Chapter 20: Innocents Bear the Brunt!
2015-09-05
Author: Floating Tower
Very strong!
A very powerful enemy!
The aberrant dragon type before me has an estimated challenge level of around 18, which means at least five level 18 adventurers with excellent equipment would be needed to successfully take it down, and it’s likely there would be some casualties. Currently, there are a total of 8 participants in the arena, aside from this strange aberrant dragon, there are seven gladiators. The frost giant can basically be ignored; it has gone berserk chasing the eye demon and has nearly lost its sanity. Only the remaining five can team up to possibly eliminate this giant dragon.
But now the problem is, there can only be one victor in the arena, making it quite difficult for them to team up!
The demon goblin sorcerer has a cunning smile on his face and says in a sharp voice, “The final contestant is the half-blood magma dragon that resides in the magma volcano. It possesses the bloodlines of both the red dragon and the abyss dragon.”
“It is a pet of the great Demon Lord Miamid – Coin of Disaster!”
“Now.”
“Let us see who can win the final victory!”
At this point, the demon goblin sorcerer casts his gaze toward Soren in the distance. Among all the participants in the arena, Soren should rank in the top three in strength, after all, the flame demon can rival legendary creatures like dragons, and Soren is clearly not far from the flame demon. However, relying on his strength alone, he may not be able to defeat the half-blood giant dragon before him. Thinking of this makes him somewhat eager for the final outcome.
The demon lord Miamid – Coin of Disaster has formed an alliance with an abyss dragon.
Dragons are inherently lustful, and abyss dragons have even broader preferences. Many of their aberrant offspring are born, but only a small portion manage to reach adulthood.
This one before us is one of those abandoned!
Boom!
The chaotic nature has twisted the will of this half-blood giant dragon, and as soon as it entered the arena, it charged forward at high speed, directly colliding into the raging frost giant.
There’s no choice.
The frost giant is the largest and most likely to attract its attention.
The towering five-meter-tall frost giant is like being hit by a train, sent flying far away. Compared to the giant dragon, the giant’s size is somewhat lacking, let alone the fact that the half-blood giant dragon has overpowering strength.
—“Dragon Breath!”
After inflicting heavy damage to the frost giant, the half-blood magma dragon takes a deep breath; its chest cavity is larger than that of an ordinary dragon. As it inhales, its body seems to expand.
Then, a scorching breath of flames erupts!
The fierce dragon head sways, and the terrifying flames engulf an area of over fifty meters. As a half-blood dragon, its breath actually has a wider range than that of a red dragon, and the duration is much longer.
—“Dragon Tail Sweep!”
The powerful dragon tail lashes out the moment the breath ends, sending an enemy flying more than ten meters away.
The magma dragon charges toward the frost giant, opening its massive jaws to bite into its head, accompanied by a crisp crunch. The frost giant’s head is instantly bitten off.
One-shot kill!
In just this first round of attack, the frost giant is dead, and the remaining two are injured.
Although the chaotic nature affects this magma dragon, it is not lacking in intelligence. From the first glance, it has determined that the frost giant with the 1000-pound wolf fang club is its greatest threat. Even a dragon cannot withstand many hits from such a heavy weapon. Additionally, the frost giant’s innate aura makes the magma dragon, which favors flames, very uncomfortable, making it a logical first target for attack.
“We must team up!”
Soren immediately realizes this; almost nobody present can contend with this giant dragon.
If they don’t team up, everyone will die here.
Only by first uniting to take down the dragon can the remaining people have a chance of survival.
A wave of psychic energy emanates.
Unbeknownst to them, several mid-tier demon meat shields have appeared beside the heart-stealer. Upon closer inspection, the audience seats behind it are surprisingly empty. Soren’s expression slightly dulls as he realizes that these demons are all captured from the audience seating by the heart-stealer’s mind control. It appears that they are preparing to use these demons as cannon fodder meat shields. Soren is uncertain if such a move is against the rules, but judging by the expressions of the nearby demon goblin sorcerer, it seems that this situation is allowed by them.
In fact.
According to the rules of the Gurenba Arena, if a demon enters the fighting area, it means they have joined this death arena.
The chaotic nature of demons occasionally leads to beings tired of living, who jump directly from the audience seats to the combat area, an action recognized in the Gurenba Arena.
Clearly!
Those demons that came down did not do so voluntarily; they were controlled by the heart-stealer.
In such a situation, nearby demons quickly retreated, as if trying to evade a plague, avoiding the heart-stealer’s vicinity, even losing any intention of watching the duel. In their minds, there is only one thought: they must not get close to that heart-stealer; it is extremely dangerous!
Cannon fodder in position.
After using powerful psionics to capture demons from the audience seats as cannon fodder, the heart-stealer immediately sends a mental communication to the others in the arena.
“We must team up to deal with this giant dragon!”
“Otherwise, no one can defeat it alone!… Everyone will die here!…”
“I will control the humans to attract attention.”
“You guys find the chance to attack!”
There is no time for tactical discussion; the powerful half-blood dragon has already lunged at the second gladiator.
Demon cannon fodder charges!
The heart-stealer’s enslavement ability far exceeds any race; one heart-stealer can control the thoughts of multiple slaves at once, and even when one cannon fodder dies, it can immediately find new cannon fodder from the audience seats.
To prove its sincerity.
The heart-stealer immediately commands the mind-controlled demon cannon fodder to charge while simultaneously attempting a probing attack.
The first to respond is the eye demon.
After the frost giant’s death, it has become the second largest target and is very likely to become the dragon’s primary target.
Rays of light shoot out!
The eye demon hovers in mid-air with psionics, imitating the heart-stealer to directly use spells to attempt controlling the nearby demons as cannon fodder.
The two major slave masters of the Underdark!
Ranked first is naturally the heart-stealer, which once enslaved the entire grey dwarf race; its mind control ability is one of the few in the multiverse. However, the eye demon also possesses a large number of slaves in the Underdark.
In just a round of time.
These two near-legendary evil beings have controlled seven or eight demon cannon fodder. Although their strength is clearly inferior to that of the gladiators, they can still be useful to divert the enemy’s attention for a while.
At this moment.
The demons in the audience seats are simply having the worst luck!
The opponents participating today are quite different from those they previously watched; there may have been occasional collateral damage in past battles, but those were just accidents.
Today, everything is deliberate.
The demon goblin sorcerer watches everything before him with a strange expression, a playful smile on his face, seemingly with no intention to stop any of it.
In the Gurenba Arena.
As long as you enter the fighting area, it counts as joining the battle, whether you jumped in on purpose, accidentally fell in, or were controlled to walk in.
This all conforms to the rules of the Gurenba Arena!
In the chaotic nature of the demon goblin sorcerer, this death arena has obviously become even more exciting because of the heart-stealer and eye demon’s actions to capture cannon fodder.
The battle continues.
The consumption rate of the demon cannon fodder is rapid; perhaps irritated by these small pests, the half-blood magma dragon takes another deep breath!
But just at this moment.
Soren’s figure suddenly moves; he darts from the side towards the giant dragon, its demon wings flapping behind him at incredible speed as his hands grip the longsword, stabbing toward the dragon’s chest, which is currently exhaling dragon breath. Meanwhile, on the other side of the arena, the four-armed serpent demon’s expression begins to waver, but in the end, it also circles around to the back of the dragon from the other side.
In terms of physical output capability, the four-armed serpent demon is definitely greater than Soren; it may even surpass the frost giant. Among all the gladiators there, only it can inflict huge damage on the giant dragon in a short time!
Only by taking down this giant dragon first can they have a chance to become the final victor.
………………(To Be Continued ~^~)
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