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Chapter 29 An Expected Battle

Frankly speaking, the Vulture is not a powerful third-generation magic crystal armor; at least compared to Loren's red dragon body, it is not very strong.

In a one-on-one situation, Loren could take it down without much difficulty if he spent some time.

However, its standard reconnaissance system is very troublesome, really troublesome.

That thing has a normal detection range similar to military equipment; as long as a stealth unit enters, it will quickly alert the user.

This means that Loren's most effective tactics—stealth infiltration, psionic spell control, and physical tearing—are ineffective.

In addition, the vulture's physical and magical resistance are among the best in its class of civilian products.

After all, this guy's main role is to provide vision for the team, so he is called a reconnaissance specialist.

And those guys who try to gain an advantage are also the easiest targets for getting beaten up.

Therefore, the designers did the opposite and directly strengthened its defensive capabilities.

Its wings are not for flying, but rather they transform into a feather shield to block damage.

Choosing the name "vulture" is clearly a rather perverse choice, given that most birds are fragile.

However, it is a rather durable creature.

If he couldn't infiltrate and use the power of the dragon's body to destroy it at close range, Loren wasn't confident he could destroy it normally in an instant.

Without destroying the vultures, Loren's position will forever remain in their hands.

This means that those enemies whom Loren has not yet identified can use their weapons, such as magic crystal hand cannons and other ranged weapons, to launch a siege against Loren.

"Phew, then we'll have to use the next option."

As a mage and dragon, Loren always planned carefully before acting, and was especially skilled at ambushes.

After gaining the upper hand, they launched a fierce and relentless attack, nipping the opponent's counterattack in the bud.

However, mages always consider the opponent's counter-strategy and trump cards when facing an enemy.

I'm always endlessly trying to figure out what my trump card should be if the other party guesses it, and then what my trump card should be.

Therefore, when he used invisibility as a tactic to build his combat blueprint, he had already considered what to do if his invisibility was detected.

His answer was: high altitude, high speed, and firepower coverage!

Loren conjured wings and soared into the air at lightning speed, revealing his form far beyond the vulture's detection range.

Because of his long-standing habit of consuming and digesting magic crystals, his size is slightly larger than that of a normal twenty-year-old sub-adult red dragon.

The length is over six meters, and the wingspan is between ten meters.

Frankly speaking, this is not an outrageously large beast, but the immense magical power flowing around its body silently proclaims its extraordinary nature.

Loren began chanting the mantra.

One by one, steady-state fireballs began to appear.

In this world without magic networks, Loren must simultaneously maintain the steady state of the previous fireball spell while constructing the next one.

Fireball is not a stable spell; to be precise, there are no fire-related spells that are easy to stabilize.

Three, five, seven, ten.

Ten level-three fireballs floated between Loren's outstretched wings, and then Loren began to cast his final acceleration spell.

Using the gravitational potential energy from the high altitude, Loren maintained the fireball spell between his ten wings while diving rapidly downwards.

The Tier 3 warrior was stunned when eleven rapidly approaching, high-energy signals appeared in the Vulture Manipulator's detection alarm.

No, is that right?

He quickly shut down his external vision to prevent being immobilized by human control spells. At the same time, he switched his armor to its highest magic defense mode, raised his feather shield, and maximized his magic power output for defense.

He didn't know how this was done, which mage was planning to attack him like this, or what was going on, but he wanted to survive.

Fireballs exploded one after another on the magically charged feather shield, creating arcs of flame.

On the seventh one, the feather shield was completely destroyed.

But at this moment, the vulture's operator was secretly delighted.

If the next four high-energy attacks are all of this level, according to the Vulture's design, its machine body can definitely withstand them!
But after the first three explosions, the fourth explosion was nowhere to be heard.

The sensors that provided him with energy measurements were also damaged in those three explosions.

However, soon, without the need for sensors, he was able to sense that final high-energy reaction.

Before him, the crimson dragon, its face pressed against his, opened its mouth.

Blazing flames spewed from his mouth.

Dragon's breath.

Loren only stopped breathing when the other person showed no signs of life.

"That was close, we almost overturned."

Loren secretly felt fortunate.

Without ten explosive fireballs to shatter the feather shield and the opponent's magical defenses, continuous breath attacks like dragon's breath cannot achieve any effect in a short time.

If he fails to achieve anything, he may face a beating from all sides.

Or, they could run away and start over again.

The flight units are structured as follows.

"This is the new era."

Loren stared at the corpse beneath his feet, now fused with the magic crystal armor, with a complex expression.

Although his battle ended in an instant, it was close to the limit of Loren's strength.

If even one more heavily armored warrior were to appear, he would have to run away.

Before the Federation was established and before the magic crystal armor technology was widely adopted, there should have been no being below the legendary level capable of withstanding ten fireballs and the continuous breath of the young red dragon.

But now, a single third-and-a-half-generation civilian magic crystal armor almost achieved that.

This thing is worth twenty years of his hard work!
Even if this damn thing is expensive, extremely expensive, so what?
Does selling it separately make it cheaper?!

Of course, if Loren could be equipped with dragon-type magic crystal armor of equal or even higher specifications.

His breath and magic will also receive terrifying enhancements.

On the battlefield designated by the Federation, the dragons, armed with various magic crystals, were still able to harvest their peers as easily as mowing grass, just like in the past.

But was that a victory for the dragons?

The battle ended in an instant, and the violent explosion startled everyone inside the entire magic crystal mine.

But when the miners, who were filing out, and the soldiers who were supervising them saw the red dragon trampling the corpse of the great warrior wearing the third-generation vulture armor under its feet, none of them could muster the will to resist.

After all, their strongest fighter, the third-tier warrior wearing the third-generation magic crystal armor, was dead in the blink of an eye; they didn't even have time to react before he died.

What can they do?
What else can they do?
In an instant, at the highest point of the mountain, beneath the gaze of the red dragon's golden vertical pupils, there was no one left standing.

They bowed, they knelt, they submitted.

(End of this chapter)