Chapter 85: The Wrath of the Dragon
Burning blood, transformed into power.
As the vitality drained away, Extraordinary Power surged within Roy once again.
Roy was lavish with the expenditure of power, once more squeezing his heart to unleash the full might of his dragon bloodline.
【True Qi Blood Burst】!
【Tearing Sky Dragon Claw】!
After transforming into a dragon, Nidhogg’s strength, speed, and even the defense of its scales were enhanced more than double compared to before.
In the fast-paced aerial battle, there was no time to unleash the dual attribute dragon breath; instead, pure violent strikes took its place.
“【Cheese】, combine with me!”
The dark gold blade and the griffin’s elemental lightning claws intertwined in a dance of light and darkness. The former produced terrifying sparks against the pitch-black scales, while the latter made up for the final deficiency, peeling off the once-indestructible scales layer by layer.
However, Roy’s expression changed.
This strike was too shallow; the power was simply insufficient!
Before he could prepare a second strike, the massive black dragon flipped, resembling a black moon, its agility did not match its huge form, as it struck down with its dragon tail, wrapped in the mysterious lightning of the underworld.
There was no way to dodge.
In an instant, Roy made a judgment, condensing 【Bloodline Awakening · Iron Blood】 and 【Evil Dragon Blood Armor】 to their utmost limits.
In the blink of an eye, both Roy and the griffin were sent flying a thousand meters away like broken kites, plummeting from the sky down to the foot of the mountain.
Gritting his teeth, Roy rose amidst the dust, but his mouth was already overflowing with blood, his face shockingly pale.
Just one blow.
Even after a full defensive effort moments ago, his ribs and internal organs were shattered. Without 【Blood Healing】, anyone of Sequence 5 would have been dead for sure.
But the ability of the Blood Clan also had its limits.
At this point, nearly half of his blood had been exhausted; even for a mid-level Extraordinary Being, it was a dangerous situation.
Worse yet…
Glancing at his partner lying on the ground, tongue out and dazed, Roy couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
The elemental transformation allowed 【Cheese】 to evade the direct strike of the dragon tail, yet it could not escape the black dragon’s underworld lightning. 【Cheese】 was badly injured and likely couldn’t use 【Lightning Flash】 anymore.
No wonder it’s the top of the seven great dragons.
Slaying dragons was truly far from being as simple as it sounded. His own princess had really thrown him a tough problem.
Thinking this, Roy sighed heavily, looking up at the behemoth overhead.
The latter, instead of feeling smug for being above, gathered even more power.
The already heavy atmospheric pressure seemed to solidify, the swirling dark clouds converging a tidal wave of dark underworld lightning above Nidhogg’s head.
“Go to hell, Blood of the False King!”
The arrogant giant dragon could look down on humans, but what drove Nidhogg was not arrogance but hatred.
Even crushing an ant, it would use all its might to obliterate it to pieces out of hatred.
【Bloodline Awakening】!
The essence of the black dragon was brutality, pure violence closest to the Dragon King.
Then, the underworld lightning fell, as if a ceremonial salute from the dark king, crowning Nidhogg.
The lightning twisted like a python, wildly dancing; everything around the volcano was flattened, transformed into a death zone that ordinary beings couldn’t dare to step into.
But just as Nidhogg roared, raising its lightning claw to the ants below, the black-haired boy only smiled coldly.
Then, he drew his sword.
【Consume 1 Reverse Fate Point, project the blade of the former king】!
【False Dragon Breath · Sky Vault】!
The long dragon roar echoed through the skies; the dark gold sword was gripped tightly, and as the boy swung his sword, the blade forged by the Dragon King surged forth with the might of the lord of the sky.
In an instant of Nidhogg’s surprise, more rage soon followed.
“Just the remnants of my father’s might! What can you even do!”
The contrasting lightning clashed head-on.
The gap between the two powers was not large; after a moment of stalemate, they each erupted, and in the end, the dragon-slaying sword proved to be even stronger.
The black dragon plummeted from the heights, pierced through by the sword light, falling into its own pool of blood.
The sky filled with underworld lightning finally fell silent.
The dragon pack was thrown into panic, swirling aimlessly, yet they did not dare to approach.
In terms of destructive power, the sword that had slain 【Evil Dragon · Fafnir】 and 【Crimson Blood Fire Dragon · Balagas】, matching a maximum effort strike from Sequence 4, imitated the dragon king’s breath, making it Roy’s strongest killing move.
And indeed, it was so; even Nidhogg could not directly compete against it.
But Roy’s expression did not improve; instead, it grew ominously dark.
The side effects of channeling demigod power immediately surged, and his already meager blood flowed continuously from his seven orifices, with his muscles and blood vessels fracturing constantly. He had to hold the sword up, not letting himself fall.
Yet…
The black dragon rose again, letting out another furious roar that summoned the underworld lightning of the skies.
It seemed as if dark gold lightning was branded upon the dragon’s body; large amounts of blood poured down like a waterfall, and Nidhogg’s aura showed no signs of weakening but instead grew stronger, unleashing even more power.
Bleeding and undefeated, uncompromisingly fierce, the overwhelming madness almost ripped the sky apart; that was what made the world fear… the Demon Dragon!
This bastard truly is a madman!
Roy cursed inwardly.
There was no doubt that the black dragon was also heavily injured.
With 2 Reverse Fate Points remaining, theoretically, victory wasn’t impossible.
Provided he could strike the vital spots.
Unable to exploit the dragon’s might to create openings, the black dragon would undoubtedly use all its strength to counteract the attack and diminish its power. A sword strike like before was far from enough to kill Nidhogg.
And with his current condition, even with Reverse Fate Points remaining, he could at most launch one more strike.
The next sword must determine the outcome.
The overwhelming tide of weakness from blood loss swept over, making Roy sway unsteadily, while the distant black dragon was roaring fiercely as if bathed in calamity.
The pitch-black Demon Dragon raised its sharp claws once more, summoning the raging thunderstorm.
Feeling his spirits plummet, Roy had to brace himself to raise his almost collapsing body once more.
In the distance, the battlefield was wilder than ever for the dragons.
The underworld lightning still flickered; the Demon Dragon roared, yet the dark gold gleam was already dimming.
Even without sufficient sensing ability, the kingdom’s knights could deduce the gravity of the situation, weighed down with heavy hearts.
And feeling the black dragon’s aura nearly crushing their hearts, while Roy’s aura had weakened to the point of being almost imperceptible, the kingdom’s powerful figures couldn’t help but waver.
“Hey, hey, hey, you can’t lose! Otherwise, the princess will be mad at me!” Naz muttered anxiously.
The silent Karl plunged into the battlefield, his sword rising and falling repeatedly, his sword-wielding hand trembling nonstop.
And the primal flames were becoming dimmer in the frosty storm.
The ice dragon hovering above mocked, “Looks like the outcome is about to be decided.”
“Ants will always be ants; the Blood of the False King can’t escape the fate of a dreadful death.”
“Don’t worry, the road to hell isn’t lonely; you, along with all the people of the royal capital, will accompany him to the grave!”
The ice dragon’s breath pierced through the huge griffin’s shadow, illuminating the flickering primal flame of hope in the kingdom, gradually extinguished under the roaring of the frost dragon.
Meanwhile, just as Roy gritted his teeth, preparing to make his final sword strike, he suddenly felt everything around him come to a standstill.
But this was not of his own volition; instead, he was dragged into this segment of memory by the force of a certain demigod.
The next moment, time reversed, space became chaotic, and the power of bloodlines reconstructed the remnants of the past.
What appeared before him was a vast sky, akin to a battlefield during the dragon-blood war.
At the horizon, the dark Demon Dragon remained, but at this moment, battling it was not a human.
But a dragon.