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[Main Text] Chernobog, Above the Ruins: Chapter Twenty-One: You're Foolish, I Can Fly

A familiar aura suddenly swelled up in Tomat's air.

This feeling of resentment and chilling malice belongs to someone who should have been reduced to ashes.

However, compared to the "original aura" he knew, the current guy was completely different.

What was that sound just now!?

As a tyrant of Castor, he possessed keen hearing that lived up to his long ears. Moreover, even in this remote area of ​​ruins, his earlier roar still echoed in every corner.

Moreover, the sound came from the direction they were heading—that is, the location of the core city. At that moment, both the transport vehicle where Tomat was and the vehicle carrying the survivors braked suddenly.

"There's something really huge over there..."

Thomas stood up, lifted the lookout roof structure from inside the vehicle, and with a push of his hands, stepped onto the outside of the roof.

"And they're definitely not our people. I'll go check it out first. You guys should get the team members who aren't fit for combat and these Ursus people away from us. It's best to evacuate them all outside."

"Hey, wait a minute, don't exclude us."

"You go first. If you can get there ahead of time, please make sure the doctor and the others are safe as soon as possible."

Although he was the captain, the violent man did not share the dissatisfaction that the scavenger felt, who felt excluded.

Instead, she chose to follow Thomas's instructions, prioritizing the accommodation of the others before heading there by car.

Thomas made a gesture and immediately disappeared from sight at a speed far exceeding what he had been driving in the car before.

But this time he slowed down, after all, the surrounding ruins were already in a precarious state compared to before, and now there were rescue workers present. If he accelerated blindly, it would only cause an impact that would affect those people.

Even if he deliberately avoided buildings and took a longer route by increasing the altitude, Tomat could still reach the location of that aura within a minute.

Meanwhile, Frostnova, who had gathered in Azazel, also heard the dragon's roar along with Patriot.

—First ensure the safety of non-combat personnel, then provide support.

This is a measure that both sides agreed upon without prior consultation.

Hrag led the infected civilians and wounded guerrillas from Azazel, who were unable to fight, to evacuate the Chernobog area together with a rescue team sent by Rhodes Island.

Froststar, meanwhile, marched with Patriot and the guerrilla fighters.

The guerrillas or Patriots had no obligation to care about the safety of Rhodes Island, but as the organization that provided them with rescue, simply "repaying a debt of gratitude" was enough for them to justify using military force there.

"Yelena, are you serious?"

"I already said it's no problem. I'm capable of carrying out support operations on my own, but I lack the means to move quickly."

However, the Patriots hesitated slightly because of Frostnova's proposed "relocation plan".

Although they didn't have many vehicles, the guerrillas, as a powerful fighting force, were not lacking in battlefield mobility. They could start marching now and head towards the direction from which the sound came.

Frostnova seemed so eager to get there that she created another giant ice pillar, despite her body's tendency to relapse into Oripathy.

"You want me to stand on top and let you throw it?"

"Don't worry, I've tried."

Although Patriot hesitated for a long time, he eventually agreed to Frostnova's proposal.

Frostnova maintained her balance, standing atop the ice pillar held in Patriot's hand. Patriot's upper arm muscles bulged, dark energy once again coiling around his arm. A flash of red light appeared in his empty eye sockets, then he took a massive step forward, shattering the rubble on the ground—and launched a powerful attack!

When Patriot still had his spear, he threw it with the same motion, and it pierced through the tightly closed gates of a city-state in Kazimir.

Now he used this move again, this time with even greater force, but this time he was throwing his own daughter, and the target was no longer an enemy.

Frostnova froze her legs and the ice pillar together, and with the immense strength of Patriot's arm, she flew towards the location of the core city.

Although reinforcements were on their way, the doctor found himself in an intractable predicament.

First, the inability to contact the outside world is not only due to the fact that the signal has not been fully restored, but more importantly, the dragon's roar had completely destroyed most of the surrounding electronic devices.

Secondly, the operators who are temporarily unable to act due to the roar cannot regain their mobility in a short period of time, leaving them helpless against danger.

The third is the dragon itself. Although this suddenly appearing and seemingly awakened behemoth moves somewhat slowly, the hundreds-of-meters-deep cave cannot confine it for long, and it has already attempted to leave from the bottom.

But being in a difficult situation doesn't mean they'll just sit and wait to die.

"It's highly unrealistic to leave with dozens of unconscious operators in a short time. Even if we can retreat, we can't leave them here..."

The doctor began to ponder—how should he face such a powerful enemy when his combat strength was limited and he had no way to retreat?

That is to delay the opponent as much as possible.

They have a cooperation agreement with Lungmen, and the other party has an obligation to provide assistance if either party encounters danger.

However, this is not something to look forward to. The real aid that will come will still come from Rhodes Island's own forces. We cannot expect Lungmen to make sacrifices for a mere agreement with a pharmaceutical company.

The enormous roar was a veiled notification—informing the people of Lungmen to carefully consider whether to provide support, while urging the people of Rhodes Island to come to their aid immediately.

But when will the fastest aid arrive?

Even the PhD student didn't know.

So now his only option is to "delay as much as possible".

"Operator Rosemary! Operator Amiya!"

This was no longer an ordinary situation but a battlefield-like emergency. The Doctor addressed the two as operators and gave them orders.

"Use spells and ranged weapons to attack the visible cracks at the edge of the cave!"

"learn!"

"receive."

Upon receiving the order, Amiya and Rosemary used Originium Arts to keep themselves levitating. A dark rhombus pattern appeared behind Amiya, followed by waves of magical energy that condensed at her fingertips and struck the cracks in the cave wall. Meanwhile, four weapons flew out from behind Rosemary at the same time, embedding themselves in the edge of the cave entrance and vibrating rapidly, causing the cracks at the edge to widen further.

However, the crater itself was too huge, and even though each of their attacks could cause a large number of collapses in the crater, it was still a drop in the ocean.

But it did have an effect—the heavy objects kept hitting the dragon, preventing it from climbing up the cave walls, and the occasional huge rubble falling on its head would also give it a slight thud.

"Operator Chen! Move the operators who fell because they were too close to the crater to a more distant location! Please!"

Unable to launch long-range attacks like the others, Chen, under the Doctor's arrangement, took this opportunity to transfer other operators.

"No problem! But be careful! Draco can fly!"

"What did you say? I still have some tinnitus—"

boom--!!!

Giant wings flap.

As if it had just adjusted to its newly awakened body, the dragon spread out its wings, which were also covered with scales.

The moment it took off, it easily blew away Amiya, who was also floating in the air, like a dandelion seed, and crashed into Rosemary, who was barely holding on to the storm.

[Main Text] Chernobog, Above the Ruins: Chapter Twenty-Two How Can We Lose When the Dragon Charges?

There are many races similar to the Drak, such as the Vayvan, and like the Drak, they do not have a similar "prototype" in the biosphere of Terra.

In different cultural contexts, for ease of reference, they can also be called "dragons," but with some additional prefixes.

Drak are often referred to as flying dragons, and in some texts or pictures describing them, they are also depicted as having the ability to fly.

But perhaps the shock of seeing a legendary creature in front of them made the doctor and others not consider that it could actually use the flapping of its wings to lift its body, which was heavier than a tall building, into the air.

A huge, dark shadow burst out of the crater with a deep roar, and the air currents it created overturned the parked vehicle, while the other unconscious operators were blown even further away.

"hateful!!"

Chen had no chance to move the operators, so he could only reluctantly plunge Chixiao into the ground and hold on tightly to prevent his body from being blown away.

Meanwhile, Amiya and Rosemary, who had been overturned by the gust of wind, collided head-on. The Doctor, who was near the cave entrance, could only grit his teeth and cling to a protruding piece of building ruins, while shouting at Amiya and Rosemary, whose cries were completely drowned out by the howling sound, to make them retreat.

The doctor strained to observe the dragon, which was likely to soar four or five hundred meters into the air in an instant. Although he kept his face hidden from his hood despite the strong winds, the shock and worry in his heart were undoubtedly expressed in his shouts.

Such a massive size, coupled with such speed, indicates an extremely high level of danger, whether achieved through Originium Arts or sheer physical strength.

Although Amiya and Chen are both skilled fighters, they lack sufficient power to suppress such a massive target.

Destroying targets of this size is something typically only involved in industrial mining or even military applications.

But just as the Doctor was about to shout louder, trying to make Amiya and the others hear him, the airflow that had been blowing almost vertically to the ground was greatly reduced by the cover provided by one of Rosemary's extermination equipment.

The massive annihilation equipment was planted in the ruins in front of the doctor, forming a barrier that blocked the airflow, giving the doctor a chance to steady himself.

Upon closer inspection, Amiya was now inexplicably standing in front of Rosemary, her hands placed on Rosemary's temples, touching her forehead. Rosemary had also closed her eyes, and the remaining three annihilation war equipment floated around them.

"Rosemary, try increasing your skill output, I'll help you stabilize your mental state."

"I know, Amiya, don't force yourself."

Black, diamond-shaped magical runes surrounded the two girls who, despite facing a powerful enemy, kept their eyes closed and refused to look directly at him.

At that moment, the dragon's figure had just paused as it rose into the air, and the air currents it created were just beginning to subside.

At the same moment, the three annihilation weapons broke through the sound barrier in the air, bursting out with deafening sounds at unprecedented speeds, turning into steel projectiles that struck the dragon's lower abdomen, jaw, and left wing.

Both the doctor and Chen saw it—the enormous body was being propelled a distance into the air by the annihilation equipment.

The visible imbalance and dents make it hard to believe that a weapon only two meters long could be effective on a body hundreds of meters long.

"Roara ...

The dragon roared again, but this time it wasn't the deafening sonic boom of before; instead, it let out a strange cry of pain.

"It's in effect?"

Despite the slightly weakened airflow, Chen rushed to the doctor's side with Chi Xiao. Looking at the giant dragon that was swaying wildly in the air, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

"No, it had almost no effect; the weapon didn't even penetrate its underbelly skin or wing membrane."

Even so, the Doctor found that Amiya and Rosemary's combined attack failed to cause any effective damage.

Even a single piece of annihilation equipment, possibly weighing several tons, cannot leave any substantial damage even when impacted at supersonic speeds.

"Perhaps explosive methods would be effective, but that would require firepower at least on par with the siege artillery of a large city-state to be effective, and it's simply impossible to bring in such strong firepower at this time."

Records of giant creatures destroying city-states still exist in Terra's modern history, but those are ultimately ancient records. With the advancement of Originium technology, similar events seem to have ceased to occur.

The suppressive firepower provided by Originium explosives has rendered the threat of "powerful entities" a mere myth.

Just like the legendary giant Originium Bug "Pompeii" in the Siesta region, people are not afraid of it, and even brazenly established a fixed city-state in its activity area.