Chapter 87

After receiving the slash of Zephyr that exploded an additional fire damage, Nima roared loudly with disbelief.

(What is this sensation? Pain?!)

He muttered in his mind as if something unbelievable was happening at this moment.

(How could someone like me, a great absolute dragon feel pain?)

As an evil dragon, he had already faced countless transcendents but he wasn't affected by their attacks at all except from the attacks of his fellow dragons yet, he was feeling real pain at this moment from an attack of a mortal who wasn't even a Tier 5 transcendent.

As an absolute transcendent that live for millions of years, he is a being that helds countless knowledge and wisdom and his head.

Staring at the one responsible for the pain he had felt, he then noticed something from Zephyr that shouldn't be possible as this power was not supposed to be in the hands of a mortal

(This is...divinity?)

He had overlooked this earlier as he didn't think that this proclaimed dragon slayer or what so ever could do something but for him who managed to obtain a divinity when he was just a Tier 2, is something that has not happened before.

A divinity should be obtained if one is in the process of ascending to Tier 5 and one would obtain a specific based on the individual's personality or certain actions.

As Zephyr is a Sword Saint, he was able to cut anything so far which leds him to have a divinity effect of ignoring the defense of the target which made it even deadlier for someone who could cut anything when the defense that neutralizes the damage of the cutting power would disappear.

The effect of Zephyr's divinity applied to any attacks of his. Aside from his attacks that ignores any form of defense, it would also ignore any pain reduction and increase the pain by 300% of the taken damage.

As Nima has received millions of damage from Zephyr, the pain he had felt was amplified by 300% of the damage which made him release roar because of experiencing a tremendous pain that he hasn't felt for a long time.

Seeing that Nima was currently in pain, Zephyr decided not to stay idle and took the opportunity that may never happen again. He immediately appeared where the tail of Nima that he had cut and pressed his hand as he muttered in a low voice.

"Devour."

[The Soulstone of Gluttony's 'Predation' has been activated.]

[The Soulstone of Gluttony is attempting to devour the target.]

Zephyr then maximized the output of [Predation] to make sure to absorb the tail of the evil dragon who had once spread fear and chaos throughout Tensura.

He knew that any parts of the dragon's body surpasses the value of a national treasure and he was not stupid to let the opportunity pass especially when the [Wise One] was suggesting him to devour it.

Due to it being cut by him, he managed to absorb it without any resistance to it being disconnected with Nima.

['The Soulstone of Gluttony' reveals more hunger.]

[The Soulstone of Gluttony has succeeded in absorbing the target.]

[Energy Drain is starting.]

[...]

[...]

[Strength stats has increased.]

[Agility stats has increased.]

[Intelligence...]

[Vitality...]

[The draconic factors are being awakened.]

[The draconic factors are being awakened.]

[The draconic...]

As the tail was coming from a Tier 6 Evil Dragon and an Ancient Dragon King at that. Zephyr felt an addicting feeling of awakening a new source of power. Zephyr felt bliss for a moment as the feeling was different from devouring the demons.

As Zephyr was focused to the predation, the [Wise One] was still operating as it immediately controlled all levitating swords and made it rush where the wound of Nima.

As he don't want to be a burden, Ericson also didn't waste the golden opportunity that Zephyr created as he also rushed where the wound of Nima before it could regenerate and grow again.

Ericson then released his own buff skills and attack with his strongest skill or martial art in his disposal. Seeing Ericson who was about to hit it, the [Wise One] on Zephyr's consciousness rapidly controlled all swords to strike at the same time the moment Ericson's attack landed.

With the exquisite timing of the attacks, all attacks that is coming from Ericson and Zephyr landed to Nima's bleeding wound at the same momentum and the damage was accumulated as one.

[Critical!]

[You have dealt 13,568,717 damage to the target.]

Seeing the system prompt, Zephyr turned his attention again to Nima who released another roar. He himself was aware of what just happened and knew that the [Wise One] was responsible for this. He then glanced at Ericson who received a title from his achievements of successfully attacking and dealing damage to a dragon.

As Zephyr doesn't really care about it, he immediately ignored Ericson who was having his status rise tremendously because of managing to inflict a sufficient damage to the dragon with the help of Zephyr.

Zephyr was not letting himself to be complacent as he knew killing a dragon was impossible at this moment.

Arcs of lightning began to surround Zephyr as he simultaneously casted several spells at the same time. With the help of the previous [Triple Casting] that is now [Quadra Casting] that allows Zephyr to cast four skills at the same without hindering each other.

Firing [Finger of Lightning], [Thunder's Wrath], [Lightning Bolt], and [Lightning Blast] at the same time, all spells rushed towards Nima to an extreme speed. With the magic amplification effects of the Aetherius Set and the bonus of the nature being transformed to [Draconic Magic], Zephyr was sure to deal a sufficient amount of damage to the dragon.

Seeing several lightning magic were rushing towards him, Nima casually replied as he had already reorganized himself and recovered from the pain already.

[Critical!]

[You have dealt 16,827,761 damage to the target.]

[You have dealt 18,727,928 damage to the target.]

[You have dealt 12,828,900 damage to the target.]

[You have dealt...]

[...]

(To make me a dragon to feel pain...I acknowledge you humans.)

His tail has already reappeared and his health that was only reduced by measly 0.1% due to him having trillions of health had already recovered. With the [Absolute Regeneration] of the dragons, killing one is very hard at all.

Nima's reaction slightly baffled Zephyr as he expected him to be enraged for being damaged by an insignificant being. What he had expected was a scenario where an egoistic person screaming like.

"How dare a mere bug like you do this to the great me!"

Or something like that but contrary to what he had expected, Nima complimented him. There was no hate from his voice like he found this thing interesting.

(As a token of my acknowledgement, allow me an Ancient Dragon King, Evil Dragon Nima to show you the symbol of the dragons as my gratitude.)

The gigantic dragon head opened its mouth wide. It started to violently started to draw in the air in the surrounding. The dragon's mouth was not just sucking the air but the pure energy of the area, the mana was being collected and mixed with its own draconic energy at its mouth.

Magic power began to gather around the mouth of the evil dragon. It was the precursor of a dragon that was about to use [Dragon Breath]. Sensing the enormous amount of magic power that could easily ravage and destroy an entire kingdom which would erase it on the map, even he was immune to instant kill attacks due to the effect of the Aetherius Armor, he still felt he might die from this.

Breath of the dragon was something that the dragons, which were called absolute ancient beings, used with pride. It had the power beyond anyone's imagination.

Zephyr was no longer able to stop his body was trembling. The trembling is, a trembling that come from ones inner instinct.

'This is bad. I can't stop trembling.'

Was it fear? No it's different. This was...

Joy. He was feeling joy at this moment. Zephyr who normally wasn't able to conjure any emotion, can no longer stop the instinct from the buttom of his body, from going crazy and making noises from the exhilarating sensation.

Thus...to increase the chance of success and to see something more interesting stuffs even in this kind of situation, Zephyr ordered.

"I permit you to control my body, use it as you please, [Wise One]!"

{Order received, switching from Assistance Mode to Battle Mode.}

As Zephyr was doing something that would interest him, Nima fired his breath. He then fixed his gaze and saw Zephyr had no change in his reaction at all as if, the [Dragon Breath] that could destroy a large kingdom or even an empire were not enough to threathen him at all.

(What is he planning?)

And when he looked again at Zephyr, who looked unfazed and held the sword engulfed in black flame.

The dragon breath was right in front of them. Ericson who was looking at this, has a calm expression. He then glanced at the reason why he was calm. Looking at Zephyr that didn't even panic, Ericson was confident that Zephyr has a trump card on this predicament.

Fixing his eyes at incoming breath, Zephyr set his legs apart a little wider. He lowered the swords and fixed his stance. Narrowing his eyes and counted the timing.

At the moment when the breath was just a foot away, a long and narrow line, so fine that would have gone unnoticed without close examination because of the black blazing flame that engulfed the swords.

[Sword Extremes of Destruction 2nd Style, Rising Destruction Sun.]

Ericson was watching Zephyr's back. In a blink of an eye, Zephyr's stance was changed. Having realized how fast it was when Ericson just blinked his eyes.

Only a moment ago, his sword was near his left waist. Now before he realized it, it was above his right shoulder.

'Since when? I didn't see him move at all so how?'

Ericson did not see him swinging his sword at all. This resulted him from opening his eyes. Sword Extremes of Destruction, a sword arts that reigned supreme among the swordsmanships.

Aside from it being very deadly and powerful, it was also so fast that one would not realize that they were already beheaded by the user of the sword arts.

Ericson wasn't able to regain his composure as he saw the dragon's breath. The dragon's breath that had the power beyond anyone's imagination was cut in half.

The dragon breath which were completely filling their view earlier was now cut in half. The breath that was cut into two pieces swallowed the walls of lair, turning the surrounding into chaos.

However, it was not able to deal any damage to the original target.

"Kuk!"

Covering his face with his arms from the whirlwind that was from Zephyr's slash.

[The title, 'One Who Cut a Dragons Breath' has been acquired.]

[You have made an achievement that is not easily accomplished. Additional karma will be provided.]

[You have acquired 5,000 karma.]

[You have acquired 7,500 additional karma.]

Zephyr's stats immediately rose again by achieving another great feat again. If it was another person facing a [Dragon Breath], they were destined to perish or even worse, face an excruciating death.

Nima who watched his breath was cut by half was intrigued. It is to be noted that he didn't held back at all yet his powerful and dominating breath was still cut by half by this measly mortal.

Remembering the slash of Zephyr that made his sword engulfed with black flames, a wonder was filled in his mind. At first, he had only considered him as an interesting bug that will gonna be soon his food.

Now, however was different. There was an overwhelming difference with the presence now before him. He then remembered days ago from the law of casualty that there was a mortal who created the strongest swords art that surpasses the swordsmanships of all transcendents.

As a dragon, he paid it no interest as they were a species who didn't use a sword instead, their sharp claws, fangs, tail and draconic magic. It didn't matter what his foe's weapon is, his ability was so high that he didn't need it.

Now, he was certain that the mortal that created the so called strongest swordsmanship was the one in front of him who managed to make him bleed by slashing his tail and cutting his breath into half.

Having met an opponent that made him like this, the evil dragon's body tensed up. He also felt another strange feeling.

Zephyr on the other hand has no change in his expression even doing something that couldn't be easily accomplished by anybody.

[Your body doesn't currently meet the standards required to use the sword arts. There is a greet burden on your body.]

[Resistance failed.]

[You have suffered a catastrophic damage.]

[You have lost 30% of your health in 1 blow.]

[Magic power was disrupted and scattered inside your body.]

[Unable to use mana, aura, or any form of energy within 10 seconds.]