Discussion Ragna Crimson

Episodes: 24 | Source: Manga | Genres: Action, Fantasy, Shounen
Synopsis
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Said to be humanity's natural enemy, formidable dragons that belong to an ancient bloodline roam the world. Only two ways prove effective to kill a dragon: freezing their blood with silverine—an aura that comes from silver weapons—or letting their bodies be incinerated by sunlight.

Young hunter prodigy Leonica is accompanied by her close friend Ragna, who appears to lack the skills necessary in their profession. Moreover, many shun Ragna, considering him cursed because dragons always seem to attack him and slaughter his close ones. Nevertheless, Leonica sees potential in Ragna and gladly partners up with him. Likewise, Ragna feels certain that Leonica is immune to his misfortune thanks to her incredible strength.

His confidence is shaken, however, when Ragna dreams of Leonica's death, believing this to be a prophecy. As the destined day arrives, he comes face-to-face with his future self, who bestows him enormous power and memories from the future to ensure Leonica's safety. In order to succeed, Ragna must join forces with a mysterious figure known as Crimson and eradicate all dragons for good.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

 

Episode 1 was good. Started out with someone ranting about needing more power and destroying dragons without touching them. We then cut to a younger male Ragna fighting a dragon and struggling before another younger woman Leo saves him. Ragna follows the best dragon hunter in the guild based in Ronabera city, Leonica. She's killed the most dragons at only 12. She does most of the fighting, so Ragna gets some slack for always "leeching" off her. Leo is pretty protective of Ragna though, and after some criticism directed at Ragna, when she challenged it by proclaiming her will to hunt down dragons including their dragon god, no one would step forward to join her aside from Ragna, which settled the case.

Ragna does seem to train too, but he's set in that he'll never measure up to Leo, even if he trains for the rest of his life and seems to think he'll be eaten by a dragon, but he is content if he's useful to Leo. This is when Ragna starts seeing the man from the start with the ominous premonition of losing Leo.

The dragons are behaving strangely and migrating to the east to where Donapierru is located, which hasn't been attacked in years. Leo wants to visit a pastry shop there after hunting dragons near that location. Ragna just keeps having his visions/nightmares about that man. Interestingly, Leo seems convinced that Ragna will become strong in time and will protect him until then.

Ragna's parents were eaten in a dragon attack when he was three, and so did his relatives who took him in after that. A wealthy man bought him, then the dragons burned his estate down too, while he lived which just added to his trauma. People blamed him for it believing him to work for the Dragons. This is when he met Leonica in the past, and she was very blunt about the "weak" dying and when she said she wouldn't die, she slayed a dragon in front of him.

News soon reached the guild about Donapierru falling in a dragon attack, so the Kingdom issued an emergency quest to slaughter the dragon horde responsible. When they arrived the dragons including one in a human form were unleashing devastation. When Ragna saw the humanoid, he realised it was the one that he kept having nightmares about with Leonica dying while he could do nothing. Ragna was flung into water and drowning while Voltekamui the number two of the guild dove in to save him. Leonica was fighting the dragon alone and very obviously losing.

Ragna entered his subconsciousness or something and saw the man from his dream/premonition which is himself from the future who was the strongest and could kill any dragon, and his future self always regretted being useless, not training at the time, and not having the power to save Leonica. This is when he granted Ragna his power.

Leonica thought that the humanoid dragon was the dragon god, but revealed himself as Grymwelte, the tenth seat of the Blood of the Wing, and was "lowly" by comparison . Right when Grymwelte was going to kill Leonica, Ragna appeared and took out all of the dragons without much effort, including Grymwelte. His goal now is to exterminate all of the dragons. The dragons attacked seven of Lese's cities and six of them fell, including the Capital.

It's not clear if this power is permanent. I wonder if the person/god future Ragna had some sort of relationship with was the dragon god or not. The forest also seems to be attacking them.

 

Episode 2 was good. Started out with a fat guy Lord Temruogtaf being very satisfied with his meal, only for him to turn into a dragon and start to eat the people that served him anyway. It's revealed he's the one seemingly controlling the forest to devour people. He turned his attention to the last woman alive there.

Leonica and the other dragon hunters are trying to combat the dragon, without too much luck. The powers Ragna got also weren't temporary as while he was captured by the dragon's ability, he woke up as Leo was going to be attacked and fought back. He took off even faster than Leonica could keep up.

Ragna just kicked the dragon in the face upon arrival. The woman that Ragna saved was apparently Crimson, the same one that was allied with his future self, who helped to give the future Ragna's powers to the past Ragna, due to failing to exterminate the dragons in the future. Crimson was a former progenitor of the Blood of the Wing and was branded a traitor for attempting to kill the Dragon God.

Leonica eventually caught up and Ragna protected her from Temruogtaf before killing him. Ragna was super harsh to Leonica too, going so far as to call her weak so they would no longer be together, this was to protect her, but was rather harsh, considering what she had done for him in the past.

Ragna attempts to convince Crimson that he knows who she really is and that they are allies, but she just insists on being a human and isn't Crimson. Apparently Crimson can change gender and age at will along with form. When Ragna passed out with a fever, she seemed to look at his memories. Ragna ended up convincing Crimson of their future alliance, which ended up with her revealing herself as crimson and their alliance forming in the current time.

I wonder why Crimson as a dragon wants to exterminate the other dragons, then have Ragna kill herself too.

 

Episode 3 was good. There's a dragon that controls wind, the Third Seat, The Tempest cell Disas Trois that is the next target, and he seems to like torturing people, especially women. Have to love the Fur Elise track with it though. A group of dragon hunters were trying to protect some civilians with little success. Things seemed dire until Ragna and Crimson arrived and killed all of the dragons thus saving the people.

Slime is also introduced as Crimson's servant. Interesting character, seems kind of like a kid, but also very much not. Crimson posed a number of questions to Ragna about what they accomplished in the future, but Ragna couldn't say due to only having vague memories. But, seemingly they can be recalled after a specific trigger. Crimson is very interested in Ragna's Silverine Battle Arts and Ragna was prepared to slay dragons with them, but Crimson has created a plan to have those other hunters use them.

Crimson finally introduces Ragna and himself to the people they saved, pretended to be a magician as a cover story and told them that Ragna was a reaper and a master dragon hunter that had killed many superior dragons. They begged them to slay Disas Trois who was attacking the city of Tortiere and to help save the people.

When Ragna agreed, it was noted by Crimson that he can't and passed out. He has overexerted his body and can't move for now. Crimson took charge in this moment and either foresaw or had an inkling that those dragon hunters fled Disas Trois to live and saved the people they could and were feeling guilty. Crimson wants to see these other hunters use Ragna's abilities to try and slay the Disas Trois, which is why the people were tormented and manipulated into the position of saying if they had Ragna's powers they would've fought the dragons.

Crimson got exactly what he wanted and had Ragna make bullets with his ability so the hunters could try and combat Disas Trois. Crimson supplied them with the guns. Ragna is all torn up about Leonica and couldn't decided whether it was right to have her be by herself, or if it is best to have her close. Crimson suggested to kidnap her, then put her into a coma until they have slayed all of the dragons. The battle against the tempest dragon is on!

 

Episode 4 was good. So silverine doesn't freeze a dragon's blood, but the magic in their blood. The regular led bullets coated in Ragna's silverine coming into contact with the wind magic, caused it to start freezing up. With the preparations of Crimson, including attacking during the sun's light to reduce Disaster Thrower's power, the dragon hunters then used the other infused silverine bullets to do continued damage. Ragna jumped in next, which started Disaster Thrower's decent from the surprise attack before Slime also jumped in. Disaster Thrower was then impaled through the heart in a trap, before being run over by Crimson.

The dragon hunters moved in to finish their assault, and due to the arrogance of disaster Thrower, he never transformed into his dragon form, which could've saved him. After this was done, the hunters were sent on their way and Crimson erased their memories.

A city near the royal capital is under a large dragon attack, so the citizens have been warned by the royal army which Ragna and Crimson hear of via radio, which marks their destination. King Femud had details about Donapierru's destruction reported to him. An angel-like dragon appeared before the king having stopped time. She's the First Seat of the Blood of the Wing, Ultimatia. King Femud was surprised she got in, due to the Solar Safeguard engineered by the Solarians, which absorbs sunlight during the day and then puts up a barrier which is meant to prevent dragons from getting in, but she can ignore it. She seemed remorseful about the attacks which gave the King some hope, but the dragon wanted the King to allow them to all die painlessly.

The King in opposition and after the refusal for any sort of negotiation, took drastic measures and turned the defensive barrier into is offensive weapon form. Another dragon Borgius had infiltrated the ranks of the king killed the King, preventing him from attacking Ultimatia. She turned back time to revive him and it seems the King will work with her to have the citizens killed "without suffering" seeing as he virtually can't do anything.

 

Episode 5 was good. The King Femud keeps letting refugees in, which is grim considering they'll all just die. Voltekamui The Thunder Dragon that Ultimatia "disciplined" was still alive, despite just being a head on a pike. Somehow seemingly living even without a heart, etc. Within 10 days, the people of the capital will all be killed.

The Ninth Seat Dornea was defeated by the second princess of the kingdom, Starlia Lese. The fifth seat Taratectra and sixth seat Olto Zora were sent after her. The third seat Disas Trois The Wind Prison Dragon, the eight seat Temruogtaf The Glutton Dragon and the tenth seat Grymwelte The Black Magic Dragon have all "disappeared". They were the three dragons already killed. Ultimatia gives Voltekamui's heart back having temporarily suspended his "punishment". Seems he likes annoying her, as he requested a kiss for his efforts as a rewords, and she just chewed him out.

We see a glimpse of the future that the older Ragna came from and he was utterly defeated by the group. It's also revealed here that humans using the blood technique of dragons can be transformed into dragons. It seems like all of the superior dragons were humans, most assumedly transformed by their progenitor/"god". The technique was used on Ragna, but it wasn't shown he actually transformed, so presumably he didn't but who knows. It also seems like Ragna may be a descendant of a kingdom that was wiped out that excelled as dragon hunters. Ultimatia was the one to wipe them out.

We also get a glimpse of "god" from Ultimatia's view, who seems to be portrayed almost as a child. I wonder if they are carrying out the "will of their god" by interpreting it themselves, of if it's just a bad representation.

Ragna, Crimson and Slime arrived in the Kingdom. Seems like Crimson wants Ragna to fight Ultimatia alone, but also seemingly warned Ragna of fighting her alone. A battle between Rgna and Ultimatia seems about to begin now that Ragna bumped into her. Crimson went off to a subordinate but ended up chastising them.

 

Episode 6 was good. Crimson was indeed planning on Ragna taking out Ultimatia by himself. While she seems almost invincible due to her time control abilities, it does have a weakness. She can't pause time and also rewind time at the same time. So, Crimson expects Ragna to continue killing her each time she rewinds time to eventually exhaust herself to the point of being unable to turn back time and revive. Crimson believe that this was the way they killed her in the other timeline. There were some objection by the male subordinate, by the female had no objections and even chastised the male subordinate. They bicker a bit, and Crimson compared doubting Ragna's ability to defeat Ultimatia to insulting her. Crimson also just sees Ragna as a pawn.

Ragna struggled a bit on deciding what to do when confronted face to face with Ultimatia, he basically froze up. This had Ultimatia questioning if he was ok. He was going to attack before Slime made up that Ragna was sick which was the reason for him acting strange. She seemed to believe it. When Ragna finally noticed that Ultimatia was accompany a kid to help him, it made him even more mad and also confused as to what to do.

Ultimatia's subordinate showed up and was going to attack Ragna, before she stopped him. He was correct in assuming Ragna was a dragon hunter, but Ultimatia backed him up being sick, and her subordinate also ended up sick due to the people.

In the end, Ragna retreated thinking it the right thing to do in that moment, and believe Crimson had another plan. However, Ragna saw Ultimatia get the kid back to his family, before overhearing her discussing with her subordinate that their family was still scheduled to disappear. This enraged Ragna and he went on the attack. Ragna indeed seems to be completely overpowering Ultimatia. He first killed er subordinate and is now just repeatedly killing her before she can fully turn back time which has her stun locked. Seems like game over for her.

 

Episode 7 was good. The flashback finally concluded between Ragna and Ultimatia and her group. Ultimatia was successful with turning Ragna, well, was about to be, but he took drastic measures and used his own sword to stab himself in the heart, thus freezing it to stop him from becoming a dragon. Interestingly, Voltekamui stopped Borgius from killing Ragna back then, which allowed him "save" himself. That seems to be when Crimson showed up, saved him and they teamed up.

Crimson wasn't happy about Ragna attacking Ultimatia outside of the scope of Crimson's projected plan. Crimson directed Golem and Chimera to help Ragna, and Slime to the "best smelling" place.

Ragna kept the assault up on Ultimatia, preventing her from doing anything. Nebulim put up a barrier around Ragna preventing his assault on Ultimatia, and Borgius lined up an attack on Ragna. Golem dealt with Borgius and Slime handled Nebulim which allowed Ragna to continue attacking Ultimatia, but not before she had regenerated.

Ragna's continued assault had her basically dead again, but she began thinking back on an interaction she had with Voltekamui which had her use her trump card to rewind time on the whole world. Ragna didn't quite know what happened, and so Ultimatia froze time before he couldn't take any action.

Ultimatia got scared when it seemed like Ragna moved while time was stopped, and Nebulim arrived to pummel him. Ragna eventually broke through the frozen time, even when it was meant to only be Ultimatia, Nebulim and the king being able to move. I am assuming that Ragna could move because he is technically her bloodline from back when she tried to turn him, and her ability works by picking who time isn't frozen for out of her bloodline, but she didn't realise about him.

Nebulim put up a barrier before the terrified Ultimatia as a last defence, but Ragna just broke straight thought it. When Ragna was about to slay her, he basically lost all ability to do anything due to overusing his power. This had him collapse and faint. The King on command used the secret weapon on Ragna. Crimson wasn't impressed with how things played out, especially since Ultimatia ended up getting away.

 

Episode 8 was good. Crimson was very happy with the mental state that Ragna put Ultimatia in due to her magic not fully working on him. Crimson in a drastic coarse of action had the city bombed, injuring and killing a lot of people. This further put Ultimatia in a worse mental state and she couldn't decide whether she should turn back time to "prevent the suffering" of the people and as a result die, or leave things as they are. In the end, Nebulim convinced her to not turn back time, which and Crimson annoyed before retreating.

As Crimson was fleeing, he met up with Golem and clobbered him over the head with a bottle before stabbing him in the eye for not setting up the correct amount of bombs. Turns out Golem was "testing" if Ragna had rubbed off on Crimson in a "bad" way affecting Crimson's ruthlessness, but Golem was happy with the action taken. Ragna and Crimson retreated into the gate connected to every part of the world Crimson created back in his heyday with his spatial magic.

Nebulim is looked at as having the best potential of their bloodline, and expectations are for him to take over Voltekamui's position. Nebulim is frustrated with how he couldn't do much for Ultimatia and accessed even more of his power to try and use his barrier magic to locate Crimson and Ragna, without success.

In the space, Ragna woke up and started raging about letting Ultimatia get away, and insisted on Crimson letting him back to kill Ultimatia. Before being knocked out, Ragna's silverine abilities caused a small crack in Crimson's space, which allowed Nebulim to find them. Golem attacked Nebulim and Borgius attacked Golem whiched seemed to allow them to barely get away. They ended up being ejected at an incorrect location, which put them in a bad spot where the second princess was stationed. It's funny seeing Starlia eat dragon meat, and also feed it to Crimson.

So, the second princess Starlia Leese was born without arms, but is seen as a gift from their Sun God due to her abilities and what it enables her to do. Her eyes can sense the aura emitted by all matter allowing her to control the things around her. As a baby, she controlled a silverware set which is where her epithet came from, and she just kept getting stronger as she aged. At 6 she took down 3 inferior dragons. At 7 she won a combat tournament after hiding her identity. At 8 she slayed a horde of dragons, including two medial dragons. At 9 she prevented an army general's coup de dat. After she turned 10, she used her special talents to develop silver equipment. Now, at 16 she commands the Argentum Corps, her combat unit equipped with gear she made. She also slayed a superior dragon, Dornea.

Now she controls some armor-like suit that has arms she can control. Her group realised that Ragna was human, so have allowed him to get medical attention. But, Starlia is questioning Crimson which is a pain, because she can usually tell if someone is lying. Crimson believes that he has gotten around this by carefully controlling his emotions and answers, but time will tell if they try and kill Crimson or not.

 

Episode 9 was good. Started out with the flashback of Starlia taking out the military personnel that was planning he Coup de tat. Crimson seemed to be doing very well with his lying. Unfortunately, Starlia's ability didn't exactly work how Crimson thought. The controlled emotions were basically perfect, however Starlia's ability allows her to see not just the fluctuation of a person's aura, but the colour too, which was blue for Crimson, which did line up as being truthful. Starlia "gifted" Crimson a sword, and when Crimson touched it she retracted the blade. Turns out it was a trap and as soon as Crimson touched the sword, this allowed Starlia to see Crimson's true nature, and specifically how many deaths Crimson had caused, which was obviously bad. This lead to Starlia immediately attacking Crimson, and while Crimson didn't care, Ragna arrived in time to touch the sword.

This played out exactly as I suspected it would lol. I figured that as soon as Starlia saw Ragna and specifically his abilities with her own ability, she would fall for him, and that's what happened to a T. Starlia proclaimed she'd never marry anyone unless they surpassed her teacher Garm Urban's ability, and to her eye, his hand is forming with his sword, so she thought Garm was at the pinnacle of ability. But as soon as Ragna touched her sword, and she saw him, it was over. She instantly fell in love, because to her abilities, Ragna basically looks like a sword human. LMAO. Ragna also defeated Garm without effort, which further proved his strength.

Crimson and Ragna were landed back in a cell while Starlia's group figured out what they were going to do with them. There Crimson really went to town on Ragna, chewing him out for what happened in the capital and also the destruction of Crimson's special magic. I guess Crimson is going to placate Ragna by telling him about the dragons heading to their current location.

With Ragna's performance, he's the talk of the members of the military unit. A lot of them want to meet/fight him. Also, somehow Ragna taking out Garm got misconstrued as Garm dying.

Seems like Ultimatia has lost a lot of control over her abilities.

 

Episode 10 was good. Some of Starlia's group investigated reports of dragons, and confirmed they are acting strangely, specifically, they aren't actively attacking people. Looks like Starlia's group has several Thaumaturge in their ranks, those that have some sort of magic ability and usually have some trait associated with it. Majorca Abbot almost looks like an elf with her ears, and she works with a group getting a teleportation circle prepared to evacuate. Starlia surmised that they can only flee with the approximately 1500 civilians given the fall of the capital and ongoing attacks.

Starlia absolutely doesn't trust Crimson, which is wise. Crimson arrived right on queue to mock Starlia about even being charismatic when announcing that they were fleeing. Poor Starlia still has no clue how ot act around Ragna.

Crimson tries to convince Starlia to allow them to work together to slay the dragons, pointing out that without they help they're doomed to fail due to the difference in power. After the initial attempt was refused, Crimson threw some intel in to try and convince her. The enemies include Mad Maestro, Olto Zora, the sixth seat of the Blood of the Wing along with his abilities which includes creating and dispersing drugs, in this case to make the dragons even stronger. Starlia still refused, which has Crimson leaving it up to Ragna to convince her.

Ragna is truthful, and blunt, going on that everyone would be better off if he could just kill Crimson, but he's needed and trustworthy about his desire to exterminate all dragons. Starlia could barely hold herself back, but played it down and "begrudgingly" agreed, even though she couldn't wait to.

Ultimatia still can't use her powers, and no one can really help. This is when Voltekamui appeared with the head of the warrior that Crimson used. He provoked Ultimatia into slicing him with the silverine sword he took. This had Voltekamui pleased, but he kept on her case about her current issue being that she's afraid of Ragna and has lost in her heart. Voltekamui doesn't give a shit about the dragon god, and is only interested in serving "his woman" Ultimatia. She refused order him to go after Ragna, but after he kept butting heads with her, Ultimatia finally let her emotions out and asked him to get revenge for her. The fight between Ragna and Voltekamui could be interesting.

 

Episode 11 was good. Ragna was put to work enhancing all of the Argentum Corps weapons with silverine to bolster their strength. Crimson asked him to use half for this, and that he wouldn't use his silverine battle arts. The Argentum Corps are a bit riled up with Ragna and attacking him while he defeats them and imbues their weapon at the same time.

They all seem to think that Ragna is a natural prodigy, but Garm was the one person to see through that, and understand that Ragna wasn't, and worked incredibly hard for his power. In fact, it made Garm get emotional that he wasn't stronger at his age. Starlia liking him also has him a bit bent out of shape too. Shin is the other one bent out of shape over Ragna, but he's just taken to continuously challenging him.

The twins Hazella and Glea that seem rather young had an unfortunately start to life, they were originally basically slaves and mistreated in some circus-like scenario. So they don't really understand emotions, but emulated them by learning from other kids. They wanted to understand Ragna's feelings on the princess, but he had none. He thinks that she'll find him ugly when his bandages are taken off. Slime made some comments about them, so they took him out back.

The battle is on the horizon, with Ultimatia's forces having gathered and being basically prepared now. They will be wiping out the city soon.

 

Episode 12 was good. Starlia set up a trap, basically a cage of silverine swords to slow some of the dragons down. She also had her own suspicions on the dragons originally being human, but it ultimately makes no difference to her. Issac is thrown off by the revelation, but Starlia does a good job of reassuring him.

Crimson asked Ragna if he believes he could take down Voltekamui if they fought, and Ragna truthfully stated no. Not sure if that's just because of Ragna's current weakened state, but I would presume so. Crimson was happy with the answer, and actually gives praise to Voltekamui for his strength, believing that even teaming up they couldn't take down Voltekamui. If Voltekamui does show up, Crimson urged Ragna to not face him head on, which it's anticipated he may. He, like Ragna, had surpassed normal limitations, so he's amongst the strongest dragons. Crimson's thought is if Ragna uses his silverine battle arts, Olto Zora would summon Kamui, so it'd be all over.

Poor Fuwe feels both frustrated and amazed at Crimson, and how their issues with the spell were solved. Although, now Fuwe feels like it's nothing like his work.

Poor Slime was roughed up and almost broken. Crimson slapped him, which got him back to normal and made him forget any bad memories. Ragna has been instructed to pour the rest of his silverine into a weapon for himself.

Starlia requested Ragna to accompany her to discuss some things. First, she gave him a choice of three weapons. She then assumes that she will die here. If she doesn't, she intends to join the Solarians and become their "dragon scourge". But, given that she believes she'll die, she requests Ragna to do this in her place. He refuses, and basically just said to her that he won't allow her to die, and poured his power into the weapons. This had Starlia very flustered, but gave her some confidence for the battle.

Things have gone bad in the Capital, the attack has begun and the dragons are controlling the army to kill the citizens.

The attack has also begun, with Olto Zora leading it. Taratectora intended to just "bomb" the base by flying into it, but Ragna countered him. Their fight is about to start.

 

Episode 13 was good. Isaac's squad had humans that Olto Zora had transformed/drugged to fight on their side. This had Isaac's squad hesitating before Starlia started to slaughter them. She had a some good words that everyone else was an enemy to be slaughtered, and they only have time to worry about the comrades next to them and the civilians they're protecting. If they can't fight, she'll slaughter the enemy alone. This picked up morale, and Isaac's squad got back in the game.

The main focus was Ragna vs Taratectora. It seemed like it was in Ragna's favour, but Taratectora is a strong opponent. In the end, Ragna decided to put everything into a final blow, and Taratectora responded in kind. Unfortunately, Ragna's sword couldn't withstand his power, so he ended up losing despite the fact he should've won. Taratectora went to finish him off, before Ragna managed to move. In the end, he was left to be killed by the lower tier dragons, although he kept fighting. Right when Ragna was in a bad spot, Shin and Garm arrived to help.

Ragna kept being stubborn and wanted them to not fight and go away, while he did everything. Shin chewed him out and then challenged him to a fight, when Ragna kept carrying on. Shin actually won this fight, making it his first win against Ragna. Hopefully this will have put Ragna back into order.

The magic circle absorbing the magic from defeated dragons is going well. The others of Argentum Corps also seem to be having success. Unfortunately, Olto Zora has realised the plan. Olto Zora was originally a Solarian, so the technique being used now was a what they once tried to do.

 

Episode 14 was good. Dragons appear as black masses obstructing the glow of a world brimming with light for Starlia with her ability. However, the location has been turned draconic, so everything is black to her, so she can't tell a dragon's movements. But, she can still see the human forces being controlled which has tipped her off to their plan to sabotage the magic circle.

The Argentum Corps are starting to be a bit overwhelmed by the enemy. They have a host of inferior and medial dragons that have lived long enough to become experienced allowing them to learn the same magic as the mature dragon who created them. The power of a mature dragon is so much that usually a team of a dozen elite dragon hunters have to work together to bring one down. They have 40. They also have little dragon-like creatures using protective barriers around the dragons, which block enemy attacks but allow their own attacks to pass through, which doesn't bode well. Olto Zora suspects something is up with them having been bale to get their magic circle this far, but seems like it's not known that it's Crimson behind it. Their new target is taking control of the magic circle.

With Isaac, things are dire. All of their front line soldiers suddenly died. There's a small mature dragon which is absolutely destroying them. This one has the same time ability as Ultimatia. Isaac ordered a retreat to the second line of defence after the initial barriers they were behind were broken through. Isaac almost killed it with his attack, but the dragon outmanoeuvred him. Isaac was going to be killed, but fortunately Crimson showed up. Crimson used a small device that usually emits stored sunlight in a small burst as the dragon stopped time, so instead of just a small burst, the sunlight persisted and ultimately the dragon was killed. Very smart tactic. Crimson also arrived with the civilians armed to the teeth. They are helping take out dragons too.

The 13th seat, Ursh-Gaurun appeared in the base, and was breaking through the walls/barriers to reach the circle. He encountered Fuwe. Things got really interesting here, when Fuwe seemed to turn half dragon and killed Ursh-Gaurun without effort and absorbed its magic.

The forces that Starlia is leading ouside are doing well, but it seems like she's at her limit as she is now out of the picture for the time being. Ragna, Garm and Shin are doing very well now too. They've taken out about 1/3 of the enemy dragons. Even more impressive, they are basically running on fumes, well, at least Ragna is. The other two are in better shape, but it's rough as they aren't resting and are taking out dragons as fast as possible. Ragna might be about to get even strong too, with his boiling frustration and feeling like he's in hell. He can't even breath.