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The Archaic Dragon Mage

Wyatt was alone in the world. When the rifts opened the world was thrown into chaos. Archaic mages came through those rifts, and war after war followed. The last war had ended when Wyatt was just a baby, but he had still lost his eye to it. The empty socket, and loss of depth perception made him an easy target. Wyatt being an orphan meant that no one back him up when he did get targeted. Wyatt was used to fighting for himself, and the draft was going to force him into military academy. He had no genetic markers to become an ability user so he had already accepted the fact that he would probably die during his two years required military rotation after the academy. It was just a fact of life. Non ability users were just cannon fodder, and archaic abilities were highly restricted. Wyatt didn't think anything off it. That is until he found a marble in an old rift area. A marble that would change everything.

Angelina_Bennett · Fantasy
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Killing the wyvern

"Keep him, and his whip out of the way," I growled as I looked at wyvern, "I'll focus on big, and scaley." I tensed as I got ready to pounce on the wyvern, "And move her somewhere else."

I dodged the wyverns tail as he tried to hit me with it. Timing my jump so his tail would pass underneath me harmlessly. I landed on his tail when he tried to swing his tail back. Taking a ride round behind him, and running up his spine. Stopping in the middle of his back to dig my claws, and teeth into his unprotected back.

I inhaled, and breathed lightning into a spot where I'd just scraped all the scales off. Scorching his flesh, and making him freeze up from the shock. He shook off the shock, and started bucking around to knock me off. I cut off the stream of lightning, and dug my talons into the burned spot. The wyvern screamed as my entire hand was plunged into the muscle that ran along his spine.

He lounged his head back to try, and bite me off of him. I inhaled again. Filling my lungs with mana once again. This time breathing ice into the open wound my lightning, and claws had carved. The flesh around his wound began to freeze, and my venom started to gain purchase.

The wyvern screamed again, and tried to knock me off of him. Flapping his wings, and bringing himself about sixty feet off the ground. Then he rotated his body with a quick motion, and dropping towards the ground back first. Squeezed in flat next to his spines, and covered myself in electricity. If this was going to hurt then I was going to make sure it hurt both of us.

His spines only took some of the force of the fall for me, or at least I think they did. It was hard to tell how much it helped when I was busy listening to all the broken bones that all wanted my attention at once. The wyvern writhed on top of me as the rate at which he was turning to stone increased. I tried to sneak my way out from underneath him as I was repeatedly being slammed into the ground, and broken. His body froze up as the stone spread.

Until his movements froze up entirely. Becoming a statue of a wounded wyvern writhing in pain with me still trapped underneath him. I couldn't heal myself completely since my ribcage was half collapsed, and I needed enough space to expand my ribcage to heal it. I elbowed the statue behind me while throwing the power of my earth element into it. Sending large cracks into the stone behind me.

I elbowed the stone again with the power of my earth element thrown into it again. Willing the stone to crack in a way that allowed me to be freed. Smaller bits of the stone started filling in what little free space I had. Rage flared through me. I didn't just beat a wyvern to die underneath it's stone carcass.

Strength surged through me, and I forced my way through the cracked stone. Sending bits, and pieces of the wyvern statue flying as my head broke through to the outside. I got my arms free. Healing them as I did. Then using them to pull myself the rest of the way out.

My ribs popped audibly as my ribcage expanded back to it's normal size. I coughed up some more blood since at least one of my ribs had pierced my lungs. If I had to guess I'd probably had five or six pierce my lungs. I stood there breathing hard for a few seconds as I took in the scene around me. The elf had switched to fire since my spell was sucking the mana out of any wind spells he tried to cast.

What elements does that idiot have anyways? I closed my eyes, and started reading his mana. Wind, fire, and space. From the amount of mana he was building up it felt like he was going to make an escape attempt. System does eye of the storm seal off space element spells?

Yes. Eye of the storm is a trap spell.

What happens when he tries to cast a space spell?

It fails or backlashes.

I opened my eyes, and smirked at him. Drawing my head back like a snake about to strike as I inhaled slowly. Then I roared at him. The stunned, and shocked look on his face when he turned to face me. I jumped off the statue to strike down the stupid elf in front of me.

He blasted me with fire, and the force of it was enough to push me off of him.

Attempt to gain fire affinity registered.

Thank you system, but not right now. By the time I hit the ground I was pretty severely burned. I started to heal myself, but the spell stopped working right after I cast it. The wave of exhaustion that hit me after that told me that my mana reserve was empty. Shit.

I stumbled as my limbs shook from the shock that was trying to set in. System consume dragon crystal. I steadied myself as my body began healing at a rate that was visible to the naked eye. My open mouth breathing became much more terrifying as lightning danced through my teeth. I strode forward slowly as the chill of almost going into shock left me.

"I'm going to kill you stupid elf," my teeth clicked when I snapped my jaws shut to smile at him evilly, "You should have killed me when you had the chance."

Panic joined the emotions running rampant across his face. He threw fire at the two of us. Forcing us both to jump back. Then he activated the spell he'd been gathering mana for. He smiled triumphantly for a second before the spell backlashed.

"You've been in my trap this whole time," I glanced up at the storm clouds above our heads, "You're not getting away."