(5,500 words!)
"Someone actually dared to cause trouble in Niro City! They must have a death wish!"
Already flying above the beast pens, Alicia narrowed her eyes at the rampaging bronze golems, her killing intent laid bare.
With a cold snort, she began casting from over a hundred meters away.
The bronze golems, which had been slowly advancing and slaughtering everything in their path, began to sink.
Under the influence of magic power, the soil beneath them had turned into a swamp.
"Beep... beep... beep... under attack by [Swamp Spell]. Activating backup spell [Frost Gas Spell]."
The golems spoke with voices like stones scraping together.
Icy mist began spraying from all over their bodies.
Crack, crack, crack... crack, crack, crack...
The swamp rapidly froze beneath the freezing gas.
The golems stopped sinking, then strode forward forcefully, freeing themselves from the swamp.
The golems guarding the entrance to the beast pens also spotted Alicia in the sky.
Red light flickered in their eyes, and moments later, they fired beams of flame.
Seeing this, the Young She-Dragon immediately dove out of the way.
Then she cast again.
The ground beneath the golems heaved, sharp earthen spikes erupting one after another and knocking them down.
But these attacks did little against the golems' metal bodies. They soon climbed back up and retaliated against the Young She-Dragon from a hundred meters away.
In the dark night sky.
Streaks of fiery light shot in every direction.
A few minutes earlier.
The commotion of being discovered by the guards and the golems clashing with them.
The Spellcaster inside the beast pens had noticed it long ago.
But he could not spare any attention for that and simply kept casting desperately.
At last, he shrank the Blue Dragon Wyrmling to the size of an ordinary mongrel. This