Behemoth's Pet

Chapter 72.2: Conclusion of Gladdstone’s Riot

「HERE I COME! 」

Aria dashed ahead.

The combination of Tama’s 《Divine Protection of Lion King》 and her own 《Acceleration》 skill allowed her to attain maximum speed under a second.

She drew closer to the legs of the Undead Dragon with bullet-like speed.

「TRAMPLE HER TO DEATH, UNDEAD DRAGON! 」

Reis transmitted a merciless order to the Undead Dragon.

It was as if the kind demeanor that he had shown to Aria during their journey was a lie. That might be how much he desired to avenge his murdered fiancée.

「NYAAN!!!! (OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!!)」

Just as the Undead Dragon about to trample Aria to death, Tama used 《Summon Tentacle》 again to bind the Dragon’s forelegs.

Although his tentacles couldn’t overpower an S-ranked monster, it was enough to shift the trajectory of the attack.

Aria spun her body in mid-air, altering her trajectory while moving at a breakneck speed and landed right in front of the Undead Dragon.

「《SACRED BLADE》! 」

She summoned a blade of light that gushed out from her hands in a silvery flash. Aria’s knives cut sizable chunks of the Dragon’s forelegs, making the corpse let out a pained screech.

『GUOOOOOOOOOOOO!? 』

Holy Elements were the weakness of all monsters, and its effects were distinctly visible when used against undead monsters.

On top of that, Aria’s Holy Element came from an Ancient Skill. Even an S-ranked undead monster couldn’t help but screech in pain.

「Tama, Stella-chan, let’s finish this! … We might only have this one chance! 」

「Nyaaa! (Roger, master!)」

「It’s time for my trump card! Don’t let me down, Tama, Aria! 」

Tama and Stella’s cooperation had almost reached perfection by the time they arrived in Gladdstone. They recognized their duties with minimal communication.

Stella screamed the name of her skill.

「HERE I COME!《DRAGONIC POWER - FULL DRIVE》!!! 」

Her scaled, dragon-like limbs swelled up, the sounds getting louder and louder until her limbs released a pale light.

Stella rushed towards the Undead Dragon at breakneck speed.

「UWOOOOOOOOOOOO! 」

The Undead Dragon rotated a bit to the side to evade her and swung down its tail, aiming at Stella. If the attack connected, Stella would be sent flying.

The adventurers and knights present witnessed the fight, anxious.

『GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!? 』

Suddenly, the Undead Dragon roared in confusion. Its tail had been parried by Stella with her Mega Shield.

That was thanks to Stella’s new skill, 《Dragonic Power - Full Drive》, which she obtained after she reincarnated. It was an inherent skill that increased her power five times when she was in her Dragonewt form.

As a member of the prideful Dragon race, Stella had never wholly harnessed her power.

However, her current opponent was herself.

She understood better than anyone how powerful she was before her reincarnation. And the anger she felt in seeing her former self being used like that erased whatever reservations she still had with utilizing her maximum strength.

She broke the Undead Dragon’s stance and made it lose its footing.

「NOW! 」

Once Stella gave the signal, Aria sprinted at the Dragon. She didn’t want to waste the window Stella had created.

With Tama by her side, she approached Reis who hid behind the reanimated corpse.

「GUH! UNDEAD DRAGON! 」

Reis waved his arms, controlling the Undead Dragon. In response to Reis’s control, the Dragon suddenly turned around despite losing its balance, swinging its bony claws at Tama and Aria.

「NYAN! (TAKE THIS!) 」

The moment those massive claws were about to strike them, Tama somersaulted forward and, changing his tail into a flame sword, repelled those claws.

The flame sword split the bone claws of the Undead Dragon in half as if it cut tofu.

SWOOOOOOSH!

Including the time he confronted the Earth Dragon, it was the third time Tama fought the same enemy.

Despite having been turned into the undead, its movement pattern practically didn’t change.

Seeing the similar movements made it too easy for Tama, a former knight with extensive combat experience. As a result, he split the Undead Dragon’s foreleg in half.

Aria was mesmerized by Tama’s swordsmanship but it did not prevent her from advancing toward Reis.

「C-《CREATE SKELETON》! 」

Desperate, Reis summoned ten skeletons in front of him. But they were not enough to stop Aria.

Her running speed as she made her way toward Reis barely dropped as she used her Sacred Blade to destroy the skeletons blocking her path.

「《Sacred Blade》! THIS IS THE END! 」

With a long jump over the felled skeletons, Aria took advantage of the pull of gravity to land a dropkick on Reis.

No matter how powerful he was as a Necromancer, Reis’s body was that of an ordinary person. He had no way of dodging Aria’s kick that was strengthened with 《Acceleration》 and 《Divine Protection of Lion King》.

Unable to evade, Reis was sent flying by a kick on his cheek.

[Note: A drop kick is when you kick someone with both feet striking their chest. In this case, both feet hitting the cheek.]

DOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!

A thunderous sound came from behind Aria. When she turned around, she discovered the crumpled form of the Undead Dragon.

It seemed that as soon as it lost its power source, it stopped moving.

「What happened? 」

「Those skeletons, they… They stopped moving!」

She heard Dany and Joey talking from behind her back. Apparently, the same happened to all the summoned skeletons. As soon as Reis fell unconscious, all his summoned creatures stopped moving.

Aria turned back and approached Reis.

「Never do something like this again.」

She seized the two magic items he still possessed, threw them up and destroyed them with her 《Sacred Blade》.

Without them, he couldn’t control Lily and Faeri any longer.

「Now, let’s take a look at Faeri-chan and Lily-chan. After checking on their condition, we’ll assist those who were injured during the fight.」