“Siegfried-nim! Enemies!” Brunhilde shouted.
“Enemies? Aren’t they elves like you?” Siegfried asked.
“No, we are different! Those are dark elves, and they’re evil!”
“Wait, does that mean…”
“Yes, we have to fight! Hold on tight!”
“Okay!”
The pegasus flew faster after Brunhilde flicked the reins.
“Aaaaah!” Siegfried screamed once more and instinctively gripped Brunhilde’s waist for dear life. The silver lining here would be the fact that the foreboding battle in the air made Siegfried feel nervous, so the blood pumped in his nether region went back up to his brain.
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A peculiar message popped up in front of his eyes, but Siegfried didn’t have the luxury to think about it right now.
Shwiiiik!
An arrow grazed and flew past his earlobe, which signaled the start of aerial combat.
Shwiiik! Shwiiik! Shwiiik!
The dark elves mounted on the wyverns aimed their crossbows at the Pegasus Knights and unleashed a rain of bolts.
“Careful! Their bolts are laden with poison!” Brunhilde warned. Then, she took out her own bow and pulled its bowstring.
‘What are those things…?’ Siegfried wondered and used his Rune of Insight on the dark elves.
[Black Winged Warriors]
[The flying unit of the Dark Elven Kingdom, Niflheim.]
[They are Black Wyvern Riders, and they are extremely skilled in combat.]
[They are the rival of the Elondel’s Pegasus Flying Squadron.]
Siegfried learned from the details that the Dark Elves had their own kingdom, and they were not on good terms with the Elves.
‘But why are they fighting? Were they already on bad terms with each other?’ Siegfried wondered.
“You bitch, Brunhilde!”
A high-pitched scream suddenly echoed as a vicious-looking dark elf riding on a wyvern with black and gold scales flew toward them.
[Menacia]
[A princess of Niflheim.]
[She is the owner of Zarakhan, the leader of the wyverns, and the Magic Sword of Darkness: Venom.]
[She is Brunhilde’s rival.]
[Type: NPC]
[Level: 299]
[Race: Elf (411 years old)]
[Class: Cruel Blade]
[Position: Captain of the Black Winged Warriors]
[Rank: Brigadier General]
[Titles: Self-Professed Spinster, Most Beautiful Dark Elf, Hit A Wall, Cruel Warrior]
Menacia possessed identical stats to Brunhilde as befitting of her rival, and she was a beauty that possessed pale violet skin and dark green hair that looked almost black.
She was a beauty, but her vicious expression was more than enough to scare off any potential suitors.
“You ugly bitch! You dare bring a human to our sacred forest?!” Menacia started hurling curses at Brunhilde.
“Your hideous ugliness is not the only thing repulsive about you! Your actions are quite repulsive as well!”
“Aren’t you being too harsh?!” Brunhilde retorted in anger. Then, she lashed out, “I know I’m ugly! But I don’t deserve to be called that by someone as evil as you!”
“Shut up, you dumb ignorant foolish ugly bitch! This sacred forest does not only belong to you, lowlifes! We dark elves reside here, too! How dare you bring a human here? I hope you’re not trying to claim that you’re doing something good right now!”
“Father has approved it!”
“Ha! What a load of bullshit! Are you trying to say that your old man owns this forest, then?!”
“You dare speak ill of Father…!”
“Hohoho! Why do you care? I’m going to have your head right now and send it to your old man as a gift!”
“I won’t tolerate this any longer! Hyperion! Let’s go!” Brunhilde roared before kicking the side of the divine mount.
“Neiiiiigh!”
The divine mount seemed furious as well. It neighed and flew toward Zarakhan. An aerial duel between the two princesses broke out, and Siegfried was between it.
“Ugh…! Umffff…!” he tried his best to suppress the rising content of his stomach.
‘I feel like I’m going to puke…!’
This was his first time flying on a mount, and it was definitely not a fun experience to be in between the aerial duel of two elven princesses.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
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Even worse, the shockwaves were injuring him as well. It wasn’t really strange because the two were Level 299. In other words, Siegfried was personally experiencing an age-old saying that whenever elephants fought each other, the grass would suffer.
“You fucking bitch!”
“Stop cussing at me!”
“Die! Ugly bitch!”
“No, you die!”
The duel between the princesses grew even fiercer and more emotional, and Siegfried reckoned that one of them would die at this rate
“Who’s that human behind you? Ha! What a pathetic man! To think that he would tremble like a dog while hiding behind you!” Menacia sneered.
“Watch your mouth!”
“Hmm? Oh, look at this bitch. Why are you turning red? Is that human your love toy or something?”
“Y-Yeah!”
“Omo? He’s really your toy?”
“H-He’s not a toy, but I like him! So watch your mouth!” Brunhilde fumed and screamed at the top of her lungs.
“Hohoho! I see! The ugly elf decided to settle for a human instead! Omo! How pitiful you are! I feel so bad for you! Hahaha!”
“Y-You evil witch…!”
“I know, I should kill that human first and skin him alive before cutting your head off.”
“Don’t you dare talk about him!”
Bam!
Menacia dealt a powerful blow the moment Brunhilde got worked up. It was the perfect ambush that used the enemy’s susceptible mental condition against them.
“Kyah!”
Brunhilde failed to block the attack and fell off Hyperion, but the problem was that they were currently way off the ground.
Shwoooooong…!
Brunhilde plummeted at a frightening speed.
“Catch her,” Menacia said to her mount.
“Kwuoooh!”
The large black wyvern responded with a roar before diving toward Brunhilde.
“Neiiiiigh!”
Hyperion dove as fast as it could to save its rider, but it wasn’t fast enough.
Pegasi was a creature that could ascend extremely quickly to the sky, but it was not that good at descending or diving down. Meanwhile, black wyverns ascended slowly but descended quickly.
Hyperion wouldn’t be able to save Brunhilde before Menacia’s black wyvern got to her.
“Hahaha! Finally! I can finally…!” Menacia burst into laughter while diving toward Brunhilde. She was already drooling at the thought of decapitating the elven princess.
“Today, I will finally…!”
Shwiiiik… Pukeok!
Something flew and struck her nape…
***
“Kyaaah!” Menacia screamed, and her forehead slammed into Zarakhan’s neck.
The impact was so strong that she would have fallen off her black wyvern if she hadn’t slammed into its neck.
“Kwuoh?”
Zarakhan had to stop in mid-air despite being less than a meter away from catching up to the elven princess.
“Neigh!”
Hyperion didn’t miss the opportunity. It dove down with all of its strength and caught Brunhilde.
Thud!
Siegfried caught Brunhilde by her waist and safely put her back on the Pegasus.
“Siegfried-nim…!”
“Are you okay?”
“Y-Yes, I’m fine!”
“That was a close call.”
Their conversation was cut short by an ear-splitting scream filled with malice.
“W-Who… Which bastard did thaaaaaat?!” Menacia screamed while bleeding from her head.
“It’s me, bitch,” Siegfried replied after catching the +15 Gaia’s Fist.
“What? You? Bitch?”
“Yes, bitch. You need to bite down on some soap. Your mouth is filthier than the filthiest sewage out there,” Siegfried said with a smirk.
“This bastard dares to…!”
“However, your head is quite sturdy, I give you that. It would have been better if you just dropped dead after a single hit, but I guess there’s a reason why your level is high,” said Siegfried.
‘Well, her Basic Defense alone is already far higher than most NPCs…’
It wasn’t strange that Menacia’s Basic Defense was quite high, as she was a Level 299 who was on the cusp of becoming a Master. It would be absurd if she were to die in a single hit, regardless of the weapon’s level enhancement.
“You bastard! I’m going to kill you!” Menacia screamed in fury with bloodshot eyes.
Siegfried simply sneered, “Good luck~”
With that, he turned to Brunhilde and asked, “Can you fight? I think it will be difficult for me to fight that filthy mouth by myself.”
“It will be a bit difficult but… I will do my best!”
“Then shall we fight together? I will help you.”
“Okay!”
Brunhilde readily agreed to fight alongside Siegfried, as this was not a one-on-one sacred duel or anything.
‘There’s not a lot I can do, but I should do whatever I can to help…’ he thought.
He glanced at the others and saw that they were fighting as a group instead of one-on-one like Brunhilde and Menacia.
Siegfried shouted at the top of his lungs. “Let’s help them, too! Scribe Gringore, you should go sing or something! Stop being so scared!”
“As! You! Comaaaaaaaand…! Your majesty!” Gringore screamed while holding onto dear life with his eyes closed. He took a moment to compose himself before opening his eyes once more to start singing.
“Lalala~ Lala~ Lalalalala~ Lala… LAAAAAAAA!”
The Phantom Singer’s song pervaded the skies and pressured the Black Winged Warriors.
“Hamchi! Use your skill to bring those wyverns down! Seung-Gu and Cesc! You guys should—” Siegfried was about to say something, but he stopped upon realizing that the two were absolutely useless in aerial combat. “Haha… do whatever you can…”
Neither of them could fly nor engage in ranged combat, so they were practically useless here. Anyway, the tides of the battle completely shifted after Siegfried gave the command, and this was quite visible in the fight between Brunhilde and Menacia.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Siegfried threw his +15 Gaia’s Fist with Flying Sword whenever it went off cooldown, forcing Menacia into awkward positions while facing Brunhilde.
“You damn human…!” Menacia screamed in anger.
“What did you say a while ago? I’m a what? I was staying out of your fight out of consideration, but you brought this upon yourself, bitch!”
Siegfried was petty, and he took what Menacia had said about him just a while ago personally. He had been staying quiet since he wasn’t used to aerial combat, and his debuff fields were meaningless in the air.
However, he could no longer sit still after being bad-mouthed by the vile bitch.
Revenge was enough motivation for Siegfried to teach Menacia a lesson.
‘What’s the worst that could happen if I fall? Die?’ Siegfried closed his eyes for a second before jumping off Hyperion.
Tak!
He flew through the skies and eventually landed on Zarakhan’s back.
“You bastard!” Menacia growled at him. She stood up and said, “Good, this will make it easier for me to cut your head off—”
However, Siegfried shrugged and sneered, “Nah, I’m not here to fight you.”
“…?”
“I’m here to beat the shit out of this guy,” he said with the gentlest smile in the world before…
Bam!
He slammed his +15 Gaia’s Fist on the poor little black wyvern’s back.
Pukeok!
