Chapter 138: Fighting the Dragon IV
Up in the sky, the dragon is flying extremely fast, wind howling " buzzing" because of the great speed. The aching feeling still remains at the chest; the wound has recovered outside but inside is not yet finished; red-hot eyes are angry.
"Damn it, does my dragon race—so proud—lose to you all?"
The will of this dragon is being raised high when thinking of itself losing; it cannot brush away the uncomfortable thought like an ant bite in its head. It is extremely angry; when going out it considered this hunting for fun, but didn't expect to fall into this situation. Actually, it can still clearly fight on, but staying and not leaving will invite more strikes, will be more dangerous. Although unable to take its life immediately, "water wears away stone," if not hitting one strike then two, if not two then hit a lot.
That thought cannot escape the head; wings flap slower, teeth grit tight.
"With the pride of my dragon race, I will not accept this failure."
Immediately it brakes and turns itself wanting to return and fight more; it does not allow itself to lose; its will is like indomitable, burning like fire.
Kazuka below right then stands bracing hands looking up at the sky and sees the dragon rushing over from afar. He points toward the front, eyes recognizing the familiar shape, in his head also visualizing it is the dragon, voice curious:
"Hey everyone? The dragon is returning, right?"
Immediately everyone's faces change and all look in one direction; truly the dragon has returned and is flying extremely fast.
Whoosh!!!!
Three of Ayaka's arrows launch with extremely fast speed, wind shrieking "ầm ầm" to the point of ear-piercing. Immense energy makes the three arrows extremely pressurized; the arrows are small in size but extremely long. The air is as if being torn apart; it feels like just a blink and the arrows will be lost.
Behind a rock on the mountainside, Ayaka kneels down, two hands bracing on the ground, the bow also pressed down by her hand. The sound of panting " hoh hoh" can be heard clearly, her hands trembling violently, her face pale no longer rosy; extreme fatigue makes her vision waver.
"T-Tired... those three arrows, each arrow is more than one part of my energy."
Panting sounds still mix with thoughts in her head.
"My energy gate is inherently small; using so much energy like that truly makes the body hard to endure."
Another part is that Ayaka's energy control capability is quite poor, so when using energy it is also extremely arduous, like pulling the rope of a buffalo but it refuses to go and one must use much strength to be able to.
The flying dragon suddenly clearly senses danger approaching; its instinct tells it something is wrong. Immediately the arrows rush into the dragon's energy sensing range making it snap its eyes open; sensing capability is as if interrupted because the arrows launch too fast. It does not think much, instinctively also knows, no need to turn and look; it has sensed the arrows and simultaneously knows they will head for it. Immediately it flaps wings hard and dives without thinking much.
Stab!!
Successfully avoided the arrows headed for head and body; the remaining arrow launches straight into its tail; great power makes the tail gouged with a large hole, after that the energy dissolves away but still doesn't forget to push chaotic energy into the body. The dragon roars once in pain, body twisting because of pain, but luckily its focus remains and the wings were not hit. The dragon can still stabilize and fly swaying because of injury, but temporarily stays composed.
The whole group below witnesses everything. Elyssia immediately transforms; the ice-blue eyes switch to milk-white, the eye on the back of the neck opens, the halo on the head appears and starts to rotate. She summarized, no need to spread wings then retract. The armor quickly covers the body.
Elyssia does not use wings; she doesn't like them because they bring a feeling of awkwardness to her. But the strong spring makes the ground under her feet crack open like a giant spiderweb; trees beside also lean, wind and dust blow strongly in all directions.
Right after that Aoto also grows wings from his back, two pairs of large transparent green wings with winding patterns; the two pairs are extremely long and large like dragonfly wings; he immediately flies up. But the speed is quite slow, actually very slow.
Aoto doesn't forget to remind below:
"Everyone stay below, I will follow her."
Airi looks on, eyes uncomfortable and full of thought:
"Damn it, I wonder when I will grow wings? Not flexible at all."
Takeshi and Kazuka helplessly look up at the sky; they have no flying capability, and strength is also hard to spring as high as Elyssia. Thus both can only sigh in their hearts, just a pity for not being strong enough.
Stab!!!
Sound of shock in the air. That is the scene of Elyssia launching up extremely fast and powerful; the dragon cannot yet recover the large wound quickly, but reflexes are still good. It swings a front leg downward with power. The large foot that can stomp flat a large house immediately confronts Elyssia's powerful punch. The punch makes the meat in the dragon's leg sink deep inside and pushes back those large and sharp claws. The dragon is knocked back a distance, but it still keeps balance very well.
Different from bird species or monsters that need to flap wings many times, a dragon only needs to flap wings once to fly across hundreds of mountains easily; as for this young dragon, flapping wings much is only to flaunt prestige.
Aoto in the distance has two wings flapping continuously to keep him hovering in the air; green light dazzles the eyes and casts onto his face; two hands are opening wide and bringing near each other slowly and with a bit of difficulty. Right at the center in front of the chest at the palms of two hands is a green energy sphere gradually becoming smaller; the light glows even more strongly. Quickly the sphere shrinks and Aoto's two hands interlace, then open; a sphere only slightly larger than a thumb. But this thing is compressed with a lot of energy, so it is not ordinary either.
"I think it's ready."
Elyssia unfurls four wings in the air, feathers on the wings pure white without a blemish, a few feathers even fall out. She quickly lowers her person and evades the dragon's baring mouth.
Hand summons her sword, white light flashes in the palm and the sword manifests.
But she cannot be so leisurely yet; when evading the dragon's bite strike, greeting her is a claw swing from the dragon's left leg, extremely sharp; the claws are solid black, extremely long and large too. If that claw pierces her body, it will surely put her in a difficult situation.
Quickly flapping wings hard and going up, she is like a mermaid gliding in the air. She arches her person, body curving; imagine it like the scene of a high jumper athlete and when jumping over the bar they will bend their person like that.
The dragon becomes even more angry; its right leg is very numb from receiving Elyssia's punch. The dragon opens its mouth wide and spits fire. But Elyssia brings her left hand to the front, palm directed straight at the fire and launches her energy from the hand to confront the red-hot fire. Quickly two sides stop their moves; Elyssia hurriedly retreats.
Pushing energy out from hands or other parts requires the energy gate to be large to be able to do. That is the reason why weaklings can only transmit energy into weapons. Kazuka also can do nearly the same; his energy gate is as large as six parts of one part of energy. Though not yet able to use at hands, or harder in other places. But he can use at his mouth to launch it out already. But Elyssia is a completely different level; she pushes energy from her palm with a large energy source having a range equal to the dragon's fire range, showing her energy gate and energy control capability are extremely strong.
From afar, Aoto flies in as fast as he can. Two pairs of wings like dragonfly wings behind his back flap non-stop. This speed is only equal to four parts of that dragon. But that is not the problem; the problem is the green energy sphere in his hand is having even more energy. Immediately Aoto throws the energy sphere only slightly larger than a thumb; thrown with great speed, the sphere as if makes space distort because the energy power emitted is very terrifying.
Elyssia has sensed and turned to see; she is also not in the path of this energy sphere. She as if understands and immediately acts.
Fighting is the accumulation of all aspects: strength, endurance, time, development, damage... Thus every opportunity is precious to be able to win for oneself the least advantage.
Immediately Elyssia covers the sword with denser energy, shoulders widen and braces very hard and throws the sword straight toward the dragon, wanting to make it lose focus. Right after that she also rushes immediately after wanting to create pressure.
Making [someone] lose focus sounds simple, but actually is very hard because once in their sensing range they already know; the important thing is how to put them in a difficult position, that is the issue.
The dragon clearly senses energy from the energy sphere rushing in extremely fast. It also senses extremely clearly the great threat from this energy sphere. Elyssia together with the sword rushing in successfully put the dragon in a pincer position. If the dragon flies up and avoids the biggest danger which is that energy sphere, then Elyssia will easily approach it, might cause more wounds for it; but there is no time to think much, it can only funnel all its heart into Elyssia and all muscles into the wings and flap strongly making it dart upward evading Aoto's energy sphere.
Aoto standing behind clearly shows a look of disappointment. As for Elyssia, she speeds up quickly chasing after the dragon; the sword flying in the air immediately disappears and right after appears in Elyssia's hand.
Looking at it, that young dragon has large wings, a giant body that can fly fast. But Elyssia also flies fast, not inferior at all.