Chapter 383 346 – Dragon Slaying [BONUS]

Seeing Takumi casually create a throne and sit down, the Storm Dragon Veldora showed no surprise.

He was genuinely bored right now and only wanted someone to talk to.

After being sealed inside the Unlimited Imprisonment, he had gone more than three hundred years without speaking to anyone.

"Even someone like me, who normally doesn't care about appearances, thinks you're very handsome and feels like getting closer to you."

"Is that one of your abilities too? It seems really strange."

Veldora immediately noticed that there was something different about Takumi.

His beauty transcended species. Merely seeing Takumi for the first time had already caused Veldora to feel considerable goodwill toward him.

Takumi shrugged.

"Just a little trick. Your abilities are the ones that are truly bug-level, Veldora."

"What does 'bug-level' mean…? Oh~ You're an [Otherworlder], aren't you?"

"Come to think of it, the Hero who sealed me before called herself a [Summoned One]. Maybe she came from the same place as you."

"I wonder how strong you are. That Hero really left me with nothing to say."

"I admit I underestimated her a little at first… I started taking things seriously halfway through, but I still couldn't beat her!"

Veldora looked rather proud, as though he had not been the one who lost.

Hearing him mention the Hero, Takumi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"A female Hero… So the temporal loop still exists."

"Now that I think about it, I encountered something similar just now."

"Kagali summoned someone from another world, and she actually succeeded."

"I remember that magic circle being something like…"

"King of Creation!"

Takumi subconsciously activated his power and immediately created and learned the Otherworld Summoning spell.

Noticing the ability Takumi had just used, Veldora revealed a trace of surprise.

"That feels somewhat familiar… I keep feeling like I should know that power, but I can't remember it."

Veldora scratched his head before quickly giving up on thinking.

Seeing Takumi stand up, he immediately tried to make him stay.

"You're leaving already?"

"How about this? Stay and chat with me a little longer, and I'll teach you some of the magic I know. What do you think?"

Veldora, bored nearly out of his mind, proposed something that initially sounded quite tempting to Takumi.

But after listening to his explanation of magic, Takumi was left completely speechless.

"What's special about any of this magic?"

"Aren't you just relying on your own power and brute-forcing everything with overwhelming output?"

"Magic at this level is worse than something I could casually create."

The supposedly unavoidable moves Veldora described—things like Death Heralding Wind and Black Lightning—were merely straightforward elemental spells.

He mainly used his Ultimate Skill, [Faust, Lord of Investigation], instinctively manipulating the probability of his attacks hitting.

Those techniques would look completely different in Takumi's hands compared to Veldora's.

Hearing Takumi say that, Veldora dumbly replied, "Is that really how it is? They always felt pretty comfortable to use before."

Veldora even looked slightly aggrieved as he said it.

He had been very proud of those techniques he created, only for Takumi to dismiss them as worthless.

At this point, Takumi had completely lost any desire to continue forcing an awkward conversation with Veldora.

Had this been one of Veldora's sisters or something, his mood might have been completely different.

But chatting idly with a prison dragon like this really felt like something only someone with too much time would do.

After thinking for a moment, Takumi proposed an idea.

"Veldora, if things continue like this, you'll simply spend another hundred years alone before exhausting all your magicules and dying."

"How about I help you attain liberation ahead of schedule and escape from this prison?"

The moment Veldora heard that Takumi could help him attain liberation, he became interested.

Death was not actually frightening to him. As a True Dragon, he could reincarnate.

The Hero who sealed him had understood that, which was why she imprisoned him and forced him to slowly release his magicules until they were completely exhausted and he died.

The problem was that he possessed far too many magicules.

He had already been releasing them for more than three hundred years without running dry, and it would still take another century before he truly died.

Rather than continue waiting to die like this, Veldora sincerely hoped he could die sooner and reincarnate in the outside world.

"You have a way to break through Unlimited Imprisonment?"

Despite his excitement, Veldora still expressed some doubt.

Faced with his question, Takumi merely smiled.

Strictly speaking, he possessed several methods capable of destroying "Unlimited Imprisonment."

However, he did not intend to help Veldora escape unconditionally. Whatever method he used had to maximize his own gains.

That left only one option.

"I can use a penetrating attack to drive my power inside."

"When the time comes, cooperate with me and voluntarily lower your defenses."

"I'll try to kill you. How does that sound?"

As Takumi explained his plan, the Boosted Gear manifested on his left hand.

"Balance Breaker: Armor of the Two Heavenly Dragons!"

Armor intertwined with gilded gold and pure white covered Takumi's entire body.

His aura suddenly surged, rising exponentially.

After undergoing multiple evolutions, the "Penetrate" ability possessed by Boosted Gear had nearly reached a conceptual level.

Whether matter or abilities, both could be "penetrated."

In the futures Takumi had observed, he could even rely on "Penetrate" to enter and exit the imaginary-number space of Unlimited Imprisonment, which was isolated from reality.

"Domain of the Two Heavenly Dragons!"

The jewels on his armor emitted a faint glow, and everything around him began to be reduced and decomposed by the "deadly poison."

With Takumi's magic power reinforcing it, even inorganic matter started being reduced!

All the magicule ore throughout the sealed cave was reduced and absorbed at that moment, transforming into Takumi's power!

His thoughts accelerated continuously, increasing to a million times their normal speed.

That extreme thinking speed allowed him to precisely control every trace of power he had obtained and draw out its full potential!

Seeing that Takumi was about to attack, Veldora hurriedly prepared himself.

He thrust out his chest and did his best to turn himself into a target.

As Takumi concentrated his power to the absolute limit, his strength soared to the Dragon God class even without entering Juggernaut Drive.

"This strike is enough to pierce through a planet!"

"Now, concentrate all of that power into the Sword of God!"

"Sword spirit, awaken!"

At Takumi's low command, the sword spirit residing within the gauntlet opened her eyes.

Instantly understanding her purpose, she held nothing back and infused her entire will into the newly manifested Sword of God.

The instant the Sword of God appeared, its edge sliced through space itself.

Seeing the Sword of God, Veldora, who was inside Unlimited Imprisonment, also sensed the presence of death.

His expression became excited as he realized he could finally die.

Unable to wait any longer, Veldora shouted eagerly, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!!!"

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