In the World of Sword and Magic as Space Marine

Chapter 147: Hold the Ground

"Death Can Have Me When It Earns Me" By Kratos from God of War Ragnarök

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40 minutes ago,

William open fire with everything he got. Beside him, his honor guards did same as their weapons from bolter to heavy weapon were fired but no damage were done to the dragon queen.

The massive barrage from the weapons wasn't effective but rocks around her turned to dust and transform the ground into a crater. Eventually, the dust covered the entire area around the dragon queen and still, William and his men continue firing until Tiamat decided to take counter action against mortals with silver armors.

"Take cover!" One of the honor guards said as bright five colors begin to shine within dust cloud. Not hesitating a second, William activate his terminator armor's shield and expand it to cover most of his men. Those who are beyond William's reach took cover behind the boulders and seconds later, a blast of acid, frost, lighting, poisonous gas and fire engulf the entire are where William's forces are.

The poisonous gas block the entire view of the sceen while acid melted and sizzled the ground and rocks as if they are ice cream in hot summer day.

The acid quickly covered by the frost from the breath attack as everything solidified just before they were melting away.

The lighting on the other hand struck the ground shatter everything it struck. This cause few of the honor guards who took cover behind the boulders to repealed and even thrown back but remain undamaged thanks to the STC armor.

Lastly, the fire attack reverse everything into hell on Earth as ice melted and acid evaproated into gas in which mixed with the poisonous gas, causing a chain reaction to ignite and cause explosion.

William's armor endure to the end as blast from the explosion passed by and thanks to the air tight sealed armor, all of his men are safe from the toxic gas produced by the explosion. The problem continued as for the second time, Tiamat unleash another breath attack but this time to William's suprise, all five heads breath a fire with more ferocity than before.

"What is this? I though each heads represent element of their own?" William said to himself as his helmet display how much shield can hold as it was already pass the half of it reserves. If Tiamat attach for the second time, William is certain his armor will go on cool down period in which last four minutes. Just as shield meter begin to reach the 80%, the wave of fire finally stopped and William found his answer why dragon queen was able to unleash all fire from all five of her heads.

Tiamat's five heads are now all red as crimson with same heads as if she is one element type instead of five. As realisation finally hits William, the dragon queen exhale a dark smoke from her all ten noses and took deep breath of her own. Like coming out from the deep dive, the dragon queen enjoy the air but in short moment as there was killing to be done.

At this moment, William's shield finally died and requires moment of cooling in which he didn't waste a moment to give next order to his men.

"Move and spread out. Don't stop firing! Take the weak spots between scales and joints." William's voice made his honor guards move in lighting speed in all directions. Some even changed from bolter into something heavy such as plasma cannon and even vulcan lascannon with three barrel.

The heavy weapons didn't slow them down as their armor helped with the weigh and with extra power pack from the that comes with the weapons made sure honor guards have enough power to attack and move at the same time.

Meanwhile, William changed his heavy bolter and plasma cannon for something more direct. With extra weights gone from his arms, William pull out his melee weapons. The golden thunder hammer and halberd that can do some damage against opponent with armor.

With change of strategy and enemies spreading far away, Tiamat decided to do same and cast spells to whip out the armored insects once an for all.

Changing back her four heads back into its original colors, dragon queen cast a spell called 'Wish' which caster can wish to be happen in real life and it will be granted. A spell that so powerful that if caster is strong enough, a entire nation could end up in ruins within night.

[I wish all of these insects to die where they stands.] Dragon queen spoke after wish spell was completed. With anticipation of hundred insects to drop dead, Tiamat looked around but to her suprise, they continue to move and hitting her with strange corssbows that starting to hurt her.

[What? What is this? You all should be dead from my omnipotent spell.] Tiamat said with shock in her voice. This powerful spell was one of her favoriate as it allowed her to toy with her victims and even change the battle into one side victory. Just before dragon queen could think of an answer, a voice reply back and it came from above her.

"That's because no spells work on me or my battle brothers." William said loud through his helmet speaker as he was falling directly above the dragon queen's head.

Holding only his golden thunder hammer with fully charged to the point it was emitting its own blue lighting, William teleported himself above the dragon queen just before she cast the wish spell. With element of surprise and thanks to the black ablity, William interrupted the deadly spell and gave himself an opportunity to strike back at the dragon queen.

[You dare to…] Dragon queen didn't finish her sentence as William's golden hammer strike true to one of Tiamat's head. The green dragon head of the Tiamat was crushed by the thunderous strike from the golden thunder hammer.

The top skull of the green dragon's caved and the impact of the hammer cause shock wave which made other heads to pushed back away, giving William more time to either retreat or continue to attack.

The damaged head was finsihed as Tiamat felt that head is no longer responsive and not to mention she felt massive pain physically and magically as William's blank ability was infused with the hammer strike.

With opportunity to make secondary action of his own, William slide down from the green head's back to the long neck. At the same time, William switch his hammer to halberd and use it to slide down slowly by stabbing dragon queen's hide. The powered blade of the halberd draw the blood of the goddess, causing more pain to the dragon queen as she attempt to fight back as rest of her heads turns around to bite William as he was descending slowly.

Just as one of the dragon head, the white one was about to bite William, the massive barrage of lascannon and plasma cannon struck now dead green head as it was exposed. This caused more disruption to the dragon queen as dead head is now a weakness to be exploited. With all these happening, Tiamat expand her wings and create a massive blast of wind to halt any attackers from continue their barrage. Afterwards, Tiamat spid around to lose the William but it was failed attempt as William held with all his might as his halberd blade dig deep into dragon queen's flesh.

Sensing that there is no way to lose the armored knight, dragon queen decided to take up to the sky, hoping that if she flew high enough, the lack of air will make the knight fall due to los of consciousness or even death.

As Tiamat flap her wings and attempt to fly off from the ground, to her surprise nothing happened. As in she just stood where she was standing with her expanded but nothing happened such as flying off or even hovering from ground itself.

[What is happening? Why can't I fly?] Said Tiamat as she was clueless to what is happening or what is causing her to unable to fly.

"Let me guess. You use magic to fly don't you?" William said as he gain footing in the back of the dragon queen and unleash blast of pulse blast that was stored in his armor. The pulse blast from the armor hit the back section of the dragon queen where all five heads meet. Standing above of dragon's equivalent of Craniocervical Junction, William attempt to paralyze the dragon queen.

The dragon queen roar in pain as her back was struck with force powerful enough to destroy blast door. At the same time, honor guards made frontal attack in full might, surrounding the dragon queen with limited option and no way to escape from the all out attack from the mortals.

'Little more. With her spine and necks damaged to the point she can't more, the victory is certain.' William though to himself and unleash second pulse to expose the scale and flesh. Just as victory look nearly certain, the table once again turn as reinforcement came. Tiamat's reinforcement came to her rescue as dozen ancient dragons of all five colors flew down with breath weapons of their own.

[My children are here to kill you and your men. Soon your life will be mine to decide.] Said Tiamat as her heads smirks and attack William to remove him from her exposed back.

William once again teleported away and reappeared next to his honor guard captain with halberd in his hand and blade drenched with blood of the god.

"This fight isn't over and it will be your life I will decide, not you." William said as his helmet a display of clock in countdown.

Minues twenty minutes until William can teleport his Emperor Class Titan into his location. Twenty minutes he have to last against dozen ancient dragons and Tiamat herself before his plan can be achieved.

With roar that could shatter any mortal army's morale, William struck the ground with his halberd and gave command through his vox communicator.

"Stand and hold the ground. We have to last twenty minutes! Give everything you got until than and you will see the end of the road. For the Emperor!" With the shout of William's voice, the honor guards gather in small groups and hold their position with weapons in all direction.

The true battle beings as dragons swoop down to kill their prey as Tiamat step back to slowly regenerate from the injury and replace the dead head by ripping it off.