Dragonslayer’s Class Regression 30

Chapter 30

Whoosh!

Zeke ran deeper into the forest, avoiding the pursuing Hounds.

‘’Persistent bastards.’’

Zeke had plenty of experience with how relentless these Hounds were from his previous life.

He opened his minimap to count how many Hounds were following him.

A total of thirty-six Hounds were chasing Zeke.

It was clear that the number of pursuing Hounds would only increase as time passed.

Then, a new unit of Hounds appeared in front of Zeke.

Slash!

Their movements were similar to the desert assassins, suggesting they had been specially trained in assassination techniques.

Whoosh!

Zeke leaned back in mid-air to avoid the attack and stepped backward.

Thanks to his infinite stamina, he wasn’t tired, but these Hounds weren’t likely to back down at this point.

‘’Should I just kill them all?.’’

The problem was that if any trace of Zeke Draker remained, things could get complicated.

He needed to leave only enough evidence to be identified as a hitman from the Southern Continent Cartel.

Dozens of Hounds surrounding Zeke glared at him with sharp eyes.

He also glared back at the Hounds while holding daggers in both hands.

“Haah!”

The knights at the front charged toward Zeke first.

After skillfully avoiding the knight’s sword, Zeke rolled on the ground and aimed for their ‘Achilles tendon’.

Whoosh!

The Hounds jumped up to avoid the attack, suggesting they had experience fighting Southern outlaws.

Zeke lowered his stance as much as possible while holding his daggers and glared at the Hounds as he spoke.

“Damn you Imperial bastards. Even if I die here, the ‘Mekein Cartel’ will avenge me.”

The Hounds remained silent despite Zeke’s words.

He had provoked them to gain more information, but the Hounds didn’t take the bait.

If he were a real Mekein hitman, he would have either committed suicide by poison or made a deal to hand over information, but Zeke made a different choice.

He quickly pulled something out of his pocket and blew it.

Wooooo!

A sound too loud to believe it came from a small horn echoed throughout the forest.

The Hounds surveyed their surroundings at the sudden sound.

However, nothing unusual happened, and the one who appeared to be the unit commander nodded to signal the capture of Zeke.

Several Hounds approached Zeke.

At that moment, Zeke threw something in front of them.

Whoosh!

It was five smoke grenades taken from his inventory.

As smoke rose, visibility in the surrounding area was completely blocked.

Zeke quickly hid his presence and moved away.

The unit commander who sensed this shouted.

“Catch him right now!”

But something happened that made that impossible.

Boom boom!

They appeared, uprooting entire trees.

With massive bodies over 2 meters tall and muscles covering their entire body like armor.

Their bare bodies, marked with threatening tattoos, were clothed in distinctive outfits made from monster hide.

They were the Barbarians, known as the true masters of the Giant Mountains.

“Haooooo!”

The Barbarians’ war cry shook the entire forest.

The Hounds were startled by the suddenly appearing Barbarians.

“Kill those savages!”

The Hounds charged at the Barbarians who appeared from all directions.

The knight who charged forward first tried to cut the Barbarian’s body.

Clang!

“Huh?”

Surprisingly, the knight’s sword bounced off the muscles without penetrating.

The Barbarian warrior simply grabbed the knight’s arms and legs and literally twisted them like wringing out a cloth.

Crack!

The knight died without being able to resist as his limbs were torn apart.

The unit commander shouted in panic.

“Aura! Use Aura! Swords without Aura won’t work against these savages!”

The knights infused their swords with Aura and charged at the Barbarians.

Swords concentrated with Aura could penetrate the Barbarians’ thick muscles.

But the problem came after that.

“Eek!”

The Barbarians had learned how to fight against knights who use Aura while defending their territory for a long time.

They traded flesh to take bone.

They trapped the swords that had penetrated their bodies with their strong muscles to prevent withdrawal.

Then they smashed the knights’ heads with their powerful fists.

Thwack!

The fists of the Barbarians with their incredible strength were equivalent to maces wielded by trained knights.

All around, Barbarians grabbed the knights’ swords and moved in close to smash their heads.

As the Barbarians overwhelmed the knights in close combat, the Hounds unit commander quickly ordered a retreat.

“Fall back! Fall back!”

But the Barbarians were just as persistent as the Hounds.

They didn’t let the Hounds escape and began pursuing them.

To them, the Giant Mountains were like their own backyard.

Like a raging storm, the group of Barbarians chased after the Hounds while shouting war cries.

Watching from afar, Zeke slowly revealed himself.

‘That worked better than expected.’

Zeke handled the horn that had called the Barbarians.

In his previous life, while he sometimes fought against the Barbarians, he also formed joint battle lines with them when faced with powerful monsters that were difficult to handle alone.

The Mohakin tribe, one of the tribes he met at that time, formed quite a friendly relationship with Zeke.

From the Mohakin tribe, Zeke was able to learn how to make the horn pipes used by barbarians and their signal system.

The signal that Zeke just sent with the horn pipe meant ‘There are groups of outsiders who have invaded the sacred mother land.’

Although they appeared to be simple barbarians on the outside, the barbarians were people who lived with their own culture within their traditions.

Only the Central Continent, where only human countries existed, was a place that pointed fingers at them as uncivilized and rejected them.

‘Getting on a Barbarian’s bad side is a one-way ticket to the afterlife.’

Zeke went in the opposite direction from the Hounds that had fled after being chased by the barbarians.

He too wanted to avoid becoming a target of the barbarians’ pursuit.

After creating some distance, Zeke turned on the mini-map and went straight up to where the ruins of Kaisir were located.

Since it was located deep in the Giant Mountains, the mountain terrain was so treacherous that just getting there was an ordeal.

He went into caves intermittently to eat the food he brought to satisfy his hunger, and when fatigue built up, he hunted monsters through binge eating and consumed them to replenish his mental strength.

After climbing the mountain for several days like that, he finally managed to reach the entrance of the ruins.

“This cave seems to be the entrance to go in.”

The entrance itself was hidden by huge trees, so if there hadn’t been a mini-map and path guidance function, it would have been impossible to find even after searching for months.

Zeke carefully entered inside the cave.

The cave was not much different from a regular dungeon.

Zeke moved forward along the path indicated by the mini-map while being vigilant of his surroundings.

There were forks in the road occasionally, but thanks to the path guidance function, he could find his way without confusion.

Monsters appeared occasionally along the way. And they were all transformed into Zeke’s precious points.

The path was easier than expected.

After a short while, the cave ended and the floor changed to a hard brick road.

Usually, artificial caves like ruins had underground structures constructed in this way.

Zeke approached the entrance of the ruins while checking the map.

However, at some point while looking at the map, Zeke tilted his head.

‘’What is this?’’

A red dot kept flashing in front of the entrance to the ruins.

It was a completely different response from what had been shown on the map so far.

Zeke sensed that something ominous was in front of the entrance. He immediately drew out Bahamut and entered inside while being vigilant.

That’s when he turned the corner and arrived in front of ‘Kaisir’s ruins’.

‘Damn. I thought things were going too well.’

“Grrrr!”

A giant hydra was sitting with its belly down in front of the door of the ruins.

Judging by the size of its body and the number of nine heads, it seemed to be at least several hundred years old.

That’s when a message appeared before Zeke’s eyes.

[Detected a corrupted dragonkin infected by contaminated energy.]

‘Corrupted dragonkin ?’

He couldn’t understand why such a message suddenly appeared from the system.

Zeke fell into contemplation while watching the hydra that was being vigilant of its surroundings while shaking its head back and forth.

‘How do I get past that thing?.’

Since his goal was to find Kaisir’s vision swordsmanship, there was no need to forcefully try to catch the hydra.

After contemplating, Zeke drew on his experience from the Dragon Slayer’s tomb and gave a command to the system.

‘’System, can you open that door?’’

When Zeke asked, text appeared.

[Accessing control device as per administrator’s request.]

[Accessed Hero King Kaisir’s resting place management system.]

[Received entry approval.]

[Opening entrance door.]

Simultaneously, the tightly closed door behind the hydra began to open.

The hydra that had been sitting vigilantly in front of the door got up from its spot.

Kaaaack!

Nine heads screamed and shook their bodies.

Then the entire cave began to shake.

‘’Oh damn.’’

Zeke quickly used Wind Step, taking advantage of the moment when the hydra was screaming.

Dragon Slaying Technique Application

Wind Step

Flying Step

Zeke’s body floated up and flew like the wind towards the door.

Kaaaack!

But the hydra would not simply let an intruder trying to enter through the door go.

One of the hydra’s nine heads descended toward where Zeke was and opened its huge mouth wide.

Zeke gripped Bahamut and concentrated his aura.

A blue aura blade surged forth.

Zeke raised Bahamut wrapped in the aura blade high and swung it toward the hydra.

Dragon Slaying Technique

Chapter 7 Verse 1

Dragon Head Cutting

Dragon slaying techniques originated from sword techniques created to kill dragons.

The forms of dragon slaying techniques, which mainly consisted of large movements, were not suitable for combat with humans but were perfect for dealing with giant magical beasts.

Kwakwakwakwa!

The giant aura blade cut through the hydra’s mouth and passed by.

Kaaaack!

The hydra whose mouth was cut screamed in agony.

Blood from the cut wound splattered everywhere.

The hydra’s blood, which had strong acidic properties, corroded the hard stone floor.

Whoosh!

Zeke’s flying step did not stop and accelerated forward.

Then the Hydra blocked the opened ruins’ entrance with its body.

Zeke aimed Bahamut at the Hydra and gathered his energy.

Woooong!

A massive aura blade rose up.

The Hydra’s heads lunged toward Zeke.

At the moment the Hydra’s heads got close, Zeke used the Dragon’s Dignity skill of the dragon race.

Boom!

Feeling the Dragon’s Dignity, the Hydra trembled in fear and backed away.

Zeke didn’t miss this opening.

In that split second, he launched the aura blade surrounding his sword at the Hydra.

Dragon Slaying Technique

Chapter 3, Verse 2

Crescent Moon Strike

Woooong!

A crescent-shaped aura blade shot out from Zeke’s sword.

Whoooosh!

The crescent spun and sliced off the Hydra’s three heads.

Kaaaark!

Acidic blood gushed from the severed necks and poured down onto Zeke.

Hissssss!

The acidic blood immediately burned Zeke’s skin.

A normal person would have had their bones melted, but Zeke was different.

His Healing Factor immediately healed him.

“Ha!”

Zeke immediately jumped through the gap in the door.

Then as soon as he entered, he shouted.

“System! Close the door!”

[Closing the entrance at administrator’s request.]

Rumble rumble!

The ruins’ door began to close again.

Then the Hydra’s heads forced their way through the door gap.

Kaaaark!

Three heads squeezed through the door and lunged at Zeke.

“Get lost, you damn snakes!”

Zeke jumped into the air holding Bahamut.

Though the Hydra’s heads spewed poisonous smoke at Zeke, he trusted his Healing Factor and charged straight through the poison.

A 3-meter aura blade formed on his sword.

Dragon Slaying Technique

Chapter 1, Verse 1

Sky Slash

Slash slash slash slash!

The massive aura blade cleaved straight through all three Hydra heads stuck in the door from top to bottom.

Slice!

The Hydra’s heads split vertically.

Zeke gripped his sword and glared at the Hydra in that state.

The body outside the door seemed to still be writhing, not yet dead.

“Grrrr!”

After a moment, other heads tried to force their way through the door gap.

“Persistent damn snakes…”

As he muttered this and prepared to attack again, a message appeared before Zeke’s eyes.

[You have instilled fear in a corrupted dragonkin affected by contaminated energy.]

[Unique skill Dragon race Domination activates.]