The Great Tomb of Nazarick Battles the Pay-to-Win Fire Dragons: The Bone King's Crushing Defeat

No!

Ainz had never hated his own incompetence so much.

If he had not chosen to join the fight and reacted a beat too slowly, the battle would never have come to this.

The ten Dragon-Shaped Magical Beasts were powerful, but they were still only monsters.

Without a player's equipment or tactical use of skills, all they could do was mindlessly spew Dragon Flame.

Roy had released these ten merely to buy time and complete the capture.

But Ainz had reacted a beat too late, forcing the Guardians to rush to his rescue.

Compared with his counterpart in the original story, he had not developed sufficient combat instincts, and that had become the fatal weak link.

These instincts were not a gamer's tactics, but the awareness needed to react under real-world rules.

In the original story, the Bone King had suffered setback after setback before gradually mastering his body's combat instincts.

Now he fell just short, and that shortfall had become deadly.

Forced calm, forced calm...

After three consecutive bouts of forced calm, Ainz came up with a response.

Super-Tier Magic-Wish Upon a Star!

This was an exceptionally precious rare item, but compared with activating Momonga's Orb and losing levels, it offered the best chance of turning the battle around.

"I wish to temporarily gain the strongest possible damage against dragons!"

One charge of the precious Shooting Star Ring was consumed.

Back in the game, Wish Upon a Star's greatest effect had been to give players an instant boost in combat power.

Expensive, but effective.

Ainz did not hesitate. He immediately cast his Super-Tier Magic.

Ice Age!

At that moment, the Super-Tier Magic he was ordinarily ill suited to wield seemed divinely inspired.

Powerful magic circles appeared one after another, engraved with the marks of ice and snow.

They enveloped heaven and earth, making everyone within dozens of kilometers feel the approach of bitter cold.

In the distance, the battling Orcs and Sunlight Scripture involuntarily stopped fighting.

Both sides were shaken by the battle.

"Captain Nigun, what's going on?"

"The Orcs are retreating. We'll retreat too."

"Go inform Her Majesty the Queen and the Cardinals at once. A god or demon may have descended."

Nigun's expression became exceedingly grave.

The entire world seemed about to freeze, and even the Fire Dragons howled in agony.

The ice-based Super-Tier Magic dealt far too much damage to them.

Worried that the Bone King might not be able to beat them, Roy had deliberately chosen single-element Fire Dragons.

Naturally, this was the result.

As for why the Bone King did not use the more powerful [Fallen Sky]...

It was because it dealt fire damage.

Ainz's reactions were slow, but his use of player-versus-player tactics was remarkably smooth.

To ensure that these Fire Dragons froze, Ainz immediately crushed the Cash Shop Item [Hourglass].

The instant the Fire Dragons were frozen, the other Guardians furiously concentrated their attacks, and both sides plunged into a chaotic melee.

Demiurge possessed complete fire immunity and had no fear of Dragon Flame.

He immediately called in eight Demon Generals and summoned another.

As soon as the battle had erupted, Demiurge had bypassed Ainz and directly ordered Aura to deploy eight Demon Generals to support the front line.

Demiurge had summoned the remaining one himself.

Only then had they managed to arrive in time for the battle.

Taking advantage of the Fire Dragons being frozen, the nine Demon Generals unleashed their strongest attacks, desperately holding them back.

In terms of stats alone, the Demon Generals were far inferior to the Fire Dragons drawn from the gacha.

But their task was simply to buy enough time for the other Guardians to focus their attacks.

Sebas then transformed into his Dragonkin form and unleashed a terrifying Explosive Palm.

There were no special skills involved, only pure strength.

One Fire Dragon was immediately driven back, step after step.

Meanwhile, fully armed, Cocytus entered his Asura state and unleashed Frost Aura.

His elemental advantage allowed him to reinforce the other Demon Generals with tremendous speed.

The battle stabilized at once, turning in the Great Tomb of Nazarick's favor.

As long as they fought steadily, they could wipe out all ten Fire Dragons without suffering any losses.

But Roy would not let them have it so easy. He gave a direct order:

"Eve, order the Fire Dragons to cast together."

"Yes, Supreme One."

Eve could direct every individual soldier in detail, making her the perfect executor.

As though receiving a divine revelation, the Fire Dragons instantly began flashing with special magic circles.

Normally, level-100 NPCs could not use Super-Tier Magic.

They were much weaker than top players and served as entertainment features.

The dragon-beast gacha was much the same.

They were ordinarily level 80, with some special varieties reaching level 90. Though stronger than many mercenary monsters, that was about all they had going for them.

Anyone who treated these things as combat assets would lose a fortune.

The catch was that, if the game company dared to sell gacha pulls at such high prices, it would give them corresponding effects.

The gacha dragon-beast series had one special feature: they could cast spells together.

Ten Fire Dragons could cast Super-Tier Magic-and top-tier Super-Tier Magic at that.

That was right. This was where the game company squeezed out the money.

Draw one, and at most you could put it in your home to look cool.

You needed to draw at least ten before they could play a crucial role in battles between players.

The members of the Great Tomb of Nazarick had drawn two Forest Dragons (green dragons), decided the whole thing was a rip-off, and stopped pulling.

It was not that they could not afford it. They just felt the game company was treating them like idiots.

Roy, however, personally showed the Bone King that ten Fire Dragons really could cast together. The game company had not lied.

Dear customer, there's a reason it costs so much.

Super-Tier Magic-Purgatory Firmament!

Ice Age collapsed, and the Fire Dragons' bodies became completely engulfed in flames.

The entire world seemed to catch fire as the temperature shot upward.

The Guardians who had just been relentlessly attacking the dragon beasts were forced back by the heat wave.

Even Demiurge's expression changed.

Anyone could see that something was wrong when ten Fire Dragons cast together.

Ainz immediately ordered:

"Hold them back, even for a moment!"

"Yes, Lord Ainz."

No one had time to wonder where the Battle Maids had gone or why Shalltear had not come to help.

Relying on his fire immunity, Demiurge was the first to charge forward.

Boom!

A massive blaze swallowed Demiurge.

The Fire Dragons had already finished their preparations and immediately spewed their most terrifying Dragon Flame.

Boom!

The entire earth seemed to roast. The nine Demon Generals standing at the front were destroyed by the flames.

Sebas and Cocytus were far from unscathed, either.

Only Albedo remained, activating her holy shield again and holding her ground in front of Ainz.

They had bought Ainz time.

With everyone's help, Ainz finally worked out the Fire Dragons' timing and immediately unleashed his last resort.

The Goal of All Life is Death!

A clock heralding death appeared behind Ainz.

He flew alone before the Fire Dragons and unleashed his trump card.

If the enemy still had reinforcements after this move, he would choose to deploy a World Item.

Hum!

Everything fell into a state of death.

In a sense, the Bone King was also someone who had benefited from the rules upon arriving in the New World.

The Goal of All Life is Death could bestow absolute death, leaving even the soil, vegetation, and everything nearby in a state of death.

No matter what kind of creature it was, without the protection of a world-class status, it would face absolute death.

In the game, equipping a resurrection item dealt with this move outright, so it was not particularly overpowered.

In the New World, however, it was terrifyingly powerful.

The power of death enveloped the Fire Dragons, killing them instantly.

Ainz's move killed eight Fire Dragons outright, leaving the remaining two covered in wounds.

Cocytus and Sebas successfully finished them off.

A single Super-Tier spell could not kill max-level Guardians.

All the important NPCs survived and remained alert for incoming enemies.

Just then, Pandora hurried over to report:

"Lord Ainz, we were ambushed by the enemy just now."

"Shalltear, Narberal, Yuri, and Entoma have all vanished."

Ainz's head buzzed. He could scarcely believe his ears.

Throughout the battle, he had not even understood what was happening before ten dragon beasts attacked. He had finally managed to kill eight and severely wound two, and just as victory was within reach...

The terrible news arrived.

Now Ainz had no time to mount a rescue. He immediately ordered:

"Retreat!"

Yet as Ainz spoke, forced calm had activated more times than he could count.

It flashed without pause, almost shattering his reason completely.

Adventurer Momon's plan to rescue Nfirea was declared a failure.

Eve's plan had completed its first stage.