Chapter 31: The Luffa is Red-Hot!
The battle-hardened individual’s broad wings flapped heavily, creating a gap between the Terror Tyrant and the ground.
Jie Jie didn’t believe it could lift the Terror Tyrant outright.
Fortunately, that slight gap truly vanished in an instant. The muscle-bound Terror Tyrant, hard as a smelly rock, landed back on the ground without sustaining any real damage.
Jie Jie sighed in relief; her thoughts had shifted from how to take down the luffa to cheering for the green-skinned Terror Tyrant.
Come on, big green guy!
At this moment, there wasn’t a single unblemished patch of skin on the Terror Tyrant. But under the metabolic breakdown, fresh red muscles were forming new skin.
He was no longer the green luffa. As he struggled on the ground, his scarred muscles pulsed, revealing deeper colors beneath.
“Roar!”
In the dry roar, the Terror Tyrant’s body erupted with Dragon Attribute Energy, which flowed out from every wound, enveloping the Male Fire Dragon.
“Boom!”
The violent explosion of Dragon Attribute Energy sent the Male Fire Dragon flying again with a startled cry.
The dark-red surging Terror Tyrant stood up once more. Its movement was so rough that Jie Jie wondered if it would hurt itself getting up.
“Did it just turn from a luffa into a pickled luffa?”
Jie Jie growled softly, pondered for a moment, and then understood, dumbfounded.
Pickled luffa, also known as the special individual Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant, occurs when a regular Terror Tyrant experiences hormonal imbalance leading to accelerated metabolism, making its aggressiveness far exceed the normal kind.
Even its Dragon Attribute Energy is in a highly activated state.
There are many factors causing hormonal imbalance, and quite a few Terror Tyrants meet these conditions.
For example, emotional失控 is the most direct one. At this moment, the Terror Tyrant’s pupils resembled demons, constantly bursting with black and red Dragon Attribute Energy, looking completely enraged and overheated.
The Fire Dragon rose high and dove again, stepping on its dragon energy-covered back.
“Grunt!”
But this time, the Terror Tyrant—or rather, the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant—released Dragon Attribute Energy from its mouth sides, ferociously biting onto the battle-hardened Male Fire Dragon’s body, tearing it off and throwing it heavily to the ground.
A large body doesn’t mean slow movements.
“Boom! Boom!”
Its left and right legs stomped consecutively, splashing dust that obscured Jie Jie’s line of sight.
But she could see the pickled luffa’s head rising high, smashing down heavily toward the Male Fire Dragon.
“Ouch.”
Jie Jie winced, immensely relieved that the Terror Tyrant hadn’t unleashed such strong aggression when she faced it earlier.
At this moment, the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant seemed driven not just by hunger but also by destructive urges.
The Dragon Attribute Energy spewing from the Terror Tyrant’s mouth dispersed the yet-to-settle dust, making the battle situation even more unpredictable.
Jie Jie, perched on a tree, couldn’t wait any longer. She spread her wings and flew, launching a fireball at the Terror Tyrant.
Before the fireball hit the pickled luffa, it was mostly dispersed by the berserk Active Dragon Attribute Energy, and the sparks caused by the airflow extinguished the remaining flames.
This strong?
Jie Jie was stunned. Seeing a breath weapon coming, she quickly flapped her wings to dodge.
Changing angles mid-flight, she saw below that the battle-hardened Male Fire Dragon, who made a stylish entrance, wasn’t instantly defeated.
Or perhaps her fireball gave it a chance to catch its breath. The battered Male Fire Dragon stood up and opened its mouth.
However, its normally effective breath weapon was useless now. The Dragon Attribute Energy still clung to it, eroding its body.
But what defines a seasoned individual from the New Continent?
The Earth Pulse Energy of the New Continent flows into their bodies, making their strength and aggression even stronger.
With a powerful base and savage attacks, they continuously battle other Large Monsters, making their combat experience match their resilient bodies.
This wandering Terror Tyrant from the New Continent must have fought it before.
The double claws slashing across the Terror Tyrant’s muscular texture, the slanted wing flapping dispersing the Dragon Attribute Energy.
It returned to the sky, everything seemed like it could end here. The Terror Tyrant never stops moving, soon it will be out of sight.
The battle-hardened Male Fire Dragon saw the Female Fire Dragon dancing in the air, the dim sunlight couldn’t obscure the brilliance of her shell.
Its power needed no further proof.
But a fireball from the Female Fire Dragon passed by it and headed toward the Terror Tyrant, only to be extinguished by the scattered Dragon Attribute Energy mist.
Its gaze followed that fireball back to the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant.
The rulers of the skies have always been proud, and seasoned individuals are even prouder.
Pride ignited its chest. The foul smell of the Terror Tyrant’s Dragon Attribute Energy brushing against it was vividly remembered, and even now, the Dragon Attribute Energy still clings to its shell, contaminating its breath weapon.
Nay, let it be!
“Roar, Roar, Grunt!”
Coughs gradually turned into lofty roars. A spark finally broke through the Dragon Attribute Energy blockade, flipping out its color amidst the sparks of Dragon Attribute Energy.
A blue fireball burst from its mouth, exploding on the Terror Tyrant.
This time, it was the Dragon Attribute Energy that was extinguished.
It wasn’t merely Fire Attribute overpowering Dragon Attribute. A fireball carries more than just heat. Moreover, the Dragon Attribute Energy swirling around the Terror Tyrant was just a small part of what overflowed, unable to withstand the explosive impact and the flame several orders of magnitude higher.
Two small holes pierced by claws on the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant’s back became a half-meter-wide crater, with blue little flames leaping on the wound, eventually extinguished by the newly surged frenzied Dragon Attribute Energy.
The Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant’s body trembled heavily, the venom dripping from its mouth becoming stickier.
Unlike the Female Fire Dragon whose venom glands connect to the spines on her tail and back, the Male Fire Dragon’s venom glands connect to its claws.
Jie Jie suspected that the venom entering the Terror Tyrant’s body might be one of the culprits causing its hormonal imbalance, with the Dragon Activation in the Terror Tyrant growing increasingly severe.
She also had a premonition—if the Terror Tyrant couldn’t stop the Dragon Attribute Energy in its body, turning into a Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant would be fleeting.
Nevertheless, the Fire Dragon’s battle continued. With wings flapping, the Terror Tyrant could no longer see the sky.
“Who, in the end, is the main character here!”
Jie Jie couldn’t hold back anymore, diving from the sky with claw-like hooks, tearing away a large piece of flesh from the wound crater.
The chunk of flesh dissipated in her claws, decomposing into the colors of the Terror Tyrant Totem, not the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant’s, since the latter was merely a derivative individual after the former lost control, unlike the significant species difference between Male and Female Fire Dragons due to gender.
The two Fire Dragons crisscrossed over the Terror Tyrant’s body, leaving more scars each time.
But Jie Jie’s attack frequency was low, continuing only when the pickled luffa was in post-attack rigidity. The battle-hardened Male Fire Dragon might endure being bitten and thrown, but she lacked such confidence.
Most of the time, she hovered in the air, firing fireballs to cheer the Male Fire Dragon on.
How to deal with the pickled luffa? Just create serious wounds to hold it back, and it will die on its own.
The death of the Fury-Eating Terror Tyrant seemed inevitable, which made Jie Jie think about the battle-hardened Male Fire Dragon again.
Using someone like this made Jie Jie feel a bit guilty, and guilt should be compensated, right?
But mating was impossible unless she was a Male Fire Dragon, and the other party was a beautiful Female Fire Dragon like herself.
Wait, didn’t this guy push her against a tree and bite her wing when she was in Black Wolf Bird form before?
And it made her, who had just learned to fly, unable to fly for some time afterward!
Yeah, no guilt anymore! Not a bit!
Revenge thoughts came swiftly. Each issue settled separately, find opportunities, and get him!
Jie Jie let out a gritted-teeth growl.
