Chapter 60

"Don't overestimate yourself." 

Letting out a roar, the dragon swung its tail at Zuyuan's direction in a sweeping motion. Avoiding the strike, Zuyuan jumped high to dodge the incoming tail while the dragon stared at Zuyuan's figure in the air. 

"Predictable as ever." Teased the dragon as dozens of magic circles appeared above him, all of them pointed towards Zuyuan. 

The magic circles began shooting out hails of fire balls, Zuyuan had his sword wrapped in Qigong while he clashed his extended blade head on with the flames. Cutting any fireballs into half, while he fell to the ground. 

"Grrr." Growling softly, the dragon tried to take a deep breath once more while it summoned hundreds of humanoid skeletons with the skull of a lizard to Zuyuan in droves. 

Making Zuyuan busy with the dragonewt skeletons, finally with enough time, the dragon let out its dragon breath right from its throat. Although its accuracy has been reduced by half, the dragon still let out its fire breaths to envelop Zuyuan in a wide scale area. 

Zuyuan had materialized his transparent doppelgangers as he moved in speeds that left afterimages, in the middle of combat, he saw a burst of inferno with the width of a hundred meters rushing towards him.

Taking a stance while he raised his sword high, Zuyuan swung down his sword right at the moment when the flames almost reached him. Holding the handle of his sword tightly, Zuyuan tried to withstand the recoil of the flames which passed through him as he cut it in two. 

The sea of flames turn anything except those right behind Zuyuan into ashes. Even though the dragon's breath was one of the strongest flames in existence, it could barely create embers on the ground of the world tree's trunk. After the breath subsided, Zuyuan had quickly used his ultimate speed to cross the distance between both of them. 

In the slow motion world, although almost all beings moved very slowly, except for Ryuhei and the fairy lord, the dragon could see that Zuyuan dashed at it while preparing to stab right through its heart. Snorting on the inside, it used a teleportation spell on itself and appeared right above Zuyuan in the sky. 

Forming another magic circle, but this time in the scale of hundreds, the dragon started pouring down a rain of fireballs, with each one as big as a human head, right towards Zuyuan. Every fireball was colored in silver as each of them were fifteen times stronger than ordinary fireballs. 

*Whoosh* 

The barrage of silver fireballs descended on Zuyuan while he moved with the fastest speed possible, granted by killing the abominations and undead for the past hours and increasing his body attributes by leaps and bounds. Furthermore, with his sword that cut through almost everything, Zuyuan slashed any fireballs that were too close to be dodged, slashing them multiple times until they had dispersed into the air without any chance to explode. 

Seeing that Zuyuan was still able to handle the hundreds of condensed fireballs, the dragon let out a snort in annoyance as it decided to not condense the fireball anymore and let it become the biggest fireball on its spells arsenal. 

Gigantic magic circle had emerged in the sky with the dragon right behind it. The magic circle shone with light so bright as if the sun itself would fall down to the earth soon. The air around the magic circle distorted as crimson thunders crackled around the edge of it. 

Shortly, a massive fireball with its width alone covered the sky in the distance, while its head could burn any water to vapor even though it was still more than five hundred meters away. After dropping the fireball that could be mistaken as a gigantic meteor in a glance, the dragon teleported itself two hundred meters away in front of Zuyuan and created another barrage of enhanced silver fireballs in a dozen bunches at the very least for the first wave.

"Sh*t." 

Watching the impending danger, Zuyuan tried to deal with something that was the nearest thing coming towards him. However, because of the sudden appearance of the gigantic fireball, the residents of the world tree began to falter as the vanguard soldiers in the frontline received retreating order and abandoned the stalemate on the front. 

*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!* 

Hail of silver fireballs had caused countless craters in the first wave as Zuyuan tried to avoid each of them. Unfortunately, with the fear of death and losing their comrades, more of the soldiers in the battlefield retreated. In addition to that, the undead army finally started rushing in and assaulted the retreating soldiers, including part of their battalion who had dashed at Zuyuan fearlessly and pointed their weapons at him. 

"Tsk." Clicking his tongue, Zuyuan could deal with the undead much better thanks to the silver fireballs. They didn't differentiate foes or friends, with that, all Zuyuan needed to do was to shift one place on another while he slashed any silver fireballs occasionally. 

"I guess, with this kind of attack altogether, it won't be so easy anymore, huh?" Spoke the dragon while the flames in its eyes flickered, "Let's take it up another notch!" 

With addition of the gigantic fireball in the sky, which was already halfway on its way towards Zuyuan, another vast magic circle had come into view right under Zuyuan's feet. The magic circle itself was much wider than the one that had formed the gigantic fireball above, with a span of a kilometer in a glance.

"You must be kidding me…" Murmured Zuyuan, while his eyes widened in astonishment. 

'I have to run away.' 

Discarding his movements that had been in a zigzag way, Zuyuan quickly turned his body and ran as fast as he could in a straight direction. 

However, before Zuyuan had escaped the radius of the massive spell, thousands upon thousands of flames pillars had been shot upward from the ground, eradicating everything on its path as all of them ascended higher and higher.

"Holy f-"