Chapter 271: The Dragon-Slaying Curtain
Chapter 271: The Dragon-Slaying Curtain
At this critical moment, are there others seeking revenge on the Dragon Beast?
The moment Raven's identity was revealed, Lindsey's first reaction was that the timing of their appearance was too coincidental.
Just as he was about to charge, the 'ally' immediately took action, and such a coincidence was unheard of in the world.
But the next second, the two years in the Black Mountain world flashed through Lindsey's mind.
The exiled Glacier Elemental, the Elder Root and the Stone Elemental, the Treants of Starlight Forest, the Eyeless Ones who lost their homeland, and the Dragon Lizard Clan...
Even the Corrupted Spider at the border of the world!
Lindsey had crossed the Black Mountain world.
The things he encountered along the way were probably just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire world.
However, these vivid lives had always been oppressed by the Dragon Beast.
If given the chance, would they rebel?
The answer to this question didn't even require thought!
And the current situation was the perfect opportunity, as the Dragon Beast and the Dark Abyss, both at the Seventh Stage, were fighting each other openly.
Both sides were even severely injured.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the only chance in the entire world!
If there were any creatures in this world preparing to rebel against the Dragon Beast, it would be hard to find a better time than now.
"..."
"In the end, I'm one of them too."
Lindsey smiled wryly.
He opened the map and saw that, indeed, there were other green markers on the Black Mountain, and they had all turned from red to green!
Even the monsters of the Black Mountain world summoned by the Dragon Beast were making their own choices!
"Caw!"
At the same time, a fierce gust of wind swiftly arrived from the sky, coiling around Raven.
The Sixth Stage Messenger Raven also possessed the ability to manipulate airflow.
However, its innate ability was different from the Dragon Beast's cold and hot airflow.
Raven's technique pulled out strands of sharp airflow from the surrounding atmosphere, forming a blade cyclone. These airflows then converged into a powerful tornado, rushing towards the Dragon Beast's position.
The air whistled, and the colors of the sky became blurred under the influence of the blade cyclone.
At this moment, Lindsey couldn't afford to hesitate.
He took out a slender firearm and rushed towards the Dragon Beast as well.
This was not a Flame Musket, but an ordinary musket.
However, in terms of design, it was almost identical to the Flame Musket loaded with Radiant Grenades!
For this attack, he demanded a perfect hit, leaving no room for error!
This ordinary musket was a deception.
After the first shot, which would make the Dragon Beast aware of the firearm's weakness, Lindsey's second attack would be the real killing move, catching it off guard!
"Roar!"
Seeing a man and a raven attacking him, the Dragon Beast roared in anger.
Violent airflows surged from its position, creating alternating hot and cold waves that quickly spread to the surroundings.
The broken mountain rocks shattered.
Some of them melted into a liquid state in the air, while others emitted an extremely low temperature, reflecting the surrounding dazzling flames.
Boom!
The Sixth Stage Raven's attack was not slow either.
The blade cyclone collided with the Dragon Beast head-on, and the violent airflow immediately stirred up a terrifying storm around it, almost as if the broken mountain peaks were being subjected to a thousand cuts.
But what was appalling was that the Dragon Beast blocked Raven's attack, and its eyes even flashed with a hint of leisure.
It didn't need to exert its full strength to deal with the current situation.
In the Dragon Beast's mind, the one it truly needed to guard against was the Dark Abyss, which had fallen into the deep valley below.
It didn't care about ordinary Sixth Stage creatures at all!
The blade cyclone, after breaking through several layers of the alternating hot and cold waves, gradually dissipated.
Whoosh!
Amidst the dissipating storm, a black light shot forward.
It was Raven!
It abandoned the airflow it had been controlling and rushed straight towards the Dragon Beast!
The powerful essence enveloped its body, and its black figure turned into a sharp arrow, continuing to charge at the weakened Dragon Beast.
Boom!
A powerful explosion echoed among the mountain ruins.
Amidst the scattered rocks, the Dragon Beast's massive body finally revealed itself.
This beast lay sprawled on a glacier, which was originally attached to the Black Mountain.
After the battle between the two Seventh Stage powerhouses and the collapse of the mountain, this was almost the last giant ice block around the Black Mountain.
And after the battle, the Dragon Beast now crawled on it. Its golden-red body was covered in radiant essence, with fiery red and icy blue glows shining everywhere, even causing the air to make a 'whoosh' sound as it tore.
"This is its true form."
On the other side, Lindsey's eyes narrowed.
He could see the body shape of the Dragon Lizard Clan on this monster's surface.
But as a monster that had advanced to the next stage, a pair of bat-like giant wings grew from its back, covered in thick, ferocious spinal thorns.
Its crawling figure among the rocks resembled a true dragon.
This was a scene that only existed in myths!
"Caw!"
At this moment, Lindsey saw a flash of black light from the other side.
Raven, having delivered its final attack, escaped from the explosion with a mournful cry, its figure soaring into the sky.
The Sixth Stage Raven had failed.
Its all-out attack couldn't even break through the Dragon Beast's airflow defense in its weakened state.
"You're asking for death..."
The Dragon Beast's golden-red eyes stared at Raven, flying in the sky. Below its steam-emitting nostrils, the ferocious dragon snout growled,
"Since you seek death..."
Just then, the Dragon Beast felt its heart, located in its chest, being hit by something small.
It looked down and saw a bullet falling from its gas shield.
It was instantly turned into powder by the interwoven hot and cold temperatures.
It followed the direction of the attack.
- It was Lindsey.
Taking advantage of the opportunity while Raven was engaging it.
The human dashes through the crumbling mountains, charging towards himself, brandishing an unheard-of long-barreled weapon, its muzzle emitting a cloud of smoke.
This barely irritating attack was undoubtedly Lindsey's doing.
"The ununified Chaos Technique, a feeble force."
"To challenge the authority of absolute power with this is to seek death!"
The Dragon Beast thought of Lindsey's props and Ethan, who had selflessly rescued them from the Sea of Silence.
It found this laughable.
But it was this strike that made the Dragon Beast suddenly realize what was happening on Black Mountain.
It had planned to sneak into the human squad, either to disrupt the Dark Abyss's plans or to kidnap Red. There were various possibilities.
But now...
It had already broken ties with the Dark Abyss.
The annihilating power of the Sea of Silence below was also rapidly rampaging.
At the same time, the Extinction Crown's body gained consciousness, and if it managed to reach the neighboring Forest Courtyard, it would completely escape the Dragon Beast's control!
The collapsing Black Mountain had also disrupted its advancement to the eighth stage.
Unless it unleashed its thunderous might and killed all enemies, including finding and controlling Red, everything that had happened today would be a complete failure for the Dragon Beast!
"Today, everything here must die!"
"ROAR!!!"
The Dragon Beast let out a terrifying roar.
Led by Lindsey, who had provoked it, a scorching air current fiercely rushed towards it.
The Dragon Beast struck with one blow.
It intended to turn and kill the airborne Raven as well.
But at that moment, it sensed a subtle change—Lindsey's presence hadn't vanished!
The Dragon Beast's body trembled slightly, and its yellow snake-like eyes glanced at the ground.
Lindsey suddenly disappeared in the face of the air current.
In the Dragon Beast's perception, it instantly detected Lindsey's location—this man was still approaching it underground!
"Hiding underground? Cunning insect!"
The Dragon Beast's mouth condensed a cold stream, and it raised its front claw, slamming it forcefully into the ground.
BOOM!
The entire earth shook, and the severe impact transmitted through the soil towards Lindsey's position.
As the Dragon Beast had anticipated, Lindsey had no choice but to leave the ground.
Immediately after brewing a breath of ice, it blew towards Lindsey, who was valiantly charging.
【Mountain Emblem】 → 【Ice Emblem】
In an instant, Lindsey, who had leaped out from underground, switched the magic emblem on his back.
He promptly activated his cold resistance, and the cold stream enveloped him.
"Sigh—"
This low temperature was unbearable for Lindsey.
The seventh-stage Dragon Beast was too powerful, and a basic ice magic texture couldn't exempt him from this.
But the next second, Lindsey found his body warming up.
The terrifying cold stream suddenly vanished!
He looked up and saw that it wasn't the airborne Raven coming to his aid, nor the Dragon Beast taking pity on him.
Instead, the cold air around him had mysteriously disappeared, partially!
This change was only a thin layer around Lindsey, so subtle that even the Dragon Beast didn't notice it, but he himself felt it!
"Hmm?"
Lindsey's eyes showed doubt, but this wasn't the time to investigate.
He seized the opportunity to continue his flask, charging forward and forcing his way through the Dragon Beast's cold air current.
"ROAR—"
The next second,
Facing him was the Dragon Beast's roar once more.
After experiencing the cold and hot attacks, the Dragon Beast had to admit that Lindsey wasn't a mere insect it could easily dispose of.
So it brewed Essence, and its chest glowed with red and blue radiant light.
The intertwining spiral air current instantly burst forth, carving a deep gorge in the mountain fragments and glacier while completely enveloping Lindsey within.
【Ice Emblem】 → 【Flame Emblem】
Lindsey switched his magic emblem again.
The second-level 【Flame Emblem】 perfectly defended against temperatures below 2500°C.
However, the Dragon Beast's power far exceeded this limit!
Lindsey immediately felt the protection granted by his dual aura cloak on his body's surface start to burn, and a severe stinging sensation came from his skin.
This feeling was familiar to Lindsey.
In Anville Village, he had sought hope amidst the flames.
"Today is the same!"
"But this time, I won't give up!" Lindsey roared, his body charging towards the raging air current.
In an instant,
【Plot Performance】 was activated.
The Essence within Lindsey's body rapidly decreased, but the power of destiny that burst forth in this desperate situation allowed him to retain a final thread of life.
"Heh—a living corpse."
The Dragon Beast let out a disdainful sound.
It watched Lindsey, who was still charging towards it, and disdainfully raised its huge front claw.
"Go to—"
BOOM!
With this single action, Raven collided again from the air.
"Gah!"
Just now, Lindsey had saved Raven's life.
At this critical moment, Raven, feeling gratitude, didn't hesitate to use his body to block the Dragon Beast's front claw!
Lindsey continued forward, now very close to the Dragon Beast.
If he fired his gun now...
Click!
Before the change could take effect, the million-year-old glacier beneath the Dragon Beast suddenly sprouted two massive ice hands, instantly pinning the Dragon Beast to the ground.
This was the green mark Lindsey had seen on the map! Just as a crater might have a Fire Essence, there might also be a Magg Fire Monster.
Within Black Mountain's glacier, besides the Glacier Elemental, there was also the strongest member of their clan!
When the Dragon Head drove away the other Glacier Elementals from this place,
This six-stage Ancient Glacier Elemental had relied on its elemental life's innate characteristic, hiding within the glacier, perfectly deceiving the Dragon Beast, quietly waiting for the right moment.
The sudden decrease in cold air when Lindsey charged earlier was also due to its manipulation!
At this critical moment,
【Plot Performance】
The Destiny Power enveloped the entire ruins of the ancient glacier, protected by the Ancient Glacier Element, bringing about the most critical revelation at this crucial moment!
The Elemental Life, as if sensing something, revealed itself at this critical juncture, using all its power to restrain the Dragon Beast with its body.
"Hmph!"
"Is there another one hiding?"
The Dragon Beast was bound by this overwhelming force, but it remained completely unpanicked. Its yellow serpentine eyes only revealed a tyrannical rage.
"Good, today no one will survive here."
"Then..."
The Dragon Beast's voice suddenly vanished.
Its massive and hideous dragon head lowered to take a look.
Just a few meters away, Lindsey, covered in darkness, stood on a tall black rock.
He raised a seemingly ordinary long-barreled weapon.
But the power it emitted far exceeded imagination, belonging to the true peak of the seventh stage, even approaching the strength of the eighth stage!
And at this moment, the distance between them was less than ten meters!
"!!!"
Oh no!
I must dodge!
This is definitely not the same as that previous powerless attack!
The Dragon Beast struggled fiercely, and the icy giant hand binding it began to shatter.
However, the cold aura tightly bound the Dragon Beast.
A typical sixth-stage creature would undoubtedly be torn apart by it.
But the Dragon Beast, which controlled the cold and hot air currents, had a hidden weakness—cold.
The seventh-stage Dragon Beast couldn't eliminate this hidden danger.
And now, the racial trait of the Ancient Glacier Element took advantage of this weakness, delaying it for an extra second.
One second!
This time was already enough for the bullet!
"Farewell, Dragon Beast."
Lindsey's right index finger pulled the trigger, and the Radiant Blast, first appearing in the Black Mountain World, was activated in the gun chamber.
...
...
The world fell silent.
Only a crimson radiant beam of light streaked across the sky.
The Dragon Beast's body, with an air current defense capable of withstanding mountain-collapsing pressure, instantly disintegrated and dissipated; its sturdy dragon scales, so tough that even metal couldn't harm them, were also burned to ashes by the profound combustion power.
Immediately, radiant light drilled into its body.
"Roar..."
The Dragon Beast opened its mouth slightly.
But the next moment, a fiery light erupted from its chest.
In the next instant, a crimson explosion engulfed everything.
The raven, diving downward again, was instantly blown away;
The Ancient Glacier Element, which firmly controlled the Dragon Beast, had its body shattered and scattered;
Lindsey, who was so close, soared high into the air, fluttering like a piece of cloth in the wind!
The Dragon Beast's life and essence exploded together.
Its connection with all things in the Black Mountain World was severed at this moment.
Infinite power erupted with intense light, and the world instantly brightened, as if someone had sighed in the daytime sky.
Revenants and monsters on the ground looked up.
They also sensed a change that would impact the entire world, happening in the ruins of the Black Mountain. The battlefield fear fog that enveloped them was also dispelled!
"Huff—"
At the same time, Lindsey, flying in the air, saw data flashing across his attribute panel.
【Dragon Slayer!!!】【—Task Completed—】【RPG Module Upgrade—】【Module Skill Unlock】【RPG Module Fully Unlocked】【RPG Origin Ability Unlock】
...
But at this moment, Lindsey's heart was filled with both joy and despair.
The high temperature roasting and the final explosion had left him severely injured, and the Plot Performance had almost depleted his essence, causing Lindsey's consciousness to blur.
At this moment, blown to an extremely high altitude and falling downward, Lindsey had almost no way to save himself!
"The wind... it's a bit cold..."
The wind blew past his ears as Lindsey fell, muttering.
His mind was filled with mixed emotions.
Killing the Dragon Beast, the end of the journey, worries about the hidden borderlands, fear of death, and concerns about Red all flooded Lindsey's mind.
In this falling descent towards death, everything surged into Lindsey's heart.
His essence also underwent a change.
【Second Stage (Death's Cold Silence/Life's Ardent Faith) → Third Stage (Foundation)】
"Leveling up at this time..."
Lindsey sighed.
He had almost lost all his abilities, and the essence upgrade wasn't enough to change the situation.
Sensing the changes in his essence, Lindsey allowed the chaotic air currents to toss him back and forth, and his gaze inadvertently fell downward.
Boom—
Almost simultaneously, in the distant ruins of the Icebound City, a crimson flame burst forth.
Revenants began to wail, as if a catastrophe had descended upon them.
What is this? Did Red, who went to kill the Dark Abyss, succeed?
Lindsey's mind filled with questions.
Neither Red's nor the Dark Abyss's skills could create this fiery light.
But at the moment the flame ended, he also clearly felt the seventh-stage essence of the Dark Abyss disappear.
"The ground is getting closer."
A thought suddenly popped into Lindsey's mind.
Will Red suddenly appear and catch me at this moment?
...
After the miracle of killing the Dragon Beast, there was no second miracle.
But on the ground below Lindsey, the reality wagon continued on its trajectory.
The shape of the earth gradually folded and rose, like layers of spider webs used for buffering, perfectly laid out along Lindsey's falling trajectory.
At the same time, on Lindsey's body, the Stone Breath, gifted by the Earth Element, released a dense earth aura fluctuation.
"Huh?"
Lindsey continued to fall, still thinking before losing consciousness:
"What is this thing?"
"Anyway, let's leave it at that."
【Today's second volume ends, two chapters combined to publish!】
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