The Bone Dragon Descends

"Waaah~"

A biting wind blew across Chiba's face.

The snow had stopped sometime earlier, but the wind seemed to have become even stronger, whipping up the snowflakes from the surface of the ground and sending them flying everywhere.

Chiba and Nuolin stood on a not-too-high cliff, looking down at the battlefield between the Magic Council and the Dark Guild.

The Magic Council's magic soldiers rarely include melee-oriented classes like magic swordsmen or magic knights; their weapons are almost always magic staves, and they use very common magical attacks such as magic projectiles.

In terms of magical skill alone, the Magic Council's magic soldiers and some captains are far inferior to the mages of the Mage Guild. The Magic Council's strength lies partly in the number of its magic soldiers and the coordination between its units. However, it also relies heavily on the Magic Council's technological level, such as Etherion and terrifying magical weapons like the Face.

But the Dark Guilds are different. Compared to the regular mage guilds that are bound by the Magic Council, the Dark Guilds, living in brutal killing, are far more powerful than the mages in the regular mage guilds.

Therefore, the battlefield below appeared, where it would take about five Magic Council magic soldiers to take down one member of the Dark Guild.

"It was truly devastating..." Chiba couldn't help but sigh.

In the vast wilderness, warriors from both sides clashed, their blood staining the snow. At this moment, they could all be called warriors, for they fought to the death for their respective causes.

They were bloodthirsty. Chiba witnessed a dark guild mage decapitate his target with his sword, then turn to another, killing over a dozen Magic Council members in the blink of an eye. He held a blood-soaked head high, about to shout, when two or three magic soldiers behind him pierced his back with magic projectiles. Blood blossomed on his chest, and he fell, his bloodshot eyes wide open. The last image imprinted on his mind was a ground covered in blood and corpses.

The real world is far more cruel than depicted in anime.

Chiba took a deep breath and said, "I'm going down."

"Mm." Nuolin nodded gently.

The two jumped down together, entering the battlefield. Many people noticed the commotion and turned their attention to this place. Two members of the Dark Guild, their Red Eyes bloodshot with rage, even raised their swords and charged forward.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Chiba unleashed a Rasengan with his right hand, piercing the chest of one of the attackers and sending his body flying. At the same time, Nuolin pierced the heart of the attacker with her sword, sending the body flying. The two simultaneously kicked back, each rushing out like a gust of wind, knocking aside many members of the dark guilds along the way.

The sudden appearance of two formidable figures on the battlefield drew considerable attention. Several astute observers recognized that their target was the members of the Dark Guild, thus identifying them as reinforcements from the Magic Council.

Although there were only two of them, the girl killed people with incredible speed; almost every time she swung her sword, several people were slain. The boy was even more outrageous, creating over a hundred clones, each wielding a crimson sphere, who roamed the battlefield.

"Morton... these are the two people you met in the forest, right?" A middle-aged man with a long scar on his face gazed at Chiba and Nuolin as they charged across the battlefield and couldn't help but ask.

He seemed to be talking to himself, but the members of [Sword of Slaughter] knew that this was their guild leader's right-hand man having a conversation.

"It seems you suffered a loss at their hands..." A mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"Snort!"

A cold snort seemed to echo from the void, followed by a sinister smile from the scarred man.

"What an idiot..."

He uttered a disdainful sneer and then quietly withdrew from the battlefield.

"Rumble..."

As the war raged on, the entire earth suddenly trembled.

Then, to everyone's utter astonishment, a skeletal dragon, almost entirely composed of bones, overturned the soil and rose from the ground, roaring towards the sky.

Dark magic replaced its flesh and blood, filling its entire body, and its pupils, flickering with eerie blue flames, mercilessly gazed at the people below. Then, it flapped its dark bone wings, and its massive body slowly rose.

It opened its mouth wide, and dark magic gathered within, then coalesced into a beam of light which it spat out.

"Boom!!"

The dragon's roar unleashed a massive, hemispherical surge of magical energy across the land. Countless beings caught in the vortex were annihilated before they could even utter a sound. Everyone who witnessed this was speechless with shock...

"Charge! Attack!"

The captain of a small squad shouted loudly and took the lead. Subsequently, almost all the Magic Council's magic soldiers on the battlefield turned their attacks on the bone dragon in the sky.

Countless attacks bombarded the bone dragon's body, stirring up huge clouds of dust. Even Chiba and Nuolin each used Demon Flash and Seven-Star Sword Formation to attack it. Suddenly, the sky became still, and a glimmer of hope welled up in the hearts of many.

"Did you take it down?"

But suddenly, a deafening dragon roar reached everyone's ears, and a violent wind blew away the dust in the sky. The bone dragon flapped its wings and rose directly above them, its enormous body blotting out the sun.

It looked down at the swarm of ants on the ground, its magic gathering again in its mouth. And people could see its body clearly... it was completely unharmed!

"Damn it... damn it..."

"What... what kind of monster is this?!"

"It's all over... it's all over..."

"Damn it... This monster... We had absolutely no idea about it before... How... How are we supposed to win?"

Clang! Clang!

Some of the Magic Council's magic soldiers even put down their magic wands, took two steps back, and collapsed to the ground, their eyes filled with desperate terror.

Their combined attack couldn't even scratch it, while a single roar from it could annihilate countless of their companions.

This is not war, this is a one-sided massacre!

Even the members of the Dark Guild were pale, their eyes filled with despair.

Because... the bone dragon's attack didn't ignore them; instead, it annihilated them all.

Perhaps in its eyes, everyone below is just an ant. Ants can be trampled on at will; why bother distinguishing between them?

"Have we... have we been abandoned?" One of the members of the dark guild loosened his grip on his sword, his face filled with despair.

No one answered his words; people had given up hope.

"That bastard!" Chiba cursed angrily, gritting his teeth.

Just as Chiba was preparing to break the two seals, a deafening clap of thunder suddenly exploded in the sky.

"Sizzle... Boom!"

A thick bolt of golden lightning descended from the sky, striking the bone dragon squarely on the head and shattering the roar it was about to unleash.

The golden lightning bolt transformed into a blond-haired boy, who wore a black coat with a dazzling Fairy mark on the back.

"Now!"

Laxus let out a loud shout, and then two figures shot out from somewhere in the forest, flying towards the bone dragon in the sky!