Chapter 451: Chapter 451: Hamid’s Escape
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Chapter 451: Hamid’s Escape
"Quick, move!"
"Don’t block !"
"Damn it, the dragon is catching up!"
"By the Great Fla Lord!"
"He dares to devour the Great Spirit! Is he not afraid of the Grand Sultan’s wrath?"
The fire genies crowded as they surged out of the brass palace gates, howling and shoving, desperately fleeing this land of death.
Due to their flight, thick smoke and embers trailed behind them.
"Quick! Close the gates and trap the red dragon inside. Don’t let him get out!"
Hamid commanded loudly as he flew.
Fire lizard slaves, wrapped in heavy iron chains and stationed at the gates, strained with all their might to turn the wheels.
"Creak—"
Amidst the harsh screeching of tal, the brass gates slowly closed.
The fire genies cast successive spells, using arcane locks to seal the gates, intending to temporarily trap the fearso dragon within.
"Bang—"
A tallic boom echoed as the brass gates buckled sharply, claw marks imprinted upon them, but the gates did not break.
The fire genies breathed a sigh of relief.
"We’re... safe for now."
"He won’t get out imdiately. We can use this opportunity—"
"Boom!"
The next mont, the colossal red dragon crashed directly through the thick wall, bursting out of the palace amid swirling smoke and embers.
The building behind him collapsed with a deafening roar.
Cassius flapped his wings and lunged at the panicked fire genies, roaring, "Since you’ve chosen to be my enemies—"
"You’ll pay the price—with your lives!"
"He’s out!"
"Run!"
"No—"
"What kind of flas are these?"
The red dragon spewed raging flas, turning the surroundings into a sea of fire, its reach nearly encompassing all the elentals.
Perhaps it was karma at play.
The fire genies, who loved raiding the material and elental planes and cleansing hos with fire, finally experienced the agony of "being burned."
Dragonfire coiled around the fire genies’ bodies, disintegrating them in monts and devouring their fla essences.
This was the dragonfire of an ancestral dragon, possessing all the characteristics of fire but imbued with a higher magical nature.
Hamid continued flying, smoke trailing behind him.
His fellow fire genie nobles had bought him considerable ti, allowing him to cover several hundred ters.
Hamid frequently glanced back, shaking his head in disbelief and mumbling to himself.
"Impossible."
"What kind of fla is this...?"
Even at a distance of hundreds of ters, he could still feel the terrifying intensity of the flas.
As the fire drew closer, the magic within him seed to evaporate, slipping from his control.
Hamid could vividly feel the overwhelming power, a fire so destructive it filled him with fear.
He had only seen such unreachable flas from the Great Sultan of the City of Brass or the elental prince at the Temple of Terminal Combustion.
"I... must leave this place."
"I need to return to the City of Brass and report to the Grand Sultan!"
The trembling fire genie noble waved his scimitar, and a portal gradually ford before him.
"Ember Nest—"
Cassius rampaged through the City of Iron, his colossal dragon body easily crushing building after building, leaving ruins in his wake.
The red dragon flapped his wings, and wherever he passed, flas engulfed everything, consuming the panicked fire genies.
Before the thirty-ter-long ancestral red dragon, these fire genies, usually so arrogant, were no different from their forr victims.
They were like lambs awaiting slaughter, powerless to resist, praying desperately for divine intervention.
In just a few breaths, dozens of fire genies had returned to their fla essence forms, absorbed by the red dragon.
As Cassius feasted, he activated the [Supre True Dragon Crown]—more specifically, Bahamut’s Wind.
He encircled his ferocious head with divine power from Order, ensuring he did not lose himself to madness or rage.
"Heh..."
"A portal?"
Cassius sensed the spatial fluctuations in the distance, narrowing his eyes and curling his lips into a smirk.
He extended a claw and pointed, sending a beam of dark green magical light shooting forward.
[Spell Dampening]
"Hurry up!"
"By the Great Fla Lord, as long as I reach the City of Brass, the Grand Sultan will protect . He’ll kill this dragon for sure."
Hamid anxiously stared at the forming portal, chanting incessantly.
"Whoosh—"
The dark green light struck, instantly dismantling the portal and returning the space to calm.
"No, no, no!"
"There’s still a chance."
The fire genie noble shook his head repeatedly, his rugged face twisting with fear.
Seeing his spell fail, he didn’t look back and kept flying forward, trailing thick ash behind him.
"Trying to run?"
"You’ve already chosen your fate!"
Cassius’s thunderous roar echoed.
"Whoosh—"
The red dragon flapped his wings forcefully, creating a scorching gust strong enough to collapse buildings. In an instant, his massive form shot forward a hundred ters.
Hamid dared not look back, flying desperately. But he could already feel the sulfur-laden breath and the howling winds closing in.
Finally, he reached the city gate.
"Lord Hamid?"
"That’s—"
"By the Great Fla Lord!"
The fire genie guards at the gate first stared in shock at the fleeing Hamid, then were petrified by the dragon chasing behind him.
"Get out of the way!"
"Release the multi-headed fire serpent lizard! Stop him!"
Hamid bellowed his orders.
Amid the fire genies’ frantic movents, the giant gate creaked open, and a monstrous beast erged.
It was a multi-headed fire serpent lizard with a massive body over ten ters long and five snake-like necks, each bearing a head.
Legend had it that these creatures were born from the blood of the slain dragon god Lenaire by the evil dragon queen Tiamat—forever cursed to hunger.
Released, the multi-headed fire serpent lizard roared, all five heads lifting skyward.
It was ready for a feast.
"Awoo—"
But soon, it sensed a terrifying presence rapidly approaching, accompanied by a deafening roar in the air.
Its five pairs of eyes filled with confusion.
"Boom—"
In the next instant, Cassius skimd low over the ground, his enormous body trampling the creature rcilessly.
Flesh and blood splattered as the place where the serpent lizard once stood was reduced to a ss of scattered limbs, its body smashed to pieces.
What mortals saw as a fearso beast was no more than a paper doll before the red dragon.
One of its heads rolled to the ground, its eyes still full of confusion.
"By the Great Fla Lord."
"I hope that fool can buy
a little more ti."
The fire genie noble prayed silently as he continued flying for his life.
But fate wasn’t on his side. The gusts of wind clung to him like a shadow, and the massive shadow of the dragon lood over the ground ahead.
Darkness enveloped Hamid, and he felt his entire body seized by an overwhelming force.
He slowly lifted his head, trembling, the fla on his crown flickering as his fear contorted his face.
"M-my lord, I believe there’s been so kind of misunderstanding."
The red dragon had firmly grasped the fire genie noble in his claw, his fearso face contorted into a grin.
"Esteed ’Fingerless’ Hamid, give
one reason not to kill you."
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