Darkness Incarnate

But anyway, looked like Shiva-san was right.

The situation was clearly disadvantageous to Agartha—even if he

turned into Fantasy Form, who's to say the silver flying dragon the

only one on the dragonfolk side who was capable of turning into

Fantasy Form; he could probably bring the battle to a tie at most.

Though, if that was case, Arca's"Superior Arms"would only get a

turn to purify him after everything was over.

No, if Agartha was immobilized, "Superior Arms" might even be

unnecessary as my purification power alone was likely enough to do

the job.

Well, Arca wouldn't be in danger that way, so I'd actually prefer that.

"Ah, now they're ganging up on him…"

No, you don't need to be so sad about it, you know?

I released a little sigh looking at Arca who was turning pale at the

sight of Agartha being hit by the concentrated fire of the dragonfolks.

Then Shiva-san, perhaps noticing my feelings, put on a bold smile,

"Don't worry," and said, "Goddess Phinis's doll wouldn't die that

easily."

"Y-yeah! I know right!"

"That's not something you should be happy about…"

I gave an exasperated look at Arca who was balling her fists tightly.

At that time.

"—G-rrooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!"

"""—!?"""

All of a sudden, Agartha let out a deafening roar, and shockwaves

struck everyone in the vicinity.

When I returned my eyes to the battlefield, wondering what had

happened, it turned out Agartha was transforming into Fantasy Form

as a huge amount of black aura was pouring out from his body.

"The real battle begins now."

As Shiva-san said, the black aura gradually took the outline of a

majestic being, and Agartha's body began to transform into that of a

ferocious dragon.

"Roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr!!"

Before us now stood the exact opposite of the flying dragon on the

dragonfolk side—a black dragon, whose scales so dark you might

even call him 'darkness incarnate'.

No, rather than a dragon, 'dragonman' would be better fit perhaps?

The flying dragon on the dragonfolk side looked practically the same

as normal flying dragons, but Agartha's Fantasy Form looked starkly

different. The shortness of his neck and the shape of his limbs made

him look closer to human.

To put it into words—he looked like 'human-shaped dragon'.

He somewhat reminded me of Vale. Come to think of it, that guy had

absorbed dragon too, hadn't he?

"That's Agartha's Fantasy Form, huh…"

"Umu, it appears to be that way. What an evil form. Mm…?"

Looked like Arca noticed something.

She pointed to the dragonfolks, "Look," and said, "something's

happening to them."

"Eh?"

When I looked over, the dragonfolks, including the silver flying

dragon, were all holding and shaking their heads, seemingly in pain.

What in the world is happening to them?

We were startled by the scene but,

"""""—

Roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr!?

"""""

"""Wha!?"""

All of a sudden, the dragonfolks blew up and turned into Fantasy

Form, then they opened their eyes at the same time.

Moreover,

"H-hey, they are staring at us, aren't they…?" Arca asked.

"Yeah, they are staring at us, alright… Like we're their targets…" I

muttered.

For some unknown reason, the dragonfolks ignored Agartha and

started targeting us.

"Hmm, I see…" Shiva-san muttered as if she had grasped the

situation.

Alarm bells were ringing in my head, but I decided to ask her just to

make sure, "Um, could it be that Agartha's ability is…"

"Yeah. As you might have guessed—it is to 'enslave all dragons and

dragonfolks'."

"For real!?"

As I was receiving a huge shock,

""""""—

Roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr

rrrrrrr!!""""""

"""—!?"""

The dragonfolks, whose minds had been taken under control of by

Agartha, simultaneously launched an attack on us.