Chapter 53: Dead Smoke Black Dragon (7000 words)
In the countless worlds of the multiverse, there are always more or less regions, and for some widely circulated or unknown reason, the race that lives in the local world is respected as a holy land.
Perhaps it is because of religion, perhaps because of history, perhaps because of a great battle or a major technological invention, or even a great man was born or died here. In short, these places are so special that every move will attract people's attention.
On the continent of Mycrov, in the distant sea in the south, the church of the Seven Gods of the Seven Gods built the first temple here 834 years ago and determined the general calendar of the continent. It is located at the top of this mountain. Because the designers are mixed with dwarf elves, the initial temple, that is, the current Grand Temple, combines the characteristics of many civilizations.
There is no doubt that the Seven Gods, as the faith of the entire continent of 70 percent of the population, would naturally be called the Holy Land, but unfortunately, this Holy Land rarely seems to have had real peace, and war has never disappeared from the surroundings of the Holy Mountain since its completion.
Storms, huge waves, tsunamis, invasion of the fisherman empire, impact of the deep-sea giant beasts, lurking destruction from cults, and siege of the undead army. In history, the far south fisherman alone has carried out five large-scale impacts on the holy mountain. These once prosperous races called on the giant beasts lurking in the deep sea as mounts and called on the tsunami as vanguards, intending to directly erase the church of the Seven Gods from the distant seas.
But the result was that the Marine Empire of the Fishman was divided, and the two major branches were forced to migrate between the coast of the eastern plains and the seas of the Thousand Islands of the Xishan Mountains.
Years of war have gradually turned the distant holy mountain into a large fortress. From the outside, it seems to be just a group of temples built on the island, with scattered towns and fortifications. But in fact, this land is soaked with sacred holy light, and the ubiquitous magic array has already connected the seemingly scattered temples and towns into one, forming an unprecedentedly huge compound magic position.
Since the construction of this divine magic position was completed, there were very few forces that dared to attack the Seven Gods Church. It brought nearly a hundred years of peace to the Holy Mountain. But a hundred years later, in 833, another force was ready to show its minions to the Seven Gods Church, which had been peaceful for a long time.
“Huhuhuhu”
The sky was as dark as ink, the wind was howling, and the clouds were surging in the entire sky. The storm in the distant sea had been like this and never stopped.
Summer is typhoon season. If you look down from a high altitude, you can see a huge cyclone starting from the tropical seas and slowly moving towards the southern continent. The Holy Mountain is just in the path of the cyclone.
Because of the strong wind that was enough to blow trees, huge waves of seven or eight meters high were raised on the sea surface. In this weather, except for those giant ships built with magic and magic, no ship could sail, and even fish and ocean monsters dived into the deep sea and retreated.
However, other sounds came faintly from the wind, which seemed to be the roar of some kind of beast, and the plea of panic. A middle-aged priest who was patrolling around to see if the magic array was running well was raised in confusion. He looked at the surging clouds in the north and couldn't help but frown slightly.
The rainstorm was approaching, and the sky was blurred in the distance. The priest could not see anything, but his keen perception allowed him to distinguish the fragmented roar in the wind.
That is the roar of the dragon.
"What accident happened to the group of mad dragons blocking the holy mountain?" He murmured to himself. The middle-aged priest was not sure about this, but he knew that every time the storm was over, it was the opportunity for the mad dragon to invade. Before today, the hideous big lizards had tentatively attacked the holy mountain four times. Logically speaking, they should have come to the surroundings of the holy mountain and began to fly around the islands, looking for fragile regional attacks.
But the fact is that no flying dragon appears now, but there is a roar that the dragon will only make due to injury in the distance.
"It seems that something unexpected happened. Don't tell me that the dragon would be injured by the strong wind." Shaking his head slightly, the middle-aged priest turned around and prepared to return to the temple to report the situation to the top leaders. However, before he could take a few steps, continuous explosions appeared in the distant sky. The violent roar even overwhelmed the roar of the wind that swept the sky.
Turning his head in shock, the priest saw such a scene.
Four slender red light columns appeared from a small dot in the distance and then quickly extended toward the outside world. After a few seconds, it exploded violently. The hot fire broke the gloomy sky, making most of the sky stained with blood.
Even though he was on the island and was blown by the wet sea breeze, the priest couldn't help but feel a hint of heat from the light, but the magical rainbow light did not last long. After a few seconds, all the red light dyed throughout the sky disappeared, while the roar of the crazy dragon became clearer.
Without hesitation, he immediately turned around and the middle-aged priest ran towards the direction of the Great Temple with all his might. He knew that someone was fighting fiercely with the Crazy Dragon in the distance, and that might be the rumored reinforcements.
And their battle is about to come.
North of the Holy Mountain, above the distant sea and above the sky.
The cold rain drifted in the air, and the water vapor falling from the clouds mixed with the strong wind that exceeded fifty meters in seconds, washing away everything on the ship in a ruthless manner.
The power of nature was so angry that it seemed to want to completely overturn the steel giant beast with this wind, but the giant ship was unmoved at all. Although the strong wind was strong, it could not be stronger than the crystallization of magic. Inside the armor of the ship, layers of magic runes emerged, weakening the impact of these winds, and even converting them into power, making their own speed faster and faster.
It flew rapidly towards the holy mountain in the distance in the clouds, rain and strong winds, and around the warships there were almost endless clusters of flying dragons.
Thousands of crazy dragon beasts swayed their wings and followed the giant ship sailing in the sky. These monsters wanted to get close several times, but were blocked by layers of hexagonal magic shields. The extremely solid elemental structure could even withstand the spurt of dragon breath, not to mention ordinary physical attacks. At the same time, the alchemy cannons on both sides of the giant ship's hull were firing continuously, forming an extremely tight firepower network to knock down all the flying dragons that were too close.
Although the magic energy focus cannon has great power, it has a long cooling time. Since it has been launched just now, it can only be used to suppress it in a short period of time. The wisdom of the crazy dragons is almost gone, and there is no cooperation at all. The alchemy cannons may not be able to kill them with one blow, but they can perfectly block the attack of these monsters.
But things always happen. Just when the Magic Energy Focus Cannon was about to cool down, an alien flying dragon surrounded by strange magic waves circled a wonderful trajectory and simply penetrated the firepower net of the giant ship. It ignored the strong wind beside it, dived from a high altitude, and rushed straight to the right side of the giant ship.
The appearance of this flying dragon is like a demon in the abyss. Its bat wings are covered with barbed scales. Its two pairs of dragon horns have spiral patterns unique to the demon, and their eyes are crazy purple-blue. The alien flying dragon roars and rushes towards the giant steel ship. Its target is the muzzle where the four magic energy focus cannons were located before.
As one of the leaders of the Crazy Dragon, the alien flying dragon who still has some wisdom can understand that it is a truly dangerous thing and needs to be destroyed as soon as possible, even if you give your own life, you will be willing to do so.
But before it could turn and flew towards the muzzle, a black and red air blade flashed through the air.
The air blade broke through the water mist and brought out a sharp explosion. It slashed heavily on Feilong's neck. The dragon scales that were harder than steel were torn apart by the air blades coming out of thin air like tofu. The ferocious face of the flying dragon suddenly solidified. It didn't even notice when it was attacked when it was dead.
After slashing the alien flying dragon with a strength close to the golden level, the air blade still did not stop. This black and red fighting energy line extended into the flying dragon cluster, and then swept across it. In an instant, dozens of crazy flying dragons were cut into two sections by it, and fell to the sea with wailing.
On the deck of the Liefeng, Qiao Xiuya, who had killed dozens of flying dragons with one sword out of nowhere, held a big sword and a giant axe in his hand, looked straight ahead indifferently. He walked step by step towards the corpse of the alien flying dragon that fell on the deck without saying a word.
The warrior's pace was very slow, but it was as heavy as a mountain. The cold rain could not approach his body, because as long as it approached, it would be evaporated into a ball of white steam by the black and red Dou Qi flames.
On one side, the huge steel element number had raised the corpse of the alien flying dragon and sent it to Joshua's eyes. The warrior glanced at it and saw the origin of the weird flying dragon.
"The deteriorated version of the Demon Flying Dragon and the Demon Blood Dragon is no wonder it is regarded as cannon fodder."
He shook his head with some disdain, and Joshua's expressionless face: "Is the Five-Colored Dragon sending this kind of person to surround the Holy Mountain?"
That really looked down on the foundation of the Seven Gods Church for nearly a thousand years. You must know that it is the origin of the entire continent's priests and the sacred land where all the glory shines.
As soon as Joshua finished speaking, a low and angry roar came from the clouds.
"Human, stop!"
The roar was like thunder, shaking the atmosphere. The surging rain clouds in the distance were instantly shaken by violent sound waves, revealing a hole with a diameter of hundreds of meters. In the middle of the hole, a giant dragon with a body that was obviously larger than other flying dragons around was swaying its wings and flying rapidly towards the direction where the Liefeng was located.
"oh?"
He simply issued a syllable. The warrior, who was originally disappointed because he did not have a powerful opponent, gathered his eyes. He looked up at the black dragon shadow in the gloomy clouds, and there seemed to be a flash of light in his eyes: "Here is here now."
Joshua couldn't help but feel a little eager to try. With the roar just now, he had just realized that the other party's strength was better than gold and had reached the extreme state of mind.
Even if you ignore the natural qualities of humans and dragons, this is a decades-long lack of experience!
"Extreme intention" is the core of the strong man's tempering and refined from his body, soul and skills. Even if he is genius, he has reached this realm at the age of less than thirty, but Grandi has also experienced a hundred years of training and cannot be worse than a warrior.
Suddenly, the rune magic array on the Liefeng began to operate in full. The two magic energy furnaces were fully refining energy. The middle-aged captain knew Joshua's character and understood that it was useless for such a cruel dragon to escape. In the current situation, a fierce battle between this man and the dragon must be broken, but he wanted to ensure the safety of the floating battleship and help Joshua defeat the demon dragon.
Floating before the battleship, Granty's body was filled with darkness that was so deep that it was impermeable to the point. It was negative energy condensed to the extreme. Even in the Styx in the abyss, it was rarely found such a strong negative energy gathering.
Every time this darkness surges, the black clouds gradually spread around it become thicker. The overly powerful force even triggers thunder in the atmosphere. At the moment when the dark clouds reach a certain limit, lightning and thunder are roaring in the sky, and purple thunderstorms wind in the sky above the black dragon, releasing terrifying power.
These forces were completely locked on Joshua. The dragon stared at Joshua tightly with his purple dragon eyes, holding the giant sword and axe, as if waiting for the other party's answer, but the warrior did not react. He was standing there, silently holding Granti.
The dragon in front of him was extremely cautious. After realizing that Joshua was also in a state of extreme artistic status, he did not approach the floating warship a hundred meters or something. It moved forward with the warship and maintained a distance of hundreds of meters. Even Joshua could not guarantee that he could launch a surprise attack at such a distance that the other party could not react.
But just as they were fighting each other, layers of black smoke suddenly emerged from the surrounding water vapor, covering the entire Fierce Wind.
The reason why Granti is called [Dead Smoke] is because this black dragon is so proficient in the utilization of negative energy that it can convert this pure negative energy into a smoke form that lasts for a long time and form its own domain. When it destroyed the small country in the far south with Mandagar, it used this negative energy smoke to swallow the capital of that country and kill more than 100,000 humans.
With the help of dense water vapor at high altitude, the dead smoke became more hidden, and silently swallowed up the soldiers and the entire warship.
It was obvious that Granti had no intention of letting everyone go. It was just using the warriors to hold on to each other little by little, using dead smoke to surround everyone. As a dragon lord of the extreme level, it was really cautious to the extreme.
"Take it!"
However, a sound of steel clashing came from the smoke. The black smoke that originally covered the hull was immediately overwhelmed by the thicker and more violent black and red fighting spirit. A silver-white giant sword cut through the darkness. The sword body trembled slightly under the action of the fighting spirit, making the previous clanging sound.
Accompanied by the extremely violent fluctuations of fighting spirit, the black smoke and water vapor that covered the entire battleship were completely washed away.
"Is it just a sneak attack?"
Without saying the second sentence, Joshua just showed a disdainful sneer, and then his figure disappeared in an instant.
A powerful force burst out under his feet, and the steel deck was sank several meters deep. The entire warship even pressed down slightly. Under this reaction force, the warrior crossed hundreds of meters in an instant and came to the black dragon.
He shouted softly, grabbed the silver giant sword in his right hand and swept across Granty's abdomen.
The warrior's size is the size of a dragon, but his power is no less than these giants.
Although the magic machine transformed by Firefly does not have any special magical effects, it is extremely hard and sharp enough to easily cut off steel and other weapons. It can be regarded as invincible. Even the dragon scales can be easily cut off like tearing apart paper.
Wherever the giant sword passed, the ink-like negative energy mist and water vapor were directly broken. Before the giant sword actually arrived, the strong shock wave hit Granti like a giant hammer of wind. The extremely surging negative energy mist around the black dragon was simply split into two, and the body began to shake violently.
But it was just clouds and mist. The fog was dispersed, and Grandi's huge figure disappeared at some point. With the exclamation of the observers inside the battleship, the black dragon appeared silently on the back of the warrior.
【Water Misty Illusion】 and 【Shadow Raid】!
In front of the black dragon with expressionless face, an energy ball like a gathering of shadows was condensed, with pure negative energy thunder leaping in it, and shattered lightning flashed rapidly around the energy sphere, like a magic circle composed of thunder.
It is obvious that Granti has not spent the past century of silence in vain. For the water and negative energy talents in the Black Dragon talent, it has mastered it to a realm, and can even use several powerful spells to conceal its body without any fluctuations, and then instantly teleport to Joshua's back and release a fatal blow.
If it weren't for the size, this black dragon could have become a terrifying assassin.
But when faced with the collection of negative energy that was even larger than himself, Joshua didn't care at all. He slashed out the giant axe that had been accumulating strength in his left hand as if he had known it for a long time.
The black and red fighting spirit vibrated rapidly on the sawtoothed axe blade, making a scream that overshadowed the thunder. The harsh sound waves even caused the magic elements within dozens of meters to start to vibrate violently. Black and red lines spread in all directions. These fluctuations composed of fighting spirit were like physical axe blades, causing an endless storm, counterattacking towards Granti.
There is a difference in body size and weaponry, but there is no sharp blade formed by the fighting spirit. The huge dragon's huge size that is dozens of meters long gives them powerful physical strength and magic accumulation, but it also makes the dragon unable to dodge this overwhelming attack of the air blade. Joshua can be afraid of death and ignore Granti's spells, but the black dragon does not want to hurt itself. It can only cancel the spells on its chest, then fly back quickly, and distance away.
But how could Joshua let it distance itself so easily?
The thunder exploded, and a ring made of white air appeared in the air. Before the sound appeared, the warrior's figure had disappeared and he came to Granti again.
At this moment, Joshua could see every trace of the other person's body. The legendary cruel black dragon had countless scars on its body, and these scars were well blocked by its black scales. At this moment, Granti's amethyst-like dragon pupils stared at the tiny warrior on its chest, and a strange syllable was emitted from his mouth.
【Law and Order · Stagnation】
The strange fluctuations were released from the black dragon's mouth and almost instantly acted on Joshua. As an extremely spiritual being, Granti had many ways to avoid the warrior's attack, but it did not dodge, but was ready to face it head-on. While sending out the law, the black dragon grabbed it hard towards its chest. The huge dragon claws were enough to easily crush the steel rock steel. Even if it could not seriously damage the warrior, it could still put him at a disadvantage.
But unfortunately, the moment the strange power of the law touched Joshua's body, the mysterious rune flowing with light trembled on the warrior's bones. The power of the divine flashed, releasing a dazzling light from the eyes. The power of the law was suppressed by a higher level of force and completely lost its effect.
The warrior's axe slashed straight towards the black dragon's chest without any stagnation.
Although the magic machine transformed by Rin was strong, it was also driven to its limit by the warrior's power. The originally black giant axe blade had turned into an extremely dazzling red light. This light was so powerful that it even drowned Joshua himself. Not only that, the darkness around him, and even Granti's figure were swallowed up.
Then, there was a loud bang.
The observers in the warships, and even the holy mountain of the distant sea, had begun to observe the clergy in the distance, could only see that in the high altitude covered with black clouds, a black and red star suddenly appeared. The star quickly expanded and then exploded. Thousands of flying dragons were turned into ashes by the aftermath of the explosion of the stars. The remaining shock waves scattered the clouds within several kilometers. The surging air currents and typhoons clashed, forming several temporary tornados, and a low wailing sound echoed in the atmosphere.
A huge black shadow turned into a stream of light without hesitation and flew rapidly towards the distance. It simply threw itself into the thick clouds and disappeared.
Everyone was stunned.
And Joshua, who had only had time to cut out such an axe, had not yet followed the other subsequent attacks, widened his eyes and looked at the giant axe in his right hand. The black giant axe still had a red light remaining on the blade, releasing a terrifying aura.
Chapter completed!