Chapter 139: Fighting the Dragon V
Below on the ground, Takeshi and Kazuka are running following right below.
Takeshi suddenly thinks of the time Kazuka fought Mythyr; at that time Kazuka used his hands and strength and lifted an entire large piece of the arena then flipped it toward Mythyr. Quickly this thought is considered by him and weighed, feeling it can be done. He is an earth element user after all; launching such a strike is easier than Kazuka for sure.
Elyssia flies following right behind the dragon; each wing flap is each time speed surges, wind calling "ù ù" in the ears.
The dragon flying in front opens its mouth and launches a fireball to the front, right after that the dragon lowers. Elyssia flying right behind also senses the dragon's intent is to want Elyssia to crash into the fireball in front, but in this world as long as it is a living creature there will surely be energy; she has sensed it already. Immediately flies down under the fireball and continues chasing.
The dragon is not resigned, it grits its teeth in anger; didn't expect its proud dragon race to be chased and have to run like that. In its head rises a thought considering that after all this is an Angel, if it can't win it's only natural. But right after that belittling thought is brushed away, it is not content with that.
"Damn you, I am the dragon race. Don't think that because you can chase me you can be proud and take an inch to gain a mile; I am only waiting for the opportunity."
The dragon suddenly slows its flight speed; the tail that was previously injured had finished recovering long ago and immediately lashes powerfully toward Elyssia; the end part of the tail is a massive bumpy black spike, and sharp too.
But Elyssia has spun her body one circle while flying and successfully evaded. She is inherently stronger than the dragon clearly, but in combat it's hard to say. Continuously recovering and being injured, as well as creating advantage by putting the opponent in a difficult position to accumulate the damage one causes. Thus it can be said if Elyssia lacked experience or left an opening for this dragon to grab, it could put her in a difficult position, but whether her prowess can take back the advantage for herself is also an issue. But Elyssia is inherently very focused; this is the true power of an Angel with four wings and exerting focus at the highest level making her strength a massive pressure.
For the dragon too, if Elyssia leaves an opening and it grabs successfully then it is stronger; but with a situation like this, it understands by itself that if it makes a mistake it will be put in a difficult position and might permanently find it hard to overturn.
As for energy, with these energy wells that two sides struggle with—a type of counterattacking then running, hit-and-run fighting—certainly they must fight for one to two days before someone shows signs of gradually exhausting; but one side is the dragon race with inherent energy already very large, Angels even larger equal to demons and Elementals, so it's hard to run out.
Returning to the battle, after Elyssia spins her body while flying and evades the dragon's tail swing. She launches the sword with large energy in her hand that she funneled in when she spun. An energy slash with extremely great length and used by Elyssia's energy mastery to make the energy slash slightly narrow; this makes the slash able to funnel force into one point more strongly avoiding being scattered. It is like a blunt knife being sharpened; when the knife is sharp the blade will be thin.
The dragon cannot evade in time, although trying to retract wings and wanting to spin in the air similar to the way a bat folds wings around its person. But it knows it's not in time, also knows and fears that this slash of Elyssia's will tear its wings; when retracting wings it immediately halts.
Stab!!!
The dragon roars once, mouth opening wide, pain transmitting makes it extremely struggle. That slash has struck into the dragon's waist and runs long for a stretch of also about 1.5 tharn (3 meters); although somewhat short, the deep wound clearly reveals the dragon's meat in a bright red color visible to the eye; a bit of blood stuck there is because when slashed in a little flowed out but the dragon used energy to self-stop the bleeding already so no blood flows out.
The giant body is sent flying a distance like a giant rock. Elyssia follows with her gaze, eyes pinned tight and flashing with the light of combat power and purity.
"Must slash the head of this dragon, but dragon scales since ancient times at the neck part are the hardest part, so it will be very difficult. Not to mention the dragon also detected the intent and can do everything to block immediately."
Elyssia glances down below; she suddenly grabs an opportunity everyone created.
Below, some distance from the position the dragon is hovering in the air a bit—it is growling in pain after being hit by Elyssia's slash—the wound is healing but quite difficult because the wound is large together with Elyssia's interference energy already in the slash just now.
Takeshi braces himself, facial muscles bulging, two sets of teeth gritted tight, two eyes as if wanting to pop out when bracing.
Boom!!!
Takeshi flips an entire massive chunk of earth with a square shape like it was perfect. That is thanks to his earth element control capability; this makes him control and separate an entire massive and thick chunk of earth, carrying even trees. He just like that flips it toward the dragon flying above. Previously it flew very high, but after receiving Elyssia's slash and being flung away it has gradually lowered while being flung.
At this moment the dragon's panic is clearly visible as in front is a massive chunk of earth covering the entire vision. With this chunk of earth at least its sides must fall around 15 tharn (30 meters), the thickness is quite thin at only 2 tharn (4 meters). Ordinarily with that structure the dirt clods would have fallen apart already but because he uses the earth element being the controller, how could he let it fall? Takeshi finishing this, he also pants because of fatigue.
Currently carrying on that chunk of earth are Airi and Kazuka clinging to tree trunks, eyes excited.
The dragon's panic is clearly visible, but who understands it better than it? Just a massive piece of plain earth, how can it make things hard for the dragon race like it? The black neck part suddenly switches to red like a furnace, two sides of the mouth burn with fire, nose exhaling smoke. Immediately opens its mouth, a large energy sphere is created and launches straight at the massive earth chunk. It also aims at the place Airi and Kazuka are clinging on tree branches a distance from each other.
Suddenly the dragon clearly senses things are not right…
Whoosh!!!
Elyssia's energy slash with great length slices apart Takeshi's massive earth chunk; right after that the fireball is split in two and falls down into the forest. The slash just like that launches toward the dragon. But at a long distance like that, it certainly can be avoided; its head is as if electrified trying to think if Elyssia is playing any tricks, but for the time in front it needs to avoid Elyssia's incoming slash first. The dragon just like that flies sideways and evades the slash.
Far away the dragon suddenly feels the absence of Aoto; right after that it senses Aoto's energy in the distance. Aoto currently has one hand raised above his head, an energy sphere as large as a well mouth used by him with force together with the main energy's propelling power makes the sphere whistle toward the dragon.
The dragon quickly wants to avoid; it clearly shows panic because it knows this is no different from a killing move; naturally killing it immediately is hard, but being injured makes it hard to resist, then being ganged up on means death is certain.
Previously, Takeshi was panting; he suddenly remembered he has the earth element control capability.
"Oh right, I didn't think of that. I can control the earth element. My thinking is too narrow, couldn't even think of that."
He suddenly remembered the time Mythyr used the earth element to lift several stone blocks and took it as an example for himself.
Returning to the current situation of the battle. When the sphere launches in, the dragon flaps wings launching up to evade. But this time it is Elyssia blocking right above its head as the dragon looks up while flying and is forced to stop. The sword in Elyssia's hand has a large amount of energy being accumulated; it knows if it flies high it will immediately receive a strike; even if lucky enough to evade it would be hard. Because currently Kazuka and Airi are standing on a stone block and flying over; that is Takeshi having used his earth element control capability from below and bringing Airi and Kazuka up to join the fight.
Controlling at a long distance truly is quite hard for him. But before that Takeshi used his earth element capability and probed down below the ground, after that he tried to bring stone blocks up to the ground as backup stone blocks to avoid when Airi and Kazuka fall down below he will be able to react in time to catch them then bring them back to the battle avoiding being out of the battle too long leading to deficiency. That is if falling down and having no accident; he also thought if both were tail-lashed or leg-swung by the dragon once. If so, around him are earth and trees, he can control them to rise and catch them avoiding receiving too strong a force and becoming even more heavily injured.
Attacked from two sides are Kazuka on the right and Airi on the left approaching. Along with that is Elyssia with a slash ready to launch if she feels an opportunity. Right after that Aoto also knows what he should do and blocks right behind the dragon's retreat path.
The dragon is insanely angry, but reason remains. It understands by itself that although Kazuka and Airi are definitely weaker than Elyssia, if it attacks one of the two and wants to escape then immediately Elyssia above will attack. Currently only below is an exit and the dragon's head also thought of that. But imagining if so the dragon will fly lower, while those people will fly higher, this will put it in a retreating position. But there is no other way, it is forced to choose to fly downward. In its head it as if holds a grudge clearly with Elyssia's silhouette, like carved deep to never forget.