Dragon and Ogre, Sacrifice and Sin (24)

The shells raining down from the military magitech airships numbered in the hundreds. Firing that many at once seemed rather extravagant, but I suppose they had judged that they could not defeat it otherwise.

Fang of the End was no longer at its former location. It was running across the ground and dodging the shells. As a result, the hit rate had plummeted, to the point that not even one shell hit out of ten.

(Were they not used to bombardments?)

The Lef Magitech Empire was a small country built on magitech. It had never fought a major war, and although it possessed military magitech airships for military purposes, it had never deployed them in actual combat.

Besides, artillery emplacements were meant to destroy immobile fortifications—using them to hunt a gigantic monster was probably beyond anyone's expectations.

When I went up onto the roof of a building and searched for Fang of the End, it was easy to find since that enormous creature was running around.

It was near the northern cliff. With a body as huge as Fang of the End's, I thought it could climb the cliff by jumping. Perhaps the Empire intended to drive it north—to the "Uncharted Land of Kanion."

(...Would things really go that smoothly? And before that, aren't they overestimating the airships' advantage?)

The magitech airships spread out to either side as they cornered Fang of the End.

They were flying lower than when I had seen them during the first bombardment because they had tried to close the distance after missing their shots...