Halt! You can't use the High Kingdom. And you can't have more than five flame knights at a time. How's that?

　No, I don't care what you say....

　The semi-finals are about to begin.

　As I climbed up onto the fighting table, Ryushin, who was already up on the fighting table, presented me with the conditions ahead.


''Also, if I can hit Hurt with even a single attack and put in a little damage, I'll win at that point.

　No, no, no, no, no, no, what are you talking about?

　You've overwhelmed the beast race warriors to this point.

　Why do I have to agree to such conditions?

If Hurt doesn't accept these terms...

What then?

I'm withdrawing from this game!

Idiot!

　Liuxin said something outrageous.

　Right now, the crowd at the Martial God's Martial Competition was quite excited. It was obvious that if they abstained without a fight in such a place, they would be booed.


''I don't want to spare my life!　There's no way you can beat a Demon Lord with a lot of demons and a legendary weapon in the flesh!

　Lysin said...

　Fiend = Knight of Flame
　Legendary Weapon = Hegemony
　Demon King = Me
　Flesh = Because it cannot be completely transformed into a dragon

　He said.
　Calling someone a demon king is rude.

　The High Kingdom is indeed a legendary weapon, but other than that it's an accusation. The Flame Knight is pretty strong there, but I'm not as strong as the Demon King, and Ryushin's dragonization isn't something that can be called very flesh and blood.


　Hmm, wait.
　I can only take out five flame knights?

　Well, all right.


''All right, I'll accept that condition. I won't use the High Kingdom, and I won't use the Black Sword as an added bonus. And no more than six flame knights.

''Are you sure you want to do this?

''Yeah, but if Liuxin defeats the flame knights and there are less than five of them, I'll give you an extra?

'Oh, that's good. I might be able to manage at least to hit Hurt while avoiding the five attacks!

　Lysin is very motivated.
　I'll keep my word too.

　The number of flame knights is no more than five.
　Of course, we won't use the Highlands or anything else.



　The semi-finals, the battle between me and Liushin began.

　I thought they would attack us out of the blue, but Ryushin didn't.

''Since you agreed to the conditions I offered you, I'll just wait for the time to bring out the flame knight.

　Well that's an auspicious intention.
　But was it really a good idea?

Thank you. I think you're going to have to...

　I took a few deep breaths.
　And then...

"Firelance!　Waterlance!　Windrance!　Sandrance!　Thunderlance!　Lightning Lance!　Darklance!

"What?　Hey, hahaha!

　I made the flame(...) cavalrymen appear in five(..) bodies.

　Likewise, no more than five knights of the other genera, such as water, wind, earth, thunder, light and darkness, could be made to appear.

　Since they can make knights out of fire, of course they can make knights of other attributes too. Well, I hadn't shown it to anyone but Tina yet.

　What I promised Liushin was 'up to five knights of fire', so taking out knights of other attributes wouldn't mean that I was breaking my promise.

　Incidentally, it was a bit of a service to have five knights of other attributes each.

　Now, let's have Liuxin dodge through the attacks of these thirty-five knights and deliver his fist to me!


Are you ready?

Yo, that's not good!　Don't do it yet!

Okay, go!

　Ryushin seemed ready, so I let the knights charge in.

''Oi, she can't do it!　I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

　While saying that, Ryushin ducks the onslaught of the knights.

''Hii!''

　Although he screamed such a pathetic scream, the claws of the partially dragonized Ryushin firmly sliced through the cores of several knights.

　For now, let's not send out any additional knights until the thirty-five are defeated.


　However, Ryushin has grown up.

　He used to struggle against two flame knights, but now he's standing around against multiple knights of various attributes at the same time.

　At the point when he can defeat my knights who can also defeat demons, I think he's much closer to being a demon king than I am.

　I was watching Ryushin while thinking about that.

　Ryushin's attacks would work on the knights, but the knights' attacks would also penetrate Ryushin's dragon skin.

　So Liuxin had no choice but to avoid the attacks of the knights.

　He's becoming much more tired.

''Ku, d*mn it!

　It looks like it's over.

　The knights swarmed around Ryushin, who had tangled his legs and dropped to his knees.

　Of course they wouldn't let him stop them.

　However, they were going to have the knights restrain Ryushin's body.



''──!''

　Something flew at high speed, and I ducked just in time to duck it.

　The one that flew was the head of the flaming knight.

　The knights who had swarmed to Liushin were cut into pieces and scattered into four pieces.


　A single black dragon was standing at the place where Liuxin should have been.

　The black dragon is the most aggressive and ferocious of all dragon species.

　From that thing, I could sense a surge of Ryushin's magical power.


''Liushin.......is it?''

Oh, yeah.

　The black dragon spoke.
　It said that this guy was a transformed Liuxin.

''You were able to fully transform into a dragon?　All of a sudden, why?

''It's like I was exposed to so much unreasonable force, so much violence, that the dragon's blood inside me was forcibly knocked out of me.

　You're saying I did it?

Oh!　Congratulations, Ryushin.

　I was able to fully transform myself into a dragon, which I had always wanted to do. It's a very happy occasion.

　You don't need to thank me, okay?

　Even though the trigger was my magic, Ryushin broke out of his shell by himself.

　Let's make today's dinner a little luxurious in celebration of Ryushin - I started thinking about that.


''Halt, now it's your turn to be scared of unreasonable violence!

What?

''Feel the fear of being attacked incessantly by an overwhelmingly powerful person!

　As he said that, the black dragon shot a dark breath at me.


　I was thinking of celebrating with you.

　You could have said that the reason you were able to grow up was because of me.


　........it can't be helped.

　Let's punish him a bit.


　The black dragon's breath is coming towards me.

　I strengthened my body with my magic robe and flicked that breath into the sky with my right arm.

''What?!''

　The black dragon is surprised.

''You can't afford to freeze up?''

　I moved to the black dragon's immediate side.

　And by the time the black dragon recognized my presence, I had already slammed my fist into the black dragon's body.

''Gyaa!''

　The black dragon blows away while screaming. Of course, I've adjusted it so that it doesn't fall from the top of the fighting table just in time.


''Ugh.........Wha, why?　I am the Black Dragon of Destruction!　Why would I...?

''Don't get carried away just because you got to be a black dragon. As you said earlier, the black dragon is the dominant force?　That's not true. It's about a black dragon, I beat it when I was about eight years old.

What...

'Since you're here, let me show you the move I made the first time I defeated the black dragon.

　I give the robe I'm wearing the attribute of light.

　The magic robe that had no attribute has been transformed into holy armor wrapped in sacred light.

　It's the biggest weakness of the dark-attribute black dragon is its light-attribute magic.

''Ha, Halt, wait a minute!　What's that?

''It's your weakness, light magic. I'm going to hit you with it now, but it might hurt a little bit, so I recommend you guard or avoid it at all costs.

　Well, there's no way you can avoid it.

　Because light magic has a faster attack speed than any other attribute magic, including lightning.


　I slowly walked towards the rattling black dragon.