The dragon's harem

Chapter 1004: The Monster Slayer

chapter 1004: the monster slayer



the brass dragon growled, feeling his ribs almost cracking beneath plum's massive foot. brass dragons are amphibians but don't have gills. their massive lungs could process both water and air at the dragon's will. he won't drown no matter how long he stays beneath the water, but now he can't breathe properly since plum's foot is squishing his chest, preventing him from breathing.

as he struggled, his eyes spotted something in the distance that made him question his life, it made rats spawn in his head to try and figure out what in the nine hells his eyes were drinking to see such an illusion. ann was swimming to the surface from the depth of the sea.

^this titan fairy is knee-deep into the sea... we're six hundred meters deep... no...my lair is over three kilometers deep. what in the bahamut is that thing?!^ he growled before blood could rush into his head...^no, my wife was in the lair, how did that thing get out...she didn't leave to hunt, did she?^

thinking about that won't change the fact that ann somehow managed to escape and is swimming up. the brass dragon decided to deal with plum first, he'll then get to the bottom of what ann is.

he growled with lightning crackling from his wings. the electric discharge shocked plum's leg so she couldn't keep pushing down on him, evaporating the air around him at the same time to allow him to flap his wings once.

with a brilliant flash of light from deep beneath the sapphire sea, a massive explosion burst out and the brass dragon flew out like a bullet, ramming plum's stomach with his head as hard as he could. she growled, swinging her fist and punching him to the shore. she coughed a sea of blood as her body shrunk down.

for a moment there the dragon had hoped his electric discharge would've hit ann and killed her, but she seems to have been just a bit far away. as the dragon coughed blood on the shore, her hand finally landed on the wooden ladder built on the side of the ship. she barely managed to pull her head out of the water, gasping for air as she coughed several mouthfuls of water out of her lungs.

ann reached up with her shaking hands, slowly but surely climbing the ladder as fast as she could. this wasn't the first time she stood at death's door, and it won't be the last. she knew it, no one could help or save her, they couldn't even save themselves so what power did they have over others?

mesharra, the blade of justice had failed to measure up to the dragon's arrogant justice. echidna's curses are just that, curses, not allies, they give as much as they take, rendering their power meaningless, just like how the existence of a witch that helps and kills people at the same time is meaningless.

mary had the power to heal and save lives, but that power isn't hers, it doesn't even belong to the being she currently prays to. she's as powerless as everyone else, being through across the battle at other's will.

plum, the rampaging wrath of nature, the chaotic power that drives nature forward, even she can't stand the pure and unfiltered violence of the dragons. those wyrms were born to dominate all life, to stand at the peak of all-natural orders, the lands shift by their presence, so how could nature stand against them?

he stood on his hind legs and opened his mouth. seeing that motion, ann jumped out of the cannon and ducked on the deck. there is only one thing that'll come out of a dragon's open maw and that is his breath weapon.

unlike most dragons, brass dragons have two-breath weapons. a lightning-breath weapon, and an air-breath weapon that takes the form of an explosive cone of compressed air. they usually use their air breath weapon to fill their lairs which they did beneath the sea with air to breathe. they later use the lightning to break water into oxygen which they use to top up the air in their lair, and hydrogen which they use to lay traps to kill intruders.

gro00000000000! clap! the brass dragon suddenly sucked air with a blast, pulling everything from the warship's direction. he could use his air breath in reverse.

ann and everything on the ship's deck which wasn't nailed down flew toward the dragon's maw as the shockwave washed over them, blasting them toward him. it wasn't like a vacuum cleaner, it was like when a spaceship's door breaks, everything gets sucked into it in the blink

of an eye.

^you underestimate dragons, you underestimate me, human brat.^ he thought, ^call me a monster all you want...i saw the peerless evil and i killed it, you stood in my way, and i shall kill you as well. your feelings are worth less than the dirt you walk upon^

as ann was just a few meters away from the dragon's maw, echidna landed on his head, smacking her palms on his forehead. for a second, he went blind. at that moment plum jumped in, enlarging herself just barely enough to force the dragon's maw closed in her hand. and with a single leap, the still bloodied mesharra jumped over five meters into the air from plum's back and caught ann, falling with her on the wet sand of the shore.

mary rushed toward mesharra and ann to heal them, but the situation had just turned from

bad to worse. mesharra wasn't fully healed yet but she still took the fall for ann, which broke her legs even though they landed on the sand. ann wasn't fine either, the shockwave and sudden pull of the dragon's breath had left her barely conscious with most of her organs

scrambled.

lightning crackled from the dragon's back, shocking both plum and echidna. the two fell to the ground and he leaped forward, smacking mary and mesharra away as he stood over ann, glaring down at her, growling.

"so..." ann mumbled, "here my...life ends..." she stared at him with a smile, satisfied.

just as he was about to bite her down, he stopped, the sea had turned bright red. a mast slowly peeked up from the still water beneath the sun.