Chapter 526: So Much for That and Blood Burst

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Luo De burst into wild laughter.

Blood foam, shredded flesh, and broken scales dyed his entire outfit deep red.

He perfectly executed the flexible strategies of 【Reflexive Evasion】 and 【Spider Sense】.

The dragon's strength was indeed immense.

But its enormous body inevitably slowed nerve conduction, resulting in clumsy, sluggish movements.

Luo De combined flight magic with Repulsion Technique.

For nearly the next five minutes, he danced atop the Red Dragon Nas's body.

He flipped and darted like a gale across the dragon's spine.

As thunderous roars erupted,

each leap precisely tore away a large chunk of flesh.

In contrast to his wild laughter,

the dragon's enraged bellow shook the heavens.

The Dragon-Slaying Great Sword, as a specialized treasure with the 'Dragon-Slaying' property, was no longer describable as merely terrifying.

No spiritual enhancement needed. No skill boost required. Even immense force was unnecessary.

Luo De merely had to let the great sword fall with gravity onto the dragon's body.

The high-speed spinning dog-tooth saw could rip off chunks of flesh and shred vast swathes of dragon scales.

This overwhelming power

made Luo De wonder: "What the hell was all that restraint for?"

As long as strategy was sound, not brute physical strength,

the dragon's threat might not have been nearly so great.

"Get down here, lowly monkey!! ROAR!!!"

"HAHAHA—Is this the legendary dragon? Pathetic!"

Luo De's spirits soared, his laughter unrestrained and wild.

In mid-air, he twisted his body using Repulsion Technique, precisely dodging the razor-sharp fangs that swept past.

He raised his hand and used 【Ownership Binding】 to pull back the large pruning shears embedded in the Red Dragon Nas's thick neck.

Using the upward momentum of the spinning shears,

Luo De launched himself another half-body-length upward, slipping past the incoming dragon claw strike.

Slish-slish—

Blood mist sprayed!

The Dragon-Slaying Great Sword swept through.

It sprayed a wave of flesh between the dragon's claws.

The large shears were flung out again, still aimed straight for the eyes.

As the dragon was forced to shield its eyes in defense,

Luo De's left hand whipped out the spiritual whip of 【Painful Lash】, binding it around the dragon's claw, then yanked his body hard.

He stuck himself back onto the dragon's body.

He gripped the Dragon-Slaying Great Sword backward and slammed it into the dragon scales.

Luo De then used 【Spider Walk】 to sprint across the vertical dragon body as if it were flat ground, dragging the great sword behind him!

Riiip-riiip-riiip!!!

"Pathetic! Pathetic! Pathetic!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"ROAR!!!!"

The Red Dragon Nas let out a deafening cry of agony.

Far away,

the crocodile-man Jie Luo'en of the Blizzard Mercenary Company heard the screams and laughter, and couldn't help turning back.

He saw the gold-paying forest warden, alone, flaying the Red Dragon until its flesh was a bloody pulp.

His expression turned stunned and helpless.

He wondered inwardly: Does this forest warden really need us to hunt the dragon?

Never mind the Rage Cannon.

Just him alone carried two weapons capable of easily piercing dragon scales.

Captain Lai wiped dragon blood from his face and came over for a breath.

He too stared blankly at the distant scene:

"Mr. Luo De… what's going on? Is he even seventh-rank? Could he be one of those fate-born hero types? Are the half-deer's prophecies garbage? Even someone like this isn't a 【Hero】??"

Deputy Commander Blanch Jones—the internal leech who'd been sleeping with Jie Luo'en's son—also approached.

Because the Black Dragon Miha'i'er had been brutally beaten by the Red Dragon Nas,

and much of his dragon scales had been burned off by the dragon's fiery breath, leaving him severely wounded,

under the experienced command of crocodile-man Jie Luo'en, the Blizzard Mercenary Company handled the fight far more easily than any previous dragon hunt.

After an initial round of attrition,

the Black Dragon's most threatening ability—the corrosive breath—was neutralized by Mr. Luo De's other treasure, 【Binding Silk Ball】.

They had now reached the final phase: exhausting the dragon with wolf cavalry.

Thus, the team's three top fighters had time to chat here.

Blanch Jones licked her lips.

Her eyes burned with lust as she stared at Luo De.

"Commander, honestly—if you can help me get close to Mr. Luo De, no need to do anything else, just let him spend one night with me, I'd gladly trade ten years of my life."

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Jie Luo'en snorted coldly. "We agreed: after this mission, stay away from my son."

"Relax, big sister's already over that little boy. I'll write him a breakup letter myself. If I'm going to play, I want a man like Luo De."

"Heh… you really think someone like him would even look at you?"

Blanch Jones giggled seductively. "No need to worry about that. This forest warden's surrounded by non-human races—he's never tasted human flesh. Just once, and I'll make him feel my perfection~~"

Over there,

the Red Dragon Nas, still roaring in agony,

could no longer endure the skin-stripping pain. Hatred and resentment flooded his pupils.

Drenched in blood, he activated his internal fire sac.

This time, he did not spit it out directly.

Nas endured the agony, holding it back.

Molten orange heat swirled around his body; within seconds, his deep red scales emitted an unnaturally brilliant glow.

The magical energy from the fire was visibly visible, forming spherical force lines around him.

Nas rose on his hind legs and roared upward!

BOOM!!!

Like a sun exploding.

A furious ring of blazing fire erupted outward from his body.

The ground shattered and blackened; the air warped, as if the sun had detonated atop the dragon's body.

Luo De had been happily carving into the dragon's flesh.

Suddenly, he was blasted away by the violent shockwave.

All sixteen defensive spells shattered, then instantly reinforced by 【Defensive Domain】 layered over 【Dragon Scale Technique】.

Its power was less than a direct breath.

Thus, aside from his shirt being shredded and him being flung into the air, Luo De suffered no injury.

"A derivative use of dragon breath, huh…"

Luo De let gravity pull him down, limbs spread, free-falling toward the Red Dragon.

Wind and heat slammed into his face.

He realized all his previous fears and reservations about the dragon had vanished.

As long as he didn't rely on brute physical strength,

the dragon wasn't nearly as strong as imagined!

Below,

the Red Dragon Nas trembled violently, his dragon eyes filled with maximum hatred and agony.

Molten crimson light flared again from the gaps between his blood-soaked scales!

His jaws opened wide, glowing like a sun.

He ignored the sage's time, forcibly activating his fire sac.

His sole purpose: to crush Luo De with the strongest dragon breath possible!

Yet—

Luo De, falling freely, didn't dodge—he laughed.

Wild, arrogant laughter echoed through the canyon.

"Dragon's Breath! I won't move! So what if I don't dodge!!"

"ROAR!!!"

A torrent of flame surged skyward, instantly tearing apart the air with extreme heat.

Where it passed, space warped, wrapped in horrifying ash of death.

Just as it was about to strike Luo De.

The next moment.

The torrent twisted abruptly midair, veering off in a slight curve.

Swallowed by a black sphere suddenly expanded in Luo De's hand, deep as a abyss.

【Abyssal Maw】 spun silently, the flames torn into thin streams and sucked into endless darkness, as if even light could not escape.

The power of Dragon's Breath vanished endlessly within the black hole, leaving only a dead, empty void.

Nas's eyes widened to their limits, pupils shrunk to needles.

When the Dragon-Slaying Greatsword appeared, though he had feared it, he still looked down on it—he feared the weapon, not Luo De as a human.

But this time, seeing his full-power Dragon's Breath swallowed whole by a mysteriously appearing black hole.

In his eyes, arrogance and pride vanished completely, replaced by endless terror.

"What the hell is this?!!"

"Guess again."

Luo De, falling freely, slashed downward with the Dragon-Slaying Greatsword, hurling the returning Pruning Shears once more toward the dragon's face.

Then he spun his body, dodging another claw swipe.

This time, the Pruning Shears finally landed.

In a graceful arc, they slipped perfectly past the other approaching claw and plunged with a wet *plop* into the dragon's eye.

Nas screamed in agony.

But this time,

he didn't even consider retaliating.

His massive wings snapped open, beating violently and lifting him upward.

He wanted to flee.

Above the canyon, the half-elf Lily had been waiting for this exact moment.

A humming, resonant roar filled the air as purple gravity magic scraped against the atmosphere.

The canyon floor trembled, massive rocks shattered.

Dozens of glowing purple chains shot out like giant serpents, instantly wrapping around Nas's wings.

Nas roared and struggled, but the chains tightened further; with flashes of purple light, the dragon's wings were forcibly pinned, unable to fully extend.

"Forest Warden Luo De!!! Do you really intend to wipe me out?!!"

Luo De landed like a superhero, slamming into the ground with a *thud* that left a small crater.

Facing the dragon's roar,

he simply laughed: "What else? Invite you to dinner?"

"Your weapon can hurt me, but it can't easily end my life! I'll trade you treasure for my life and that of another dark elf—we'll abandon the matter of Coral Bay!"

Luo De paused slightly.

For some reason, he caught a hint of ambiguity in the dragon's tone.

Ambiguity at a moment like this always stirred curiosity.

"Mind if I ask—who is this dark elf?"

"Natalie Blackmoon. She's an innocent, pitiful pure girl. We fell in love here. I'd die for her."

Luo De smiled again.

Natalie.

Wasn't that the one trying to secretly use Lilies' bodily blood to murder Tiefling Lin Saixier?

Even this dragon got fooled. Interesting.

"You just said your life couldn't be easily ended? True—dragons are famously resilient. Hard to kill quickly."

"So… you agree?"

"No. I refuse."

Luo De shook his head and snapped his fingers.

【Julia's Blood Explosion】

【Current Layer: 124】

"Wha—"

Before Nas could finish speaking, his massive body stiffened.

Fear and humiliation still lingered on his face when it turned ashen.

Thick rivers of blood oozed from his nose, mouth, and ears.

Then his abdomen swelled rapidly.

*BOOM!

A massive bloodied hole exploded open in his chest!

Sprayed flesh and organs instantly dyed the canyon walls crimson.

The dragon began to tilt.

Then collapsed like a building, soft and heavy, onto the ground.

His hundred-ton weight instantly kicked up a dust wave that swallowed everyone present.

The three observers from the Blizzard Mercenary Company stared in horror.

Captain Lyle turned stiffly to his boss: "Please, boss, don't tell anyone I wanted a Yuanli cannon—I don't want to die."

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(End of Chapter)