Free Web NovelChapter 1544: Chapter 942: Nothing Beats Stopping the Dragon Car
His imitation lacked some of the original’s impact and other qualities, but the Lion Slash unleashed by the warrior ahead happened to make up for that.
The warrior’s Lion Slash smashed down onto the Rot Dragon, crushing a large section of its spine, but only managed to dampen its charge without stopping it. As for him, the instant he landed he lay flat into the magma, narrowly avoiding the follow-up collision.
Right at this moment, Temude was finally able to release the compressed Fighting Qi.
"Hah!"
He suddenly spun his body and slashed his Great Sword toward the Rot Dragon!
On the first slash, the Rot Dragon was directly sent tumbling by that ferocious force. The few bones left in its body shattered from the point of contact with the blade all the way down to its crotch, while its legs kept scratching at the ground, still trying to charge forward as if they no longer listened to orders.
That slash smashed into the ground and whipped up waves of magma that surged to both sides!
Once the magma parted, Temude’s eyes, gleaming with a sharp light, were revealed. Riding the momentum of the first strike, he rotated his body and weapon, bringing down an even more savage second blow on the Rot Dragon!
This strike even unleashed Sword Qi. The hip bone that first made contact with the Sword Qi was instantly pulverized, and the blade, sharp enough to slice iron like mud, began cutting from there, all the way through until its tip burst out from the Rot Dragon’s tail tip.
The entire Rot Dragon was split clean in two along its back!
Even after being severed, its legs kept tirelessly clawing at the ground, trying to run forward, until it finally collapsed into the magma and could no longer rise, still twitching its legs, looking as weak as a pried-open shell.
"Hoo..."
Maintaining the posture of having just delivered the Great Sword strike, Temude let out a long breath, as if exhaling all the foul air in his body.
When he opened his eyes again, they were brighter than at the very beginning.
He didn’t say anything, but the curl of his lips was enough to show his mood—this felt insanely good!
What could possibly feel better than stopping a Dragon Car with a Great Sword? Absolutely nothing!
"Next time it’s my turn!" The warrior leapt out of the magma, ignored the flushed red of his entire skin, and waved Temude over to go hunt Rot Dragons farther away with him.
"Alright!"
Temude was clearly also high on the fight. Without even caring that the distant Rot Dragons hadn’t been drawn over at all, he grabbed his weapon and charged after him.
But just as he started running, he suddenly noticed that the Ancient Dragon he’d just taken down had dropped a white light point.
Normally, he couldn’t be bothered to bend down for a white light point, but this was a new area, and white light points could be something unseen before. So he told the warrior to wait a moment, doubled back, and picked up the light point.
The light point dispersed, revealing a huge chunk of meat from the Rot Dragon in his hand.
"Ugh..."
[Chaos Meat Block]
[A giant dragon that has been exposed to the Chaos Flame for years—its flesh has already begun to change toward adapting to Chaos]
[Consuming a Chaos Meat Block will temporarily increase resistance to the Chaos Flame, but you will also be poisoned due to the rotten flesh]
"This thing’s got some value."
Putting the poison aside, just the increased resistance to the Chaos Flame made it worth farming.
After all, the final boss of this area was the Izalith Witch.
Since even the Chaos Witch guarding Sick Village was a master of toying with the Chaos Flame, then as her mother, the Izalith Witch would definitely be an even greater master of playing with fire!
In that case, stacking as much Flame Resistance on themselves as possible couldn’t go wrong!
They themselves, these brave warriors from the Warrior Country, already had high Flame Resistance thanks to the influence of giant dragon blood in their veins. If they added Chaos Meat Blocks on top of that, they might be able to reduce the damage from the Chaos Flame to the minimum.
By then, maybe the fifteen of them could actually capture the Izalith Witch!
Heh heh heh, ha ha ha!
"Hey, everyone, I’ve got something to tell you!"
Temude immediately shouted out the effect of the Chaos Meat Block to the warriors who were busy doing other things.
"Then let’s go stock up on this first!"
The warriors instantly understood his intention. They all gave up on exploring for the moment and raised their butcher blades toward the nearest Rot Dragons.
To be fair, these lower-half-only Rot Dragons were the elite Monsters of the whole Chaos Ruins Izaris.
Their bodies were indeed far more fragile than other Dragon types, but in exchange they gained a Mad Dog-like lust for combat and attack speed. In a one-on-one fight, once you lost your balance, you’d get run over by a Dragon Car, stomped and tail-whipped into a full combo kill.
Unfortunately for them, Temude’s side was hunting dragons in teams of three.
Three burly men dual-wielding Great Swords had no shortage of ways to handle Rot Dragons.
In less than half an hour, they’d gathered enough Chaos Meat Blocks to stuff their belts, and after dividing them evenly, everyone had two pieces.
They had already tested it: after eating this thing, the poison on them was slightly weaker than that from the Blowguns in Sick Village, and the buff lasted a full five minutes!
"Awesome, praise Sain."
Sure enough, within three steps there’s always an antidote. Using Dungeon loot to counter Dungeon content was absolutely the right call.
After cleaning out the Rot Dragons to about seventy or eighty percent, they finally arrived at the abandoned capital called Izaris.
From the outside, the architectural style here gave off a very sharp impression. One spire-topped building after another pierced up like drills aimed straight at Skyrim; if they spun, they’d probably go Heavenly Element Breakthrough.
The vast Ruined City was deathly still. Even with a whole sea of magma spread out before them, that bit of light still couldn’t illuminate everything; the entire complex was shrouded in darkness.
The giant tree grew out from the center of the Chaos Ruins, so here, being the closest area to the tree, was filled with thick, twisting branches. The branches’ wild, chaotic growth added an extra touch of desolation.
Once they entered the Ruined City, it somehow felt quieter, because the branches here wouldn’t attack people anymore, and the Rot Dragons wouldn’t approach this place either.
Unfortunately, that rare peace was quickly broken by Monsters appearing one after another. freeweɓnøvel.com
A warrior jumped onto a vantage point and looked down over the whole Ruined City, immediately spotting something that would make any fighter eager for battle.
There were two Undead Demons wandering around inside the Ruined City, plus one Flame Demon Priest whose entire body was wreathed in fire. On top of that, there was no shortage of Sheep-headed Demons and Bull-headed Demons.
There was also a type of Monster that looked like a huge jar with tentacles at the bottom, covered all over with black eyeballs, giving off a very strong Chaos vibe.
If they wanted to carve through these Monsters and fight their way straight up to the Fog Gate, it wouldn’t be easy at all—this was something normal people simply couldn’t do. Temude and the others immediately decided to go all out and hold nothing back.
However, after they cut down a few Demons, they suddenly realized something.
"Uh, that one right in front of us is the Fog Gate, isn’t it?"
A warrior pointed at a straight, broad avenue directly ahead of them. This road was the very center of the Ruined City, and at its end stood the tallest building, also the place closest to the giant tree.
That place was sealed by the Fog Gate, radiating an unprecedented sense of oppression, even stronger than the Four Kings of Little Londo.
That had to be where the Izalith Witch was.
"But why is it just sitting out there in the open like that?!"
There were hardly any Monsters on this main road. Aside from being a bit long, there was no difficulty at all—they could just sprint all the way through!
"Don’t tell me the Monsters are hiding on both sides of the main road, waiting to ambush us?"
Temude voiced a doubt.
That doubt lingered in his mind, keeping him on edge, until it finally vanished the moment his palm touched the Fog Gate, transforming into a line of吐槽 that burst out of him:
"Why really are there no Monsters?!"
Was the path to the Fog Gate always this easy? This wasn’t how it used to be!
Forget it, things had already come this far, so...
"Full assault!"
With Chaos Meat Blocks clenched in their teeth, the warriors all charged into the Fog Gate!
