66. Despair
"Gravedigger......?"
The name of the organization had been heard, but as Salis pondered its meaning, Natsu beckoned to the charred corpse of Salis...... What happened next surprised Salis.
From the charred corpse, there was a commotion. Then, Saris, in astonishment, watched as a white skeleton shook off the residue on his body and swayed towards Natsu.
"Are you...... Necromancer!"
Salis looked gloomily at Natsu, for an orthodox mage like him, a necromancer was a heretic who deviated from the path of magic, and as a normal human, he could not tolerate a blasphemous person like a necromancer who defiled the dignity of the living and the dead. The reverse is also true, necromancers also have a strange hatred for normal human society. Xia's actions have made Salis understand that this will be a never-ending battle - no necromancer will be kind enough to get the target item and leave it alive, cruelty and murder are synonymous with necromancers.
Under Saris's gaze, the monster's skeleton limped to the girl's side, then lowered its head and let the other's small hand press on the door of the head.
Then a scene that shocked Salis happened, the huge skeleton, like ice cubes thrown into hot water, slowly melted into her body from the girl's palm - the volume difference was so great, but the skeleton melted into the girl's body in this way, and after that, the girl's posture did not change in the slightest, as if it was ...... It's like a drop of water falling into a lake!
"What kind of evil witchcraft is this...... What the hell are you?"
Saris couldn't help but feel a creep. Everything in front of him was so strange that Salis had the idea that the girl in front of him was not human—how could a human being do such a strange and terrifying thing?
"You're not wrong to understand it that way, although there is a slight deviation......" Xia rubbed his index finger on his temples with some annoyance, as if he was a little helpless about the other party's words, "But you will soon know that the necromancer is actually not so evil......"
Natsu said, raising his right hand and pointing at Saris.
The murderous intent in Xia's eyes flashed, and Saris, who had already been engrossed, subconsciously became vigilant - but in the next second, a heart-rending pain came from his chest!
"What...... When ......"
Obviously he was not attacked by evil spells, why would he ...... - Salis, who thought like this, was shocked and speechless for a while when he endured the severe pain and moved his gaze to his chest and abdomen.
A piece of white bones was piercing the flesh and towering in the air.
It was clear to Salis that it wasn't some spell like a bone spear commonly used by necromancers...... That's their own ribs!
A section of the rib cage that was supposed to protect the chest cavity was actively opened outward under the effect of an unknown terrifying force, ready to expose the internal organs that he had sworn to protect directly under the eyes of the enemy!
And Saris could feel that his other ribs seemed to be stirring!
In desperation, Saris gritted his teeth, waved the holy sword flame feather, and cut off the rib that betrayed him - at the same time, the raging flames not only scorched the hideous wound and stopped the blood from rushing outward, but the "red power" hidden in the flames poured into Salis's body, removing the cold force that tempted his ribs to run wild.
Such a rough approach caused Salis to vomit a mouthful of blood, but he endured the heart-rending pain, and the remnants of his sanity drove him to use the most powerful magic he could use in his current state of affairs towards Natsu......
Because of the urgency of the situation, Salis abandoned the chant and used the technique of silent hair to activate the limit of what he could do in this state as quickly as possible—the dragon's breath technique, which was invented by imitating the breath of the dragons and could be fully performed without chanting!
The breath of the dragon clan does not mean that the dragon really spits out the flames hidden between the chest and abdomen - although many creatures can indeed do it, but the temperature of that kind of flame cannot reach the point where it can threaten the body of the creature that spits fire, and the flame when the dragon breathes can cause harm to the same clan, so it is naturally impossible to hide it in his body. In fact, the so-called dragon breath, like the dragon language magic that people have passed down from mouth to mouth, is also a special magic used in the language of the dragon clan, but the bytes required for this magic are only a short cut, and it can almost be said that the process of chanting the spell can be completed with a roar. Therefore, it seems that the flame is spewed out by the dragon itself, and it is named "dragon's breath".
And the dragon's breath technique, which was learned by Saris's teacher Skassa, from the real dragons, after his improvement, formed a breath technique that even human mages can perform - it's just that the human brain is completely different from the dragons, with human ability, it is impossible to turn the breath into instinct like the dragons, and at the same time emitting the sound of that byte, the huge information contained in the text must be passed through the brain with the skill of silent magic, which far exceeds the limit of human thinking response. What Skarsa did, on the other hand, was to engrave these words one by one into his consciousness through a long period of time, and to turn them into his own instincts—a long and boring process, and at the same time, it was impossible to shorten the time through talent, so Skarsa did not pass them on. And Skassa, over a long period of time, slowly figured out some rare and profound magic that could be used quickly by streamlining the dragon script to three bytes. As one of Skarza's most admired disciples, Salis was fortunate enough to learn this art from his teacher. It's just that he is still young, and he doesn't have the time to comprehend more esoteric and streamlined dragon magic, even the most basic dragon breath technique, the complete three syllables, he has only learned two at present......
“Yol——Toor!”
The last byte "Shul" Salis had not yet learned, so this incomplete dragon's breath was less than even a third of its full power - however, even a third of the housekeeping skills of the oldest and most powerful races were beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
A high-temperature flame that instantly turned steel into molten iron condensed from Salis's mouth and spewed out!
"Hmm...... This is the language of the dragon!?"
When he heard Salis spit out those two bytes, the learned Xia immediately recognized that this was the dragon language - as a person with forbidden knowledge, Xia understood what the dragon language was pronounced by Salis as soon as he thought about it!
Even if he didn't understand the principle, Xia still made the most correct judgment in the first time-
The rib that was cut off by Salis, and the puddle of blood that was spit out by Salis, because it left Salis's body, did not interfere with the force of the "Red Power...... Therefore, at this moment, in Xia's thoughts, a bone spur and several blood arrows galloped towards Sarith with huge kinetic energy!
In his haste, Natsu was not able to target Salis's vital parts, but even if he killed Salis immediately, the effect would not be better than it is now.
Hit by several attacks, Salis's body flickered, and he involuntarily fell backwards, and the flames that erupted from his mouth shot into the air at an oblique angle, failing to hit Natsu. Even Xia couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if he was hit by this blow, he was very likely to cause huge damage to his body when he was caught off guard - although Xia was confident that he could take this blow hard, but at such a temperature, burns were inevitable. Don't forget, Xia is also a girl after all, and she is also very concerned about her appearance......
"Really, I can't do it right now to open all of a person's ribs together in an instant...... If you knew that Lu Dao should not have made him feel the fear of dying, he would just break his spine and everything would be fine~"
However, Saris's mood was not so relaxed......
Those blood arrows and bone spurs didn't hit the vital point, but there seemed to be something in them, constantly eroding his body, and the most terrifying thing was that even the "red power" couldn't get rid of it!
"Hehe, if you want to use the 'Red Power', of course it's useless...... You have to know that it is a natural reaction of your body, which belongs to the natural mechanism of the body, how can it be 'purified'?"
"The mouthful of blood you vomited, although it once came from your body, but I only need to change some of the 'small details' to make your body worse than death, and at the same time, the 'red power' you rely on is completely useless...... Do you know what 'rejection' is?Your current body is sparing no effort to attack the blood circulation system of the whole body that is integrated into the blood that originally came from the same source as you~"
Xia looked at Saris, who was kneeling on the ground and in pain, and pointed his finger at his temple, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Didn't I say it before?' Necromancer is actually not that evil...... Because ah, I'm much more evil than the so-called necromancers who only play with corpses and souls with some crude tricks......"
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PS: Lao Roll got into a mess, like Graybeard, in our setting, even if you devote yourself to it, a person can only learn less than ten dragon languages with all his efforts, and breath is the simplest......