Chapter 193: Boltreaver’s Revenge._A Dragon Idol's Reincarnation Tale

Chapter 193: Boltreaver’s Revenge.

 Lightning Revolt

 The racial skill of the [Boltreaving Dragon], enabling the owner to turn mana into electric currents. This electricity is stored inside their scales before being released. A huge amount of mana may transform into electricity at once, supercharging the electric organ inside the [Boltreaving Dragon] and transforming the green lightning into blue, increasing all stats

 Lightning Rod

 Lightning from any source is attracted to the user, streaming towards them by themselves and through the users mana. If the users [Lightning Resistance] is superiorpared to the lightning source, they will transform this electricity into Health, Mana, and Stamina

 Boltreaving de

 A skill that grants the ability to channel mana into potent electricity around their bodies, forming them into any shape they wish. The power for this skill is determined by abination of [Lightning Magic]s and [Boltreaving de]s levels

 Electromaic Barrier

 The scales of the user allow the smooth flow of electricity without losing much energy, granting them a maic push. This electromaic barrier can only be deployed around areas of surging lightning

 Notable features: Sharp wings with ws on them, probably can be used for slicing and smashing, although flimsy. A pincer-like tail, can grab things probably. His horn-like crest is broken, but looking at how he tore through Saoris Dragon Thunder, he can probably still use it well enough. Dangerous. Very Dangerous.

 Lets go! Hellme Breath! Corrosive Fire!

 Without letting another second fly past, I ground my teeth together to create a spark, igniting a fire inside my mouth. Using mana to erge it, I then unleashed this me at Astalos. [Corrosive Fire] had already changed my crimson fire into purple; in a sense, this was a toxic breath attack.

 Nowpletely focused, unlike during my surprise attack, Astalos was no longer underestimating us. He roared at me before coating his legs and wings with electricity, before pping thetter to send him into the air, avoiding my breath attack.

 In response, my scale-dust exploded under the scales of my wings,unching me forward to bodycheck Astalos into multiple trees, snapping them into pieces as I drove him deeper into the woods. Get him away from the RV, was part of the reason for this action, but I also wanted to give the rest of my party enough time to prepare and maybe form a n to take this monster down. Unfortunately, the moment we left the ground was when Astalos could take advantage of his smaller size.

 I used to be shorter than Astalos when I was still a [Young Spark Inferno Dragon]. Now, however? After evolving, I was farrger than him. This old scale was around the size of a taller elephant he was slightly taller than Saori as a reference while I was about the size of a mammoth. Dragging him along by using my size advantage was effective, but my n had a small hitch - myrger size didnt change the fact that Astalos was the better dogfighter.

 As I was feeling electricity around his body bombarding me, Astalos smacked his left wing right at my right shoulder, causing an electric explosion that disrupted my bnce in the air. This enabled Astalos to free himself before using his pincer-like tail to grab my right wing and m it on the ground, causing me topletely lose my ability to fly and crashnd on the ground.

 [Mana Eyes] already gave me an idea of how proficient he was as a flyer, so I knew that it would do me no good to fight him in the air. This was the power of information. Sadly, the same applied to Astalos, who had an improved version of [Identify] in the form of [Eye of the System]. It would be prudent to fight as if he already knew my abilities.

 Krak!

 As my body was still iling about on the ground,rge amounts of electric crackling resounded from above me. I couldnt see what was happening, but both my [Perception] and [Danger Perception] were warning me about an impending attack. I did not react for now, simply letting [Sanctified ze: Halo of Consecration] heal my scratches as I continued listening to the sounds of lightning.

 Krak!!

 Krak!!!

 Now! Dreadre Aura!

 The moment I recovered from the fall and jumped back on my feet, extreme heat exploded from my body, detonating some of my scale-dust to release an aura of deadly fire. Looking in the direction of the crackling, I could see Astalos covered in green lightning, stopping himself before the aura reached him. As he hovered around at the perimeter of how far I wanted [Dreadre Aura] to go, I activated my halos secondary effect.

 Sanctified ze: Halo of Consecration

 A [Sanctified ze] variant spell, using the fire of [White mes] as its base. Creates a halo above the caster, acting as a signal fire to lure allies into an aura of beneficial mes. Automatically cast [Sanctified ze] and coats their weapons in [White mes] on all allies. Additionally, the caster may intensify the halos mes, sending waves of consecrated res at enemies, ignoring all allies

 Inspired by the fact [Omnictus] would inflict different amounts of damage depending on if a friend or foe was caught in it, I believed I could do something simr with my [White mes]. They could be cool enough to not hurt anybody, and if my song spells could differentiate between allies and enemies, I could do the same for my custom spells.

 The moment the mes on my halo grew, I deactivated my [Dreadre Aura] and white mes began spewing around me endlessly like a fountain. Astalos, not anticipating this attack, was sted by sacred mes piercing through his barrier. Unlike my [Draconic Barrier], intangible attacks made using mana, like fire or holy spells, was something I believed should have worked on him. Fortunately, my assumption was correct.

 Panzer!

 Recasting [Panzer] to cover my dragon body in purple armor and ignoring the fact I set another forest on fire, I used [Unheilige Engel] tounch the offense. The purple slime hovering behind me like a pair of sludge wings once again solidified into jagged obsidian wings, before morphing into three long spiky tendrils.

 Like a gatling gun, the three long spikes began to send a barrage of attacks at Astalos, pushing him back as he struggled to get rid of the white mes. Now that I could inflict [Dread Burn] after buying [Fire Abnormality Effect: Dread], any me damage I inflicted prevented Astalos from healing his wounds, meaning the two gashes Inded on him while he was a dragonewt were still there. Now, I needed to weaken him with my toxins.

 Now, with [Poison Resistance Lv. 6], he was decently resistant against moderate toxins. [Panzer] could poison you with touch, but when I sliced into his shoulder with a [Panzer]-covered tail sh, he didnt get poisoned, sadly. [Unheilige Engel], on the other hand, was a stubborn, semi-manual spell my parallel minds could give amand to and it would follow it through until a new one was issued, kind of like a poison slime-golem. Astalos barrier was blocking the spikes fromnding, but this opened up an opportunity for me.

 Using the burning ground to sharpen and heat my tail through friction, I activated my boosters and sent myself flying up in a spiral. Astalos immediately dodged this attack, enduring through waves of white mes erupting from my halo. I then sensed another attack. This time, it came from Astaloss tail.

 The pincer widened and revealed a group of emerald scales filled with electricity, firing a small scale as if shot from electric railgun. The speed of this attack was near-instantaneous, making it impossible for me to dodge the attack in my current position. As theser broke through my armor and shaved some scales from my sides, I regretted not dodging the second I saw his tail move.

 Like before, this attack sent my [Tailwind] out of control, unbncing me. Astalos, noticing this, cast his own [Tailwind] and began to speed up his flight around the area. As I dropped back down to the ground, I was able to see Astaloss horn growrger and crackle with more electricity. [Danger Perception] and [Prediction] were warning me he was about to attack, but neither of these two skills could tell me from which direction.

 As I anxiously snapped my neck around, trying my very best to follow up with Astalos movements with all my current buffing spells. When he appeared more or less like a sh of thunder zapping around, I began to understand how problematic fighting against a speedster was. The only move I had was to activate [Dreadre Aura] and surround the area with [Scale-Dust Veil], relying on the fiery field to dissuade Astalos from attacking.

 By the time I finally was able to pinpoint his location, it was already toote.

 At the very edge of my eyes, a massive spear of thunder was thrown at me, detonating all my scale-dust on its way. Although the explosions shrouded the javelin, the speed it was moving was just impossible to react to.

 Kraaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! I cried out in pain.

 It huuurts!

 [Dreadre Aura], [Panzer], [Draconic Barrier]; none of these defensive measures were able to stop this attack. Blood was dripping from the wound as the spear lodged inside my stomach. I could feel my organs being ravaged by my [Dreadre Aura], begging intensely for me to stop boiling them alive. When I did what my pain receptors were telling me, the lightning spear disappeared and white mes and healing spells began to heal the hole in my body up, but this left me vulnerable.

 Without another sound, a shadow appeared above me, apanied by the very same crackling of lightning from before. When I looked up, I saw Astalos pping his wings. On his head was a massive de of thunder.

 And he swung it at me like an executioner.

 [Bleeding (Minor)] [Broken Right Wing (Moderate)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 Krraaaaaaaaahhh!!!

 Kriiieeghhhh!!!

 Two roars erupted in the woods. One was mine as none of my previously mentioned defensive options could not protect me from this attack; fortunately, as I had anticipated an attack like this, my legs were already moving. Still, it was far too close. Just a millisecond longer and I would have probably lost my entire right wing. It was fortunate I managed to escape with only a broken wing and part of my back sliced up

 Now, the second roar came from Astalos himself. No, I did not injure him with a counterattack, it was impossible for me to set something up after what happened. It wasnt even a physical or magical attack; instead, it was mental.

 Kriiieeghhhh!!! Astalos continued to struggle, holding his head with his two wings.

 From the corners of this area, four Wrooooooh!!!s echoed around the area, following with five groups of [Dark Tendrils] bursting from under the wyverns shadow, grabbing his feet and pulling him back onto the ground. A giant ice golem jumped out from the woods, on top of it was an elven woman in a maids outfit, cooling down the ming trees to allow the golem to m Astalos on the ground.

 [Grk! W-What took you guys so long?] I forced myself to send that telepathic message towards a group of five giant wolves and an elven woman with two pairs of wings.

 [Figuring out a n in the first ce.] That voice was from none other than Saori, fully d in her [Shadow Armament] while stygian lightning was surging around her fenrir form. [Eine, Grimnir, now!]

 A human girl and a dwarven man armored in crimson armor revealed themself from behind trees, materializing giant [Bedrock des] to crash into Astalos after the golem moved away and throwing a few of my firebombs at him, respectively.

 Kriiaaghh! Astalos cried out again, whether it was from the damage the two were inflicting or due to what the garms were doing to him.

 Mental overload using [Telepathy] was a basic hunting tactic the wargs and garms of Belzac used to hunt downrger prey. It was essentially a psychological attack by flooding your brain with junk telepathic messages, ranging from shouts to iprehensible gibberish or even to threats. This was the same move these garms used on Saori when they were still onnikais. [Absolute Pain Tolerance] may make physical pain tolerable, but it did nothing to help with mental anguish.

 Ueehhh! However, suddenly all four garms yelped out loud, showing pained expressions.

 [Intolerable little insects!] Astalos wings spread out, dding them in green lightning before using them to slice Eines [Bedrock des] like swords. A purple magic circle then appeared behind him, casting the [Lightning Magic Lv. 5] spell [Overload].

 Overload

 Supercharges the casters body with magical electricity, significantly increasing the casters Intelligence, Agility, and Mana Regeneration at the cost of Health while this spell was active

 Astalos was shining brightly like a bulb, roaring haughtily as the spell activated, before he stopped and stood still like a statue, eyes widening in astonishment. [M-My healing?! Why am I not healing?! My wounds arent closing!]

 Gotcha!

 [Lightning Rod], one of Astalos unique skills prevented him from being damaged by lightning; instead, that element healed him. Due to this effect, it synergized perfectly with [Overload], nullifying the spells health drain while still benefitting from its buffs in addition to healing him due to the spell. However, [Dread Burn] was the ace here. Nobody besides my allies and I were allowed to heal tank while I was around.

 I might have mentioned Astalos could have seen my profile; unfortunately for him, without something like parallel minds or elerated thinking, looking at a super long profile with so many different skills, abilities, spells, and titles was a nightmare in a fast-paced battle like this. Even the descriptions of my skills were as long as an established trading card games effect details! Picking out the effects of Dread Burn when it had been merged into another skill? Might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack.

 Smirking as he fell for this simple mistake, I increased my halos effective range while continuing shooting out the consecrated mes. It buffeted Astalos while keeping [Dread Burn] active on him while helping out my allies.

 [Hestia, the n is simple. You and Grimnir will be the frontline. Whatever you do, stall him and prevent him from attacking either Tasianna or me. We will provide the damage. Noints, hopefully?] I agreed. [Eine will provide support using earth and wind spells with the help of the garms. Discements, crowd control, protection. You and Grimnir need to go all out with holding the line.]

 I was honestly a bit worried that Saori was putting Grimnir in a perilous position here. Astalos was actually a tough opponent, actually High Ogre tier of dangerous. No, the difference in stats and levels was too much between them, and Astalos was even faster than me. Maybe he was even stronger?

 I need to get my shit together. Purple sh! Symphonie des Feuergottes!

 After some time with [Major Heal] and my halos healing, my wounds closed up and my wing was fixed, I dashed back into the fight, signaling the second round of this battle.

 Astalos, having regained hisposure, activated his lightning around his feet, destroying the [Dark Tendrils] Saori and her garm cast on him. Before he could do anything though, a blue magic circle under his feet, materializing a giant ball of water around him and imprisoning him in the [Water Magic Lv. 9] spell [Aqua Prison]. Water might be tangible, but it took a while for his [Electromaic Barrier] to counter it; Saori and Tasianna had already caught onto this fact.

 Astalos struggled inside this sphere, using his thunder to st pieces of the ball away to liberate himself. The moment he was free again, white mes crashed onto his body again, blocking his sight of me.

 Now, of course, I knew he could still sense me with [Detection Sensor] and [Prediction]. However, that was okay.

 Unheilige Engel, it is time!

 There were three states [Unheilige Engel] could be in: solid obsidian, purple slime, and corrosive liquid.

 Unheilige Engel

 The venomous wings of the unholy angel descend upon the foes of the owner of [Corrosive Fire], carrying with them a virulent purple me. A spell able to morph itself into three states: obsidian, sludge, and viscous liquid. Theposition of toxins inside this spell may be changed using [Corrosive Fire]s effect, lighting these purple wings on fire. Can be controlled by the user remotely, however, mana cost will increase the further away it is

 The features of my [Corrosive Fire] were obvious to me by now. If I heated my purple mes high enough before cooling them down, they start to turn into a slime before finally transforming into obsidian if the purple mes suddenly turn yellow. Since the loss of my [Toxin Secretion], Saori has been using the sludge version of this fire toplement her attack strategy. However, there was one form Ive been neglecting ever since: its liquid form created whenever Im sweating.

 Unheilige Engel, German for Unholy Angel, was my idea to easily use the different forms of [Corrosive Fire] without having to do the necessary heating and cooling to produce the different states. In addition, I also thought the idea of swamping my enemies in a bath of toxic purple water was a pretty boss-like move. Also, a bit heinous of me, to be fair.

 The obsidian tendrils I left my [Unheilige Engel] in quickly transformed into a thick, deathly-looking, violet liquid, before coating my whole tail in it. I somersaulted into the air, swinging my tail down simr to how Astalos did it. As you might expect, Astalos was able to react to it in time, having already moved away from me slightly with his wings pping. With how I was moving, I would not be able to hit him

 well, not fairly at least.

 Shine!

 One of my first spells; an intensely bright light suddenly erupted from the tip of my wing, blinding everybody in the area, which included my allies and Astalos. Only I, with my head hidden behind my body, wasn''t blinded by it.

 Astalos roared out, flinching and increasing the intensity of his lightning to improve [Electromaic Barrier]s effect. In for a penny, in for a pound! Small amounts of damage were irrelevant to me with all my healing and while Im under the sun.

 I was a sunfang dragon!

 When his green lightning began to sizzle my scales, I clenched my teeth and used [Wind st] to further increase the striking power of my tail sh. When I made contact, Astalos defenses could not withstand my attack.

 KRIAAAAAghhhh! He damaged my wing, I cut his off. Like a curtain to my attack, [Symphonie des Feuergottes] finally activated, sting a waterfall of mes onto me and Astalos. I managed to prevent it from flooding the whole area, endangering everybody else from Aurora, leaving only Astalos and myself to enjoy the inferno.

 [Symphonie des Feuergottes (Allegro)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 Sr Beam!

 Using [Detection Sensor], I sted a concentrated beam of sr energy at my enemy. Sadly, he somehow managed to dodge it and escaped from my ming waterfall. The scale-dust under my scales still exploded from [Sr Beam], putting me into my overdrive mode. The moment the inferno ended, however? What came into view was Astalos struggling to defend himself from the assault from my teammates.

 With Eines help, the garms had thrown a ck mana thread over him, enabling Saori to send streams of ck lightning to ravage Astaloss body. Ice des and beams of metal-piercing watermanded by Tasianna kept Astalos inside the, preventing him from getting out of it. Grimnir, using my halos effect of enchanting weapons with white fire, swung his hammer around, shooting sts of fire at Astalos like projectiles. I didnt even know that was possible!

 When I leered at him with nearly all my buffs activated, Astalos eyes turned blood red, channeling green lightning around his body under the constant barrage of attacks. As if he was mimicking me, his body went into its own version of overdrive, causing his scales to protrude like miniature lightning rods as a constraint stream of blue lightning had turned his emerald scales into aquamarine.

 A blue lightning de on his horn sliced the like a master chef, shredding it before Astalos freed himself and charged at me. mming his tail and only remaining wing on the ground, electric explosions destroyed the ground. Despite his higher starting Agility, I finally had [Symphonie des Feuergottes (Allegro)] active on me. At this point, our Agility was nearly equal. Dodging his attacks was still hard, but not impossible anymore.

 Krak!

 Kriiu! As Astalos swiped at me with his blue lightning de, Saori shot out another [Hadean Dragon Thunder], pushing him back before he sliced it up again. As if he was on a rampage, Astalos eyes made contact with Saoris and he charged towards her.

 Not on my watch!

 Using my tail, I mmed the blunt side of it at Astalos head, sending him reeling back. When he retaliated, he suddenly coughed out purple blood, leaving him open for another tail sh. This time, I wasnt able to cut off another of his limbs, but the toxic liquid coating my tail kept seeping into any wounds I caused him. When I saw him coughing more blood, I couldnt help but smirk that [Unheilige Engel] finally found its sting.

 Kriiiiiiiiiaaaaahhhh!!! Astalos roared before jumping into the air, somehow flying with only a single wing using [Tailwind]. When a single purple magic circle appeared on his head before disappearing and summoning a massive [Omnictus]-level spell, I gulped.

 [Purple sh] into [Ramuh]!

 I remembered the spell [Ramuh]. I wasnt sure at which level you received it, but I knew very well what destruction this spell could cause. When the grimgarians attacked us back when he was escorting us to Avitor Peaks, Astalos used this spell topletely vaporize a whole section of the Belzac forest in addition to all the goblins, kobolds, or orcs that attacked us.

 [Spread out!] There was no answer to this spell. [Omnictus] couldpete with [Ramah] in terms of power, but it only shot downwards, never up. The same applied with [Symphonie des Feuergottes]. Saoris [Hadean Dragon Thunder] was her strongest spell, but she was still restricted with moderate Intelligence, making it unable topete with stronger spells at this point.

 However, Saori had a different idea.

 [We cant let this chance go. Hes vulnerable in the air. Eine, Tasianna. You two move away with the garms. Grimnir, youe with me. Hestia, go up there and distract Astalos for me.]

 [Hey, are you trying to send me into a suicide mission?! I cant block that with a counterspell. Ill be sted away!] I responded, baffled at what Saori suggested.

 But that was when I remembered.

 I do have a way to counter that spell!

 Turning my head to the sky, I made my parallel minds focus on using [Tailwind] while I sted up in the air with my rocket boosters. As Astalos purple magic circle separated into three, lightning pirs appeared from them, sending streams of lightning into a single point, growingrger andrger in size. And when it shot at me, I used [Sacred Magic Lv. 7]s newest spell

 Gloria Ascendence!

 Gloria Ascendence

 A miracle of the Goddess of Light surrounds the caster in an imprable ball, defending them against mortal attacks. No attack may leave or enter through this heavenly shield. The ball turns any damage taken into Health, first healing the caster before buffing their Strength and Wisdom

 A divine barrier encapsted my body, shielding me from the devastating lightning st. All I could hear inside the stream was the thundering of a storm. Although [Gloria Ascendence] was defending me from [Ramuh], I was still being pushed back, forcing me to fully dial up my boosters just to push back against the spell. Still, I wasnt able to move an inch forward. In fact, Astalos spell was pushing me slowly back despite all the power I was putting into my flying.

 Seconds passed and I could hear the divine shield breaking, not cause it soaked up too much damage, but cause it was about to expire. The moment it broke, that was when [Ramuh] would devastate me. However, as if my prayers were answered, I could feel [Ramuh]s power waning. Timed perfectly, both my shield and therge-scale lightning spell ended together.

 [Gloria Ascendence] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 As I let out a sigh of worry, I turned my head around to locate Astalos, but the sky was empty. Confusion, then worry, then fear filled my chest and head as I frantically tried to locate Astalos using [Detection Sensor]. I looked down at the ground, only to find the trees under me werepletely gone. Only arge, scorched gash was there, devoid of any life.

 [I have fought for far longer than you, Princess.]

 And then in a split second, dread appeared.

 [I cannot y you, for I serve God Kargryxmor. Allow yourself some rest]

 While I was hovering in the sky, a blue sh appeared right underneath my chest. Instincts made me attempt to use [Dreadre Aura] but it was toote. This time, Astalos delivered his counterattack.

 How is he!!!

 [I apologize if this might hurt, but you are sturdy enough, I presume?]

 The lightning crackled. All channeled into a wing before it touched my chest. And this was when my world was rocked.

 KRRRRRRRRIAIAAHGAGAGHAHHAHHAHAHHA!!!

 [Nerve Paralyzation (Moderate)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 Proficiency requirement fulfilled. [Lightning Resistance Lv. 2] evolved into [Lightning Resistance Lv. 5]

 I cked out for a second. Everything went dark. In the next moment, the light came back into my eyes,but all I saw was a never-ending rotating world. I could not move my body. They did not respond.

 Was Astalos not there just a second ago? I thought, confused at what was happening.

 [Hestia!]

 Lass!

 My ears and mind registered voices but I could not make out who they belonged to. My brain hurt whenever I tried to think. My parallel minds werent responding. The only actual stimuli I could feel was the fact I crashnded on the ground, tumbling around on the ckened ground. When I came to a standstill, I saw my fingers twitching uncontrobly. Every time I tried to move them, they wouldnt.

 Umsleud! Araaghhh! Sounds came from the sky. Thankfully, I could still move my eyes.

 When I peered up, I saw something simr to arge frozen tform hovering up there. A man in crimson armor transformed his hammer-looking weapon into a shotgun, sting one half of a blue-glowing wyverns face scales off. As it roared in pain, arge shadowy wolf smacked it with an electric stomp, sending it crashing onto the ground, causing the ground to explode.

 [Hestia!] Another message came. I did not know who this telepathic message belonged to, but I knew I had to respond.

 [Worry about the wyvern.] Whatever was happening to my body, I could feel my white mes were healing me. It would take a while, but Ill get back on my feet eventually. The wolf in the sky nodded, swinging the freefalling man on its back before dashing back onto the ground.

 [Nerve Paralyzation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 Seconds felt like an eternity as I was trapped in this sleep-paralyzed state. When I could finally move myself, I crawled closer to all the sounds I was hearing using my head to drag me close. Wings, legs, and tail. I couldnt move them nor could I cast a spell. My brain was in so much constant pain, I just couldnt concentrate.

 Still, my brain wasnt the only thing hurting; my body alsoined. The twitching became milder but it wasnt stopping, especially around my chest area. I dont think my heart or lungs were damaged too much, but they were aching nonstop. That was when I realized, it wasnt my heart hurting, it was my sun core!

 Scheie! Did something damage my sun core?

 I hadnt noticed it until now, but both [Symphonie des Feuergottes] and [Sr Beam]s overdrive were deactivated. I could feel my sun core working on absorbing sun rays, but it was far slower than usual. I stopped moving for a second and looked down. Fortunately, there were no cracks on it, but it kept glowing and dimming the whole time for some reason.

 Right, [Unheilige Engel]. I can use the slimes as limbs.

 I could still feel some liquid around my tail, most likely it was the liquid form of [Unhelige Engel]. Forcing myself through the headache, I transformed the liquid into tworge sickles. I attached them around my wings and controlled them to drag my body forward. When I finally got myself out of the ckened area, I heaved a sigh when I saw grass and trees again.

 Dragoon Jump! Haarrrghh! I got its wing pinned!

 ddarg, you foolish girl! Dont attack like that! Get out of there, now!

 I followed the sounds echoing from the woods, peering into them to see the glow of blue and ck shing against each other. When I finally made it close enough, I saw the green grass scorched back from ck and blue lightning, the trees frozen from ice, the ground burning due to bombs, and a pack of four garms shooting out [Dark Bolt] with mana threads attached to them.

 In the middle of all of this, a blue glowing wyvern was struggling to fight against all of these threats. His scales were cracked, frozen, and burned. His face was torn openand bones were showing. The giant, shadowy wolf was pounding onto the wyvern with her electrified front legs while a dwarf rode on her and mmed his hammer at the wyverns head.

 As the damage umted, the wyvern puked out a bucket full of purple-colored blood bile, reminding me of what sorta toxin I made [Unheilige Engel] with. Mana path blocking, cell necrosis, and protein deconstruction. They were pretty much ideas I still had from all those discovery shows I watched, since snakes frequently appeared on episodes. Im still trying to replicate a nerve toxin, but to no sess.

 When I began remembering my rather mad scientist-like experiments with my toxins, my mind began to clear up, helping me to finally realize who the people were before me. I was able to fully identify Aurora fighting against Astalos.

 The white mes are back! Thess is still alive! Grimnir suddenly shouted as his hammer strike was blocked by Astaloss lightning st. He then swung his weapon in the air, shooting out a projectile of fire.

 Ahhh, the healing is back, too. Tasianna you dont need to focus on healing anymore! Eine, who was riding a garm, was ted as white mes began to heal her wounds.

 Telepathic messages also arrived. [Lady Hestia, I am so d you are alright! Please, forgive me, I wanted toe to your side, but Miss Saori insisted otherwise!] Tasianna sounded very worried. It made me really happy to hear her worry.

 [Hestia, you still do not look so good. Sit back. We just need you to y your music and keep your halo active. Sorry for putting you in a supportive position!] Saori didnt nce at me, fully focused on fighting Astalos. With the toxin affecting his body, it seems Saori was able to fully keep up with him.

 However, earlier in the fight I had thought I was able to keep up with him for a moment, before he suddenly disappeared from my sight and abruptly appeared before me to deliver a devastating attack. I was able to remember now. It was as if he teleported, then used his wing to electrocute me right at my sun core. I didnt fully understand my own anatomy yet, so I had no idea what he did to my core.

 When I was trying to remember what Astalos did, a purple magic circle materialized on his body. When his spell cast, purple lightning covered his body before he suddenly disappeared from everybodys sight.

 Oh no! What spell is that?!

 Looking at my [Detection Sensor], a single signal was dashing from one corner to the next without taking a break. It was most likely Astalos, but none of us could see him.

 I wanted to move, but my body still couldnt due to [Nerve Paralyzation], something my white mes were actively trying to heal. My parallel minds hade back when my mind became lucid again, and was actively trying to track down Astalos since [Major Heal] couldnt heal my current affliction.

 Sanctuary!

 Astalos admitted he wasnt here to kill me, but to drag me off somewhere. However, considering his personality and what the collective of Aurora has done to him, I didnt think he would let my friends live if he won this fight. My priority had to be to ovee my current predicament and protect them. I wasnt able to move, but I was a mage, so I could cast spells.

 [Sanctuary] surrounded everybody in a light barrier which allowed no threats froming in. I dont think the barrier could stop him, but it should be able to give everybody a warning before his attackes, hopefully. And, in the unlikely case he actually tried to drag me away without finishing the others, I was already ready to fucking explode with heat hot enough to fucking melt the bones of a B rank High Ogre.

 Seconds passed, everybody was readying themselves for an attack while my body still hadn''t recovered. Our [Detection Sensor] was acting erratically but it waspletely silent. More seconds passed. Even more seconds passed. My fingers stopped twitching and I could finally move and stretch them. More seconds passed and my muscles regained their strength, allowing me to slowly push myself up.

 Eventually, [Nerve Paralyzation] was finally gone and I struggled to stand up. For a moment, I wondered if Astalos just made a run for it, seeing at how dreadfully injured he was. It was false hope.

 Kang!

 [Sanctuary] broke and my head snapped up, only to see a blue sh crash into Saori. She was driven back by a significant margin, but she prevented herself from flying away using her [Dark Tendrils]. They wrapped themselves around her legs with the endsing from the shadows of the others.

 The one who pushed Saori back like that was none other than Astalos, who had his blue lightning horn stuck inside Saoris shoulder. She was holding him back with her forelegs and was using stygian voltage to damage him, but suddenly, he disappeared from our view again, before reappearing behind her.

 Channeling electricity around his wing once again, he struck Saori in a flurry, sending electric explosions to buffet her. I cast [Sacred Field] around her, betting on my white mes and the healing spell to keep her healthy while I was limping towards them for support.

 The [Dark Tendrils] around her feet dissipated and Saori was finallyunched towards me. I managed to catch her, confirming she was still alive but gravely injured from all the burns she received from Astaloss attack. When I healed her wounds, I noticed she also lost consciousness from that attack.

 Although I was still worried, I was more worried for the others. When I snapped my head up to see how the others were faring, I saw Tasianna, Eine, Grimnir, and the garms ring at a wheezing Astalos. That was when I noticed the state of his body: burned scales, some spots on his body that were stripped of scales entirely, and the stump left after I cut off his left wing had already undergone necrosis, rotting due to my toxin. Whatever spell he used to attack Saori and me with super speed, it apparently did his body no good.

 Regardless, his exhaustion did not mean he had given up on the fight, dashing forward to attack the others. Grimnir intervened, mming his hammer at him but missed. Astalos jumped over him, ignoring Grimnir to focus on Tasianna. Her ice golem began punching at the wyvern, with the support of her myriad ice des. I could see the very air slowly freezing as Tasianna was preparing another spell.

 It was easy to guess that the golem stood no chance, being sliced in two by the boltreavers blue thunder de. Tasianna managed to cast [Ice Ages Paradise] once again, freezing his body even further, to the point some of his scales broke offpletely. Thunder erupted from his body once again and he brute-forced himself out of the spell, escaping it only to be confronted by Eine.

 The catalysts on Eines rings activated, summoning massive [Bedrock des] and fast-moving [Tornado Bullets] to push Astalos back. She was keeping her distance, knowing she couldntnd a proper hit without anyone else supporting her. If she could push him back into Tasiannas spell, she would be able to contribute more.

 Kaboom!

 A concentrated st of mana exploded on the scarred right side of Astalos face, removing the remaining scales and skin. I looked to the side, learning Grimnir had shot the wyvern at the same spot once again. This attack sent Astalos reeling backward, right back into [Ice Ages Paradise]s field of effect. Thebination of ice des and freezing temperature cracked his pincer-like tail, breaking it.

 Kriiiiaaghhh! Astalos roared once again, sting himself out Tasiannas spell with [Wind st] to swing his tail at Eine. Eines Agility was still too slow for her to fully react to this attack, bearing the brunt of the attack and being sent flying at a tree.

 Krraaaa! I called out for Eine. I softly let Saoris body down and began to rush towards Eine, but my still weakened legs made it difficult.

 Ughhh arghhh! Thankfully, the armor Grimnir made for Eine protected her from the attack; however, it did not leave her unharmed. As she was stumbling to stand back up with white mes healing her, Astalos suddenly stood over her, lightning de formed on his head.

 Eine!

 Lass!

 Ruff!

 [H-Hey, stop! Eine!]

 Eh?

 Kriah!!!

 Tasianna had been sending her des at Astalos, the garms were materializing their magic circles, and Grimnir moved his short legs as fast as he could to save Eine. My parallel minds had already finished the materializing of my spells, and I was about to release them, but time was not on my side. Eines hand was trying to cast [Wind st] while her legs began to move, but

 Krak!

 Astalos was faster.

 Eiiiiinnnneee!!!

 Boom!

 An explosion, and my mind went nk. The only stimulus I could feel was an intense heat being ignited inside me like a volcano, bursting up with so much power I was sure I would explode. This inferno turned into anger, rage, wrath, or whatever you wanted to call it. I was angry, battle thirsty, and I wanted to kill something so badly every single fiber in my soul was urging me to do so.

 My hearing came back to me. Kriagh! I could hear the cries of pain from somebody apanied by a fiery slicing sound. Like a twister, the shing sounds just wouldnt stop, shing against something like electricity. Kriaaagaghhhhahhhhahh!!! When the screams reached their highest, something like an explosion happened.

 Light entered my eyes again and I could see the sky, with the clouds drawing closer and closer. Regardless, this sensationsted for less than a second, as the inferno rage inside me consumed my mind. I snapped my head down and activated another explosion. This time, it was my [Dreadre Aura]

 [I will fucking kill you! I will fucking kill you! I will FUCKING KILL YOU!]

 I coated my body in [Unheilige Engel]s liquid from the moment my scales exploded. Instead of crimson, my infernal aura was colored a deadly purple. Astalos roared in agony, tried to force me to release him by activating his electric barrier, but I did not care about my safety at this moment.

 With my ws, I dug them deeper into his body to keep him from escaping and bit his throat. As I could feel blood flowing into my mouth, I further intensified the power of my aura. Astaloss body was melting and corroding at the same pace, but the damage he was doing to me was inconsequential against my white me.

 My current skill set was made from four dragon types. My [Dreadre Aura] from the dreadme dragon, power ws and bites from the hellde dragon, white mes and a sun core to absorb sunlight from the sunfang dragon, and a noxious toxin from the obsidian de dragon. With these powers, I was fully, 100%mitted to killing Astalos.

 I could feel the air sting past me as I felt like a rocket flying in the air like an airne. The heat was bing unbearable even for me, but as long as my sun core was above 0% energy, I could not [Overheat].

 [I-I salute you for a magnificent battle]

 [SHUT UP!]

 [Dragon Princess Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor. Only in a few months, your growth has transcended mine. In a single year, you have be stronger than me. I bow my tail in the power of your bloodline, marveling the power of a true dragon.]

 [SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!] I did not want to hear anything Astalos was saying. I was too angry, I wanted to do nothing else but to kill Astalos. I wanted it so bad, I could feel my jaw crunching his windpipe.

 [It was an honor to fight you. May my life essence be your strength. May my death serve God Kargryxmor even as my soul reaches Goddess Ilsaphone. I]

 Die.

 I turned my body towards the ground, and released all the scale-dust I had left in my scales and shot the both of us down. With an explosion simr to a missile''s impact, our crashnd rocked the very earth, turning the surrounding flora and fauna intoplete devastation.

 Only I was left standing upon the grave of the [Boltreaver Dragon].

 Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor] has risen from [Level 8] to [Level 15]

 Attributes have increased due to level up

 Acquired 4850 skill points

 Multiple proficiency requirements fulfilled. [Dreadme Dragon Lv. 4] [Hellde Dragon Lv. 3] [Sr Core Lv. 3] [White mes Lv. 3] [Corrosive Fire Lv. 3] [Stage Fever Lv. 5] [Draconic Aura Lv. 3] [Royal Presence Lv. 3] [Battle Mind Lv. 10] gained

 Skill requirement fulfilled. [Battle Mind Lv. 10] evolved into [Tranquil Mind Lv. 1]

 [Humanized (Moderate)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

 All the anger dissipated the moment these messages entered my head, and I just felt empty. My mind wandered back to what happened back then. Astalos channeled a de of thunder, using it to strike at Eine who was trying to flee. At that moment, all Eine could do was look at the descending de, all while the rest of Aurora was helpless to prevent it from reaching her.

 E-Eine.

 I dropped to my knees, memories of my days with Eine came back as shbacks. About our first meeting, about how rude I was to her after the dinner party, about how I lived with her in Firwood, when she joined Aurora, and when I fought side-by-side with her. Our chill interactions together were my fondest memories, and how could I forget about the fact I wrote an entire song just for her.

 Memories. Her songs name was to remind her of the time she spent with me but

 I could feel tears running down my face. My mouth twitched. I huped. My legs felt the dropping teardrops. I lost

 Aurena?

 Lass!

 Grimnir?

 With my emotions still in turmoil, Grimnir suddenly came running at me while riding on Uno. Without letting me ask what he wanted, he grabbed my shoulder effortlessly and threw me, in my winged moderate form, onto Unos back, carrying me like a sack of potatoes. In my confusion, I could not but yelp, all while Uno ran like the wind.

 W-Wha?!

 Shut up! Eine is alive!

 Huh?!

 I was astounded, almost in disbelief. I knew what I saw. T-That cant be! I saw Astalos sh at her. Even with your armor, there was no way she could survive an attack able to pierce Saoris or my body!

 Shut up! ddarg,ss! Shes alive like I said, drill that in your head! We aint got the time to chatter, get your wings ready and fly to her. Something is happening with her body. It feels demonic! When Grimnir said thosest words, I jumped off from Unos back and tried to activate my rocket boosters, however, the amount of scale-dust I had left was not enough.

 Fuck! Wind st! Tailwind! No rest now, parallel minds!

 I once again brute-forced my flying, shooting through the woods towards a group of signals. When I finally arrived at the location, I saw Saori still unconscious on the ground with the other three garms surrounding her. Tasianna, on the other hand, was seemingly fighting something!

 What the fuck?!

 A wing made from a ribcage, ws as long as daggers, bones protruding from flesh, and tentacles wiggling around as if they are a mind of their own. But the most unsightly parts were the eyes. Two eyes were moving in the gems of two rings while the others were living inside the bleeding arm of a young girl. All of this was happening on the body of this very girl: Eine.

 Eeeeek! Arrghhhhh!!! Desperate calls of agony came from Eines mouth. Her right hand was clutching her left shoulder. The armor on her left arm was broken and those eldritch-like things wereing from there.

 Hestia, listen to me. You need to bring Eine directly to my altar in Griffonpeak at once. If you wish to save this girl, then you cannot dawdle any longer!

 Aurena?! Aurenas voice came back again, but she was not letting me respond just yet.

 Demon of Lust. That is the wretch Elder Marsven trapped in the orb. A species from my homeworld, which is able to regenerate its form if all its cells arent destroyed at once. Eine is not affected just yet, however, you must use [Shine] right now to push back the infection. If you do not, then

 I ignored the rest of the method and dashed forward into action.

 Tasianna, close Eines eyes! Tasianna looked at me in bafflement but she nodded immediately and did what I ordered. Song, make sure none of you or Saori open your eyes. Understood! Tasianna close your eyes, too!

 Ten parallel minds and my own.

 Shine!

 Eleven simultaneous casts of [Shine] created a blinding re. It was so bright, I thought my eyes were being burned despite having them closed. Fortunately, what Aurena said was working. Eines cries were bing milder and milder while I could hear something breaking apart like y.

 When Eine stopped screaming, I stopped my cast and opened my eyes, only to see Eines bleeding arm, devoid of all the eldritch features. I quickly healed her up, happy to hear her strained breathing. Eines left arm was sadly now covered in a lightning scar, but that was a small price to pay for her survival. When I asked Tasianna how she survived, I couldnt believe what she said.

 My Lady, when you began attacking Astalos with your tail, the dust settled and I saw that huge bone wing, which protected Eine. When you left us, I tried to treat her wound with [Ocean Healing], but those grotesque things grew out of her arm. I sent Mister Grimnir after you, as I couldnte close enough to heal Eine.

 Bone wing?!

 If I hadnt seen it for myself, I wouldnt have believed her. While I was feeling baffled, Aurena began speaking again.

 Hestia, I know youre happy enough to cry now that you know your friend is alive, but this isnt over yet. Elder Marsven has given me enough information on the issue. You must hurry and bring me that ck orb. I must destroy it and finish the job, which will also allow me to remove the demons mana trapped inside Eines spell rings.

 Ring? Oh!

 I remembered. During the fight against Keith, the rebellion orb he used to cause the dungeon break of the rachonoid queen caused the dark orb inside my storage to activate. The demon, one of the enemies of the origin gods, managed to break through the seal, even if it was only an arm. I managed to destroy it, but it did touch Eines left arm after destroying her newly acquired shield.

 Aurena told me not to let the demon touch me, so was the same thing happening to Eine?

 I told you already. Eine is not infected. The demon cannot take over a Peolyncian whose soul isplete. You are endangered due to your fractured soul, but the being inside the spell rings isnt the demon. Enough talk, bring her to Griffonpeak already! Hurry!

 It was decided. When Grimnir arrived, I informed both Tasianna and Grimnir about my n before carrying the unconscious Eine in a princess carry.

 Got it,ss. Well handle the rest. You get the girl to Aurena immediately, Grimnir nodded.

 We will take care of the wagon and Saori, Lady Hestia. You have my word! I still have everything needed to enter the noble district and House Helvas mansion in Griffonpeak. Let us rendezvous there.

 It was decided. I morphed my [Unhelige Engel] into a hand and used it to pull out food from my storage. My sun core was still having trouble absorbing sr energy, so I had to supplement my Stamina and scale-dust regeneration through food. As I sted off into the air, I had my [Unheilige Engel] feed me as I directed myself towards Griffonpeaks temple.

 Goddess Aurena, I just wanted to

 We may talk about everything when we meet face-to-face. Focus. I shall grant you the knowledge of Griffonpeaks location, so do you best to fly.

 Yes!

 Hang on, Eine!

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Chapter 193: Boltreaver’s Revenge.