Drake unhesitatingly put Imari Komari down, smiling and accepting her thanks before immediately throwing himself into the battle.
Asta wielded the Demon-Slayer Sword, chopping off the Five-Headed Dragon's regenerating heads, but in the blink of an eye, the heads had grown back again.
Black wings flapping, Asta dodged a biting head, complaining, "What's with this guy, I can't kill it no matter how much I chop it!"
The Five-Headed Dragon's regeneration was indeed the effect of magic, but its magic core was scattered among the five heads.
So Asta only chopping off one head couldn't break the Five-Headed Dragon's magic for regeneration at all. He had to chop off all of the heads at the same time to completely slay this monster.
But then again, even if he knew the method, the current Asta was powerless.
The reason was very simple, the Five-Headed Dragon's body was too huge.
The largest enemy that Asta had faced so far was Lucifero, who had integrated a large number of devils as a vessel.
At that time, Lucifero had not only devoured a large number of devils, but had also fused the entire castle into his body.
But even in that state, Lucifero's size was only comparable to one of the dragon's heads. The Five-Headed Dragon was a monster that destroyed the entire town just by moving.
Although Drake didn't know the specific abilities of the Five-Headed Dragon, the abilities of these multi-headed monsters were all similar.
So Drake shouted loudly, "Everyone, help gather all of the heads together, I'll take care of it all at once!"
Although Drake rarely teamed up with the others in the Black Bulls, it was as if they had a tacit understanding after putting on that cloak.
Everyone in the Black Bull squad didn't doubt whether Drake could resolve the battle as he had said, and had just responded before throwing themselves into the battle.
"Lightning Ultimate Magic: Thunderclap Flash War Demon!"
The fastest to act was Luck, after training in ultimate magic, he was now able to turn his body into a magic power form like Mereoleona.
Turning into a bolt of lightning, Luck, who had turned into a lightning demon, came under one of the heads, and after doing a somersault, a rising kick blasted the head up.
Luck's attack wasn't strong enough, and seeing that the head was about to fall, a huge sheep appeared below, and a rising cannon blasted the head even higher.
Charmy below stuffed the food in her hand into her mouth, she had to quickly eat something to recover her magic power in order to release such an attack.
On the other side, a fireball had exploded on one of the dragon's heads' eyes. That head turned to look at Magna, and even a magical beast was enraged by being provoked by such a weakling.
So it had opened its mouth, and a magic power cannon had spewed out.
But then two figures had blocked in front of the light cannon, Zora stretching out his arms, using his body to block the magic power cannon.
He wasn't trying to die, of course, dense symbols were lighting up all over his body, and an extremely complex magic circle had spread out before him.
"Yo! Don't be impatient, I'll return this thing to you doubled right away!"
As the words fell, all of the magic power cannon had also disappeared into the magic circle, and had then been blasted back in a more condensed state.
Nero had her hands pressed against Zora's back, and if she hadn't used sealing magic to seal the damage that the vast magic power had done to Zora himself, he wouldn't have been able to complete this technique.
The magic power cannon, which had doubled in power, had directly blasted the head away, and it had crashed right into the head that had been blasted over by Luck and Charmy.
The Five-Headed Dragon had immediately rioted, but its taut body had softened in the next moment.
Gowther had been able to operate the power of curses even more surprisingly through training, and by modifying the curse on Henry's body, he could let him decide whose magic power he would absorb.
Just now, the two had instantly drawn away a large amount of the Five-Headed Dragon's magic power, and had only then made it reveal a flaw.
And taking advantage of this opportunity, the others had also seized the time to take action.
Noelle had entered sea dragon valkyrie form, releasing a giant sea dragon's roar, a sea water dragon that was almost as big as one of the Five-Headed Dragon's heads had rushed out, biting one of the heads, pushing it towards the position of the other heads.
Stella had also seized the opportunity, using a downward kick from above to directly kick down the head that she was responsible for.
When it came to power, Stella's small body wasn't any weaker than the Five-Headed Dragon, and this kick had almost blasted that head apart.
And the last head hadn't needed the Black Bulls to take action, Womuhara no Kiyozumi, the strongest of the Dragon Zen Seven, had transformed into a steel war god.
"As one of the Dragon Zen Seven who serve the general of the Land of the Rising Sun, I can't lose Ryuya's face in front of outsiders! After all, I am... the strongest."
Womuhara said, and wielding the katana in his hand, the head that had crashed over had been violently blasted away by him.
Just when the five heads had crashed together, everyone had unleashed attack magic again.
Gauche had brushed back his hair, revealing the crystal magic eye. And Grey, enduring the embarrassment, had stared straight at that eye, and had suddenly gained a large number of clones.
As soon as those clones had appeared, Finral had used space magic to transfer them to all directions.
After doing research, Grey had already understood the essence of her magic, it was a powerful magic that could change the essence of matter, and its true name was [Transmutation Magic].
Those Greys had all reached out their hands, and whatever magic had hit the Five-Headed Dragon had directly turned into hard crystal, binding the Five-Headed Dragon.
Rouge the red cat had run and jumped back onto Vanessa's shoulder, and although she hadn't directly taken action just now, Vanessa had been using her threads to steer fate in the direction of victory all along.
Otherwise, without anyone commanding, everyone wouldn't have been able to gather all of the heads together so smoothly.
"Drake!"
Hearing everyone's calls, Drake, who had been accumulating power all along, had opened his eyes, which had already turned into vertical pupils.
"Thanks for your hard work, leave the rest to me!"
Dragon King Armament and Dragon Flame Battle Gear Second Form had all been activated, and Drake had gritted his teeth, activating the Ring of the Nibelung.
Adding on the skill [Dragon Slayer], which had already taken effect from the start of the battle, this was Drake's true full power state.
"Dragon Slaying Secret Art: Crimson Blazing Flame Blade!"
Drake hadn't added any exquisite changes to this attack, he had just pursued the maximization of power. So everyone seemed to have seen the scene of the sun collapsing, and their vision had all been filled with flames.
Looking from high in the sky, a fan-shaped open space with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, with Drake as its vertex, had extended out, and everything within it had disappeared as if it had been erased, leaving only a crystallized ground.
This was still because Drake had released the attack at an upward angle, so the impact on the ground wasn't that serious, and the clouds in that sky had been completely incinerated into nothingness.
In the distance, Ryudo Ryuya had reached out his hand, putting it over his eyes, saying with emotion, "The demonic power clouds that had been spreading over the Go Province archipelago because of the Five-Headed Dragon's slumber have actually been completely burned away! I've always wanted to let everyone in the Land of the Rising Sun see the clear sky, so I really have to thank that young man."
Drake had deactivated his battle form, and feeling the magic power that had been emptied for the most part, he couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly. This attack was indeed powerful enough, but the consumption was indeed astonishing.
It was only because he had leveled up that he could use it, if it had been someone else, they would have had to burn their life force to use it.
But then again, this feeling of releasing power to his heart's content once in a while was indeed quite awesome, he felt like he understood the feelings of a certain Crimson Demon clan girl a bit!
Quickly shaking his head, shaking off this terrible thought, Drake had walked towards everyone who was welcoming him.
But after looking around, Drake said with confusion, "Where did Captain Yami go?"
Everyone had only then remembered that their captain seemed to have been absent from the battle just now. But with Yami's personality, he shouldn't have deserted the battlefield.
Asta raised his hand, saying, "Um... I seemed to have seen a girl who looked a lot like Captain Yami chasing after him! But Vice-Captain Nacht also chased after them, so there shouldn't be any problems, right."
Drake sighed, it seemed that Captain Yami's past was indeed not simple, and this kind of thing had happened as soon as they had come to the Land of the Rising Sun.
"About that, I do know something!"
Just at this time, a gentle voice had transmitted over. A man wearing a kimono and an eye patch had walked over, and several people with no weak magic power had lined up on his sides in turn.
"Thank you all for lending a hand in this crisis, and for subjugating the ferocious magical beast that has been wreaking havoc in our country since ancient times. I am Ryudo Ryuya, the general of the Land of the Rising Sun, and I express my deepest gratitude here!"
Ryudo Ryuya said, and bowed together with the group of people behind him.
Drake waved his hand, saying, "There's no need to be so polite, that magical beast had the power of our target, so defeating it was also our goal.
But compared to that, we're still more concerned about our captain's affairs!"
Ryudo Ryuya straightened his body, opening his mouth, saying, "Yami and I can be considered childhood friends, so I know a lot about him. But this isn't a place to talk, please come with me, I'll tell you everything."
The Black Bull squad had naturally not had any objections, following Ryudo Ryuya to their camp.
Although it was called a camp, there were only some crude wooden shacks.
Ryudo Ryuya had taken everyone to a slightly cleaner open space, saying, "I'm sorry, the conditions are harsh and I can't entertain you well."
Drake and the others weren't people who cared about these things in the first place, and after sitting down on the ground, they had pressed for Yami's past.
And Ryudo Ryuya had also told everyone everything that he knew, but Drake's expression had become increasingly strange as he listened.
Drake hadn't believed from the start that what Yami had said about himself being just a normal fisherman was true. What fisherman would have a swordsmanship that looked like it had undergone formal training, and what ordinary fisherman would have ki, this ability that was used for battle.
Sure enough, according to what Ryudo Ryuya had said, Yami was born into a samurai clan that served the Ryudo family.
The Yami clan had always been active on the battlefield, and was a martial arts family, possessing the name of the Oni God clan.
But in this generation, as the Ryudo family had begun to implement a policy of peace, the Yami clan had also declined along with it, and as a result, conflicts had begun to appear with the main family.
And that woman who had been chasing Yami was called Yami Ichika, and was Yami Sukehiro's own sister, both of them were the children of the Yami clan's head, and had also awakened the Yami clan's strongest dark sorcery.
But one day, Yami had personally slaughtered all of his clansmen, including his father, except for his sister Ichika. From then on, he had left the Land of the Rising Sun, and his whereabouts were unknown.
Drake had suddenly understood, so Captain Yami's real name should be Yami Itachi or Uchiha Sukehiro, right!
Could it be that Captain Yami was also a hidden sis-con, and had just said the words "Hate me, my foolish sister" before being chased with a sword!
Just when Drake was thinking wildly, Ryudo Ryuya had said the truth.
The truth was that the head of the Yami clan, who was also the two's father, was a complete war maniac, and what he pursued was battle and honor, and he had long been tired of the increasingly peaceful Land of the Rising Sun.
He had even forcibly given his children the clan's secret medicine, the Oni Soul Pill. That was a terrifying pill that could greatly enhance demonic power and killing intent.
Yami Ichika hadn't been able to withstand the power of the medicine, and her reason had been eroded by the killing intent, and at the same time, the hidden dark sorcery power had also erupted.
So the one who had slaughtered the clan wasn't Yami, but the rampaging Yami Ichika, and she also didn't have that memory because she had lost her reason.
Yami, as the older brother, had rightfully shouldered all of the sins.
Drake touched his chin, what to say about this plot? It was indeed corny, but it was indeed classic.
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