Brawling with a Giant Dragon

Artoria raised her holy sword and gauntlet before her as the intense impact, violent airflow, and high temperatures crashed into her. In an instant, mana condensed around her body as though it had substance.

Seraphina behind her let out a miserable cry. Even though Artoria had blocked most of the aftershock, the terrifying blast still ruptured her eardrums and violently shook her brain.

Scalding steam filled the area, currents flickered through the air, and crackling sounds rang out everywhere.

Etoris had completely lost consciousness. Seraphina clutched her head in agony, utterly unable to keep her balance.

And these were the only two people on the battlefield who still retained vital signs.

Whoosh!

Artoria slashed downward, stirring up a powerful gust that immediately dispersed the scorching steam around them, revealing the figures of the two within the smoke.

No, strictly speaking, it was one person and one dragon.

Large patches of the silver-haired woman’s white robes had been charred black. Her chest and waist were torn open, exposing silver-white scales beneath. She raised her right foot, which had completely transformed into a massive dragon claw, seemingly intending to tear Mercenary Tao apart.

Yet Mercenary Tao stood where he was with his arms folded. He merely raised his left foot and stepped upon that enormous dragon claw, suppressing the living dragon beneath it.

This was a true member of the Dragon Clan!

Artoria touched her chest with her left hand. There, the heart of a red dragon was also beating. Though it had been created through magecraft as a concept, it had indeed been made to imitate this high-level species of the mystical side.

And before them was a silver-white giant dragon.

Feeling the increasingly powerful force beneath his foot, Bai Cangshu witnessed the innate, overwhelming gifts of a pure-blooded giant dragon fully unleashed. Though he had long transcended the ordinary, dragons were creatures that, once fully grown, naturally possessed physical abilities close to his own.

Moreover, after fully manifesting their Dragon Form, their muscle mass would increase explosively.

The corner of Bai Cangshu’s mouth lifted. He suddenly realized that this was indeed his first true battle against a legendary member of the Dragon Clan. In the past, he had only encountered them through various materials or the bloodline abilities of Reincarnators.

At this very moment, a living Second Generation giant dragon stood before him.

Thump!

Orpheus Niflheim’s golden vertical pupils contracted. The human reflected within them suddenly had his long hair begin to dance, and in the next instant, scales began appearing across his body. An extraordinarily powerful aura began radiating from him.

The reverse scale on the woman’s neck instantly stood erect. She instinctively sensed the threat exuded by some even higher-order creature.

Then, an even fiercer rage arose within her. The Dragon Clan was the highest race in the world. How could some creature make her feel… fear merely through its scent?!

Piece after piece of Kirin Armor emerged across Bai Cangshu’s body, followed by new bloodline traits and new effects!

In an instant, Bai Cangshu’s actual Strength, which had originally been close to one hundred points, surged by nearly fifty percent.

Rip!

Pitch-black Conqueror’s Haki spread across his body. In the next moment, unmatched brute force, carried by the shift in Bai Cangshu’s center of gravity, struck directly upon Orphis’s dragon claw.

Boom!

The dragon claw was stomped violently into the ground. The grassland instantly caved in, and in the next moment, a powerful shockwave spread outward from deep underground.

Rumble!

As the ground shook violently, Orphis threw back her head and let out a roar. The scales on her foot had shattered, Dragon Blood dripping down. As her head tilted back, her silver-white hair wrapped around her body and instantly transformed into silver-white scales that encased her head.

Those brilliant golden vertical pupils were the only thing that remained unchanged. A gigantic dragon head emerged, carrying Overwhelming Force. As the dragon claw pulled free from the depths of the earth, Bai Cangshu grinned and lightly retreated a step.

Bai Cangshu watched as the silver-white giant dragon, over fifty meters long, revealed her true form before him. His expression became increasingly delighted.

He had already noticed that this dragon was most likely not from the lineage of the King of Bronze and Fire. Yet she had revealed herself so urgently, likely because Saint Seraphina truly possessed some special aptitude.

Perhaps even…

A thought flashed through Bai Cangshu’s mind, and the smile on his face became ever more unrestrained.

An intense pressure descended in the next instant. It was the Dragon Clan’s innate biological suppression of lower lifeforms as a superior species. Yet Bai Cangshu was completely unaffected. His hands hung at his sides as he looked up at this higher lineage in the evolution of flesh-and-blood creatures, his black hair gently stirring behind him.

Roar!

Orphis stretched her neck toward the sky and let out a piercing cry. Intense sound waves directly warped the air, frequencies far beyond the limits of human perception indiscriminately wreaking destruction across the surroundings.

Bai Cangshu stood motionless, watching dark clouds churn overhead. The weather changed in an instant, and the oppressive sensation grew stronger as the clouds pressed down.

"Saber, take those two and fall back."

With Bai Cangshu’s current Mantra strength, he could detect any disturbance within nearly a hundred kilometers. The closer something was, the greater his control. For living beings within several hundred meters, he could even sense the brainwaves caused by fluctuations in their thoughts.

Naturally, he knew that the holy knight he had bestowed Hamon upon had not yet died. More precisely, after that woman’s blood entered the other person’s body, the holy knight, whose life force had nearly been extinguished, rapidly stabilized, and vigorous vitality began to surge forth.

Not only that, but the "Blood Therapy" contamination caused by the blood medicine he had forced into them had also been cleansed away.

That woman’s blood possessed purification and healing properties. Bai Cangshu had already regarded this ability as his own property, which was why he had Artoria retreat with his property.

The combat power displayed by Second Generation dragons in this world truly surpassed the standards shown by dragons in the other Derivative Worlds described in the Spatial intelligence.

In terms of attributes alone, the silver-white pure-blooded giant dragon before him likely had Strength and Constitution close to two hundred points, while her Agility and Spirit attributes would likely fall within the same range.

In other words, she completely exceeded the limits of Strong-tier Reincarnators. Even Fierce-tier Reincarnators would most likely not possess such attributes.

Roar!

The black clouds had nearly descended to less than a hundred meters above the ground. Powerful airflow formed a massive barrier that completely enveloped Bai Cangshu.

Orphis flapped her wings. In the next instant, countless air currents abruptly changed direction, colliding and crushing against each other as they erupted with piercing shrieks.

Bai Cangshu took a step forward. In the next moment, blazing-white air currents before him transformed into wind demons—Kama Itachi—and crashed directly into the Three Parts Return to Origin Force surrounding his body.

Bang!

The air currents shattered, then triggered the emergence of even more Kama Itachi.

A pure-blooded giant dragon’s control over Words of Power was completely beyond anything Mixed-bloods could imagine. In an instant, the air seemed to undergo a chain reaction.

Bai Cangshu had merely stirred a trace of airflow by taking one step forward, yet countless Kama Itachi erupted throughout the entire domain.

Bang bang bang bang!

Impacts, explosions, airflow cuts—the combined assault unfolded nearly ten thousand times in an instant, completely wearing away the Three Parts Return to Origin Force field around Bai Cangshu’s body.

As the distorted force field vanished, countless attacks charged straight at Bai Cangshu himself.

At the same time, Orphis opened her mouth and exhaled from the air. This time, no flames erupted. Instead, Infrasound powerful enough to kill any flesh-and-blood body directly covered the entire domain.

Ugh!

As space twisted, an area nearly a thousand meters wide instantly boomed in resonance before transforming into a massive explosion.

As the barrier shattered, Kama Itachi danced through the air.

Splat, splat, splat…

The grassland for several thousand meters around was completely shredded.

Orphis’s Golden Eyes trembled slightly. She could not sense the aura of any living being. Just as she was about to relax, she suddenly felt a breeze brush against her.

As a giant dragon that controlled the atmosphere, she had actually failed to notice this wisp of wind?!

In the next moment, a fist emerged from the wind. The atmosphere instantly distorted, then produced a large amount of blazing-white debris as though it were boiling.

Orphis instantly twisted her dragon body, her tail lashing viciously upward from below.

Bang!

A massive black shadow crashed down from the sky.

Another figure descended even faster, landing atop the giant dragon’s head. Orphis’s pupils shifted, and she saw the human’s face filled with a delighted smile, one that had already become twisted and distorted.

She opened her mouth again, about to unleash a Word of Power, but in the next instant, a peculiar Soul Power spread outward.

Orphis discovered that the power in her bloodline seemed to have been sealed away. She could no longer wield it.

Bai Cangshu grabbed the giant dragon’s head with one hand and wagged a finger.

"It’s rare for us both to have bodies of this caliber. Let’s have a proper brawl~"

He rarely used the Lord of the Realm’s ability to restrict others, but at this moment, he was enjoying a brutal, fist-to-flesh battle with a giant dragon.

He raised his right hand. The instant he clenched it into a fist, an air blast spread outward like Ripples.

"Dragon, don’t die too quickly…"

Bang!