I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 630

Kwaaaang!

The Black Dragon Legion, Tustibean.

The descendant of the Red Dragon, Dusk Bringer.

The two dragons’ breaths collided, and a dazzling light erupted from the point of impact, shaking the entire area. The passage, as well as the entire warehouse, trembled and began to collapse.

“……! ……! ……!”

Dusk Bringer, who was firing her breath, had a bright red face and was letting out a silent scream. It seemed quite difficult for her.

Dusk Bringer’s breath was, of course, far inferior to Tustibean’s. After all, she was only half-human, half-dragon.

However, Tustibean had fired his breath in rapid succession, and the power of his breath had been greatly reduced due to the earlier explosion. He was also spewing out a weaker breath because he was forced to fire it in a hurry without even a moment to catch his breath.

Dusk Bringer could hold out long enough.

And, right now, as she was buying time—

“Charge!”

The main force attacked.

I stood on the collapsed warehouse ceiling, looking down through the gaping hole, and shouted to my subordinates lined up beside me.

“Quick and decisive! If we drag this out, we’ll be at a disadvantage. Let’s finish this in one go!”

“Yes!”

“Alright, let’s go!”

Thud!

I jumped down first, followed by the heroes.

“Descending!”

“Descending-!”

“Follow His Highness!”

The heroes who had soared up fell like rain onto Tustibean’s head.

For me, this was already my third time skydiving.

When I was thrown out of the Thorn Ark while fighting Fernandez over New Terra, and when I escaped from the Great Fly’s belly just before that….

Now that I was getting used to this kind of experience, jumping down wasn’t so scary anymore. Although, Kuilan, who was afraid of heights, was still groaning beside me.

Since the drop wasn’t that high, the giant dragon’s body quickly came closer.

“Hoo-oop!”

Bodybag used multi-telekinetic powers to slow our descent.

However, there were also heroes who had not requested telekinetic magic from Bodybag beforehand. These heroes used their falling speed and weight to thrust their weapons directly into the dragon’s body.

“Haaah-!”

Lukas, who had fallen first, slashed the dragon’s body with his blade of light.

The vanguard heroes, who had fallen like a shower, each inflicted wounds on Tustibean’s body with their weapons.

The dragon’s body, covered in black scales, was tough and sturdy, but our equipment was also of sufficient quality.

The scales cracked, and black blood splattered. Our attacks were definitely damaging the dragon’s body.

However,

Kwaaaaaa!

Tustibean, whether we were on his body or not, whether we were cutting him with our swords or not, continued to fire his breath at Dusk Bringer without paying any attention to us.

“Is he still firing?!”

I shouted in bewilderment.

Dusk Bringer was the same. Her face, which was not just red but now turning bluish, continued to spew out her breath.

The two dragons seemed determined to keep firing their breaths until one of them suffocated or was burned to a crisp.

The problem was that Dusk Bringer was gradually being pushed back.

The two breaths had been in equilibrium immediately after meeting in the air, but the point of impact had now been pushed quite a bit towards Dusk Bringer.

“The Archduke doesn’t have much time left, hurry-!”

However, regardless of the effectiveness of our attacks.

Because Tustibean’s body was so bloated, inflicting wounds on him wouldn’t lead to a fatal blow. Our attacks were barely scratching the surface of his skin.

Lukas, who was struggling to push his blade of light into Tustibean’s thick neck, turned to me and shouted.

“He’s too tough and sturdy, my lord! At this rate, a quick and decisive victory is impossible!”

Next to him, Nobody’s strike, which had been aimed at the dragon’s neck, barely managed to break off a single scale. This isn’t easy, really!

I looked around at the heroes and commanded.

“We need to find a weak point that can inflict a fatal wound… the reverse scale!”

On every dragon’s body, there is one spot where the scales grow in the opposite direction, the reverse scale.

This is a critical weak point for a dragon, and at the same time… it’s also a berserk switch.

You can kill a dragon by piercing its reverse scale, but if you pierce it and fail to kill it, the dragon, enraged to the point of losing its mind, will try to kill you without fail.

I understand it as something like a combination of a draft and an ingrown toenail… well, it would hurt like hell if you hit that spot. And if you hit that spot, you’d obviously be pissed off….

At that moment, Kuilan, who was crawling clumsily on the dragon’s back, cried out with a tearful face.

“But there are too many scales!”

That’s right. That’s the problem.

Dragons are huge. The number of scales that make up their bodies is, needless to say, very large. We had to find a single reverse scale among all those scales. And in the middle of a battle!

Finding a reverse scale during a raid like this, where the dragon is breathing fire, swinging its tail, and spraying dragon fear, is about as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack…!

‘And the location isn’t fixed!’

Even in the game, the reverse scale changed location every time.

This is something I can’t figure out even with my experience from the game. We have to find the reverse scale on their bodies in every battle…!

‘That’s why we did the training….’

The reason why we set reverse scale searching as the victory point when facing fake dragons was this.

But no matter how much training we do, finding the reverse scale in actual combat will ultimately depend on luck and intuition to some extent.

The heroes swung their weapons all over Tustibean’s body, searching for the reverse scale with their eyes blazing, but it was not easily found.

And during this time,

Kwaaaaaa!

“Cough, cough… kyaaaaak!”

Dusk Bringer, who couldn’t hold out any longer, was knocked away.

Dusk Bringer, who was out of magic and breath, coughed and stopped her breath, and was hit by Tustibean’s still-maintained breath and was thrown out of the passage.

Fortunately, Tustibean’s breath was also weakened. Perhaps because he had maintained his breath for several minutes, its power had noticeably decreased, and although Dusk Bringer was scorched black, she didn’t seem to be in mortal danger.

《Hoo…》

And Tustibean, who had blown away Dusk Bringer, slowly turned his head and looked towards us.

《I must first get rid of these insects that are interfering with this sacred duel.》

Whoosh-

The surrounding air trembled heavily, and magic and air began to be sucked into Tustibean’s mouth.

‘He can still fire after firing so much!’

Of course, the power would have been greatly reduced due to the rapid firing, but it was still a threat.

…But, that’s why!

“I’ve prepared another way to stop it-!”

At the same time as I shouted, a knight who was still standing on the outer edge of the collapsed ceiling soared up at a rapid speed and began to descend.

A white cloak fluttered like wings behind her pure white armor. Her long platinum blonde hair, tied back behind her visor-shaped helmet, scattered in the wind.

“Heroine, appearing-!”

The girl knight, who had become a specialist in aerial combat, shouted with a giggle.

It was Evangelin Cross, the commander of the Beast Front’s melee unit, who had become an aerial combat specialist.

Thwack-!

Evangelin, who was falling, was in a strange posture with her lance behind her and her shield in front, and flames were spewing out from the end of the lance like a rocket’s propellant.

She was using the fire spirit enchanted on the lance as a means of acceleration. And that wasn’t the end of it.

Clang-!

A halo of magic gathered behind Evangelin’s back, adding to her acceleration. It was a single-shot booster function built into her armor.

“Quietly……”

Evangelin, who was being shot towards the ground like a rocket at a terrifying speed, held her shield firmly and fell directly onto Tustibean’s head—

“Have at you-!”

Claaang!

She slammed into him.

With her large shield, she struck the upper jaw of the dragon, who was gathering his breath. It was a picture-perfect Shield Charge. Even the mighty Tustibean couldn’t withstand it and closed his mouth.

Following that,

Kwaaang!

An explosion.

The breath that was about to be fired exploded inside his mouth, once again engulfing Tustibean’s face in flames. Nice charge, Evangelin!

“Huh?”

Evangelin, who was sliding down the dragon’s neck like a slide, absorbing the flames and explosions with her shield, blinked her eyes.

“Isn’t that the reverse scale?!”

“……!”

The direction Evangelin was pointing was the tip of the dragon’s lower jaw.

Due to the two explosions, the beard-like tissue that had been hanging down from Tustibean’s lower jaw had been completely burned away, and the reverse scale hidden behind it had revealed itself.

“Everyone!”

I pointed in that direction and shouted.

“Destroy the reverse scale-!”

Even in this situation, Tustibean was gathering his breath again. He was like a bastard who was born only to fire breaths.

We had to take him down before he fired his next breath!

Flash!

The first to rush in was Verdandi.

The throwing dagger she threw didn’t pierce the dragon’s scales and bounced off, but Verdandi didn’t care and teleported to the handle of the throwing dagger floating in the air.

With two daggers wrapped in green energy, she slashed a large X-shaped cut on the reverse scale.

“Tch, it’s tough…!”

But that wasn’t enough to destroy the reverse scale. Verdandi clicked her tongue and then fell in a somersault.

“Hmm-!”

King Poseidon, the merman king, who was watching this, planted his trident on the warehouse floor. And he shouted.

“Everyone, get on!”

Then, huge streams of water shot up from various places on the floor. The heroes who had been waiting placed their shields and weapons under their feet and soared up, riding the streams of water like surfboards.

Dragon raids often required attacks on high places, so this was one of the high-altitude attack methods that had been trained in advance. At the same time, they could also splash some water on their bodies to mitigate the damage from the breath’s flames.

“Going up and down, it’s really a mess!”

Kuilan, grumbling, wrapped his whole body in red energy and then struck the dragon’s lower jaw.

Following that, the heroes on our side soared up one after another and pounded on Tustibean’s reverse scale. Cracks gradually began to appear clearly on the reverse scale, which had been holding firm.

Crack-!

By the time Lukas’ [Willpower Strike] landed, a large crack had already formed, and then.

“……”

Kellybay, holding a large hammer in one hand and a large chisel in the other, soared up on a stream of water.

“This strike is……”

Kellybay, who had reached the dragon’s lower jaw, his wet beard fluttering, placed the tip of the chisel on the reverse scale, and then,

“I’m doing this for my son, you monster-!”

He swung the hammer accurately on top of it.

Clang-!

The reverse scale shattered into pieces.

《Kuaaaaaaa-!》

Tustibean, who had endured any attack, even the explosion of his breath inside his neck, couldn’t withstand the pain of the reverse scale being broken.

“Kuh…?!”

It was a terrifyingly powerful Dragon Roar.

Thanks to my [Unbreakable Commander], the heroes were not affected by the fear status, but they couldn’t help but freeze instinctively.

The heroes, who were about to launch additional attacks, stopped for a moment, and Tustibean, even while enraged by the pain… managed to complete his next breath.

With eyes gleaming with terrifying rage and hatred, Tustibean turned to us and tried to fire his breath.

I was about to defend against that breath with another means I had prepared, but,

Thud-!

There was no need.

The Dragon Lady, Dusk Bringer, who had already rushed over here, kicked off the ground and soared up to Tustibean’s eye level with terrifying leg strength.

And then, she grabbed the dragon’s lower jaw with both hands, opened her small mouth wide, and into the spot where the reverse scale had been broken off—

“—Burn.”

She thrust her breath.

Thwack-!

A beam of red magic power that shot out from Dusk Bringer’s mouth pierced through Tustibean’s lower jaw.

Bang! Kwaaaang!

Explosions occurred continuously on Tustibean’s neck and face.

But Tustibean was also a tenacious dragon. Even as his lower jaw was being blown away and melted, he glared straight at Dusk Bringer and fired the breath he had gathered.

The two breaths, which had collided fiercely in the air for a moment, soon—one of them faded weakly, and the other swallowed it up.

The victor was Dusk Bringer.

Tustibean’s huge black breath was pierced through the center by Dusk Bringer’s thin red breath and then completely annihilated.

Crack-!

The red breath that had blown away Tustibean’s lower jaw pierced through Tustibean’s upper jaw, eyes, and even his brain.

The battle was over, and Dusk Bringer slowly stopped her breath.

Dusk Bringer, covered in ash and soot, and Tustibean, whose huge face was completely melted and burned, exchanged glances for a moment.

《…To join hands with that insect-like human.》

With his huge face, half of which was melted away, Tustibean uttered his last words. Since he no longer had a tongue or jaw, the voice transmitted by magic was so weak that it seemed like it would disappear at any moment.

《Is that how far you will go to fight us, descendant of the Red Dragon…?》

“Of course.”

Dusk Bringer, who puffed flames from her mouth, smiled mischievously.

“Half of me is human, you monster.”

《Hahaha…》

Whether it was a laugh or a hollow groan, he let out an unintelligible death rattle.

Tustibean’s huge head and neck slowly fell to the side.

Thud…!

A cloud of dust rose up.