My red energy swirled into drill shapes for a quick moment before I sent them surging toward the Blue Dragon.


    Wham! Wham!


    Strangely, although the Blue Dragon had not assimted with the experimental mecha core yet, its resistance against my red energy was surprisingly high!


    "What the hell, its so strong!" I gasped as my red energy drills failed to break the Blue Dragon down in one attack. However, I could sense that it couldn''t stop my red energy entirely. It was barely holding itself together.


    "One smallponent at a time then." I thought to myself determinedly and redirected my red energy to start attacking its vital biomechponents.


    Poof! Poof! Poof!


    Bits and pieces of the Blue Dragon started to break down from everywhere.


    GRAAAHHHHH!!!


    It gave a roar of defiance and spun its fearsome head to re at me.


    However, I was quite far away from it, and safely out of the range of its Dragon Breath.


    It whipped its massive wing-like fins around itself in a defensive act and started to focus entirely on speeding up the assimtion process with Clone.


    If it somehow seeded in assimting itself with Clone, I was screwed.


    Fighting against a trio of highly skilled horseys was already a nightmare.


    I would definitely not be able to deal with a bunch of Blue Dragon clones.


    At that moment, it was a race.


    Either I kill the dragon first, and im everything, or the dragon assimte with the experimental mecha core first and gainplete immunity against me.


    "Go for its brain." The Ancestor ordered.


    "Go!" I whispered as I released my thousandser rifles and white mecha form, and manifested the barest minimum to resist the crushing water pressure, to give my red energy the maximum amount of strength I could muster.


    At the same time, I did as the Ancestor ordered and sent my red energy to attack the biomechponents that were in charge of its brain.


    I did not go for theponents near the experimental mecha core because the Darkblood Energy surrounding it made my red energy extremely sluggish.


    Wham! Wham! Wham!!


    I sent my red energy drills smashing against the Blue Dragon''s head again and again and again.


    Grahhhhh.


    The Blue Dragon couldn''t help but give out a groan of pain!


    Poof! Poof! Poof!


    The headponents of its biomech enhancement started to fall apart bit by bit.


    But I could also sense that the assimtion process was about to bepleted!!


    And judging by the rate of progress, the assimtion process would finish first!!


    "We won''t make it." I thought aloud with a sinking feeling spreading in my heart.


    It was at that moment that the Ancestor revealed his trump card.<novelnext></novelnext>


    "Get closer, and release me in an exosuit." The Ancestor said.


    I did not hesitate and immediately did as he said.


    A few long secondster, the small figure of the Ancestor''s exosuitnded on the back of Blue Dragon''s head which was still sticking out of the wing-like fins covering the rest of its body.


    At the same time, I could sense that the Blue Dragon''s assimtion process with the experimental core was right on the cusp ofpletion!


    "Whatever you n to do, do it now!" I shouted at the Ancestor. "It will be done any time now!"


    After the words left my mouth, a bright light erupted from within the Blue Dragon!


    Darkblood Energy coursed throughout its body and instantly healed every single wound that I had managed to cause.


    Even the hard won damages I had inflicted on its head started to heal!!


    "Damn it! Ancestor! Come back!!" I shouted in horror.


    The Blue Dragon had fused with the experimental mecha core!! It waspletely immune to my red energy! And by the Gods, physically it waspletely way out of my league.


    "If I don''t escape now, it might be toote for me." My mind screamed out with a stunning realization that sent a deep chill running down my spine.


    But if I left him then, the exosuit around him would probablyst a minute at the very most before dispersing. Even if the Blue Dragon did not kill him, the water pressure would.


    "Screw it! Let me make onest attempt to save the Ancestor, and the get the freaking hell out of here!!" I thought to myself as I manifested the strongest exosuit I could muster and dived after that damned old man.


    GRRRRRRRRTAKTAKTAKTAKTAKTAKTAK!!!!!


    An ominous sound rang out from within the Blue Dragon''s body.


    Whoosh!!


    I fired all my thrusters and quickly reached the spot where Ist saw the Ancestor.


    "Ancestor!! Get your f*cking fat ass over here!! The Blue Dragon is about to go ballistic!!" I roared with all my strength.


    But strangely for some reason, both the Ancestor and the Blue Dragon remained silent.


    After a few seconds, I realized with a deep sense of relief that the Blue Dragon won''t be making a move anytime soon. Its heartbeat had slowed down from ten beats per second to almost one beat every five seconds!


    It had somehow fallen into a dormant state.


    "What the hell is happening here?" I shouted at the damned old man.


    But for a few seconds, only silence greeted me.


    That damned old man had gone MIA on me!


    "Big bro! The Ancestor is missing!" I shouted into my inte.


    "The Ancestor? Let him do whatever he wants! He''ll be fine! Have you killed that damned head of the damned snake? Hurry the hell up!" My big bro roared at me as soon as he heard my voice.


    "A Blue Dragon ate the head of the snake!" I shouted back at him. "The Ancestor approached the Blue Dragon earlier and went missing!"


    Annoyingly, after I said that, I was greeted with silence from my big bro as well!


    "Hello? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? WHY IS EVERYBODY NOT SAYING ANYTHING!" I shouted at them both.