Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

Uncontrollably sighing, Chiyo lay down anyway, raised his hand and looked at his fingers in confusion, then lowered it to block his eyes.

"Will what the ancient man said really work? End your nightmare..."

Chapter 96: Forward rocking of action

Mercer was walking in the crystal-rich mine when he suddenly saw a human woman walking slowly towards him not far away.

That was the woman who had been among the bearded humans not long ago. When he looked at her, the woman looked at him without any evasion, with a hidden fighting spirit flashing in her eyes.

"Hey, long time no see, Mr. Black Dragon? Or Madam? Who cares." Facing the Black Dragon who was looking over, Chiyo greeted him familiarly.

"I'd like to draw some blood from you...if that's okay I'd like more than that, is that okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chiyo couldn't help but laugh:

"Forget it, it doesn't understand human language either."

It's all because that ancient man couldn't even explain what the so-called way to end nightmares was... maybe he didn't even understand it himself, and maybe he just followed the prophecy in the scales and read it.

But no matter what, Chiyo didn't think that this black dragon would obediently provide blood to people, or even if he tried his best to describe it in words, he would be attacked by this black dragon as an enemy the moment he scratched his skin.

In the final analysis, there is only one final method.

Seeing Qianyo pull out the sword from behind, Mercer's eyes became serious.

——At first, he did not take this human woman into his eyes, mainly because her weapons were not threatening at that time, and more importantly, the look in his eyes was not full of aggression.

And the fighting spirit in her eyes was like "Let's have a fight" in Mercer's eyes, a simple and straightforward thought.

But this time there was something different. From the blade in her hand, Mercer felt a threatening aura.

Squinting his eyes slightly, Mercer became cautious.

"call--"

Taking a long breath, Chiyo quickly adjusted his condition, his eyes focused, and he stepped forward to attack.

Mercer also quickly retracted his forelimbs, causing her attack to miss.

Chiyo also quickly pursued him. After rushing forward with a single lunge, the blade of his blade swiped across Mercer's scales.

Feeling the feeling of his scales being cut open by the blade, Mercer felt the hardness and sharpness of the blade at the same time, and let out a menacing growl.

Logically speaking, even if such a sharp blade successfully splits the target, it will cause some damage to itself, but what is incredible is that Mercer did not feel any damage to the front of the blade.

"Roar--"

Somewhat surprised, Mercer directly inserted his hand into the ground, causing a large amount of gravel to fly towards Chiyo.

Facing the threatening stones, Chiyo did not panic at all, but quickly avoided them with a knife.

Feeling the gravel grazing her face, she approached the black dragon again, and while wielding the blade, her momentum increased rapidly.

His heart was beating violently, and the blade in his hand didn't feel as raw as last time.

——But even so, Chiyo was surprised by the resistance he felt when swinging the sword.

The hard scales are like fine gold, and the double-layered dragon scales also enhance the black dragon's defense.

But that's not all. The knots of muscles covering its scales are so strong that it would not be a surprise even if the blade of one's own blade is caught by the muscles.

Ding!

Chiyo held the sword and dodged the black dragon's tail. The sword rubbed against the scales and let out a clang.

He slashed with the knife again, blood gushing out from the wounds on the knife.

Glancing at his own scars, Mercer looked at the human again.

Her strength should not be underestimated. The sharp blade can easily cut through her own skin. Although it cannot damage the bone marrow, given her own combat experience, even Mercer can easily be seriously injured in such terrain.

——But in that case, let’s not hide.

The initial injury had begun to stop bleeding. Mercer turned his head and stared at Chiyo, spitting fire from his mouth.

Chiyo dodged again, but this time, the flames that fell on the ground suddenly exploded and stuck to the surroundings and her feet.

"what......"

Chiyo was surprised, but as Mercer breathed out again, black liquid spit out from his mouth.

The liquid exploded the moment it came into contact with the flames he had just breathed out. Chiyo was unable to dodge and was blown away, rolling several times on the ground.

Lying on the ground with a face in pain, Chiyo opened his eyes and saw the black dragon's huge claws pressing down on him. He immediately rolled out of the way and rolled to the side.

Standing up in some embarrassment, Chiyo glanced at the tang of her sword - at that position, she had prepared a blood-loading device in advance. The dragon's blood flowed along the blade, and now a full bottle was filled.

"That should be enough..."

She closed the bottle and drank a bottle of green potion quickly.

The potion worked quickly in the body, making Chiyo feel less painful from her wound. Then she rolled to avoid the black dragon's attack, and threw a smoke bomb at Mercer's face.

A large amount of smoke mixed with odor enveloped Mercer's head, making him lose his vision and unable to use his sense of smell to sense where she was going.

Although it can only be delayed for a short time, it is enough.

Mercer quickly turned his head and waved away the fog. When his vision became clear, he saw the back of Chiyo escaping around the corner.

Escape again? !

Even though Mercer was not a militant, he was offended by her behavior.

It didn't matter that I didn't fight in order to save others before, but this time I came to fight just to collect blood?Who are you looking down on?

He let out a deafening roar and swung his tail to hit the mountain wall beside him.

A large number of cracks were seen extending from the mountain wall, and large chunks of ore fell from all around, landing next to Chiyo.

The ground shook, and a huge rockfall blocked the direction of the corner, blocking her way.

"Oops--"

Chiyo had no choice but to stop and turned around to look at the grinning black dragon approaching in amazement.

She subconsciously held her hand on the handle of the knife behind her, but the next moment the black dragon's breath hit her, forcing her to roll to the side, and she could only run away passively.

Rolling to avoid the black dragon's flames, Chiyo covered her abdomen in pain and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

After all, the medicine he just took only relieves the pain and cannot heal the wound quickly.

She gasped lowly and quickly threw out the remaining smoke bombs.

This passage is gone, there are other ways to go.

——But that was not her purpose.

"Okay, let's do it..."

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the black dragon shook off the smoke, she stuffed a pill into her mouth, then drew out her sword and rushed towards the black dragon.

The flame breath brushed against her body, but she barely dodged it. Chiyo gritted his teeth and swung the sword at the black dragon, but in fact, he began to adjust his position slightly.

"Pounce forward, wave claws, breathe out..." She followed every movement of the black dragon, its neck, shoulders, throat...

Every large-scale action made by any creature will have a pre-movement, and when Chiyo saw the black dragon's limbs begin to adjust their posture, Chiyo's eyes lit up.

"I hope this secret medicine works...let's take a gamble!"

Wearing protective gear that seemed thin but could still provide effective defense, Chiyo adjusted her position while wielding Kasaya Slash. Unknowingly, she had retreated to the front of the pile of rubble.

This time, she did not choose to dodge, but faced Mercer's next move head-on - tail flick.

A heavy blow hit his body, and he was immediately slapped into the gravel behind him.

Under Mercer's power, the pile of rubble scattered easily, and the obstacles blocking the passage were easily broken through. Chiyo vomited blood and flew upside down like a kite with its string broken.

Chapter 97: The black lines of body erosion

"Well, cough cough cough..."

Chiyo's face turned pale and she vomited blood. She struggled to get up from the ground and looked at the black dragon who lifted up the gravel in front of her and walked toward her.

Although his whole body felt like he was dying of pain, Chiyo showed a lucky smile.

She took a deep breath, put her hand to her mouth and whistled.

I saw a red fire rat crawling out of the tunnel on the side, grabbing Chiyo's armor and quickly dragging him into the narrow tunnel.

When Mercer climbed out of the pile of rubble, he only saw a line of blood entering the hard-to-find tunnel.

"Why do these humans act like gophers?"

Mercer was a little irritated, but after seeing how miserable she was, most of the anger in his heart dissipated. He just lowered his head and looked at the dark tunnel where there was no trace of her, and stopped pursuing her.

He had other things to do - ever since the bearded human described the situation to him, Mercer had one more daily task, which was to patrol the surrounding area.

He casually sprayed acid and fireballs to collapse the tunnel, then turned around and left.

——At this moment, the wounds all over his body had stopped bleeding and began to heal quickly.

......

On the other side, a red fire rat dragged Chiyo to the tent she had set up before, and surrounded her making squeaking sounds.

Chiyo has learned that the sound made by the tamed red fire rats in this area means asking, asking Chiyo if he wants to send a distress signal to the blacksmiths.

"...No, no need."

Chiyo coughed twice, vomited out blood, weakly drove away the red fire rat, and lay on the ground.

Four...no, five ribs were broken, all the internal organs seemed to have been displaced, and there was no part of the body that did not feel pain.

But fortunately, the secret medicine saved her life. This effect can save people even if they are hanging by a thread. Chiyo is no stranger to this, so she also knows what the most important thing is to do now.

There was a lot of healing medicine in the tent, and Chiyo endured the pain and treated his wounds.

This kind of thing requires a lot of strength. After a while, she leaned against the mountain wall panting. The protective gear on her chest was untied and replaced by white gauze stained with blood.

She felt that she was extremely exhausted and was about to fall asleep in the next second, but before that, she had one more thing to do.

"Try it......"

Chiyo took out the bottle containing dragon blood from his sword, stared at the dark red blood in it, and drank with determination in his eyes.

After doing this, she climbed into the tent, lay down with difficulty, and fell asleep.

——This nightmare is a little different.

At first, it was still the nightmare that circulated in the depressing house, and then a black dragon opened the roof. Somehow, I, who was still a child at the time, became the hunter I am now. I swung my sword at the black dragon, and in the mine. The scene replayed the recent battle.

During the battle with it, something seemed to be forgotten, and the dark tentacles of the nightmare slowly dissipated.

After that, his feet were airborne and he fell back into that room - the cycle repeated until the black dragon pounced and its sharp teeth shattered the nightmare of reincarnation.

"what--"

Chiyo screamed and opened his eyes, looking forward in horror.

"Huh...huh..."

His pupils couldn't help but tremble, and his chest rose and fell with his breathing.After a long time, she slowly calmed down and blocked her eyes with her palms.

"It's not this...but it should be almost successful..."

Chiyo vaguely felt that her dream had changed. Although the direction this time was also wrong, something clearly affected her during the battle with the black dragon, and that should be the right direction.

"But what is it...what is on the black dragon!"

She covered her head and screamed heartbreakingly, but she still couldn't find a clue.

Originally, Chiyo had given up hope and thought she would live the rest of her life with the shadow of the past, but this time, there were waves in her heart.

After gasping for breath for a long time, Chiyo gradually calmed down and began to remove the bandages on her body.

These injuries did not heal so quickly, but before they knew it, they were stained with blood and needed to be replaced.

——However, during the dismantling process, she suddenly discovered a clue. She paused for a moment, and then quickly removed the gauze on her body.

"......Eh?"

Above his chest, approximately at the collarbone, a black line appeared that could not be ignored...

......