The 5000-year-old Herbivorous Dragon

Chapter 87 - Lost Advantage

「It’s time to go Lord Evil Dragon! Show me your determination!」

「Nooo—! Stahhhhhhhp-!」

My legs marched full speed toward the demon per Sheina’s orders.

If the magic power of the spirit has been replaced with Rēko’s then I shouldn’t be controlled.

As I thought so, I looked towards my legs - it wasn’t my legs that were moving but the black claws of the Hunting God.

The claws wrapped around my four legs like gloves and forcefully moved my legs.

So this was what the spirit was controlling, but even if I knew, I had no way to break free.

「Oh! It seems you’re finally getting serious Revendia! I think I’m becoming happy!」

「Lord Evil Dragon! Roar as loudly as you can!」

Even if they hadn’t said anything, I was screaming as loudly as possible ever since I started running.

I screamed with grief towards the front but Sheina controlled the reverberation and converted it into a fierce roar. Hearing the roar that tore through the air, even I had goosebumps.

「Lord Evil Dragon, listen. The opponent thinks that we are stronger than them so in that case, instead of being scared, we should charge from the front. If the opponent tries to dodge, we’ll use that chance to have the spirit use another landslide attack-」

「Shaaa!!! Come!」

Our predictions were quickly proven wrong. The mannequin got down low to prepare for a counter attack. Seeing this, even Sheina was dumbfounded.

「Eh? What do we do now? It’s not like we can run sideways with this timing… do you intend to ram straight through?」

「Lord Evil Dragon, wait a minute, I’m thinking of what we should do now.」

「Before you start thinking, do you think you can stop my legs first?!」

As we were arguing with each other, we had already arrived in front of the fully motivated mannequin.

Normally, if I sprint full speed and tackle something with my huge frame then it would do at least some form of damage but I didn’t think it would work on a Demon Army Commander.

I would probably receive a counter and that would be the end.

「Jump!」

It’s over, we’re going to crash— was what I thought but at that moment, Sheina gave an order to the spirit.

Immediately, my claws slammed the ground and my huge body easily leapt over the mannequin.

At the moment of landing, a shameful “Fpthpuu” sound came out from my ass.

It wasn’t sound created by Sheinas magic. It was a real fart. I was so scared my muscles relaxed.

「Yo-you bastard…! You’re insulting me…?」

The mannequin, quivering in anger, glared at me.

I don’t know if it was luck or not but the opponent took it as provocation instead of me evading the collision.

However, we finally touched the opponent’s reverse scale.

From the smoking joints came even more shimmering heat, then it took a four legged stance, preparing to dash full speed.

The opponent won’t last long, they’re obviously squeezing out the last of their power.

「Lord Evil Dragon… Now that it’s come to this, it’s all or nothing. We’re going to run away from that high speed dash. If we run for a while, the opponent will probably go down.」

「Eh? I don’t think I can outrun that though?」

「It’s okay… Umm, right right left jump then crouch followed by zig zagging diagonally and circling behind to the left as a feint and then go right…」

「You, what are you muttering about going left or right, can’t understand you」

Sheina was muttering constantly and then spoke to me while tighty holding my horn.

「I will use this command with sound magic and replay it in high speed to order the spirit, so for now do your best Lord Evil Dragon.」

The moment the figure of the mannequin disappeared was when the opening chapter for the steps of hell began.

It was as if I had no will. Exactly as Sheina ordered the spirit, I reacted in those random high speed movements repeatedly. It controlled my claws to perfectly recreate those random movements.

The high speed attacks from the mannequin dug through the land and smashed through boulders.

However, those attacks couldn’t even touch my body at all. If it comes to just speed, I’m slower but my haphazard movements that couldn’t be done by living organisms were used as feints to throw off the opponent’s aim.

「Ah, this is bad…」

On the other hand, even though no attacks landed, I felt my consciousness fading away. The centrifugal force generated by my sudden movements was really harsh on my old body.

At that moment, Sheina shouted loudly.

「Straight up! As high as possible!」

The claws immediately launched straight up like four pillars and shot me through the sky - but with this, there were no other escape routes.

The opponent didn’t let this chance escape and planned to follow me upward. From below, I saw the mannequin glare at me and prepare to jump.

「Vomit」

From the mouth of the spirit erupted large amounts of gravel toward the ground.

I couldn’t dodge in midair but that was also the same for the opponent.

The mannequin was buried by an amount that couldn’t be opposed from above its head, and it sunk deeper and deeper by the second.

The gravel quickly piled so high that it rose up to where my legs were in midair, and Sheina and I then collapsed in exhaustion.

Our eyes were spinning and we didn’t even have the energy to stand.

「Di-did we get it this time…?」

「Yeah… probably. Ahh I’m tired but with this, we got a surprise victory…」

Suddenly at this unexpected timing, strings of light poured down from the heavens.

「Ah」

「Ah」

Sheina and my own voice coincided.

Those five strings unexpectedly stabbed into the mountain spirit.

「As i thought, that beaten up doll couldn’t contain my magic power. Let’s try again! This one seems to be a decent doll, there’s also a spirit inside, and it’s high quality!」

We fell into a heavy mood.

Our only safety net fell into the enemy’s hands.

Now that I think about it, the reason the spirit took on the form of a human was because it was sealed into a doll, or so Rēko analysed. In other words, it has the possibility to be manipulated like the mannequin.

「Now I have a good doll, should I use my whole hand? Five fingers…」

The weaver demon declared and immediately, with the spirit as the center, an explosive shockwave ring flew out.

It wasn’t an attack. It was just the aftereffects of suddenly streaming magic power that created a blast of wind.

But even so, Sheina and I just rolled down the pile of gravel and lay side by side defenselessly.

「Uhh…? Revendia? Why did you collapse from that just now?」

It seems the opponent found our disgraceful posture suspicious. From the brightly sparkling eyes of the spirit, you could see the suspicion transferring over from the controller.

The spirit tilted its head while being controlled, then picked up a bigger than average boulder and threw it toward us.

「Gyaaa!」

I somehow dodged it by crawling on all fours. I would be flattened if I was just a little late.

However my miserable scream just deepened the opponent’s suspicion.

「You scream from just a boulder? Are you… Hey Revendia, are you really like that or are you just insulting me?」

I’m exactly like this.

Of course if I said that aloud I’d be killed so I remained silent.

I cried inside my heart and retorted with this fact, if only in my thoughts.

「…I see. You won’t answer, then play time’s over.」

As she said that, the doll(spirit) released purple lightning.

The amount of magic power gathered was definitely that of a sure kill technique. As if the land itself was frightened, the earth shook and the atmosphere of the plains cooled down like the scent of death was near.

That was the reason for the weaver demon’s defeat.

If you released that much magic power around then obviously she’d be able to sense it.

That girl will come.

「Bastard, whose permission did you get to take that spirit?」

From beyond the horizon came a sharp claw of light that easily slashed through the five strings attached to the spirit.