Chapter 7: He faked
three crossbow arrows, all aimed at the red dragon's eyes and throat.
At the critical moment, Li Yuan suddenly stopped charging and curled up his snake-like neck to avoid it.
One crossbow bolt missed, another hit his horn, causing sparks, and another hit the side of his face.
The stinging pain from the side of his face made Li Yuan narrow his eyes. This crossbow arrow actually pierced his hard dragon scales.
Fortunately, the size of the crossbow arrow was to him what a pen was to a human being. It could not penetrate deeply and could only be regarded as a superficial wound.
His quick reaction surprised the knights present, and Heinrich began to suspect that this red dragon had experience fighting dragon-slaying hunters.
Ordinary dragons will have a certain degree of confidence in their own dragon scales. After all, to describe a real dragon's scales as a copper or iron wall would be a derogation.
The hardness of dragon scales exceeds that of almost all ordinary metals. It is truly invulnerable and has a considerable degree of resistance to magic. Its strength will increase as the dragon grows.
Young dragons who encounter a dragon-hunting ballista for the first time often suffer a loss.
Facing human long-range weapons, they often do not even dodge. By the time they fire a salvo and find out that this thing can penetrate dragon scales, they may have already hit somewhere vital.
But Li Yuan inherited the memory of Helganorn being killed by these knights, and of course he knew the danger of these ballistae.
What's more, the information provided by Zhenna is still ringing in my ears -
"The crossbow arrows they use are made of alloys mixed with legendary metals, and are cast with the help of the forging techniques of alchemists and dwarves. The distance is close enough to penetrate the scales of a young dragon. , but it won’t hurt the keel, and the normal parts will only be flesh wounds, but you must protect the vital parts, such as the eyes and throat..." Zhenna thought for a while before adding, "Also Anus!"
Attack all the vital points that can be attacked - this is indeed a very pragmatic way of fighting. Of course, Li Yuan neither wants to be blinded nor does he want to have his anus exploded.
The first round of volleys was ineffective. The ballista knights quickly began to fill in the next attack, and the paladin who cooperated with them stepped forward with a giant shield.
This was an excellent opportunity for Li Yuan to launch a counterattack. He locked the group of knights in front of him and was about to charge.
The holy shield of the paladin can barely block his breath, but it may not be able to withstand his powerful and full impact. As long as he pounces on one of them now, he can kill a paladin on the spot.
"Look here, you brainless lizard!!"
"Come on, are you even afraid of humans?"
"Peel off your scales and make armor!"
The paladin with the giant shield even attacked the red dragon fearlessly. Taunting, with the intention of irritating him and attracting his attention.
This "excellent opportunity" is also a bait deliberately thrown out by the knights.
As early as when the red dragon was avoiding the crossbow, Heinrich took the opportunity to take his eyes away from him and rode the aerodragon around to the blind corner of his vision. Now he was quickly approaching his side!
Heinrich inserted the fingers of his left hand covered by the gauntlet into a small hole in the breastplate. The part of the gauntlet covering his fingers had irregular metal protrusions that exactly corresponded to the lines in the hole.
This is a key, the activation key of the steam armor!
He started his steam armor, and the engine in the breastplate roared.
At the same time, Lu Xinglong took him off and jumped several meters high. The dragon's back was right in front of him!
Li Yuan noticed the sound of the steam armor's engine and turned around, but it was too late.
Heinrich jumped off the back of the land dragon again, raised his explosive battle ax high, and aimed at the red dragon's back to strike with a jump.
The mechanical armor matched his movements, and a large amount of steam came out from the gaps in the armor. At the same time, the propulsion device of the battle ax made an explosion sound like a cannon. The powerful driving force instantly accelerated the battle ax to the point where it was difficult to swing it with ordinary human strength. the point.
it's over!
At this moment, Heinrich was convinced of the victory in this dragon-slaying battle. The red dragon's huge body had no time to dodge. The battle ax blade was made of mithril. Such a heavy blow was enough to penetrate the dragon's scales and touch the dragon's spine. bone.
The battle ax is also attached with a one-time explosion rune. After the ax blade cuts in, the ensuing explosion will completely destroy the dragon's spine.
This blow was not fatal to the dragon, but it was enough to paralyze the second half of his body and make him unable to move his wings.
A giant dragon that can only crawl on its front paws will eventually become a target for the dragon-hunting crossbow!
However, at this moment, Heinrich caught a glimpse of the red dragon's tail lifting out of the corner of his eye, and a figure rose up along with the tail.
He glanced over there in surprise, and this glance made his hair stand on end.
He saw Princess Zhenna, who was supposed to have expired, rising up by the dragon's tail and staring at him!
Your Highness, the princess...has committed suicide! ?
Zhenna held up her sword and pointed in Heinrich's direction.
The shield made of holy light suddenly appeared directly under the explosive battle ax wielded by Heinrich, protecting the vital points of the dragon that Heinrich was aiming at!
"No!!" Heinrich shouted in his heart the moment he saw the Holy Shield.
But the battle ax accelerated by mechanical power cannot be forcibly recovered by him.
The battle ax hit the holy shield hard, easily shattering the holy shield, but the momentum also weakened a bit.
The explosive runes attached to it activated with the strong impact and exploded in advance.
Then the battle ax touched the dragon scales. It cut open the scales and injured the dragon, but at this moment Heinrich's blood ran cold.
He knew from the feel of his hand that because of the obstruction of the holy shield, the cut was too shallow and could not damage the dragon bone at all.
The blasting runes were consumed before the dragon's scales were cut open, and the damage could not be expanded. This time it was just a superficial wound to the red dragon.
Li Yuan felt the pain of the tomahawk hitting his back. He roared and spun around. At the same time, he arched his back hard and pushed the tomahawk that hit his back out of the wound.
Heinrich was also thrown off. At this time, the red dragon had stretched out its long neck and opened its mouth towards the fallen Heinrich like an attacking poisonous snake.
Li Yuan bit Heinrich's leg, but found that the armor was thicker than he thought, and seemed to be mixed with legendary metal like those crossbow arrows, but he could not bite it into pieces on the spot.
Under the influence of stimulants, Heinrich's mount Land Dragon pounced on the red dragon, opened its mouth and bit the red dragon's neck, trying to rescue its owner, but its teeth could not break the scales of the real dragon.
Li Yuan waved the dragon's claw in disgust and directly knocked Lu Xinglong away. A thought suddenly appeared in his mind:
"Do you deserve to be called a 'dragon' for someone like you?"
This thought came from the red dragon's instinctive reaction. Although these sub-dragon creatures may be biologically related to true dragons, the gap is no smaller than that of monkeys and humans. True dragons have an instinctive contempt for sub-dragon creatures.
"Drink!!"
Heinrich, whose leg was bitten by the armor, tried his best to swing the battle ax to fight back, but he could only hit the red dragon's strong jaw. Without the blessing of the battle ax propulsion device, not even a wound was left.
Li Yuan held Heinrich in his mouth, raised his head, and then swung it down with all his strength. At the same time, he released his mouth and smashed Heinrich to the ground.
With a loud bang, Heinrich, who was wrapped in heavy armor, smashed the floor tiles of the tower and made a large crater.
The red dragon smashed it with all its strength, and the impact was no less than making him fall from a height of dozens of meters.
Then the red dragon slapped him down, pressing him deeper into the pit.
Even though the steam armor still had some buffer structure inside, Heinrich still clearly felt the impact that penetrated his whole body and the severe pain of broken bones, which almost made him lose consciousness on the spot.
(End of chapter)