CHAPTER 182: A Fierce Battle

The Manor was in an incredible state of chaos as fires engulfed all the buildings. Groups of black-robed people scurried back and forth in waves of panic as soldiers from the Gryphon Legion chased them everywhere, throwing the manor into complete chaos.

"Wait for us!" Two shapely black figures suddenly rushed out as Han Shuo, Emily and Gilbert ran in another direction.

Han Shuo knew it had to be Phoebe as soon as he heard the voice. It went without saying that the other person was Candice. The two of them had set fire to everything when the mission had just begun. As a fire-mage swordswoman, Candice was used to such things. After a short time, she had engulfed the whole place in a sea of flames.

Behind them were a few soldiers of the Gryphon Legion and another awe-inspiring elder wielding a longsword that glowed with a silver combat aura.

The man hurried over, his imposing presence making it difficult to look at him directly. He lightly waved the large sword in his hand and thoroughly pulverised all the trees, bushes, and rocks in the path of the silver combat aura. Even the ground split open with various cracks, demonstrating the terrifying ferocity of the combat aura.

"He's Clark's master, the Great Swordmaster Gabriel! We have to get out of here!" Candice shouted in alarm as she fled towards Han Shuo at an even faster pace.

Gabriel was extremely fast as he'd thrown the Gryphon Legion soldiers far behind him. As a Great Swordsman, Gabriel possessed extreme strength. Han Shuo needed only to look at him to know that there was no one beside him who could fight Gabriel alone.

As they watched Gabriel pick up speed, about to overtake Phoebe and Candice, Han Shuo's heart tightened as he looked at Gabriel, suddenly remembering the power of Gilbert's transformation, and immediately shouted, "Damn it, hurry up and transform!"

Han Shuo concentrated like never before, forcing the Demonslayer Edge to fly wildly towards the Great Swordsmaster Gabriel. Infusing the Demonslayer Edge with magical yuan, a thick magical aura flared from it, with a bizarre sensation of fire and frost permeating it.

The Demonslayer's Edge howled and slashed through the air, appearing directly in front of the great swordsmaster Gabriel and stabbing directly at him. This strange sensation of heat brought with it an extremely dangerous presence, and took Gabriel by surprise.

Coldly snorting, Gabriel waved the long sword in his hand and suddenly, a silvery firework appeared in the distance, as bright as the shattered stars. Han Shuo suddenly felt an enormous force explode from the glorious silver sparkles and try to hold the Demonslayer Edge in place.

A tremendous burst of energy surged violently into the Demonslayer Edge. Gabriel's silver combat aura was incredibly intimidating, rumbled on the surface of the Demonslayer Edge, as if it wanted to destroy everything. The enveloping silver light caused the Demonslayer's Light to emit a humming sound.

This tyrannical power wrapped around the Demonslayer Edge in an instant, chaotically mixing with the fire and frost energy that Han Shuo had created inside the blade with his magic. The magical energy from the 'Mystical Glacial Spellfire' that had coalesced in the blade quickly dissipated.

With a quick curse, Han Shuo knew that his magic training had been too short. No matter how fantastic his magic was, with such a short amount of training time, he was still no match for Gabriel's decades of coalescing his combat aura. The moment they'd linked, the magical Yuan within the Demonslayer's Edge had completely dissipated, and the result was a foregone conclusion.

However, because of the Demonslayer Edge's obstruction, it slowed down Gabriel's pursuit of Phoebe and Candice. Han Shuo felt that something was wrong when he couldn't return the Demonslayer Edge to his hand.

He thought quickly as his heart tightened. Han Shuo quickly chanted a spell as two bone spears suddenly flew towards Gabriel. The moment Han Shuo made his move, Emily also released a dark magic spell.

At the same time, Han Shuo used all of his power to quickly circulate the magical yuan within the Demonslayer's Edge and used Gabriel's distraction from deflecting their magic attacks to rip the Demonslayer's Edge away from the ball of silver light. Because he had expended too much energy, and the speed of the circulating magical yuan was beyond Han Shuo's limits, Han Shuo couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood as he was already injured.

"You're injured, let me down, I think I've recovered!" Caspian, who was on Han Shuo's back, could clearly feel Han Shuo's body shaking violently and spoke immediately when he saw Han Shuo spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Gabriel had already destroyed Han Shuo and Emily's magic in that short amount of time, and his cold grey eyes swept over Han Shuo and Emily once again. His gaze at Han Shuo in particular was tinged with surprise, as he seemed to be incredibly curious about Han Shuo's magical yuan and the Demonslayer's Edge.

Bam! rang out as Han Shuo turned his head to see that Gilbert had finally transformed back into a giant black dragon. His body was covered in black scales and he had already smashed through the wall in front of Han Shuo and the others.

"Everyone, on his backs!" Han Shuo was delighted to see Gilbert reveal the body of a black dragon and roared loudly, throwing Caspian over to Gilbert as well.

He used a certain amount of force so that when Caspian reached where Gilbert was, the momentum around his body would decrease and he wouldn't do too much damage to the Druid.

Apart from Emily, who knew Gilbert's identity in advance, Gilbert's sudden transformation shocked everyone. They stared at the huge Gilbert with open mouths and couldn't really react for a while.

"All soldiers of the Gryphon Legion, gather here! Archers and javelin throwers, prepare your arrows, spears and crossbows! Today you can be dragon slayers!" Gabriel's loud call suddenly rang out and spread throughout the manor.

"Why haven't you started yet?" Han Shuo couldn't help but roar angrily when he saw that Candice and Phoebe were still on the ground in shock.

Dark Dragons were also known as the most evil and greedy of all dragons. They liked to live in the dark underworld and were lustful, shameless and greedy. They were practically the materialisation of evil on earth. With such a dark dragon suddenly appearing before them, it was no wonder that Phoebe and Candice didn't know how to react.

But when Han Shuo urged them a second time, the two girls finally realised the relationship between the Dark Dragon and Han Shuo, looked at him suspiciously and jumped up to land on Gilbert's back.

Seeing that Emily, Phoebe and Caspian had all jumped up to Gilbert's back, Han Shuo relaxed and activated the art to fly towards Gilbert as well. "Leave immediately, but don't take to the skies, or you'll become a flying target."

"Honoured Master, you must block the spears and arrows flying in my direction." Gilbert now had a mouth full of sharp teeth, and his dragon breath was filled with a pungent, strange odour. His voice also seemed to have an extra layer of dignity to it.

"I know, this place is a mess anyway. Just destroy everything that gets in your way. Don't worry about anything else as long as we can get out of here." Han Shuo didn't place any restrictions on Gilbert now, as long as they could get out of this tricky situation alive.

When Caspian heard Han Shuo's orders, he seemed to want to protest, but when he thought about how Han Shuo had helped him many times before and that he was trying to get everyone out alive, he finally said nothing after moving his lips a few times.

"Wahahaha, then all right, I'll do what I think is best!" Gilbert spoke excitedly in his dignified voice.

The heavily fanged mouth suddenly yawned, spewing a stream of acid poison into the distance. Dragon breath accompanied the spray, and the archers who had just formed backed away in haste. Those who didn't retreat in time were reduced to melting flesh as their bodies came into contact with the acid. Death was the only way out for them.

After that breath was gone, scores of soldiers from the Gryphon Legion suddenly appeared. Wielding silver spears and shining silver armour, they flew in on the backs of griffins. The one in front was grim and stocky. He looked middle-aged as the silver combat aura from the spear in his hand shot out two to three metres, making the silver spear, carved with mystical patterns, appear even longer.

Hurry up, Bob Ascher has arrived! It looks like the Calamity Church has really failed!" Seeing that the dark dragon was still trying to rampage around, Han Shuo quickly kicked him in the side and hastily gave this order.