Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 67

Chapter 67: A Spar
Sound of draconic roaring can be heard as a young man looks through the skies, his emperor-like bearing not being suppressed even just by a bit by the terrifying pressure coming out from his opponents flapping their massive wingspan in the air, his figure standing just straight there like an unyielding spear challenging the heavens.

While this young man just stands in his position like a pillar holding the place, the figures of his three opponents are already descending down from the skies, their massive wings now folded in order to increase the speed of their meteoric descent to the ground.

“They’re learning” seeing how efficient they utilize they draconic form now, the emperor-like young man, Diluc, couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction seeing that these dragonesses are improving faster and faster through each of their fights, which in turn forces him to improve faster as well given that it is just going to be harder and harder to fight them if he could not.

It is already the last day of their time being together for the entire day, the reason being it will be the start of Diluc’s classes the next day, making these dragonesses quite sad seeing that their beloved liege is about to have less time for them, the only reason why they don’t show it on their faces being the fact that the emperor-like young man himself promises that they would still meet during the weekends.

While they are talking about all sorts of mundane things previously, the topic then arrives at their ability with combat, something that sparks because of Seraphina’s usual seemingly bragging tone and Argenta’s unexpected competitiveness, that suddenly ignited the moment that the fire dragoness talks about how she is the greatest front-line attacker there is in their group.

Which leads to this current situation, not one where the metal and fire dragoness is facing each other but rather them, along with their eldest sister, is facing against him, their liege.

“Seraphina, you’re way too close to Argenta…” Diluc said as he infuses mana into his voice, making his intent known even through there are still a couple of hundred meters between him and the draconic beauties currently on their True Dragon form, each of them taking his words seriously as they know just how observant him, their liege is when it comes to the battlefield.

“Remember that even though you are quite stronger than Ygg when it comes to your defense…” as he said it, the emperor-like young man smiles as the wind elemental mana starts swirling around him, eventually exploding on the sole of his feet as he assumes a jumping position, the explosion launching him like an arrow through the air the moment that he jumps.

“You’re still weaker than Argenta in terms of that” he then continues his words as the very wind elemental mana that launches him up high in the air also stops him from the movements, making him float right next to the blood ruby like shining scales of the adolescent fire dragoness, causing her reptilian-like eyes to widen in surprise.

“One down” Diluc smiles as he moves his hands towards Seraphina, opened into a palm about to take a grasp on one of the dragonesses’ limbs, had it not been for the long, shining metallic tail interrupting this and completely disrupting the sequence of his attack.

Looking at the one who intervened with his movements, Diluc couldn’t help but smile as he points his fingers towards the metal dragoness that just seems still wary of whatever it is that is about to happen, making him chuckle in laughter for a while, his laughter making these draconic beauties wondering about its reasons.

“See Seraphina? Your sister Argenta isn’t the vanguard of our group for no reason, because while she’s really good at attacking as well, she’s more adept with defending rather than anything else, bear that in mind” the young man said as he remembers just how vast the difference is between his [Rain of Swords] and Argenta’s [Rain of Swords], one where the skill is used as being a more offensive ones, for harassing, disabling, distracting and straight out executing the enemies in his path, while the other one uses it as crowd control, mostly to direct opponents to her desired places as well as to remove their vision upon certain places, both their means terrifying enough but even more so if combined.

As much as he would like to use this combined tactic of the same [Rain of Swords] with her currently, he can’t since she’s part of the group fighting against him currently, making the two of them feel like this is also the right time to figure out whose method is it that is most efficient in using the [Rain of Swords], is it the unstoppable force type of approach that he is using? Or is it the immovable object type of approach that the metal dragoness is making use of?

While both of them thinks of that, the two of them knows that it is more important to talk a bit of sense to the wild Seraphina, making her aware that he places them for that combat position for a reason, not just because they want to be there.

“As for you young lady…” then moving his fingers to point towards the towering fire dragoness just right in front of him, Diluc smiles, making this lady wonder why is he acting like that despite her making a mistake, but she doesn’t ask about this yet as she knows that he is still speaking.

“You’re really great as well, Seraphina, the problem is you don’t know where your greatness shines” Diluc said those words, intentionally making it sound like that as given how long he has been with this lady, he already knows just what will make it so that she is more willing to listen to the advices he is giving.

“T-then what does my dear liege suggest for the great me?” looking at him from up above given their current difference in size, the fire dragoness, Seraphina, asked with curiosity filling her voice, along with the hint of being quite regretful that she is the one that made their formation open against him.

“You’re already in the place you need to be, my dear little fire dragon, you just don’t know how great of a position you have in this formation…” Diluc said as he praises her more, his words making the dragoness wag her tail in enjoyment as she moves her head left to right, making her majestic form appear quite silly given her actions, yet still terrifying and awe-inducing nevertheless.

“I am already there?” listening to her dear liege’s words, the fire dragoness couldn’t help but wonder just what is it that he is talking about, given that where she wants to be is the frontmost of the lines, where she can fight side by side with him as they go through their real enemies.

Seeing the curiosity getting deeper and deeper in her eyes, Diluc then decided to move for the decisive strike, even the wood dragon previously quite far away from them already arrive here and standing just right beside the emperor-like young man, their liege, on the other side of the young man the metal dragoness, both these two already back to their human form.

As she waits for her dear liege to start his words, seeing that her two older sisters are already in their human form, even Seraphina starts shrinking and returning to her fiery beauty of a human form, her eyes still revealing that same curiosity toward their liege’s words.

“You see, Seraphina, both Yggdrasil and Argenta looks impressive on their positions, right? That is because they did their jobs so well, now imagine you doing so… a majestic fire dragon appearing right behind the massive shields that Argenta is conjuring, creating a massive pit of destruction with your flame alone…” as he starts narrating about how she can possibly perform when she performs correctly according to her battle position, the fiery beauty starts smiling wider and wider, confirming to him that whatever it is that he is doing, it is effective.

“…so, what do you think of your position in battle now?” Diluc asks as he looks at her mesmerizingly beautiful face once again, the very same face that seems to hold a lot of contemplation and thinking now, with a trace of excitement clearly visible on them.

“Thank you, my dear liege!!” she said shouting as she moves her head upwards, her flushed face a mixture of her excitement and embarrassment for having him to point out what she thought now is such an obvious thing to notice, making her feel more and more amazed by him.

“For what? There’s nothing to thank about between all of us, right? After all, we’re family” Diluc said with a brilliant smile on his face causing the three to be mesmerized, their stunned, blushing face making the young man wonder just what is it that is about to happen right now.