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POV MC:
As I futilely attempted to shake off the living booger everything got worse first it flung up into the air and rained down upon me once it patched onto my clothes I could feel its warm body wriggle and glanced down to see my clothes dissolving
That’s when I realized what this living booger was it was that damn clothes-eating slime Issei wanted as a familiar no matter how much I swiped at it nothing changed I was being robbed of my clothes
How could such a thing as this happen to me? However, before I could brood on this unfortunate situation I felt an agonizing spike of pain shoot through my body
I could barely control my own body every muscle tensing and sporadically spasming a guttural groan of pain escaping my lips unrestrained
I fell to the ground limply barely feeling anything but tingles throughout my body looking up I saw that damn figure it was similar to that dragon Asia made into her familiar but this one was yellow instead
I saw it charging another ball of lightning so through the numbness of my entire body I threw myself up tumbling and tripping my way through the forest of twisted trees
[Host has finished installation of the complainant system would you like an overview of its functions or wait until later?]
I suddenly heard a voice similar to that of Siri inside my mind “I don’t need an overview, I NEED FUCKING HELP!!” I couldn’t help but shout through my panic trying to hide was completely useless I could see and hear the flashes of thunder or whatever the fuck this crazy shit going on around me was
All I knew was the right side of my body hurt like hell it must have hit a part of the slime because there was no fucking way my body could handle that impact
It was creating holes in the ground and trees it hit the size of a basketball thank god this thing had to aim worse than a damn doorknob
[would the host like to receive complaint rewards?]
(Yes I want the rewards, what a stupid question did it expect me to say no I’m just being chased by a crazed dragon no big deal)
[system reward received: flame arrow]
Along with the already present adrenaline rush, I felt a sensation like a trickling faucet of water washing over me my body unlocking its previously dormant mana
The information I got about the flame arrow was very basic just mold the mana like this do this gesture and bam you got an arrow of flame to launch at a target
As the trees slowly fade I see a clearing in front of me a perfect place to kill this fucker as my confidence begins to swell and various plans begin to swirl within my mind fate decides I was much too arrogant as one of the dragon's bolts of a lightning strike just close enough to my foot to cause me to go tumbling into the clearing
I scream in pain as I feel my foot twist and hear an unpleasant cracking sound once I stop tumbling I look up towards the small dragon through tears of pain I see it slowly entering the clearing seemingly smug that I’m now on the ground
I begin to get up to my feet barely putting any weight onto the twisted foot I begin to open my arms wide molding my mana and coalescing it into both my hands I see the flames begin to take shape on my palms it’s far more difficult than expected to mold the mana finally
I quickly begin to pull my hands towards each other as if I’m about to clap grazing the two flames within my hands together they connect forming a bigger ball holding that ball within my left hand's palm facing the ground I pull my right hand over the top of my left causing the ball to stretch out from under my left stretching out with the right hand
Closing my pinky and ring finger I outstretch the index and middle pointing directly at the dragon my thumb where the flame is resting instead of burning me it just feels extremely hot however not painful at all
I slightly shift my stance so I can fully pull my right arm back straight so the arrow is not bent and with a smile, I feel my eyes dilate from the sudden brightness of the flame and as I stand there I momentarily bask in the marvelousness of performing actual magic and then I let go and the flame arrow shoots off towards the dragon
Said dragon has seemingly frozen in shock or is it fear I don’t know and frankly don't care I just want this bastard dead
The flame arrow tears through the air but doesn’t hit the dragon just one of its wings I watch as it comes hurdling to the ground
I see a small explosion off in the distance but my entire focus is on making sure this dragon is dead for good I stake a limp step forward and then the nausea hits me my whole world becomes a twisted mess and I fall onto my knees hands saving me from falling straight onto my face
I take a second to breathe and reorient myself “What just happened?” I pant out between big gulfs of air my lungs burning
[mana exhaustion]
The system states as if I asked the most obvious question in the world I ignore all of that and look up towards the dragon slowly lifting its head towards me from our distance I can see the hostility in its eyes
As I get up to my feet and look at it doing the same I limply walk towards it, it doing the same we meet in the middle and I lift my leg as it lifts its clawed yellow hand from here I can see its cauterized wing along with the burns around the wound
As I stomp its head into the ground its claws dig into my uninjured leg scratching gaping chunks into my flesh I drop onto that knee right on top of it I begin to punch and hammer my fist into whatever part of this dragon I can
It begins to futilely beat its wings against my body its legs clawing into the ground trying to push me off of it I move myself so I am sitting on its head just in case it tries that lightning shit
At this point, it’s thrashing with all its might its wings are a flurry of yellow its tail trying to reach up to me it’s doing anything it can to hit but it can’t from the position I am in
I started doing anything I could to kill it starting to scratch and claw even biting into its wings my nails had begun to crack and bleed my blood mixing with its own
Once I had no more nails it clawed with I grabbed ahold of its closest wing and bit down and pulled with all my might ripping a chunk of flesh off I began to tear into this monster ripping apart its wings with my bare teeth
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