章節 16: Chapter 16

/ In the cave

Shin had just awakened from his sleep. He was awakened by the song of the birds in the cave.

He got up from his bed of leaves and stretched his limbs totally refreshed and light after a good night's rest.

His body was in top shape and at its physical peak, a minimum for the day of action he was about to have.

He quickly took a bath that lasted only a few minutes, overly excited about his first fight.

He had noticed that his behaviour in combat had become different. Before, he would surely have had the apprehension and fear of fighting dragons.

But now he was more excited than ever for his first fight, his blood was boiling and his heart was beating fast. His whole body was ready and waiting for the experience of a first fight.

Shin didn't think it was a good thing that his behavior and view of fighting had changed.

He was sure that he could protect his loved ones without any ulterior motive to run away or anything else and then, with his goal of becoming a God, he had to fight in any case, so if he was fearful and cowardly, that would have been a problem.

When he got out of his bath, he quickly got dressed with the same clothes that had the particularity of cleaning himself and were strong enough not to be easily torn.

With a smile and eyes thirsty for battle, he hastened to the exit of the cave and lowered his position to give a powerful kick and bring out his wings of fire to fly to the battlefield.

During his flight, Shin concentrated his magic and his senses to spread them over a perimeter of several tens of kilometers.

As his magic and senses spread, he ended up smelling a large number of living beings in the same place.

But there were great differences between the living beings that felt.

Some possessed great magical power and great life energy compared to others who possessed a great magic power and a lousy life energy next to it.

I guess those with great magical power and life energy are dragons while the others are humans.

Shin had come to this conclusion since at the time he was, having a gathering of this magnitude and a side with great magical power like this, it could only be dragons and humans.

On top of all this, the smell coming from the place where he smelled the living beings was a putrid and foul stench that was not pleasant to smell.

A smell that could only be given off by hundreds of corpses accumulated in the same place. If it was the old Shin, he would surely have fainted just from the smell but he was different now, his training, strength and power gave him an all-round mind.

However, even with his steely mind, he had to admit that the smell was an out-of-this-world stench. And he could clearly smell or even become aware that the origin of this smell was for the most part human.

In any case, this smell did not stop Shin from continuing on his way to the battlefield. The magical power he felt there was not strong enough to scare him or put him on his guard.

He had to remain cautious and never underestimate his opponent, especially since he was going to be outnumbered.

All the time Shin had been thinking about this, he finally arrived on the battlefield.

Shin hid his magical power to hide his presence, he had learned it during his week of training thinking it would always be useful.

In the sky with his majestic wings and high enough not to be seen by humans and dragons, he finally got a glimpse of the battlefield.

The earth was completely dry, dehydrated and dead. The fights and attacks of the dragons destroyed the landscape, the vegetation was nowhere even a small grass was visible only half destroyed hills, dragon-sized craters, smoke and embers reigned the sky. A sky devoid of sunshine, a land lit only by the flames of dragons and fed by the blood of humans and dragons.

A scene of breathtaking violence and atrocity. You would never think to see this kind of thing in an anime and it was even more impressive in real life.

Honestly Shin was sure that even in the first and second world war on his old one, you couldn't see such shocking and terrifying scenes.

But he had a completely different view of this battlefield, or rather this hell.

Certainly he was a little shocked at first glance but his shock quickly faded away. It must have been thanks to his new mind that brought him a new perception of things.

"Aaaaah"

"Help!"

"Save me!"

He could hear the cries of many soldiers crying out in pain and calling for help.

While the dragons for coexistence and against were fighting each other in the sky, other dragons against coexistence were killing the soldiers on the ground with a visible pleasure on their smile.

They didn't care about the cries of terror and pain of the soldiers and crushed them, ate them, sliced them, burned them. Pity was not in their dictionary, at least not for humans.

Seeing this, Shin felt sorry for the soldiers and their families. Children were going to live with a parent in less than an atrocious way.

He didn't wish this on anyone even though he didn't know the soldiers and he may have been bad people outside of work, but he couldn't help feeling sorry for them.

Adding the manner of their death and the pleasure on the dragons' faces, Shin squinted his eyes dangerously as he disappeared from the sky.

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A soldier was fighting a red dragon that was a fire dragon.

He was immense, imposing and powerful, a being he could not oppose. Despite this, he continued to fight for his kingdom and his family.

Unfortunately, he only lasted a few seconds before he was struck in the flank by a dragon's claw.

He had managed to put his sword in front of him to lessen the damage but the sword was only a metal sword and when he received such a powerful blow, it did not resist and broke.

When the sword broke, the soldier's body was thrown several meters and hit a rock wall that exploded on contact with it.

The soldier was invisible, hidden by the smoke, so the dragon flew away and hovered a few meters above the ground.

The dragon flew over the soldier and waited for the smoke to disappear before seeing the desperate body and face of his next victim.

When the smoke disappeared, the body of the soldier could be seen.

His body and bones were all broken, his chest was opened by deep claw wounds, his blood was running on the ground to join all the others.

In this state, it was a miracle that he was still alive or even conscious.

He must have had a very strong will for this and it was something that could be respected.

Even the dragon watching him from the air seemed surprised to see the human still conscious.

But that didn't mean he was going to spare him and show him an ounce of respect.

The dragon was too proud a creature to stoop to that.

"Ah ah ah" The soldier exhaled much but silently.

The dragon, annoyed at taking so much time for a "bug," prepared for a roar and wiped him out for good.

"Jessica and Malo, I'm sorry" He mumbled his last words as he saw the dragon ready to kill him.

The tears flowed all by themselves and were unstoppable.

"Sorry Jessica, I won't be there to see our son get married or even our grandchild" He mumbled his last regrets and was enlightened by the powerful flames coming towards him to consume him.

Closing his eyes to await his end, he never saw it happen.

He opened his eyes with his last strength to see the reason for his failure to die and saw before him a young man standing between him and the destructive flame.

Except that there were no more destructive flames and only the young man in front of him whose silhouette he could only see.