Chapter 148: Decapitation Attack! (1200 Chapter Monthly Ticket Bonus)
2014-12-24
Author: Floating Tower of All Beings
A splash of ice and snow.
Soren shook off the frost from his arms and quickly pulled out a spear to throw at the Frost Wyvern in front of him. The icy breath had inflicted more than twenty points of frost damage on him; if it weren’t for his low-level cold resistance specialty, he would have been stiff for quite some time before regaining his senses. The most important thing when dealing with a Frost Wyvern is not to deal damage, but to prevent it from flying. Although Soren had an opportunity to attack the vital areas of its head and neck, he instead aimed the spear at the wyvern’s wings.
Boom!
The heavy spear pierced through the Frost Wyvern’s wing, embedding itself in the ground between its bones. As the Frost Wyvern let out a pained scream, Soren quickly drew his kn*fe and pounced forward. Killing a dragon can’t directly involve attacking the skull; its skull is extremely hard and even extraordinary weapons can’t penetrate it. Attacking seemingly critical areas is also ineffective, as dragon species possess incredibly robust vitality; even if you leave it bleeding profusely, it may not d*e for a while. Don’t even think about hitting its fatal organs; such damage requires specifically prepared dragon-slaying weapons.
It’s like giving you a sword; it’s hard to guarantee that you can pierce the heart of an elephant through its thick skin!
The Frost Wyvern is not small; a human heart can be pierced with a dagger, but the heart of a subspecies dragon requires penetrating at least several dozen centimeters of thickness. Soren did not attack the crucial area of the neck but instead swung his curved blade, slicing through the Frost Wyvern’s wings. Amidst the gushing bl**d, the wing was split in half, fluttering like a tattered cloak in the snow. This kind of injury is not lethal for a wyvern, but it essentially crippled its ability to fly.
A sharp claw glinted as the male Frost Wyvern opened its mouth to bite at Soren’s neck!
This moment was extremely perilous.
The long neck of the Frost Wyvern is nearly a meter long. Its head can twist nearly 360 degrees for biting attacks, meaning that as long as you’re within its attack range, there’s almost no blind spot, making evasion impossible. The Reflex Evasion gained from Soren’s advancement as a Shadow came into play at this dangerous moment. Almost instinctively, Soren punched the wyvern’s neck, diverting its attack slightly off course, and then quickly bent his body to evade the massive jaws snapping at him, suddenly thrusting upward to slam his head into the wyvern’s lower jaw.
A shrill cry rang out!
Soren’s head spun for a moment due to the force of the impact; it was quite painful. The lower jaw of the Frost Wyvern crashed into its upper jaw, with several sharp fangs breaking off. Soren’s reaction was incredibly quick; if he had been even slightly slower, the enemy could have bitten off half his neck. The dragon wings on either side suddenly began flapping. If Soren hadn’t damaged its wings, they would have whipped up a gust of wind, but now they were just flailing toward Soren.
—Dragon Wing Strike!
The most dangerous attack move of dragon-type creatures. Also the deadliest.
If someone were to ask where the strongest muscles of a giant dragon are, there would surely be many different answers. Some would say their hind limbs, some would say their forelimbs or head, but in fact, the strongest muscles in a dragon are in its wings; when they perform a Dragon Wing Strike, it can create a sweeping damage effect.
Soren could be said to have been waiting for this moment!
The most dangerous attack of dragons is the Dragon Wing Strike, and as a larger member of the pterosaur family, the Frost Wyvern also has a weakened version of the Dragon Wing Strike. This ability consumes a lot of energy; dragons cannot continuously use Dragon Wing Strike. As long as Soren dodges this attack, the threat posed by the Frost Wyvern before him would be reduced by at least half!
Soren’s extraordinary agility was pushed to the limit at this moment.
His body nearly bent to a ninety-degree angle, barely dodging the dragon wing strike before him. The fierce gust of wind ruffled his hair, and the nearby rocks bore deep claw marks. In that instant, Soren shifted from holding the kn*fe with one hand to using both hands, then, sliding along the gaps between the bones, he cut through the dragon’s skin and muscle, creating a wound nearly half a meter deep. Scalding dragon bl**d drenched him, leaving his skin with a slight stinging sensation.
Most Lesser Dragon Species’ bl**d has mild corrosive properties!
There are muscle and skeletal pathways within any organism; cutting along these pathways is significantly easier, akin to a butcher carving meat. Among legendary melee professionists, those with the ‘Weakness Insight’ legendary specialty can achieve similar results, inflicting more severe blunt damage against enemies with minimal lethal damage. In that instant, Soren seemed to have activated this state, dealing nearly 50 points of slashing damage to the Frost Wyvern.
He rolled away, creating some distance, and his arm grazed against the sharp ice on the ground, slightly cutting his skin before he quickly sprang back to his feet.
Soren heard noises behind him; other Frost Wyverns were also charging in!
Indeed.
After the male Frost Wyvern’s attack faltered, the two female Frost Wyverns became restless. One immediately took flight and pounced toward Soren. In that instant, he pulled out another short spear, scarcely aiming, as there was no time to target accurately; he simply threw it toward what felt like the right location. However, such an attack was sufficient for the large Frost Wyvern. The short spear struck the Frost Wyvern’s abdomen, causing it to whine in distress and wobble in flight.
Dragon claws attacked from the side!
A faint glow of spell light emanated from Soren, and a protective energy from Stone Skin Spell quickly enveloped him. The dragon claws struck him, launching him three meters away, but did not inflict lethal damage. The third Frost Wyvern also took to the air; it seemed to sense unprecedented danger from Soren, temporarily abandoning its guard over the dragon eggs, roaring as it initiated a diving attack.
Swish!
The crossbow bolt struck the enemy, and Soren leaped behind a rock to avoid the attack. Then he raised his hand to wipe the bl**d from the corner of his mouth, subsequently retrieving the last short spear and jumped onto the rock above. He aimed at the injured Frost Wyvern in the sky to throw the spear at it. He wanted to bring down the one that was struggling to stay aloft. The other Frost Wyvern would need to circle around to attack after one dive, looking for a suitable angle from above to strike.
Soren had little time left. The Frost Wyvern would turn around and launch another diving attack in at most thirty seconds.
Bang!
The spear hit the smaller female Frost Wyvern again, and it finally staggered and fell, the muscle near its wing penetrated by the spear, drastically reducing its ability to fly. Subspecies dragons have incredibly resilient life forces. They naturally have a base life point total of 12 or more; any subspecies dragon possesses vitality close to that of a legendary warrior, conservatively estimated to be over 300 life points. If they cannot inflict lethal damage, they can only gradually deplete their vitality.
—”Shadow Assassination!”
Soren shouted, slashing open the abdomen of the male Frost Wyvern, then leaped onto its back. The creature immediately thrashed violently, trying to throw Soren off. However, at this moment, he suddenly exerted all his strength. His toes made a dent on the Frost Wyvern’s body as his form soared upward, concentrating all his power along a line, mixed with the force of descent. Gripping his curved blade tightly, he slashed downward with the power of [Sword Intent – Heavy Chop], combining it with Shadow Assassination, striking fiercely at the gap in the male Frost Wyvern’s neck.
—”Decapitation Attack!”
A dragon’s head was directly severed. bl**d gushed forth like a fountain, drenching Soren as if he had taken a bath in dragon bl**d, leaving him completely drenched in gore.
A series of data appeared:
“Activated Shadow Assassination!”
“Activated [Sword Intent – Heavy Chop]!”
“You dealt 85 points of slashing damage (Critical Hit)! …Armor Breaking attribute added! …Sharp attribute added! …Successfully triggered Decapitation Attack! …Decapitation successful! …Target’s d*ath check failed! …Target is dead!”
The body of the male Frost Wyvern crashed to the ground. Even with over a hundred life points remaining, it was already dead. Only its corpse twitched slightly, its wings fluttering lightly as its remaining life force quickly drained away. The Frost Wyverns remaining in the sky roared in fury, and those still circling suddenly dove toward Soren.
This time!
He had no room to evade, still recovering from the aftermath of his recent explosive attack after beheading the male Frost Wyvern. He was positioned right under the straight-down diving path of another Frost Wyvern.
Life and d*ath hung in the balance in this moment.
The Frost Wyvern in the sky dove down toward Soren while the one that was struck by two spears also charged in. He hardly had any space to evade, and his body, still recovering from the previous explosion, couldn’t support a second burst of evasive jumps. At this moment, Soren took a deep breath. Then he rolled backward along the ground, covered in the gushing bl**d, rolling beneath the shadow of the male Frost Wyvern’s corpse. Instantly, his figure disappeared!
—”Hide from Sight!”
—”Shadow Plane Traversal!”
Soren’s figure suddenly distorted, and then he vanished from the spot. The diving Frost Wyvern, filled with deadly force, slashed through the corpse’s flesh with its sharp claws, leaving over ten centimeters deep marks in the ground. If it hit Soren, even a dragon claw alone could eviscerate him!
The shadow by a stone twisted grotesquely, and Soren reappeared twenty meters away.
He raised a finger and shot several Arcane Missiles, followed by a weak light appearing in his eyes, casting a Fear Spell at the center of the two Frost Wyverns.
Unsurprisingly!
The Fear Spell had no effect on these subspecies dragons; Soren’s spell ability was simply too weak.
However, he did not panic in the slightest. After taking a deep breath, he leaped forward, directly charging toward the injured Frost Wyvern. A strange dark red glow appeared at his fingertips, and at the instant of contact, the pale face of the Frost Wyvern regained some color.
—”Vampire’s Touch!”
Soren’s injuries were reduced to light wounds, while the Frost Wyvern he touched let out a wail, its expression suddenly turning much more listless.
………………(To be continued ~^~)
