Level 1 Player (MT Novel) - Chapter 46

Chapter 46 – Blue Drake

There was a roar of a siren. An alarm must have gone off in the command and control center.

– What’s going on? – Shin Yun Ah asked the Association staff in charge of collecting information.

– An emergency situation! A new spatial gate has opened in the area of Seoul Station!

Shin Yun Ah froze at what she heard. Seoul is the most populous city in the entire country. Unless the monster invasion there is suppressed in its infancy, human casualties cannot be avoided.

– What about the monsters?

– Let’s find out. Ah, a group of wyverns appeared there.

(P.p.: A wyvern is a mythological creature much like a dragon, but unlike a heraldic dragon it has one pair of paws and one pair of wings.)

Seoul has the nastiest type of monsters, as wyverns are heroic-level monsters. Even high-level Players find it difficult to deal with these creatures because of their maneuverability and ability to fly.

– As soon as the gates opened at the train station, you contacted the TS Guild, didn’t you?

(P.p.: There is a central train station in Seoul.)

– Yes, contacted and requested emergency support.

“Of all the guilds…”

The TS Guild was one of the largest guilds in the country, with perhaps the largest number of tanks and melee fighters at its disposal. The only problem was that Players of these specializations were not fit to fight wyverns.

– Get in touch with the Juhwa Guild immediately!

But the Juhwa Guild had mostly ranged fighters, mages that were now needed on the battlefield.

– Roger that!

Shin Yun Ah was about to grab her weapons and head for Seoul Station when the siren blared again.

– A new spatial gate had opened in the Tongsan-dong area of Daejeon City. Harpies are known to have emerged from the gate.

– In the Yongsan-dong area of Busan City, an ogre emerged from the gate along with orcs!

– A blue drake appeared from an open gate with trolls in Osan, Gyeonggi-do Province.

The situation was only heating up. Shin Yoon Ah, who was about to jump out and rush into battle, froze at a half-step.

– Osan, Gyeonggi-do Province, the gate with the trolls… Isn’t that where Choi Hyun-sung is right now?

– That’s right. He’s the one who reported the situation and asked for immediate support.

– Cancel all operations in Osan City. Tell all the players to leave the area immediately!

– Roger that!

The blue drake represented the strongest monster among heroic level monsters. In order to deal with it, just high-level Players weren’t enough, rankers were needed. But in the current situation, it is impossible to move the rankers to other areas. Particularly because they are defending large cities due to lack of hands. Fortunately, all of Osan has already been evacuated, so now the best solution is to recall the troops.

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A ten-story building collapsed with a huge rumble.

“When are the reinforcements going to arrive?” – I thought, glancing at my communications device.

“All operations in Osan territory have been cancelled as a matter of urgency! Dear Players, leave the war zone immediately as soon as possible!”

Instead of reports of reinforcements, I saw an order to retreat. And I even wanted to follow it, but.

“I’m not done here yet! – I just had time to think, as the blue drake roared and rushed to attack me. – Why are you chasing only me?!”

No sooner had the drake emerged from the spatial gate than his eye fell on me. Probably because I didn’t strike him as an invincible monster. Adding to the difficulty is the fact that the blue drakes are as pushy and annoying as bees. Besides, he’s a lot faster than me in maneuverability. And even though I was using the buildings around me as shields, the distance between us was rapidly shrinking.

“Either I use this, or I get eaten…” I thought, and activated Firestorm.

There was a shriek, and I saw a wave of fire hit the blue drake. But the attack didn’t do any damage to the monster. And it didn’t block its view, either, so the blue drake calmly stepped over the flames and lunged toward me once more, aiming for a powerful blow. He had no trouble pinpointing my location, so it was just a matter of time.

“Why the hell is he chasing me so insistently?” – Undistracted by my thoughts, I activated my fire skills.

Trying time after time to somehow stun him, block his vision, or raise his temperature, I failed. Meanwhile, the distance between us continued to shrink.

“Do I really have to fight?”

But I don’t stand a chance against him… The blue drake is too tough a monster, he effortlessly deflects the mage class ranker players’ skills with his bare body. All my attempts to stand against a drake with rare skills and a magic power lower than that of a ranker will fail. It would take not one man, but a whole group of my kind, to take down a legendary-level monster…

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“I can’t die here,” I concluded, and clenched my teeth.

At that moment, the air was electrifying and my whole body was covered in a blue sparkling light. I used the only heroic level skill I had.

Drake roared and lunged at me again in a fit of rage.

“Well, let’s risk it…”

In an instant my vampire sword was just as covered in blue light, and I tried to attack the blue drake in the leg, the only place I could attack at close range. My blow landed precisely on target, but I got the impression that this monster wasn’t made of bone and skin and muscle at all. The sound was completely different. It was metallic.

“What’s that supposed to mean…?”

I put all my strength into this strike, but my attack was useless, only a small scratch appeared on the blue drake’s scales. In response, the monster swung its paw at me. I tried to avoid its attack as quickly as possible, while still attempting to strike at its huge body with my vampire sword. Only, as I should have expected, it had no effect, I was only leaving little scratches on his scales.

“What tough scales…!”

For my attack to do any damage to the monster, I must find its weak spot.

“Maybe the belly…”

I think this part could pass for a weak spot, so I took my chances and moved decisively on the creature. The monster swung its paw at me, but I ducked under it and attacked its belly with all my skills, enhanced by Lightning Breath. I deployed all my magical power. In addition, the Survival Instinct skill activated in the moment of mortal danger, and the power of my attack increased. However…

“Where’s even a drop of blood?!”

The monster’s entire belly was blackened and only a few scales fell off in a few places. Was that all I could achieve with my increased attack…? No matter how I looked at it, it was still a long way from being mortally wounded.

Before I knew it, the drake had dodged and swung his paw at me. Another second and the patch of ground I was standing on was already torn to shreds by the monster’s sharp claws.

“He’s too fast!”

The monster is indeed quite nimble, despite its size. Avoiding my attacks, the blue drake stood in front of me again. The air began to shake, and with it the drake’s horns began to be covered in blue sparkling light.

“It’s urgent that we avoid this attack.”

Just as I was trying to get my feet as far away from the monster as possible, a bolt of lightning struck me.

A scream burst from my lips. Even with the Lightning Breath acting as a shield, I could feel the horrible pain with every fiber of my being, tearing my entire body from the inside out. The effect of the Survival Instinct hadn’t ended yet, and, thanks to the increased characteristic of willpower, resilience skills, I still had a chance. Even so, it was impossible to withstand the blue drake’s attack.

I collapsed to the ground, exhausted. My rare-level shield burned and shattered in the same instant. The vampire sword also burned and broke in half. Drake stared at his prey with a satisfied face. He had already opened his mouth and … put the trophy in his mouth and began to chew greedily.

***

My whole body was aching, and my throat was full of grunts and moans and cries. But I couldn’t hear them. Why? My lungs were torn apart, and all the screams were stuck somewhere halfway down my throat. I couldn’t feel anything below my chest. All that was left of my right arm was muscle and bone, my left arm was separated from my body altogether. In other words, all that was left of me was my head, my waist-high body, and my right arm.

“I can’t die here…”

If I end my life here, everything is over. And it’s not just my personal death that’s the problem. If I die here, I can never get my father back on his feet. What will happen if he isn’t cured? The family that enjoyed a carefree life would go back to the hell of the past.

My body was dissolving and becoming some kind of mush. The magical power was also leaving me.

“I can’t stay here…”

My body continued to digest itself in the belly of this monster. As I sunk lower and lower and merged with the contents of its stomach, the magical power left my body faster and faster. I tried to gather all my remaining strength into a fist, and with my only hand I jammed the broken sword into one of the walls of his stomach. A stream of warm water, with the faint smell of fish, rushed over me, and my sword began to absorb it. I felt the simultaneous manifestation of the vampire sword and the vampire ball. Very faintly, but my magical power and stamina began to recover.

In my right arm, naked to the bone and muscle, strength appeared. They didn’t leave me rapidly now, but I couldn’t move normally. I sank my teeth into the wall of my stomach and tried to thrust the sword even deeper. Fluid flowed down on me again. This water was the key to my salvation.

As soon as my magic and stamina numbers were restored, “Immortality” was activated.

How much time had I spent here? My thoughts cleared up a little. My head was still on my shoulders, but the pain was still unbearable. And all I could move now was my head and my right arm. Thanks to Immortality, I was still alive.

“Magic and stamina are still insufficient…”

Sure, with the vampire sword and the vampire ball, I regained those two stamina, but there was only enough power to maintain Immortality. To restore my digested body, I need much more stamina.

“I’m in his stomach, aren’t I?”

Determining my exact location is difficult enough, but everything looked very much like a stomach, since the drake’s insides are arranged in a peculiar way. In particular, this monster had a “strong” stomach juice that not only digested everything in it, but also sucked out all the magical leftovers.

“I wonder if I can recover any more?”

My body recovered, digested, and recovered again. It was the same with magic. This could go on for ages. I even began to think that Immortality was a curse. Just because I was stupid, now I would have to be in a state of neither being alive nor dead forever.

“No, I can’t let that happen!” – I decided firmly.

I just couldn’t die here. I clamped my teeth harder into the wall of my stomach-very stiff and tight. But I kept sinking my teeth into it and chewing. At the same time, I kept moving my right hand, holding the vampire sword. I needed to make the wound even deeper, to get as much blood as possible.