Chapter 65: STOP! I’M ON YOUR SIDE!

Those three women didn’t even exchange a single word.

Yet, at the exact same time, they launched devastating attacks against Ignis’s physical body and her nest in three different ways.

Their goal was clear.

“You can fly? I’ll clip your wings.”

“You have a home? I’ll tear it down.”

“Let’s see how you run then!”

“You…” A fire finally ignited within Ignis’s golden pupils.

It wasn’t the anger of someone being provoked; it was the rage of a child discovering that her toys and castle were being destroyed by a group of barbarians.

“YOU’RE BREAKING MY THINGS!”

She let out a shriek.

Her voice was no longer the crisp tone of a young girl, but a high-pitched, piercing cry belonging to a dragon.

Clutching Lynn, she suddenly dove, flying toward a hidden cave entrance on the mountainside.

It was another exit from the Dragon’s Den.

But just as she approached, Vivian’s second Sword Qi slashed toward her.

The Sword Qi swept along the mountain wall, directly shearing off a massive chunk of the cave entrance along with the surrounding rock.

Debris fell like a rainstorm.

Ignis was forced to pull up in a clumsy ascent.

Alicia’s second “Judgment” arrived as well.

This time, the target was the foundation of the Dragon’s Den.

The light pierced straight through the mountain and detonated within its core.

Boom!

A dull explosion echoed from deep within the mountain.

The entire peak shook even more violently, and countless cracks spread from the interior like shattered porcelain.

Lynn could only imagine the mountains of gold coins and gems inside the Dragon’s Den being buried and crushed at this very moment.

[Target D: Ignis, Possessiveness: 120%!]

[Warning! Target’s emotions are extremely unstable; dragon blood is boiling!]

Blood-red words flashed wildly before Lynn’s eyes.

“MY SHINIES!” Ignis let out a grief-stricken scream.

To her, those collectibles were far more important than her own life.

And the three people below were destroying everything she owned.

“YOU ALL DESERVE TO DIE!”

Ignis was completely enraged.

She stopped running and hovered in mid-air.

Her cloth tunic began to burn away as crimson dragon scales emerged from beneath her skin, covering her neck and arms.

Lynn, still in her arms, felt a terrifying heat radiating from her that nearly roasted him alive.

Ignis looked down at Lynn, a flicker of hesitation crossing her eyes.

She didn’t want to break her most beautiful collectible.

She loosened her grip and gently placed Lynn on a relatively flat rock platform protruding from the mountain.

“Stay here. You are not allowed to run around.”

Her voice had become deep and raspy, carrying the unique majesty of a dragon.

“I’m going to burn those annoying flies to ash.”

Lynn had barely landed and hadn’t even found his footing before Ignis turned and charged toward the three women below.

ROOAR — !

A true dragon’s roar shook the heavens.

It was no longer a girl’s shriek, but an ancient roar from a predator at the top of the food chain.

The sound waves materialized into a physical shockwave, scattering the clouds in the sky.

Sheets of snow and ice collapsed from the mountain walls.

Below, the roar caused the internal energy of Vivian and the others to churn violently.

Vivian’s gaze turned solemn.

She knew the dragon was about to fight for its life.

The glow of the Angel Phantom behind Alicia grew even more dazzling.

Lilith licked her lips, a sickly excitement shimmering in her eyes.

Lynn stood alone on the 100-meter-high rock platform, with a bottomless abyss beneath his feet.

The freezing wind blew so hard he felt as if he might topple over.

He looked down at the three tiny figures below and the Red Dragon girl draped in flames diving toward the ground.

He felt like he wasn’t the cause of the war, but a Sacrificial Offering.

Placed upon an altar, he was waiting for the monsters below to decide a victor before the winner swallowed him whole.

It was over.

This time, it was truly over.

He watched as Ignis’s figure trailed a long streak of fire through the sky, crashing straight toward the ground.

That wasn’t an attack.

That was a mutual destruction.

The mountain was collapsing.

It wasn’t a metaphor; it was a fact.

The rock platform beneath Lynn’s feet shook violently.

Cracks spread from the edges toward the center, and debris constantly crumbled away into the abyss.

He pressed himself tightly against the stone, the biting wind stinging his cheeks.

Below was a scene of the apocalypse.

Ignis hovered in the air, crimson dragon scales covering most of her body, with a pair of formidable dragon horns piercing through her forehead.

She opened her mouth, not to speak, but to gather energy.

A dark red orb of light, looking like molten magma, condensed in her throat, emitting a heat intense enough to vaporize everything.

Vivian’s “Berserk Blood State” was active, her entire body shrouded in a blood-colored aura.

Red light leaked from the gaps in her heavy armor.

She held her Longsword across her chest, taking a stance for a death-defying charge.

The Six-Winged Seraph Phantom behind Alicia had already raised its Spear of Light, the tip aimed directly at Ignis’s heart.

The entire angel radiated an inhuman, absolute coldness.

Lilith hid in the distance, chanting under her breath.

The doll in her hand had been stabbed a dozen times by her dagger.

Wisps of black energy coiled around the doll, feeding back into Ignis through an invisible connection.

Four monsters.

To fight over him, the “Sacrificial Offering,” they were prepared to wipe this mountain and him right off the map.

“STOP! EVERYONE STOP!”

Lynn screamed with all his might, but his voice was laughably small amidst the thunderous collapsing of the mountain and the dragon’s roars.

No one listened to him.

The fireball in Ignis’s throat grew brighter and brighter.

‘It’s over.’

Only those two words remained in Lynn’s mind.

He was either going to be roasted alive or shaken off the ledge to be turned into a meat patty.

The instinct to survive overwhelmed everything else.

He had to do something; he had to stop Ignis before she unleashed that dragon breath!

“How could he stop her?”

With reason? Reason with a pack of lunatics and a dragon?

No, he had to use logic they could understand.

“IGNIS!”

Lynn strained his throat, screaming at the figure in the sky.

“YOUR COLLECTIBLE IS GOING TO BREAK!”

That shout was the loudest he had ever been since crossing into this world.

In mid-air, the Red Dragon girl paused.

The light orb in her throat flickered uncertainly, as if it might vanish or explode at any moment.

Her molten-gold eyes drifted with difficulty from the three enemies below to Lynn.

A hint of confusion appeared in her gaze.

‘It’s working!’

Lynn steeled his heart and continued to shout, “Look at this mountain! Your home! Your Dragon’s Den! It’s all collapsing! What about your shinies? If you burn me to ash, who’s going to give you a new one?!”

As he yelled, he scrambled to his feet, risking a fall to stand upright on the rock platform.

“And look at those three! They aren’t here for you; they’re here to steal me! If you fight them, no matter who wins or loses, I’m definitely going to break! This treasure you worked so hard to find will be gone just like that! Are you really okay with that?!”