Dragon-Slaying Magic

**Dragon-Slaying Magic** (滅竜魔法), also known as **Anti-Dragon Magic**, is a type of Martial Magic created for the purpose of killing Dragons and draconic beings. While it utilizes celestial energy, it isn't considered an Enochian Magic.

Wielders of Dragon-Slaying Magic are called **Dragon Slayers** (竜殺し), and constructs imbued with it are known as Anti-Dragon Weapons.

## Summary

Dragon-Slaying Magic is one of the most ancient forms of Martial Magic in existence, being regarded as an Ancient Spell that is on the edge of becoming a Lost Magic. Like its name suggests, Dragon-Slaying Magic is a magic created for the purpose of harming, defeating, and killing Dragons or draconic beings like Wyverns, Hydras, or Nagas.

Those who mastered this magic are appropriately called Dragon Slayers, and tales surrounding them are among the oldest myths ever recorded. This motif is known as Chaoskampf (カオスカンプ), in which a Dragon representing evil and chaos will be defeated by a figure who represents order and goodness. Many of them are of mortal origins (Saint George, Sigurd, Perseus...), while some are pagan gods of old themselves (Indra, Zeus, Susanoo...).

## Abilities

Dragon-Slaying Magic is a type of Ancient Spell which grants its users an advantage against Dragons, draconic beings, and those with draconic attributes. It is an extremely versatile type of Martial Magic, allowing the users to use it for both offensive and defensive styles.

A Dragon Slayer is immune to the effects or hindrance of their own element, even if it is reflected back at them with greater power, and can absorb external sources of their element to replenish their strength. However, a Dragon Slayer cannot consume the element that they produce themselves, and elements must be consumed through the mouth.

## Classifications

There are a total of five classifications of Dragon Slayers based on the methods one can use to learn Dragon-Slaying Magic. They are:

* **First Generation**: Taught by a Dragon King or more powerful Dragons.
* **Second Generation**: By implanting a Dragon King's magic core into their body.
	+ Dragon Slayers who wield Draconic Sacred Gears such as the Boosted Gear, Divine Dividing, or Twice Critical are categorized into this class.
* **Third Generation**: A combination of the previous methods. Often by being taught by a Dragon King before having said Dragon implanting their magic core into the Dragon Slayer's body.
* **Fourth Generation**: Taught by another Dragon Slayer.
* **Fifth Generation**: Cannibalism Magic. By consuming the flesh of a Dragon or a Dragon Slayer, one can gain their magical powers which include Dragon-Slaying Magic.

## Techniques

### Dragon Force

**Dragon Force** (竜の力(ドラゴン・フォース)) is considered to be the final, ultimate state that a Dragon Slayer can attain. Upon entering Dragon Force, the user gains reptilian scales and traits, such as further elongated and sharper canines, and scale-like patterns on their skin. According to Y Ddraig Loch, this form transforms the Dragon Slayer into a humanoid Dragon, turning them into what all true Dragons represent - Power and Destruction.

### Dragonization

**Dragonization** (竜化), also called **Draconic Metamorphoses**, is a forbidden technique that - as its name may suggest - transforms the Dragon Slayer into their antithesis, a Dragon. This is a painful, brutal, and violent transformation that strips its victim of all their humanity, turning them into a Black Dragon filled with unfiltered wrath and insanity.

As such, when a Dragon Slayer enters the first stages of Dragonization, it is a must to either stop the transformation right then or immediately kill them while they are in their most vulnerable moments. As shown with Ophis, blood of Dragon God seems to be the only method to revert a Dragonized victim back into their original state.

## Forms

### Anti-Dragon Weapons

**Anti-Dragon Weapons** (反竜武器), also called **Dragon Slayer Armaments**, are weapons imbued with Dragon-Slaying Magic. They are Mystic Codes of the highest order, created by the most skilled blacksmiths for non-Dragon Slayers to use against draconic foes, though it isn't unheard of for Dragon Slayers to create their personalized Anti-Dragon Weapons.

Relics and artifacts associated with mythical Dragon Slayers also carried within them a fraction of the original Dragon Slayer's magic due to Ceremonial Magic. While they are more powerful than the standard Anti-Dragon Weapons, in comparison with the original Dragon Slayer's actual weapon, they are still vastly inferior.

Some of the most famous Anti-Dragon Weapons are: Caliburn (Arthurian Mythology), Ascalon (Christian Mythology), Gram & Balmung (Norse Mythology), Harpe (Greek Mythology), Kusanagi no Tsurugi (Japanese Mythology), etc.

## Trivia

* While inaccurate, the "Dragonslayer" and "Princess and Dragon" motifs are still popularly believed to represent primeval civilizations' transition from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society.

### Notes

* **List of Dragon Slayers**
	+ List of First Generation Dragon Slayers
	+ List of Second Generation Dragon Slayers
	+ List of Third Generation Dragon Slayers
	+ List of Fourth Generation Dragon Slayers
	+ List of Fifth Generation Dragon Slayers