Dragons, the original inhabitants of Teyvat, are synonymous with power and strength.
The weakest adult dragon can reach the level of a Liyue Adeptus, while more powerful ones can contend with Gods. As for the strongest Dragon Kings, they are beings capable of exchanging blows with the Heavenly Principles.
The Dragon Ursa is a dragon with a deep connection to Mondstadt, though this connection is one of ill fate! For the people of Mondstadt, it is far from pleasant.
Unlike Dragon Durin, who attacked Mondstadt five hundred years ago, although both are called 'Dragon,' Durin, as an artificial dragon created by Gold Rhinedottir, was called 'Dragon' because of the curses and calamitous aura emanating from its body, making it different from ordinary creatures.
As an elemental creature, just like Stormterror Dvalin, the 'Dragon' in Dragon Ursa refers to its cruel, brutal, and man-eating nature.
The first time Dragon Ursa attacked Mondstadt can be traced back to the rule of the Lawrence Family nobility over a thousand years ago. Unfortunately, the nobles of that time had forgotten their duty to protect Mondstadt and had also lost the combat power to do so.
Therefore, the Lawrence Family nobles made an agreement with The Dragon Ursa: they would voluntarily offer those who resisted their rule as sacrifices to The Dragon Ursa.
Thus, under this long-term supply and demand relationship, Dragon Ursa regarded Mondstadt City as its dining hall, and the nobles of the Lawrence Family also turned Dragon Ursa into a powerful tool for their rule over Mondstadt.
Sometimes, members of the Lawrence Family could even command Dragon Ursa to attack those who resisted their rule.
Alas, Dragon Ursa's good days ended one day a thousand years ago when Vennessa, with the help of Lord Barbatos, successfully repelled The Dragon Ursa and overthrew the rule of the Lawrence Family.
For the thousand years that followed, Dragon Ursa disappeared from Mondstadt. Just as the Mondstadters had almost forgotten it, one day a few years ago, it suddenly appeared and attacked Diluc and his father, leading to the death of Diluc's father, Crepus.
Unexpectedly, Dragon Ursa would reappear in Mondstadt City at this time, and it appeared with an astonishing three dragons!
On the rooftop of Mondstadt Cathedral sat a bard, drinking wine and playing his lyre—it was Lord Barbatos, the Anemo Archon of Mondstadt.
From the very beginning of this war, he had been observing from the highest point in Mondstadt City. Even when the Knights of Favonius suffered heavy losses in the war, he did not intervene to save them, merely drinking the wine in his hand.
However, his indifferent attitude finally changed when the three dragons gathered in Mondstadt.
"What's going on? Are there still two dragons with the same elemental affinity as Ursa in Teyvat? Did Ursa somehow give birth to new life during these thousand years?"
"Lord Barbatos, you're mistaken. It's not dragons with the same elemental affinity as Ursa, but rather, all three dragons flying above are Ursa!"
Lord Barbatos turned his head and saw that it was Miyashiro who had emerged from the space behind him. Lord Barbatos frowned, then looked up and carefully sensed again. Indeed, these three dragons not only looked identical and had identical auras, but even the location of the wound inflicted by Vennessa a thousand years ago was the same.
Lord Barbatos, encountering such a situation for the first time, asked, "So it's you. What did you mean by what you just said?"
Miyashiro: "Lord Barbatos, it seems the news brought by your winds is a bit delayed this time. The Doctor, the Second of the Fatui Harbingers, currently Teyvat's most brilliant yet most insane scientific genius, has developed a new technology—Slice Regeneration Technology."
"Through using slices of oneself from different periods, one can generate another completely new self. After decades of research, this technology has fully matured, and the Doctor has already used it to generate hundreds of slices from different periods."
"Since the Doctor dared to use this technology on himself, it's not impossible that he experimented with Dragon Ursa's body before that, is it?"
Lord Barbatos: "Slice Regeneration Technology... duplicating oneself? Hmph! What a terrifying eccentric. He might even be more troublesome than Rhinedottir's alchemy."
Miyashiro: "In this situation, can you still stand by and do nothing?"
Lord Barbatos: "If this war were limited to a human conflict between the Knights of Favonius and the Fatui, then even if the Knights of Favonius were truly defeated, I would have no reason to intervene.
But now, even a dragon of The Dragon Ursa's caliber has intervened in a human war. Since that is the case, I no longer have a reason to stand by!
However... I still want to see how Mondstadt will perform when it truly faces desperation."
Dragon Ursa began to wreak havoc above Mondstadt City, unleashing scorching dragon flames in indiscriminate attacks on houses, windmills, gardens, city walls, and plazas, all becoming targets of The Dragon Ursa.
The dragon's might of a single Dragon Ursa was enough to make ordinary citizens lose their will to fight, so the dragon's might carried by the three Dragon Ursas was like a colossal tidal wave, causing some citizens of Mondstadt City to involuntarily kneel in submission.
Under immense panic, other Mondstadters had the idea of escaping Mondstadt City. However, the only way out of the city, the Mondstadt Bridge, had already been destroyed in the recent battle. To leave, one could only jump into the river and swim to the other side.
However, for those without physical training, swimming across hundreds of meters of Cider Lake was not an easy task.
The entire Mondstadt City was plunged into complete panic by these three Dragon Ursas. Although the Knights of Favonius were doing their best to stabilize public morale, claiming they could withstand The Dragon Ursa's attack, their words lacked conviction, and even some Knights of Favonius felt a sense of powerlessness.
Humans who cannot fly are simply too insignificant in the face of flying dragons. Even a sharpshooter like Amber, with her long-range attack capabilities, would find it very difficult to hit a dragon flying at high speed.
Moreover, even if an arrow imbued with the power of fire did hit, it would be utterly unable to leave even a minor scratch on the massive body of The Dragon Ursa.
Mondstadt City, originally a strategically important location, easy to defend and difficult to attack, had, under the aerial assault of The Dragon Ursa, become a desperate trap of its own making.
Just as The Dragon Ursa was rampaging through Mondstadt City, a red-haired man in black, wielding a black and red greatsword, seized an opportunity. He leaped from a high-rise building, precisely striking the wing of one of the dragons that was circling at a low altitude.
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