Translator: AnubisTL
Though fighting three opponents alone, he held the upper hand. The three dragons facing him felt as if they were clashing with a moving mountain, the crushing pressure nearly suffocating them.
But the other dragons, circling the perimeter and waiting for an opening, were not idle.
Death Grip!
In the fleeting instant when Garos had just forced back two red dragons with a ferocious assault and leaped to evade the iron dragon's desperate charge, the black dragon Seraphina seized the opportunity.
A hoarse dragon's roar tore through the air.
Centering on the Red Iron Dragon Garos, dense, viscous, black-gray necromantic energy surged like a living creature. It swiftly coalesced into a colossal, ethereal hand radiating decay and frigidness, clamping down on his massive form with inescapable force.
Though there was no physical contact, Garos suddenly felt a wave of coldness wash over him. A profound weakness seeped into his bones, as if his very life force were being drained away.
But the sensation lasted only a fleeting instant.
The chill receded like an ebbing tide, and the weakness vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.
Death Grip was a crowd-control skill imbued with a potent curse. Yet its potency paled in comparison to the curse the Serpent Dragon had unleashed in its dying moments. The astonishing resistance Garos had forged through that ordeal had drastically weakened the spell's effects. Combined with his own life energy, which roared like a furnace, he had all but completely negated it.
Almost the exact millisecond the undead hand dissipated, the seemingly tranquil snow around Garos erupted as if boiling over.
Thick, green vines, each as girthy as an ancient tree and covered in razor-sharp barbs, tore through the frozen ground and burst forth. Their surfaces gleamed with a metallic, cold luster, resembling a swarm of enraged giant pythons. They lunged with terrifying speed, coiling and constricting around Garos's limbs and dragon body with frantic strength.
The sharp barbs sought the tiniest gaps between his dragon scales, attempting to burrow inward.
They sought to drain blood and inject a potent paralytic toxin.
But Garos's second, tougher layer of inner scales held firm, blocking all their vicious attempts.
"Now's my chance!"
Tracy, the adult white dragon who had been circling the battlefield's edge, silently gathering her strength, finally completed her spellcasting.
With a sudden, powerful forward sweep of her wings, she unleashed a devastating torrent of countless ice blades, their edges as sharp as razors and shimmering with a deadly chill. They swept across the sky, engulfing the immobilized red-iron dragon.
At the same time, she took a deep breath, her chest swelling.
A conical blast of frost dragon breath erupted from her maw, striking Garos directly.
Heliam, the Storm Blue Dragon in the sky, had also prepared another powerful area-of-effect spell. A dangerous and dazzling thundercloud, teeming with thick, crackling bolts of lightning, rapidly coalesced, casting a shadow of death over Garos's head.
And the two young dragons who had just been repelled, along with the enraged red dragon Cahill, roared once more and charged!
The battle reached a fever pitch in an instant.
A saturated, all-out assault was about to completely engulf Garos!
"This battle is so intense... Should I join in?"
In the distance, Alberto, the Gold Dragon pretending to be unconscious, felt the surges of energy and the dragon's roars. His eyelids couldn't help but twitch as the battle-hungry blood within him threatened to boil over.
Meanwhile, faced with the coordinated attack from all sides, Garos, who had been waiting for the perfect moment to strike, finally moved.
Bzzzt—!
Dazzling golden lightning erupted from his majestic dragon body, dancing wildly across his scales like countless leaping golden serpents.
His already massive frame seemed to swell even larger.
The red-iron dragon, his muscles bulging, let out a low, powerful roar. With effortless strength, he tore through the tough vines binding him, then violently flapped his colossal wings.
BOOM!!!
The solid frozen earth beneath his feet couldn't withstand the explosive force and instantly collapsed and cracked in a massive area.
His massive, heavy body shot into the air! He ascended with a speed that surpassed the limits of sight.
The long-brewing thunderclouds, the torrent of ice storms, and the frost dragon breath all slammed into the afterimage he had left behind.
BOOM! BANG BANG BANG!
The Ice Blade Storm tore the ground into a chaotic mess, carving out bottomless, crisscrossing ravines. The violent electric serpents within the thunderclouds leaped and flashed wildly, instead enveloping the red dragon Cahill, whose senses had been dulled by her rage. She let out a roar of agony as the lightning coursed through her. The frost dragon breath froze a vast area into a crystalline wasteland.
The two young dragons, relying on their faster reactions and speed, managed to adjust their course just in time to narrowly avoid the onslaught. They then beat their wings furiously, ascending from below to pursue the figure in the sky.
But this was, without a doubt, a fatal mistake.
Garos had already reached the apex.
He ceased his ascent, his dragon eyes looking down upon the young dragons who were charging after him like moths to a flame.
Then, his massive dragon wings beat again, adjusting his trajectory. Like a falcon locking onto its prey, he plummeted straight down toward Iron Dragon Solgorn, who was leading the charge.
Solgorn's heart tightened as he felt an unprecedented wave of pressure.
Mind Projection!
He strained his spirit energy, his body convulsing violently as he instantly created three lifelike clones. Their energy signatures were nearly identical to his own, a desperate attempt to deceive Garos.
But under the keen insight of the Star-Self Appearance, Garos's gaze never wavered.
He locked onto Solgorn's true body, his massive dragon form tearing through the atmosphere as he plummeted straight down.
Those colossal dragon claws, carrying the terrifying momentum of his descent, slammed brutally into Solgorn's back.
Solgorn fought with all his might to dodge, but Garos was simply too fast.
BOOM!
The Iron Dragon's massive body was stomped out of the sky, crashing violently into the frozen earth below!
The ground shuddered violently, as if struck by an earthquake. A massive, dragon-shaped crater instantly formed, sending waves of frozen mud and loose snow erupting outward in all directions.
"I... I think I'm better off just staying down."
Alberto, who had just stolen a glance at the scene, silently squeezed shut the eye he had just opened a crack, completely extinguishing any thought of joining the fray.
The more dragons Garos defeats, the more it proves his strength and invincibility.
In that case, even if I was utterly defeated and even 'fainted' earlier, compared to these guys, the other dragons seem to have little right to mock me.
With this shift in perspective, Alberto's mind suddenly cleared, and his mood brightened considerably.
He even began to silently cheer for Garos in his heart, hoping Garos would end the battle in the shortest time possible, in the most crushing and decisive manner.
If that happened...
Then he, who had lasted a "considerable amount of time" against Garos, could regain a psychological advantage over these guys who were being dispatched so quickly. In the future, he could still maintain his pride as a gold dragon before them.
Meanwhile, the other adolescent dragons, along with the adult white dragon Treacy mixed among them, were preparing for another round of spell bombardment.
Chains of Frost!
Nature's Grasp!
Bone Cage!
Lightning Net!
In the depths of the pit, Iron Dragon Solgorn coughed up great mouthfuls of blood. He managed to raise his dragon claw, casting a final, weakening Mind Shackle before his strength utterly failed. His head lolled to the side as he finally lost consciousness.
(End of the Chapter)
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