Chapter 27: Fierce Battle
When Linley took out the Violet Blood Soft Sword, the Tyrannosaurus Rex understood that Linley was going to get tough.
As a Saint-level dragon, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was naturally extremely proud.
"Boom!" With just one furious step, the entire earth trembled and cracked, and the surrounding trees "crashed" as they snapped and fell. The Tyrannosaurus Rex's mountain-like colossal body soared into the air, its fiery red eyes, spewing hellfire, fixed on Linley.
He didn't dare to be careless either.
"Pulkwit, your body is so huge, just giving up a little dragon blood is nothing," Linley said with a shake of his head.
"You are insulting me, insulting the noble Saint-level dragon race!" The Tyrannosaurus Rex 'Pulkwit' suddenly opened its mouth, and black dragonflame sprayed out, instantly engulfing 'Linley' completely. That 'Linley' immediately dissolved into nothingness.
Pulkwit abruptly turned his head.
Linley was now above him: "Be careful, I'm starting my attack." Linley appeared very polite.
"Hmph." The Tyrannosaurus Rex 'Pulkwit' felt even more humiliated. Enraged, his entire body's speed instantly soared to a terrifying level. "Boom!" A sonic boom rang out as the Tyrannosaurus Rex actually tried to ram Linley with his fearsome body.
But hadn't he noticed Linley's astonishing speed?
"What a cunning Tyrannosaurus Rex." Linley's body instantly transformed into a phantom of wind, shifting sideways in a flash. A black phantom streaked across Linley's body—it was the Tyrannosaurus Rex's tail.
"BANG—" Because of the tail's extreme speed, it generated massive wind blades that swept outward, cutting through the surrounding trees and boulders as if they were tofu, slicing them clean in half. The trees around them crashed down one after another.
Just the wind blades caused by the tail's speed had such power—how terrifying was the tail itself?
"This tail... I can't take it head-on." Linley's expression turned serious.
"Whoosh!" Linley's speed instantly surged to its limit, yet it only caused a faint rustle of wind. Linley's control over the wind was far more formidable than it had been twelve years ago. The Tyrannosaurus Rex's entire body suddenly erupted with blazing hellfire, and the temperature of the surrounding air skyrocketed to a terrifying degree.
For Linley to attack, he had to enter the range of the hellfire.
A surge of dark cyan air waves rolled over Linley's body. Relying on his 'Pulsating Defense,' Linley charged straight into the black flames.
"Swish!" The Violet Blood Soft Sword instantly turned into a streak of purple lightning, as if piercing through space itself. Its terrifying, extreme speed caused spatial distortions, blurring the air with overlapping afterimages. The purple stream slashed diagonally across the Tyrannosaurus Rex's body.
Wind Essence—Spatial Overlay.
Pfft!
The Violet Blood Soft Sword carved a wound a meter long and thirty centimeters deep. Yet not a single drop of blood flowed from the Tyrannosaurus Rex, because his scales were far thicker than thirty centimeters.
"His defense is really strong. He didn't even get split open by my sword." Linley was shocked inwardly. The power of Spatial Overlay was only slightly inferior to Higginson's 'Phantom Void Sword.' Linley's understanding of the 'Speed' principle was still a bit lower than Higginson's.
After all, that guy had been training for thousands of years.
"If you've got the guts, fight me head-on, Pulkwit!" the Tyrannosaurus Rex roared. He clearly sensed that Linley was too fast. But just as he bellowed that, and Linley was about to reply, dozens of black tentacles, inconspicuous within the hellfire, suddenly emerged from the Tyrannosaurus Rex's body and wrapped around Linley.
"Tentacles?"
Linley was startled, and at the same time, he felt that the tentacles binding him tightly were extremely cold and icy. Instead of worrying about his situation, Linley wondered inwardly, "Tentacles like an octopus... how does a Tyrannosaurus Rex have..."
"Boss, that's the 'Ice Tentacles' dark magic spell." Bebe's voice rang in Linley's mind.
Linley understood.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex turned his head, his fiery eyes fixed on Linley: "Linley, prepare to die." But before he could attack, the dark cyan air waves on Linley's body began to churn and expand rapidly... As the air waves expanded, the Ice Tentacles trembled.
"Boom!" They were finally burst apart.
The Pulsating Defense had reached 256 layers, making it over ten times more powerful than before.
But just as Linley burst the Ice Tentacles, "Swish!" The lightning-fast tail whipped at him again. Linley dodged instantly, but it still grazed the edge of his 'Pulsating Defense.' The terrifying force from the tail made Linley's body tremble.
"The Tyrannosaurus Rex's strength is no joke." Linley was secretly alarmed.
With the Tyrannosaurus Rex's power, even a strongman like Hedderson might not be able to handle him.
"Roar~~" The Tyrannosaurus Rex bellowed furiously. The terrifying sound waves were compressed into a narrow area, blasting directly at Linley. The fearsome sound made Linley's ears ring, and then the Tyrannosaurus Rex charged madly at him.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex was only a hundred meters away from Linley, but as it charged, its body began to shrink continuously.
Yet the momentum of its charge became even more terrifying.
"Roar~~" In an instant, it felt like the earth was shaking and the mountains were quaking.
At the same time, gray mist materialized out of nowhere, shrouding the entire area within several hundred meters and enveloping Linley as well.
"I can't let myself get hit." Linley paid no attention to the mist. His speed instantly shot to its limit, and he swung the Violet Blood Soft Sword. After narrowly dodging the Tyrannosaurus Rex's charge, Linley slashed at its body—
The sword intent was ethereal, combining the two opposing concepts of 'Space Stagnation' and 'Spatial Overlay' to form the 'Rhythm of the Wind.' Its power surpassed even the 'Phantom Void Sword.'
"Pfft!"
The thick scales split open with a crack.
"Roar~~" The Tyrannosaurus Rex roared in pain, and blood spurted from the meter-long wound.
Seeing the spurting dragon blood, Xini, Taylor, and Sasha on the distant hill cheered. Delia also had a smile on her face. It was clear that Linley had the upper hand. In fact, Linley hadn't even used his Dragonblood Warrior transformation.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex's body suddenly plunged toward the ground.
"Boom!" The earth shook. After landing, the Tyrannosaurus Rex's mountain-like body immediately raised its head and roared, "Roar~~" The terrifying sound waves spread outward from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in all directions, and the surrounding trees instantly shattered.
Bebe reacted quickly. A black barrier immediately appeared around Delia and the children.
"What are you doing? Showing off your loud voice?" Linley flew down from midair. "I've already left a wound on you. Just give me some blood. Don't worry, I won't kill you."
"You are insulting me."
The Tyrannosaurus Rex 'Pulkwit' was furious. He growled lowly.
But Linley's expression suddenly changed as he looked into the distant sky. Two massive magical beasts were flying over at extreme speed. One had a perfectly streamlined body with a pair of huge fleshy wings—it was the legendary Saint-level Golden Dragon.
The other dragon had a body similar in size to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but its scales were deep cyan, and lightning flickered across its surface.
"Saint-level Golden Dragon, Saint-level Thunder Dragon!" Linley felt a bit troubled.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex was formidable. Even Linley, without his Dragonblood Warrior transformation and relying only on his greatly enhanced 'Pulsating Defense,' wouldn't dare to take a direct hit from the Tyrannosaurus Rex's tail. The Tyrannosaurus Rex's weakness was its slow speed.
But the Saint-level Golden Dragon was very fast, and the Thunder Dragon was as fast as lightning.
"Pulkwit, what's wrong?" A deep voice came from the Thunder Dragon. "Is it this despicable human?"
The Tyrannosaurus Rex growled, "Yes, big brother. This despicable human just relies on being fast and having quick reflexes." The Tyrannosaurus Rex was exasperated. If he were facing someone not good at speed, he wouldn't care at all. He was the type that was slow but had strong defense and attack, similar to an Undying Warrior.
The Thunder Dragon's golden eyes turned to Linley.
The Saint-level Thunder Dragon, Saint-level Golden Dragon, and Saint-level Tyrannosaurus Rex—these three dragons were a very powerful small group in the Sunset Mountains. When they encountered a strong enemy, they would help each other. Working together, especially complementing each other's weaknesses, they were incredibly formidable.
"Father!" Taylor on the distant hill was worried. Xini and Sasha also watched the three Saint-level dragons nervously.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex had now also flown into the air. Each dragon was as big as a small mountain. The three Saint-level dragons flew side by side, blocking out the sunlight. Just the oppressive aura they exuded was enough to make one's heart tremble.
"Just fast—not worth using our combined attack," a cold voice came from the Saint-level Golden Dragon.
A hint of a smile played at the corners of Linley's mouth. This battle seemed to be getting more and more interesting.
Suddenly—
"Swish!" A massive bolt of lightning streaked across the sky. The Thunder Dragon's terrifying body appeared in front of Linley in an instant. Its claws, moving at a speed Linley couldn't dodge, grabbed him fiercely.
The air waves of Linley's 'Pulsating Defense' were mostly scattered, and his body was sent flying.
"Boom!" At the same time, two bolts of lightning shot from the Thunder Dragon's eyes, striking Linley's body.
Linley was blasted down into the ground. "Boom!" The earth shook violently, cracking open into a large chasm, and a huge crater appeared on the mountain surface.
"This speed is ridiculously fast, almost catching up to Bebe." Linley, now underground, was shocked. "But the Thunder Dragon's attack power is much weaker than the Tyrannosaurus Rex's. My Pulsating Defense was almost broken, but it still held."
Fast speed meant weaker attacks.
After all, if something moved as fast as lightning and hit as hard as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, it would be invincible.
"Is Father okay?" Sasha asked nervously.
"He's fine." Bebe could clearly sense Linley's current state and said with a smile, "I think Boss is actually pretty excited right now."
...
At that moment, the three Saint-level dragons were circling in the air, all staring at the ground below.
"Boom!"
Linley suddenly shot out from another spot on the surface. But the moment he emerged, a terrifying beam of light came crashing down on him. The immense holy light energy within it made Linley's heart tremble. Just as he was about to dodge—
The holy light energy touched Linley's body, and he felt a terrifying wave assault his soul.
This feeling was familiar. When Linley had taken the entrance exam, they used the 'Deterrence' spell to test mental strength. But when that 'Deterrence' spell was cast, it was just a thin white light like a tiny electric snake.
But the Golden Dragon's Deterrence was a beam of light dozens of meters thick.
"Light magic 'Deterrence'? Can it be this terrifying?"
...
"Haha, my turn!" The Tyrannosaurus Rex charged down with a thunderous roar. His terrifying tail, like a giant whip, lashed fiercely at Linley. This kind of coordinated attack was very familiar to the three Saint-level dragons. The Golden Dragon would cast the 'Soul Stun' spell to dizzy the opponent for a moment, and then the Tyrannosaurus Rex would deliver a full-power strike.
"Buzz~~"
Under the full-force strike of the giant tail, space itself seemed to tremble faintly. The terrifying screech even caused the surrounding trees to explode into dust.
"Haah~~" A roar came from the dissipating beam of light. Then the Tyrannosaurus Rex felt a terrifying force bind his tail. As the light faded, the Saint-level Thunder Dragon, the Golden Dragon, and the distant Bebe, Delia, Taylor, and the other children all witnessed a shocking scene.
A humanoid monster covered in deep cyan scales had appeared. On the surface of the scales, a cyan glow flowed continuously.
This was the Dragonblood Warrior in his Saint-level transformation!
The pinnacle Dragonblood Warrior!
His arms were wrapped around the Tyrannosaurus Rex's tail. The mountain-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex roared madly, struggling and thrashing his tail violently, but he couldn't budge Linley. This was the terrifying power of the ultimate Dragonblood Warrior!
"Haah!"
Linley let out a sudden shout and, with his arms holding the tail, he hurled it with all his might. The mountain-like Tyrannosaurus Rex was swung in an arc and then slammed heavily into the ground below like a falling mountain.
"Boom!" The Tyrannosaurus Rex's body smashed into the earth, cracking it open. Countless boulders and trees shattered like tofu.