Ravi used all his strength to shift his gaze away from Leon and turned around, intending to prepare his final killing move.
But before he could step down from the general's platform, he heard Nacho shout, "Wait a minute, y-you look, what is Star doing?"
Hearing the voice, Ravi turned around and looked back.
He saw the golden dragon raise his head to the sky and let out a long roar, completely ignoring the dragon blood gushing from the back of his neck.
Brilliant light burst from his whole body, and a majestic energy gradually gathered above him.
The strength of that energy made the heavens and earth change color, and the elements go into chaos.
Ravi immediately saw through Star's plan.
"H-he wants to convert the energy of self-detonation into an attack!"
"What... does that mean?", Nacho didn't understand.
"The ancient dragons, when driven into a corner, would choose to destroy everything."
Ravi broke out in a cold sweat, his voice trembling,
"Which also includes himself."
———
Rossweise flew to the back of Star.
Leon leaped and jumped onto her back.
After catching Leon, the couple immediately distanced themselves from Star.
"Is this guy planning a final counterattack?", Leon looked at Star, who was continuously gathering energy.
Rossweise circled while observing Star's condition.
'He doesn't seem like he is about to counterattack.'
'Rather, it looks more like... mutual destruction?'
At this moment, Star not only gathered all his energy in his mouth, but even the area around his heart started to glow.
"He has activated the power of the Heart-guarding Dragon Scale."
Rossweise's voice was low, "Star wants to destroy everything here."
An unfamiliar term, Leon asked, "Heart-guarding Dragon Scale? What's that?"
Rossweise hesitated for a moment before replying, "It's complicated to explain. But in short, if we don't stop Star, everyone here might meet their end."
Leon could also feel the terrifying energy fluctuations Star was gathering.
If it were his peak state, perhaps he could gather the same level of power to offset it.
But now he had only stored up fifty percent of his magic, and the earlier rounds of entanglement had consumed quite a bit as well.
So if he wanted to stop Star, he had to find another way.
"This energy can no longer be controlled or measured, even Star himself knows this."
Rossweise said, "He is now a massive uncontrollable bomb, ready to explode at any moment. But on our side... we don't have any energy capable of offsetting it."
She understood Leon's strength, knowing that in his peak state he was incredibly powerful.
But the current situation was unlike before.
The Star, who was about to die together with them, would be the strongest opponent Leon had ever encountered in his life.
After a brief hesitation, Rossweise asked, "What do you plan to do? Retreat or stay and stop him?"
Leon furrowed his brows tightly, calmly analyzing, "Rossweise, you also just said it, the range of the explosion is incalculable, and Noah and the others are still in the sanctuary. We can't take that risk, so we must stop Star's self-destruction here."
After a moment of contemplation, Rossweise nodded, "Alright. Do you have any ideas?"
Leon slowly lifted his head and looked at the azure sky.
Immediately, a crazy thought flashed through his mind.
At the distant general's platform, Ravi had already prepared a space teleportation array.
At the moment of Star's self-destruction, he would directly escape through the teleportation array.
Ravi never dreamed that the old dragon would go so mad as to destroy everything here.
'Does he truly not know how terrifying that power is?'
'Oh.'
'He might have known.'
'But anyway, once this move is used, everyone will die. What's there to care about?'
The madness and obsession for revenge rooted in the bones of the dragon race are sometimes even incomprehensible to themselves.
Especially those like Star, this kind of energy with purer dragon blood flowing within them.
They don't allow themselves to fail, let alone fail so miserably.
Mutual destruction is also part of these mad dragons' battle style against their enemies.
"Hey, hey, Ravi, you can't leave me here alone! My lord won't spare you!", Nacho clung to Ravi's arm and said in a panic.
Ravi disgustedly shook him off, "If you want to live, say less nonsense. Leon Casmodeous is done for. He's really done for this time. His strength may be formidable, but from my observations just now, I've also deduced that at his current level, he can't gather magic power strong enough to match Star. Everything here will be razed to the ground, and we won't even need to do anything."
"Y-yes, yes, Leon can't escape, our mission is accomplished!", Given the situation, Nacho also crazily echoed, "It's just a pity about Star. What a brave Dragon King, and now he's perishing like this."
Ravi bit his lip, "Sacrificing Star to erase a monster like Leon Casmodeous from this world, it's a good deal."
"Yes, yes, ever since that brat joined the army, I never had high hopes for him. I—wait, what are they doing?",bNacho once again looked toward the battlefield.
Ravi also followed his gaze.
He saw the dragon-shaped Rossweise continuously spitting fireballs toward the sky.
And the silver dragon guards waiting at the border also transformed into dragon forms, following Rossweise and spitting fire toward the sky.
Hundreds of fireballs simultaneously disappeared into the cloud layer.
'That level of fireball... Can't possibly hurt Star, right?', Ravi thought, 'So what were they doing?'
'A ritual before death?'
On the battlefield, Star was still continuously gathering power.
Meanwhile, the Silver Dragon tribe kept firing fireballs into the sky, one after another.
Gradually, the previously clear sky turned gloomy, and thick cumulonimbus clouds surged.
Plop—
A drop of water landed on the back of Ravi's hand.
He looked down, "It's raining?"
After one drop fell, torrential rain followed immediately.
Ravi looked at the group of silver dragons still spewing fireballs, analyzing on his own, "The dragon flame heats the surrounding air, forming an updraft, which creates cumulonimbus clouds, hence it started raining... But are they trying to use rainwater to extinguish Star's fury of destruction? What a joke, truly a bunch of idiots—"
His words stopped abruptly.
'No.'
'Not right.'
'They're not trying to use the rainwater.'
'They are—'
BOOM!
A muffled thunderclap came from the clouds.
That clap of thunder was like an explosion in Ravi's heart, rendering him speechless.
"Lightning... Madman... That guy is a madman!!", Ravi realized something, seeming a bit out of control.
And beside him, Nacho still didn't understand, "What? T-then let's run away quickly!"
"No."
A strange smile suddenly appeared on Ravi's gloomy face, "Such a scene, if missed, you'll never see again in your life. How could I run away?"
Nacho's expression changed, "Crazy... all of you dragons are crazy!"
At the same time, on the battlefield, the silver dragon hovered in the air.
Leon stood at the dragon's head, posture upright, right hand raised high.
The rain fell harder and harder.
The lightning in the clouds was like a beast awakened, expressing its dissatisfaction and anger with deafening roars.
"Lightning, the strongest element in nature, also the most uncontrollable one."
Leon summoned the lightning, thunder roaring endlessly, "But to stop the equally uncontrollable Star, I must use this power."
"Sometimes I really think your way of thinking is just like a dragon's, Leon."
Rossweise said calmly, "How could a human think of such a crazy method?"
"My dear Melkvei, the one who's crazy is neither the dragon race nor humanity—"
Lightning surged, shaking the heavens and earth.
The man clad in silver armor leapt from the dragon's head.
"The one who's crazy... is ME."
He held thunder in his hand, charging straight toward the golden light that was about to destroy everything.
———
At the moment Leon leapt down, Star also happened to finish gathering strength.
This strike would mark the end of his thousand-year-long life.
It would also bring an end to the arrogant and unrestrained human before him.
Star wanted him to know: the consequence of angering the dragon race, was only death.
So what if it's mutual destruction?
As long as the enemy paid the same price, Star didn't care.
Golden light flared, from a distance, it looked as if a second sun was slowly rising from the horizon.
That vast power rippled outward with Star as the center. He roared, guarding the final dignity of a Dragon King.
And the man who had forced him into this situation was also prepared for a head-on showdown with him.
The man clad in silver armor held thunder weighing ten thousand tons, the most violent and uncontrollable element in nature now transformed into thousands of troops behind him, at his command.
He looked like a general sent to save the world, commanding the strongest force in existence, unleashing an all-out attack on the golden dragon.
Ten thousand bolts of lightning condensed into the shape of a lion, roaring as it descended from the heavens.
Super S-rank Lightning Magic—Dragon Slayer
A spell not recorded in any book, Leon Casmodeous' original dragon-killing move.
No long-winded, awkward chant, no strange bodily gestures, no underhanded sneak attacks.
It was the purest form of energy. Its only use was...
To slay dragons.
Thunder versus golden light;
Lion versus Dragon King.
Between kings, it was a battle to the death.
The two energies collided in mid-air, and the energy blast from the clash rippled outward.
In an instant, the heavens shook and the earth trembled, as if the end of the world had come early.
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