"Sevenfold Ruins — First Form — Ruinous Severance."
Alden muttered as he swung his sword towards a massive fireball, hundreds of tis larger than his own body, descended toward him.
The pitch-black slash dancing with red lightning t it head-on as the fireball split cleanly in half before the two halves surged past him, crashing into opposite sides of the forest and setting everything on fire.
Alden didn’t pause to admire the destruction because the mont the attack passed him, he had already activated his Chaos Steps.
His figure vanished and then reappeared mid-air directly before the bloodied gray Dragon. Twisting his body, he converted every ounce of montum into a single strike.
"Ruinous Severance!"
The Sword of Chaos bit deep into the Dragon’s neck and just as it was past halfway through, just monts away from severing through it cleanly, a flash of light engulfed its body before it was teleported away, officially eliminated from the ceremony.
Only then did Alden let himself collapse onto the ground. His knees hit the ground first and the rest of him followed as he laid down completely.
His breathing was rough and blood dripped from the corner of his mouth as another violent cough escaped him.
Fuck...
I pushed my body too far.
Alden cursed inwardly as even moving a finger felt impossible at this point.
It had been nearly thirty minutes since the gray Dragon began aggressively expressing its desire to remain in the ceremony.
For thirty exhausting minutes, Alden and Aemirya had worked together to bring it down but then so opportunistic bastard had decided to interfere.
Aemirya moved to handle the newcor which left Alden to fight the gray Dragon alone with a body that was already halfway broken.
Not that the gray bastard had shown any appreciation for the effort. In fact, the asshole had gone out of his way to burn through the first set of decent clothes Alden got since arriving in this era.
Alden looked down at the scorched remains of his sleeve as his expression darkened.
Still, resisting the overwhelming urge to curse the entire bloodline of that gray bastard, Alden shifted his gaze toward the sky.
Aemirya was close to finishing her own battle, her opponent was a smaller red Dragon far weaker than the gray one Alden had just dealt with.
The only reason the fight had dragged on this long was because Aemirya herself was exhausted because of their battle with the gray one.
Even so, the outco was already fixed.
The red Dragon attempted one final charge and Aemirya answered with a Dragon’s Breath as brilliant dark flas engulfed the sky and monts later, the red Dragon’s body dissolved into countless particles of light before vanishing completely.
It was eliminated as well.
The massive white Dragon remained in the air for a few more seconds and then her wings folded as her enormous body descended toward the ground before collapsing onto the ground with a loud thud.
Her draconic form rapidly shrank as the white scales turned into pale skin while the wings transford into a beautiful white dress and monts later, Aemirya in her human form stood once again.
Or at least she tried to.
But the Dragon Princess barely managed to walk three steps before her legs gave out completely and she collapsed onto the ground beside Alden.
For several seconds, neither of them spoke as they simply lay there, breathing heavily, covered in blood and exhausted beyond words.
The evening sky stretched above them as the first stars began appearing one by one and then a strange sound broke the silence.
"Pffft..."
Aemirya imdiately turned her head.
"Why are you laughing?"
A frown appeared on her face.
She genuinely couldn’t understand him because just monts ago, they had both co dangerously close to defeat.
Unlike her, who would have been teleported away before suffering a fatal injury, Alden had nearly died several tis during that battle.
And yet...
He was laughing.
He didn’t answer imdiately and instead he continued staring at the sky where the clouds drifted lazily as the fading sunlight painted them gold.
After a while, he slowly raised a finger and pointed upward.
"That cloud looks exactly like you."
Aemirya followed his finger instinctively and for a mont, she almost thought he was being sincere and tried to find similarities in a completely normal cloud but then he continued.
"If you had a duck’s body."
Silence engulfed the area as Aemirya stared at the cloud and her frown deepened because she could actually... see the similarities which she normally wouldn’t have noticed.
Still, Aemirya had no intention of accepting such humiliation. Her eyes imdiately moved across the sky in search of a counterattack because she refused to lose this battle.
Finally, her gaze landed on a cloud to the right as a strange smile appeared on her face.
"Haha... ha?"
Alden blinked.
It was sohow the most unnatural laugh he had ever heard and the sound was so chanical that it felt less like laughter and more like soone reading instructions on how to laugh. Even her smile looked vaguely threatening as if she was preparing to execute soone.
More importantly...
In the past few days, Alden had seen Aemirya do many things like fighting, scheming, arguing, threatening him and even calling him a pervert but he had never seen her laugh.
So he couldn’t help asking.
"Why are you laughing?"
Aemirya raised an eyebrow smugly and pointed toward a cloud.
"That cloud looks like you."
Alden followed her finger as Aemirya continued.
"If you were dancing like a gorilla."
Alden’s eyes twitched. Imdiately, the traumatic mories of Gretta’s dance lessons resurfaced in his mind and unfortunately, the cloud actually did resemble him or at least what he imagined he looked like during those lessons.
He pointed toward another cloud.
"Funny you should say that because that one looks exactly like you."
Aemirya folded her arms.
"Oh?"
"If you were fat."
Aemirya’s eyes narrowed as she imdiately pointed elsewhere.
"That one looks like you are drowning."
"That one looks like you are getting chased by ducks."
"That one looks like you are crying."
"That one looks like you arelosing a fight."
"That one looks like you are still wearing leaf clothes."
Alden gasped.
"Now that’s just unfair."
Their battle continued relentlessly as cloud after cloud beca a weapon as they exchanged insults.
Neither of them showed rcy but eventually, however, the clouds drifted apart and the battlefield finally disappeared and silence returned once more. For a few monts, neither of them spoke but then a soft laugh broke the silence.
Aemirya.
Alden imdiately looked over.
At first, he just thought maybe she had found another cloud but she wasn’t pointing at anything and just kept laughing and the smile on her face wasn’t awkward this ti.
She was simply...
Laughing.
It was as if she had finally understood a joke only she could hear and for a mont, Alden simply stared and then he laughed too.
The sound escaped before he could stop it.
The forest, the ceremony, the Dragons waiting for him outside, getting the fragnt of his bloodline and the uncertainty of this era, none of it mattered for a mont.
They were simply two exhausted idiots lying beneath the evening sky and for the first ti since arriving in this strange place, things felt peaceful as he let himself relax ever so slightly.
[A/N: I have added the character art of Aemirya in character art section.]
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