"That paper must have saved her from getting killed by your Finger of Dark spell," Ulzez commented as he spat a mouthful of blood. At the same time, the transparent shadow prison that covered Akina's body broke into multiple pieces like glasses and soon disappeared.
"Haa! I thought using this spell would attract too much attention, but I have no choice now." Ulzez said while glancing at Alius, who was already looking pale, and sighed regretfully. Then, he muttered calmly in the abyssal language.
"Draco,"
A second later, his body grew into a twenty-meter tall red-colored lizard-like being. His fingers turned into sharp red claws, and a long red tail also appeared behind his back.
Abium, who stood on the watchtower, became dumbfounded as he witnessed such an amazing scene.
That was a real red dragon!
Not only Abium but even the spies from other organizations, churches, and the nearby kingdoms were beyond shocked. They had thought this was just some kind of experiment test but realized they were completely wrong.
When the Blood Moon appeared a while ago, everyone thought the situation was getting out of control and almost believed that the academic mages would be annihilated. But to their surprise, they saw the academic mages handling the enemy with equal power and were baffled a bit.
Meanwhile, Ulzez transformed into a red dragon and stood arrogantly, intimidating everyone.
It was Ulzez's innate spell called Dragon Transformation. Once he used this spell, he could use the real Red Dragon's abilities for a limited time. His strength and vitality would increase two folds for the next 10 seconds, and he could even inflict 50% extra fire damage on the enemy. But he also had to pay the price for using this ability. Once he used this transformation ability, he would be gravely injured, and it would take at least one or two weeks to recover his strength.
'Alas, it's worth a shot.'
Ulzez stood opposing the pale-faced blood child and opened his two scarlet wings. Then, he flapped his wings and flew toward the floating child with his huge body while destroying the nearby buildings.
At that moment, Akina also hovered in the air with a grim face and quickly gripped her hands tightly as if she was controlling something invisible. Simultaneously, she took out a crimson dagger from the red void and sprinted toward the incoming dragon without any fear in her eyes.
In a blink, she approached the large dragon's mouth, lightly stepped on the thin air to evade being bitten, and slowly landed on Ulzez's dragon head.
After that, she thrust her dagger directly onto Ulzez's head without hesitation. Although the dagger couldn't cut deep through Ulzez's head, it still gave a shallow wound to his head.
As Akina pulled the dagger, she saw that the wound had closed in a blink. But instead of a frown, a playful smile appeared on her face.
Without delay, she flew up into the sky and licked the crimson drop of blood with an evil smile.
Meanwhile, Ulzez also turned his red lizard-like head and looked at her with shocking eyes. He didn't expect she had a weapon that could injure a Red dragon's body!
He instantly knew what that weapon was.
It was a legendary dagger!
As those thoughts whirled through his head, his body instantly became sluggish. He could feel some invisible force starting to control his body while suppressing his spirit power.
'No! I can't let this divine power control my body.' Ulzez thought to himself and pulled all his energy into a single attack. Then, he opened his crimson mouth wide while glaring at the Blood child, full of rage, and let out a thunderous roar!
The next second, dense fire-elemental energy infused with chaotic fire started to come out of his lizard mouth and moved towards the sky. Like a volcanic eruption, a pure red fire shot out of Ulzez's mouth, pierced through the air, and completely enveloped the Blood Child. But it didn't stop there, though.
The pure chaos fire completely burned the blood child and directly entered the dark cloud above.
Then, a loud explosion shook the whole kingdom as if hundreds of thunders appeared at once, creating a shockwave large enough to split the sky.
A second later, the whole kingdom saw the sky turn crimson and soon return to normal.
But there was no happiness on Ulzez's face.
At that moment, he saw the completely charred body was still floating up in the sky and grew more anxious.
Only the legendary dagger was nowhere to be seen.
"Even my dragon's breath wasn't powerful enough to kill her, huh? As expected of the child of Anangu. Tsk." He let out a bitter laugh and soon felt immeasurable pain assaulting his body.
He barely maintained his consciousness to see what was happening outside and let out a loud grunt. He could feel that his body was shrinking quickly, and he soon fell while maintaining his gaze on the charred body. There was no despair or any worry in his eyes.
Instead, it was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
Yes, he had finally made this former demigod be cooked alive!
'This is the end for me!' He sighed at his hopeless situation.
At the same time, Akina, the Blood child, felt an unbearable pain and was barely controlling her body to hover in the air. The 'Dragon's Breath' spell had already harmed her body, and now she was on the verge of berserk.
'Thankfully, it's over.'
She let out a sigh of relief and noticed that the dragonkin was already defeated. Finally, she had succeeded in defeating that damned dragonkin.
'Finally, I can get my hand on the dragonkin's heart.'
As she was about to get her reward, she suddenly noticed that the space behind her began to distort.
Akina turned her head sharply and soon saw a blonde-haired elf appearing behind him. At that moment, he looked at her coldly and used two crimson wings to float in the air. But what made her expression stiffen was that she saw a unique Black longsword in his hand!
It was finely crafted, and she could tell with a glance that it was a legendary weapon like hers. But that was not the reason she felt anxious, though. The thing that made her heart tremble was the appearance of a greenish aura around the sword's edges.
Master-level aura!
'What?! How did he manage to master his swordsmanship to this level at such an young age?' She could easily tell that this young elf's age was below 20 and felt both shocked and horrified.
Meanwhile, Abium raised that legendary long sword and slashed at her vertically without hesitation.
Everyone, including those who watched the battle through strange artifacts, saw Abium's sharp sword slice through the Blood Child's head and split her body in two. Slowly, two split bodies fell on the ground and slammed into the town square, which now looked completely ruined.
After that, Abium slowly flew down and landed near Ulzez and Alius. But he didn't take his eyes off the Blood Child's body and stared at it with full vigilance.
''Mage Abium, you once again surprised us.'' A weary voice came from his back, and soon he saw Tabitha walking closer to him with a weary smile.
Abium didn't reply; instead, he stared at the Blood child's body with a deep frown on his forehead.
''Lower your sword, elf. That child is dead.'' Alius, who had already arrived beside Abium, also said with a sigh.
''No, I don't think she will die that easily,'' Abium said solemnly, gripping Duke Adhemer's legendary sword tightly. At the edges of the sword, there was no green aura appeared now. Instead, it was only covered in an advanced red aura. During the last attack, Abium had used almost half his spirit power to use master-level sword aura and already felt a sharp headache.
By now, he could only use that attack for two more seconds.
As he had expected, everyone felt that the whole town started to shine in bright red light, followed by layers of red lines formed from the Blood Child's body and spreading everywhere like spider webs. Even Anne and Mark, who stood at the other end of the town, felt an evil aura from the town square and quickly ran in the other direction. Although they couldn't see anything from that far, their instincts warned them to run away from there.
A moment later, Abium and others heard strange echoes and cries of souls from all those red lines. And soon, it turned into multiple cries filled with pain, sadness, joy, pleasure, and fear.