Bone and flesh fragments scattered with the impact, and the dragon screamed in pain before turning its neck and firing compact spheres of white divine fire, each moving with bullet-like speed.
Elaine kept dashing toward it, weaving between the fireballs, jumping and conjuring several short spears of darkness which she hurled into multiple incoming projectiles, forcing them to detonate in mid-air before they could reach her.
As she closed the distance, the dragon spun its massive body and swept its tail toward her, and Elaine, keeping her momentum, slid beneath it, emerging on the opposite side just as the dragon completed a full 360 and slashed down with its left claw.
The strike gouged deep trenches into the ground, sending a violent wave of dust and sand flying along with multiple pronged cutting waves radiating outward from its claws.
Elaine coated her body with magic power and charged straight through the dust cloud, debris and shattered rock scattering around her.
