I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 7

The three crossbow arrows were all aimed at the red dragon's eyes and throat.

At the critical moment, Li Yuan suddenly stopped charging and retracted his long snake-like neck to avoid it.

A crossbow arrow missed, another crossbow arrow hit his horn, sparked off, and another hit his side face.

The stabbing pain from the side of his face made Li Yuan narrow his eyes, and this crossbow arrow pierced his hard dragon scales.

Fortunately, the size of the crossbow bolts to him is just like a pen to humans, and the penetration is not deep, it can only be regarded as a skin trauma.

His quick reaction surprised all the knights present, and Heinrich began to suspect that the red dragon had experience in fighting dragon hunters.

Ordinary dragons have a certain degree of confidence in their own dragon scales. After all, describing the dragon scales of real dragons as copper walls and iron walls seems like a derogation.

The hardness of dragon scales exceeds that of almost all ordinary metals, and it is truly invulnerable. It also has a considerable degree of resistance to magic, and its strength will increase as the dragon grows.

Young true dragons who encounter the Dragon Hunting Ballista for the first time will often suffer the last time.

In the face of human long-range weapons, they often do not hide. When they find that this thing can penetrate the dragon scales after a hard volley, they may have already been hit somewhere.

But Li Yuan inherited the memory of Helganon being killed by these knights, so of course he knew the danger of these ballistas.

What's more, the information provided by Zhenna is still in my ears——

"The crossbow bolts they use are made of alloys mixed with legendary metals, and forged with the help of alchemists and dwarves. The distance is close enough to penetrate the dragon scales of young giant dragons, but they can't hurt the keel. The general parts are only flesh wounds, but you must protect the vital points, such as eyes and throat..." Zhenna thought about it here, and added, "There is also an anus!"

Attacking all the vital points that can be attacked - this is indeed a very pragmatic way of fighting. Of course, Li Yuan doesn't want to be blinded or blown.

The first round of volleys didn't work, and the ballista knights hurriedly began to fill up the next attack, and the paladins who cooperated with them stepped forward with their giant shields on their backs.

For Li Yuan, this was an excellent opportunity to launch a counterattack. He locked on the group of knights in front of him, and he was about to charge.

The holy knight's holy shield could barely block his breath, but it might not be able to hold back his powerful full-strength impact. As long as he pounced on one of them now, he could kill a holy knight on the spot.

"Look this way, brainless lizard!!"

"Come on, are you even afraid of humans?"

"Peel off your scales to make armor!"

The paladin with the huge shield even taunted the red dragon bravely, intending to irritate him and attract his attention.

This "excellent opportunity" was also a bait deliberately thrown out by the knights.

As early as when the red dragon was dodging the crossbow arrows, Heinrich seized the opportunity for him to look away from himself, riding the land dragon around to the blind spot of his vision, and now he was quickly approaching his side!

Heinrich inserted the finger of his left hand covered with the gauntlet into a small hole on the breastplate. The part of the gauntlet covering his finger has irregular metal protrusions, which correspond to the lines in the small hole.

This is a key, the activation key of the steam armor!
He activated his steam armor, and the engine in the breastplate roared.

At the same time, Lu Xinglong led him to take off vigorously, leaping several meters high, the back of the giant dragon was in sight!
Li Yuan noticed the engine sound of the steam armor turning back, but it was too late.

Heinrich took off from Lu Xinglong's back again, raised his blasting battle ax high, aimed at the red dragon's back and jumped.

The mechanical armor cooperated with his movements, and a large amount of steam came out from the gaps in the armor. At the same time, the propulsion device of the battle ax made an explosion sound like a cannon, and the powerful driving force instantly accelerated the battle ax to a point where it was difficult for ordinary people to swing it.

it's over!
At this moment, Heinrich was convinced of the victory of the dragon slaying battle. The huge body of the red dragon had no time to dodge. The blade of the battle ax was made of mithril, and such a heavy blow was enough to penetrate the dragon scales and touch the dragon's spine.

A one-time explosive rune is also attached to the battle axe. When the ax blade is cut into it, the ensuing explosion will completely destroy the dragon's spine.

The blow wasn't fatal to the dragon, but it was enough to paralyze the back half of his body and stop his wings from moving.

A giant dragon that can only crawl on its front paws can only become a living target for dragon hunters in the end!
However, at this moment, from the corner of Heinrich's eye, he caught a glimpse of the red dragon's tail lifted up, and a figure rose up with that tail.

He glanced over there in surprise, and this glance made his hair stand on end.

He saw Princess Zhenna, who was supposed to have died, raised up holding the dragon's tail, and stared at him fiercely!
Her Royal Highness...the corpse was cheated! ?
Zhenna held up her long sword and pointed in Heinrich's direction.

The shield made of holy light suddenly appeared right under the blasting battle ax that Heinrich swung, protecting the vitals of the dragon that Heinrich was aiming at!

"No!!" Heinrich cried out in his heart the moment he saw the Holy Shield.

But the tomahawk accelerated by the mechanical power is not something he can forcefully take back.

The battle ax struck heavily on the holy shield, easily shattering the holy shield, but the momentum also weakened a bit.

The blasting runes attached to it exploded ahead of time with the strong impact.

Then the tomahawk touched the dragon scale, it cut open the dragon scale and hurt the dragon, but at this moment Heinrich's blood was cold.

Just by the feel of his hand, he knew that because of the obstruction of the holy shield, the cut was too shallow, and it couldn't hurt the keel at all.

The blasting rune was consumed before the dragon's scales were cut, and the injury could not be expanded. This attack was only a skin trauma to the red dragon.

Li Yuan felt the pain from the tomahawk on his back, he turned his body around with a roar, and at the same time arched his back vigorously, pushing the tomahawk on his back out of the wound.

Heinrich was also thrown off. At this time, the red dragon stretched out its long neck and opened its mouth towards the falling Heinrich like an attacking poisonous snake.

Li Yuan bit Heinrich's leg, but found that the armor was thicker than he expected, and it seemed to be mixed with legendary metal like those crossbow bolts, so he couldn't crush it on the spot.

Under the action of the stimulant, Heinrich's mount Lu Xinglong pounced on the red dragon, opened his mouth to bite the red dragon's neck, and tried to rescue his master, but its teeth could not break the real dragon's scales at all.

Li Yuan waved his dragon claws annoyedly, and directly sent Lu Xinglong flying into the distance. A thought suddenly appeared in his mind:
"You are also worthy of the name 'dragon'?"

This idea comes from the instinctive reaction of the red dragon. Although these sub-dragon creatures and true dragons may be biologically related, the gap will not be smaller than monkeys and humans. True dragons have an instinctive contempt for sub-dragon creatures.

"Drink!!"

Heinrich's powered armor, whose leg was bitten, swung his battle ax vigorously to fight back, but he could only hit the strong jaw of the red dragon. Without the support of the battle ax propulsion device, he didn't even leave a wound.

Li Yuan raised his head with Heinrich in his mouth, then flung it down vigorously, and at the same time let go of his mouth, smashing Heinrich hard on the ground.

With a loud bang, Heinrich, who was wrapped in heavy armor, shattered the floor tiles of the tower and made a big hole.

The red dragon smashed it with all its strength, and the impact it brought was no less than letting him fall from a height of tens of meters.

Then the red dragon slapped down with a palm, pressing him deeper in the pit.

Even though the steam armor still had a bit of buffer structure inside, Heinrich still clearly felt the impact throughout his body and the severe pain of bone fracture, which almost made him lose consciousness on the spot.

(End of this chapter)