balance of the battle.

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Regrettable. It's just so regrettable.

She thinks of a blue-haired boy who collapsed while shedding a large amount of blood.

because of physical exhaustion, an attack normally would have been blocked or dodged, had slipped through his defense.

That level of martial skill was super first class. Transcendent and godlike.

Of all the beings living and dead that I've seen so far, those that possess that type of skill can be counted in one hand.

And those who can crush the scales of a dragon king with their bare hands are far and few in-between.

――At least three years later, if this fight had happened three or more years later, there would have been a different result. He definitely would still be fighting right now.

"I'm sorry to say this but... with that wound in your side, you have little chance of surviving. If I left you like that, you'll definitely die of blood loss. So as a respect your skill, I'll give you a quick death."

-Ah, I'm probably going to get killed by sirzechs

even so, she shook her tail downwards without hesitation.

Bishashi!

Fresh blood spattered in the cave.

It was her blood.