MTLNOVEL Chapter 1273: Trapped
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Time within the Domain created by the Skeleton Dragon only became longer and longer, Acorn, Nieve, and Johanna had already been there for hours after hours.
And they quickly began to think that the dragon wasn't lying, and that he was right! The amount of time between this domain and the outside world…
Was of 1 hour inside equals 1 second outside.
Meaning that they would have to survive 60 hours for a mere minute to pass!
How many days, weeks, or months would they have to wait and fight, only for someone to come to their rescue?
"H-He has to be lying… this can't… this can't be true right?" Acorn muttered, his innocent eyes being rapidly turned bleaker in color, losing his hope and innocence. "No… No… Noo! I don't want to die!"
"Acorn calm down!" said Nieve, she was the only one that was slightly calm. "We have to keep calm and think properly, if you fall into despair-"
"Hahh… Granny…" Johanna started crying. "I'll die here… I'm sorry."
Even the brute Johanna was already beginning to cry. Nieve, someone much older than Acorn and Johanna's ages combined, realized how true were their hearts to their ages.
"They've given up to despair so soon?" Nieve thought. "I can't believe this… Is this because they're much younger than me? I've lived… for perhaps over two hundred years after all."
Nieve was definitely not the oldest fairy out there, but her cold mind was what allowed her to keep her cool even in this situation, but Acorn and Johanna, who were much younger than her and also more emotional, were already giving up to despair.
Seeing how things were, and how nothing had changed, what could Nieve do now?
She looked into the skies, noticing the giant dragon only watching over.
The strangest thing she found is that he never fought them.
He only watched.
"That damn dragon…" she muttered, gritting her teeth. "Acorn, Johanna… I think there's a sure way to get out of here! And I might have guessed some sort of weakness too… But if this theory proves to be wrong, we might end up risking our lives."
"Eh?"
"How?!"
Acorn and Johanna immediately awakened from their despair as they glanced at Nieve at the same time as they defended from the incoming skeleton wyverns and bone beasts attacking them.
"We have to hit that monster so hard that he deactivates the domain!" Nieve said, swinging her rapier and cutting through one of the bony abominations.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
It exploded into pieces after being frozen solid, dying on the spot, and so did another ten more of them behind it.
The most frustrating this wasn't just this endless amount of monsters, but that they didn't even gave any EXP when they died!
"Hoh?" after hearing what Nieve said, the dragon smiled. "Come and give me your best try! Keep in mind that, I've not fought you because I feel amused with your despair…"
"Yeah, right…" Nieve nodded. "You might be sadistic, but waiting hours just to kill us? You either have too much patience you're a saint or… it doesn't work quite like we imagined, right?"
"…" The dragon's crimson eyes squinted. "Don't think you can get out of here… vermin! I will kill you no matter what! I shall see that woman, Planta, scream and cry in despair as I drop the dead bodies of her friends, and then I raise them as undead slaves! I must see it! I shall make it a reality!"
He swung his hands upwards, as all the bone monsters surging from the ground started coming out in larger and larger droves! Nieve realized that her words seemed to hold some truth as she was able to provoke him and make him… slightly desperate!
"So it worked!" she smiled. "{Divine Frost Spirit Aura}!"
RUMBLE!
As the bone beasts emerged, Nieve quickly unleashed a powerful Aura of Frost everywhere, encompassing herself and her friends, protecting them from the incoming monsters.
The moment the monsters tried to reach the Aura they would immediately fall frozen solid, and then her rapier would finish them off at lightning speed.
Indeed, she was already Level 300, and her stats, combined with her skills and her many buffs from blessings and such, were enough to make her incredibly formidable.
"We have to reach it in the sky, the coward is not coming down!" said Nieve. "Johanna, can you fly?!"
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"I can!" Johanna sprouted a huge pair of black crow wings from her back.
"Acorn? Can you?" asked Nieve.
"I can try!" Acorn ate a small pill, suddenly his body started to transform. "T-This is an experimental pill, and it hurts a lot bug- Ugh…! I… {Divine Winged Beast Form}!"
FLUOSH!
In exchange for half his gigantic size, Acorn gained a huge pair of bat-like wings sprouting from his shoulders, enormous and big enough to help him fly!
"Amazing, you can modify your body almost the same as I can!" said Johanna. "How do you even do that?!"
"A-Ah! It's all about triggering the different fluctuations of my divine bloodline," said Acorn. "As it is connected to my morphology and my biology, by ingesting different drugs made using the blood and organs of mammals, I can try to assimilate them and-"
"Acorn! We don't got time for this! Let's go! Hurry!" Nieve screamed.
"Y-Yeah!"
Acorn and Johanna followed Nieve as they flew into the skies. The flying bone wyverns swarmed them the moment they did, only for Nieve's aura to easily freeze them upon contact.
And then Acorn and Johanna finished them off with their physical blows, shattering the frozen undead into pieces.
"We're almost there!" said Nieve, gathering her magic powers as she drank her last Elixir to regain her health, stamina, and mana. "Dragon! Stop evading us! Fight us if you're so arrogant!"
"Y-You really get on my fucking nerves!" the skeleton dragon screamed angrily. "Fine! I'll bring you the death you desire so badly!"
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, all the bone beasts below merged together, rapidly turning into aberrant, massive monstrosities made of bone and rotten flesh, a mass of endlessly growing rotting parts.
"GROOOHHHH!"
Its massive claws reached the sky, clashing against Nieve's aura and shattering it!
CRAAASH!
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