The creature was smart. It recognized that I was not an easy opponent, that I could match its power and survive its attacks, now it was reassessing its strategy accordingly rather than continuing to fight blindly.
{Notice: That creature is a variant of a Supreme Dragon. But none of its kind exist anywhere else in the world.}
[Ah, so it is even a unique monster. That explains why it's so much stronger and versatile than the Amazons' descriptions had suggested. They had only seen a fraction of its true capabilities during their encounter with it.]
For context, let me explain what Supreme Dragons are.
They are the oldest and strongest a dragon can possibly get through natural growth and evolution.
It's the absolute ceiling of their normal biological development, the point at which a dragon has reached the maximum potential of its species without external intervention or divine blessing.
