This is not the End

Bloed knew that defeating the dragon was not easy. A half-hearted plan would most likely fail against a powerful demigod that could fight four peak demigods by himself.

Thus, since the start, he planned to risk everything in this plan.

It was the same for Wave, Eve, Kallevang, and Regina. From the moment they agreed to Bloed's plan, they were ready to risk it all.

They knew that this could be their only opportunity, to defeat him; thus, Regina, Wave, and Eve did not hesitate to show their trump cards, and Kallevang did not mind being injured to give Regina a chance to kill the dragon.

It would have been great if they defeated the dragon after that, but even when they failed, they were not disappointed.

Because they knew that the key part of the plan was about to start.

And at that moment, Eres swung her sword.

When Eres attacked, the dragon was caught completely by surprise. He never expected that an ant that he never considered could release an attack able to threaten him.

But as expected of a powerful demigod, even when he was caught by surprise and even though he was using most of his strength to defend against Regina's attack, he managed to barely avoid being killed by Eres.

However, what the dragon did not know was that Eres was not the only 'ant' able to injure him.

Just after Eres attacked, Bloed attacked as well.

Bloed had given his all in this attack. Normally, he could use Imaginary Slash three times, but this time, he decided to put his entire strength in this one slash.

Besides of when he used [Overdrive], this was Bloed's strongest attack to date.

But unlike Eres, Bloed did not aim to kill the dragon. Due to it, the dragon did not feel any killing intent coming from him.

Moreover, the dragon had used the last bit of his strength to avoid Eres's attack. Even if he noticed Bloed's attack, He could do nothing to stop it.

Every move until now had been for this one slash. Wave, Eve, Kallevang, and Regina never aimed to kill the dragon, but to make him unable to avoid Bloed's attack.

And they succeeded.

Bloed's Imaginary Slash cut the dragon's chest, destroying the last node and killing the devoured fused with him.

After that attack hit him, the fate of the dragon had been decided.

The magic array shattered, making the dragon suffer a powerful backlash. Moreover, with the devourer in his chest dead, he could not keep the domain working and his powerful regeneration was gone.

In one second, the situation had been reversed.

*Spurt!*

Cuts appeared all over his body, gushing out great amounts of blood. It was a result of the backlash caused by the magic array.

At the same time, his mana quickly started to leak out of his body, until the point that he could not continue flying.

The dragon turned pale. He immediately polymorphed into a human to try to control his injuries as he landed on a building.

But as soon as he landed, Wave, Eve, Kallevang, and Regina appeared around him.

"It's the end." Wave's face was cold.

The dragon did not reply. He just looked at the four demigods, calmly assessing his situation.

He soon noticed that although Wave, Eve, and Kallevang had exhausted most of their mana, Regina was still in good condition.

With his current injuries, if he tried to fight her now, he would lose.

"How unexpected…" The dragon said with a sigh.

He still could not believe that the direct cause of his defeat was not any of the four demigods around him, but a B-Rank boy that he did not put in his eyes.

"Life is full of surprises, huh." He looked in Bloed's direction, seeing him also looking at him with a calm gaze.

"What an interesting kid." The dragon chuckled.

Regina frowned when she saw that. For some reason, she felt that something was wrong.

"What are you planning?"

"Me? Nothing." The dragon shook his head. "It looks like I was too hasty. Unfortunately, I failed to destroy Academy City."

Regina raised an eyebrow, and Wave's eyes became extremely cold.

"Bastard... Why did you want to destroy the city? What is Returning Dusk planning?"

"You don't need to know what we are planning, Headmistress. You only need to know that Academy City is no longer necessary, and we are not the only ones that think so, but you already know it, right?"

Wave's eyes shook and her expression became stiff.

Just as the dragon said, she had noticed it already.

Academy City had become a stumbling block in the way of many ambitious people. If they wanted to fulfill their ambitions, Academy City must disappear.

For an instant, her eyes became filled with sorrow, but immediately, her expression became determined again.

"Academy City will not fall so easily. I will make sure to protect it. People like you will never succeed."

"Naïve little girl." The dragon chuckled. "Well, it doesn't matter. Fortunately, even though Academy City was not destroyed, I managed to get enough nutrients."

Wave was startled, but then, she remembered something.

The magic array around the city.

Eve, Kallevang, and Regina thought about it as well.

What was the purpose of the magic array? Why did the dragon was protecting it so desperately?

But just at that moment, the expressions of the four demigods changed.

All of sudden, they felt a spatial fluctuation coming from the dragon!

The dragon smiled. He looked at them calmly and grinned.

"This is not the end."

"Stop!" Regina shouted and attacked the dragon, but it was too late.

The dragon had already disappeared!

"So he was buying time, huh." Kallevang's expression became solemn. "He escaped."

"Not yet." Wave gritted her teeth. "I won't let him escape." Then, she closed her eyes and focused on the spatial fluctuations created when the dragon teleported away.

Finally, after almost five minutes, she managed to decipher them.

"I deciphered it."

"Where is he?" Eve asked.

Wave put on a complicated expression and looked down.

"Underground."