Chapter 136: Fighting the Dragon II
Just as the dragon was hit by Kazuka's slash strike. Aoto flips his hand, the energy spear flying above his head launches strongly forward. But strictly speaking, currently the biggest threat to this dragon can only be Elyssia; although Aoto is also strong, he is a mature Elemental after all. But it is only recent; power truly is quite difficult, and as for a life-and-death struggle it's unclear because Aoto's energy is very large.
The dragon swings a wing, the large left wing swings and obscures Aoto's large spear and crushes it.
But immediately Aoto orders another spear beside and launches. The dragon brings the wing forward and covers the body; the spear stabs the wing and is forced to lose and is knocked away to disappear.
The situation is full of trouble. The dragon flaps its wings extremely hard creating a wind like a gale making rocks and dirt fly scatteredly, trees and plants leaning and even being uprooted.
Everyone tries to push their bodies forward, stabbing swords into the ground to resist.
Elyssia with six ribs crushed like powder, but with the ability to control and master energy well, she has recovered back.
"Fine, better just try to fight then; I might be fine but everyone else is different."
The dragon immediately turns toward where it sensed large energy. She has entered her four-wing state and hidden them.
Whoosh!!!
The dragon senses something wrong. It opens its mouth wide toward the front and spits a pillar of fire straight toward Elyssia. Elyssia with a body dense with white energy. She swings an extremely strong slash tearing the fire; the slash just continues forward while the dragon's fire cannot block it; the ground is gouged up because of this slash with a vertical direction as if wanting to cut everything in two.
The dragon wants to cut off the fire and flap wings to fly away.
But from two sides, Takeshi doesn't like standing behind to support anymore; he darts away. The punch in his right hand overflowing with energy springs up close to the dragon's neck. The other side is Kazuka also approaching its neck. The two people simultaneously act; the strong punch strikes straight into the dragon's neck, along with that is the slash on the other side.
The fire suddenly goes out; the dragon is as if choked and tilts its neck to the sky and opens its mouth wide roaring. This is the dragon's neck; attacking from two sides like that creates pressure on its neck, just like Takeshi and Kazuka just made its neck clog up.
Whoosh!!!
Good opportunity, Ayaka's arrow tears the wind and rushes in.
Boom!!!
A large explosion right at the dragon's face makes black smoke cover it.
Above the dragon's back, Airi also takes the chance and spreads two legs like pillars and stabs the sword strongly down into the dragon's back, but because the dragon's skin is thick and meat firm, the sword only pierces in a bit, but like that she has pushed a lot of interference energy into its body.
The dragon roars loudly in pain; when Elyssia's slash almost launches to it, it has flapped its wings and flown straight into the air. Kazuka and Takeshi were knocked away by the large wind power.
Airi is unfortunate; she loses balance and is forced to cling to a long and large black sharp spike as if it were a curved blade; the dragon flies away dragging Airi along too.
Luckily Aoto also realizes; he is also on the dragon's back because he sensed Airi would have difficulty getting down, not to mention simple attacks are hard to wound it so Aoto just now did not attack.
The dragon flies very fast and launches into the air. It detects the two people Airi and Aoto on its back and clinging tight to the spikes on its back; immediately it spins 360 degrees and tips both of them downward. But because of spinning like that, the dragon cannot flap wings; thus the speed also decreases.
Taking the chance Aoto braces strength into the two pairs of wings behind. He darts over and catches Airi, holding her and rushing very fast downward; he knows if slow the dragon will attack right while high up like that, can only go down for the others to support.
Airi's face is still ice cold; these carrying scenes she considers as nothing, everyone is friends. Other aspects are sometimes a bit hard to understand, but considering everyone as friends is forever unchanging. Aoto is also quite shy holding a girl, but he tries to think of it simply as support.
Airi screams loudly in panic:
"Quickly avoid to the left!"
Aoto just avoids, and as he looks back he sees the dragon has been flying in wanting to destroy both.
But it's too hard for the dragon. When the dragon's eyes have pinned tight on Airi and Aoto in the air, determined to destroy both.
But "Whoosh" a sound. Elyssia has sprung strongly and closed in right near the dragon while it had not yet had time to react. A very strong slash strike is launched straight into the bottom of the dragon's neck, the connection between body and neck. A large and deep wound is caused by her; the dragon is immediately knocked flying away. Its wings right then flap hard, knocking Elyssia away by the large wind. Roaring a loud sound and the wind power from its mouth created knocks away Aoto who is carrying Airi. It sways in the air trying to keep balance and flaps wings repeatedly; it tries to endure the wound and knows it needs to wait for the wound to recover, as well as the biggest threat being Elyssia.
"Aaaaa..."
Airi falls out of Aoto's hands and immediately regains balance, while Aoto crashes straight into a thicket because of trying to flap wings to resist the wind power, making the flight direction chaotic and uncontrolled so he hit the thicket.
Elyssia was knocked away by the wind power from the wing flap. But from behind her grow back four pairs of wings; the four pairs flap once lightly to gain balance. Elyssia stands in the air without needing to flap wings. Angels only need to grow wings to be able to fly, not needing to flap and still able to stay in the air; flapping is only for situations to regain balance or speed up.
The dragon does not land; although the wound is very large, the dragon has stopped the bleeding very fast and not a drop of blood flows out, the large wound mouth is gradually closing.
It immediately counterattacks; regardless of the wound, it knows it will recover fast. The dragon flaps wings hard and rushes forward in a direct confrontation with Elyssia who is in the air.
Ayaka is far away at a quite high place in a mountain pass. The girl also finds it hard to shoot; the dragon's speed is too fast, not to mention long distance makes it hard for her to aim true.
"Too hard to lock target."
Kazuka and Takeshi stand looking up at the sky. Both clearly show surprise at Elyssia's form. Airi stands at another spot also watching; Aoto is considering whether to join. All of them cannot fight in the air; Aoto can fly but speed is quite poor, not to mention it's hard to cause damage to the dragon. Another main thing is that this is the first time they see Elyssia's Angel form; she is normally very strong, so she never changed forms.
With this four-wing state, the energy she is pushing outward is extremely large in a dense way. The halo on her head still rotates in a quite interesting way. Her hand grips the sword tight and awaits the dragon's rush.
The dragon opens its mouth wide; this time it wants to crush Elyssia with those pure white, sharp, and extremely large teeth.
Elyssia immediately darts away, wings flapping hard making the wind also pushed back. Immediately in the dragon's vision there is only a white streak making it as if freeze, mind full of panic, a bit afraid but full of caution.
Immediately it detects it is behind. It turns back and spits fire, but Elyssia has evaded out of range and closed in near.
She swings the sword extremely hard; the dragon also catches up and swings large, sharp black claws. Two strikes immediately collide; two sides struggle in the air.
Elyssia hurriedly flies up a distance pushing the dragon's foot back and evades the tail lash of the dragon while in the struggle state; she wants to close in when its back is turned but didn't expect the dragon to turn its head back to the rear and spit fire; the dragon's neck is very long, so turning back like that is obvious.
Elyssia swings the sword; an energy slash is created by her, not to slash the dragon but wanting to blow away the large fire rushing in. She launches a slash without thinness; the slash has an extreme range wider than the fire's range. White energy sweeps in making the fire the dragon spits immediately pushed back.
Snatching the chance while the dragon still keeps fire in its mouth. She darts away and circles past the dragon's right waist, but its tail is even more flexible than its legs or wings. The tail lashes in; Elyssia goes head-to-head with the tail and swings the sword extremely hard wanting to use her strength to crush the tail.
The sword and the tail collide; the dragon grits its teeth enduring; its tail is knocked away. It opens its mouth wide and spins around to bite.
Elyssia avoids to one side; the dragon with angry eyes scans over her as it misses the bite. Elyssia launches a kick straight into the dragon's face making its head and neck tilt and move strongly.
Elyssia grips the sword with two hands and swings out an energy slash sweeping across as if wanting to tear the air.
The dragon is angry and opens its mouth to bite and dissipate Elyssia's energy slash. Its mouth opens wide, increasingly unhappy.
At the mouth, a large fire-burning energy sphere is being gathered with more energy and gradually growing larger. Naturally, no one is idle enough to block just to show off strength. Elyssia overflows energy covering the body thicker, in her mind setting the highest caution and evading at any moment.
The dragon launches a fire pillar toward Elyssia; she flaps wings hard and darts up. The dragon does not let her [go] so easily and maintains the fire pillar following. But Elyssia has no encumbrances, while the dragon must use much energy; thus it surely cannot catch up; it has cut the attack, looking with uncomfortable eyes after Elyssia.
The rest standing below also shiver; if that strike hit, it would incinerate even bones to nothing. In the distance, the remaining fire pillar flies to the mountain and creates a large explosion.
Elyssia darts straight down from above; the dragon does not want to chase but still watches. When the dragon sees Elyssia rushing close, it opens its mouth wide and flaps wings rushing in.
Sensing clearly the dragon funneled much energy to the front which is its mouth.
Elyssia thinks to herself as she rushes down:
"If it's like this, a head-on confrontation. Then I'm not very afraid either."