It hurts!

It's hot!

I'm so hungry!

On the other side, Zheng Ming, who distributed most of the energy to the slime clone to attract attention, disguised himself as a clone and hid in the stream, gradually blurred his consciousness under the scorching green flame.

The terrifying high temperature failed to directly burn Zheng Ming, who was fighting high in fire, to death, but slowly melted its body along with the boiling water. The poison containing inexplicable energy continued to invade his body, slowly seeping into its body, dyeing its pale blue body blue-black.

Zheng Ming, who crawled out of the dry riverbed, was delirious and wanted to get out of this uncomfortable place. only to find that the long-lost hunger pang kept coming, and under this hunger, the powerlessness that had been forgotten for a long time enveloped its body and mind.

Suddenly, Zheng Ming, who couldn't distinguish the direction in the thick smoke and climbed indiscriminately, came into contact with Helan, who had been dead for a long time.

Without the slightest hesitation or thought, almost instinctively, Zheng Ming, who had turned back into a slime, wrapped the corpse that had been shattered by the flames and activated the devouring ability.

Under the nourishment of energy like nectar after a long drought, Zheng Ming briefly recovered. Sensing the dangerous fire around him, as well as his own bad situation, he couldn't help but laugh.

As early as when he made this decision to secretly Chen Cang, he had expected that the situation would be very bad. The worst-case scenario it expected would be to return to the weak state it had first crossed, but reality still gave it a surprise.

After thinking about it again, the top priority is to escape from this sea of fire first.

After realizing this, Zheng Ming identified a thin wall of fire and climbed over. At the same time, he used the energy he had just devoured to envelop his shrinking body with demonic flames.

Seeing that under the shroud of the uncertain layer of flames, Zheng Ming endured the burning pain that constantly attacked and the colic pain everywhere in his body, and crawled out of the range of dragon's breath with difficulty.

Are you going to die?

Consciousness departed from him again.

And before it fell into a coma, subconsciously, it used its last magic power to activate the shapeshifting ability.

There was not a wisp on the edge of the sea of fire, and Zheng Ming, who had dark skin, crawled forward for a few meters, and finally collapsed in place without a trace of movement.

After a long time.

The red dragon, which was constantly hovering nearby in the sky, seemed to have finally sensed the situation here, and swooped straight towards the place where Zheng Ming was unconscious.

Before the red dragon could land, Arthur on it had already jumped up impatiently and jumped down.

"Naruto?"

As if unable to believe his eyes, Arthur called out with a slight suspicion as he rushed forward.

"This is the Naruto who spends his days doing nothing and doesn't seem to care about everything?

This is the Naruto who makes bad jokes all day long and shows his indifference for fear that others will not know?

But why did he fight to such a point? Shouldn't we rationally measure the strength of the enemy and retreat decisively, as he said?

Yes. He's my Dragon. While he subtly influenced me, my chivalry also influenced him. ”

Arthur looked at Zheng Ming, whose arms were full of burns and filth, his skin was blue and black, his face was full of pain, and his turquoise eyes fluctuated violently as if he had set off a monstrous wave. So much so that the waves overflowed his eyes and moistened his long eyelashes.

Calm, majestic, apologetic, worried, distressed.

His normally calm and unwavering face changed as quickly as if his face had changed, and finally softened into a complex expression.

"It's my fault. Naruto, I shouldn't have let you go out alone to meet the enemy. If you don't have military power, no name, or even no title, you will only be tied up and can only choose to fight alone. I will always be with you from this day forward. ”

The silver-haired girl on the side, Einzfel, glanced at the nervous Arthur, and then looked at Zheng Ming, who was holding him in his arms, and reminded with a hesitant expression: "Wang, his injury ...... With my magical attainments...... There was no way to cure him. My Larton and I are both good at attacking spells ....... ”

"It's okay, I have a way."

As if answering more like whispering to himself, Arthur muttered in an inaudible voice, and carefully put down Zheng Ming in his arms.

I saw his right hand, which exuded a dazzling golden glow, raised high, and then plunged into his chest fiercely.

With a suppressed snort, a gorgeously shaped golden scabbard was forcibly pulled out of his body. In the pillar of golden light that rose into the sky, the wound on Arthur's chest healed rapidly, and finally recovered as before.

Ainzfield, who was on the side, looked at Arthur's smooth and white chest, and his pupils suddenly contracted to reveal a shocked expression.

"You! You're ....... ”

"It's just a foreign object...... It's the heart and companion that matters. ”

After speaking softly to explain, Arthur didn't pay any attention to the silver-haired girl Einzfil, but looked at Zheng Ming, who was lying flat on the ground.

"I hope you can afford it."

Arthur didn't hesitate anymore, grabbed the golden scabbard with both hands, and stabbed him in the chest.

At this time, Zheng Ming, who was even hovering between coma and semi-coma, felt the surging vitality coming from his chest, and almost instinctively activated his devouring ability.

As a result, the vitality of spiritual stubborn resistance and Zheng Ming's devouring ability launched a protracted tug-of-war.

……

On this day, the soaring golden pillars of light appeared in the southwestern part of the Celtic kingdom, guiding the people in the wilderness and forests like a vision of victory.

On this day, the kingdom of Lane and the kingdom of Adler formed an alliance with the kingdom of Adler, and the alliance of the Dorne tribes fought on the battlefield was defeated one after another.

On this day, the leader of the Dorne Tribal Alliance, Drogo Ryan, decided to evacuate the battlefield of the Celtic kingdom. Shrink your defense against the invasion of the Lai Ai Alliance.

On this day, the kingdom of New Luonan, which inherited from the ancient kingdom of Ronan and claimed to be the origin of dragon knights, finally found its own dragon knight in the territory.

So far, the red dragon Ralton and the unknown dragon Zheng Ming of the Celtic Kingdom, the green dragon Abbotis and the black dragon Kladika of the Dorne Tribal Alliance, the blue dragon of the Ryan Kingdom of Highgrella and the golden dragon Mongard of the Ronan Kingdom have appeared one after another.

After hundreds of years, the war based on the promise of the dragon god and the dragon spine sword and legends has officially begun.

At this time, Arthur and Einz Bell, who were among the participants, did not know it. The overnight rush and tireless search and torture for many days left them physically and mentally exhausted.

Einzfil just wanted to take the red dragon Ralton to a decent city nearby as soon as possible, wash off the stains on his body, and sleep refreshed. As an unofficial mage, she has never been so tired as she has been in the past few days.

On the other side, Arthur hugged the unconscious Zheng Ming tightly and frowned. Whether it was the next war or the unconscious Zheng Ming, it made him extremely irritable.

"We don't stop, let's rush to the royal capital as soon as possible."

"What? I need a break! I'm not a slave, how can you squeeze me like that? ”

Einzfield subconsciously complained a few words, but when she saw Arthur looking at her expressionlessly, she suddenly gave up her plan to struggle.

Before, she was able to rely on her youthful and beautiful appearance and have the courage to flirt and be coquettish, but it is obvious that the most lacking thing in the other party at this moment is patience.

"Okay. I'm scared of you. Ralton work hard a little more and fly directly to the royal capital. ”

Ralton, who was under everyone's seat, turned his long neck, glanced at the few people on his back with quite humane eyes, roared in the sky, and flew straight in the direction of the royal capital.

(End of chapter)