I Got Into School For Nothing - Chapter 299
I Got Into School For Nothing (299)
Lesson 58. Spartoi - 4
Ban Yuwon, riding inside Lilyth, which had transformed into a cockpit, served as the head of the combined robot, Abel.
The tank-type robot Heaven-Shattering Cannon, equipped with a cannon barrel, attached itself beneath the head-shaped cockpit to form the torso; Frost Fortress, wielding an ice shield, became the left arm; and Hell Auger, shaped like an auger and gripping a fiercely rotating greatsword, became the right arm.
Heukrang, the beast-type robot adorned with sharp mechanical claws, transformed into agile, sturdy legs and attached itself.
And as a final flourish—Gwangjo, the winged beast-robot radiating dazzling light, holding concepts usurped from a god, attached itself to the back and unfurled its resplendent wings of light, then.
"Combined Robot Abel Appears!"
From the moment of its appearance, Abel, having overwhelmed the mechanical dragon's momentum with a massive head flick, unfurled its wings, soared into the sky, and declared in a booming voice.
"Was that declaration really necessary?"
Unable to find a retort to Lilyth's bold reply, Ban Yuwon silently adjusted his stance in mid-air and confirmed with her.
"Operational time?"
"Fifteen minutes. We'll have enough time to defeat that monster twice over!"
At Lilyth's spirited reply, her excitement as high as during space travel, Ban Yuwon secretly harbored a satisfied smile.
Frost Fortress, Hell Auger, Heaven-Shattering Cannon, Gwangjo, and Heukrang, all combined with Lilyth as the core, forming the combined robot Abel, temporarily displayed an overwhelming majesty.
When Abel was first created, its operational time was only a few minutes. However, thanks to Ban Yuwon's continuous growth, the increase in Lilyth's core mana capacity, and critically, all his subordinates growing by receiving concepts from him, Abel's pure operational time had now more than tripled. RA*n0!BЕS
Abel [Life (生) 2,300]
Considering its abilities, while its detailed concepts yielded various effects, judging by its raw power level alone, it was equivalent to level 230 by the status system.
Now that Ban Yuwon, who was piloting it, had reached 1,300 Life, the robot's own status had also significantly increased, proportional to the pilot's amplified abilities.
"Wh-what is that? Could it be a companion of that destroyer dragon?!"
"No, that thing just attacked the dragon!"
Hearing noisy chatter from below, he cast his gaze downward and saw a unit of knights, lined up with Asha at the forefront, who had urgently rushed out even before Ban Yuwon launched.
Ban Yuwon showed a surprised expression at the considerable number of knights and the dense aura enveloping them all.
He shifted his gaze to the mechanical dragon, which had just recovered from the shock of being hit on the head and was now raising its own head.
It also radiated a similar aura, which appeared to be connected to Asha.
The answer became clear.
"So this is how it works...?"
—ROOOOOOAARRRRR!
"I told you to be quiet!"
—CRUNCH!
He extended the ice-covered shield and struck the dragon's head again.
The dragon, which had been about to bite Abel with its maw full of steel teeth, tightly closed its mouth and recoiled from the robot's immense power.
However, it was surprising that even after striking with full power, its head showed no scratch.
"Is that thing on a similar level to us? What kind of D-rank dimension is this?"
"Master, it feels similar to the ruin you found before. It seems a dragon has been up to something."
Ban Yuwon recalled the scene inside the ruin where he had obtained Requiem and nodded.
There hadn't been many dragon materials there, but now he felt he knew where the rest had been used.
"At the very least, it's on par with Requiem..."
"But when that was completed, Master didn't have your Authority, so its efficiency wouldn't be very good."
The best way to deal with it... would probably be to overlay Requiem onto Hell Auger and pierce it with a Holy Screw Driver, but.
Glancing at Asha below once more, Ban Yuwon clicked his tongue and chose a different approach.
Extending his auger sword into the air, he shouted.
"Come, Abyss! Combine!"
—WHIIIRRRRRR
At his command, Abyss, the drill that could pierce through anything, leaped out of his inventory and attached itself to Hell Auger, transforming it into an even larger and faster-spinning drill sword.
"Asha, are you listening!"
"U-Uh!"
Asha, who had been watching the monster vs. robot battle about to begin with a stunned expression, snapped out of it and shouted.
Spreading its mechanical wings, Ban Yuwon thrust his drill sword into the mechanical dragon, which dared to take off without his permission, slamming it back to the ground as he shouted.
"Asha, ride that dragon!"
"...What?!"
There was no way Asha would just say, "Why not, I'll try it!" and get on a suspicious dragon she'd never seen before.
Ban Yuwon, restraining the mechanical dragon as it tried to take off again, shouted once more.
"That's a machine that operates by drawing energy from your power. So ride it!"
At the same time, it was also a monster that could gain operational energy by killing Dragonoids.
Asha's ancestor had sealed it to use as a weapon if they successfully reclaimed Asha's body, but at the same time, in case they failed or someone connected to dragons found this place first, they had surely included a function to plunder dragon mana and cause destructive activity.
Truly, it was a thoroughly villainous being from beginning to end.
'And perhaps now... that man, Asha's father, activated the second function and died.'
This fellow was just as useless, a spitting image of his ancestor.
Moreover, Asha, having witnessed her father's corpse on site, probably wasn't thinking straight yet.
Could there be any other 'trolling' that so splendidly inconvenienced one's own child?
'Still, it's a weapon too good to give up. If Asha gains that, in addition to the True Dragon Sword...!'
Just as Ban Yuwon was clearing his throat, wondering if he should scold Asha, who was standing there blankly, Asha's eyes suddenly changed, and she raised the True Dragon Sword high, shouting.
"From now on, we'll secure that golem! Guardian Knights, protect me!"
"Understood, Princess!"
"It's 'Your Majesty' now!"
At Asha's spirited shout, the knights, as if a switch had been flipped, uniformly raised their weapons.
As Asha took the lead and began to run, they moved organically, forming a defensive formation to protect her.
He wondered if it was overkill, but seeing the monsters slowly crawling up from below the destroyed ruin, where the mechanical dragon had burst through the ground, that thought vanished.
Turtles with dragon heads, wolves covered entirely in scales, and even deer adorned with sharp dragon horns.
A horde of chimeras, looking as if they were born from haphazardly mixing dragon genes with animals, numbered in the hundreds.
"It seems these are the results of trial and error before that mechanical dragon was created."
"Leaving aside the name 'mechanical dragon,' how in the world does one jump from biology to mechanical engineering in one go?"
Ban Yuwon grumbled but focused on restraining the dragon.
Once Asha took control of it, it would become an ally, so he had to minimize any damage to it, but... there was no way the creature, which had gone berserk after grinding up the previous king's body due to its ancestor's machinations, would just stay put.
Just as he thought he had succeeded in restraining its movements with the auger sword and shield, the creature finally opened its maw and gathered immense thermal energy near its uvula.
"Breath?!"
Aire's voice.
Aire, who had landed near Abel's shoulder next to the cockpit, no one knew when, was glaring at the mechanical dragon with a pale expression.
"It's half undead, no different... The Authority of a true dragon! That a True Dragon would commit such a horrific act."
"Can you Dispel something like that?"
"A true breath attack is a dragon's unique Authority that nullifies other magic by its very nature. We have no choice but to block it with a barrier composed of higher-tier mana."
In that case, there was no other choice. Ban Yuwon threw his auger sword, tearing its wing and pinning it to the ground, then with his now free arm, firmly gripped the shield and thrust it forward.
As he poured most of his Won-gi and the power stored in Lilyth's core to activate the ice shield, Aire, who had pulled out an orb, synchronized with him and unleashed her magic.
Fortunately, her main affinity was also ice.
Moreover, she currently possessed the pure crystal of ice magic that Ban Yuwon had gifted her from the Diabolo dimension previously, so the tier of her magic itself was now more than one level higher.
—ROOOOAAARRRRRRRR!
Ban Yuwon's ice shield and Aire's magic harmonized, creating a massive temporary barrier, upon which the breath attack, imbued with the Authority of a True Dragon, poured down!
The mysterious aura, colorless and transparent yet faintly shimmering with five colors upon closer inspection, was composed of pure dragon energy, and it gradually chipped away at the formidable barrier, narrowing the gap.
"Whoa, that's insane...!"
Inside the cockpit, Ban Yuwon's eyes, facing the breath attack head-on, burned brightly with a magnificent golden light.
Even though he was close with two Dragonoids, this was the first time he had directly perceived energy of such a tier. Now that he had the opportunity to encounter it, he desperately wanted to analyze it, read the concepts within it, and internalize it.
But it was impossible.
A power that could not be imitated—that was the power of a dragon.
Perhaps the reason why the dimensional integration centered around the Tower was never completed was also because it had antagonized dragons with inimitable power.
Just as he was vaguely thinking such thoughts, the barrier was chipped away further, and the hideous face of the mechanical dragon drew a little closer.
—KUOOOOHHHHHRRRRRR!
"You ugly bastard."
Thanks to pinning its wing to the ground with the auger sword, it couldn't get any closer than this.
As if it knew this, it made a creaking, twisting sound and opened its maw even wider.
Its will was to somehow land a solid blow on Abel, even if it meant expending all its stored energy.
Just as Ban Yuwon began to wonder if he should use Starlight Magic and sorcery to at least destroy a part of its body, Asha appeared atop the mechanical dragon's head.
"I did it!"
"Good job, Asha! Now ride it!"
"How?"
"Stab the True Dragon Sword into its forehead!"
Asha, who had been balancing on the constantly vibrating head of the mechanical dragon as it spewed its breath, momentarily glared at Ban Yuwon in the cockpit with a look that suggested he was insane, but as far as he understood, it was the only "key" to controlling the creature, so there was nothing else for it.
'Originally, it might have been structured to open with the Dragon-Slaying Sword... but now that it's the True Dragon Sword, it's fifty-fifty. Either it won't work, or it will change the mechanical dragon itself.'
The mechanical dragon was a type of mechanism whose behavior pattern changed according to the rider's mana.
This was, surprisingly, because its origin lay with the Spartoi... the Dragon Fang Soldiers.
According to descriptions found in Earth's myths, Dragon Fang Soldiers exhibited a characteristic of becoming "either foe or ally depending on how they are handled," and that sleeping mechanical dragon, having lost its master, was no different.
"You can do it, Asha!"
"But really...?"
"Hurry before the shield breaks! Believe in me, who believes in you!"
"Ah, alright. I'll believe in you, who believes in me!"
After taking a deep breath, Asha pulled the True Dragon Sword from her palm, gripped it, and boldly plunged it into the mechanical dragon's forehead.
"Be quiet!"
"No, you don't need to imitate that."
Asha didn't seem to hear him.
Even so, her command was effective.
The moment the True Dragon Sword was naturally absorbed into the mechanical dragon's forehead, as if they had been one body from the start, the creature's maw, which had been spewing breath, snapped shut.
The next moment, even Asha, who had been frozen in the pose of plunging the sword in, was gently drawn inside.
"Is it defeated?"
"Lilyth, you're really going to die."
The mechanical dragon's crimson eyes flickered golden, then red again, then golden, then red again...
—DING—.
It turned golden and stabilized!
The descendant of the True Dragon had safely inherited the Spartoi left behind by her ancestor!
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