Chapter 638

"That rude bastard......!"

That damn bastard, seriously.

If they were starting, shouldn’t he at least say they were starting?

After flying far away toward the other end of the lair that seemed to have no end, Su-ho immediately twisted his body and stopped himself from being launched any farther.

He had no injuries.

Because Protective Holy Art had blocked it on its own.

Seeing that, Omega smiled faintly.

- Your petty tricks have certainly increased.

"Let’s see if you can still act relaxed later."

That old lizard bastard.

I swear I’ll put at least three stab wounds in your body.

At that moment, all kinds of auras wrapped around Su-ho’s body.

[ Heracles’s Lion Head Helmet is summoned. ]

[ Heracles’s Club is summoned. ]

[ Blood Genesis activates. ]

[ Mana Detection activates. ]

[ Eye of the Nightsmith activates. ]

[ Sword Energy activates. ]

[ Blessing activates. ]

[ Extreme Strength activates. ]

[ Extermination of Evil activates. ]

[ Enough rage has accumulated. ]

[ Blessing activates an additional effect. ]

[ Rage Mode activates. ]

[ Foxfire activates. ]

It was true of every fight, but he had no intention of dragging this fight out for long either.

Because finishing it as quickly as possible would leave a bigger scratch on that bastard’s pride.

"Everyone, come out." ℴ

"We obey your command!"

Naturally, he also summoned the vampire army.

Then, with Edersen and Roynan at the head, countless High Bloods rushed out.

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy activates. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, summons the Black Army. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, summons the Black Shadow Dragon. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, summons Typhon. ]

Jack, too, followed his master’s will and brought everything out from the very beginning.

[ Guiyeong is summoned. ]

He did not forget Guiyeong either.

Once all preparations for an all-out war were complete, the lair seemed to be packed full.

However, despite Su-ho’s total offensive, Omega did not so much as blink.

Rather, he sneered.

- You scraped together every last thing you could quite desperately.

Then he lightly gestured with his hand.

[ Omega, the last Dragon Lord and the final Arch Dragon, summons Dragon Tooth Soldiers. ]

With a single gesture of his hand, countless Dragon Tooth Soldiers made of pure-white dragon bones appeared through subspace gates whose edges were formed from golden curves.

"You’ve got numbers too, huh?"

- Once one reaches a position such as mine, Dragon Tooth Soldiers naturally accumulate even without paying attention to them. Then let us watch and see whether your soldiers are stronger, or mine are.

Those words were the beginning.

Taking Omega’s words as the signal, countless Dragon Tooth Soldiers began charging all at once toward Su-ho’s summons.

- Leave it to me.

- Please entrust it to me, Master.

At the Dragon Tooth Soldiers’ sortie, Jack and Roynan answered at the same time.

Edersen stepped out at the very front first instead of answering.

Kwaaaaang!!

The hair-trigger situation soon became a massive all-out battle and produced enormous roars.

Although he had gone to the trouble of wrapping himself in buff skills, Su-ho did not participate in the infantry battle either.

There were two reasons.

The first was that Omega had not stepped forward, and the second was that he was curious.

About just how strong the Dragon Tooth Soldiers Omega commanded would be.

'Omega probably hasn’t stepped forward first because he’s curious about that too.'

So Su-ho quietly waited.

I believe in my summons.

Especially since that side doesn’t seem to have a command tower like Jack.

Like that, the infantry battle between the two forces began for a while, and the result was decided quickly.

Omega’s eyes widened slightly.

The corner of Su-ho’s mouth also rose slightly.

"Our kids are stronger, aren’t they?"

It was exactly as he said.

He had expected a fairly fierce battle to unfold, but unexpectedly, Su-ho’s soldiers overwhelmingly swept away the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

He had been confident, but to think the difference would be this large.

So he even kindly sent a voice transmission to inform him of the result.

Omega did not answer.

Instead, he raised his hand and showed the next stage.

[ Omega, the last Dragon Lord and the final Arch Dragon, uses Meteor. ]

"What?"

Meteor? As in that magic that drops a meteorite?

He had not seen wrong.

But weren’t they indoors?

If it was a dragon’s lair, at the very least, it was not outdoors.

Whether it was a cave or somewhere else, it had to have been made after taking root in some place.

So how was he going to drop a meteor?

He was able to understand the principle quickly.

Because the Meteor did not fall from far away in space. Instead, Omega opened a warp gate in the ceiling and pulled it out.

Jack moved beside Su-ho and asked.

- Master, you handle that.

"You can’t?"

- I can, but then the shadow losses would be too great.

"Ah, then that won’t do."

- You can do it, right?

"As if you need to ask. I’ll show you the results of my special training."

Shadows were already difficult to replenish. He could not waste them just to block a single Meteor.

Su-ho immediately drew his Blood Sword.

Then he stood before the Meteor falling exactly toward him.

"For a Dragon Lord, look at the size of that rock."

Su-ho glared at it for a while, then immediately sent out his sword.

[ Extreme Strength activates. ]

[ Diamond Cut activates. ]

[ Sky Slash activates. ]

[ Combined Sword Technique activates. ]

[ True Severing Slash activates. ]

[ Extreme Strength is applied. ]

[ The power of True Severing Slash rises to the extreme. ]

Slice!

He swung his sword in an instant, as if using a sword-drawing technique.

Then a sword strike stretched out from the Blood Sword in a fleeting instant, and it rapidly swept past the falling Meteor.

The Meteor continued falling.

Had he failed?

The moment Omega thought that.

Kwa-gagagagak!

A few seconds later, the Meteor the sword strike had swept across split cleanly in two with a tremendous roar.

Su-ho smiled.

"See?"

- You cut well. But it is still falling.

"Huh?"

Jack lifted a finger and pointed at the Meteor.

The split Meteor had not vanished. It was falling with only its trajectory changed while still split apart.

"Oh, this."

- What do you mean, this? Hurry and handle it, Master.

Su-ho hurriedly swung his sword several times.

Then a sword strike burst out each time he swung, and those strikes, stretching out like a flurry of slashes, swept across the Meteor that had already been bisected several times over in an instant.

Crack—crack-crack—Paaaaang!!

The Meteor that countless sword strikes had swept through soon shattered into pieces like finely chopped ingredients and exploded.

The fragments scattered in every direction and soon fell all over the lair, leaving large and small marks of destruction.

Of course, Su-ho’s side took no damage.

Fragments like that could simply be destroyed as they came close.

Su-ho withdrew his sword and looked toward Omega.

"Is that all you have to show me?"

Omega’s eyes narrowed.

Then he answered lightly.

- Still, you are not entirely unusable.

"Your mouth is alive and well right up to the end, huh?"

- Dragon Tooth Soldiers naturally accumulate when one is in a lair, and Meteor Strike is only top-tier magic by human standards. To me, it is not even something that can be called magic. At most, it is the limit of what a 9th Circle human mage can do.

Magic.

Right.

Come to think of it, dragons were also a race called the root of magic.

Since he always used only skills, he had never once thought about real magic.

"So, is the magic you’re going to show me a little different?"

- It is different. If everything until now was to test you while thinking of you as an ordinary human, from now on, I will think of you as having reached the realm of the inhuman and test you in earnest.

"You’ve got one hell of a long tongue. But do you know what? My level is 400 now. I reached the realm of the inhuman long before I became Level 400. At your level, you should be able to tell that with a glance, so saying now that you were testing me as human or inhuman sounds way too shabby as an excuse for your failed attacks, doesn’t it?"

- A lowborn thing truly has many words. How could the likes of you understand the thoughts of a noble dragon? I will show you from now on. Why you must cast away everything you possess and become a true dragon.

A true dragon.

You really wanted to make me into a true dragon until the very end.

Fine, then let’s see.

Let’s see just how incredible the power of the true dragon you keep talking about until your mouth dries out really is.

At that moment, from Omega, who had been silently watching Su-ho, he felt an intense energy on a level he had never felt even once in his life.

'Killing intent?'

For a moment, it felt as if an icy wind had blown in.

It was so cold that it startled him as much as pressing ice to the back of a sleepy person’s neck.

Looking at that Su-ho, Omega smiled.

- You seem quite surprised. And I have not even begun yet.

Then.

- First, let us begin with you taking one light hit.

That was when it happened.

[ Omega, the last Dragon Lord and the final Arch Dragon, uses Dragon Speech. ]

Kwaaaaaang!!

A powerful impact.

It happened right before Su-ho’s nose. The impact had not occurred directly on Su-ho, but it felt as though a speeding truck had crashed into a defensive barrier right in front of his face and been smashed apart.

No, it was not just a feeling. The impact had actually occurred.

Because the shock just now had been blocked by Su-ho’s Protective Holy Art.

At the same time, his mana drained sharply.

- Holy Art, is it? You learned something moderately useful. Not bad for a human. But how long can that endure?

[ Omega, the last Dragon Lord and the final Arch Dragon, uses Dragon Speech. ]

Kwaaaaaang!! Kwaaaaang!! Kwaang!!

A system notification.

And terrifying impacts began crashing in from every direction as if sweeping over him.

Kwaaaaaang!! Kwaaaaang!! Kwaang!!

It felt as though the Protective Holy Art might break at any moment.

Su-ho poured in mana and blocked the external impacts.

Jack urgently advised him.

- He is using Dragon Speech. You will need to brace yourself, Master.

"The thing you mentioned earlier?"

- Yes. It has the same nature as the Blood Spirit Arts you use, Master. But if one looks only at grade, Dragon Speech is the very top tier among word-spirit arts.

"Then what should I do?"

At that moment.

Kwaaaaaang!! —Crash!

Under the bombardment of Dragon Speech raging around him, Protective Holy Art could not endure and shattered like a window breaking.