Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (LN) - Volume 16: Ch 5 - Sophia (2)

S‎o‎p‎h‎i‎a‎ » “‎O‎h‎,‎ ‎d‎o‎n‎’‎t‎ ‎b‎e‎ ‎l‎i‎k‎e‎ ‎t‎h‎a‎t‎.‎

“Oh, don’t be like that. Won’t you dance with me awhile?”
I’ll just take her out with a quick attack!
My ice-imbued broadsword swings toward her.
True to her word, Water Dragon Iena whirls out of the way with dance-like smoothness.
As she spins around, water gushes out of both her hands, attacking me in the ever-shifting shapes of dozens of serpents.
This isn’t a magic show, lady!
“Come now, dear girl! Let us dance forever and ever!”
“Oh, stop being so saucy!”
The combination of Iena’s dance-like movements and the mystical whirling of the water make for quite a spectacle, I’ll admit.
But I don’t have time to stand around and watch the show!
I knock back the pillars of water with my sword.
Immediately, the water freezes and shatters.
Normally, it would be impossible to cut a liquid with a sword. I’m sure she would either surround me with it and drown me, or fill my body with water and destroy me from the inside.
Unfortunately for her, our type of matchup works out in my favor.
I can easily freeze her water and render it useless.
I’ve got the advantage in both stats and typing. She doesn’t stand a chance!
Too bad, so sad!
Water Dragon Iena seems to sense this, too; there’s a hint of panic on her face.
She keeps sending waves of water toward me; I knock them all away, freezing and smashing with my sword as I press onward.
But every time I move forward, Iena moves back, preventing me from getting any closer.
I’d like to close the distance all at once, but the water attacks are preventing me from doing that.
Argh! Now you’re getting on my nerves!
“Did you know, my dear? Water dragons rule over all the vast ocean.”
As I get more and more annoyed, Iena starts blabbering at me.
“So? Why should I care?!”
I freeze the entire cascade of water and crash right through it.
Each kind of dragon rules over and protects a particular territory.
Water dragons are in charge of the ocean.
On the other side of the ocean is an expanse where the ground crumbles away. The water dragons sink any ships that venture onto the ocean so that humanity doesn’t reach it by mistake.
“Because of its size, we need plenty of eyes to keep watch.”
Again, who cares?
Iena’s expression hasn’t changed.
It’s still fairly calm, with only a hint of stress.
Wait…still calm?
Even though she’s clearly losing?
“In other words, of all the dragons, water dragons are by far the most numerous.”
Just as I start to get a very bad feeling about where this speech is headed, a huge tremor shakes the cavern.
“Naturally, that means we have the most ancient dragons, too, hmm?”
A tremor like a massive explosion has happened nearby…
Activating my Panoptic Vision with growing dread, I find several different areas of the labyrinth where huge holes have opened in the ceiling, massive amounts of water flooding inside.
“You’re kidding me, right?”
“I wonder, little girl, can you handle all thirty-seven ancient water dragons by yourself?”
Sure enough, aside from Water Dragon Iena, thirty-seven other legendary-class monsters were trying to flood the labyrinth, too.