Drizzling Spring Lotus Rain, Breaking the Restrictions

Administrator had a blank expression, but one could see that her lips were slightly curved upward which made her look like she was mocking the Red Dragon for its futile attempts to resist her lotus flowers.

Leo, however, had a terrible expression as he felt the terrifying heat that came with the dragon's breath assaulting his face.

He thought to himself that, if he stood on that attack's way then his body would've been surely obliterated to ashes in just a manner of being exposed to its breath for a few seconds.

Then, he suddenly noticed that the destroyed lotus flowers on the field suddenly appeared everywhere on the sandy fields of the desert below them, the place became a beautiful sight to behold yet again.

These flowers did not take too long for them to bloom and release their mysteriously terrifying pollens that could even affect the minds and mentality of the dragons known for their high intelligence and resistance to any types of mental status debuffs.

The dragon roared again this time its voice was extremely angry and if one carefully listened to its roar, one would be able to hear a hint of dread and fear hidden beneath its angry facade.

The whole area of a mile was now filled with a massive amount of white pollens that the countless lotuses had released, and they were all flying towards a single humungous target which was the dragon from afar.

The huge wings of the dragon flapped intensely which instantly push the pollens away from it, but one could say that these pollens might have a death grudge towards it as they were extremely persistent on being inhaled by the dragon.

It opened its mouth once again and released its breath which obliterated the flowers and pollens alike that blocked its way yet again.

This time the dragon's bloodshot eyes were crazily glaring at them with hatred and bloodthirst, it seemed that it was greatly angered by what she did to its draconic body as it didn't hesitate to flap its wings and flew towards them with great speed.

The distance between them was instantly narrowed with just a single flap of its wings, the second flap made it a few hundred meters away from them, and by the third time it flapped its wings it was already extremely near them, its gargantuan draconic body cast a huge shadow on them.

Leo was sweating profusely as he could now feel for himself the violent draconic aura that the dragon had up close, the change to its aura made him feel extremely shock as he was the one who fought the dragon from earlier so he knew full well how just how strong it was earlier, but now...

Its threat seemed to multiply by a dozen folds...

The Red Dragon's berserk red eyes were looking down on them as it threateningly stared at them with its eyes full of draconic pride and arrogance.

Leo held a tight frown on his face as their situation right now was too dangerous, thus he gave an urgent mental message towards the cold woman beside him.

[ Administrator! What are you planning really?! Do you want us to get killed by staying here?! ]

Administrator gave him a light glance that made his heart skip a beat again, but this time its an entirely different feeling, he felt that something was quite not right that he could not put his hands on to.

Then he suddenly heard the soft whooshing of the wind from above, his ears twitched from this particular sound thus he involuntarily looked up to see what it was only to be given a shock.

He could see a huge white cloud solely made out of the white pollen from the lotus flowers above them and it looked like it was brewing something inside it, he could see a faint and gentle swirling motion of a transparent white aura that constantly revolves and envelopes the white cloud.

Then as if a dam had opened itself, the cloud suddenly released a 'rain' that continuously dropped upon them.

The 'rain' was white in color and they made a dazzling scene as they fell down from the skies.

Drizzling Spring Lotus Rain!

This is a connected 6-star skill move of the [ Bloom of the Myriad Lotuses ] skill that she had used to summon flowers around the field earlier and to say the least, it's a terrifying skill that exponentially increased the damage it inflicted on the targets affected as the white 'rain' accumulated on them.

The rain landed on its humungous body and the red dragon could only feel pangs of pain constantly assaulting its mind, it was terribly hurt and distracted by the mental damage that the skill had done.

It could only retreat miserably to find a safe place to cover itself from the rain which was a wise thing to choose, unfortunately, because the skill she used was unlike the [ Bloom of the Myriad Lotuses ] skill where the pollens that the flowers released had a type of homing effect to its enemies, although the rain was terrifying, the enemy could still easily deal with its accumulating damage if they just used their brains to think.

Administrator sighed in pity and she mentally talked with Leo using their connected minds.

[ Though, I dealt some damage to it, it's still insufficient and I would have to deal more damage to it for me to heavily injure it. ] - Administrator

[ I see that. What would you think we should do then? I can't do anything to that dragon even if you followed the sets of command I issued. ] - Leo

Administrator's snow-white eyes flickered a flash of hesitation before it returned back to normal, she replied to his question and mentally said.

[ Release the restrictions. ] - Administrator

[ W-what? ] - Leo

[ I said. Release all of the restrictions you had placed on the Pyramidal Eye of the Ancients. ] - Administrator

Her voice was extremely cold and it very much sounded like she was commanding for him to follow what she said, but he shook his head to this and bitterly said.

[ I can't. The restrictions I placed on the artifact could not be retracted, I set it so that when Irene had a growth in her strength she would have the ability to release the restrictions I placed on the artifact with her own strength. ] - Leo

[ ... ] - Administrator

Administrator remained silent to his answer, she knew that she could only release the seals with her own hands, but if she indeed did that then her predecessor would have a much harder time when she wants to use the artifact in the future, thus the reason for hesitation, after all, she would not be able to retract the restrictions that she broke with her strength.

She frowned and hesitantly asked Leo.

[ If I broke the restrictions... would you be... able to restore it..? ] - Administrator

Then she saw that Leo only shook his head in response to her question, she could only sigh helplessly in regards to this, but she had to release the restrictions placed on the artifact at all cost, she wanted to deal with the Red Dragon swiftly.

She could indeed fight it as long as she wants, but she knew her limitations, she only had half an hour to stay in this world, and the consequences of passing over that time limit is certainly terrifying.

She did not say it to Leo though as she didn't want for him to worry about things needlessly, the only thing she wanted for him to do was to focus on defending himself while finding his teammates at the same time.

She sighed again and silently thought to herself.

'I had to do this, I hope you would forgive me for what I'm about to do Irene...'

With that, she beckoned for the silently floating artifact to land in her hands, and under the shocked gaze of Leo, she used all of the energy she could muster at the moment and attempted to break as many restrictions as she can.

Leo frowned while he was silently thinking to himself.

'What is she doing? She could obviously stall for some time, so why is she rushing to finish the fight instead?'

He was confused but he could only remain silent about this and just stood at her side to guard her against any possible attacks from the dragon which had already partly recovered from its mental damage.

It was obvious that it was angered but it could still see the seemingly endless amount of white rain above them, the white cloud was silently releasing white droplets of 'rain' which slowly dissipated as well after having no physical contact with their enemy for a long time.

The Red Dragon loudly roared and its huge draconic body instantly lit ablaze, one could see that its surroundings became extremely hot to the point that the air around it was seemingly dancing erratically.

This signified that the temperature around it was extremely high, but it looks like this type of hotness wasn't the limit that the dragon could get, because as time passed, the temperature around its 500-meter radius was still rising rapidly that made the fine desert sands below it to produce white smokes after white smokes.