Chapter 157: The “Love” of the Extinction Dragon
As Jié Jié watched the charging Extinction Dragon, he was reminded of his reaction three months ago when he first encountered one.
It was the same exact dive! And with the same fiery passion!
Tears streamed down his face as he crouched low, ready to endure the impact with all his might.
This attack wasn’t as sudden as the last one. The Extinction Dragon’s body was covered in fragile white thorns, while Jié Jié wore a layer of hardened dead scales.
His broken wing hung limply on his back, still part of the mottled dead scales.
He had planned to tear off the dead scales along with the necrotic broken wing and regenerate using the arthropod limb regeneration ability.
But now he didn’t need to bother breaking off the broken wing.
The Extinction Dragon plowed into him, completing what she couldn’t months ago with her anger from that time.
The white thorns shattered upon impact, flying everywhere.
Jié Jié’s fractured and necrotic wing finally detached from his body, revealing fresh bone beneath the dead flesh.
“Hiss!”
Jié Jié sucked in a sharp breath, the pain from months ago giving him a brand-new sensation.
But he held his ground and didn’t fall.
Jié Jié slowly turned around and stared at the Extinction Dragon who had rolled off his back.
It was his turn now.
“Grunt!”
The cool air he had sucked in became wind stored in his mouth, and the cry of pain became fire spewed forth.
The fireball exploded on the Extinction Dragon’s panting head, followed by Jié Jié’s charge with his horn against her twin horns.
His sharp horn struck one of her thick horns, the terrifying point force scattering, causing her whole body to stagger backward.
Her momentum was exhausted before she could gather new strength.
The anger that erupted from the pain hadn’t subsided. The horn that had been repelled from its indentation then, with Jié Jié’s lowered head, grazed her chin and pierced her shoulder.
Still my turn.
The Extinction Dragon instinctively tried to rise up to counterattack and succeeded in being lifted up during the impact.
She was pinned hard against the wall, dislodging rocks and bones.
“Roar!”
The counterattack came with her cry of pain, her sharp claws slapping Jié Jié’s intact wing joint, colliding with the thorns on his shoulder armor.
Jié Jié didn’t relax at all, keeping the Extinction Dragon pinned with his horn while opening his mouth.
This was his third round—
Do you understand why you shouldn’t use your ultimate move right away?
Without any black thorns, using your ultimate move would only result in getting beaten!
Raging flames flowed from Jié Jié’s mouth, scorching the Extinction Dragon’s chest.
The effect wasn’t great; the scales on her chest merely melted around the edges.
Jié Jié stopped spitting fire and instead began grinding her shoulder with his horn, his body slipping under her raised wing.
When she struggled to slide her shoulder away, he relaxed his grip on her head and instead used his side to unbalance her and knock her down.
The hedgehog was finally flipped over, exposing her abdomen.
My turn will continue to be mine.
Meanwhile, the flat-account sister watching this wild scene barely reacted in time.
Seeing the fallen Extinction Dragon, she didn’t run away but instead charged forward with her hook claws to start attacking and restraining, beginning a pincer attack with the Spiny Dragon.
Before Jié Jié could tear off more flesh from the Extinction Dragon’s abdomen, a sharp claw hooked onto his body.
The Extinction Dragon pulled herself up, swatting the emaciated Corpse Suit Dragon away with her wings, pressing her upper body onto the Spiny Dragon and forcing her claws downward.
The Spiny Dragon, with the bipedal structure of a Flying Dragon, lacked support and was directly pressed to the ground, struggling fiercely, his horn repeatedly grazing the Extinction Dragon’s lower abdomen.
Jié Jié’s legs dug into the ground as he thrust his head forward, his horn piercing straight into the Extinction Dragon’s lower abdomen near her tail base.
That position… is often the monster’s reproductive tract…
Pierced it—
But as a creature capable of asexual reproduction, the Extinction Dragon didn’t suffer severe damage and immediately fell, instead turning the pain into the power to rip off Jié Jié’s dead scales.
The mottled and ugly dead scales were torn open, and the Corpse Suit Dragon who had been swatted away by her wings charged back with a Dragon Charge, causing her to lose her balance and tumble away.
Jié Jié stood up, his horn dripping with blood, standing beside the Corpse Suit Dragon, facing off against the Extinction Dragon.
“Grunt Roar!”
“Grunt～～”
“Roar!”
Amidst the monsters’ roars, none of the three dragons chose to retreat, starting another round of combat.
Structural advantages often outweigh physical strength. The Extinction Dragon’s physique perfectly utilized the advantages of a quadrupedal, dual-winged structure.
As predators among the Ancient Dragons, Extinction Dragons always warrant the Ancient Dragons of the Dragon Crystal Land to set aside their disputes and unite to drive them away first.
Even in single hunts, if the hunted Ancient Dragon flees into another Ancient Dragon’s territory, the situation can escalate into a group fight.
In dragon-on-dragon battles, the Extinction Dragon’s hunting of Ancient Dragons is filled with difficulty, but it also trains them for group fights.
With her powerful physique, the Corpse Suit Dragon found it difficult to budge her whether using poison gas or her body. The Extinction Dragon was completely focused on Jié Jié.
She licked the blood-stained claw back.
Dragon blood, rich in energy that can be used for destruction or nurturing new life.
She almost confirmed that the Flying Dragon before her was a target of comparable value to an Ancient Dragon. The nutrients gained from consuming him would be enough to begin the attempt to breed offspring.
She no longer glanced at the Corpse Suit Dragon. What had she torn from the Corpse Suit Dragon earlier? Worthless rotten meat!
After the subterranean veins submerged, the reproduction of the Extinction Dragon clan also became difficult, which is why they started frequently attempting to hunt Ancient Dragons.
They didn’t know who was responsible for the submersion of the veins. All they knew was that the energy that should have been omnipresent was gone, so they had to turn the living into the dead.
The Extinction Dragon clan never served the perpetrator. On the contrary, their actions, in a sense, hindered the perpetrator.
Whether driving them away or completing the hunt to nurture, they were taking the energy of the Ancient Dragons away from the veins.
Regardless of permission or refusal, strictness or kindness, whether past or future, whatever exists is allowed, all are parts of nature.
In Jié Jié’s eyes, after licking his blood, the Extinction Dragon’s gaze clearly changed, carrying the desire for reproduction.
Food and sex are instincts of living beings, the purest desires. But for intelligent species, these can be selective.
This selectivity turns the purest desires into pursuits of better and beauty.
Perhaps, it could also be called “love.”
The same pure love appeared in the eyes of the two dragons looking at each other. They both wanted to eat each other.
Let the other’s corpse provide nourishment for new life, or become one another, either way, it would be the rebirth of an Extinction Dragon!
