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{I don't care how strong you are,} She climbed up my tail like it was a rope, {I'm not letting you go out there alone.}

Jax followed her a second later. They each used my spines like ladder rungs, and slid into their respective notches. I felt the barrier Gaia was building as I passed through it. The immense mana she imbued into it was incredible. She fully intended to block any attack that reached the front.

I wouldn't have to worry about any foolish humans getting harmed. I could fully focus on the battle ahead. My muscular, and powerful wings wouldn't fail me. Gaia could teleport even more accurately then I could. Her years of experience would allow her to teleport right up to the queen wyvern when she was done with her task.

My speed was good, but I'd wasted a good portion of my mana summoning Gaia. Nearly all of it if I was being totally honest with myself. The front line should be able to take out the weaker males if they were brought closer to Ethan the attacks the canons launched were almost guaranteed to land. This was going to come down to an all out brawl. Looking at them on my back like that reminded me of the blood I saw pouring from Ethan, and Savannah when we clashed with the alpha last.

Phantom pain shot up my new arm, and mixed with fresh red hot rage. I was too pissed to care about the boost I got from my wrath skill. The beam of unstable spatial energy that left my mouth shot out straight as a pole. Space around the beam shattered before snapping back into place a split second later. Killing everything that was near it.

Including two males in the front V that were unfortunate enough to be at the very edge of my range. I had to admit that I loved the attack I was able to unleash now that I'd fused with the spatial element. If I'd tried something like this before fusing I would have drain all my mana in a single deadly breath, but this lack of mana was really beginning to bother me. I needed more mana desperately, and taking from the environment around me wasn't a good option. The mana from this world was poison to me.

I couldn't just take it in freely like I could on earth. I flicked my tail, and roared. This single roar was enough to make the males want to flee. Shaking the sky around me with a wrath the humans had never seen before. I will kill as many of them as possible.

I refuse to fall until I've taken down every female at the very least. The spatial portal that opened ahead of me drew an angry roar from the queen wyvern, and some surprise from me since I wasn't the one that formed the portal. I took the portal anyway. It let where I wanted to go after all. I appeared behind the female on the furthest edge of the V. Gaia shot past me with far more speed, and purpose then I thought possible.

{It's wind manipulation at its finest,} Gaia surprised me by speaking mentally, {You'll learn how to do it eventually as well.}

I ignored the second thing she said as I dove into the females back. My talons scraped away the scales, and spines as if I were peeling away my own finger nails. It hurt, and I bled, but my sheer brute strength peeled away large swaths of the skin off her back while simultaneously healing myself. My teeth dug into her neck. I could feel them crack, and break, but new ones took the place of the old quickly.

Once the scales were gone it was all too easy to tear through her jugular. Leaping off of her back before the female next to her in the line could attack me. Rolling into a portal to fly parallel to the front line for a full minute while I watched my prey fall. Using the spatial element to fall in, and out of battle allowed me some room to retreat while keeping me in the battle. The wyverns would have to slow down so they'd have time to predict where I would come from.

To my surprise they actually sped up when the alpha roared. She was pushing them faster. She had to stay back to fight Gaia. Who was doing plenty to distract the large female. The massive elemental storms that surrounded her were powerful enough to potentially kill the wyverns around her.

She'd forced them to break formation. The males would fall like flies to my claws. They didn't stand a chance. The females were the problem. The males were being forced to group up around the stronger females.

System senses users desire to draw in surrounding mana. Calculating possible solution.

Shut up system. Now's not the time. The first of the canons went off. The battle had come within range of the humans weapons. I sped toward the closest group.

My roar frightened the males causing them to draw back. Closer to each other. I inhaled as a cruel sense of humor surged through my rage. Pouring mana into the breath attack charged with spatial mana. The black beam cut through the middle of the tightly packed group.

Shattering the space around it. Before space snapped back to normal. All four wyverns fell. Roars rang out from the rest of the females. Those roars were answered by the pure rage of the alpha as her mana shook the air.

Causing the entire sky to burst into flames. Gaia allowed the flames to pass through her harmlessly, but I wasn't as fireproof, and neither were my bonded. The foreign flames seared into the sensitive flesh of my throat, and stung my eyes. Yet I felt no pain coming from the bond. An image cut through my flame filled vision as spatial awareness became my main way of seeing the world.

Savannah was using her mana to cut through the flames as they came at her. Breaking the spell so it went around her, and Jax.

{I can protect myself,} Savannah drew upon the power of our bond, {Kill them all while they can't see you.}