55 A Hero, a Dragon and a Thief

Suddenly, the temperature surged as a torrent of flames rushed at Raynor.

The Godslayer swiftly flew up as his eyes started to glow sky blue.

The flames missed, and soon enough, a black dragon with deep yellow eyes emerged from the cave.

It was a classic Western dragon over several metres tall with razor-sharp teeth. Those teeth were longer than human fingers.

Regardless, Raynor, with a hand motion, made lightning bolts descend into the beast.

His attack caused the dragon to stop for a few moments.

*ROAR*

The beast looked up and opened its mouth, releasing another torrent of flames.

The Storm King casually dodged and called forth heavy rain. The storm magnified the lightning's density in the clouds.

Once more, with a hand motion, he made thick lightning bolts slam into the dragon.

'It appears it's a serpent with some sort of form of immortality. An authority. Quite curious.'

Athena spoke into his mind. Her comments made Raynor complain internally.

"In that case! Time for my newest authority!" As he said that, his eyes turned feline as he started to chant the authority he had acquired from Tiger God.

"Claw, Bite, Maul to Death! Prowl through the jungles. I am the King of Wilds!" Raynor's body grew as he started to morph into a four-metre-tall tiger with stripes of tiger and dots of Leopard.

The avatar of the tiger god roared at the Dragon. The dragon roared back. After the vocal exchange, the dragon released another torrent of flames.

To answer that, Raynor opened his mouth and released a torrent of flames. After all, he slayed Apollo, the God of the Sun.

The flames mixed and cancelled each other.

The black dragon was somewhat surprised that the tiger could breathe fire, too.

But this was not all, as the tiger roared and lightning descended on the reptile Heretic God.

One after another, the salvos continued; Raynor only needed a second or two for the dragon to flinch. Once he got that, he lunged.

With claws as big as human's hands, the Storm King lunged at Dragon and started to maul the beast.

But the dragon was not a pushover as he yanked the tiger god back and then used its long tail to slap him away.

This attack sends Raynor flying several metres away, destroying a bunch of trees in process.

The black dragon tried to jump on the tiger, but a massive lightning strike, like a hammer, slammed into the dragon, making it stop in its tracks.

As Tiger God got up on his feet, he felt a cold shiver pass through him.

He swiftly dodged the attack from his side.

It was a large crossguard sword.

"I was certain I got you there." A strict-sounding male voice said to Raynor from the side.

The Tiger God looked at this new arrival. It was a man with silver-ish hair. He had draconic slits for eyes and was dressed in leather mixed with steel bits and pieces. Raynor noticed that the leather this guy wears is draconic!

"This Dragon is mine, Godslayer. Fafnir and I hold a connection like no other. I am Sigurd, the Dragonslayer, the Chosen one of Asgard. Now remove yourself, or I shall kill you."

*RUMBLE*

*CRACK*

***BOOM!!!***

A massive pillar of lightning slammed into Sigurd.

"So this is your answer. Fine, you will make a nice coat."

The Dragonslayer moved in and started to swing at Raynor, but Fafnir had a different opinion as he lunged at Sigurd.

"Wait for your turn, old friend."

The Steel God intercepted the claws from the black dragon.

Raynor, seeing this, reverted to his human form.

'Sigurd's is the only thing which could potentially kill the black dragon. However, there are an array of myths.

Sigurd, Siegfried, one thing for sure is that the sword is a Dragonslayer.'

The Storm King rose to the sky as lightning gathered into a single spot.

The pair of Heretic Gods started to spar with each other. They were ignoring the Godslayer in the sky.

'If you want to kill the Dragonslayer, first you need to condense your lightning into a single bolt—Imbue with Zeus absolute authority of the King of Gods.'

Athena recited to him as if reciting a prophecy.

For a second, Raynor closed his eyes and chanted Master Bolt's chant.

"I am the one who smites. I am the one who brings judgement to you. None can hide from the fury of the King of Gods."

All of the lightning gathered and formed into a javelin.

One would think that he would throw it.

But that is stupid; he wants that percentage as high as possible, so he flew down and dashed Sigurd.

"Hah! Let's fight to the death, Godslayer; show me your power!"

The Dragonslayer pushed Fafnir back and then swung the sword at Raynor. But this was where Storm King slightly pulled back before jamming the javelin at Sigurd.

"...Y-You!!!"

The condensed lightning crackled as it started to disintegrate the Steel Hero.

*ROAR*

The black dragon furiously roared at Raynor.

But this was where Storm King simply grabbed the sword from the disappearing Hero.

He rolled out of the way of incoming stomp from the Black Dragon.

"Damn you thieving Godslayer! Fine, you can keep Balmung. But know this: I will return, and when I do, the next fight will end differently!" As Sigurd said that, he disappeared into particles.

"Sure. I assure you that you have your chance, but the line is getting pretty big."

As Raynor said that, he lifted and inspected the blade. He could sense a bond of some sort was forming.

"Round two, big boy?" The Godslayer asked as he swung the blade around for a bit.

What he got from the Black Dragon was a torrent of flames.

The Storm King rolled to the side to dodge the attack and started channelling his mana through the blade.

The blade glowed blue as he released an arc of condensed water.

'Oh? Now that is interesting! I can use My authorities through the blade!'

The water slammed into the dragon, creating a cut on its face.

*ROAR*

The dragon slightly took several steps back before spreading its wings, jumping into the air, and flying away.

"Oi! Oi! Where the hell do you think you are running away!?"

With a click of his tongue, the rain clouds disappeared as the sun got intense, spitting out several balls of fire which formed into a chariot.

The Godslayer jumped into the chariot and dashed after the dragon, trying to run away from him.

'To think this will become such a mess. I can't allow that thing to get close to my town.'

As the chariot rushed into the skies, the dragon noticed him chasing after him.

The beast turned around for a second and released several blasts of flames.

'I still have Poseidon's authority; it should be enough to counter these flames.'

Once again, Raynor swung the newly acquired blade at incoming flames.

The condensed water intercepted the flames as the Storm King manoeuvred the chariot around before increasing speed considerably. After all, the chariot's top speed rivals the sun's flares.

One second, he was some distance away; next time, he was next to the dragon.

Without wasting time or thinking, Raynor jumped from the chariot and landed on the dragon's back.

"I hope you have practised your landing techniques. Because you are going to need those!" With a swirl of the blade, he stabbed Dragon's spine.

*PAINED ROAR*

The beast screeched from pain and proceeded to tumble into the ground.

Raynor didn't join the beast in that. Instead, he started to fly.

He looked at how the beast crashed in a forest.

'Phew, this one was close. Thankfully, this thing flew in the wrong direction.'

After looking around for a second, the Storm King landed on the ground and looked at the dragon. Fafnir trembled and tried to stand up.

It opened its mouth and released another torrent of flames.

"As if!"

The Godslayer answered with a condensed water to counter the flames.

But then the dragon roared and released a pulse of gold energy.

"W-What the!?"

Raynor swiftly took some distance and looked at what had just happened.

Everything around Fafnir became gold!

'The myth that Fafnir is a cursed greedy dwarf… damn…'

To think that this myth will become like that! That is crazy. The dragon turned everything, ground, trees, and even bits and pieces of dust in the air into gold!

"Fine. Suppose this is what you want. Let's duke out!"

Raynor raised his sword into the air. Sun's rays intensified many times as the Godslayer started to chant Apollo's Authority.

"The great rays of the sun prophecies the end of times. Witness its fury! Phoebus Catastrophe!"

At that moment, the sun spits out multiple flaming horses rushing towards Fafnir.

Midway, it turned into a massive ball of flames.

The dragon roared once more and released another golden burst of energy.

The golden energy slammed into the massive fireball. It was starting to turn it into gold.

"...Holy, that's some serious power." Raynor was surprised by the sheer power Fafnir was pumping out to counter literal catastrophe.

But this was what he needed as he rushed forward and then threw his crossguard sword.

The blade, like a hot knife, slammed into Fafnir's face. The blade went through the left side and went out from the right.

The black dragon-like puppet cut from the string collapsed, and the fireball exploded when it slammed into the dragon.

"Oh shit…"

The Storm King realised one minor issue: the explosion!

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***BOOM!!!***

The girls, observing from a distance, only stared at a literal meteorite-like object descending from the sky and slamming where the black dragon was.

"...That's Apollo's authority, right?" Yukino commented with a nervous tone.

"That given, Raynor only has one sun-based authority," Erica said with a slight frown as they hurried towards the location where the fight most likely ended.

This fight was intense. The dragon even decided to take it to the skies.

But the dragon was quickly disabled, and they crash-landed deeper into a forestry area.

"Now, let's go and see if Ray is fine!" The blonde said to the girls, observing the fight from a distance.

"Right!"

They swiftly rushed towards the location, flying just above the forest. They finally arrived at the area where the smoke was rising.

It looked like a literal crater created by a meteorite instead of a fireball.

"...Is that gold?" Yukino pointed at the centre of the crater.

"...Looks like it." Erica nodded before she flew down and landed there. Liliana and Ena followed her; the last one to do that was Yukino.

"That's a lot of gold. The Dragon's authority?" The Blonde knight pondered.

"It's Fafnir, and the Steel God was Sigurd." Raynor lazily said as he walked over as well. Before this, he was lazing around next to the crater.

Well, it's more like getting his bearings together after getting almost nuked by his own authority.

"...Y-You killed both?"

"Yeah. I couldn't kill Fafnir, so I killed Sigurd first. Then…" He walked over, dug up a little with his hand, and pulled his new crossguard sword from the dirt.

"Used his sword to kill the dragon."

"...So Sigurd's authority is his sword, Balmung." Erica nodded with realisation. Well, now they will have some issues hiding that massive sword.

"And the Fafnir's authority?"

"...Umm… I think it's his gold obsession. Not sure yet. I need to sleep it over. To digest it, Athena is out for a day. I suppose the Olympus authority only kicks in when she is discerning the weaknesses of Heretic Gods.

"...So she is knocked out when you use knowledge authority to learn weaknesses of Heretic Gods?" Liliana swiftly wrote it down in a small book.

"Yes. The only authorities I have left are Apollo's boxing, Poseidon's water and Zeus' Body and flying" The Godslayer sighed as he stretched out.

"Let's return. I need to rest. I think Dreamland is calling me."

"Right! Leave the rest to us!" Erica nodded at him. She looked at the other girls, who nodded back at her.

"Great." As he said that, he started to fly towards his home while carrying the blade. That thing will be a pain to hide.

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