101. The dog chasing the dragon
Choco became a beast and ran down the street.
I jumped over the people enjoying the festival, smashed down the narrow alley with my shoulder, and broke through even the wall where the soldiers aimed their spears. There was only one thought filling her head.
‘Mom.’
While resentful and hated, that lofty and beautiful silver beast was still a mother to Choco.
It was natural for an abandoned child to want to be recognized by its mother. However, to Choco, Levia had a more special meaning.
The instinct of a beast to follow the strong. However, although Cream was also mighty, her fighting style, established as a hero, was a law that Choco could not imitate.
“Kuaaa!”
On the other hand, the ultimate of the path she had to walk as a pure-blooded prisoner was unfolding right in front of her eyes.
Its shiny silver fur has sparse gray hairs. However, the momentum was so strong that it was difficult to guess such aging, and the body was huge.
As the 15-meter tall beast raised its head, the rain stopped and the sun seemed to rise, and the moon seemed to appear in the clouds. The eyes of the beast were burning instead of heavenly bodies.
[Krwwwa!]
And, another monster to stand against the Beast King.
The entire area was covered in shadow. The elder wyvern, which came closer to the ground, spread its wings, and its size was so huge that even the beast king was covered in shadow.
However, the Beast King did not shrink. The beast’s hind legs roared with twinkling eyes seemed to be pulled tight, and soon a gigantic body that resembled a small mountain soared into the sky.
“Kyaaagh!”
With a hoarse roar, the beast pulls out its claws to catch the flying monster. As if waiting, as the beast approached, the monster also opened its mouth.
Jet-black poisonous smoke overflows from between the jagged teeth. A thousand years of poison was poured by the monster towards the beast, which was unable to control itself in the air due to its leap.
Fuhuaaagh!
No matter how intensely it was poured out, the black poisonous smoke passed through the beast’s body and spread towards the forest. Everything it touches rots black.
Her miasma, which seemed threatening even to her astral saint, Choco flinched and quickly avoided her body. However, unlike her who was able to avoid her, her beast was directly hit by her breath.
[Crown?]
However, I am not shaken. Every part of the body that the venomous breath passed through rotted, rotted, and melted. Even so, the eyes of the beast were still moldy.
For the price of enduring the terrible pain of having both the outer skin and the internal organs roasted, the beast took a chance. The monster is one step too late to run away as it pours out its breath.
In an instant, new flesh grows over the parts of the body that have been rotted by being hit directly by the breath. Exhibiting the regenerative power befitting a pure-blooded beastman to the limit, the beast bit the monster’s neck as it was.
Quaaang!
Then, the beast added weight to the monster’s wings and, as it hung in the air, bent its head and slashed the monster.
The monster crashes without even screaming. The beast, still in the air, rolled up his body and struck the monster with its own weight, as if it were a meteor.
Giant species with a body size of several tens of meters roll around and engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the aftermath alone causes local earthquakes. Seeing this, Choco gritted his teeth.
‘I’m weak.’
Compared to them, I was too weak.
Even at this moment, my body is shaken by the transmitted vibration. Choco stuck her claws into her earth and held on. With her eyes wide open, she watched the battle between the two giant species.
Her wings were broken in the process of the fall. However, the monster used the reptile’s unique flexible neck to bite the beast’s neck. Black fangs gnawed and injected poison.
“Kuaaa!”
However, the size limiting the wings made the beast more massive. Naturally, even in hand-to-hand combat, the beast had the upper hand. The beast twisted its body to remove its fangs and struck the monster’s head with its front paws.
The huge head spun around as if it had been slapped on the cheek. The beast struck the monster several times with its paws, then opened its mouth and tried to swallow his head whole.
[Kwaaa!]
However, this time the monster took a step ahead and spewed poison. Having swallowed the terrifying poison, the beast howled and twisted its body. The body rotted and regenerated repeatedly.
Choco kept her eyes on the mythical scene where it was hard to believe that it was a fight between two creatures at best, as if dark clouds descended from the sky and mountain ranges rose from the earth fighting each other.
That of her, that was the realm she wanted to reach. It was a wall she wanted to jump over.
‘Not yet.’
Maybe not enough. Yes, not yet. But Choco was convinced. If not now, surely someday.
The area has long since become a wasteland due to the aftermath of the battle. In the desert that formed in the middle of the forest, the two beasts and monsters were still busy fighting each other and coveting their blood and flesh.
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A tense battle in which no one can claim the upper hand. However, the short but long battle of monsters has finally come to an end.
It had been enduring with its overwhelming regenerative power, but the beast’s body, which had already been injected with the elder wyvern’s poison several times, slowly slowed down. The monster did not miss that gap.
I tore the leather and flesh tattered by the miasma, and opened my mouth before the new flesh began to build up. The last breath gushed out as if squeezing it from the throat, which had been torn apart by exhaling poisonous air several times.
“□□□□-!”
For the first time the beast screamed, not a roar. Torn by those merciless teeth and claws, the red heart of a beast more gigantic than most people was exposed.
With incredible regenerative and vitality, even at this moment, the heart was beating furiously. However, it was faster for the monster to pour poison into the beast’s heart than for the chest wound to heal.
[No!]
At that moment, Choco couldn’t even understand what she had done.
Wasn’t it the mother that I hated and hated so much? However, the moment after she let out a mental wave close to her scream, a muffin was naturally bitten into Choco’s mouth.
Your Highness’s blade rises. Choco took a step, and in the next moment he leaped through space and found himself between monster and beast, elder wyvern and beast king.
[What is this kid!]
[You…!]
The blade of lightning drew an arc, and all the miasma pouring toward the heart was burned by the current and disappeared.
She wouldn’t have been able to stop her if she was in the perfect situation. However, both of them were exhausted from the fight that lasted through the evening and into the night. Choco, on the other hand, had her stamina intact.
Even so, it was overwhelming. As Choco, who had burned all the miasma shot by the Elder Wyvern, staggered, angry roars flew from both sides of her.
[What are you doing, bastard! I thought you were just watching the situation.]
[······If you say this, do you think my heart will change?]
Unfortunately, not only the Elder Wyvern, whose attack went futile, but also the Beast King, who was saved from danger by Choco, was also angry. Listening to the mental waves coming from both sides, Choco rather refreshed her mind.
Unlike the sharp voice, neither of them could recklessly attack Choco. Choco is also a transcendent, even if he is lacking compared to the two. If she tries to attack her, she will expose her weakness to her opponent.
While the two were fighting fiercely, Choco jumped up behind her.
[How dare you, how dare you interfere with my hunting…!]
A spirit wave full of suffocation rang out. Even though it was injured and weakened, the beast’s momentum was still overwhelming. Choco wasn’t small either, but her body size was several times different.
[This time, this time, I was able to put an end to the long hunt…! How dare you, how dare you ruin it!]
The Beast King was furious. However, it wasn’t that she had her life saved by a child of her own that she had neglected and abandoned that made her truly angry.
Just one fact that someone else intervened in his fight, his hunt. That was all. If it was anyone other than Choco, she would have been just as angry.
[Ha.]
However, when it comes to simplicity, Choco was also difficult. A mother who does not look at her child without any motherhood, but looks at me with the young gaze of an enemy looking at an intruder.
I just realized it while watching it. It’s so obvious, but the fact that I’ve been turning away so far. From the time she left her when she was very young until now.
[Hopefully she would have lost anyway.]
Not to mention, even now that she opened her transcendent realm earlier than her other siblings, Levia didn’t see Choco as her own child.
[Ha, do you think I would have suffered just because I was barely hit in the heart? Even if the ugly bastard hadn’t intervened, this hunt would have ended with my victory without fault.]
[Don’t pretend to be a mother only at times like this.]
Choco snapped annoyedly. She stares at the colossus of a great beast that in childhood she seemed too big, and looking back now.
However, unlike before, she was no longer intimidated. I no longer wanted approval or affection from my mother. I didn’t really get any great enlightenment.
Just.
[Worth a try?]
Watching the fight between the Elder Wyvern and Levia, Choco made an estimate. She predicted victory or defeat, and was sure of the outcome according to her bestial senses.
Even now that she has grown incomparably with her childhood, Levia is still strong. It was stronger than chocolate and even her cream. However, she wasn’t overwhelmingly strong either.
[What?]
[It’s strange, my mother looked so strong in the past.]
Choco and cream. If the two masters join forces, even the Beast King can hunt.
[I think I can reach it now.]
Unlike her predator, Levia, who is completely alone with her, Choco knew the concept of her pack. She learned from the hard life, and she also realized that she didn’t have to be her own boss.
However, the predatory nature inherited from her mother also did not go anywhere. Levia laughed at the warlike stare from her nerdy daughter.
[You’re crazy, bye.]
[More than that, Levia, have you forgotten anything?]
Choco deliberately changed the subject. The lingering was brushed off. However, she didn’t mean to forgive her opponent. Levia is still Choco’s goal, and it was the ultimate form Choco wanted to reach.
But that’s all. No more, no personal feelings. Ah, though vengeance for abandoning her self in her childhood might linger. That’s not why Choco wants to kill Levia.
[You can’t do it on purpose…!]
She just wants to hunt because there is a beast stronger than her.
But not today. Just as Levia had a perfect hunting aesthetic, Choco had a similar bad taste. Levia wasn’t as huge to her as she was before.
She can be knocked down anytime. So wait. For Levia, exhausted from the battle with the Elder Wyvern, to recover. And she grinds and polishes herself.
[Looks like her mother’s prey has already escaped?]
Next time, in her perfect condition, to defeat the King of Beasts with all her own strength. The ambitious young contender for the king’s throne has decided to step down today.
At the same time, there was also a clear material. Unlike the mother and daughter, who have the heart of a beast, the dragon has the heart of a snake, and thanks to having lived a long time, it has both wisdom and cunning.
Due to the nature of a pure-blooded beastman boasting transcendental regenerative power, the chance of victory of the Elder Wyvern decreased considerably the moment Choco intervened and became unable to inflict a critical hit.
[Dare you!]
And the Elder Wyvern fought the Beast King only to reclaim his former realm, and to avenge his previous disgraceful defeat.
Of course, the lofty dragon who had lived a long time had pride, but it was not more precious than his life. While the Beast King’s attention was focused on Choco, the Elder Wyvern secretly fled.
And, from now on, Choco was going to run away as well.
“□□□□-! □□-!”
She completely lost her control and the moment Levia let out her roar, biting into her crab foam, Choco, wagging her tail at her, was already turning her body and running away.
Of course, even though they were tired, the difference in body size was overwhelming. The distance between the two quickly narrowed as they took strides forward. And, the moment Levia attacks Choco.
Flash. There was a flash. A flash of light blinded the old, weary beast for a moment, and when the light faded, nothing was left in its place.