Although she was just a mascot, Ophis had still heard about many of Tatsuma's deeds.
"Your strength is very great. Can you help me defeat the Great Red and regain peace?"
Tatsuma said, "The Great Red patrols the dimensional gap to maintain world stability. I don't have any plans to deal with him for now."
"Hmm."
Ophis fell silent.
As expected, she still had to maintain world order to gain the support of Tatsuma and Yahweh.
"Let's talk about Ophis's matter later. Let's settle our bet first."
After greeting Yahweh, Tatsuma looked at Georg standing not far away.
"You can summon the Dragon Eater now."
"Okay." Georg quickly replied.
As expected, Tatsuma, like Yahweh, knew that he could summon the Dragon Eater. Looking at it this way, his and Cao Cao's plan had already been exposed from the very beginning.
But how exactly did Tatsuma and the others know?
As all sorts of doubts swept through his mind, Georg injected magic power to activate the magic circle beneath his feet.
The next second, the entire spatial dimension began to shake, and ominous black mist surged from the magic circle.
"You can still surrender now, you know." Yahweh showed a smug smile.
"That applies to you too." Tatsuma retorted without showing weakness.
At the same time the two were bickering, the Dragon Eater slowly emerged from the magic circle.
It was a monster with the upper body of a Fallen Angel, possessing black wings, and the lower body of an Eastern Dragon, with a long, slender tail.
Restraints were wrapped around various parts of the Dragon Eater's body, and at the same time, countless thick nails pierced its hands, dragon tail, and even its back wings, nailing it to a giant cross.
"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!"
Bloody tears flowed from beneath the restraints on its eyes, and the Dragon Eater let out a low, muffled roar.
Jealousy, pain, resentment...
Various negative emotions were mixed in the roar, rushing towards them.
At the same time, black mist continuously surged from the Dragon Eater's body, gradually covering the entire spatial dimension.
"Samael, do it."
Just then, Yahweh's voice rang out.
She raised her hand and pointed at Tatsuma next to her, giving the Dragon Eater an order from a distance.
"Deal with him, just leave him a breath."
Chirp!
A crisp sound of tearing through the air rang out.
The Dragon Eater's tongue shot out like a spring, heading towards Tatsuma.
"Is there no more normal way to attack?"
Tatsuma raised his hand and grabbed the Dragon Eater's tongue. A curse so thick it was materialized was transmitted along the tongue. This curse attempted to destroy Tatsuma's body and absorb and plunder the power within him.
Just then, Origin Fruit took effect, and a dense purifying power surged within his body.
The curse from Samael and the purifying power from Origin Fruit collided. Restrained by the purifying power, the curse began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Aaahhhhh!"
Feeling the curse being purified, Samael let out an angry roar and aimed his hands at Tatsuma.
The next instant, the black mist pervading the air gathered together and covered Tatsuma.
No longer limited to just the tongue, endless curses flowed into all parts of Tatsuma's body from all directions. But Origin Fruit was equally potent, releasing an equal amount of purifying power to purify the curses.
"Boring, I overestimated you."
Tatsuma shook his head slightly, his expression a little disappointed.
Because of the Dragon Eater's overly brilliant record in the original story, he had specifically formulated hundreds of battle plans for it. But after actually encountering it, he found that the Dragon Eater's attack methods all relied on curses.
The curses were targeted by Origin Fruit and couldn't bring him any threat. He didn't even need to remove traits related to Dragon blood, such as God of Devils and Dragons and Boosted Gear.
He endured Samael's attacks, step by step, until he reached him, then raised his fist and brought it down.
Bang!
Samael, along with the cross behind him, was smashed into the ground.
After that, Tatsuma snapped his fingers, and hundreds of amplified Magic arrays unfolded around him, unleashing thousands of red lightning bolts.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Deafening roars echoed continuously, the ground began to shake wildly, and cracks appeared in the air.
Without holding back, the alternate dimension created by Georg was unable to withstand Tatsuma's attacks.
However, fortunately, before this alternate dimension reached its limit, a notification sound rang in Tatsuma's ears.
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Samael, you have obtained the Rainbow trait: Dragon Curse.]
[Dragon Curse (Rainbow): Consume a certain amount of energy to release a curse, increasing damage to dragons by ten times, ignoring defense suppression, stripping dragons of their power, and continuously inflicting fatal damage on dragons.]
Hmm? It actually dropped a Rainbow trait?
A hint of surprise flashed in Tatsuma's eyes.
Although the trait system doesn't have clear standards, there are differences in strength among traits of the same level.
In Tatsuma's opinion, the Dragon Curse should be the strongest tier among gold traits, capable of achieving Rainbow level effect when targeting dragons. He didn't expect the Dragon Curse to be a Rainbow level trait.
Tatsuma glanced at Origin Fruit. As a Rainbow trait, the purification effect of Origin Fruit could actually firmly suppress the Dragon Curse. It seems this inconspicuous Rainbow trait's ability to counteract curses is stronger than he imagined.
Of course, specific research can be done later.
With a thought, he closed the trait panel, and Tatsuma looked at Yahweh who was staring blankly.
"Anything else you want to say, Yahweh."
"This..."
Yahweh showed an expression as if she wanted to speak but hesitated.
She couldn't understand why Samael's curse didn't take effect. That was a dragon-slaying curse she had collected from ancient times, and even from other worlds.
After thousands of years of research, she had finally created this ultimate dragon-slaying weapon.
For beings other than dragons, Samael's strength was only comparable to ordinary Satans and gods. But when the conditions were met and he faced a dragon species, Samael's suppression power was definitely Dragon God Level.
Could Tatsuma's ability to defeat Samael so easily mean that his strength had already surpassed the Dragon God Level?
No, absolutely impossible!
Yahweh instantly dismissed this idea based on the power Tatsuma had just displayed.
"What did you just do? How did you become immune to Samael's curse?"
"Trade secret."
"Sigh, I knew that would be the answer."
"If you know, then don't ask."
Tatsuma looked at the Dragon Eater not far away and asked, "How are you going to deal with this thing?"
"Let's temporarily retrieve it first, at least it can't be left in Hell for Hades to keep."
Yahweh activated divine magic, cut the chains on Samael, and dragged it into her subspace.
She had previously placed the Dragon Eater deep within Hell, partly because it was safe there and wouldn't be disturbed, and partly because Hades was relatively reliable and wouldn't mess around.
But now it seems Hades isn't as reliable as she thought. Like other gods, he would also break the rules for his own selfish reasons and use the Dragon Eater.
This was unacceptable to Yahweh.
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