Chapter 39 : The Battle to Protect the Territory (Final)

With Urien,

I look at the overgrown lizard in front of me. Let me tell you something, the sun has not risen yet, but I can clearly see that lizard's outline in front of me.

That lizard is huge. I mean really huge. Let's see, if my calculations are correct, that guy's height is 63 ft. Which is around 10 times the height of normal humans. Yikes! Did I try to pick a fight with that thing? Is it now too late to say sorry?

"ROAR!!!" The lizard roared from the place where it started flying.

"I see, no running away then," I prepared myself.

Using <Wind Magic> drains my mana unlike <Word Magic>. I made an armor made of wind around me with the magic and charged toward the lizard. It shoots me with its flame breath, but I used my <Wind Magic> to direct it to the side. I cannot let the flame hit the ground because there are trees below us.

*BOOM!!!*

The loud sound of explosion resounded around the area and instead of exploding, the mountain melt because of the fire. What the hell? It was a good thing I made a wind armor for myself.

This cannot go on like this. People are fighting the monsters down below. If the lizard in front of me were to target them, it would end up as a disaster.

"Knight of the Sun, heed my command!" I shouted while dodging the fire and direct it back toward the lizard.

Down below, all the knights fighting the monsters look upward to their lord.

"I allow you to use <Stride>! Go wild without caring about the surroundings!" I continued my command. I do not care what happens to the forest now. I can just let Luna do her thing. Well, her thing being reversing the time of the place where the fight broke out.

"And Sir Gurguit! Come and help me after dealing with the monsters below," I told him to come and deal with this overgrown lizard.

"Yes, my lord! We will deal with them quickly!"

Yes, I asked for help. What? Did you guys think I am foolish enough to deal with the overpowered lizard in front of me alone? Dude, I am not some kind of xianxia MC to fight alone in this kind of situation. I am going to the Shonen route and win this guy with the power of friendship. I will let this lizard taste the power of bullshit friendship.

And almost immediately, there are 4 Golden Dragons that appeared near us. Although they are not as big as the lizard I am currently facing right here, they have weapons in their hands and most of all, they look badass!

3rd POV

The first one, Build Peak Dragon has a sword that is burning like a blaze in his hand. His body is full of golden armor and the height is thrice the height of the normal human. He is hovering in the air with the help of the wings behind his back. His main attacking style is swinging his big sword around and blasting the enemies with magic. TLDR; this dude is the magic swordsman.

The second one, Spear-X Dragon has a spear in each hand. The wing behind his back is enormous, forming a circle shape. His main attack style is stabbing. He is also thrice the amount of the height of the normal human.

The third one is the biggest of four, Ray Breath Dragon. His color scheme is sky-blue and gold. Holding in his hand is twin ended sword made from blue fire. The wing behind his back looks like the devil's from DxD but more colorful. He has four legs and a pair of hands and is four times the height of normal humans. His fighting style is fighting with his swords and blasting fire from his mouth. Typical dragon.

And last one and the most badass of all, Glorious Reigning Dragon. The strange thing about this dragon is that he does not have wings like other dragons that came from <Stride>. His color scheme is gold, blue, and some red. His weapon of choice is a lance-shaped sword. And like a certain horse-riding Saber face, he likes to bast the enemies with the energy beam formed from the lance.

They are not the only ones who arrived because of the <Stride>. The last one to come from the <Stride> is a human wearing the golden armor fully covering the body aside from the head. Because of that, we can see the handsome face of his together with the silver hair on his head. The violet cape behind him is dancing freely in the air. He has a sword in his hand and is proficient in sword arts. He is someone who believes in miracles and the name of said knight is Celtis Winner.

Although they are the only people summoned by the <Stride>, they are not the only ones who came. By using <Stride Fusion>, Gurguit fused himself with one of his future self. He has a flag in one hand and the other has his sword. He looks older than his current counterpart and the armors are not as many as this era Gurguit. There is a right hovering behind him that looks like a sun and he has two pairs of small angel wings behind him.

Urien POV

Damn, they overdid with their <Stride>. Anyway, I was the one who told them to use it without caring about the surrounding.

"Gurguit! What is the time limit?" I shouted while evading to the right. The damn lizard tried to hit me with his tail.

"The others have five minutes, my lord! I can handle it for ten minutes," he shouted back.

Okay, just five minutes. I can handle it. "Wind Magic: Crescent Kamaitachi!" I shouted. Yes, I straight up copied the move of Yuno from Black Clover. What? I mean, he is an awesome <Wind Magic> user and I will be an idiot not to copy his moves.

But unlike Yuno, I used my sword instead of the hand to form a thin crescent-shaped blade of wind, which is sent towards the lizard. It landed a clear hit to the lizard, but the lizard does not have a single scratch. Damn, his scale is tough. What kind of power-ups did he get before facing me?

How about his eyes? I will try to target his eyes this time. I fly toward him with haste. And he shot me with many sharp stones and water lances. What the fuck? Isn't this lizard just a fire lizard?! How can he use other elements? Wait, was that magic? This fucking lizard can use magic.

I dodged, dodged, and dodged by flying around the air but I was able to get near him. I then dodged a wild swipe from the lizard and slashed my sword across the beast's eye.

The lizard roared and spun around. I was not managed to dodge the swipe, and the creature's long tail whipped me as I tried to guard. I flew across the air and crash-landed onto the ground, which is filled with many monsters.

"My lord!" I heard Gurguit's shout as I was getting up. The wind armor was dispelled because of the damage and <Althea> is trying her best to heal my injuries. I am not afraid to say that almost all my bones broke at that time. I struggled to get up. My ears rang and the head swam.

I got to my feet and looked around as the monsters are surrounding me while using my sword as a support. The others are busy slaying the monsters in front of them. I will need to take care of these guys myself.

*BOOM!!!*

The monsters in front of me are wiped away by the laser blast. When I look at the place where the laser came from, I saw smokes are coming out from the sword of Glorious Reigning Dragon.

"Thank you!" I gave a thank to the dragon.

"No problem!" he replies. Of course, they can talk the human language.

"O heavy lance of gold, bring everlasting prosperity to the future that is to come," I heard him chanting to release the laser blast another time.

"Young man, duck!" He notified me.

He does not need to shout twice as I lowered myself to the ground just when I heard the chant. This time, he does not simply shoot the laser beam. He swiped it like a sword and almost all the monsters died with just a single slash.

Is it too late to fanboy over him? No. Damn, he is so cool! I wonder if I will be able to shoot a laser beam from my sword too. A boy can dream, right?

I was wondering what the hell is that lizard doing when I was on the ground. He was looking for me with one eye. Now that he could not find me, he tried to burn the whole forest with fire breath. Do you think I will let you do that?

"Wind Magic: Towering Tornado!" I shouted and created a tall tornado to suck all the flame coming from the lizard's mouth and blast it toward him. And I am not surprised that the lizard was able to tank that without any issue. I used <Wind Magic> to fly toward the lizard again.

With the help of the four Golden Dragon and two humans, aided by the Knights of the Sun, the number of monsters became thinner. After that, five minutes passed, and the golden dragons and the human vanished after saying goodbye. Gurguit also undid his <Stride Fusion>. Although the knights look tired, they were able to finish off the remaining monsters while I was busying with the lizard.

"My lord! I am coming to help!" Gurguit shouted at me from the ground. This time, Gurguit used another <Stride Fusion> but it was not the same future version he used before. This version is when he had become a high-ranked knight of "Gold Paladin". Both his sword "Helios" and his armor are designed with decorations in the sun's style, and one swing from his sword can cut down staunch bodies of dragons easily. This version of him can be considered a veteran commander.

He rides a Pegasus that appeared together with his <Stride Fusion> and rushed to my side to help. And to my surprise, a slash from his sword actually hurts the lizard. The blow is not that deep, but it hurts the lizard nonetheless while my sword and I could not put a scratch on it. More the reason for me to train harder after this battle.

A dark glow appeared from the lizard and his eyes turn red. The lizard roars and started rampaging around by summoning much sharp water lance, earth stones, air blades, and fireballs and shooting around the surrounding.

This can't go on like this. I need to make a plan to put down this lizard. But how? His outside scales are almost indestructible. And Gurguit will not be able to use his <Stride> after the next 3 minutes.

Wait… if I cannot hurt him outside, how about inside? Damn, I am an idiot. I should have thought about it sooner.

"Never!" I summoned my Stand. Yes, I am still using 'Never' to call him out. No way in hell I am using his original name, 'Never Gonna Give You Up' to summon him.

"Sir Gurguit! Can you handle him until your time is up?" I asked.

"I'll do my best," he replied. Not 'try' but 'do'. Damn, our boy became mature enough to say things like this.

I switch place with Never and now, I am inside the stomach of the lizard. I will admit, this stomach is as big as my studying room. Now, it is payback time! I will pay you back for smashing me with your tail, you overgrown lizard!

"Wind Magic: Tornado Fang!" I create a large, horizontal tornado that drills through all the way through the mouth of this lizard. And it works. Damn, I should have done this since the time I had started the fight.

I switched place with my Stand again and appeared near Gurguit. "Let us get to the ground, Sir Gurguit. Your time limit is almost up, isn't it?" I asked.

"Only a minute is left, my lord," he nodded and follow me through the ground.

I look at the lizard in front of me. The dude died like he did not do anything wrong. Fuck you. And then I look around the surrounding. The quarter of the Crystal Dew Forest had become a place filled with smoke. Too bad, the lizard does not go toward the demon territory. I sure as hell want to see the demons dealing with this lizard.

Well, nothing I can do about the surrounding. I will just wait until Luna comes back from her holiday and work her to until she won't be able mad about more pad jokes.