bookbashuk Chapter 104 Heart-Piercing Bone-Cutting
Chapter 104 Heart-Piercing Bone-Cutting
Chapter 104 Heart-Piercing Bone-Cutting
The Cruciatus Curse is one of the three unforgivable curses.
Unlike the Avada Kedavra curse, which is used to kill, it is essentially the most vicious black magic spell created to torment people.
This torture not only involves the body but also the soul. Even the most resilient person cannot withstand this pain. Prolonged torture can even cause a person to have a mental breakdown and become a living dead.
To Dui's surprise, the Cruciatus Curse was even more powerful against the dragon Smaug than the Killing Curse.
Smaug, tormented by the Crucifixion Curse, was too weak to even take off. He could only writhe and writh on the ground in agony, letting out screams and groans.
"Spare me! Wizard, spare me, I surrender!" Smaug finally couldn't hold back and began to plead for mercy.
Everyone stared in shock as the dragon begged for mercy in front of Dui, unable to recover for a long time.
The dwarves were especially shocked and confused.
Smaug, the dragon that had caused the dwarves heavy losses and left them devastated, was actually forced to surrender by Dui.
Dui was not fooled by Smaug's sweet talk. Although the Cruciatus Curse could cause dragons great pain, it was not fatal.
Once the spell is stopped, giving it a chance to catch its breath, it will immediately revive on the spot and become even more difficult to deal with!
Therefore, he focused all his energy on malice and increased the output of his magic.
"Extremely painful!"
"Ah!!!" The dragon let out an even more painful scream, and as it rolled and struggled violently, the surrounding mountains were continuously destroyed.
Smaug was tortured to the point of unbearable pain, but he did not lose consciousness. He mustered his last burst of strength and smashed his tail like a battering ram into the giant stone pillars that were supporting the structure.
The stone pillar shattered instantly under the heavy blow, and the mountainside at the main gate, now unsupported, collapsed rapidly, sending countless boulders crashing down.
Faced with the barrage of countless boulders, Dui had to divert his attention to cast a spell to create a protective layer for himself.
Taking advantage of Dui's distraction, the dragon Smaug seized the opportunity, quickly spread its wings, and soared into the sky, flying away into the distance.
"I will remember this humiliation, wizard! I will take my revenge! I will turn everything you care about to ashes!"
As he was leaving, the dragon Smaug still spoke in wolfish language.
The dragon's gaze fell on the brightly lit town of Long Lake in the distance, its eyes filled with malice.
"You are my first targets for revenge! You will bear the brunt of my endless rage!"
Watching the dragon fly towards Lake-town, Gandalf's expression was anxious and worried: "Smaug is going to destroy Lake-town, we must stop him!"
"I'll go after him!" Dui grabbed a broom and was about to give chase, but Gandalf immediately stopped him: "I'll go with you!"
With time of the essence, Dui and Gandalf had no time to speak with Bilbo and the dwarves. They immediately mounted their flying brooms and chased after the dragon at top speed.
As for Lonely Mountain, without the dragon, there's no need to worry about their safety.
The dragon was incredibly fast, and by the time Duy and Gandalf caught up, it was already spewing dragonfire over Lake-town.
The town of Changhu below has fallen into chaos and terror.
The town mayor was about to escape with a boatload of gold and silver treasures, but because he was carrying too much and it was too heavy, he and the boatload of gold and silver treasures were burned to ashes by the dragon flames.
As a descendant of Lord Girion of Dale, Bard took out his ancestral black arrow and went to the highest tower to aim at the dragon in the sky, trying to find an opportunity to hit it.
Seeing this, Dui and Gandalf did not hesitate and charged directly at the dragon.
"Duir, send me up to the dragon! You must stop Smaug from going any further insane!" Gandalf shouted.
Without saying a word, Dui raised the broom head high and charged straight into the sky at a ninety-degree angle.
The broom carried the two directly to the top of Smaug's head.
Before Duy could react, Gandalf immediately jumped off his broom and landed heavily on the back of the dragon Smaug, raising his sword high and forcefully plunging it into the dragon's back.
The dragon's scales were so hard that even the sword that struck the enemy could only penetrate halfway before getting stuck.
For the massive Smaug, this was like a toothpick piercing his flesh—painful but not fatal.
Upon discovering that Gandalf had landed on his back, Smaug repeatedly flipped and rolled in the air trying to shake him off.
No matter how much he tried to shake him, Gandalf clung tightly to the sword stuck in the dragon's back, like a cockroach that couldn't be shaken off, which greatly annoyed Smaug.
He no longer cared about continuing to breathe fire down at Lake-town below; he turned to breathe fire at Gandalf on his back.
"Heart-piercing!" Dui's attack followed immediately.
The dragon's body stiffened, it let out a painful scream, and its body rapidly plummeted downwards.
Just as it was about to crash into the lake, the dragon spread its wings and took flight again.
The cunning dragon used the distance of its fall to evade the Cruciatus Curse's attack, preventing Dui from getting any closer.
Seeing the dragon playing guerrilla warfare with him, Dui noticed Bard aiming a black arrow at the dragon from the tower below. Remembering that Bard probably didn't know the dragon's weakness yet, he immediately flew over.
"Bard, there's a gap in the dragon's scales on its chest. Your ancestor Girion shot it off with a black arrow. Try to aim there and shoot."
Upon hearing Dui's words, Bard's eyes lit up, and he immediately began searching for the dragon's weak point on its chest.
Meanwhile, Dui continued to ride his flying broomstick in pursuit of Smaug, trying to force him to Bard's side so that Bard could once again accomplish the feat of slaying the dragon.
The dragon was too difficult to deal with. He now only wanted to use the momentum of fate to see if he could defeat the dragon Smaug.
Smaug the dragon was still wary of Dui's Cruciatus Curse, and seeing him approach again, he immediately increased his speed to create enough distance.
But Dui wasn't the only one causing him trouble; Gandalf on his back slammed his staff into Dui's back.
The immense impact of the staff instantly sent the dragon plummeting as if struck by a ton of metal.
It almost crashed heavily into the ground.
Dui caught up and immediately followed up with a Cruciatus Curse.
The dragon was instantly torn between life and death, and the wolf-fox fled towards Bard, completely unaware that a black arrow was aimed at it from the front.
"For Laketown! For River Valley!" Bard roared, firing the black arrow with all his might.
The black arrow shot directly at the gap in the dragon scales on the dragon's chest.
Just when everyone thought the black arrow was about to hit its target, it was caught by a giant claw.
The dragon caught the incoming black arrow, a mocking glint in its eyes: "Do you think I'll fall for it again after I've already been tricked once?"
With that, he threw the black arrow high into the air, tilted his head back, and spewed out scorching dragon flames, quickly melting it into a pool of lava.
He then applied the molten lava from the black arrow directly to the gap in the scales on his chest, filling the gap.
This scene was a huge blow to Bader.
Dui was even more shocked.
He had assumed that Bard would successfully kill the dragon, just as his destiny had previously predicted.
But I never expected such a huge change to have happened.
But upon closer reflection, it's understandable.
In the original course of his life, Bard's ability to shoot Smaug was due to a combination of luck and chance.
Most importantly, at that time the dragon had no rivals at all. Even when it left Lonely Mountain, it was because it knew that Lake-town was cooperating with the dwarves that it wanted to take revenge on the humans of Lake-town.
Therefore, a large part of the reason why the dragon Smaug died was due to his arrogance and carelessness.
But this time was different. Smaug the dragon had been severely injured by Dui and others and forced to flee from Lonely Mountain. His mentality had changed drastically, and he had become extremely cautious.
The chances of killing him with a black arrow are much lower.