Chapter 1226, Getting Serious

Translator: Silavin

 

As the Bronze Dragon King’s aura surged explosively, the skin that had previously been indistinguishable from a Human’s began to sprout Dragon Scales.

 

In the blink of an eye, the Bronze Dragon King’s frame swelled by two times. Dragon Scales emerging across half her body, transforming her into a Half-Human, Half-Dragon.

 

The Bronze Dragon King no longer looked quite as pleasing to the eye as before. Her appearance now was, to put it charitably, something of an acquired taste. But correspondingly, her strength had been elevated to an extraordinary degree.

 

*Ha!*

 

With one powerful roar from the Bronze Dragon King, the muscles of her right arm swelled grotesquely, and then her fist shot forward.

 

*Boom!*

 

A thunderous crash rang out, and the phantom image of a dragon’s head materialised at the very tip of the Bronze Dragon King’s fist.

 

The air split apart with a roar far greater than anything before, and the Dragon Head manifestation bellowed as it launched itself forward, crashing down onto the Black Armoured Dragon.

 

*Crack!*

 

The tremendous impact rang out, and this time the Black Armoured Dragon could not do what it had done a moment ago, could not take a blow from the Bronze Dragon King and survive.

 

That single punch completely obliterated its body, scattering it as a sky full of shredded flesh across the air.

 

“You trash. You really had to push me until I showed some of my real skills before you’d behave yourselves, huh?” The Bronze Dragon King growled, her voice now something that sat between a Human’s and a Giant Dragon’s. It was a partial speech that resembled the roar of a beast.

 

The Black Armoured Dragon was not the only one of its kind, and after venting the fury in her heart, the Bronze Dragon King wasted no further time. Her gaze swept over to the remaining Black Armoured Dragons.

 

She stamped down hard, and her entire body shot into the air like a cannonball.

 

In the midst of flight, a pair of wings unfurled from the Bronze Dragon King’s back, bringing her another step closer to the form of a true Giant Dragon.

 

But at the same time, she had also gained the ability to fly, and her flying speed was by no means slow.

 

From the very beginning, Bronze Dragons were renowned for the sheer strength of their physical bodies, and flight too demanded precisely that kind of physical strength.

 

For this reason, within the Dragon Domain, the Bronze Dragon Clan was, in truth, a Clan that gave the other Giant Dragons no small headache.

 

For one thing, the Bronze Dragon Clan were all born belligerent. Provoke them and they would pursue the matter until one side ceased to exist.

 

And beyond that, while the Bronze Dragon Clan did not use Dragon Language Magic, their capacity for close-quarters combat was simply too overwhelming.

 

To contend with the Bronze Dragon Clan, one had no choice but to exploit their weaknesses, to find a way to keep one’s distance and bombard them with Dragon Language Magic.

 

That way one could attack the Bronze Dragons while remaining out of their reach, which was the only arrangement that gave one any real prospect of victory.

 

However, the Bronze Dragon Clan’s formidable physical frames meant their flying speed was also fearsome. To shake them off, to open enough distance for a one-sided bombardment, was easier said than done.

 

Everyone knew that the inability to use Dragon Language Magic was the Bronze Dragon Clan’s weakness.

 

But in practice, many foes had never had the opportunity to exploit that weakness before the Bronze Dragon Clan had already closed in and made short work of them.

 

The Bronze Dragon King, as the ruler of the Bronze Dragon Clan, embodied this quality to its fullest possible extent.

 

The Bronze Dragon King’s Movement Speed was already terrifying to begin with. Now with her Dragon Wings unfurled, her speed had reached a point that was simply monstrous.

 

Even Lu Fan could only make out a faint afterimage flickering back and forth through the sky, and every time that figure collided with a Black Armoured Dragon overhead, the latter was blown apart like a pane of glass struck by a bullet.

 

Naturally, the pressure on the rest of the group was greatly reduced.

 

These were enemies that even a single punch from the Bronze Dragon King had originally failed to kill in one host, which spoke volumes about how formidable their Defences were.

 

Even for Lu Fan, killing one would likely have required a fair bit of effort.

 

But now with the Bronze Dragon King stepping forward, the Black Armoured Dragons ceased to pose any real problem.

 

The group did not need to spare a single thought for the Black Armoured Dragons that kept appearing. They needed only to deal with the Desolate Ancient God and find a way to erase it.

 

After all, the rate at which Black Armoured Dragons appeared was, broadly speaking, the same as the rate at which the Bronze Dragon King cut them down.

 

With the Bronze Dragon King present, these Black Armoured Dragons would pose no threat to the group whatsoever.

 

“The rest of you, go and kill the Desolate Ancient God! These damn things, just leave them to me!” The roaring voice that drifted down from the sky was deeply reassuring.

 

But Lu Fan, watching the Bronze Dragon King take the whole business of killing the Black Armoured Dragons entirely upon herself, found something faintly puzzling stirring in his chest.

 

After all, the Black Armoured Dragons were difficult opponents, but for everyone present they were not, strictly speaking, an insurmountable problem. With care and some judicious use of a few trump cards, handling these Black Armoured Dragons would not pose a problem.

 

It seemed the Shadow Dragon King beside him had read his slight confusion. He let out a quiet sigh and took it upon himself to explain. “These Black Armoured Dragons seem to carry the Bloodline Power of the Bronze Dragon Clan within them. Their strength and their carapace far exceed that of an ordinary Giant Dragon. Only the Bronze Dragon Clan possesses this sort of Bloodline Power. I suspect that if the Desolate Ancient God has the ability to absorb all manner of energies, then the Bloodline Power of the Bronze Dragon Clan is something it has already absorbed. After all, when the Bronze Dragon Clan was fighting the Desolate Ancient God before, there were no small number of casualties. Quite a number of those Giant Dragons were close confidants of Zhan Cui herself.”

 

“I see.” Lu Fan gave a slow nod, and privately thought, no wonder the Bronze Dragon King had been so furious.

 

Failing to kill a Black Armoured Dragon with a single punch was one thing. But discovering that members of her own Clan had fallen to the Desolate Ancient God, only for the Desolate Ancient God to then use that very strength against them, shaping it into something like this, that was the true source of her rage.

 

It was pretty much the same as when the Flame Dragon and the Two Headed Dragon had seen the Life Dragon King Carcass at the entrance to the Valley of Life and been driven to the brink of losing their minds with fury. The Desolate Ancient God had essentially ripped open a wound that had never properly healed. How could they not be enraged?

 

Unlike the Two Headed Dragon and the Flame Dragon, the Bronze Dragon King’s strength was something that required no concern whatsoever.

 

With her handling the Black Armoured Dragons, the group need not worry about her being placed in danger.

 

What they needed to do now was seize the opportunity while the Black Armoured Dragons had the Bronze Dragon King to deal with them, and finish off the Desolate Ancient God as swiftly as possible.

 

The Shadow Dragon King understood the Bronze Dragon King’s mind better than anyone. And so, after he explained, he moved directly into action, sweeping out a cascade of wind blades that thundered into the Desolate Ancient God’s body.

 

Looking carefully, one could see that a layer of black scales, sharp as knife blades, had grown across the Shadow Dragon King’s palms at this point.

 

With those black scales having grown out, the slicing power of the Shadow Dragon King’s wind blades surged sharply.

 

When those wind blades landed on the Desolate Ancient God’s body once more, they carved deep, jagged wounds into its flesh that were slow to close.

 

This brought greater agony to the Desolate Ancient God. Its bloated frame shuddered and contorted, as though it was trying to flee.