Although she had no idea why Tiamat had made such a foolish choice, Shar had no intention of holding back. The fact that she had not struck with everything she had was already a sign of what little restraint she possessed.
Originally, if this dragon had kept stalling for time, the Daughter of Dark Night would not have minded... Listening to the man she adored pour out his praise while she sang her heart out until dawn was romantic to her, too.
But since the Chromatic Dragon Queen had chosen to interrupt her romance, Shar... would naturally make her death a little more miserable.
She sang softly, her red lips beneath her hood parting and closing alluringly. Eternal Darkness and Darkness Spell layered over one another, freezing the entire castle solid with an intensely frigid aura of darkness, including the erupting lava.
Jolted back to her senses by the chilling aura, Tiamat spun around in alarm... Had she not grown accustomed to fighting Bahamut, who excelled at the Ice Cone Spell, she would never have reacted so quickly.
She did indeed want that long chain above all else, but in Tiamat's original plan, she would first swipe at the dragonhide book in Shar's hand... After all, her usual style would have been to go for the crown, so this would catch Shar off guard.
But she could not simply refuse to try to seize the Divine Artifact. Even if Tiamat had already given up on it in her heart, she could not let that show. Wouldn't that make her look far too cowardly?
She! The great Chromatic Dragon Queen! The undying enemy of the gods!
How could she not even dare put up a struggle just because Shar was her natural nemesis?
Still unaware that the Intelligence Reduction Spell had