Until now, I could easily dodge it, but with the current Dwarf King Surut seem to have all his abilities enhanced. The time until the blade arrived was short, and while I barely dodged it, the flames enveloping the axe attacks, and i got burned.
「I was almost there…this is seriously tough.」
The nice armor from Philip-san was already gone. It seems that his mana got depleted. I have plenty of mana, however, since I can only focus on physical enhancement, just avoiding the attack still makes me take damage. Furthermore , the golden lava flows that oozed out from the sunstone is overflowing the surroundings, making the temperature rise rapidly.
「Uhm, I don’t think we can maintain that enhanced form for long, but before that, his one’s about to die」
Offering their life as a price. Surut won’t stop until he’s dead.
I really want to strip off that giant armor and capture them alive, but as things go on, it might not be possible anymore.
「Before thinking about unnecessary things, I have to survive first.」
If I keep being on the defensive, I can’t win. We need to go on the offensive. Before the heat and the flames kill meー
ーI have to kill Surut. This is all to survive.
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A boy and a giant dance under the radiance of the sunstone.
They both have the goal of taking the other’s life. But, the reasons of each side is different.
The boy does it to survive.
The giant does it for the future of their brethren.
In principle, there’s no merit in killing each other, and yet that slight difference is about to become the decisive one.
“The sunstone” A god worshiped by the dwarves, one pillar of the gods who dedicated themselves to this world.
The embodiment of altruism, standing on the opposite side of the selfish dragon. A very small fragment left behind by the God who vanished in the effort for someone else, even by sacrificing their own existence.
The fragment of the god whom the dwarves sympathized with Surut’s wish to protect them. The spirit overflowing with self-sacrifice, willing to lose their life. A sincere prayer to protect someone.
Would the dwarf’s guardian diety fail to grant the wish of their beloved dwarf?
No, that’s impossible. The guardian god of dwarves loves all the dwarves. They must lend the strength for the king who fights for the dwarves.
The sun stone shines. Crimson, fierce, and brilliant, it illuminates the dwarf village.
Pushed by that brilliance, the dwarf king launches an assault like a fierce fire. It sets everything of life, soul, and existence ablaze.
「Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!」
The kiryu in the distance is attacking with full force, but they cannot affect the collosal body that holds the radiance of the god’s metal, orichalcum, and vanished
Then. A moment. Just a fleeting moment.
The dwarf king surpassed the fearsome dragon before him.
The flaming battle axe held by the king pressed against Alec’s undefended torsoー
ーーーーーー!!!!!
A roaring sound. The shock of the dwarf king’s power violently shakes the entire dwarf settlement in the depths.
The blow, blessed by the dwarf’s guardian diety, possessed tremendous power and slammed the target.
「Danna-sama!!!!!」
The blazing golden battle axe has been blocked by a silver-transparent ice wall.
「A-A-Are you okay?!!!」
「Thanks. Nasha-chan. You saved me」
The wall of silver ice is created in front of Alec. The blow that the dwarf king staked everything for was prevented by the girl who had the blood of the dwarves.
「This can’t be! This ice! Magic metal?! Why! Why, our mother! Why did you lend your power to that girl!」
The dwarf king’s dry echoes. However, the sunstone didn’t answer. It only burns red.
The sunstone, a fragment of a god, left by the guardian diety of the dwarves, the mother of the dwarves.
The god who loved all the dwarves.
Their god equally loves the dwarf king fighting for the dwarven homeland, and the daughter of Kiryu who carried the blood of dwarves.
The prayer of the Dwarf King fighting for his beloved dwarves, and the prayer of the girl who protects her beloved husband, they’re both prayers for the sake of others before God.
Therefore, the guardian God of the dwarves blessed them both.
The Flame-Gold Blade cannot break through the Ice-Silver Defense.
「This can’t be! How can this happen!!!!」
「It’s useless! I will protect my hsuband, you will not lay a single finger on him!!!」
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「Phew. Nasha-chann, you saved us」
The ice-silver defensive wall isolated Surut’s attack and the surrounding flames and heat. Everything is calm only in this place, like an eye of a typhoon.
At the center of that, I gazed at the two tanks held in both hands. I smashed the divine armor made by Surut, clashed with the divine iron battle axe, swung with all his might, and understood.
ーThe dwarf king smashes the divine iron with his hammer, converses with it, and obeys until he’s exhausted, then comes to understand it. ”
It makes a rattling sound, mmost of the tanks, made of the magic iron, had collapsed. The debris, which was supposed to be magic metal, lost its luster and crumbled away like sand.
What remains is the divine iron armor and the turret section. That thing, covered in scratches and dents from being hit so many times, melted into a soft, yielding mass.
「I finally get it」
The divine iron melted in my hand mixed and changed its form. Rather than the clumsy imitation of a blunt instruments from before, it becomes a weapon that aligns with my will.
「You’re already mine」
Odachi, shining in gold and longer than my height was there. The mana overflowing from the blade mixes with mine and becomes one.
ーMagic metal is nothing but materialized mana. Even if the mana of the dwarf king and the dwarf warriors themselves are low, but wearing armor made of magic metal allows them to increase their overall mana. ”
Physical strengthening. My body is light. The fatigue disappears. The feeling of omnipotence envelops me.
「――？！？！？！？！？！？！」
Surut stopped moving when he saw the weapon in my hand. His face has been clearly distorted by surprise.
「This is the end!」
I put my foot on the silver ice wall and jumped higher and faster.
Reaching above Surut’s head, I swing the Odachi I’m holding
「Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!」
A flash.
A flash of gold making the cut on top of his shoulder.
「Ooh…」
The massive body slides off smoothly. Surut’s body, which was in the center of the body does too.
「I’m taking it all. The great king of Dwarves, Surut」
It melts thickly from the edge and begins to burn. Knowing that Surut is about to die, I declared it naturally.
「Y-You’re greedy…You want to take everything away from me…everything from the dwarves…」
The fire of life is fading.
「Ooh, you fearsome dragon…You’re a greedy one for reaching the gold of the dwarves…」
In this world, where Gods dedicate everything to the world, only the greedy and arrogant dragons remain.
「That greed of yours will destroy you in time, I’m waiting for you in the underworld」
ーGreedy dragon, Fáfnir
That was the cursed words that the last king of the dwarf tribe, Surut, left behind.