Future Knight

Chapter 56

“Just watch out for the wizards! Commence firing!”

“Fire!”

Forty archers simultaneously launched arrows toward the wizards.

With the sound of arrows cutting through the air, forty arrows flew toward the wizards.

At the same time, twenty Green Elf wizards began chanting their attack spells.

“Charge! Glory to Mother!”

“Glory!”

The assault unit shouted as they charged towards the dwarves, who, startled by the shouts, fell into confusion.

“It’s an ambush! It’s the Green Elves!”

“Don’t panic, pick up your weapons!”

The dwarves, realizing the ambush too late, dropped the debris they were carrying and grasped their battle axes to counter the surprise attack.

Simultaneously, the arrows of the Green Elves rained down on the Elven wizards.

The Elven wizards, possessing outstanding magical skills, quickly deployed shields to protect themselves from the arrows.

But soon, despair clouded their eyes.

In the midst of barely being able to protect themselves from the onslaught of arrows, they felt the wave of an attack spell.

Eventually, dozens of fire arrows, launched from the hands of the Green Elf wizards, exploded, and the Elven wizards had no choice but to give up on life.

Casting even a single spell required an immense mathematical mana arrangement, and casting two spells simultaneously was exceedingly difficult, achievable only by high-level wizards of at least the 5th circle.

It’s like solving addition and subtraction one at a time is easy, but solving both at the same time is difficult for most people.

If it were multiplication and division instead of addition and subtraction, it would undoubtedly be even more challenging.

They were already using physical shields to block arrows and had no time to deploy magical shields against the incoming spells.

They were now helplessly going to be hit by the fire arrows and turned into barbecues.

Just as the dozens of fire arrows were about to engulf them, Zikyon landed in front of them and leisurely waved her hand.

“Dispel.”

The fiercely flying fire arrows collided with her silver dust-like mana and scattered into the air as the mana arrays collapsed.

The Green Elves, seeing this, were dumbfounded, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Dispel was not a particularly high-level spell, but its effectiveness varied greatly depending on the user.

A wizard could never dispel a spell cast by a wizard of a higher rank, and the greater the difference in their circles, the faster the dispel occurred.

That’s why there was a saying among wizards that you could never defeat a wizard of a higher circle.

But the wizard who suddenly appeared in front of them dispelled their spells almost instantaneously.

And not just one, but the spells of twenty wizards.

However, they couldn’t think any further.

The voice of the reaper announcing their death echoed.

“You half-breed vermin! Die! Hell Lightning Burst!”

Zikyon stomped her right foot on the ground, and dozens of red lightning bolts exploded from her, spreading in all directions with a chilling sound.

The speed was like lightning striking from the sky.

“Hell Lightning Burst!”

“Argh!”

The Green Elves, their eyes wide in disbelief, watched the hellish lightning.

There was no way to resist.

As mere 4th circle users, what could they do against a 9th circle lightning spell?

They could only be reduced to ashes.

At least the wizards had it better.

They died knowing how they met their end.

On the other hand, the forty Green Elf archers had to leave the world without even knowing they had been caught in a 9th circle spell.

The Elven wizards were equally incredulous at the sight before them.

A mysterious woman had suddenly appeared before them, dispelling dozens of fire arrows with immense magical power in an instant.

And as if that wasn’t enough, she had turned the enemies before them into a handful of ashes with a 9th circle spell.

The Elven wizards were bewildered, unsure if this was a dream or reality.

But soon, sensing the intense presence of a dragon from the woman, they realized she was Zikyon, the Green Dragon, the owner of the forest, and shed tears of joy.

The being that always instilled fear in them had saved them instead.

They all thought to themselves that she was indeed a dragon.

No other species could use a 9th circle spell so effortlessly.

“R-Run away!”

Terrified by the hellish lightning they had just witnessed, the Green Elves turned their backs on the battlefield and began to flee desperately.

Zikyon laughed scornfully.

“How dare you turn your backs and try to escape from me, you scum! I’ll squeeze you dry to your bones!”

As Zikyon spread her arms, an enormous amount of mana spread in all directions.

The Green Elves, desperately trying to escape, stopped one by one in their tracks and began to float into the air, drawn by an invisible force.

“Aaah! Spare me! Spare me!”

They struggled desperately against the rising force, but they could not escape Zikyon’s invisible snare.

The dwarves watched in awe, their mouths agape at the unbelievable sight unfolding before their eyes.

Just moments ago, the Green Elves had been pushing them back confidently with overwhelming numbers.

But after the appearance of a mysterious woman, the Elves had suddenly become terrified and started fleeing, and now they were all floating in the air?

And there were about 200 of them.

As they hung in the air, screaming in agony, Zikyon’s mocking voice rang out chillingly.

“Blood Pressure.”

At her command, the Green Elves suspended in the air screamed in excruciating pain.

‘Crack!’

“Argh!”

“Aaaagh!”

Their screams grew more agonized, accompanied by the sickening sounds of bones breaking and flesh tearing.

Soon, their blood began to rain down in torrents.

“I love red rain. Hehe…”

Zikyon, reveling in the blood pouring down from the 200 Green Elves she had twisted with her dragon power, soaked herself in the rain of blood.

The dwarves, watching her gleefully dance in the blood raining down from the corpses, felt their legs weaken, ready to wet their pants in terror.

Even the Elves, who had felt genuine gratitude towards the dragon moments ago, now had faces twisted in fear.

‘She’s insane. We have to run…’

Their thoughts were unanimous, but their feet refused to move from the ground.

They felt that if they moved even a step, they would end up twisted and dead like the Green Elves.

In the end, they could only watch in trembling fear as Zikyon’s madness unfolded.

Although it was a brief moment, it felt like an eternity to those watching.

The Green Elves, having poured out all their blood, were now dry, skeletal corpses floating in the air.

Even cowhide would yield juice when squeezed, but there was nothing more to extract from these desiccated bodies.

“What? Is it over already?”

Zikyon, drenched in blood, expressed her disappointment, causing the Elves and dwarves watching to pale.

They worried they might be next to satisfy her disappointment.

“Such useless bastards…”

With a wave of her hand, Zikyon set the corpses ablaze, turning them to ash.

Their dried-up bodies burned like paper.

“Now that I’ve fertilized the soil, it’s time to plant seeds. Grow.”

As Zikyon chanted, small sprouts began to rapidly grow from the blood-soaked ground.

The speed at which the plants grew was faster than any elemental magic. As expected of the Green Dragon who loved the forest, her abilities were extraordinary.

However, while she loved the forest, the standards for what she used as fertilizer seemed unimportant to her.

The rapidly growing trees and plants soon formed a small forest. Zikyon picked a small apple from the newly formed forest and took a bite.

“Organic fruit is the best.”

Watching Zikyon enjoy an apple grown from the blood of hundreds, the Elves and dwarves felt their appetites vanish.

Finding the apple tasty, Zikyon gathered a few more and approached the Elves.

“Hey, are you okay?”

The Elf, frozen in fear, couldn’t respond immediately, only blinking at her question.

“I asked if you are okay.”

“Y-yes! I’m okay!”

The Elf’s response, as if a screw was loose, made Zikyon frown slightly.

‘Why is everyone I meet like this? How am I supposed to make true friends like this? It seems Kang Chan is the only one.’

To Zikyon, their fear wasn’t important.

She had no desire to understand their feelings and act accordingly.

A dragon only thought in their own way.

Seeing Zikyon frown, the Elf’s mind flashed red alerts. It felt like loud bells were ringing in his head.

Driven by a desperate instinct to survive, the Elf could think of only one thing.

“G-great one. Y-your body is covered in b-b-blood.”

The Elf’s stammering made Zikyon look down at herself.

Her body was soaked in the blood of the Green Elves. Only then did she realize she looked a bit gruesome.

“Ah, were you surprised by this appearance? Goodness, you really have a gentle heart. This kind of thing can be easily fixed with a simple Clean spell.”

As Zikyon cast a Clean spell on herself, the surrounding mana gathered and removed the dirt and grime from her body.

“There! How is it now? Clean, right?”

Her body became as clean as if she had just taken a shower.

However, the elf’s eyes were still filled with fear.

The horrific image of Zikyon squeezing the life out of the Green Elves while they were still alive remained vivid in their minds.

But the elf, needing to survive, forced a smile again.

“Hahaha… Cle-Clean, so your beauty stands out even more, Lady Zikyon.”

“I really love the fresh scent of blood, but you elves still prefer cleanliness, huh?”

Since dragons were naturally carnivorous animals, the scent of blood to her was as delightful as the scent of fresh fruit.

Just as wealthy human women used fruit juice and milk for skincare, she enjoyed bathing in blood.

“To think that someone as great as you would save lowly elves like us, I am at a loss for words.”

“You were just paying the price for dirtying my forest, so don’t feel too burdened, elf.”

“I understand, O Great One…”

“More importantly, where are the other elves now?”

“Pardon?”

“I asked where the surviving elves are now.”

After hesitating for a moment, the elf reluctantly opened her mouth.

The dwarves shook their heads, signaling not to answer, but there was no benefit in lying to a high dragon like Zikyon. It was better not to provoke her.

After hesitating for a moment, the elf reluctantly opened her mouth.

“We are currently taking refuge in the kingdom of our allies, the dwarves.”

“Oh? Then, is Kang Chan, the foreigner, with you?”

“Pardon? How do you know him…?”

The elf didn’t know that Kang Chan and Zikyon were friends.

Hearing Kang Chan’s name from the dragon’s mouth, the elf looked at Zikyon with a slightly surprised expression and asked.

Momentarily forgetting her place as she spoke.