Chapter 72
Seeing the debuffs because of the domain of Eliazar, Zephyr had a premonition that he might be in deep trouble if he wouldn't do anything to solve this.
Feeling that his body became heavy and the sluggish movement, Zephyr felt a sense of urgency. However despite all these, Zephyr was still very calm.
He instinctively knew that panicking would not provide any help which resulted him for keeping his composure even knowing he would be on a dire moment.
Narrowing his cold gaze, Zephyr decided to use the power that Hyrkan gifted to him with the connection in their equal contract that was partially released from the constraints of the system.
[Dragon Force]
Zephyr's dragon scales immediately changed color that was resembling the dragon scales of the Arcane Dragon Hyrkan Lexus. Wings that that looked like a bird's feather unlike a reptilian one appeared in his back.
A dragon tail that has a stinger like look at the end also emerged along with the magic power around him became even more stronger than before.
Eliazar felt strange as he looked at Zephyr.
'Is it possible for a person like this to exist? How did I not know about this until now?'
Eliazar was feeling complicated as something about Zephyr had changed again. Not just he had already possessed several factors of powers that could break the power balance, he also released another trump card which surprised him even more.
Feeling the raging magic power that was gathering around Zephyr, Eliazar, a demigod gulped in uneasiness sensing it was nowhere near the level it was before.
He could feel that as if the constraints had already disappeared and as if Zephyr could now defeat him.
'How is this possible?'
Without letting him regain his composure, Zephyr pulled his swords out without any hesitation. Zephyr immediately dashed as he kicked the ground.
With the rise in his power, Zephyr immediately appeared behind Eliazar without a second passing. Boom! There was a powerful magic explosion after Zephyr's swords successfully landed on Eliazar's nape.
[Critical!]
[You have dealt 216,626 damage to the target.]
Blood spat out from the mouth of Eliazar and a deep and lethal wound appeared on his nape. His shock expression was not able to recover immediately as he was still in daze of what just happened.
"What just happened?"
Eliazar murmured in pure shock but Zephyr ignored it as he immediately soared to the sky. Clenching his swords tight, Zephyr brandished it as he used [Nova Ascension] at the same time.
[You have dealt lethal damage to the target.]
[You have dealt 829,726 damage to the target.]
Zephyr narrowed his gaze seeing the numbers of his damage.
'So stat's reduction debuff is really troublesome.'
Zephyr thought as even his power has already soared again, he felt something that is hindering him due to the reduction of stats in Eliazar's domain.
Just as Zephyr was about to attack again, Eliazar clenched his fist then spread his hand open. The magic power that had condensed in his hand broke apart and began to pour onto the ground like a meteor shower.
It was beautiful, but its effects weren't. Everything it touched exploded, and the ground quaked with another explosion that left nothing behind.
Everything in the arena were swept away, scattered and crumbled into pieces. Fortunately, Zephyr had managed to protect himself with his dragon wings.
"I still had no idea what is happening but all I could say is that your amazing!"
Eliazar has a big grin on his face as he looked at Zephyr who was now resembling a dragon in a humanoid form. He could hear his senses that is constantly screaming with intense danger.
"Well I also didn't expect for this to have to have this kind of effect."
[Dragon Force Lv.1]
Rating: Mythic
[Dragon Force greatly increases the damage done by standard skills and grants the user access to have more advanced and powerful attacks.
* Drastically enhances the user's physical prowess, speed, considerably boosts their magic power.
* Allows the user to access 1% of the Arcane Dragon's power.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Skill Resources Consumed: 1,000,000 MP
Cooldown Time: 2 Days.]
The damage he had dealt earlier towards Eliazar was also out of his expectation.
'1 percent huh?'
Zephyr thought it was ridiculous to rate it 1% when he could already deal tremendous damage to Eliazar yet the system was still calling this 1% of Hyrkan's power.
'If this is really just 1%, the power of the dragon's are really ridiculous.'
Now it made sense why the dragons was feared to the extreme and no one was able to slay any of them. Even 1% of the dragons power was already enough to make a demi-god like this.
Seeing how hard to believe this ridiculous thing, a thought flashed into his mind.
'Obviously this is not given to all dragons. It's because it's Hyrkan's power.'
Zephyr then remembered that Hyrkan himself said that he was the strongest dragon. Seeing how powerful the 1% of his power, Zephyr wondered how strong he really is.
Looking at Zephyr who radiated the [Dragon Fear] that was much more stronger than before, Eliazar felt his body wanted to shake but he persisted proving that he was a demi-god.
He thought that the previous Zephyr was a monster, but the current Zephyr is even worse. With that in mind, he immediately rushed towards Zephyr as he blinked, instantly appearing behind him.
Spacial magic hovered around his arm as attacked and aimed precisely at his heart. With the current power of Zephyr along with his super sensitivity, Zephyr was able to sense it.
Zephyr parried it right away but due to the force of Eliazar's attack, he wasn't able to completely parry it but it was enough to redirect his attack not to hit his heart.
[You have suffered a lethal damage.]
[You have lost 45% of your health in 1 blow.]
His vision became slightly blurry. A normal person might be stunned or died already but Zephyr was still fine. Looking at the system prompt, Zephyr found it hard to avoid Eliazar's attacks when it was all guaranteed to hit inside a domain.
Not to mention the damage he suffered when he already has tens of millions of HP due to using all of his buff skills. However, with [Absolute Regeneration] that was upgraded by the [Dragon Force], he doesn't need to worry about it.
[Absolute Regeneration has been activated.]
[100% health has been restored.]
"What... ? !"
'What is this situation?'
Eliazar was once again shocked seeing Zephyr immediately recovered from his attack.
"To think you also had the [Absolute Regeneration] of the dragons, you're really amazing."
He then remembered what Zephyr had said before the duel has began when he offered to lower his power.
(If you lower your level to a Tier 2 then this match would lost it's meaning.)
He thought at first it was interesting as he was curious where Zephyr's confidence came from. Now that he had witnessed that not just he possessed the demonic power, sage arts, and a pet that came from a transcendent race, he also possessed the heaven defying power of the dragons.
Zephyr on the other hand didn't care about Eliazar's disbelief. He prioritized that he should deal with the domain first or he might be destined to lose this match.
'I hope this works.'
[Territory of the Dragon, has been announced. You can apply your power within the specified territory.]
[Within a limited time, all attributes increase.]
[Within a limited time, all defenses increase according to magic power.]
[....]
The moment Zephyr laid his new domain, it overwhelmed the domain of Eliazar. Two domain was pressuring each other until the domain of Limitless Universe was slowly disappearing.
The feeling of heavy and sluggish body immediately disappeared the moment Eliazar's domain was overwhelmed and the debuff on Zephyr also disappeared. The already intense aura of Zephyr became even more intense than before.
"Cough!"
Zephyr immediately counterattacks and pierced the [Venomous Demon Sword] on Eliazar's chest. Eliazar's face was dismayed as he was caught off guard and spat out a big amount of blood.
Well it was understandable as his domain was suddenly overwhelmed by a Tier 2 when he had refined it to the extreme for thousands of years yet Zephyr managed to break through it.
Not knowing that the domain Zephyr had used was Hyrkan's domain that only held 1% of its true power. This could mean that even 1% of the Arcane Dragon's power, it was more than enough to deal with a Tier 5 transcendent.
This is one of the reasons why he was feared by all transcendents in Tensura as he reigned supreme among them.
He ignored the familiar messages and immediately used [Time Move]. As Zephyr appeared right behind Eliazar, he swung the Aura-infused Aetherius Dragon Slaying Sword while using [Lightning Flame Slash] at the same time.
However, before the attack landed, Zephyr's movement immediately became slow and a system prompt appeared at the same time.
[You have been affected by an unknown ability.]
[Agility will be reduced by 95% for 5 seconds.]
[Resistance failed.]
'This?'
Zephyr's sword became very slow but it still managed to land on Eliazar due to the benefit of the domain.
[Critical!]
[You have dealt 3,726,876 damage to the target.]
[The Aetherius Sword's option effect is activated, causing the skill '5 Joint Attacks' to be generated.]
[You have dealt 18,634,380 damage to the target.]
Zephyr felt an intense curiosity wondering why he became so slow earlier as he felt that the speed was on par when he was still a level 20 player. Ignoring the damage he had dealt, Zephyr decided to attempt something.
[* The user can fully recreate the skills of anybody within sight as long as he see it in action.]
Remembering the option effect of the Soulstone of Pride that he hasn't used yet due to the lack of opportunity to do so, Zephyr now concluded that now is a good chance.
[The skill, 'Chrono Lag' has been acquired.]
Seeing his attempt to copy the skill that Eliazar had used on him was a success, Zephye truly found the soulstones are interesting.
[Chrono Lag Lv.1]
Rating: Legendary
[Slows down the target's agility by 40% by manipulating time around the target that for last 2 seconds.
* If casts on self or allies, agility will increase.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Skill Resources Consumed: 500 MP.
Cooldown Time: 1 Minute.]
Because the source of the copied skill was from a transcendent Nephilim, Zephyr acquired the legendary version of the skill. However due to this skill being a broken one, the system deliberately lowered the skill to it's level 1 unlike to the level of the [Chrono Lag] of Eliazar.
Satisfied with the outcome, Zephyr immediately used [Lightning Body] and retreated for a while as he knows he would be in a disadvantage if he would near Eliazar when he was so slow within 5 seconds.
Eliazae immediately spread out his hand to blast Zephyr with the spacial magic, and Zephyr got his [Finger of Lightning] ready. As lightning and space clashed, a column of light soared up to the sky, followed by dust and smoke.
Seeing the explosion of the collision, Zephyr immediately remembered the defense of the Nephilims that he encountered earlier including the ones that Eliazar had also used.
Knowing the lethal damages of the demi-god in front of him, Zephyr decided to find an additional assurance aside from [Absolute Defense]. Remembering the barrier that Eliazar used earlier, Zephyr decided to copy it.
[The skill, 'Infinity Barrier' has been acquired.]
[Infinity Barrier Lv.1]
Rating: Legendary
[Provides absolute defense with a multilayer barrier and the severing of space around the user. Anything that attempts to penetrate this infinitely divided space will slow down to the point of appearing to stop completely.
* The invisible barrier created by the Infinity Barrier can be expanded to keep harmful substances away from the user.
Type: Passive
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Skill Resources Consumed: None.
Cooldown Time: None.]
Seeing that he was successful again on copying the skill of the demi-god, Zephyr thought in his mind.
'I wonder if he would show a surprised expression again when he will find out I copied his skills...This is exhilarating.'