Chapter 1227, The Shadow Armoured Dragon

Translator: Silavin

 

What a pity. Its current form possessed absolutely no manoeuvrability. No matter how desperately it struggled, its fat, bloated body could only tremble and writhe in place, unable even to retaliate, let alone escape.

 

Lu Fan attacked in quick succession alongside Xiao Ye, and he found himself genuinely marvelling at the thought that he had never in his life fought such a simple battle.

 

The opponent did not retaliate. It did not defend either. And to top it all off, its body was uncommonly satisfying to strike. Every hit produces a deeply gratifying feedback.

 

Lu Fan truly struggled to conceive of how something so perfectly suited to being a punching bag could exist in this world.

 

Under the group’s unbridled Damage Output, the Flesh Mountain was soon riddled with Damage, all manner of wounds gouged out by Skills and sliced open by blades appearing one after another. Even with the Flesh Mountain’s potent Self-Healing, it could not restore its body to any semblance of its former state.

 

At this rate, it was only a matter of time before this Flesh Mountain was annihilated by the group.

 

*Grooaaarrr!*

 

Without warning, a low roar rumbled up from somewhere deep within the Flesh Mountain’s body. It sounded like a Giant Dragon and yet not quite. It was rougher and deeper than any proper Dragon’s voice, like some beast imitating a Dragon Roar. It was a sound so wrong that anyone familiar with the voice of a true Giant Dragon would feel something deeply unsettling crawling up their spine.

 

Then, from within the wounds the group had blasted open, clumps of flesh began to coagulate and emerge, growing and spreading outward, transforming in the blink of an eye into enormous tumourous masses of flesh. From there, they began to transform themselves toward some particular Form.

 

Lu Fan saw in an instant that these clumps of flesh appeared to be developing into new Giant Dragon Carcasses. He immediately loudly called out, “The Desolate Ancient God seems to be trying to condense new Monsters! Everyone attack those flesh clumps! Don’t let them take shape!”

 

The others responded at once, and without pausing to think about it, redirected their Skills away from the Flesh Mountain and began hammering at the swelling, reshaping flesh clumps.

 

In an instant, countless Skills rained down like a violent storm, striking at those lumps of flesh still in the process of transforming into Monsters.

 

Just as Lu Fan had predicted, before those flesh clumps had fully transformed into Monsters, they were in an extremely vulnerable state. The group’s attacks could shatter them with ease, reducing them to scraps of flesh on the ground.

 

Although those scraps would be reabsorbed into the Desolate Ancient God’s body and become part of it once more, keeping up this assault would inevitably drain its Ancient God Power, so it was not entirely useless.

 

The key goal, above all else, was to prevent it from summoning forth new Monsters to cause the group trouble.

 

Lu Fan had originally thought that, by eradicating each new Monster before it fully materialised, he could deny the Desolate Ancient God any opportunity to fight back.

 

However, he had still underestimated the Desolate Ancient God’s strength.

 

The wounds across the Desolate Ancient God’s body were simply too numerous, and the tumours emerging from them were dense and plentiful. They were growing at an extraordinary speed. As they grew and reshaped themselves, the black armour identical to that of the Black Armoured Dragons took form on their surfaces, dramatically increasing their defensive capability.

 

Things being as they were, if the group could not destroy them in the very first moment, once their armour had fully developed, eliminating them would become far more difficult.

 

And so, while a good number of those initial tumours were indeed destroyed by the group, a moment later, as still more tumours sprouted forth, the emergence of new Monsters became impossible to stop.

 

In the span of a moment, the group’s Skills were torn through, and a new Monster grew from the Desolate Ancient God’s body, separating from it and becoming an independent entity.

 

This new Monster shared a lot of similarities with the Black Armoured Dragon, likewise clad in what seemed to be heavy armour.

 

But unlike the Black Armoured Dragons of before, beyond the armour that Deflected Damage and could be used offensively, the ridges and edges of their armour had also grown far sharper, and their bodies were wrapped in a layer of black mist.

 

A body that could be wielded as a razor-edged weapon, combined with an enveloping black mist. These were, unmistakably, the hallmarks of the Shadow Dragon Clan.

 

Clearly, this new Monster had fused the full characteristics of both the Shadow Dragon Clan and the Bronze Dragon Clan, combining the strengths of both into this single, new creature.

 

At the sight of this, the Shadow Dragon King’s expression visibly darkened.

 

Beyond the offense of the enemy having seized his Clan’s power by devouring the flesh and blood of his kin, what troubled him far more was that he knew precisely how much of a nuisance his own Clan’s Traits were.

 

Even among Players, if one asked which Profession was the most headache-inducing to deal with, the majority, without question, would name those Assassin Types. After all, Assassin Types could Conceal themselves. Their Burst Damage was devastating, and they typically possessed Armour Piercing capability. Even against a fully armoured target, an Assassin could locate the weakness in their armour and slip a dagger through it. They could bypass all defences to deliver lethal Damage.

 

One could afford to offend just about anyone, but they should never lightly make an enemy of an Assassin. That was accepted wisdom among Players.

 

And the Shadow Dragon Clan, as the Assassins of the Dragon Clan, occupied precisely the same role.

 

If these new Monsters that had appeared truly possessed the same power as the Shadow Dragon Clan, then things were about to become rather dire.

 

The more one hoped not to see something, the more inevitably one saw it.

 

The Shadow Armoured Dragons, once fully formed, were wreathed in swirling black mist, their bodies obscured within it.

 

An instant later, those massive frames vanished into the black mist, disappearing along with it.

 

Not just their physical forms, but their presence and aura as well.

 

It was as though those creatures had never appeared at all, from beginning to end, and everything had been nothing but an illusion.

 

Lu Fan was well acquainted with the terrifying nature of the Shadow Dragon Clan, and seeing the enemy produce a new variety of Monster that truly carried the Shadow Dragon Clan’s traits, he felt a slight trace of panic.

 

He turned to Ouyang Bai Ge and warned, “Teacher Ouyang, you need to be careful! Keep my Auntie and the others protected! These new Monsters could strike them at any moment!”

 

Ouyang Bai Ge’s brow furrowed. She called Han Ke and Ye Wuxian over to her side, and simultaneously summoned a massive Void Insect, using it to envelop herself and everyone else present in its protective fold.

 

The creature she summoned had an unusual appearance, resembling an extremely large insect that held great strength.

 

The moment this Void Insect appeared, it immediately bent its limbs inward, covering all those who had gathered together, using its own body as a large bowl that covered them, forming a near-perfect 360° Defence.

 

Its whole body was enormous. Its exterior was encased in a tough, rigid shell. Its Defence looked extraordinary.

 

With its protection in place, Han Ke and the others should be able to escape danger, at least for the time being.

 

Just as Lu Fan was thinking this, the Shadow Armoured Dragons launched their sudden assault.