My twons took off from he northern gate of Alewatch. I wao take off from the guild’s yard, but it would be too small to fit both Red-Eyes and Blue-Eyes at the same time. Perhaps using a smaller dragon as a mount would be better when I’m close to towo get a sleeve for Hyozanryu at some point and check out his size.

  Lucia roteg us from the rain with a water spell, but that didn't really help in seeing. The rain was quite overwhelming so I could only see some of the basis of the ground below us.

  Our twoo fly owo sides of the road. We were on the right side and Red-Eyes was on the left.

  “Brian, you see anything?” Lucia asked. She was sitting behind me and had her hands around my waist.

  “Not yet. We just took off.” I told her. “The visibility is also terrible. But I think if we see any lightning, we should head in that dire.”

  Luckily the little bubble Lucia had cast to protect us from the rain also made it easier to talk.

  “Why would we search fhtning?” Lucia asked.

  “The group was attacked by thunder sprites, so I would guess the thunder sprites hang close by to lightning strikes.” I told her. “It might give us some dire.”

  “I see.” Lucia said behind me.

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  [colpse]CRACK!

  A massive lightning bolt hit a little ways in front of us. I could feel Lucia tighten her grip on me when it happened.

  “Blue-Eyes, that’s where we are going!” I anded my summon. I have no idea if she heard me, but she did seem to pick up some speed.

  Crack! Crack! Crack!

  Multiple smaller lightning bolts hit a little ways away from where the rge oruck.

  “Br… Brian.” Lucia said as she held onto me tightly. “There is a lot of mana moving in that area.”

  Mana? Do the sprites use magic?

  (Yes. Sprites are spirits that were corrupted by miasma. They attack with magid are immuo physical attacks.) Laura told me.

  I see. Actually, how Lucia feel mana moving from this far away? There is still at least a few kilometers between us and that area.

  (She feel it because she is a skilled mage. The amount of mana being used is rge and it’s used without any care at all, so a lot of it bursts everywhere. You could feel it as well if you were better at mana trol.)

  … again, you bully me. That’s not fun.

  (I’m trying to give you motivation so you’ll practice more by pointing out your shortings.)

  Fine. Just try to be nicer about it.

  (I take after Master.) Laura told me. Am I really that savage?

  “There. Those are the thunder sprites!” Lucia said as she pointed ahead.

  There were a total of six or seven balls of yellow light. At least that’s what they looked like from this distance. One of them was signifitly rger thahers. I guess that would be their leader and the ohat casted that first lightning bolt.

  (Master, I’ve located the wreckages of multiple carriages.) Laura told me. (The attacks of the thunder sprites seem to be focused on an area hem.)

  “Lua, Laura noticed a wrecked carriage! I think they are somewhere hat! And these thunder sprites are attag that area! I think we o take them down!” I told Lucia.

  “But how? Water magic is not that good against thunder sprites!” She told me.

  “We are riding a dragon! How do you think we will do this?” I responded.

  I ordered Blue-Eyes to move into attack position, but before we made it there.

  (Master, anhtning attaing.) Laura warned me.

  (Are they targeting us?) I asked.

  (No, they seem to be targeting the ground. But I’ve located the group we are searg for and they are the target.) She told me.

  ( I stop it?) I asked.

  (Yes, use this.) Laura said as my pack opener’s colle popped up.

  I took a card from it and looked at its name. Will this really work? Well it’s Laura’s idea so it should work.

  “Wall of Revealing Light.” I activated the card Laura had chosen. I could feel the HP leaving my body. I don’t know how much that trap card just took, but I hope I didn’t give it too much. I don’t want to die to some stray lightning scraps that hit us.

  (It only took 200 HP from you, Master. You still have enough with your defeat and summoner’s prote skill.

  200? Isn’t that half of my HP?

  But the card took effed a rge wall of light appeared between the ground and the sprites. It made it just in time before the set of lightning crashed down.

  Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

  Five lightning bolts hit the wall in a row. I could see a massive cra the wall, but it didn’t break yet.

  CRACK!

  The rger bolt from the leader sprite came and it shattered the wall I spent 200 HP on. That’s not fair. But I think that might be enough time for Blue-Eyes. We should be withiriking range.

  “Blue-Eyes, attack those sprites. White Lightning!” I anded. At this point, I don’t care if it is a little ge. As long as we take them down, that’s all that matters.

  Blue-Eyes opened her mouth and shot out a beam of white light. It took a sed for my eyes to adjust to the brightness of it.

  Spoiler Just a good looking picture.

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  Luckily we had moved into a positiohe attack would just keep going up into the air. I really don’t want to carve the nds with that attack. That’s because there was now a hole in the clouds where that breath attack had made tact with them. Blue-Eyes, I was joking when I said you could bst away the clouds. You didn’t actually o do it.

  The sprites weren’t looking that good either. Well, only one of them was even alive at this point anyway. The rgest ohat I think was the leader. I’m actually surprised it was able to take that attack.

  “Brian, one survived.” Lucia said behind me.

  “Well you know what they say. If at first you don’t succeed, bst them with your Blue-Eyes again. White Lightning!”

  Spoiler Because someone will link it anyway.

  [colpse]Another beam of white light lit up the rainy sky. This time my eyes were able to see it.

  It didn’t move as fast as I thought it would. Well I guess expeg it to move at lightspeed was on me, so… At least it was still fast.

  I tried following the attack path with my eyes, but I couldn’t. Both because it did move quickly, and because it ure white. But I did notiething.

  “That thing dodged.” I pihe sprite had dodged the sed attack. Apparently it didn’t like my lightning.

  (Master, it’s fog on us. It will attack us soon. After the attack, it will be vulnerable.) Laura told me. (But I ot reend taking on an attack from it. And if we dodge we won’t be in a good position to ter attack.)

  “Then we just need another moo do the ter attack for us.” I said out loud.

  “Brian?” Lucia asked.

  “Don’t worry. I have a pn.” I told her. I pulled out the purple card from my colle. “St. Joan.”

  I summohe fusion monster I had summoned once yesterday. I think she will do a good job with the ter attack. She appeared standing on the back of Blue-Eyes, just behind Lucia.

  “We will draw the lightning, you attack after it.” I anded my summon.

  “Yes Master.” She received her and and drew out her sword.

  (Ining!) Laura warned me.

  “Blue-Eyes, Dodge!” I anded. As we did, St. Joan took the opportunity to jump off of Blue-Eyes aended her wings of light. She used them to soar iher dire from us.

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  [colpse]

  CRACK!

  The massive lightning bolt hit where we had just been. The edge of it hit the tail of Blue-Eyes, but she took it like a champ without pining.

  “Auch.” Lucia yelled behind me as some of the electricity had traveled along the back of Blue-Eyes and sapped both of us lightly. It didn’t hurt too bad, but it was most certainly not pleasant.

  I turned my head so I could see the thunder sprite again. It had its eyes focused on us. Does a ball of yellow light actually have eyes to begin with? Well at least it was focused on us so it didn’t notice St. Joan before it was too te.

  Flying with the wings of light, St. Joan soared past the thunder sprite cleaving it in two with her sword. I thought those things were immuo physical attacks.

  (A magic sword inflicts both physical and magical damage.) Laura told me. (That’s why I didn’t stop Master from summoning her.)

  And with that, we had taken dowhunder sprites. It felt like it took forever, but there was only about 60 seds between Blue-Eyes first attad the final attack by St. Joan.

  Now, let’s go check up on the group we were searg for. But we didn’t have the opportunity to do that, as something strange was happening right in front of us.