Chapter: Chapter 474
This move… I’ve never seen this move before!
Good, send it!
Defeated again by the flames spewed by the great bird, Leticia’s eyes went black. When she regained consciousness, everything had returned to how it was.
The great bird was still showing off its might in the distance, and she was still standing in place, looking up at the stinky bird.
Sigh, what else can I do? Keep fighting, keep memorizing, memorize it hard. Anyway, failure here just means being stunned for a while. After a short rest, Leticia will be a good fighter again!
“Hoo, this guy’s moves seem numerous, but if you classify them seriously, they’re just a few basic attacks: physical attacks, fire breathing, and controlling the flames behind it. None of them are difficult to deal with,” Leticia said, sitting cross-legged on the ground, contemplating how she should fight next.
She had already discovered the peculiar nature of this space. As long as she didn’t move, the great bird would ignore her like a blind person. This gave her much-needed rest time. Fighting such a terrifying enemy at high intensity could push even Leticia’s spirit to its limit.
At this moment, resting for a while was very important.
“But when I transform into my dragon form, it’s troublesome to control my body. I’ve seen many attacks, but I couldn’t dodge them.”
The enormous body brought powerful offensive and defensive attributes but sacrificed mobility. Most of the time, Leticia could only choose to stand her ground and fight the great bird head-on. This was quite difficult for her, a mage!
Honestly, why should a mage like her fight such a creature head-on!
Can’t I use hit-and-run tactics, or long-range attrition warfare?
Apparently not.
The great bird’s melee was the weakest among her abilities. Leticia had tried to maintain distance and engage in long-range attrition earlier, but she was thoroughly trounced by the bird’s ever-changing flame control abilities.
It’s a god, a very ancient god. What kind of moves doesn’t it have? Can Leticia’s meager attempts to win against it?
So, in the end, it still had to be a close-quarters battle.
“Hoo, let’s continue. I’ll definitely win this time!”
Standing up, Leticia raised her right hand high towards the sky and shouted, “Transform!”
A giant black dragon appeared where the girl had been standing. She roared at the golden great bird, then immediately flapped her wings and charged into the bird’s close-combat range, engaging it in another bloody close-quarters melee.
You claw me, I bite you back. You breathe fire at me, I strike you with lightning. The two giant beasts entangled each other on this virtual battlefield, scattering the blood of gods onto the earth.
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“This kind of enemy… is too difficult to deal with,” Bai Ling said, her mood far from good as she watched the golden flames, which had been continuously attacked by starlight for several hours, gradually extinguish.
This battle ranked among the most frustrating she had ever experienced. Despite having overwhelming strength, she couldn’t completely kill this enemy. She had to exhaust its energy completely to win.
She had too few methods to deal with this kind of enemy. Her strength was immense, but this fiery great bird was like a ball of棉花 (cotton), rendering her proud power almost useless.
However, it was finally dealt with. Now, she had to hurry to the innermost part of the Sleeping Dragon Mountain Range to find Leticia and clarify the current situation.
With that thought, Bai Ling turned to look in the direction Leticia had left the previous day. The Star Sword in her hand dissolved into starlight and disappeared, and she herself vanished from her spot.
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In the Dragon Realm, all the dragons were shocked by what had happened on the Sacred Mountain. The Sacred Mountain was now emitting a brilliant golden light.
A vast and terrifying power swept out from the mountain, making the dragons living near the Sacred Mountain feel an impulse to kneel and worship.
The phantom of a colossal dragon circled above the Dragon Realm. Its size was so immense that it seemed capable of obscuring the entire sky. Linglong tilted her head, gazing at the dragon, a sense of sadness rising in her heart.
It felt as though this would be the last time she would see this dragon…
“A god, it’s a divine being!” an elder exclaimed, looking at the sky, “Why has the divine being suddenly appeared? Isn’t she…”
“The divine being’s ability to protect us is running out, and now she appears before us like this. Why?”
The elders knew the current state of the Dragon God and understood that such an appearance would exhaust the Dragon God’s already limited time. Therefore, they were confused, wondering why the divine being would do this.
Soon, they understood why.
Because the golden great dragon finally spoke.
The dragon’s voice was not loud. Contrasting sharply with its terrifying size was its gentle voice. It informed all the dragons of the crisis they were facing and told them that it had handed over the Dragon God’s power to a friendly divine being, who would lead the dragons through this crisis.
A friendly divine being? Linglong immediately thought of Leticia, who had come to the Dragon Realm with her. Leticia had disappeared last night, and now this had happened. A little thought would lead her to guess that Leticia was behind this.
“Lety… is she truly a divine being?!” The Dragon God’s explanation had also revealed Leticia’s identity: a friendly divine being.
A god!
She actually met a god on the border of the grasslands?!
And became friends with her?!
Wow, what luck I have! Linglong couldn’t help but pinch her cheek, wanting to confirm she wasn’t dreaming.
Her cheek hurt a bit, so it seemed she really wasn’t dreaming.
After saying those words, the giant golden dragon’s color faded slightly. Almost all the dragons realized that this divine being, who had protected them for countless years, was perhaps truly leaving.
“There’s no need to be sad. There’s always a day for farewell. Perhaps it’s because of my selfishness that the Dragon race has become what it is today…” Even at the end of her divine life, the Dragon God gently comforted her dependents.
“As for this last bit of power, it’s of no use to me anymore.”
The dragon lowered its head, its golden eyes, larger than the sun, fell upon Linglong. “A child with great talent. Perhaps one day, you can truly inherit my position.”
“What?”
Before Linglong could react to the Dragon God’s words, the golden great dragon shattered into specks of golden scales. These scales rained down from the sky and were all absorbed into Linglong’s body.
My power… has increased?
Linglong looked at her hands in disbelief. After the golden scales merged with her body, she felt a sudden surge of power within her.
The disordered energy within her, caused by the revision of her cultivation method, was now completely smoothed out by external force. Guided by this external power, the energy within Linglong flowed with unprecedented smoothness.
A flicker of realization arose in her heart, and an instinctive urge surged from the depths of her being. Linglong couldn’t help but want to release the power within her. This feeling was the same one she had experienced that night!
Now, it seemed she had completely mastered the technique of transforming into a dragon.
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In the fiery space, the two giant beasts were still locked in an unending决战 (decisive battle). They were now covered in wounds, completely devoid of the pristine appearance they had at the beginning.
One of the golden great bird’s wings hung limply to its side, bearing a ferocious bite mark. This was the result of Leticia’s exchange of injuries, a bite that directly lowered the bird’s close-combat capabilities by several levels.
The price was that one of Leticia’s dragon wings was torn to shreds by the bird’s claws. Although it hurt, it didn’t affect her fighting power. This was considered a profitable exchange.
In this brutal battle, Leticia quickly learned the Dragon God’s authority. To be honest, this authority wasn’t very compatible with her. After all, she wasn’t a native dragon, and she couldn’t fully utilize a considerable portion of it.
The Dragon God’s authority was simple in concept: she could do anything that dragons were believed to be able to do.
For example, immense physical strength, destructive power comparable to a beastly catastrophe, and excellent control over elements. Whatever power dragons were believed to possess, the Dragon God commanded.
Some of these authorities, such as elemental control, were quite compatible with Leticia. She could wield these powers with eighty to ninety percent of their effectiveness. However, others were rather dismal.
Fortunately, even with partial mastery, the power was enough to deal with this lesser version of the great bird.
“Roar!”
Exhaling a breath of icy blue frost that pushed back the flames on the great bird, Leticia seized the opportunity to forcefully slap the bird’s other wing.
The terrifying power of the dragon was unleashed at this moment. With a crisp sound of bone breaking, the great bird let out a huge, mournful cry.
Leticia didn’t give the great bird time to react. Following the swipe of her dragon claws, she immediately followed up with a bite. Her gaping maw clamped down on the wound on its wing while the bird was still submerged in pain.
Elemental light flashed, and a thin layer of frost instantly covered the bird’s wound.
In previous battles, Leticia had figured out the great bird’s characteristics. This fellow had extremely strong regenerative abilities. If the wound were left unattended, the golden flames would repair the bird’s wound in just a few seconds.
To stop the wound from healing, she could only inject her authority’s power into the wound, using authority to counter authority. Among these, frost power was the most effective.
Ice and fire were natural enemies. After Leticia injected the frost power, both of the great bird’s wings completely lost their combat capability.
“Die! Die for me!”
However, to achieve such results, Leticia paid a considerable price. The great bird’s scorching claws left several deep wounds on her dragon body again.
Her body’s defense was insufficient to resist the great bird’s claws.
A pained expression appeared on her face. Leticia released her bite, retreated a few steps, and resumed their standoff. She needed time to recover. The dragon’s robust life force was attempting to repair her body, but the flames attached to the bird’s claws were not to be trifled with. The two forces clashed at Leticia’s wounds, and for a while, neither could gain the upper hand.
As soon as one side healed, the golden flames would burn away the newly grown flesh, appearing to be fruitless for both sides, but the pain was real.
“Hiss… Can’t you just obediently offer your neck for me to bite?” Leticia gritted her teeth, exhaling a blast of scorching air.
The great bird was incapable of answering. It let out a sharp cry and attacked again.
But now wingless, its offensive power was significantly weaker than before. Even though Leticia wasn’t doing well, she felt a little relieved when facing this attack.
The bird’s movements had slowed down, and without wings, it had far fewer combos it could perform!
As expected, crippling its wings first was the right choice!
Using her dragon claws to block the sharp claws attacking her head, Leticia calmly began to think. This was the closest she had ever been to victory. Now she had to find a way to completely crush this damned bird.
An extremely terrifying force emanated from her dragon claws. Even facing a dragon, this great bird did not have a disadvantage in strength. On the contrary, it even held a slight advantage.
In a pure test of strength, Leticia couldn’t overpower this bird.
Therefore, she wouldn’t choose to foolishly go toe-to-toe with the bird.
Opening her great mouth and aiming for the great bird’s head, Leticia let out a breath of lightning. The swift light, carrying terrifying might, flew towards the bird’s head. If this attack hit, the great bird would be severely injured.
Naturally, the great bird wouldn’t fail to notice this. As Leticia opened her mouth, she also opened hers, spewing a torrent of scorching flames.
Lightning and flames collided, and for a moment, they were locked in a stalemate. But as time passed, the lightning gradually suppressed the flames, and the great bird’s flames seemed to be running out of steam.
Leticia immediately seized this opportunity and instantly intensified her breath. Even if her dragon claws were broken by the bird’s claws as a result, she didn’t care.
If this breath hit, the injury would be worth it!
The great bird hadn’t expected Leticia to be so decisive. As the lightning finally tore through the flames and struck the bird’s head, all that remained in its large bird eyes was bewilderment.
Boom!
With a deafening cry, the great bird flew uncontrollably into the distance. Its eye, directly hit by the lightning, was completely destroyed. Half of its bird face was carbonized. Even with its immensely powerful regeneration abilities, it couldn’t do anything against such an injury.
“This time I’m definitely taking you down!”
While you’re down, I’ll finish you off. Leticia wouldn’t miss such a good opportunity. Without even taking the time to repair her claws, she lunged at the great bird.
