Dragon Head Stone

Urged impatiently by Hawkwood, Hasawi Squad briefly learned the background information before entering the Fog Gate.

When the Ancient Flying Dragon crashed down before their eyes, people felt no fear, only excitement at seeing something new.

"This dragon is a whole size bigger than the one we fought before." Matilda stretched her arms, ready for a big battle.

She suddenly thought of something: if she used Hell March here, would Hawkwood be affected and summon the Farron Undead Legion?

Although the summoned phantoms cannot surpass the strength of the user of Hell March, it is still an entire army!

However, she was worried that her thoughts might have a negative impact on the afterimage, and it would be troublesome if the other party became her enemy, so she was still hesitant.

On the other side, Aleya has already used various plants to concoct a liquid specifically for softening hard objects. When fighting against enemies with hard shells, such as dragons and rock giants, they must be softened before they can be attacked.

If you attack without softening the scales, the feel will be extremely bad, and all the damage will be dealt to the Dragon Scale.

Fingel was loading a bottle of softening liquid into the groove on his gauntlet so he could spray it during the fight, while Serena quickly hid to the side and waited quietly to watch others perform.

Hawkwood was completely oblivious to these formalities. Just like when he first "fought alongside" Serena, he took the lead and jumped onto the Ancient Flying Dragon's head in a flashy manner, delivering a critical hit that drained half of its life force.

Seeing this, Fingel wanted to imitate him. He had already jumped halfway, but after the Ancient Flying Dragon shook off the enemy above its head, it flapped its wings and flew into the sky, spewing flames towards the ground.

Once the flames had burned out, everyone left their shelter and engaged in close combat with the Ancient Flying Dragon that had landed on the ground.

Its current position is very delicate; it is definitely not moving near the rock wall, so adventurers cannot use the rock wall to jump onto its head.

It always held its head high, its wings constantly fanning up gusts of wind, and scalding flames overflowing from its mouth. All of this rendered adventurers who tried to approach it using Flight Spell helpless. The sky was blocked, and people could only be trapped on the ground, engaging in the simplest battles against the Ancient Flying Dragon.

Because the Ancient Flying Dragon was so tall and enormous, the battle between tiny humans and it could be described as...

Pedicure.

However, it wasn't entirely about pedicures. Aleya's Straw Man also grew taller and larger, its size swelling to the size of a dragon's head, just in time to fight it off. She secretly wrapped the Ancient Flying Dragon's body with plant vines filled with explosive oil.

The Ancient Flying Dragon could easily tear the Straw Man to pieces with a single bite, and it seemed that Aleya wouldn't even last a minute, but the rest of Hasawi Squad remained calm.

Suddenly, the Straw Man disintegrated, turning into a large, tangled ball of yarn that wrapped around the Ancient Flying Dragon's body. The dragon violently tore at the vines, which were far too weak for it to even be considered a restraint.

A figure, even smaller Elsa, broke free of the Straw Man and landed on the ground, running quickly towards the crowd. This little girl-like figure was Aleya in her true form. She raised her arm high, gesturing to the crowd that the time had come.

Then, flames ignited beneath the Ancient Flying Dragon — the Night and Flame Sword!

Fingel used the Night and Flame Sword to summon flames and ignite the straw ball soaked in exploding oil!

"Boom--"

With a deafening roar, the Ancient Flying Dragon was engulfed in flames. Even with its scales protecting it, it could not escape the scorching heat of the flames. So it flew into the sky and frantically flapped its wings, trying to extinguish the flames with a gust of wind.

"Amazing!" Serena exclaimed, covering her mouth. However, she keenly noticed that the flames did not seem to cause much damage to the Ancient Flying Dragon, but they did successfully confuse its vision.

By the way, where's Hawkwood?

She looked around and found Hui Xin Ge on the side. After he cleaved the Ancient Flying Dragon in two with a single strike, he did not leave as he had done before, but instead joined the battle and helped everyone challenge the Ancient Flying Dragon.

Now that the monsters have taken to the sky and he can't hit them, he puts away his weapon and watches from the sidelines to see what these people can do.

"So you'd help someone who challenges a dragon if they're strong enough?"

Serena muttered a resentful remark to herself, suddenly feeling a surge of competitive spirit. She wanted to prove that even though she wasn't very strong, she could still be of help.

"Everyone, come over here!"

She called out, and when Fingel and the others looked at her, she exclaimed, "Come over here! There might be a way to deal with the monsters here!"

The path she pointed out was the one that had been blocked by a bunch of snake people before, which she had carefully observed when she came in this time.

At the end of the road, there are steps that you can climb up the rock face. At the end of the steps are platforms roughly constructed from various wooden planks.

It's right above the Ancient Flying Dragon battle arena!

Based on Hawkwood's previous demonstration of combat techniques against the Ancient Flying Dragon, perhaps an opportunity can be found by leaping down from the high platform to completely eliminate the monster!

Before entering the Fog Gate, she had already shared all the relevant information and speculations with everyone, but Fingel planned to test the waters by confronting the other party head-on first. As it turned out, a head-on confrontation might be able to win, but it would undoubtedly take a huge amount of time.

They would be happy to accept any speedrun tips or tricks.

Serena led the group forward, then turned around and saw Hawkwood standing still, watching them as if it were a show, with a hint of encouragement in his eyes.

With the addition of Hasawi Squad, the snake-man blocking their way was no longer a problem. The giant snake-man performed quite bravely and could be considered a fierce warrior. Unfortunately, everyone decided to ignore it and climb the ladder directly.

Once everyone had climbed up, Serena pulled out a knife and cut the ladder, causing the snake-men who were halfway up to fall heavily to the ground.

Dragon Roar suddenly rang in their ears. With quick reflexes, Fingel pulled Serena, who was walking in front, back. The scorching dragon breath sprayed over her hair in the next second!

"Wow!"

Serena was so frightened that her legs went weak and she began to tremble uncontrollably.

The dragon breath we just saw was spewed out by Ancient Flying Dragon. It had extinguished the flames on its body and was coming to intercept the group. Now, its massive body was already crashing into us!

"Run!"

The moment people started running, the wooden platforms behind them were smashed to pieces by the flying dragon!

Wood chips flew everywhere, and the sound of breaking filled the air. At the last moment, people ran onto a new platform, but the Ancient Flying Dragon spewed flames again, and people had no choice but to take cover.

This monster wasn't stupid enough to just stand there and wait for people to jump up and kill it; it took the initiative to fly up and attack!

"At this rate, even if we reach the last platform, we still won't be able to jump onto its head."

Amidst the deafening noise, Fingel shouted, "Let me go! Cover me!"

The last platform was reached by the group in an instant, but the Ancient Flying Dragon did not land on the ground, but instead crashed into the group again.

There was nowhere to hide. Even if they weren't killed instantly by the impact, they would fall to their deaths after losing their platform.

Just then, Serena stepped to the front and used her most powerful magic, [Chaotic Magic], on the Ancient Flying Dragon!

She wasn't sure if the magic would work on the Ancient Flying Dragon, but she wanted to try, at least to buy some time!

Compared to the powerful creature using Chaotic Magic, this almost drained her magic power, but Chaotic Magic took effect. The Ancient Flying Dragon suddenly and uncontrollably spewed flames from its mouth. The sudden change caused its movements to falter for a moment, and its charging speed involuntarily slowed down.

"It's a success!"

Serena raised her hand in cheers, but the next moment her body was engulfed in flames.

In that instant, Fingel leaped through the flames toward the Ancient Flying Dragon, Night and Flame Sword in his hand, glowing with magical light, successfully pierced the Ancient Flying Dragon's head. The next moment, a miniature version of the Comet Azur burst forth!

"Roar--"

Before losing consciousness, Serena heard the Ancient Flying Dragon let out a mournful cry, and a stone containing strange power suddenly appeared in her hand.

Dragon Head Stone!

At the same time that Hasawi Squad was engaged in a fierce battle with the Ancient Flying Dragon.

Why haven't the compatriots you mentioned arrived yet?

At the Light Eagle Legion's headquarters, Iliphis fiddled with the green Fallen Devil Egg in his hand, his gaze turning to the old demon beside him, whose name was Dorian.

At this moment, Dorian kept standing up and sitting down, cold sweat beading on his forehead. He was clearly very restless, muttering to himself:

"Something's not right. He should have arrived here a long time ago. Why hasn't he come yet? Could he have been killed by the Farron Guard? Impossible. He's better at escaping than I am. He couldn't have died at the hands of those people."

Seeing this, Iliphis's distrust of the demons deepened, and he silently shook his head.

He took out a red Fallen Devil Egg and brought it close to his green one.

The next moment, the green Fallen Devil Egg suddenly throbbed, splitting open a huge mouth and devouring the red one completely. The moment it swallowed it, veins bulged on its surface, but soon calmed down and returned to normal.

Iliphis closed his eyes, feeling the changes in his body, and exhaled after a moment.

"What an evil power! I love it."

After a brief period of adjustment, he gradually figured out how to use the green Fallen Devil Egg, which had an absolute suppressive power over the red one and could even "destroy" it.

During the destruction process, he could occasionally sense a faint power flowing into his body, but perhaps only one of the ten red Fallen Devil Egg could slightly increase his power. He still hadn't figured out how this phenomenon could be triggered.

Currently, this thing only gives him greater control over the red holder; other than that, the ability to grant the user physical mutations, which would normally occur, has not appeared in him.

Iliphis believed that this might mean he had not yet fully mastered how to use the heterochromatic Fallen Devil Egg.

"My name wasn't mentioned in the letter, was it?" he asked.

"No, you can rest assured about that. I will absolutely not let you be exposed," Dorian said firmly.

"Knock knock knock!"

A rapid banging sounded on the door, and the next moment, Sally pushed the door open without permission and said somewhat flusteredly:

"It's bad, Commander! The Minister's men have arrived!"

"Minister?"

Iliphis couldn't understand why the minister wanted to see him, but Sally's next words made him pause in surprise.

"Someone said that you, Commander, are colluding with the demons!"