thefictionvixens Chapter 255: How to Avoid the Air Force, The Dragon Walks into the Trap
Chapter 255: How to Avoid the Air Force, The Dragon Walks into the Trap
Chapter 255: How to Avoid the Air Force, The Dragon Walks into the Trap
Having dealt with the orc race, the next challenge is the marine race, which lives in the central sea area nestled between three continents.
They were rarely active during the war and had a very low profile, but their reputation for abducting men of other races was widely known.
The Skywing species had once beheaded some individuals of this race, but they felt that the heads of such creatures had no collectible value and would only leave their hands smelling fishy. So, when they flew over the sea areas and encountered marine species, they would not attack them.
When the machine race observed the world in the past, they also observed marine species, but because the marine environment was too corrosive to machinery, they did not know much about this species either.
The only thing known is that they are all female, and every breeding season they come ashore in groups to use a charm-like spell to seduce males of other races along the coast for mating.
"In short, they are a promiscuous race that would grab men of other races on the beach and mate with them on the spot."
Hugh said that.
"Ah, so there are such races?"
Rick stared wide-eyed, looking as if he'd never encountered such a good thing before.
Of course, if he had actually encountered it before, he would definitely have kept his distance.
"Men of other races who are seduced will be exploited to the point of exhaustion and death."
After it dies, its body will be eaten by marine species.
Hugh was somewhat speechless, and added a comment.
"So brutal?"
Rick's forehead was covered in sweat. Sure enough, the other races in this world besides humans were not harmless creatures.
"However, you don't need to worry about monkeys like you who don't have any elven power. Sea creatures rely on manipulating the water spirits within them to attract the elven spirits within other races, and you, who are born without any elven power, cannot be charmed by those inferior seafood creatures."
The Skywing race generally have an arrogant attitude. Although they are relatively polite to Rick and Chloe because of Broly, this politeness is only reflected in not harming them. As for their words and titles, they are still mostly contemptuous.
Of course, it doesn't matter if they are looked down upon, because the Celestials look down on everyone equally, except for the Saiyan boy who defeated the God of War.
This includes, but is not limited to, other species such as gods and fantasy beings from other factions, and life forms with a higher racial hierarchy than them.
Especially when they are in a group, they are qualified to challenge other divine species because they can unleash [Divine Strike].
"We've arrived!"
As Abangte Heim arrived over the central sea, a group of Skywings flew out from this enormous sky city.
However, finding marine species living in the deep sea is not an easy task, so we also need to cooperate with the mechanical species that have come here.
"【Pseudo-Scripture. Dragon's Roar】launched, cutting off the Southwest Strait..."
As reports from various aircraft came in, the central sea area was quickly transformed into an inland sea. Although there were still some connections, the main passage to other sea areas was indeed cut off.
"Now it's your turn, Skywing race, to show your skills."
"Shubi said to Jibril beside her."
"Form an array, compile a large-scale celestial shifting spell!"
The Skywing race's greatest strength isn't actually Sky Strike, but rather spatial magic.
With their combined efforts, a massive spatial tunnel crashed into the central sea area.
A massive amount of seawater is discharged into other sea areas through spatial channels.
While forming massive, flood-like columns of water above other sea areas, it also turned the central sea area upside down.
Draining water to catch fish is the simplest and most effective way for them to find marine species. Although the method is a bit crude, it can effectively avoid the situation of coming home empty-handed unless there are no marine species in the sea.
The surging ocean currents quickly attracted the attention of marine species in the deep sea, and one of them surfaced.
After checking the situation on the sea surface, they ran back and came back to find a group of marine creatures. They used the power of water spirits to calm the surging seawater. Although they could not stop the loss of seawater in the central sea area, they did make the sea calm down again.
"Why did you release our sea?"
The leading mermaid asked questions without showing any fear of the Skywing race.
"Our new master, Lord Broly, wants to speak with the god behind you and ask Him to come out and meet us."
Having stopped the Sky Shift spell, Azriel floated in the air and spoke to the group of mermaids who were emerging from the sea in a commanding tone.
"God, what is that?"
"Is it edible?"
The mermaids in the sea started to chatter amongst themselves. Their chatter wasn't noisy at all; instead, it had a pleasant quality and an alluring charm.
As they talked, their topic veered off course, from discussing what a god was to lamenting the winged beings above them, all of whom were women.
"If it were a man, I would definitely want to have children with him."
"Bang!"
The black energy of the sky strike hit the sea surface to the side.
The loud bang startled the group of somewhat eccentric mermaids.
"What are you doing?"
But after being frightened, some marine species were still able to confront the Skywing species that launched the Sky Strike with fierce momentum.
"You bunch of stupid fish, if you try to change the subject again, I'll kill you."
Azriel roared fiercely.
"Why are you being so fierce?"
The marine creature, startled by the shout, shrank its neck and muttered something under its breath, but still answered on behalf of its kind.
"Our race has no gods, and we don't know what kind of god you are looking for, so we can't get it to come out and meet you."
A race with a creator would not normally be so disrespectful to its creator. However, if this situation occurs, it may indicate that there is a problem with the creator and that the race has not yet established a complete knowledge inheritance system.
Take the orc race, for example. Their creator died young, and their lifespan is short. After a dozen or so generations, they no longer have much respect for their god.
Conversely, vampires, whose creators also died young, have long lifespans and a complete knowledge inheritance, and even now they still hold the gods who created them in high esteem.
As for marine species, it seems to be similar to the situation of orcs, and races without gods also have their own ways of dealing with them.
"Is your tribe the only marine species?"
"Jibril asked."
"Yes, what's wrong?"
The red-tailed marine species nodded.
"So, who's the leader?"
Jibril asked again.
"Hey, who's in charge here?"
The marine species floating on the sea surface looked at each other in bewilderment.
"have no idea."
The group of mermaids discussed it for a while, but couldn't come up with an answer.
"So, who gave you the orders to attack men of coastal races on a regular basis?"
Hugh flew over and asked.
"It was a decision we made by discussing it with each other."
"Sometimes, members of our tribe who are in need will go ashore alone to find men of other races."
Hugh: "..."
"A race that doesn't even have a power structure is worse than a beast. At least some social beasts have the concept of a leader."
Jibril started complaining.
"So, who do you think is the most outstanding among you?"
Hugh thought for a moment and then asked.
"That's Lorelei, of course."
A mermaid with brightly colored fishtail scales was pushed out by a group of her marine companions.
"She was the best at giving birth, and the only men of different races she seduced were those she could use repeatedly."
Marine species envy their companions' ability.
"Then you will represent your marine species. We will invite you to watch the Star Cup acquisition ceremony to witness the arrival of world peace."
Rick was unsure of the specific effects of the Star Grail, and whether peace would come after someone obtained it was also a question mark.
Therefore, Rick is using the means he understands to encourage all races to embrace peace.
What could be more convincing than having representatives of all races witness firsthand the trophy, the Star Cup, a symbol of victory in the great war, being won by the victor?
At that time, even if the Star Cup itself cannot directly bring peace to the various races, it can still use the power of the victor to pressure the various races to accept peace.
According to Rick's plan, while his brother-in-law takes the lead in obtaining the Star Cup, he will also take the opportunity to hold a peace conference with representatives of the various races.
The marine species are a bit slow-witted; they don't quite understand what a great war is, nor why someone suddenly wants them to witness the arrival of peace, but...
After learning that their race could no longer attack men of other races at will, they became somewhat resistant.
"I know that your race's reproduction depends on the help of males from other races, but if you don't participate in this ceremony, which will be witnessed by representatives of all races, you may be excluded from the upcoming all-race conference..."
Lorelei didn't quite understand what they were saying, but she did understand one thing: if they didn't agree to participate, their marine species might be treated as enemies by all other races.
. . . .
"Shubi, do you think the marine species will participate?"
"I don't know, those mermaids look kind of dumb."
While Rick and Schwi were talking, Broly was teaching Fanlou how to play chess.
"That's not how you play chess. That's how you should play chess."
Across from her, Chloe maintained her smile; it seemed she now had another person to play bad games with.
"So that's how it is."
Fanlou suddenly realized that he had made a good move and replaced it with a terrible one. It turned out that one person dared to teach and the other dared to believe.
Beside them, the machine-type beings sent to serve the creator they had found remained silent, hoping that their own god would soon realize that Broly, their chess teacher, was actually quite bad at chess.
. . . .
The marine species have been dealt with. Next are the races at or above the sixth race sequence. We won't talk about the gods and elves. The former were the true instigators of the great war and are dealing with them one by one. The latter are just tiny life forms that make up the world and are individuals without any specific consciousness.
Therefore, the main targets are fantasy species, dragon spirit species, and giant species. Among the fantasy species, the Demon King, who was the most important target, has already been dealt with. As for the other fantasy species, most of them exist in the world in natural form. They are just natural phenomena with consciousness, but they are all more and more Buddhist than the last.
The first to be approached were the Giants. This race was not numerous, but each individual was stronger than a single Winged.
Similarly, they also respected the strong, so when the giant king was approached, he proposed a one-on-one duel.
If we defeat him, the giants will submit unconditionally.
It is worth mentioning that the Skywing species is the only divinely created creature to reach the level of life.
Giants, on the other hand, are not divine beings; they are unique life forms born from the earth itself.
(Please refer to the Titans in Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" for reference. It is said that No Game No Life also referenced this Titan design.)
Broly, who asked for defeat, knocked the Titan King to the ground with just one punch. The tiny Saiyan boy seemed like an ant compared to the giant Titan, who was as big as a mountain, and could be crushed at any moment. But in reality, the Titan was crushed.
The giants were not cunning; after the Giant King lost the duel, the entire race promptly bowed down in submission.
After speedrunning the Giant race, the next one will be the Dragon race.
The Dragon Essence species is even more special. The three Dragon Kings who created the Dragon Essence species are said to have originated from the essence of fallen gods, giving birth to a unique life form.
All dragon spirits retain remnants of the power of creation, possessing the power to command all things in the universe—the language of dragon spirits.
If a dragon spirit utters the word "die" in the dragon spirit language, everything before it will perish. If it commands "shatter," all things will turn into dust and return to the earth.
"However, this power to command all things in the universe has its limits. For example, we can use the spiritual power within our bodies to forcibly resist such commands."
"Lord Broly, you are even more powerful than Lord Altshu. A mere dragon spirit could not possibly influence you with just dragon spirit language."
Raphael said.
"Compared to the power of the dragon spirits, finding those big guys is the most difficult thing. Their essence is that they are multi-dimensional life forms that exist simultaneously in the timelines of the past and the future, with the present as the center."
It can be said that every dragon spirit possesses considerable prophetic abilities; as long as we don't want to be found, we simply...
Before Azriel could finish speaking, Abant Heim roared, the meaning of which was: "The dragon is coming!"
. . . .
Leigh Levi, the last dragon king of the dragon spirits, is a quiet and warlike dragon compared to the hot-tempered and battle-loving Alan Lev, and the terrifyingly powerful and aloof Hatirem, the final dragon king.
She once predicted that wars in the world would never end, so she led her followers to live independently outside the world and away from meaningless wars. But recently she was proven wrong, and the wars in this world are suddenly coming to an end.
Originally, she wanted to observe from the shadows and figure out where the previous prediction went wrong. However, after discovering that the one who ended the war was preparing to find her, she thought about it and decided that this wise dragon king, who also disliked war, would take the initiative to come and ask about the situation.
Behind the enormous white dragon were several smaller dragons, a group of dragon spirits hovering in the sky, blocking Avant Heim's path.
"King Leijin Levi, I didn't expect you to actually bring a group of your dragons to our doorstep. Are you planning to attack us?"
The power of the dragon spirits is astonishing. If you are not careful, you will be mistaken for an attacker. This is how the former Yanlong King provoked the machine-type dragons, and he and his followers were beaten to death by a group of machine-type dragons.
"If I wanted to attack you, I wouldn't have appeared in front of you openly. I only came to pay my respects to the one who defeated the God of War after learning that you were looking for me."
"To see me?"
Upon hearing the sound, Broly emerged from the temple.
Upon seeing the enormous white dragon, as large as a mountain range, he immediately swallowed hard.
That dragon is so white and so big, it looks perfect for barbecuing.
Regin Levi felt a chill and suddenly regretted showing himself in front of an existence stronger than the God of War.
"I mean no harm. I just wanted to ask you if you have any thoughts on ending the war?"
If possible, I would like to represent the Dragon Spirit race and do my part to end the war.
The Dragon Queen quickly said.
Regin Levy meant no harm, but he did arouse Broly's appetite.
Suppressing the urge to roast the dragon, Broly looked at Rick.
Rick, the "tool guy," is back online: "So, let's sit down... uh, let's just say this."
(End of this chapter)