Chapter 324: Battle with the First Iron Dragon King
After Garon sealed the Time God Nuisance.
The mirror image Garon shattered, ceasing to exist without accomplishing anything.
Garon examined the mirror through the time amber. It felt slightly cool to the touch, and numerous strange runes related to the forces of time could be faintly seen moving on the mirror's surface, which also bore countless cracks, its luster greatly diminished.
"Fortunately, it wasn't completely destroyed."
Garon breathed a sigh of relief.
In his perception, the Time God Nuisance was only somewhat damaged and could be gradually healed and restored using the power of time. It appeared to be a mirror, but it was actually a living entity.
"That went smoothly."
Garon had thought he would have to expend a great deal of effort to subdue the Time God Nuisance before battling the First Iron Dragon King. Now, it seemed there was no need for such trouble.
The Time God Nuisance was very receptive to his power.
Since the Time God Nuisance was just a shell with certain instincts, Garon's time power was exceptionally compatible with this shell. Upon contact, it was like lightning striking tinder.
Thus, even at the risk of being destroyed by the First Iron Dragon King, the Time God Nuisance's instincts had immediately defected to Garon.
This made the task of dealing with the severely injured and dying First Iron Dragon King seem much easier.
"What kind of dragon are you?"
The First Iron Dragon King roared in anger.
Garon could see that, after he had taken the Time God Nuisance, the First Iron Dragon King's hidden body under the rock layer began to visibly deteriorate at a rapid pace.
Buzzing resonated, and the boundless ocean trembled.
Realizing something was wrong, the First Iron Dragon King finally moved. The rocky layer covering its body crumbled away in crackling noises, revealing its severely damaged dragon body amid the muddy, turbulent waters.
The over five-thousand-meter-long monstrous dragon roared towards the sky.
In an instant, the seabed for hundreds of kilometers around fractured, with countless metallic ores rising and flying towards the First Iron Dragon King's body, quickly filling its battered form and transforming into temporary flesh and scales.
"Die!"
In a roar filled with boundless fury, the dragon's wings of steel swept up endless waters, viciously slamming towards Garon.
Without the Time God Nuisance's time-stop domain, the First Iron Dragon King's injuries could not hold up for long.
It had to reclaim the Time God Nuisance from Garon.
Garon unleashed a breath of dragon fire.
The Breath of Time Annihilation, like a refining waterfall, evaporated the water while slicing through the steel wings aiming for him, continuing towards the First Iron Dragon King, piercing a large hole through its body.
At the same time.
Hiss! A steel spike, thousands of meters long, had somehow formed beneath the seabed and surged upwards in a flash, piercing the wing of the unsuspecting silver giant dragon.
However, this scene suddenly collapsed and was absorbed into Garon's pupils.
With future sight, the First Iron Dragon King's premeditated killer moves could not escape Garon's eyes.
The silver giant dragon also roared.
As the dragon breath pierced the First Iron Dragon King's body, it swiftly darted to the right, narrowly dodging the steel spike that burst from the ground.
On the other side.
The First Iron Dragon King, just pierced through the chest by Garon, absorbed countless metallic ores, filling its wounds.
It roared and howled, its massive body churning the waters, like a steel-forged black beast lunging at Garon.
Its terrifying size was immensely oppressive to Garon.
Garon made a quick decision, his body covered by the Imaskar sacred armor, shining brilliantly.
At this moment, Garon employed the time-stop domain. The First Iron Dragon King's movements within his domain were restricted, as if stuck in a mire, becoming sluggish in all aspects.
Garon then sped up, turning into a streak of golden light. His body, like a golden line, swooped upwards and then swiftly landed on the spine of the First Iron Dragon King.
The Claw of Time-Space Rupture viciously tore at the First Iron Dragon King's body.
The Breath of Time Annihilation also emitted from his mouth, piercing through countless steel scales and flesh, but upon touching the actual bones and internal organs of the First Iron Dragon King, it could only melt slowly, losing its overwhelming power.
The effect of the Claw of Time-Space Rupture was similar.
With the filling of metal and steel, the First Iron Dragon King had regained a complete form, but its hardest body parts were still those remnant-like flesh and bones. After all, it was once a powerful godlike Iron Dragon Sovereign, known for its indestructible body. Even in severe injury and near death, its body's defensive strength was still incredibly formidable.
"Get off!"
Suddenly, dense steel spikes burst from the back of the First Iron Dragon King, stabbing towards Garon from all directions.
But Garon had already withdrawn preemptively.
Moreover, during his attack, he had prepared a spell that was now ready.
Tenth-circle spell, Icy Hell! Magic surged forth.
Absolute frigid cold centered on the First Iron Dragon King, covering the surrounding seas.
The boundless ocean water turned to solid ice, forming a massive, irregular icy orb, enclosing the First Iron Dragon King's body.
At the same time, with cracking sounds.
Numerous cracks rapidly spread across the surface of this ice crystal orb.
Garon's gaze shifted, and his time power burst forth.
Phased casting!
Simultaneously, more Icy Hell spells struck the First Iron Dragon King.
The thick ice briefly sealed the First Iron Dragon King inside.
Taking advantage of this interval, Garon took a deep breath and aimed at the materialized Icy Hell, performing a time amber sealing technique.
A translucent layer of time amber extended and gradually spread, aiming to seal the Icy Hell enclosing the First Iron Dragon King.
However, the First Iron Dragon King was too large.
When the time amber had extended halfway, it broke free from the confines of the Icy Hell.
Bang, bang, bang! Amid deafening sounds, countless shattered ice crystals and steel fragments flew in all directions.
The originally calm sea surface now churned violently. Under the clear sky, waves dozens of meters high surged, and steel and ice shards burst from the sea, crisscrossing like a scene from doomsday.
"Too bad, it seems I still need to completely immobilize it first."
Garon had noticed, as time passed, the First Iron Dragon King's injuries worsened rapidly.
He did not need to collide head-on with the First Iron Dragon King. Without the Time God Nuisance, its condition would deteriorate on its own. Garon's task was merely to engage it for a while.
Direct confrontation might even injure himself.
In the recent battle, Garon had a slight advantage, but the First Iron Dragon King was now like a mad, dying beast. Garon did not want to risk severe injury from a desperate counterattack.
Moreover, his offensive spells and time abilities were unlikely to inflict new injuries on the First Iron Dragon King's body. The apparent injuries inflicted by Garon were merely to the steel filling its body.
Considering
this, Garon changed his combat strategy.
He employed Time Stop, Slow spells, and other debilitating spells like Paralysis, Dizziness, and Feeblemind, all amplified by his Imaskar sacred armor and phased casting. While these spells had minimal effects individually, Garon's relentless application using phased casting made them somewhat effective.
Garon maintained an accelerated state, constantly maneuvering around the First Iron Dragon King without engaging in direct combat, using his dragon breath and spells for long-range control.
When the First Iron Dragon King pursued, Garon retreated; when it retreated, he advanced.
At this moment, Garon resembled a deep-sea shark waiting for its prey to bleed out, adept and unhurried.
As time passed, the First Iron Dragon King's condition deteriorated further.
During their battle from the deep sea to the surface, Garon and the First Iron Dragon King began to ascend.
Beneath the turbulent sea surface, two colossal figures emerged, followed by hundreds of meters high waterfalls suddenly lifting as a six-horned dragon clad in golden scales broke through the sea surface, bathed in endless seawater under the sunlight.
With a wingspan of a kilometer and a length of over six hundred meters, it was immediately detected by satellites monitoring the area.
Humans watching the satellite feed fell silent.
A sixty-meter-long dragon?
A target that could be dealt with a single missile?
In a conference room, under many watchful eyes, the defense secretary of the Lighthouse Country was at a loss for words.
But this was just the beginning.
In the next moment, as if moved by an invisible giant hand, the sea formed into a terrifying vortex, capable of swallowing everything. Another beast, over five thousand meters in length, burst from the sea like a flying mountain range, soaring across the sky.
"My God, what in the world is that?!"
The President, trembling, sat down in shock and dismay, his hands flailing unconsciously.
As the beast passed, the sea was torn apart, and the weather changed dramatically.
The endless sound of waves seemed like the wailing of the world.
Such a disturbance naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of other nations.
Thus, at that moment, the entire world's attention focused on the two gigantic beasts, one significantly larger than the other.
Garon and the First Iron Dragon King both noticed many prying eyes but disregarded them, focusing instead on their current battle.
The First Iron Dragon King, with its terrifying body, vibrated its steel wings and soared thousands of meters into the sky, initiating a chase with Garon.
The clouds in the sky were torn apart, and the dragon obscured the heavens as it swept over the ocean.
Hum!
A breath containing both electricity and fire covered the sky, like a river heading towards Garon.
Garon could not afford to be hit by the First Iron Dragon King's dragon breath.
He sensed the lethal danger; although the First Iron Dragon King was in poor condition, half a step into death's door, the threat to Garon was significant, far surpassing any demigods or sacred beings he had encountered before.
"If it weren't for the promise of divinity, just dealing with the First Iron Dragon King for a Time God Nuisance would be a severe loss."
Garon thought silently.
At the same time, he didn't pause for a moment. His body, like a stream of golden curtain light, maneuvered through twists and turns to dodge the First Iron Dragon King's breath.
During the chase, the dragon breath affected the ocean.
A mere moment of contact created a massive crater in the vast sea, and surrounding waters rushed in, but could not fill it immediately.
Soon, the two dragons left the ocean.
In their pursuit, they swept over cities, plains, mountains, swamps, and rainforests.
Garon, not wanting to cause too much destruction to the planet, intentionally raised their flight altitude, placing their battlefield tens of thousands of meters in the air. However, the storms caused by the dragons' flight still inevitably led to some catastrophic weather changes.
Nevertheless, there were no horrifying casualties.
Eventually, as time passed, after circling the Earth dozens of times, the First Iron Dragon King's injuries worsened to an uncontrollable extent.
In the southern regions of Earth, covered by solid ice.
A storm erupted suddenly, approaching from afar, turning the sky dark. In the high skies, a shadow obscuring the sun crashed down, piercing through the Antarctic ice, causing endless sea spray and trembling the distant Antarctic continent for a long time.
The First Iron Dragon King had fallen.
As this was a shallow sea, with depths not exceeding a thousand meters, most of the First Iron Dragon King's body lay exposed above the sea surface, with only a small part below it.
At the same time.
The silver dragon retracted its wings and slowly descended, stopping in front of the First Iron Dragon King.
Thud, thud, thud. Pieces of steel attached to its body began to fall off, and the fearsome steel beast soon became a grievously maimed dragon corpse.
The First Iron Dragon King, with its crimson eyes, looked at Garon.
"Grant me a dignified death."
It no longer bore a furious demeanor but spoke calmly to Garon.
Indeed, the First Iron Dragon King had grown tired of a life prolonged only by struggle.
Once a venerable Ancient Iron Dragon Sovereign, equaled in might only by the dragon gods, it had now fallen to a state where it couldn't handle a mere demigod dragon without relying on the Time God Nuisance to cling to life.
Now, that lifeline was running out.
The First Iron Dragon King had lost the will to struggle for survival.
Garon did not respond; he once again performed the time amber sealing technique, watching as the time amber slowly enveloped the mountainous dragon corpse.
During this process, the First Iron Dragon King was powerless to resist.
Finally, with its eyes open, the First Iron Dragon King was completely sealed in time amber.
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