Free Web NovelChapter 23: Mimic Vs Archdragon (2)
BOOM!
Blinding bright lights and deafening loud sounds fill the dungeon’s boss room. In Azrael’s previous world’s terms, that collision is comparable to a small military-grade explosion, which is equivalent to a couple of tons of TNT.
Shortly after the impact, a tremendously powerful shockwave is emitted from the ground zero which sends away any dust and debris in all directions. Being in a confined space traps anything and makes the noise painfully loud.
A grueling second later, the lights and dust begin to subside, gradually revealing the aftermath of the collision of two powerful barriers. There is no movement to be observed in the scene yet, just two lying lumps. Both the griffin and the archdragon are lying motionless on the floor.
(Azrael! Are you fine?!)
Claire, who is not physically harmed, cries to check on Azrael. Hearing her call, the griffin struggles to move its legs and tries to stand up.
(Ugh... That hurts so much... I have expected this to happen but it still hurts.)
Azrael agonizes in pain as he tries to stand on his four legs. His entire body is hurt. Muscles are torn and many bones are broken. His wounds are being passively healed by his abilities but it isn’t fast enough to recover his full strength.
(Let me you heal he up.)
(I greatly appreciate it.)
After that, his entire body faintly glows, indicating that Claire’s B-tier holy magic, Full Restoration, has taken effect. His wounds then quickly close and his broken bones start to snap back together. Azrael has been fully healed in a matter of seconds.
"GWARRR!!!"
(So you’re still alive after all that? Well, you’re not a legendary monster for nothing after all.) freewebnσvel.cѳm
About a hundred meters from where he stands, the archdragon roars, reminding the griffin that the battle is not over yet. Unlike Azrael, who has just been healed, the archdragon can barely stand on its own due to its severe injuries. The archdragon has its own passive recovery, albeit slowly.
(Finish it while it’s still weak.)
(No need to be hasty. It’s not like it’s running away. Let’s take it slow.)
(You better make sure to make it out of here.) Claire says those words with a bit of impatience in her tone. (It’s going to attack now.)
Still covered with blood and bruises, the archdragon stabilizes its posture and opens its mouth wide. The dragon then concentrates a huge amount of its mana in its mouth in the form of a bluish-white sphere. The archdragon just cast an ancient dragon fireball— one of its signature abilities.
The sphere starts as small as a basketball and then it suddenly inflates into a ten-foot wide ball of ultra hot plasma. The sphere is also spinning fast on its own axis and it starts pulling air into it.
Azrael watches that in awe. It is like he is drawn by it, amused, thinking that he is beholding something beautiful. At that moment, he snaps back and decides to make something that is better and, above all, possesses more beauty than that. He wants to outshine it.
(Claire, do you have something that boosts an attack? You know, adding more firepower or other elements like lightning or something?)
(I do have some spells. Do you want me to enhance your attack?)
(Absolutely.)
Azrael then quickly morphs his body to a greater dragon for better affinity with his attack. After all, a dragon can execute its signature wild magic better than other monsters or races doing it. As a greater dragon, his form is not as huge as the archdragon.
With his four feet on the floor, Azrael opens his mouth and gathers his mana to conjure a meter wide white sphere. It is smaller than the archdragon’s as the two of them are not going to do the same move.
As per Azrael’s order, Claire borrows some mana from Azrael, she has no physical body herself and she has been using his mana since then, and applies additional power ups and effects on his attack. The white sphere turns blue and then purplish. In addition, flickering lightning streaks of the same hue also manifest around the energy ball.
Azrael does not exactly know what Claire added to his attack, but he thinks they are cool and he likes it. He also feels like the firepower of his attacks rises too.
Even though he already put all his power on that attack, he feels that it keeps rising until he assumes that it surpasses the bluish-white ancient dragon fireball of the archdragon and beyond. That is also the work of the Great Sorceress.
Both the parties take a second or two to complete charging their attacks. Actually, Azrael finishes first, for only fractions of a second, but he does not unleash it right away since he wants to clash attacks with the archdragon.
(...)
After a second of silence, the archdragon breathes in some air and uses it to unleash its most powerful attack ever since it spawned in the dungeon a few days ago.
VHOOSH!
The bluish white fireball flies in the air as fast as a cannonball. There is only a hundred meters gap between it and the target. The attack would reach the target almost instantly.
With how much Azrael has improved all this time, especially his perception, he is able to quickly react to the attack. Without wasting any time, he immediately unleashes his most powerful attack yet. fгeewebnovёl.com
Boom.
The greatly enhanced greater dragon blast is fired in a linear projection at an unimaginable speed. The purple blast instantly makes contact with the white fireball midair, due to its speed and superior firepower, Azrael’s attack actually pierces through the fireball, which triggers the detonation prematurely.
DOOM!!!
In an instant, Azrael’s vision is filled by the bright lights of the explosion. Being within the outer range of the fireball area of the explosion, his body would have been severely burned, but it did not happen. Claire has deployed a powerful barrier beforehand to protect Azrael.
If he was directly hit by the bluish fireball, or if it exploded less than ten meters from him without the protection, his entire body would have disintegrated. Luckily, Claire saves his ass.
That was definitely on the level of a nuke, he says to himself.
When there’s an explosion, there’s a shockwave after that. Even in his greater dragon form in addition to Claire’s barrier, the shockwave is powerful enough to move him by a few meters.
BOOM!!
Before the bright lights can subside, another explosion occurs on the other side of the chamber. That explosion is significantly more powerful than the archdragon’s. The explosion means that Azrael’s dragon blast has hit the wall behind the archdragon.
Both the explosions generate loud sounds that could tear anybody’s eardrums. For that reason, Azrael purposefully did not include ears in his dragon form.
(Such tremendous power...) Claire mutters. (To think that I was able to witness something like this. As expected of someone who defeated me handicapped.)
(Nah. I couldn’t make it without your assistance.)
Right after the explosive flash diminished five seconds later, the shockwave of his attack ultimately lands on the translucent barrier around him. Without any source of light, the whole place goes completely pitch black after that.
Crash.
Not long after, the sound of something massive collapsing reaches Azrael’s newly formed dragonic ears. The archdragon is now lying lifelessly on the floor missing its head.
(You hit its head so that you can kill it without destroying the body?)
(Exactly.)
As he approaches it, he notices that there is no blood flowing out of the severed neck. With the presence of some lightning streaks randomly flickering throughout the body, he guesses that the archdragon’s blood vessels have been scorched by the lightning effects Claire added on his dragon blast.
(It’s hard to believe that you are powerful enough to defeat an archdragon. You can undoubtedly kill it even without my help.)
(Oh, really?)
(Even though I just amplified your attack by almost double, I am certain that your sheer power is more than enough to blow up the archdragon’s head.)
(Is the archdragon really that of a big deal.)
(Of course, it is. Killing a greater dragons can already give you generational wealth and fame. Let alone a legendary creature. Given that you only exist as long as this dungeon, you are already a powerhouse on this continent just at days old. You have the whole world ahead of you.)
(Hm. It seems like I have many things to learn about this world. But first, let me enjoy my rewards.)
Afterwards, Azrael feasts on a gourmet out of the archdragon’s body, gaining its abilities and unlocking a new form.
