Chapter 419: One Hammer Blast

Roar…

The sky‑splitting dragon's might spreads with the roar, followed by a deluge of dragon breath descending from the heavens.

Bo Erqi's dragon breath can spew out up to one hundred fifty meters.

Three streams of dragon breath erupt side by side, widening the lethal zone; a single exhalation can drown an entire street. For the alien races on the ground, whether they hide in alleys or houses makes no difference—under the dragon breath there is nowhere to hide, no escape route.

High temperature, purification and corrosion—three distinct flame effects act like a bulldozer, destroying everything on the ground.

Bo Erqi flies through from mid‑air, leaving a hundred‑meter‑wide ruin in its wake.

In the wreckage no intact corpse can be found, nor any blood; the buildings are razed flat, and even the earth has been melted into lava by the flames.

Lei En sits on the dragon's back, letting Bo Erqi unleash its dragon breath to its heart's content.

Hoo!

Hoo!

Hoo…

The massive dragon's silhouette circles back and forth over Ma Zhuosi, climbing, diving, exhaling; every ten‑odd seconds the cycle repeats. Buildings around the Lord's Castle blaze fiercely, flames shooting skyward, and even those far outside the city can see the rolling thick smoke.

That day, the golden three‑headed dragon cast a shadow over the hearts of countless Ma Zhuosi residents; the scene before them resembled the arrival of the apocalypse.

Lei En looks down upon the burning city.

Most of those who die under the dragon breath are alien races, almost all followers of Luo Xi; a few are humans, who live around the Lord's Mansion in Ma Zhuosi and hold relatively high status, and are more or less linked to the evil god.

Therefore he feels no mental burden, calmly watching it all.

The energy in his soul‑power pool rises rapidly; the souls of enemies slain by the dragon breath are siphoned from afar and converted into his own soul power.

But now is not the time to use soul power.

Lei En glances at the Lord's Castle; the battle inside continues, and because there are Silver‑armored Knights and Extreme Warriors inside, Bo Erqi's dragon breath has been avoided.

After spewing dozens of breaths, Bo Erqi feels somewhat fatigued, and its flight speed slows a little.

"That'll do."

Lei En pats the dragon's back, and a flash of blue light catches his eye.

The light is extremely fine and restrained, shaped like an arrow with a tail a few meters long, moving as fast as lightning; even with his reaction it is almost impossible to track, and in an instant it darts from afar, piercing space under the cover of flames.

Lei En doesn't even have time to warn Bo Erqi; the arrow‑light already strikes the giant dragon beneath him.

Whoosh!

Only then does he hear the sound of the air being torn.

The arrow shaft hits Bo Erqi's chest; a golden holy‑light barrier automatically activates, yet astonishingly it pierces the protection, drives through the dragon scales and embeds beneath the skin.

Then a startling chill erupts.

Awo!

Bo Erqi lets out a painful howl; the chill instantly spreads over its body, solidifying into frost, turning it into a massive ice statue that falls from the sky.

Lei En on the dragon's back is also frozen; the chill invades his body but causes little damage.

He exerts a little force and breaks free of the ice.

His gaze locks onto the source of the arrow, about eight hundred meters away: a five‑story bell tower. At its top stands a tall human transcendent, holding an enchanted longbow, eyes sharp. He meets Lei En's stare for a moment, eyes widening in surprise, then flips and leaps down from the tower, vanishing.

"Legendary elemental archer."

Lei En snorts coldly, thinking it's no wonder he was ambushed.

An elemental archer, a relatively rare advanced profession, can bind spells onto arrows to strike distant targets, comparable to a sniper of a past life.

Bo Erqi, after all, is a legendary Mid-stage adult dragon with extremely high resistance; halfway down it already broke free of the freeze, flailing its wings desperately to lift again, but it was still a bit too late.

Seeing it about to crash into a building, Lei En calls out lightly:

"Transform."

Bo Erqi's reaction is swift; its massive dragon body shrinks into a human form, instantly dons a light‑forged holy armor, and drops onto the ground with moderate weight, toppling a courtyard wall and becoming trapped beneath it.

Lei En flashes half a step ahead, landing lightly.

He steadies himself and immediately senses danger.

A sharp aura slashes out behind him, as if materializing from nowhere; Lei En doesn't turn to look at the assailant, doesn't think, transforms into lightning, whooshes up with a "pa‑la" sound, then loops back from another direction, landing beside Bo Erqi.

Only then does he see the enemy: a tall snake‑man wielding two curved blades.

"Snake‑man assassin, also of legendary realm."

A snake‑man's form is similar to a human's; they have four limbs, can stand and walk, with a snake head sprouting from the neck, a long tail trailing behind, standing over two meters tall, slender and swift, with extremely agile movements.

This snake‑man is taller than ordinary ones, its body covered in dark‑gray smooth scales; the curved blades in its hands are matte‑finished, blades a ghostly blue, clearly coated with deadly poison.

A flash of surprise passes through its pair of small eyes; it didn't expect this strike to miss.

Sizzle!

The snake‑man assassin spits a bifurcated fang, emitting a hiss; dozens of snake‑man warriors and assassins pour in from inside and outside the courtyard, almost all above Mid-stage, including several high‑stage assassins, each agile, their tails flickering to form after‑images, surrounding from all directions.

"Another ambush."

Lei En's vision flashes; the legendary snake‑man assassin's figure fades, about to slip into the shadow plane.

He immediately opens his mouth, his throat vibrating.

A massive dragon roar erupts in the courtyard, the air rippling, forming a visible shockwave with terrifying dragon might, instantly plunging the surrounding snake‑men into panic.

Only two or three snake‑men have protective spells, shielding them from the dragon might, but even they are momentarily halted.

Bang!

Lei En swings his war hammer down heavily.

Countless bolts of lightning burst forth, sweeping the entire courtyard; under the boost of tenth‑level power, the thunder‑strike lightning rivals the Five‑Ring spell, and the terrifying current devours the snake‑men cowed by the dragon's roar.

After a breath, the courtyard is cleared; the overwhelming majority of snake‑men turn to ash.

That legendary snake‑man assassin was first stunned by the dragon's roar, then struck by the lightning. Its resistance is high; its enchanted leather armor withstands the electric damage, but its slip into the shadows is interrupted, its muscles go numb, exposing its form.

He looked with horror; at that moment his mind held only one thought: to run!

A massive electric claw shot toward him, but it only caught a phantom.

"Such speed."

Lei En's peripheral vision caught a gray shadow; the snake‑man assassin moved in a strange "Z" pattern, circling to his side without attacking, then leapt over the collapsed wall.

"Trying to run?"

He was about to flash‑step for a chase when a golden figure burst from beneath the fallen wall; Bo Erqi, clad in Holy Armor, shouted, "Get out of here!"

That roar carried the might of a dragon.

At the same time he swung his two‑handed sword in a horizontal slash, Holy Light forging a curved blade of light.

The snake‑man assassin was caught off guard, barely raising his twin blades to block the strike; with two clanging sounds the curved swords snapped, and he nearly had his gut ripped open, his body falling back. He didn't forget the even more terrifying foe behind him; as he turned, a hammerhead loomed infinitely large before his eyes.

Bang!

With a burst, the assassin's head was hammered into mush.

Bo Erqi spat at the assassin's corpse, a pained expression on his face. Dragon blood seeped from his left rib, the wound caused by the earlier arrow.

"Is it badly wounded?" Lei En asked with concern.

Bo Erqi cast Holy Light Healing Technique three times in succession on himself, sealing the wound, and shook his head: "Boss, I'm fine, just a minor injury."

Lei En nodded, raised his hand and opened a Portal, saying, "Follow me."

After passing through the Portal three times, the two appeared behind an inn; Bo Erqi looked around, puzzled, then saw Lei En smash a wall with a war‑hammer, bolts of electricity striking behind it, accompanied by screams.

Bo Erqi brandished his sword and charged in.

With a bang, the inn's roof was ripped open, and someone fled in panic.

Lei En bent his legs and performed an Aerial Leap into the heights, spotting the elemental archer sprinting across the roof; sensing the airborne foe, he turned and unleashed seven enchanted arrows in succession.

The arrows flew at blistering speed, not deliberately aimed at Lei En, scattering across the sky, yet they automatically curved mid‑flight, striking him from various angles; each bore a different enchantment—flame, Armor Penetration, freeze, Magic Penetration, and so on, a dazzling display of colors.

For anyone below the Legendary rank, each incoming arrow is lethal.

In a single breath, the arrows reached his front.

Lei En flash‑stepped aside, the arrows missing, yet they didn't fall; like homing missiles they kept altering direction toward him.

These enchanted arrows were mentally controlled by the elemental archer, locked onto him.

"Interesting."

Lei En remained composed, drew his Arcane Torrent Staff to accelerate casting, and opened a Portal at top speed, leaping through.

The seven arrows pursued through the Portal as well.

On the other side of the Portal lay the elemental archer's escape route; Lei En emerged to see the archer drawing his bow and firing an arrow at him.

The distance between them was under twenty meters.

At such close range dodging the arrows was extremely hard, yet Lei En didn't try to evade; with a roar he smashed his feet through the entire roof, launching a charge.

Halfway through the charge, an arrow struck his chest.

The elemental archer was confident in the arrow's power, believing even a great dragon could be pierced.

Sure enough, the arrow easily pierced Lei En's mithril light armor; a layer resembling dragon‑scale skin emerged, then was breached, and the arrow shattered like striking steel, leaving only a white scar—Lei En emerged unscathed.

"This…" the elemental archer's eyes bulged wildly.

He didn't perceive the subtlety, yet it was already too late.

Lei En, with the arrow lodged, charged forward and swung his hammer.

Several protective barriers flickered on the archer, but under the war‑hammer's blow they were no tougher than eggshells; his body was instantly pulverized, bones shattered, and a rain of blood fell from the roof.

The seven trailing arrows lost momentum and fluttered down.

Only then did Bo Erqi smash through the roof and leap up, seeing only the elemental archer's enchanted longbow, which had fallen at Lei En's feet and was picked up.

There are only two chapters left today; tomorrow continues.

(End of chapter)