Chapter 600: Why Is My Career Panel in a 2D Art Style? Chapter 282

As he silently pondered what to do next, the elder named Rad Lingshi turned his gaze toward Sophia and Elise: "And you two little dragons—though not as perfect as him, you're still excellent specimens."

"Heh. Compared to you, those previous dragons were nothing but trash."

As he spoke, the elder couldn't help licking his cracked lips, as if savoring some long-forgotten taste.

Hearing his words, Sophia struggled to her feet from the ground, abandoning her usual sly demeanor, her tone now grim: "Rad Lingshi, the Dragon Calamity. I never thought even Lord Ma Zires couldn't kill you."

"Ma Zires? Hahaha!" Rad burst into roaring laughter, tears nearly streaming from his eyes before he finally calmed down. "So close… he was so close to killing me! Fortunate indeed that heaven still favored me—I survived, and can continue this research."

As he spoke, a venomous expression twisted his face, and he tore open his shirt to point at his chest: "But do you know how I've lived all these years?!"

"Since the day I barely survived, I've never had a single good night's sleep!"

Li Ang followed the elder's finger and saw his upper body was like a mummified corpse, covered in black-red, lava-like scars.

Seeing this, Sophia's expression remained utterly unmoved, her voice icy: "Your current state is entirely your own doing."

"When you tricked the corporation's employees under false orders, you should've known this day would come."

At this, Li Ang raised an eyebrow.

So the old man was a repeat offender—he'd done similar things before this heist, no wonder the Aio Logistics had targeted him.

But if that's the case, he shouldn't have rushed to surface so urgently.

Could it be that I'm just too tempting?

Just as Li Ang was puzzled, Rad suddenly laughed.

He pulled his shirt back together, then sneered: "My own doing? It's just the way of the world—victory makes kings, defeat makes corpses. I admit I lost to Ma Zires—he's already Level Seven. But you—"

"A bunch of Level Five crawling insects—where do you get the nerve to speak so boldly?!"

As he finished speaking, overwhelming malice surged from the elder's body.

Sensing the terrifying aura filling the air, Sophia's body hair stood on end, and she instantly understood why he was called the Dragon Calamity.

This thing… was clearly a humanoid dragon—and his bloodline was grotesquely mixed.

Hearing the faint, distant wails of dragons in his ears, Sophia's heart sank to its lowest point.

Just as Rad prepared to strike, several faint cracking sounds suddenly reached his ears.

The next instant, a pale white hand slammed hard against his chest.

Boom—!

The muffled thunder shattered the sky; the thick air was crushed violently, exploding into a spreading shockwave.

Rad became a meteor, streaking with blazing fire as he smashed straight through the endless mountains, leaving behind a bottomless trench in the earth.

The sudden turn of events stunned Sophia for a moment, then her face lit up with a smile: "Li Ang! You're okay?!"

"Mm."

Li Ang gave a slight nod in response.

The situation was too dire—he couldn't keep pretending to be controlled.

Now Li Ang stared at the distant, sky-blocking dust cloud, frowning slightly.

Under the Provided field of view of Dalaodongguan, he noticed the old man's condition was strangely unstable.

At his strongest, he nearly reached Level Seven; at his weakest, he was barely above Level Five.

'Ma Zires' lingering wounds, then.'

As this thought flashed through his mind, Li Ang took a slow breath and forced himself to calm down.

If his guess was right, things would likely change again.

Just as Li Ang thought this, Rad's disbelieving, aged voice suddenly rang out from the collapsed mountains: "How did you break free?!"

The Dragon Calamity stared fixedly at the young man standing calmly in the distance, utterly baffled—how had he escaped the control technique specifically designed for dragons?

At this, Li Ang smirked: "Guess."

Targeting 【Dragon】… what does that have to do with me, 【Human】, 【Daitonmoku】, or 【Demon】?

What? Trying to use yesterday's sword to cut today's official?!

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Seeing Li Ang refused to answer, Rad's face darkened.

But he quickly composed himself, his eyes greedily scanning the young man up and down: "No need to answer. Either way, you'll end up on my lab table."

With that, he tore off his tattered clothes, revealing his horrifying upper body, and

a fully dragonized left hand.

Rad gently caressed the smooth scales covering his dragonized hand, a look of rapture on his face: "Indeed, dragons are the most perfect beings. All those experimental data were worth it."

He then turned to Li Ang: "And you… are the next step for me."

Seeing this, Sophia's eyes flickered with revulsion—she would never admit that thing was her kind, even though its veins truly pulsed with the blood of countless dragons.

At this moment, Lao Wu and Pan Mingrui had also arrived behind Li Ang.

Looking at the old man across from them, who resembled a public exhibitionist, both felt speechless.

Compared to him, even they didn't seem so deranged.

No—they weren't deranged to begin with!

As their thoughts diverged, Li Ang suddenly asked in an oddly tone: "Oh? You're also a dragon among dragons?"

"A dragon among dragons?" Hearing the title, Rad paused, then grinned: "A good name. After I advance further, I'll take it."

"Is that so… then take a look at this."

Before Rad could react, Li Ang suddenly pulled out a blood-soaked inverted cross.

【Inverted Cross of the Dragon Eater】.

The next instant, this divine relic forged by the Dragon Eater Samiel erupted into a stinking black mist.

In an instant, all dragon-type beings present felt their power plummet drastically—even Sophia and Elise, his allies, were not spared.

The Gemstone Dragon looked at the enormous inverted cross before her and asked with some difficulty, "Li Ang, this is?"

"Oh, I ran into a venomous snake earlier, so I killed it on a whim."

Hearing this, Sophia opened her mouth, then hesitated.

A v-venomous snake?

It doesn't really look like one, and what kind of venomous snake could be this powerful, capable of suppressing dragon-kind on the level of bloodline...

But in the end, she asked nothing.

After all, Li Ang was always like this—every now and then he'd pull out some bizarre, inexplicable thing, and no one knew where he got them.

Just because Sophia had no intention of investigating didn't mean others didn't.

With the appearance of the 【Dragon-Eater's Inverted Cross】, an expression of utter astonishment came over Rad's face; he hadn't expected the young man opposite him to possess a tool capable of suppressing him.

'What is that?!'

Gazing at the inverted cross planted in the distant earth, radiating endless black mist, the old man's heart was filled with confusion.

At the same time, Lord Luonan, who had been lurking in the shadows watching the show, raised a brow at the scene unfolding in the arena and couldn't help muttering, "Interesting."

He had expected the battle to be one-sided, but now it seemed it might drag on a while longer.

Of course, this 【Man in the Mirror】 did not believe that young demonic dragon could claim final victory—a judgment he had made the moment Rad revealed himself.

"Dragon Bane."

Luonan murmured the name to himself, then shook his head slightly.

Running into this fellow could only be considered bad luck for the little ones below; after all, even he had thought the other had long since perished.

"I wonder if there are any other variables. If not..."

Thinking this, Luonan began to consider whether he should step in at a critical moment to break the deadlock.

On the battlefield.

After a brief silence, Rad spoke first: "I didn't expect you to have something like this. I'm growing more and more curious about you."

Before his words had even faded, he vanished on the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already before Li Ang.

A shrill wind howled through the dragon's claws, sharp enough to seem as though it could tear the air apart.

The terrifying force capable of splitting the earth was unleashed without reservation; the air collapsed in an instant, and the shockwave it raised made heaven and earth tremble.

Boom boom boom—!

In the span of a heartbeat, the two figures collided repeatedly in the air, claw shadows and fist shadows interweaving, the sounds of detonation coming one after another, as if countless bolts of lightning were exploding across the heavens at once.

Only after truly clashing did Li Ang realize with absolute clarity just how powerful the Sixth Energy Level was.

Even weakened by the 【Dragon-Eater's Inverted Cross】, Rad was not someone Manfred's avatar could hope to compare to!

As for Borugas...

Strictly speaking, he had never truly crossed hands with the other.

What Li Ang didn't know, however, was that Rad was even more shocked than he was at this moment.

The old man hadn't expected this little thing before him to actually be able to fight him—even though it was an extremely strained effort, it was still an utterly outrageous thing.

'Indeed... there's something strange about this little thing.'

Having lived so long, Rad knew all too well the gulf between different Energy Levels, let alone the fact that his class, even viewed across the entire universe, could be counted as powerful.

'Interesting. Looks like I'll have to find a way to dig the class information out of his brain later.'

As such a thought flashed through his mind, the old man bared his teeth in a smile that boded no good.

Bloodline, class... he wanted all of it!

Though both of them were thinking of other things, the movements of their hands did not pause for even a moment.

Yu Bo caused the continental plates to tremble faintly, and countless gamblers cowered in the casinos, wailing for their mothers.

They had never expected that they had merely come for a bit of fun, only to stumble upon a battle between high Energy Level powerhouses.

Damn this great casino—doesn't anyone step out to stop something like this?!

After the deadlock dragged on for quite a while, Rad ignored the elemental turbulence constantly tugging at him from all sides, forcibly broke through the golden light before him that was enough to split heaven and earth, and finally ripped open the cloth across Li Ang's chest with a vicious claw strike.

Hiss—

Amid the sound of tearing fabric, the scene of blood spraying in all directions he had anticipated did not appear; in its place was a milky-white Qi cluster slowly dissipating into the air.

【Reverse Birth: Three Layers】!

Seeing this, Rad's heart was instantly filled with foreboding.

'Not good!'

Looking at the ever more dazzling golden light in the youth's eyes, his expression tightened at once, and he instinctively threw out his right fist.

Boom—!

The blazing shockwave devoured everything; a figure was struck by that terrifying force, streaking across the sky like a meteor, flying toward the depths of the universe at a speed the naked eye could barely track.

Then, the very next moment, that figure slammed heavily into a frigid planet.

The dead planet, silent for tens of thousands of years, met its end in that single instant.

The impact raised towering flames and waves of dust; the planet's surface shattered completely, and cracks spread in the blink of an eye all the way to the depths of its core.

In the end, the terrifying force of the collision knocked the planet from its orbit, and it slowly plunged toward the blazing star.

Seeing this, Sophia and the others immediately shouted, "Li Ang!"

Though they had long braced themselves, when they truly saw their companion's fate unknown, they still could not help but fall into despair.

Old Wu and Pan Mingrui exchanged a glance, and immediately prepared to contact 【Giant God's gravity】 for support.

But before they could make any move, countless tentacles had already bound them tightly to the spot.

At the same time, an aged voice came from the site of the explosion: "Stop yelling. I can't bear to kill him."