“Dreaming of tomorrow alone is… ”

Raphin lightly lifted the collapsing Julie, repositioned her, and took a big step forward.

“Please don’t tell me to survive and check on Yeongjimin.”

“I had to live as a sinner my whole life. Jilian was the only one who reached out to me. If I lose Jilian, what meaning does this life have?”

“Just look at it once. It’s the last time.”

“Even Raphin won’t treat me cruelly.”

With such a request, Raphin couldn’t stop Bianca, who was smiling.

“Ha…”

The harsh sigh bursting out was dreadfully cold.

“Hey, it’s a dragon.”

“Yeah, a real Ada.”

Everyone turned their heads at Kilian’s words.

It couldn’t be true.

Dragons disappeared from the world after the death of Sijo.

Since then, countless years have passed, but he did not return.

“Then what is it?”

Wyverns are the only flying monsters.

Yet, even with their splendid figure, they couldn’t bring themselves to say the word “wyvern.”

With wings large enough to cover the entire sky and gracefully soaring, its overwhelming beauty alone could overpower people.

Long, stretched eyes, large golden irises like suns, and even faint silver scales that seemed to emit light when exposed to pouring rain.

It was a figure that naturally inspired awe.

Even to the point of being sacred, the commanders stared blankly, not drawing their weapons or preparing to defend.

There was no existence in this world that could face it.

Even if it were Duke Balrok.

Such large wings extending endlessly, enough to wrap around the sky.

If that wasn’t a dragon, but a monster, the empire was over.

No, the world would end.

“It’s a dragon.”

“That’s…”

“It has to be a dragon.”

When everyone’s faces darkened, Creta was the first to move.

He came out of the watchtower used as a command post and checked the catapults he had prepared.

“Attack? Arthur! Can you eat that?”

“Do you only see that in your eyes? Have you ever thought that the wave of monsters is about to arrive just before the monster horde swells?”

In response to Raymond’s words, Creta sharply retorted.

It was the first time for such an unpredictable wave.

The duke left alone, and the contact had been cut off for a long time, and then the wave began like this.

With the sight completely blocked.

The last thing seen was the unbelievably giant horde of monsters.

“Even if it’s not that, the wave is about to come.”

“…Yeah.”

Expected to make more noise, Raymond nodded, and passing him, Creta began adjusting another catapult.

Although he had already prepared, the frozen cord tied to the eyes freezing in such a terrifying wave was about to break.

At this rate, instead of flying anything, it wouldn’t even blink.
Raymond flipped his eyes with a frozen sword and lightly tapped to shake off the frozen ice.

Thud.

Even as threatening ice shards fell above their heads, neither Raymond nor Creta flinched and silently cleared off the ice.

Commanders who were in the command post started fixing catapults without anyone asking.

How long had it been?

The moment a giant being flying in the sky approached the castle.

Swoosh.

With a heavy sound, the wind direction changed.

As if lightning were falling straight down from the sky.

“Ugh!”

In the face of the massive pressure that felt like their knees would buckle, Kilian held Hailey, who was swaying, with one hand.

“What on earth!”

Kneeling with one knee, Hailey’s eyes widened as the overwhelming wind poured down, and she let out a scream.

“Duke!”

At Hailey’s scream, the gazes of the commanders, who had turned their heads away from the wind, converged in the air.

What was still coming at a terrifying speed from the sky was still unknown.

It looked like a dragon from a legend.

One thing was certain; it was probably better not to know its true identity now.

The moment they realized that the creature on the front paw was Duke Balrok, their ‘commander,’ everything else seemed fine.

“Duke!”

Creta called him with blood vessels standing out on his neck, but with the surroundings ominously churning, a mere scream was all there was.

The pressure from wielding the sword was a tremendous wind pressure that made it impossible to even contemplate raising a weapon.

The whole world was swaying beneath the two wings it was swinging.

The snow that had piled up to their waists was blown away all at once.

Thanks to that, the commanders staggered and fell.

They were immediately rendered combat ineffective.

“Balrok!”

“Duke!”

Even the sounds of their voices calling out with blood spewing from their throats were blown away as if they were nothing by the huge flapping of wings.

“Commander!”

Jilian, caught on the giant claw, couldn’t see the situation with his eyes completely rolled back.

“Kilian!”

Creta, who called him, pointed directly at the approaching giant thing, shouting, “Throw the axe!”

Neither the sword nor the arrow would reach in the wind.

The huge axe, which made the ground ring every time it was dropped, was the only thing worth trying.