Volume 4 Chapter 9 (2/2)

Level: 58

Physical Strength: A

Endurance: A

Agility: A

Magic: B

Luck: B

Special: B

Skills:

Darkness Dragon

Miasma (Weak)

Deadly poison

Fear

Darkness Dragon: Able to use magic and breath attacks of the darkness attribute. Physical Strength and Endurance receive enhancements (small). Bonuses (medium) to the skill-holder's flying capabilities.

Miasma (Weak): Clads the user in miasma (weak) that adds damage to his attacks. Gives bonuses (medium) to Endurance as well as magical resistance.

Deadly poison: Clads claws and fangs with a deadly poison.

Fear: Grants weakening effect (medium) against all enemies lower than A rank.

Both its stats and special abilities were great. It was an extremely excellent monster.

And then, I had an idea. Sometime later, we'll extract poison from these dragons. Poison that are gonna be used in weapons and some products.

”Wight, I plan on creating nine more darkness dragons. I was thinking of leaving the command of them to you but is that fine with you?”

”Of course, my lord. With 10 of this monster, we should be able to defeat most enemies with ease. My lord, how do you plan to make use of them?”

”First is to make them take over the aerial bombardment which until now is being done by the Griffon and Hippogriffs. Unlike them though, the darkness dragons will not require the elves to clear a path for them; they can gain air superiority on their own and can drop powerful bombs on the enemy army right from the start.”

To be able to speedily bombard the enemies on the ground after eliminating the ones in the sky by themselves, that is their greatest strength.

”That's certainly true. If they use the napalm bombs right at the start of battle, our side would gain an overwhelming advantage. To be able to safely and reliably execute that is really reassuring.”

”And that's not all. I'm also intending for these dragons to transport the Avalon-Ritters.”

It could be said that this would be their more important job.

”I intend to make them carry a container filled with about 10 Avalon-Ritters and drop that container down on the enemy's base. I want this to be a new standard tactic of ours.”

Upon hearing my words, Wight gasped. I took that as an indication that he fully understood me.

”As expected of my lord, to be able to think up of such an amazing thing. In essence, we would be able to rapidly send out large amounts of fighting force of A-rank-equivalent units to any place at any time. ………That is revolutionary. We will be able to pretty much ignore the enemy's defenses and launch a surprise attack in the center of their formation.”

The Avalon-Ritters were made of the light-weight metal orichalcum but due to their size, each one was heavy. Too heavy, in fact, that it was impossible for the Hippogriffs to transport many of them at a time.

Such was not the case for the Graphross, however.

If we could pull this off, the way wars were fought would most likely change; mobility would be the most important factor.

”Bombardment and transport, those will be darkness dragons' duties. I leave their command and training to you, Wight. Use as much real explosives as you see fit for the training. As for the transportation training, you may make use of any golems other than those made of mithril and transport them outside of Avalon in a container I would have the Dwarf Smiths make. For anything else necessary, you have my every permission.”

”Yes, my lord. I will definitely present to you the strongest aerial combat corps.”

Wight said so and very elegantly bowed.

Originally, I planned to be the one to do the training but since he was conveniently there, I entrusted it to him. More than that, since he could strengthen the darkness dragons, I had decided that it would be better for him to be their commander.

In reply to him I nodded to indicate my satisfaction. I then bought the other nine dragons with almost all of my remaining DP and entrusted all of them to Wight.

As a side note, one of newly born dragons immediately protested to which the very first one only looked at the latter with eyes filled with pity.

”I'll leave the rest to you then.”

”Certainly, my lord.”

I left the place and headed toward Kohaku the Byakko.

Before I settled on any kind of defenses to prevent the leak of information or on what my intelligence-gathering monster is going to be, I first needed to know more about intelligence-gathering monsters themselves.

I was certain that in the middle of my talk with Byakko, I would be able to get some kind of insight.