Chapter 87: Armored vehicles and flying tanks, bombers and fighter jets – the arms race of the New Continent.
When a Horned Dragon spits fireballs?
With that tough armor, it would at least need to perform the Flying Dragon Step Dance as a prelude before its fireballs can deal any effective damage.
And if it performs the dance on the ground, it might just get impaled through the chest by the Horned Dragon’s charge.
The Horned Dragon is more inclined towards melee combat. Its armored shell forces opponents to engage in close quarters.
Also, this guy can dig holes; once it senses danger and wants to escape, it’s harder to chase or find than a Fire Dragon in the sky.
Melee it is then, but alas, the Fire Dragon’s breakthrough has to be postponed again.
The Spiny Dragon landed heavily from the air, luring the Horned Dragon into a charge before leaping up again, flapping its wings to hover.
If the Horned Dragon were an armored vehicle, then the Spiny Dragon is a flying tank.
Then, the flying tank avoided the armored vehicle’s upward thrust and smashed down heavily onto its body.
The ground couldn’t bear the combined weight of the two massive creatures and cracked, leaving the Horned Dragon even more unbalanced under the Spiny Dragon’s weight, forcing it to collapse onto the ground.
But its wings were digging into the ground left and right, the thick toes evolved from wing claws giving it a significant advantage in excavation.
Amidst the flying dirt and rocks, the large Horned Dragon burrowed underground.
Jié Jié only managed to stomp on the Horned Dragon’s back before his feet fell into the hole dug by the dragon.
He shook off the dirt from his wings to free his feet from the pit, but the ground continued to tremble.
“Boom!”
The ground broke apart due to the digging, and the Horned Dragon leaped out from the dust, swinging its head towards Jie Jie.
The Spiny Dragon ascended to avoid it, then dived rapidly with great speed.
Its heavy claws struck the side of the Horned Dragon, pushing it back. Jie Jie hit the ground, sliding along with his head grazing the floor, taking large strides forward.
In the midst of the loud noise, the Horned Dragon was lifted from below and slammed sideways, directly flipped over.
“Roar, Roar!”
The Horned Dragon cried out in pain, its side shell shattered by the Spiny Dragon’s horn strike. The strong toxin was ravaging its flesh, causing much blood loss from the wound.
Jie Jie shook his head; his hard horn remained undamaged. He took a slight step back before charging again with a simple but toxic horn strike.
The Horned Dragon was pushed away, and the poison blood bloomed like flowers on its yellowish shell.
When it tried to stand again, weakened by the toxin, it was rammed once more by Jie Jie.
At this point, the Horned Dragon was like a ball, and the Spiny Dragon was like a Husky using its nose to push the ball around.
Normally, it’s only the Horned Dragon that collides with others, but now using its head to collide with the Horned Dragon seemed to have some special fun.
By the time the Horned Dragon started adapting to the toxin, its hard shell had already been significantly fractured.
The re-risen Horned Dragon entered a state of rage, dragging its heavily scarred body towards Jie Jie who was panting to recover stamina.
Colliding with the Horned Dragon?
Shall we try?
Let’s try!
Jie Jie is the fierce dragon who dares to challenge the Savage Jaw Dragon form against the Hōng Lóng, so merely colliding with the Horned Dragon is nothing!
The green body of the Spiny Dragon was blushing red with excitement, expanding blood vessels filled with blood, granting him greater strength.
The cost? The softening of his entire shell, which might not be good when colliding with the Horned Dragon.
But this small detail could no longer stop Jie Jie, who had already taken his steps.
Horn against horns, the red-eyed Spiny Dragon was carefully aiming for his collision spot—
Getting closer.
“Boom!”
In the tremendous sound, a bloody curved yellow horn flew up, spinning behind Jie Jie, embedding itself into the ground.
The Horned Dragon’s horns are hard, and their curved structure allows them to withstand greater impacts.
But they cannot withstand the impact generated by two monsters of the same size colliding after accelerating.
Even the toughest horn seems fragile against such force.
Still, Jie Jie wasn’t having a great time either. In a sense, he might have been hurt even worse.
The Spiny Dragon’s head grazed the Horned Dragon’s faceplate, creating a bloody hole on its side. His neck bent from the impact was returning to normal, throwing it aside.
At this moment, Jie Jie felt like his skull was probably hit, buzzing loudly, his vision obscured by static, unable to see clearly.
Fortunately, his skull wasn’t pierced, and he didn’t lose his eyes—otherwise, he’d have to walk like a crab for a while.
Compared to his own sorry state, Jie Jie was more satisfied with breaking the Horned Dragon’s horn.
But just as he was about to press his advantage, a sound resembling a police siren came from afar, growing louder as it approached.
“Angggggnger～”
“Damn, we ran into the cops!”
The Spiny Dragon growled as the scarred Horned Dragon abandoned its lifelong companion and began digging downwards.
From behind the cliff, a huge Flying Dragon appeared in the sky. The silver scales on its head opened like pine cones, and its chin was covered with small black pine cones.
This guy, who looks like mulberry, is called the Burst Scale Dragon, naturally named because its scales explode.
“Roar!”
In a long call, the Burst Scale Dragon flew over Jie Jie’s head, scattering those black pine cones from its chin.
These are the explosive scales formed by the concentrated explosive fluid of the Burst Scale Dragon. Upon landing, the black scales gradually lit up with dangerous red light.
But by this time, Jie Jie had already spread his wings and flown up, facing the bomber as a flying tank.
The Burst Scale Dragon, which usually glides in the air, isn’t good at dodging, and was directly pierced in the abdomen by the Spiny Dragon’s sharp horn, which was also being bitten.
“Roar!”
Intense pain made the Burst Scale Dragon shake and swing its head wildly. A large amount of explosive scales exploded on Jie Jie’s body with the head shaking, but it couldn’t make him pull out the horn.
The toxins on the horn tore through the Burst Scale Dragon’s insides, finally causing it to fall from the sky with Jie Jie.
The piercing horn contracted within the Burst Scale Dragon, and the Male Fire Dragon spread its wings, flipping its body, tossing the Burst Scale Dragon and accelerating its fall.
“Boom!”
Watching the sparks of the bursting scales during the pursuit of the Burst Scale Dragon, pride welled up in the chest of the Fire Dragon after a long absence.
A bomber is still a bomber; besides ground suppression, it is just a thin-skinned dumpling when faced with a fighter jet.
But the explosion of all its ammunition obviously cannot harm the Burst Scale Dragon, which actually likes to kill opponents with explosive impacts.
“Roar～～”
A long roar dispersed the flames, and the Burst Scale Dragon raised its head from the ground, angrily staring at the Male Fire Dragon in the sky.
It thought there was a skilled female Fire Dragon fighting the Horned Dragon on the ground, but in the blink of an eye, the Horned Dragon ran away, and the “female Fire Dragon” turned into a male Fire Dragon.
As the top predator in the food chain, the entire New Continent is the hunting ground of the Burst Scale Dragon, and it can certainly defeat the Male Fire Dragon.
But it’s relatively difficult for the bomber to hunt the fighter jet. As long as it’s not instantly suppressed and its wings aren’t destroyed, the Male Fire Dragon’s flight ability is enough to escape, whereas the Cāng Huǒ Lóng with stronger flight capabilities can knock the Burst Scale Dragon out of the sky.
“Roar!”
The Male Fire Dragon disguised as the Cāng Huǒ Lóng roared and dived towards the fallen bomber.
Let this battle, as the apex predator, serve as his final fight before becoming the legendary fiery dragon!
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