"That is..."
"Morgott, whom you've seen before," Yu Jin explained to Ningguang. Then he turned his head and shouted to Morgott below:
"Morgott, hold him off for a bit, I'll be right back!"
"Understood. But please, my King, hurry. I... I can't hold on much longer!" Morgott took a deep breath, looking at the colossal entity before him, and responded calmly.
Actually, he was just poker-faced; whatever he thought, he never showed it. In a way, Morgott was quite terrifying too.
"I know, it won't take long." Yu Jin nodded. Then he turned to look at the crowd behind him, pointed at Osial, and asked, "Who let this Rascal Snake out?"
"You're the Rascal Snake!"
Osial retorted, but unfortunately, no one paid him any attention.
"It was Childe! He couldn't beat your Golden Tree, so he cheated!" Paimon was even more enthusiastic than Lumine. She loved tattling.
"Alright, got it."
Then, Yu Jin turned his head again to look at the enraged Azhdaha in the distance and continued to ask, "Who let that big, fat dragon out?"
"His name is Azhdaha," Zhongli corrected, looking at Morgott who was entangled with Azhdaha below.
"Alright, who let Azhdaha out?" Yu Jin dismissed Zhongli, which infuriated Osial.
"It was... the Fatui... a... guy in a hat!" Morgott descended from the sky, his golden heavy hammer striking Azhdaha's shoulder with great force.
The immense power transmitted through Azhdaha's thick limbs into the ground, causing cracks to appear in the earth.
After one strike, Morgott quickly leaped away, putting distance between himself and Azhdaha. He shook his furry arm; having just smashed into Azhdaha's body, he almost vomited blood from the shock.
He looked up at the damaged rock dragon scales on Azhdaha's shoulder. Beneath the scales, there were still more scales.
That heavy blow just barely broke through his defense.
"Understood, I'll be back in a moment!" Yu Jin shouted from the Jade Chamber. Then he snatched the Vortex Vanquisher tightly held in Zhongli's hand, and said earnestly:
"As for you, Zhongli, just wait! You know your current strength; if you don't want to perish together, stay put in the Jade Chamber. Don't worry, Morgott won't die."
Zhongli looked at his empty hands in surprise. Yu Jin's speed was so fast that he hadn't even seen any movement.
He looked up, only to find that Yu Jin's figure had already vanished from the Jade Chamber.
"Senior just left," Lumine said, shrugging her shoulders when she saw Zhongli's puzzled expression.
"Sigh, I hope Brother Yu Jin can handle everything." Helpless, Zhongli could only put his hands behind his back and carefully watch the battle below. "Whew—"
Dodging Azhdaha's attack once more, Morgott looked at Azhdaha, who had leaped out from beneath the earth, finding him extremely troublesome.
This dragon not only had a tough body but also seemed to be one with the land. Controlling earth and rocks, and moving underground, was as easy as breathing for him.
If he hadn't been agile, he would have long been torn to shreds by the stone pillars that shot up and the exploding rocks that appeared out of nowhere.
Morgott shook his head. He raised the colorful Cursed Sword in his hand. Yu Jin had truly found him a formidable opponent.
Morgott knew he couldn't hold back any longer.
Plunging the Cursed Sword into the ground, Morgott took a few deep breaths and began to awaken the bloodline slumbering within him.
Before, he had deeply loathed his identity as an Omen, but now, he felt much better.
After all, the power the Omen bestowed upon him could be used to protect the nascent The Lands Between.
"Hoo-ah—"
Morgott let out the loudest and most emotional roar he had ever made since coming to this world.
A golden expanse of mud spread out, quickly engulfing the entire battlefield. The water was golden, but it wasn't as pure, radiant, and awe-inspiring as the Golden Tree.
On the contrary, the mud Morgott summoned was chaotic and turbid. It was like a pool of sewage, merely stained with gold.
This was the twisted power called [Omen] within his bloodline. Under this power, not only did the gold become defiled, but even the Cursed Sword in his hand became twisted.
This distorted power had permeated every aspect of Morgott.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Morgott further unleashed the power within his body, and the mud that had spread far and wide immediately began to boil.
Countless turbid water columns erupted from the mud. From a distance, it looked as if mountains were rising and then dissipating.
Countless water columns surged up beneath Azhdaha, then burst apart beneath his mountain-like physique.
They were like heavy punches, striking Azhdaha's relatively soft underbelly.
"Crush!!!"
The immense power made Azhdaha feel pain for the first time, and it also made him even more furious.
Using the power of the chaotic water columns, Azhdaha pushed off with all four limbs and leaped high into the air.
"Boom!!!"
The earth's crust shattered like thin ice on a winter river, cracking in a spiderweb pattern. The flying soil layers even struck the Jade Chamber.
Under this mighty force, the surging water columns, like the earth's crust and mountains, were reduced to dust.
"I knew it would be like this!" Morgott showed no surprise. Those rising water columns could, at most, cause significant DMG to those with weaker strength.
It was clearly not enough to deal with Azhdaha.
"Buzz~"
In addition to the Cursed Sword, Morgott now held another golden longsword. What he was best at was a barrage of continuous attacks like a storm.
"Bang!"
A swift sonic boom erupted, and in an instant, Morgott appeared before Azhdaha's face.
Slash, thrust, chop, parry... Morgott was like a spinning wind wheel at this moment, countless attacks raining down on Azhdaha's face.
Each attack carved faint red sword marks in the air. By the end, a red cocoon seemed to appear before Azhdaha's eyes.
The red sword marks floated quietly in space, like a physical entity, yet seemingly on another spatial plane.
Azhdaha seemed to be annoyed by Morgott's mosquito-bite-like attacks. His massive body burst forth with unnatural agility, and with a turn, his tail whipped out, accurately striking Morgott.
"Hmph—" Morgott spat out a mouthful of blood, but before the blood gushed out, he slightly turned his head, allowing the blood to spray into the red cocoon as much as possible.
[Not too bad.] Seeing the red cocoon become even redder, Morgott secretly comforted himself.
"Die!!!"
Azhdaha saw Morgott flying away and gave him no chance to breathe, immediately turning to follow him closely.
At the same time, his body also completely passed through that small red cocoon.
"Taste the Cursed Blood!" The red cocoon merged into Azhdaha's body, and Morgott, in the air, immediately felt it.
Morgott clenched his palm, and the Cursed Blood, imprinted on different spatial layers, seeped into this world. While creating wounds within Azhdaha's body, it also emitted a tremendous amount of light and heat.
"Boom!"
A dull explosion sounded like it was detonating in the deepest depths of the earth. The immense power even caused ripples to echo through the flesh and blood around Azhdaha's body.
It looked like a fat person's large belly being heavily punched.
"Hiss—"
At this moment, Azhdaha's entire dragon body seemed to be stunned. Countless white smoke emerged from his body, especially from his nostrils.
"Spatial power!" Zhongli and Osial exchanged glances. This was not a power that could be easily obtained.
At least, elemental power found it very difficult to affect space. It required something on a higher level.
"Splash!" Azhdaha opened his gaping maw. What he spat out was not dragon blood, but countless shattered jade stones.
"My King, you didn't tell me that this dragon was an inorganic being."
Morgott couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face as he saw Azhdaha moving again.
It seemed he would have to focus on escaping now.
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