The dragon stopped suddenly.

Instead of continuing towards the hill, it turned its head and faced the countess.

It made the dragon look like a serpent, but its eyes were pure black and there was nothing in them.

The behemoth opened its jaws.

It's still in the city, and it can't release dragon breath, but its fangs alone are enough to kill a mortal.

"Omega!"

In that instant, the countess completed this magic from ancient Theros, and a huge vine rose from the ground and finished growing in an instant, wrapping the dragon tightly.

The dragon's fangs were only one step away from the countess, but it was destined to be unable to reach the mortal.

"Rush!"

The explorers began to charge, and at this moment, the battle they had been waiting for could finally begin.

The bound beast was still struggling, but the vine that grew from the ground was a creeper-like plant, which not only wrapped tightly around the dragon, but also branched into countless branches, like a net, and wrapped around all parts of the dragon's body, including its head and wings.

The dragon was motionless like a sculpture, its left wing resting on a boulder at the edge of the hill like a stone bridge through which explorers rushed onto the beast's back.

Then they began a grand battle.

Armed with sledgehammers and swords, the warriors struck at their feet as if they were digging into a mountain, their weapons smashing into the dragon's scales, sending sparks scattering.

More people are still gathering here, and from a distance, the procession of explorers looks like ants on the march.

The Countess did not join the explorers, she stood motionless, for the magic needed her to continue.

This is the Countess's own magic, mainly from ancient Theros, mixed with alchemy and magic arrays, using the principle of material exchange and the magic of the witches in the ancient Theros forest to create a giant vine.

It would require a huge amount of essence and intricate steps, and even after the magic was complete, the caster would still need to maintain it to keep the vines alive.

However, this trouble also means that the magic is powerful, and the vine does not need to be manipulated additionally, it just grows naturally to complete the binding of the dragon, and it is extremely tough.

So until the explorers defeated the dragon, or the dragon broke free from the vines, the countess could do nothing.

......

"It's an opportunity. ”

In the tower, the sages are locked in an argument.

They could see what was happening beside the hill clearly, and the countess had done something astonishing, but it was not an accident, at least for the sages.

But whether to take advantage of this opportunity to help attack the dragon, the sages are still debating.

"Looking at the magic that Helen had prepared, it was clear that it was a foolish idea to influence a divine creature with magic, so she made a vine, a real object. ”

"And, of all the magic we know, which one can attack the dragon while avoiding that net?"

"Can those explorers kill dragons?"

"Even if that monster is motionless and does nothing, it will take ten days and half a month for the explorer to chisel through its carapace, and the countess of New Taipei County can hold out for so long?"

The argument brought to consensus at breakneck speed, and the sages set out to find a specific magic that would be able to harm the dragon without affecting the vines.

The conclusion is that there is no such magic.

So the sages began to create a new magic.

The Emperor and the Duke of Wellington, who were watching from the sidelines, were speechless for a moment, and silently gave the order for the fleet not to interfere.

This strange inaction lasted for a long time, and the Emperor and the top military officers sitting on the stone chairs watched the desperate efforts of the explorers go by.

And finally, the sages came up with a spell.

In fact, it didn't take long at all, and these magicians accomplished a miraculous feat that the only onlookers could not understand.

"I say one last thing, that the declaration of chaos is not only injuring the divinity, but also violating the nature of magic, and I am against the use of it, no matter how dire the situation. ”

"We're going to be vigilant. ”

Opposition is ineffective, and there is no doubt that in a war that must be won, any means are allowed.

A sage stood up and left the stone chair, as a newly created magic, no magician knew how to release it except for the sage here, he had to go to the room below to complete the magic.

"Don't forget to get the airship ready for weapons. ”

The sage left with that, and the remaining magicians began to explain to the Duke of Wellington what the fleet needed to do.

"Prepare a weapon, any object with a physical body, it will carry a divine magic against it, but it is the object itself that is responsible for causing damage. ”

It took a moment for the Duke of Wellington to understand what the sages meant, but fortunately the magic was very troublesome and required a lot of preparation time, so the fleet was not late in the end.

"In particular, it had to avoid the vines that entwined around the dragon's body. ”

The fleet was silent for a long time.

They don't have any eligible weapons in their arsenal, and it's clear that no enemy has ever had to go through such a big splendour.

"Use that spear, it's just a replica anyway. ”

The emperor's words surprised everyone who heard them, but no one said anything.

The spear he refers to is a royal collector's item, and for a long time it was suspected of being the "Longinus", the spear that killed science, and although it turned out to be an imitation, it was still very powerful.

"If its power doesn't come from divinity, yes. ”

The preparations for the magic were complete, the fleet wasted no time, and at the Emperor's suggestion, they were ready to fire the spear.

......

Explorers are carving through the dragon's scale armor.

Desperate as they were, they were hopeful, and even if the dragon was barely scathed by now, the explorers didn't care.

No one knows where their hope comes from, and many times, it's simply because explorers are explorers.

And the one who really felt hopeless was the countess.

The more powerful the magic, the harder it was to maintain, and she couldn't have restrained the beast for long, at least for now, it seemed that the explorer wouldn't be able to inflict real damage on the dragon until the vines withered.

This is already the limit.

There were now hundreds of people standing on the dragon's back, including powerful warriors, magicians, soldiers, and even criminals, most of them claiming to be explorers, and the rest wanted to slay the behemoth, and their efforts were a huge project, and the shouts resounded through the heavens and the earth.

But the dragon was unharmed.

The countess, who wields magic, knows that the strength of the beast's struggle is getting stronger.