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Sexy Sect Babes Two: Chapter Twenty Four
🕑 Added 2023-02-16 11:33:07 +0000 UTC“Well, I just rescued the princess, now I have to defeat the dragon.” Jack muttered to himself as he rocketed up into the sky. “Hell, I’m basically a fairytale knight in shining armor now.”
Now if only this knight had bothered to take better care of his armor.
He could feel the blisteringly cold wind on his torso as he shot through the air. Specifically, he could feel it on his left pectoral, which was exposed to the elements by virtue of the fact that he hadn’t replaced the armor plating there. Nor had he replaced any that ran along the entirety of his left arm, or his right leg from the knee down.
Perhaps he should have spent less time playing with cannons and more time repairing his final line of defense against this world. Oh sure, he’d made some repairs. For one thing, the servos beneath the armor were all still functional. He’d replaced the synth-muscle too.
The armor though? That shit had some very precise requirements to fabricate. Specifically, it needed to be fabricated in zero-g, and given that he didn’t have any orbit-capable rockets or space stations on hand, it just hadn’t seemed worth the hassle.
Enchanting… while a promising facsimile, hadn’t been giving him the result he’d wanted fast enough.
So now he was flying off to fight a dragon in a suit that looked like it had been savaged by a goat woman, before being cannibalized by a chop shop, before then being hastily stitched back together… before being cannibalized again.
And then forgotten about.
Because that was exactly what had happened.
And he was about to fight a dragon in it. A dragon that had just wiped the floor with a small army of people who could easily have wiped the floor with him even if the suit was working at one hundred percent.
“Lin, please tell me you’re nearly here,” he grunted into his comms.
“I’m airborne and moving.” The mortal woman sounded distracted as she responded. Which was a good thing as far as Jack was concerned. He’d hate to think that she was devoting anything other than her complete focus to her current task. “Five minutes.”
“Another rises to challenge me.” The dragon roared as Jack finally drew level with the beast. “A warrior clad in the guise of a knight. How nostalgic.”
Rather than attacking though, the massive creature seemed content to talk. Or rather, engage in the time-honored tradition of smack-talking before a fight.
“That’s me,” Jack responded simply as he took in the sheer enormity of the creature before him. “A veritable knight in shining armor.”
“A pale facsimile.” The creature huffed, the sheer force being generated by its wings flapping in place forcing Jack to re-adjust his thrusters’ output to compensate. “No, you are no knight. You are the craftsman.”
“You know me?” Jack asked, content to buy more time.
“I do.” The beast’s chuckle was a bass baritone that vibrated across the gulf between them. “My spawn has complained of you. Of your strange tricks and trinkets.”
He cocked his head. “I had thought you to be one of the magisters of my home, truthfully. That would be their style. Hiding in the shadows while others fight their battles for them.”
“I can feel one. Hiding like a cockroach deep within that stone nest of yours. Yet you, I feel nothing from.” The creature’s face dipped forward, eyes squinting. “Are you a golem? A homunculus? A puppet of flesh and steel masquerading as a living thing to draw attention away from your mistress?”
Jack just shrugged. “I’m the Burpex. I speak for the bees.”
Of all the responses the dragon had been expecting to his query, that carefully concocted bit of bullshit wasn’t one of them. His eyes widened just a smidge in surprise – making them an ideal target for his first shot.
Yanking up the cannon strapped to his thigh and aiming it in one smooth motion, Jack fired.
“Gaaah!” The dragon roared, rearing back as his right eye popped like jelly.
Not that Jack stuck around to see the aftermath, as he unceremoniously dropped the swivel-gun and started gaining altitude.
“You shall die screaming for that, puppet!” The Red Death’s wings beat with the force of a small hurricane as it took off after him, massive sword like teeth bared in a rictus of fury. “I shall tear the spellwork aping your soul from your shattered fake body and untangle it piece by piece! I shall rebuild you. I shall improve you. I shall grant you a true soul just to teach you the meaning of pain. Of despair. You shall learn what it is to suffer – and then suffering is all you shall do.”
“I’m not a golem you overgrown shoe-rack in-waiting!” Jack shouted back, half-terrified, half-curious as to whether the thing would be able to hear him over the sound of his thrusters at full-burn.
“You insolent… thing! Light of Arthax!”
Oh shit, Jack hissed as a kaleidoscope of patterns seemed to form over the dragon’s right wing. He tried to dodge by dipping right, but the honest to god purple laser beam that issued forth from the pattern was unerring.
“Gah,” he cried out as it impacted him perfectly on his exposed arm. “Don’t do that, it tickles.”
He could honestly say that before today, he’d had no idea what a flabbergasted dragon looked like.
Now he did.
Of course, it didn’t take long for that astonishment to morph into rage. “Light of Arthax!”
“You just tried that you – Ack!”
He didn’t giggle this time as his lower thigh erupted with pain. The laser had burned a hole clean through the armor there, and while the beam itself didn’t hurt him, molten metal from the hit dripping onto him certainly did.
Sure, the speeds they were going at meant it cooled and hardened rapidly, but that still left him with flecks of metal bonded to his skin.
And unfortunately for him, the dragon noticed. “So your armor does not benefit from your innate protection? Or whatever spell you used to protect yourself has expended itself?”
The thing must have heard me shout or seen me flinch, Jack thought.
He grunted as another spell formed – ahead of him this time. An honest to god screaming skull formed out of thin air and chased after him. He tried to dodge, but it clipped his foot. His armored foot.
Sensors and alarms within his HUD screamed out as the metal started to smoke and peel away in flecks. Then the booster exploded and Jack had to resist the urge to scream as a decent portion of his foot went with it.
And of course, the auto-injector system was one of the things I took out to study, he thought as a grand total of zero painkillers were injected into his system.
“You bleed too? Perhaps you truly aren’t a golem?” The Dragon chortled, continuing to gain on him.
In fact, he was gaining even faster now that Jack was down to just his back-mounted thrusters. Before they’d been about even. Now the Dragon had the clear edge in speed.
“Bite me,” the man cursed back as he desperately searched for an opening to get away.
“Well, if you insist.”
The miner paled as he realized the foolishness of that particular suggestion. Not least of all because the dragon was now nearly close enough to act on his ill-thought-out request. He dipped to the side just in time to avoid a giant set of teeth that clamped down on where he’d been flying just moments before.
He barely managed to sigh in relief before a casual swipe from the thing’s wing sent him spinning. Hissing in frustration, he managed to right himself just as the Red Death swooped around for another pass.
“Pathetic. Are you truly this city’s last hope?” The dragon laughed as it swooped towards him. “You’re out of your league, man-thing. At least the fish-girl provided to be some small challenge.”
Jack boosted down, narrowly avoiding the dragon’s talons. “Oh, I think she was a little more than that. I heard you whining about the boo-boo on your chest from all the way on the ground.”
“Insect!” The monster belched a long stream of flame that he narrowly avoided.
Thus began a very deadly game of tag. One where Jack’s only real advantage was that his small size allowed him to be significantly more maneuverable over short distances. Which while useful, still left him vulnerable to spells.
He tried summoning a few clouds of dust in an attempt to obfuscate the thing’s vision, but they were rapidly blown away by both the wind and the beating of his foe’s wings.
As a result, he had to stifle yet another hiss of pain when a fourth spell hit him.
Synthmuscle, he thought grimly as a fifth shot clipped him, ignoring the sensation of metal fusing with his skin. I’m going to be relying on my actual muscles to move my right arm at this rate.
His body was covered in burns and he knew he would be swimming in antibiotics later if he wanted to avoid an infection.
You know, provided he survived.
“Alright, fuck this.” He finally hissed as he shot upwards into the sky, dragon following behind him. “On my mark, suit, jettison all exterior plating.”
Confirmation required. Jettison all exterior plating on ‘mark’?” Perhaps it was just the burns talking, but he couldn’t help but note that even his suit’s AI sounded incredulous at what he was requesting.
“Confirm.”
“Confirming,” the suit responded as he continued rocketing higher.
“You’re mine!” The dragon was right beneath him.
He waited until the last possible moment before shouting. “Mark!”
The exterior – and irreplaceable – armor of his suit fell away like the shell of an orbital launch vehicle.
“Ha, your shoddy armor fails you!” The red-scaled creature taunted, closing its mouth so as to avoid swallowing the unexpected debris.
Jack ignored him as he changed direction once more, using his superior turning speed to shoot back towards his target. The dragon’s eyes widened as he tried to snap at him, but the sudden speed the miner had gained from the loss of his armor threw off the creature’s aim by barely a meter.
That was enough though, as Jack rocketed towards his target.
The exposed flesh of the thing’s chest.
Tendrils were already forming on the human’s outstretched hand as he summoned his microbots into existence. The black twisting mass of octagons roiled with malicious intent as they impacted the bare and vulnerable flesh of the dragon’s chest.
“Eat this you son of a-”
Jack barely finished speaking before he was thrown back, his drill shattering on impact with bone shaking force as the microbots utterly failed to find purchase in the monster’s skin. The human’s eyes went wide as he was sent spinning once more – and in moments the opportunity was gone as the dragon flew past him gaining as much distance as he could.
The thing laughed as it came around. “Even unarmored by mine scales, my flesh is that of a dragon. It has been toughened by the ages. Did you truly expect such a flimsy implement to damage it?”
…Magic was so much bullshit, Jack thought as he righted himself, hovering in place. He’d used his microbots to lift concrete slabs the size of cars, yet the flesh of an overgrown reptile was apparently too tough for it!?
“Well, at least I’ve managed to gain some space,” he muttered as he engaged his boosters, shooting upwards and away from the monster.
Just as he’d theorized, the thing had been wary after being injured. It was feeling vulnerable. As a result his sudden attack – even if it had failed – had the thing desperately backpedaling until it could recognize that the threat… wasn’t.
Which gave Jack the distance he needed to start climbing once more – moving in a straight line as he rocketed towards the stratosphere.
“Lin?” Jack shouted as the Dragon took off after him.
“Two minutes.” Was the frantic response he got.
That seemed like an eternity to him.
Fortunately, with his armor jettisoned, Jack was now moving significantly faster.
Unfortunately, he also had no real protection beyond his bodysuit against both the friction and cold as he tore up into the atmosphere. He could only be thankful that the air was thinner up here and getting thinner. That didn’t help against the cold, but it would save him from the worst of the friction.
And as his entire body burned with pain, his foe was still gaining on him.
That changed though as more seconds ticked by.
The higher they climbed, the more the air thinned.
“Higher. Higher.” The words became a mantra, a desperate hope.
Eventually, as the sky turned from blue to something just a few shades darker Jack dared to look down -and found that his foe was no longer on his tail.
“What’s the matter,” he shouted, his loudspeakers reaching all the way down to the creature circling below. “You slowed down?”
“Blasted thing!” The monster roared across the gulf between them.
Jack sighed in relief, even as his suit warned him that his body temperature was now getting dangerously low.
“And to think, I was worried that your whole ‘flight thing’ was all magic,” he shouted down. “And I bet some of it is, but those wings play a role too right?”
Down below, the dragon just continued to glare, his wings beating almost frantically in an attempt to keep him airborne.
“What’s the matter?” Jack shouted. “Feeling out of breath?”
“You think I am ignorant of the deep black? I was born to fly. To rule the skies. You think my first thoughts as a spawn would not be to fly as high as I might?” The dragon snorted. “If your plan was to lure me up here so that I might suffocate and fall, you shall be disappointed. I am not some whelp that is about to run out of breath because the air is thin.”
Well, admittedly that was a little disappointing.
“So what now?” Jack struggled to keep the chatter from his voice as the cold seemed to seep into his bones. “You can’t catch me and it seems I can’t hurt you.”
The Red Death glared. “As much as it pains me to admit, you have evaded me for now. Well done, man-thing.”
“For now?”
“I was once faced with a similar conundrum involving a Harpy Queen some centuries ago.” The dragon cocked his head. “Do you know how I resolved it?”
Jack eyed his nearby chronometer. “Do tell.”
The dragon chuckled. “I burned her nest. And her children. And when she descended from the heavens, screaming her vengeance, I devoured her.”
The threat was clear. If he didn’t come down, the Red Death would return to the city – and gonnes or not, it wouldn’t be able to resist him.
Jack just laughed back though. “That’s actually pretty smart for a big lizard. Too bad you won’t get the chance.”
“And why, pray tell, is that?
“Because an object traveling at the speed of sound is effectively silent if you’re the target." Jack paused. “And that’s roughly one third the speed of a Company Certified Intercontinental Cargo Delivery Vehicle.”
“…What?”
The dragon had barely finished the last syllable when he was hit by roughly two hundred tons of fuel, gunpowder, steel, and various rare earth metals - traveling at three times the speed of sound on a rocket the size of a cargo-train and armored like a tank.
AN: A little shorter than normal, but it just so happened to shake out that way. Certainly didn't feel it. Actions scenes and I do not get along.
Comments
Alex
Or i should say how long is it likely to be? Obiously schedules and blue dont mix
Alex
Given the gap in between books how long is this wait going to be?
Jurodan
RAMMING SPEED!
Ruvia fanboy
To be fair in this scenario it's not even acceleration that's the issue. Ke = 1/2MV^2
Blue Fishcake
Might well be somewhere in between. I've often disliked the endings of my books, feeling that they are abrupt, so I'm trying to take my time with this one.
Christian White
So Blue. This like a 1 day late scenario, 5 days late, or somewhere in between?
Oreo-belt25
I bet the magistrate has some wishes about her hero and some cock ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Oreo-belt25
I as well!
Mateus Vieira
Really hope that it jumps directly to book 3, sect babes is really my favorite series and the reason I subscribed for the Patreon, good work!
Christian White
Tbf skyship is a side project and never claimed to replace anything. I will agree though that the "wowing the locals with technology" scratches a particular itch for me. That said, from a power scaling perspective, I could only see one, mayyybe two more books if we want the series to tie off cleanly.
Michael Maxwell
So long as I still get sect I'll keep paying just get that tier for extra chapters then get skyship stuff is bummer not bad but not what I signed on for
Christian White
And then you start sect babes 3 and keep writing it forever, yeah?
Blue Fishcake
This being the final chapter + epilogue, it's going to be a bit later than normal.
Groinfist
Blood for the Blood God, skulls for the Skull throne
Found&Lost
Our poor hero though, he's freezing to death fast. Hope the cock comes to save him.
Markell
Can’t wait to see the locals reaction as they witness the largest non-nuclear explosion that this of the multiverse has ever seen.
Found&Lost
The explosives are probably superfluous. Sadly the "give" of the collision as the rocket and probably dragon crumple and the dragon is physically pushed will dampen the force somewhat, but not likely enough to matter if magic wasn't bullshit.
The Fire Piper
So 200t at 1029m/s creates 96,056 Mega Jules of energy. Thats without the explosives. Thats... a lot. Can someone check if I did my math wrong?
Samuel Alexander Vall Andersen
Never Die Twice maybe?
David Grandsard
Do any of yall have recommendations for similar stories?
Scipio
F = MA, my old friend!
Groinfist
Everyone is gangsta until Oppenheimer stands up
Stephen Place
Lorax
jaylau
“I’m the Burpex. I speak for the bees.” This has to be a reference right? I must know
PalindromeJoe
Mega cliff on god, still a great chapter though
Allen Mainville
She’s gonna really enjoy showing him off to the court back home.
Stephen Place
Pray is correct
Morgwath
Shadowkiller44
Magistrate: "HOW DARE YOU NOT BE IMPRESSED BY MY KILLING INTENT!" Also the magistrate when jack just tanks dragon magic: *getting moist and bashfull* D..Daddy? Ah yes. The good old classic "If you have a problem -> use stone" "If you still have a problem -> use bigger and faster stone" "Repeat until problem is solved" "Problem solved" Magic or not,bow down befor the might of science you peasants!
Deinos
Cliff Alarm!
Christopher Manoff
Oooo wonder how that felt. Because inertia is a bitch xD Another fine read, my friend!
Jon Transfiguracion
Elwin: hey everybody my fiance fought the red death and lived...can you see how awesome my catch is?
Stephen Place
He can take Elwin home in a few hours, open up trade, etc. She’s spent years looking for a husband I believe?
Beeees!
Ya, rockets gonna shake up the power dynamic of this world for sure lmao
Marcin
Tbh its impossible that it didnt, all other cultivator powers were rather weak. Nothing really to write home about..
anonymous
Typo: "I burned her nest. And he children." should read "I burned her nest. And her children."
anonymous
I'm guessing the shuttle will go right through mr scaly rather than transfer all that energy. Maybe even leave a big enough piece to fall dramatically into the natives camp.
Blue Fishcake
Fixed, thanks :D
Undead
No orbital capabilities, so it's a --hypersonic-- supersonic missile. Either way he ought to be toast.
Folly Industries
"laser beam that issued forth from the pattern wasn’t unerring.". - I think you mean was unerring.
Skais
after calculating the impact energy of the plane we got 105884 megajoules of energy, converting this energy into TNT explosive force we got: 25306.88 kilograms of TNT. using a safety explosion calculator we have the following minimum distance to be safe from the epicenter of the explosion: 3817m. using another calculator to find the size of the explosion in case it was hitting the ground it gave us the following data: Ground vibration: Maximum Effected Range 5090.60M; Fatal Distance 67.76M; Lung Damage 107.40M; Eardrum Rupture 276.15M; Houses completely demolished 140.56; Houses badly damaged, beyond repair, require demolition 207.91; after analyzing the power of the force that just hit the silly Lizzy we can be 100% certain that magic bullshit wont save him and that he is now gecko BBQ
ChaosAndBunnies
If the cannon can pop his eye, I'm going to bet the delivery ICBM isn't having any trouble turning him to minced iguana
ChaosAndBunnies
It sounds more like harpies were a thing. Mr Big Red Lizard sure made it seem like he made them a past-tense
Christian White
If that doesn't do some serious damage, then the "magic is bullshit" meter has officially peaked
OneAngle Heaven
CHOO CHOO MOTHER FUCKER!!!
Hunter
I’m addicted to your stories and am eagerly waiting the next chapter like an addict… hope it’s not too long. My days are better with them… until I’ve binge read the entire thing and am left empty handed due to my inability to slowly enjoy the chapter.
David Ellis
Looking forward to the microbot AI saying "magic bullshit" the next time it fails a reasonable task in an unreasonable way. 😉
Andrew
Thank you!
Samuel Alexander Vall Andersen
Great chapter, ending on a cliffhanger, im looking forward to next chapter
Nick
Bug meet windshield
Batou
Next time Kids we learn the use of shapecharges against heavy armor!
TwoRavens
Rods from God: When you absolutely, positively HAVE TO kill every motherfucker in the grid square.
Found&Lost
So according to my rough estimates that dragon is being hit by 231.811 giga newtons of force courtesy of https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/impact-force-calculator.php Assuming that the craft doesn't go right through the dragon, physics says its organs are now liquid, but magic is bullshit!
Groinfist
Fyi the impact alone is equal to 21,000 tons of force across the entire impact surface, that doesn't include the shockwave from the sonic boom or the reaction of any contents.
Horan
So what we learned : Jack is magic proof, Jack is missing a foot, Jack has no more amour but might be for the better Jack is sassy and a badass He has access to rare metal, and some fuel (well we actually kinda known that but here is a massive scale) Jack's armour might not be fixed ever. Theres full blown fantasy Holmes and humonculous. Golmens dont bleed. Harpies are a thing, they have a society Theres fake souls Theres soul manipulation
Groinfist
When in doubt go super sonic MOAB
Horan
Please i need more. Omg that was so much better. The Sas, the tension, the mysteries, omg please im begging. I'm trembling that's how good it was oh fuck. Gg . Take your time and dont rush yourself but damn , you are sooo gonna have an influx of patreon when this chapter goes public.
Found&Lost
Finally! Great chapter! Now to hope that thing did enough to the dragon
Chargcake
More pls
HandsyUncleTickles
Beep beep T H U D
Tomer Yud
Great timing xD
