Chapter 115: The Battle of Dragon Slaying!
(It has been a month and a half. Since I started to quit smoking, Floating Tower has been easily catching colds. I slept all day, so there’s only one update today. — Still a bit dazed, the followers of Floating Tower.)
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Rumbling.
Heavy footsteps came from inside the dragon’s den. Without looking back, Soren already knew the White Dragon had awakened and was chasing from behind. Dragons have a close-range perception specialty; any creature that gets sufficiently close can be directly detected by them. Even the best halflings in the Shire region find it hard to avoid this, as it belongs to a supernatural sixth sense. The White Dragon’s lair isn’t very large, which allows it to charge out at high speed.
Almost as soon as Soren dashed out, the massive body of the White Dragon followed closely behind.
— “Frost Breath!”
A cold dragon breath erupted from behind Soren; the ground rapidly froze into ice at a visible speed under this bone-chilling breath, quickly forming a new layer of ice on the spot. The White Dragon’s frost breath is the weakest among pureblood dragons, dealing only half the damage of a Red Dragon’s breath, but it is the dragon breath attack used most frequently. An adult White Dragon’s breath can freeze a man into an ice sculpture, and then with a swipe of its claws, that sculpture can shatter into countless pieces!
The image is strikingly tragic.
Soren dove out of the range of the frost breath attack; however, a bit of cold still clung to his clothes, and soon frost began to appear on them. An adult White Dragon’s frost breath can deal around 40 points of frost damage, covering a large area in a cone-shaped attack. This frost damage is within Soren’s tolerance. If it were the breath of an adult Red Dragon, he’d probably be half-dead from just one touch.
Hiss!
A harsh scraping sound echoed. After Soren rushed out of the dragon’s den, he jumped down from nearly a hundred meters high.
However, he did not just jump down; such a fall would spell his doom regardless of his physique. He slid down the cliff’s edge using his weapon to control his fall, just like he did years ago when facing predators on the cliff. This sliding allowed him to descend rapidly, buying him some time. So, as he was near the ground and rolling to dissipate his momentum, the massive form of the White Dragon appeared at the cliff’s edge. It glanced at Soren on the ground and without a moment’s thought, pounced down.
“You shameless thief!”
The White Dragon before him seemed to have some special experience because under normal circumstances, a White Dragon only gains a relatively high intelligence in old age, also speaking languages other than Draconic. They are the most beast-like among pureblood dragons, which significantly lowers their challenge level.
Buzz!
The heavy sound of dragon wings flapping resonated, and just before the White Dragon closed in on the ground, it abruptly flapped its wings to steady itself. This dive reduced the distance considerably, and it then opened its mouth to unleash another dragon breath, engulfing Soren’s figure once more.
Dragons have low agility, mostly around 10 points.
Additionally, due to their massive size, they rarely evade attacks from enemies, but this doesn’t mean their movement speed is slow. In fact, dragons can match the speed of humans enhanced by ‘Haste.’ Hence, the distance Soren covered remained within its dragon breath attack range.
“Attack!”
Soren suddenly shouted, then leaped into the air. He grabbed a branch above him and executed a full 360-degree rotation to narrowly avoid the frost breath. However, even so, his right hand still grazed it, and in the blink of an eye, frost covered it, making his entire arm feel slightly numb.
Elemental damage!
The Legendary Curved Blade Icebane in Soren’s hand only had 3 points of cold damage added, while the White Dragon’s frost breath dealt nearly 30 points of elemental damage per second.
This was an elemental attack capable of freezing bl**d.
Swish!
A group of fierce pirates charged in from both sides. Their eyes carried a blend of fear and excitement. Upon emerging, they immediately hurled their heavy harpoons. The harpoons sliced through the air and struck the White Dragon’s body; some hit its scales, barely breaching its defenses, as if hammering against an iron sheet. Most of the harpoons were deflected, but the dragon scales showed signs of damage, oozing a trickle of dragon bl**d.
However, those harpoons that hit the dragon’s wings did not bounce back; they pierced right through!
Due to the barbed tips, they stuck into the dragon’s wings.
“Chains!”
As Soren landed, he shook off the frost clinging to his arm and then directly picked up a heavy harpoon to throw at the left wing of the White Dragon.
A sharp whistling sound!
Amid the White Dragon’s furious and pained roars, Soren struck close to the bone of its wing.
“Scatter!”
Two curved blades appeared in Soren’s palms. Three of the elite pirates around him were missing, indicating that some had failed the dragon pressure’s immunity check. These individuals lacked the will and were too scared to join the fight. Soren wasn’t too surprised by this, as having so many subordinates survive the first round of the dragon’s pressure immunity check was already quite good.
But everyone had the courage to face such a behemoth!
Roar.
In a fit of rage, the White Dragon charged towards Soren. As its massive body moved, per Soren’s battle strategy, the other elite pirates seized the opportunity to continue attacking it with harpoons. Many of the subordinates had noticed the wounds on its wings, confirming that the White Dragon had indeed suffered some injury. This realization excited many of the elite pirates, with some even drawing their double-handed weapons, prepared to strike at the already cracked wound.
“You fools! Don’t act recklessly!”
Soren rolled away clumsily, and upon seeing what happened behind him, he immediately shouted, “Get back!”
Unfortunately, it was too late.
The White Dragon’s attack on Soren was just a feint; when the most cunning human dodged its dragon breath, it deliberately turned its back to those pesky insects, seemingly intending to seize the chance to ambush it. A cruel and bloodthirsty gleam flickered in its eyes, for as a knowledgeable adult White Dragon, it clearly understood that eliminating these small fries first would benefit the battle more.
— “Dragon Tail Sweep!”
The tail of the adult White Dragon was nearly five meters long, as thick as an adult human’s waist, with the tip as thick as an adult thigh. It also had sturdy dragon scales. When the enemies approached from behind, it didn’t even need to turn around. With just a slight movement of its enormous eyes, it lifted its long dragon tail high and swung it downward like the most powerful whip.
Bang!
A horrifying crash echoed.
The strongest pirate nearest to the adult White Dragon was sent flying nearly twelve meters by the tail!
Upon slamming into a tree, the entire trunk shook. Others barely had time to glance before realizing the pirate’s ribcage was completely crushed; he resembled someone whose chest had been folded in half, as the overpowering force broke not just his ribs but also the vertebrae behind.
One hit, dead!
In this situation, survival was practically impossible.
“d*mn it!”
Soren took a deep breath, veining bl**d appearing in his eyes. His breathing grew labored, his heartbeat quickened markedly, raising his body temperature close to fifty degrees, while his heart rate doubled. He dared to challenge the White Dragon because this dragon was comparatively foolish, easily lured like a beast. However, the White Dragon before him was clearly smarter; it realized that killing others first was more advantageous in the battle and assessed that it would be difficult to dispatch Soren easily.
Soren couldn’t let all his subordinates d*e here!
Otherwise.
He wouldn’t be able to take the ship back at all.
Thus, he had to face this adult White Dragon in a fierce battle. This thrill of challenging a legendary creature gave Soren a surge of fighting spirit and exhilaration!
Giants were one of the beings he studied the most.
Therefore, when the White Dragon turned its head towards the back, its abdomen noticeably swollen, and it appeared to be preparing to take a deep breath, he couldn’t help but shout, “Get away! Watch out for the dragon breath!”
Whoosh!
A violent wind arose.
The bone-chilling cold dragon breath was unleashed in a wide spray, covering nearly fifteen meters. Within this cone-shaped dragon breath range, two elite pirates were engulfed. Then they were seen rapidly freezing before their very eyes; this cold was more horrific than being directly exposed to the Antarctic or Arctic, as their flesh and bl**d froze in just one or two seconds, eventually encased in about three centimeters of solid ice.
Bang!
The long dragon tail swept through with a whistling sound. The two elite pirates seemed to be fragile glassware, shattering into a cloud of flesh chunks without a drop of bl**d spilling, since their bl**d had already turned to ice. In an instant, three comrades fell victim to the White Dragon’s attack, and the others revealed traces of fear, with nearly half of them retreating several steps back.
For they found the giant dragon to be even more formidable than they had imagined!
Most participants had little confidence in braving even one of its attacks, given that it was a colossal creature over ten meters long and weighing nearly twenty tons!
A human only stood at about 1.78 meters tall, weighing merely around 200 pounds.
This size difference.
A casual strike would be a crushing fatal blow!
However.
At this moment, accompanied by the sound of a blade being unsheathed, Soren brandished two curved blades and charged downwards, rushing towards the White Dragon’s back like a leaping leopard.
— “Sword Intent: Spiraling Dance!”
………………(To be continued ~^~)
