Chapter 316: Dance of de and Magic.
<strong>[Humanize (Minor)] [Various Spell Buffs] [Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Allegro)] [Music Resonation (Moderate)] [Stage Fever (Major)] </strong>inflicted on <strong>[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]</strong>
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Dungeons. No matter if their floors had a bright sky or could show the outer world, if they didnt have a way to fully simte a sun and its sr rays, then my sr core couldnt recharge while I was within it. And that was exactly the case with the Dungeon of Yeostar.
And seeing as I had to fight against 231 contestants and make it as one of the top eight, then it meant I needed to be conservative with my resources. This was a marathon, not a sprint. With those twelve, potentially strong targets in mind, I decided I couldnt expend too much of my Stamina or Mana. Especially since one of the rules of the match also included being unable to use outside consumables, like my dragorade.
And there was another problem I had to face in this whole situation; Mother and the others exined to Fargryneill and me about how the audience watched the matches. You had something like a birds eye or even an over-the-shoulder view, like in a third-person video game, of the differentbatants. The more kills you umted, the bigger this screen would be.
Which meant, I couldnt be at zero kills! I was an idol and my job was to gain fans to reach the next [The Light] milestone. No idea if this would work, since I was in my dragonewt form and a girl, things the Principality of Yeos didnt like at all, but I had to try to do something. And, from how I gained 32 fans from my n, it seemed to have worked, well, only for the beastmen, I guess. Solidarity and camaraderie in race.
So, how did I do all of this, especially since I had to make sure not to kill anybody? AFK tower defense was the idea. [Levin Core] and [Cyclone Madness] were both pretty nice spells, but didnt deal bombastic burst damage as I liked with my offensive spells and attacks. They dealt the damage over time, through lightning sts and sharp winds.
With how my stats, even in my moderate dragonewt form, were far superior to D and some C adventurers, I could easily kill them with a single punch. I normally was able to control my strength hold back my punches except for yesterday, when I let my tempere out. That was my bad. Even if it was a sanctioned fight, it was still murder. I didnt want to sugarcoat it, even if those two lowlives intended to do some rather nasty stuff to me if I were a normal person.
So, I strived to not identally cause another death today. With these two spells, I created a barrier around the forest and, whenbined with the [Taunt] ability, I could persuade people toe into it, making some easy kills while climbing the leaderboard and allowing myself to be more well-known by the people of Elyonda.
Really smart of me to take the [Taunter] Job before entering today, if I could praise myself.
I was conserving some Mana through this n, but I still ended up using about 25% of my max Mana pool after all of that. It dropped down to 65% after I had to [Purple sh] a [Symphonie des Feuergottes] just now.
This was a necessary measure, as I didnt expect to find somebody with a higher level than Yorshka in this tournament, especially not this early. King Drangleic and his dukes had told me the Folschreck Empires royal knights were strong, but never would I have expected one of them to be over level 140.
And he was even an ex member, too.
<em>Wind st. Dragoon Dive!</em>
Using [Air Step], I stomped forwards on the very air as the wind from behind sted me forward like a rocket. With my ive held before me, aiming at the former knight standing before me, I nned tond a decisive blow to him, hopefully crippling him enough to end this battle fast. Unfortunately, I was a bit too naive, thinking this would be that easy.
With perfect timing, he moved his sword slightly up and used the tip to redirect my blow to his left, before jumping to his right to avoid the shockwave.
<em>What?! </em>I might not have used my rocket boosters there, but my speed was still too fast for most people to dodge, never mind redirect it! This guy, Larent Antonodius, just did it wlessly and even shifted himself into the perfect position to counterattack.
<em>Spark Crescent.</em>
While I was still recovering my bnce and weapon, Larent charged forward with a stab, but thankfully [Dragon Fire]s automatic me attacks activated and stopped his assault. I then stepped back, using my self-made ive ability by shing upwards with my weapon and tail, creating two me crescents.
Larent parried both hits, sadly, but it gave me to the chance to leech some Mana and Stamina from him using my weapons [Passive Rune: Mana Drain] and [Passive Rune: Stamina Beast]. Small amounts, but much needed.
To prevent him from attacking again, Iunched my [Unheilige Engel] at him in the form of obsidian spears, giving me enough time to open the face on my [Panzer] helmet and release a stream of [Hellme Breath]. This was something he couldnt parry, so he decided to dodge it and use his position to nk me.
He [Gale Step]ed back into close quarters, exactly where he wanted to be against me, andunched a flurry of attacks. I couldnt see a way to break through this with conventional means. Even after training with Yorshka and having fought decent swordsmen like Farron and Charleslyt, I couldnt detect a single opening to counterattack.
In fact, he even found a way through my defense!
<em>Shit! </em>I cursed in my head when he slipped through my ive and sliced at my stomach. I moved my scales just in time to defend myself, but it was still too close forfort.
I was forced to release my [Dreadre Aura], mming him against a tree from the heat st. Cold sweat ran down my spine as I touched my belly area, picking up some of the shattered scales used to defend me. His sword sh even broke through the [Draconic Barrier] I ced on them.
Like peeling a cepillium, he stated,paring me to a Peolynca onion while dusting off the dirt on his carapace armor. The more I move, the more you will have to reveal your abilities, mydy.
Uhmm I groaned a bit.
He was right. How much could I hide my arsenal while fighting against this guy? I wanted to hold back as much as I could until the finals or when I fought Fargryneill, but from the look of it, that seemed impossible now.
The announcer suddenly spoke up, broadcasting that about 30 people were still on the battlefield, so I was nowhere close to winning yet. Up until now, he had only beenmentating about our fight to the crowd and I could see the crowd cheering hard. I hadn''t known how many people were left until just this moment.
Look at this, everybody! A short respite before the battle continues. What a fierce early skirmish, and Sir Larent cannot even rest for a moment! The me arena Hestia created keeps peppering him with random fire waves! I kept an ear open for the announcer''smentry while focusing my eyes on Larent as he dodged around the periodic me attacks from [Dragon Fire].
The spell song increased all fire and dragon type damage I did on Larent, but if I couldnt hit him, it was practically useless. I currently had [Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Allegro)], my second fastest phase before the finale movement. I had even transformed back into my minor form, which only reduced my total stats to two-thirds of my full dragon abilities, but I was still not fast enough.
This battle might still be in its early phase, but I could already tell the difference between us. It felt like fighting Yorska, only I was used to her fighting style and skills. I didnt know what Larents profile looked like since I was doing this duel fairly. I was really tempted to use [Mana Eyes] on him, but it really felt like cheating. He was a knight; a former one, yes, but I didnt think he would take it kindly if I appraised him now.
<em>Not exactly someone I would like to anger.</em>
Larent was keeping his head facing towards me, despite dodging around. I couldnt tell from his facial expression, but I really wondered why he wasnt attacking me. Was he giving me a chance to figure out a battle n, or what?
From our meeting in Estralia, he knew I was a dragon, so he probably understood I had used [Humanize] to transform into my minor form to kinda even our difference in levels and fighting experience. I hid my transformation with a fire waterfall and my form now with a bulky [Panzer] armor from the crowd, but this middle-aged guy knew. He wanted me to show more of my abilities.
<em>Guess I cant hold back at all. Cant show Im a dragon, but doing this properly should be good enough! I need to win!</em>
From the looks of it, I was almost convinced this guy would be in the finals. He certainly had ast boss feeling around him with howpetent he was, so if he was the strongest foe I had to face in this tournament, then showing everybody what I could do wouldnt hurt too much if I kicked this guy out of the arena now!
<em>Release.</em>
My [Dreadre Aura] burst forth again, however, unlike before, I was maintaining the heatwave, pushing Larent back from the sheer temperature. My sun core kicked in, beginning to maintain my body temperature.
I apologized to the forest, for I once again set another wood ame. The ground began to melt, the trees caught on fire, and the very air felt like it could burn your lungs. Anything inside my aura was just fuel for my purple mes growing everywhere, reducing everything into a thick, semi-solid, semi-liquid form va.
For a human, this was slowly turning inhospitable. But, for a fire dragon? It was starting to feel like home.
One thing Mother taught me when I was making the Obsidian Orchestra, my dragonir, was that I should never try to fight an experienced elemental dragonkin within their home. Home advantage was pretty devastating when they could even control the very elemental mana they cultivated inside theirir.
As such, a truly strong dragon could change the very nature of the area they fought in by releasing their aura with their mana. After all, mana was the fundamental pir of this world, and with it, you could even change the verynd.
And this technique Mother taught me during the creation of my den? It was called: Mana Release.
<em>Volcanic ze! Magmakammer! (Magma Chamber)</em>
Mana Release activated. Aura used as control unit: [Dreadme Dragon Lv. 5]. Wrong control unit used. Semi-perfect Territory established
<em>Semi-perfect? Aww, guess this is my first real try Verdammt, I should have used [Draconic Aura]!</em>
S-She burned down three farnd worth of trees! Its all gone! The announcers voice quivered in astonishment. I-It all melted down intova! A-And, is that obsidian?
Any hint of a forest was gone forever, as my me aura reduced everything it touched into ash. Thend was now bursting with seams ofva rivers and obsidian ground, crackling and bursting like the inside of a natural volcano.
This was not all I could do with my [Volcanic ze] training. I was avamancer now!
Kraaagh! I stomped the ground, spreading my mana through it to have it explode. Lava flew up,unching me into the air as I controlled the molten rock to follow me like water.
I snapped my head around as I noticed Larents ash-covered figure dispelling his [Auracoil]. Towering over him while standing on this stream of levitatingva, I stomped on it once again,unching the pyrostic flow towards him before I activated my wings rocket boosters.
Mhmm! A Territory? Hmph! It is the least I should expect from someone like you, mydy! Nevertheless, I shall slice through your heat!
And just as he announced it, Larent sliced right through theva, but with all my buffs and the rocket boosters, I caught him right when he was recovering his swing. He blocked my ive strike in an awkward position, causing him to be unbnced. I then hooked his de with my ive and kicked him away. But instead of disarming him, his grip power led me to lose my weapon momentarily.
Still, I didnt falter. I maneuvered around him with my rocket booster as my parallel minds began preparing spells. Now behind him, I shed at him with my tail, using [Hellde Edge] to keep him on his toes before digging my ws into the ground and hurling a boulder-sizedva ball.
He threw away my ive before shing the ball into pieces, only for my remote controlled ive to shoot scale-dust bullets at him to draw his attention away as I changed not only the spell song but also activated two of my buffing spells.
Is this the fated battle, the light shines
Its blinding my sight
But Ive gotta hold on, the stage calls
The cries of a thousand, the mes of war will descend
The carnage of the zing sun
Blood rain from swords and ws
The strive to pierce the sky
The light that beckons you forth
The me arena disappeared, changing into a more peppy song fighting a high-action battle scene between the protagonist and the wall standing before her. If I couldnt hit him, then I would y into the endurance match with [The Will to Fight and Survive] for an endless amount of Stamina!
<em>Halo of Consecration! Prayer!</em>
<strong>[Prayer (Major)] </strong>inflicted on <strong>[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]</strong>
H-Holy magic! [Prayer]! Warm light basked me as the announcer and the crowd exploded into an uproar as I finally revealed another piece of my arsenel. The icing on the cake was the white ming halo above my head.
<strong>[Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Adagio)] </strong>inflicted on <strong>[Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]</strong>
<em>Shit!</em> I cursed, feeling my Agility disappearing with the allegro movement. At least now, if I somehow managed to hit him, I could deal more damage with adagio boosting my firepower.
Not letting it demotivate me for long, I flew right back towards him, wielding my ive as we shed our weapons once again. However, unlike Larent, I was also shooting him with lighting and storm spells or reorganizing the battlefield with either [Bedrock des] or [Rumbling Might].
<em>Banishment Beam!</em>
Rays of light shot forward only to be sliced apart by his sword, making me start to understand there was something special with his strikes. Every sh could cleave through my spells with ease. This wasnt just his skill with the sword, his sword had to be enchanted also, even if it didnt have any runes.
<em>Levin Core!</em>
I produced a ball of thunder whilst meeting him head-on again. It was like a dance, honestly. His beautiful swordsmanship was defending well against my destructive battlemage style; it would be a sight to behold if I wasnt on the other end of this match. I had to hand it to him, outside of being cooked alive by the ground and air, he was handling this battle pretty well.
Crimson, white, and purple mes began to consume his body, and he couldnt do anything about it as he had to defend against my other spells and attacks. Slowly but clearly, I was doing something as his movements started to slow down while mine continued on strong. With even theva under my control, I was making sure he was resisting even against mother nature herself!
But, if I were to give this fight my all, then I still had a few more things to show this knight.
[Now!]
Kashoo!
Urk! Larent groaned as his sword arm suddenly stopped moving from being entangled by tendrils of dark. He was too focused on me that he forgot I had apanion!
[Fighting against a tamer means fighting against a number disadvantage!]
What?!
[Master, now!] It was Rajah. My virigress was hidden inside my shadow all this time, awaiting for mymand to strike when I needed him to.
<em>Attack!</em>
Lava burst from the ground, forming into hands as they grabbed Larents legs while I shot my scales out to wrap them around his arms to prevent him from reacting to me kicking his chest. It unbnced him, giving me the chance to activate my rocket boosters.
<em>Spark Crescent!</em>
With crimson infernos cloaking my ive and tail, I twirled my body around,nding a deep cut into his chest armor before using the heavy momentum to shoot out a two-handed cut with my ive right against his head, causing something to crack before sending him up into the sky.
I activated my boosters again and sted off, tackling him as I readied myself to m him into the ground like aet. The velocity of our flight sped up more and more and when it reached the limit I wanted, I flew right down towards the ground. I was sure, this would defeat this guy, or just outright cripple him at the very least. He should be strong enough to survive it and I could always heal him upter on.
At this point, I knew I could win
but.
Urgk! Krah!
At the veryst moment, he punched my throat, breaking through my armor in the process and causing me to gasp for air. He grabbed onto me and threw my flight off-bnced, causing the attack to fail dramatically as I was the one tond directly onto the ground instead of him.
As per usual, myet strikes always left behind a massive me explosion and a crater, although due to the imperfect attack, everything was smaller than usual. Thanks to Shiternos blessing, I didnt receive any damage from the attack since I was immune to my own fire attacks.
Thending itself did hurt a bit, but I used [Volcanic ze] at thest moment to just move theva into a cusion, submerging myself in it. Using the magma to move me, I swam up to the surface before my white mes healed my throat and repaired my armor.
<em>Haaaaa, huh, haaaaaaa!</em> Bated breaths, no, it sounded more like someone was trying to breathe after running a marathon.
I turned around to the sound, noticing Larent standing up, helmetless. I looked down to his feet, noticing his boots had broken apart, probably from my ive attack, before staring back at his face, coveredpletely in sweat.
<em>Hes overheating!</em>
<em>Haaaa, haaaa!</em> Realizing he was being cooked alive, he tore off his damaged chest te, throwing it onto theva floor where it began to dissolve like his helmet. My tail attack left a deep dent and gash in it, so it might have been hard to breathe with it on.
Incredible! He said after a few seconds of breathing, before reaching his arm out, activating the rune on his gauntlet, retrieving his sword as if he was a telepath. He wiped the sweat on his brows and beard away before smiling at me fiercely. I am still not strong enough to destroy a Territory with my strength alone, hahahohoho. Let us continue, Lady Hestia!
<em> This battle junkie.</em>
He actually survived all those hits without a problem. I couldnt even see any blood on his head after I hit him with my ive. How sturdy, or, what sorta trick did he use to shield himself like that?
You have granted me immense courtesy by showing off your abilities. Now, I must do the same. With a deep breath, he lowered his stance, tightly gripping his sword horizontally. Now, allow me to show you how I managed to earn my spot as a Hand of Heaven. Now you face Auegors de!
A chill ran down my spine once again as I felt immense pressureing from him, not through his [Terror Aura] or something, but it felt like his mana was trying to choke me out. I activated [Mana Eyes] and was forced instantly to squint as I showed his mana umting around his de, giving it an extremely thin and razor-sharp edge.
When I deactivated the skill, I couldn''t see it anymore. Pure mana, the mana flowing in the air and everywhere was usually invisible without a proper skill or tool to look at it. However, unlike Fargryneills version of umting pure mana, Larent was using the mana inside his body, instead of his surroundings.
First Form:
<em>Verdammt! Here ites!</em>
Strik!
His sword immediately began to glimmer blue, revealing therge mana de it created. But, for some reason, my [Foresight] and [Danger Perception] didnt activate in Larents direction. It told me to dodge what wasing from behind me.
[Master! Turn around!]
<em>Huh?</em>
Rajahs [Dark Tendril] shot from my shadow, tugging me to the side where I saw what he wanted me to see. A cowled person with a mask, arcing their arm around as they aimed their dagger at my head. Where did theye from!?
e!
But before they could hit me, the air rumbled as a blue de descended down in between us, cleaving the ground and shooting out a humongous ethereal de. It sted me away from the wind pressure alone,unching me about 200 yards or so away. Midair, I managed to catch the view of the person wielding that attack Larent.
And as I was rolling on the ground, I heard an ear-throbbing explosion in the distance. When I looked at it, I saw the mana rupturing arge portion of the battlefield. The explosion was sorge, it would have probably been big enough to consume three copies of me.
<em>Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!</em>
I gulped. I wasnt so sure how topare it, but the st probably was smaller than what I could produce with [Sr re]. It definitely seemed weaker than the attack I did on that demonkin during the Griffonpeak attack, but it wasnt like I wanted to get caught by it either. If I were hit by that thing, I would have probably been kicked out of the match before I could heal myself.
<em>Eye for an eye, huh? I guess I almost did the same to him with myet dive.</em>
Trembling a bit from his attack, my curiosity took hold of me as I flew back, wanting to know what exactly happened there. The moment I came close enough to hear his voice, I heard him shout, Rat! How dare you interrupt our duel, assassin!
As the dust around him settled, I saw that same cowled person from before rearing his head around, showing off the skull mask he was using to cover his face. His whole attire waspletely ck, looking sleek and tactical like what a covert operative would wear.
A wicked, hook knife was in their right hand and a swordbreaker was in their other. From what happened before, it seemed like they timed their sneak attack right as Larent was about tounch his attack, almost as if they were trying to take me down with a suicide run. I couldnt detect them, not even in thest moment when theyunched their attack. If werent it for Rajah pulling me away in thest second, helping me dodge their attack
This was, without a doubt, one of the twelve. But even worse? I couldnt even feel their presence at this very moment. It was like they were air, a ghost.
How long have you been watching our match? Larent asked and I wanted to ask the same. It seemed he also only noticed the cowled man when they were about to attack me.
This was probably the reason why his attack just missed like that. Larent was too skilled to miss an attack while I was standing still like that, so he most likely redirected it to hit the assassin. Only, thetter seemed to have to dodge it.
No answer? Larents irritated voice was clear to hear through thementary of the announcer, which I had drivenpletely out of my mind, too focus on anything else but the two people before me. Mydy, I call for a ceasefire. I do not take kindly to lurking rats like them.
Larent readied his sword and I did the same with my ive. I had no reason to decline. I could not only get rid of another contender, but I also felt extremely uneasy around this guy. That attack he did had no killing or malicious intent at all, but for some reason, my instincts and my skills told me if that had connected, I would have regretted more than just losing a tournament.
Ooooh, Auegors de and Crimson Scaled are teaming up! Ahh, what a death wish! Interfering in an honorable duel like that is like asking for an execution! the announcermentated and we did just that.
We readied our weapons as we eyed the cowled person, only for them to suddenly point at something behind them. And that something was the lone castle in the middle of the battlefield, suddenly letting out ck smoke as it slowly turned in our direction.
<em>What?!</em>
Oh, but we have to turn away, blood enjoyers! There is something I cannot believe is happening right now! Castle Fatalisa is moving, and alllllll Yeosians know what this means! The dragonator! The crowd erupted in cheer. Who was it? Who is controlling this beast? Oh, the ingenuity, the resourcefulness! The Acid Killers brothers were the ones to unlock the secret of this mighty weapon! Wait? What?
<em>What?! Why didnt you tell me this earlier?!</em>
<em>What?! Why did you allow such a thing to be useable for a match! What rubbish is this about fair match and so one when someone can kick you out with a an instant one-hit-kill?!</em>
In other words, this numbskull of a god decided to add something that could break the bnce of a match purely cause he thought it was cool?!
<em>Idiot! Fuck! </em>I identally cursed a god before rocket boosting myself towards Larent, grabbing hi torso before creating a ball made from scales around us.
Mydy?! He was bbergasted, but I could exin everything after we escaped the morbid-looking giant cannon appearing out of the castles walls. The ck glow growing inside the barrel was causing my chest to tighten up.
[Volcanic ze!] And I dived right into theva with Larent as the sound of death shook the entire dungeon
Territory deactivated
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