Coiling Dragon

by welyjesch

  “This kid with a straw hat…he has a major figure backing him up?” The skinny man came to this judgment.

  “And that Draconian! The aura coming off from his body is so terrifying.” The skinny man’s heart quivered. “What is going on. One has a soul protecting divine artifact, while the other has such terrifying defense.”

  Right now, the distant Nisse was overjoyed. “Bebe’s Boss didn’t die. Bebe’s also fine. Wonderful, wonderful!”

  “Haha, Boss, let’s kill this bastard together.” Bebe said through their souls.

  “Fine!” Linley was exceedingly happy as well.

  The powerful strength he felt in his Dragonform caused Linley want to let loose.

  “Swoosh!” Bebe’s dagger shot out like lightning towards the skinny man.

  “Whoosh!” Linley launched himself from the ground.

  Linley shot out like an arrow, exploding forward and moving so quickly that his body turned into a blur. Linley’s right leg danced out like a saber, chopping down with a fierce, azure-golden light towards the neck of that skinny man.

  The speed was too fast!

  “Who cares who you are? Kill!!!” The skinny man was angry now as well.

  “Clang!”

  The longsword in his hand collided head on with the draconic scales on Linley’s right leg, creating a metallic ringing sound. After having absorbed a drop of that ‘blue drop of water’ and having been strengthened to a terrifying degree, Linley’s draconic scales were not one whit inferior to a Highgod artifact.

  Linley’s body landed.

  “How is that possible?!” The skinny man’s face changed dramatically. Today, he had been shocked too many times.

  Bebe came howling forth as well.

  “You have a soul protecting divine artifact. Then, I shall use a material attack! The skinny man’s body once more emitted those four lightning dragons towards Bebe, who didn’t dodge at all, instead charging at high speed towards those four lightning dragons.

  “BOOM!”

  The four lightning dragons landed directly on Bebe, then dispersed, but Bebe wasn’t hurt at all.

  “Die.” Bebe’s eyes were filled with murder.

  “How is this possible?!” The skinny man’s mind was in utter chaos. Linley’s freakishly strong draconic scale defense, Bebe’s soul protecting divine artifact…and now, Bebe used his terrifying physical defense to blast through one lightning dragon after another. The skinny man was at the verge of insanity. “Who are you guys?!”

  “Swish!” A metallic tail slapped over lightning-fast.

  “Clang!”

  The sword and the iron-whip-like draconic tail clashed. The skinny man borrowed that force to retreat backwards. Ignoring all else, what he decided he needed to do was…flee!

  “Freaks! Two freaks!” The skinny man cursed angrily. “Such freakishly strong defense, and a soul protecting divine artifact as well. Can they be two young masters from a major clan? But how can the young masters of a large clan come wandering around at the God-level, without a single protector?”

  The skinny man knew very well. The Infernal Realm had existed for a long time, and within it, there were extremely ancient, great clans!

  Those great clans were able to exist for countless years; naturally, they had power to rely on and special abilities. For the young masters of these clans to possess soul-protecting artifacts was very normal. Linley and Bebe’s performances were very much similar to that of those young masters of those clans.

  Only, why would high and noble young masters get involved with this sort of escort mission?

  “Big bro, kill him!” Nisse’s voice suddenly rang out.

  “Huh?” The skinny man was suddenly startled into wakefulness.

  However…

  A ray of black light flashed past his eyes. The skinny man didn’t even have a chance to react before the dark black light entered his body.

  The skinny man immediately collapsed.

  “Hmph!” Salomon stared coldly at the corpse on the ground.

  “Big bro.” Nisse immediately ran over, throwing herself into Salomon’s arms and beginning to cry. “Big bro, just now I, I almost was killed by him. Sob…” After having experienced the terror of a near-death experience, then being worried for Linley and Bebe, she finally was no longer able to hold back her tears upon seeing her big brother.

  “Don’t cry.” Salomon comforted her.

  “Big bro, just now, if it wasn’t for Linley, I would be dead already.” Nisse lifted her head to look at her big brother. “Just now…” Nisse immediately explained everything.

  Salomon, hearing his sister’s explanation, immediately turned to look at Linley. Upon seeing Linley’s Dragonform, Salomon was slightly surprised. However, his experience was much greater than his little sister’s, and he immediately bowed and said thankfully, “Linley, thank you. You saved my little sister’s life. I, Salomon Boyd, will never forget this!”

  Salomon Boyd. This surname one which Linley didn’t particular understand the importance of.

  ‘Boyd’ was a clan name which Linley had never heard of.

  “Big bro…” Nisse stared in astonishment at her big brother, Salomon.

  Her big brother wouldn’t easily reveal his identity. Why did he do so now?

  “For the sake of Bebe, even if I had to risk death, I would rescue Nisse.” Linley said. At the same time, he returned to his divine earth clone, his body once more becoming covered with the Pulseguard Armor.

  “Boss.” Bebe and Linley exchanged a glance.

  “Let’s hurry up and go.” Linley said hurriedly. “I don’t know what the situation is with Delia.” Linley was worried about Delia.

  Immediately, Linley, Bebe, Salomon, and Nisse began to traverse this sand castle.

  After having absorbed that blue drop of water, his Dragonform had quickly raised in power to yet another monstrous level. Linley had already made his decision.

  “My main body’s Dragonform has an exceedingly strong material defense, while it also has a soul protecting Sovereign artifact. It has sufficient material and spiritual defense. In the future, if I face an ordinary Highgod, I am capable of killing them head on. However…the soul protecting Sovereign artifact is damaged!

  Linley was still somewhat worried.

  “Ordinary Highgods using a soul attack aren’t able to use it to seek out a weak spot. But in Moon Lake Castle, when I was hit by the soul poison of the Godslayer Arrow, the soul poison was actually able to search for the ‘weak point’ in my damaged soul protecting Sovereign artifact to attack my soul.” Linley understood.

  It was just that the opponents he had encountered thus far weren’t very powerful.

  If his enemy was a powerful Highgod, the Highgod would be able to use his soul attack to seek out the weak points, then attack the gap.

  “Thus, in the end, I can’t completely reveal this trump card.”

  Unless it was critical, Linley wouldn’t easily reveal the secret of him being able to Dragonform. After all, only a trump card that remained hidden would be effect. Besides, his ‘Pulseguard Armor’ wasn’t weak either.

  Linley and the other three walked shoulder by shoulder, but were unable to find Delia.

  “Strange. Why has the sand castle stopped transforming?” Bebe muttered.

  Linley had noticed this as well.

  “Perhaps…the person who set up the castle of sand is currently busy battling, and so he has no energy to deal with changing the castle.” Salomon guessed. Salomon’s words were correct; at this moment, the green-robed elder, ‘Mr. Wind’, was currently battling with Learmonth!

  “BANG!!!!”

  A terrifying explosion occurred, while at the same time, the entire ‘castle of sand’ seemed to have lost its controller. With a rustle and rumble, the sand began to flow down, and the entire castle of sand in the blink of an eye transformed into boundless amounts of sand dunes.

  The castle of sand was gone!

  The destruction of
the castle of sand allowed everyone to see the sky, to see the Blood Sun.

  There were quite a few corpses lying about the sand. Many of the Fiends had died miserable deaths, while the lucky survivors were in the midst of the desert. All of them seemed to be astonished, including Inigo and his subordinates.

  “What is going on?” Inigo didn’t understand. How did the castle of sand which his teacher controlled suddenly collapse?

  Linley was staring at his surroundings. Immediately, he saw from afar the ashen-faced Delia, who had the Deathgod Golem by her side. “Delia!” Linley immediately rushed over, overjoyed.

  “Linley!” Delia’s eyes were immediately filled with joy as well, and she too rushed over towards Linley.

  Book 15, Priceless Treasure – Chapter 11, Secret

  In the middle of the empty desert, there were dozens of broken, bloodstained corpses. Both the forces of the Fiends as well as the forces of Inigo came to a halt in their attacks, while Linley and Delia tightly embraced each other.

  “Delia!” Only now did Linley settle down.

  Ever since they had been trapped into the castle of sand, Linley had been feeling a sense of terror deep in his heart. He was terrified of Delia dying. Linley would forever remember how Delia had been when she was young and at the Ernst Institute with him. And then, their reunion meeting at the O’Brien Empire.

  Decades had passed in what seemed like moments, and Delia had become the other half of Linley’s life.

  When he saw her, Linley’s heart grew calm.

  And didn’t Delia feel just the way Linley did?

  “Thank you, heavens.” Delia said softly in Linley’s arms. “Linley, just now, it was so dangerous. I almost got killed by that Highgod, but I didn’t want to die…I wanted to see you.” Delia, thinking back to the near-death struggle she had just undergone, felt her heart tremble.

  In the face of great danger, Delia had really gone all out, using both the Deathgod Golem as well as her profound mysteries of the Elemental Laws of the Wind.

  Fortunately, she also knew the ‘Doppelganger’ technique, and was also proficient at the ‘Dimensional Wind’. This allowed her to be lucky enough to escape.

  “I won’t let you be in any danger ever again.” Linley held Delia by the hand. Holding his loved one’s hand, Linley felt that his life and his soul were incomparably rich and filling.

  Just as Linley and Delia were absorbed in the joy of meeting again…

  “Bang!”

  A terrifying explosion sounded out in mid-air. A ray of green light and a ray of black light clashed multiple times, each time causing the world to shake. And then, the two rays of light landed on the desert sands, transforming into the green-robed elder and a black-robed Learmonth.

  The green-robed elder’s face was ashen. He stared at Learmonth, his heart filled with extreme terror. “This Learmonth’s power is even more frightening than I had anticipated. His sword techniques in the Ways of Destruction have reached such a terrifying level.” Prior to this, the green-robed elder had only wanted to tie Learmonth up for a while.

  Unfortunately, Learmonth’s power was far greater than he had imagined.

  This had resulted in the green-robed elder being the one to fall into peril instead. He didn’t even dare to allow himself to be distracted by controlling the castle of sand. Thus, he voluntarily released the castle of sand, focusing entirely on this terrifying opponent – Learmonth.

  Learmonth held his longsword in his hand, looking calmly at the green-robed elder, a faint hint of a smile playing at his lips. “Your power is not bad. You are worthy of receiving my most powerful sword attack.”

  The green-robed elder’s face instantly changed dramatically.

  “What? Most powerful attack?” The green-robed elder’s heart turned cold. Before this, he had been able to stay alive, but he had to use all his strength to do so.

  The experts who were watching, upon hearing Learmonth’s words, were all astonished.

  “Delia, let’s move backwards a little bit.” Linley held Delia by the hand, retreating to where Salomon and Bebe were, watching these experts battle from a safe distance. “I really rather look forward to seeing what their attacks look like!”

  Prior to this, when they encountered that bandit ambush, Learmonth’s sword attack had stunned Linley. This chance in front of him was all the more precious..

  “Those two old fellows played me!” Inigo cursed to himself. He glanced towards Salomon. “There’s no mistake about it, but we don’t have any more chances. It seems as though Teacher is unable to hold on any longer. It’s best if I leave!” Inigo immediately, stealthily merged his entire body into the sands, disappearing. Right now, everyone’s attention was on those two ultimate experts, and nobody was paying attention to Inigo.

  In addition…

  On the side of the Fiends, the only one who knew Inigo was that luckily surviving white-horned elder, but the white-horned elder hadn’t noticed the distant Inigo at all.

  “BOOM!”

  Learmonth’s entire body exploded forth with a terrifyingly powerful sword intent. Learmonth’s body actually emitted an enormous illusory sword that radiated the Way of Destruction. Learmonth seemed to have transformed into the nucleus of that enormous illusory sword, and a fierce, sharp sword energy was swirling around it.

  The power of the sword intent was rapidly rising!

  “Crackle…” The sword intent actually caused space to shudder.

  Everyone seeing this had their faces change. The Infernal Realm was one of the Higher Planes, and its stability was far greater than that of a material plane’s. The sword energy hadn’t even been released yet, and yet it already possessed such power. At what sort of level then would Learmonth’s most powerful sword attack be at?

  “Madman. He’s truly a madman.” The green-robed elder’s heart was cold.

  Learmonth’s power had already caused him to feel dread.

  “Hmph. So what if you are powerful. The Elemental Laws of the Wind are the best for fleeing!” The green-robed elder, faced with Learmonth, had already been awed and frightened by him. Suddenly, he transformed into hundreds of doppelgangers, dispersing in every direction.

  One of the nine profound mysteries of the wind – Doppelganger!

  “So many doppelgangers?” Delia was shocked, and Linley let out a surprised breath as well.

  When Delia used the Doppelganger technique, she was only capable of nine doppelgangers. This green-robed elder, however, had transformed into hundreds of them. The same profound mystery, ‘Doppelganger’, when used by people of different levels of ability would have tremendously great differences in power.

  “The Doppelganger technique is indeed an excellent fleeing method. Hundreds of doppelgangers, all of whom are hard to tell apart by their aura. Learmonth will find it hard to catch the right one.” Linley said to himself. However, Linley continued to watch Learmonth, waiting to see what his reaction would be.

  “Fleeing? How disappointing.” Learmonth’s voice rang out.

  At the same time…

  “Rumble…”

  In an area of a thousand meters surrounding Learmonth, out of nowhere, countless surges of sword energy appeared. The hundreds of fleeing doppelgangers were smashed into powder by the sword energy. In the blink of an eye, all of the hundreds of doppelgangers were annihilated, leaving behind only a single green-robed elder.

  “How is this possible?!” The green-robed elder’s face changed dramatically.

  Learmonth flew towards him at high speed, striking out like a viperous dragon. Wherever his body passed, many ripples in space appeared. The speed of Learmonth wasn’t lower than the green-robed elder at all.

  “I won’t be able to flee!” The green-robed elder instantly understood this upon witnessing the other person’s speed.

  The green-robed elder retreated backwards, while at the same time, a silver, string-like sword appeared in his hands. “Since I can’t flee, then I’ll go all out!” The green
-robed elder’s eyes were now filled with a ferocious killing intent as well, and green energy swirled around his body, forming into a what appeared to be a solid dragon.

  “Groooooowl!” The massive green dragon bellowed.

  Watching the battle, Linley felt astonished. “Essence of the Wind and the Profound Mysteries of Music.” Linley could immediately tell how powerful this attack by the green-robed elder was. “That enormous green dragon is not only capable of protecting his body, it is also capable of creating musical attacks to affect the enemy.”

  This was a support ability.

  “Haha…Starpoint Explosions!” The normally calm, emotionless Learmonth was now revealing his wild side. Laughing madly, the longsword in his hand shot out.

  The longsword pierced through the air!

  As it did, in mid-air, a black ‘hole’ appeared as the longsword twisted through the cracks of reality. Wherever the longsword passed, tears in space constantly appeared, and everything around it was transformed into nothingness.

  Facing Learmonth’s most powerful attack, the green-robed elder slowly brandished out that silver thread-like sword.

  “Rumble…”

  The silver sword was even longer and even narrower than Bloodviolet. It lashed out like a whip. Crack! Under the lashing of that silver sword, space itself split apart, creating an extremely narrow spatial tear, as a strange music rang out.

  The entire desert was utterly silent.

  Linley and the others were all utterly astonished by these two sword attacks. One was a terrifying sword that contained within it the Way of Destruction, while the other used the sharpness of the Elemental Laws of the Wind.

  “BOOM!”

  The silver sword, moving in a strange way, struck down upon the edge of Learmonth’s longsword.

  “BANG!”

  The silver sword suddenly exploded, transforming into countless silver shards which flew everywhere.

  “Swish!”

  The tip of the longsword almost instantly pierced through the green-robed elder’s forehead. It was so fast that the green-robed elder wasn’t able to dodge at all. His eyes were filled with shock, and fresh blood slowly flowed down from his forehead.