Mushoku Tensei – Old Dragon’s Tale

21. General Wu Long's Betrayal

The betrayal of General Wu Long.

The battle, it seems, is so described in present history.

Well, I'm generally not mistaken.

Even if that was what you thought you did for Dragon God, it turned out to be a betrayal.

It was a deceptive betrayal.

But there is one big wrong part.

To be precise, there were only four Wu Long generals who were in that battle.

Because I didn't fight.

After the battle, I needed someone to finish it off.

The Dragon God and the Five Dragons fight.

Some of the five dragon generals.

Or everyone could have died.

If that happens, then the dragon kingdom loses its manpower.

Who will preside over the dragon warriors, who will kill the demons, who will study the art, and who will help the dragon gods......

I got the part.

It's very important, but it's a shameful role.

Why would I be ashamed?

You got it?

General Wu Long is against the life of the Dragon God.

Even try to keep your fingernails and fangs on that body.

The fact that even if the Dragon God had conceived and stopped invading the world would not change the fact that he had defied it.

Even if no one dies, the punishment for General Wu Long will not be spared.

In some cases, it will be atonement with death.

I'm the only one who can get away with it.

But even if I don't fight, it doesn't change the fact that I disobeyed Dragon God's life and tried to stop Dragon God.

Even so, I will remain in the throne of General Wu Long.

Nothing would be more shameless.

Even if there was a precinct for the future of the dragon kingdom.

But I was on the lower end.

I accepted the role.

Now, when it comes to fighting, we didn't immediately start fighting on the spot.

Dragon gods and five dragon generals.

If you fight, one or two of the mountains will easily disappear.

Even if we were to fight, we needed to be prepared in advance.

Stop the Dragon God.

That's a very easy thing to say.

Beat or kick him to take power, restrain him and lock him up somewhere.

You would have imagined that.

But if you emit enough power to stop the dragon gods from moving, the mountains will disappear.

Of course there is no place to lock up the Dragon God, so we have to use the corresponding great sorcery.

It's like a baby being challenged by an adult in the first place.

You may not know much about not interacting with children, but even if you're sick or injured, you can't beat a yochiyochi walking baby.

There was exactly that much difference between the Dragon God and the Five Dragons General.

So General Wu Long joins forces with the four of us and seriously confronts the Dragon God.

Like when you set the demon kings up.

No, with more force than that.

It took a little time to prepare.

The dragon god also took the form of a short wait.

You'd think it was a strange story, because each Wu Long General had to carry out the inheritance of the work he had and the evacuation of the Dragons.

Whatever it is, you accepted.

As a dragon god, did you anticipate that you would not be able to win, even if you went to the world alone, or did you think that if you put aside time, General Wu Long's head would also be cold?

I don't know, though.

While General Wu Long was preparing, I said, while refraining from the side of the Dragon God, the Dragon tribes who were in the town of Caios were sending evacuations to other towns.

I don't know where the battle will take place, but Caius is at the heart of the world.

You had every chance of getting involved.

I used it for days and took command of that formation.

People looked confused to everyone.

When I heard that four of General Wu Long's men had flipped the anti-flag on the Dragon God, I couldn't believe it.

Inside, also appeared those who stood up to fight on the side of the Dragon God.

But the dragon god quietly pushed those people away.

Because if you fight the Dragon God and the Five Dragons, most of them, even though they are Dragon tribes, will easily disappear.

I guess they thought we should avoid wasting our lives.

After the evacuation, I was beside the Dragon God.

It showed a willingness to remain unchanged and close to the Dragon God, while also helping to deter the Dragon God from flying into the world without waiting.

The dragon god was just quiet.

He wasn't talking to me, he wasn't making it evil, he was just quietly thinking of something.

If it bothered me, it would have been possible to ignore the stopping of me alone and go to the world.

I don't know what they were thinking, nothing more than imagining.

But the Dragon God is wise.

At this time, it seemed that we already had a point of view as to who the mastermind was, and maybe we were turning our thoughts around about its purpose.

Or maybe at this time, it was already anticipated about the worst that would happen after this.

Anyway, the end of those days has come.

General Wu Long has informed us that we are ready.

Upon that news, the Dragon God looked at me.

"What are you going to do?

"will let you fight on the side of the Dragon God"

I had a sense of duty.

To inherit the will of General Wu Long, not to make the heart of the Dragon God lonely.

As the last General Wu Long who will remain, it is our duty to deceive the various tasks….

……

Dragon God looked at me like that and shook his head slowly.

"I won't let you fight."

I even once defended myself, so I thought for a moment that I wouldn't be allowed to be beside you anymore.

"Just in case, follow my son's escort"

But the Dragon God has given me such a serious task.

Your son's escort.

Until then, though I had let the inflexible dragon warriors guard me, I guess that didn't seem to bother me.

I suppose Dragon God was afraid that your son would be targeted while you were being fought.

"Don't make me suffer one scratch."

"Ha!"

At the time, I didn't think your son had that important role to play.

However, as a forgetfulness of Master Lunaria, he was entrusted with what was most important to the Dragon God.

I had to protect it... and that was about the perception.

And when I rode Saleyacht and took your son and evacuated far away, there was slightly... Caius vanished.

It was long-range shelling by Maxwell's created artillery dragon gate that wiped out Caius.

Several beams of light ran hollow and landed on the caios.

At the same time as the landing, the beam of light became a light sphere, literally wiping out one mountain.

The tallest mountain in the dragon kingdom.

The most historic town in the dragon kingdom.

I'm surprised.

I hadn't even heard what other Wu Long generals would fight.

I never thought it would be easy to destroy that town of origin, which has been protecting that caiose for millions of years.

I wondered if General Wu Long had truly betrayed the Dragon God.

But if you think about it a little bit, you'll see.

Needless to say, the purpose of General Wu Long is not to kill the Dragon God.

It is only to ask the Dragon God to keep in mind.

The goal is not to go to the world, but to have you stay in this dragon kingdom.

If we destroy Caius, reconstruction will take time.

I don't even know how much trouble it would take for the people who lived there to get back to their original lives.

If the Dragon God says, "If we do not give priority to the Dragon kingdom over the world," it is the victory of General Wu Long, no matter what the end of this battle may be.

It may be shallow wisdom......

But the face of General Wu Long also thought about when we lost.

If the dragon gods go to the world alone after their defeat, it doesn't make sense.

Now, Caius is extinguished, and the earthen smoke clears.

Then there remained one existence there.

It's Dragon God.

The Dragon God didn't have one scratch on him.

The complexion was too far away for me to know, but I knew I was looking in the direction of the light's flying.

Ahead of that gaze.

Below the diagonal is a dark cloud that can stand in.

From that slice of cloud, something huge appeared.

It's a huge rock mass, covered in dragon scales.

There were many iron piles of purple electricity growing from rock masses.

Floating rock masses present in the heavenly realm.

It had been transformed into a complete aerial castle fortress by embedding a nucleus in one of them that possessed particularly high magic, layering multiple magic formations, covering them with dragon scales and installing the magic turrets used by the Demons.

Name?

I don't have a name.

But yeah... if I were to attach it.

Caios breaker.

That's what I'd call it.

Because the sight of the moment Caius was destroyed is still burning behind his lid.

Well.

The fortress was ridden by four large beings and 44 small beings.

It is the Spirit created by the Four of the Five Dragons, and their Four Summoners.

This Spirit Summon was developed in the war against the Demons.

The Dragons are powerful, but they can't do anything small. It's not very versatile.

Spirit Summoning is a technique created to overcome such weaknesses.

Made to fight Dragon God, they were even more powerful than they were at war and could be seen to have a variety of abilities.

When they acknowledged the figure of the Dragon God, they flew around the fortress and unfolded.

But before they unfolded, the Dragon God moved.

Slowly raise your arms and show the fortress at your fingertips.

At that moment something more invisible than the fingertips of the Dragon God was emitted and flew to the fortress.

It's an overwhelming flow of power.

If you get involved, no matter how many Wu Long generals there are.

but before it reached, the figure of the fortress was distorted.

There was a huge distortion field.

The flow of force was twisted into a distortion field, and one mountain, far rearward, was wiped out.

Forty-four spirits joined forces and blocked the Dragon God's attack.

The Dragon God flew one power after another.

But the distortion fields of the Spirits shed all the running of power.

Did you think it would be easy to flush out Dragon God's attacks?

I thought so, too.

No way, no way, no matter how much the dragon gods are greatly shredded in their battle with the gods.

I was wondering if just 44 spirits would prevent that attack.

But it wasn't.

As the fortress approached the Dragon God, the glow of the Spirit was lost.

And one more step.

No, it's a little different to say it's a step...

Together, the Spirit lost power and disappeared one after the other when the fortress reached the Dragon God in a few moments.

The distortion field disappeared and the fortress was in a state of uneasiness.

Though it was a bump, it was covered in hard dragon scales.

So the dragon god put his hand on the sword of his hips.

One Dragon General, a divine sword made by the hands of the Mad Dragon King Chaos, was slowly pulled out.

It is an authentic blade of God, with only the strength to withstand the power of the Dragon God.

It is slowly stood at the waist.

I was swept away.

God's power was meant to be seen differently before.

But it's only for the hour against God.

If you have the strength to take it, it's something that looks relatively normal.

The slaughter seemed to distort the world.

Everything felt uneven.

And in fact, it was uneven.

The sky, the clouds, and the dragons that were flying in the distance, and the fortress that was looming in front of us.

I missed it, I fell.

It was two things.

Before the power of God, what would be the significance of dragon scales, etc.?

What's the point of a defensive technique, such as that applied by the wooden folks?

The giant fortress was uneven in the upper half, losing power and falling to heaven.

The bottom half remained, probably because the nucleus made apart from the rock masses was down there.

General Wu Long was on top of a rock mass.

They were flying fast from uneven rock masses.

The figure was very different from what I remember.

Its body was about three times bigger than it should have been.

The scales were also thick and surprisingly covered all the way to his face.

His nose and mouth protruded and horns grew from the back of his head, transforming as if he were a dragon.

Secrets that were being developed by the Demons, degenerating their bodies by magic.

It was arranged and evolved into a dragon clan.

It degenerates the body into something more primitive and gains explosive power.

Instead, it would drastically reduce one's life expectancy.

The four men with such flesh possessed even more unfamiliar weapons.

A spear.

General Wu Long was armed with a divine spear created by Chaos.

Originally, General Wu Long does not use weapons.

But if the other person was with Dragon God, it was different.

If you don't use a weapon, you can't scratch one.

The four flew through the air at a tremendous rate and nearly danced to the Dragon God.

Originally, I guess it was meant to be melee.

Both the fortress and the Spirit were merely helpers to prevent and approach the long-range attacks of the Dragon God.

Increase your physical abilities with secrets, increase your attack with spears, and further use every technique you knit in your war with the Devil Nation to sharpen the power of the Dragon God.

The wisdom of such Wu Long generals and the crystals of drilling had made it possible to scratch the body of God.

General Wu Long's onslaught was awesome.

Shockwaves ran every time one moved a little, flashing, and the whole dragon world trembled.

If the aftermath leaked at all, it destroyed the mountains, annihilated the herds of dragons, and involved tens of millions of Dragon people.

General Wu Long gained the power to be hurt by God's body.

But that was just a story about being possible to scratch.

With all that power, it wasn't enough to overwhelm the Dragon God.

Although I managed to eat it because it was four-to-one, if it was one-to-one, it would have been wiped out in no time.

Though.

Nevertheless.

Obviously speaking of disadvantages, the power of General Wu Long had reached the Dragon God.

It was reaching God.

Even though that was just a fingertip, it did arrive.

When a man's work came to God, he proved it.

And it's that proof that I'm now... no, let's leave this for now.

Together, General Wu Long and the Dragon God continued to fight for a long time.

A dragon god who was full of creativity and was still dying.

After being fully prepared, General Wu Long finally let him reach God.

The five fought each other for a long time.

I've been watching.

Because I thought it was my duty to see it through.

How many days did you keep fighting?

Yes, it wasn't a long time.

We may continue to fight on an annual basis if it is to be a battle between God, but we did not fight that long then.

Even so, a few days.

Yes, it was definitely six days.

General Wu Long was going to decide the battle in a short showdown.

That should be it, too.

No matter how carefully General Wu Long prepared himself, there is a great opening in the power to dwell in him.

If it becomes a lasting battle, you don't have a single winner.

That's why it's a short-term showdown.

Aim for one win at a time with maximum attack power.

But one in a million, one in a thousand.

Do it 10,000 times, once possibility.

And, unfortunately, it wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity then.

Day seven.

The light and shock of battle subsided.

The settlement was on top of an airborne fortress that was broken in two.

I approached the fortress to see the outcome of the battle.

So what I witnessed was an amazing sight.

Four men and women were down.

Needless to say, it's General Wu Long.

They were all corpses.

Shillard had lost his left arm and half his face had been burned.

Chaos had lost one eye and had a big hole in his belly.

Maxwell had all his nails slapped and broken, his wings ripped off and he was on his knees.

And Master Dora was the worst.

He lost his right arm and lower body and was on the verge of dying.

It is the victory of Dragon God.

But there was one strange thing.

A single arm grows from the chest of the Dragon God.

Shillard or Master Dora's lost arm?

No, you're not.

There was no scale in that arm.

Skin tone, uncharacteristic arm.

It was an unrememorable arm, as if it had been hung by fog.

Everyone, including the Dragon God, looked at its arms with a dazed face.

To be precise, Lord of arms.

From behind the dragon god, he penetrated the deadly beating, the presence of one god.

"God of Man..."

The god of man was grasping the ball of God from the breast of the dragon god.