"Roar!" The fire dragon let out a furious roar, and the flames on its body surged upwards. Massive fireballs detached from the rising flames, rushing towards the diminutive Yu Jin with unparalleled speed.
The scene before them was like meteors falling to earth; those fireballs, trailing long fiery tails, descended from the Sky, each impact creating a giant crater several kilometers wide on the surface of the Dark Sea.
Everything was exploding, everything was roaring. The previously turbulent waves of the Dark Sea now seemed so insignificant.
"Good!" Watching the fireballs flying towards him, Yu Jin gripped the hilt of his greatsword tightly and swung it at the distant fireballs.
The power of wind began to gather on the thick blade of the sword. When Yu Jin fully swung it, a pure white vacuum blade detached from the sword.
This wind blade grew larger and larger, until it could cleave the sea and sever mountains.
Vacuum Blade — a lost combat skill of ancient heroes. Raising the sword creates a vacuum state, which then transforms into a vacuum blade released forward.
This was originally a combat skill exclusive to medium to large weapons, but Yu Jin unleashed it with a greatsword, a colossal weapon.
The reason was none other than sheer practice.
The colossal vacuum blade seemed unstoppable; wherever it passed, fireballs shattered, and the sea parted.
This heaven-reaching, sea-splitting vacuum blade charged unabated towards the fire dragon, which was twisting and turning in the distant Sky.
"Boom!" The vacuum blade struck the fire dragon, emitting only a dull thud before there was no further sound.
It seemed the flames adhering to the fire dragon's exterior possessed considerable DEF.
Seeing that its attack failed, the fire dragon attacked again. This time, the massive horns on its dragon head began to charge, with crimson and pitch black simultaneously shining on its body.
Restless fire element power began to compress, and re-compress, within its mouth. Not only that, but the swirling firelight was also tinged with the abyssal power from deep within the fire dragon's body.
Yu Jin naturally wouldn't let him complete his charge just like that. Generally speaking, once such a move is interrupted, the caster needs a long time to recover.
However, the maddened fire dragon clearly didn't give Yu Jin that chance. The flames burning all over its body surged again; this time, they didn't turn into fireballs but became vibrating ripples.
Crimson ripples continuously expanded and vibrated with the fire dragon as the epicenter. A solid wall of fire swept through, even shaving off a layer of the sea surface.
Yu Jin tried to approach the fire dragon, but these ripples were not only solid but also vibrated at an extremely high frequency. Although they couldn't injure him, they were enough to repel him.
Yu Jin stopped in the distance and nodded slightly. That guy in the distance liked to charge up. Perfect, he liked to charge up too.
Then Yu Jin performed a series of dazzling moves.
First, Golden Tree Vow!
Yu Jin knelt on one knee, then suddenly stood up, raising his right hand above his head. Golden highlights shone in the dim Dark Sea, providing encouragement.
Golden Tree Vow — one of the Prayers of the Golden Tree faith. It can encompass friendly characters in the vicinity, boosting their ATK and DEF.
A long-standing Prayer inherited from the knights of the capital. It is said that this Prayer boosted the morale of the expeditionary knights.
Secondly, Shabriri's Howl, unleash the Frenzied Flame!
"Ah—" Yu Jin covered his eyes with both hands, letting out a series of mocking and frenzied shouts.
Then, one after another, tangible orange-yellow ripples expanded from Yu Jin's body, clashing head-on with the fire dragon's crimson ripples—a manifestation of the Frenzied Flame's power.
Shabriri's Howl — a Prayer originating from the Three Fingers of Frenzy. It emits a mad roar, causing surrounding characters to accumulate the madness gauge. The caster also accumulates the madness gauge and becomes more susceptible to enemy attacks.
It is said that Shabriri was the origin of the Frenzied Flame disease, the most hated man in history.
The distant fire dragon saw Yu Jin howling. Even though it was mindless at this moment, it suddenly felt that Yu Jin was extremely annoying.
This caused its attack, which was almost fully charged, to once again fall into a state of fluctuation.
However, Yu Jin paid no mind to the fire dragon's state. He held a shield in his right hand and a staff in his left. He raised his right hand high, the Jellyfish Shield turned crimson, and Yu Jin himself became enraged.
resonate Anger — a combat skill that induces the jellyfish's anger, allowing the user to empathize. It boosts ATK for a certain period.
Yu Jin felt very angry. He was about to leave, but then this incredibly powerful guy inexplicably blocked his path.
Affected by his emotions, his speed in drinking elixirs increased by a few points. Yu Jin took out an elixir flask with a slender neck and a large belly, and drank the elixir within.
A massive amount of magic power emanated from the elixir Yu Jin drank, ensuring he wouldn't have to worry about magic power consumption for the next period of time.
Cerulean Hidden Tear — a Crystalize tear formed over a long period in the blessed lands of the Golden Tree.
When mixed into a flask of holy water, all focus point consumption becomes zero. The effect wears off after a short time.
Finally, Yu Jin placed the reddened Jellyfish Shield behind him, simultaneously casting magic with both his right and left hands.
He raised his left hand high, and a complex blue magic circle appeared from the Sky beneath his feet.
Magic Realm — one of the glintstone sorceries of the Raya Luca Academy of Magic. It can draw the Academy's magic circle on the ground, boosting the magic power of characters within the magic circle.
This was, in the past, a magic circle that covered the entire Academy, starting from its highest bell tower. Its clear success was like an instant flash of inspiration—it could make an infant who couldn't even walk grow into a sorcerer.
By this point, Yu Jin's body was already flickering with various colors of light, making him look like a rainbow person.
However, this was unavoidable. In the past, these buffs might have been useless to him, but now it was hard to say.
To deal with the guy in front of him, it was best to have every possible safeguard.
"Bang!" Although it sounds complicated, after a not-so-long period of charging, the fire dragon finally spat out a thick, solidified pillar of fire element power from its mouth.
Countless pitch-black streams of light entwined around the white-hot pillar of fire, staining this world-destroying beam with a hint of taboo.
"Eat my Azur's Comet!!!" Yu Jin roared, similarly thrusting out his right-hand staff.
A vast sea of magic power transformed into a verdant pillar of light, fearlessly meeting the sweeping pillar of light.
"Boom!!!" The savage fire element and the otherworldly Sky Ji Liu collided, and the immense power directly split the sea in two.
Around the fire dragon and Yu Jin, there was nothing else; everything was destroyed by these two immense forces, even the element power permeating the heavens and earth.
Countless colorful auroras rose from the Sky above this place, and the dark clouds that had always enveloped the Dark Sea were torn apart, allowing the long-awaited sunlight to spill over this great sea.
Yu Jin and the fire dragon were in a stalemate, both competing in endurance. Perhaps due to the corrosion of the abyss, the fire dragon's body had undergone an anomaly.
Under such a massive flow of element power, the dragon horn, which had been steadfast, suddenly broke off.
The momentum of the light pillar paused for a moment, and then it was inevitably swallowed by the Sky Ji Liu.
Amidst the colossal roar, a faint sound of breaking glass was heard. The fire dragon's horns were now completely broken, and in response, the light pillar gradually shrank until it completely dissipated.
The verdant Sky Ji Liu struck the fire dragon's body. The flames that had incessantly burned on the fire dragon's surface were also extinguished.
"Roar!" The fire dragon finally ceased its madness, and a painful roar emanated from its mouth. Azur's Comet had almost cut its entire body in half.
At the brink of death, the madness that had always entwined the fire dragon's body finally stopped seizing his consciousness, and the fire dragon's eyes regained clarity.
"You... you are truly strong, haha, no... no wonder I lost." With each word spoken, the fire dragon's aura weakened a bit.
"No," Yu Jin flew in front of the fire dragon, staring at his massive dragon head, and said, "It's not that I'm strong, but that when we clashed just now, you were standing on the left side."
It's an ancient truth that the left side loses in a beam clash; this was an experience Yu Jin had summarized over many years of clashing with others.
And this time, it proved true again.
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