Lind knew the official brackets were not rigged but the fact 2 of his wives faced off and now he was facing off against one could not have been totally random.
That, or fate was getting its revenge via an indirect thod.
Lind sighed as he looked across the platform. The prismatic robes and hair matched with her beautiful eyes but currently she was smiling like a predator, not his lovely wife.
"Ethry, you seem to be looking forward to this. Is winning in the bedroom not enough?" His remark broke her serious attitude and he took the small victory but her pheromones spiked which told him he was going to regret his jab.
"If I win, you will submit for a year." Lind felt a chill go down his spine. She was not joking. More, despite the shift in the Throne of Defiance, it was more than possible a new clutch of eggs could result.
More children were a happy thing but he knew the tournant was the end of his ti as ruling the Throne. He had to leave if he had any hope of finding leads to breakthroughs. Ti seed endless for him but his issue was the Great Bastard.
He would not stop and his plans had nearly collapsed the entirety of their existence to be fuel for his cultivation.
Lind could not put off his advancent to luck or waiting for the Heavens to align for him. He had to actively keep moving but he needed a more peaceful 4th layer to do it!
The tournant was achieving that in many ways, so surprising, but he pushed it aside and beca serious as the judge ekly looked between them.
The Harmonic Dragons were powerful but both people before her were Divine Bloodlines and one was her ancestor to boot!
"Ahem, are you ready to begin?" Reading out the rules was pointless for the 2 in front of her. Anyone that thought they would go easy on each other did not understand dragons.
It was not just about pride but about respect.
A truly powerful opponent must be faced with their full power. Lind had several edges normally over anyone but Ethry was different.
The reason he was a dragon was because of her. She had also gained the ability to transform and learn as a human far younger than she should have been able to. She had always been intelligent but her mind had been limited by the natural lifespan of her race.
Dragons took centuries to grow the more profound their bloodline. She was a Divine Bloodline. It should have taken millenia to reach the World Realm with the poor resources available to her.
Lind had changed that drastically. Thus, while his harmony and other aspects gave him far greater power, they were not as effective against her.
She was resistant to his Dao empowered abilities!
No one knew that of course but they would after today. Their platform was too small for what was to co. Beasts had so leeway here as they could request a larger field.
The pair of them had done so.
"We will transform and it will begin at your mark." The judge swiftly bowed and her fiery hair shivered as all her instincts scread at her to run. Due to the unique pair, 2 other judges had been called in.
One was a phoenix and the other was a serrated shell tortoise. They had sufficient ability to judge as they were ancient Sovereign Tiers. They were too old to participate but they could help in the botherso issue of the judges being partial to his family or Clan.
Lind grew as Ethry shimred into her natural shape. Two sinuous dragons appeared. Lind was almost 3 kiloters long at full length. His massive mane of erald was lighter than his scales but it was the 4 limbs ending in golden claws and the 3 horns on his head that drew awe from the crowd.
There were next to no recordings or docunts that had a full description of his draconic abilities but Ethry was different.
She had no limbs but her mane was prismatic and seed alive with power. Her eyes shimred with all the elents as streams of energy seed to dance around her body. Her scales looked like nothing could pierce them.
She was only slightly smaller than Lind but her power seed higher.
[Once I drop my hand, we will begin.] Neither looked away from each other but their aura was looking. The hand dropped and any words were lost as clouds imdiately surrounded Lind.
Storm Arts! They had been witnessed many tis in the tournant but the current one was infamous. Erald lightning! He was starting with his Harmonic Storm?!
Ethry did not even pause as she shot forward. Few could track her movent as the air rumbled with the shockwaves of her pacing. She had broken the sound barrier with only a thought!
So thought her reckless but none could have predicted that she also brought out a Storm Art! Unlike Lind, hers was made of all 6 elents making platinum lighting!
[DIVINE RYUU STORM!] Her voice thundered in all their heads and the world seed to bend for the storm's will. The clouds were all made up of elental Qi!
The platinum lighting took shape as more ryuu dragons! They were as fast as Ethry and ripped apart the Harmonic Storm as if it was nothing. The erald lightning damaged them but did not stop them.
It took only a few experts so shocked breaths to realize the truth. Ethry could resist his Dao of Defiance!
An Immortal was standing up to Dao with only her Laws!
The Harmonic Storm dispersed as it fell apart but Lind was nowhere to be seen. It was only then that the audience scrambled to find him but Ethry's shimring eyes shot out beams of light.
The lighting dragons dispersed but beca bolts flying across the arena. Finally, they hit sothing that roared in pain.
Lind was revealed to have been sneaking around the surface to try and sneak attack Ethry. It was an unlikely position to attack as most dragons would assu an attack from above.
Yet, the fallout of her storm had revealed him. His horns lit up and the aura slamd into her. Just pulling on his half step Divine Elental nodes let Lind free himself of her lighting with ease.
He then had his mane move in myriad easy to engrave thousands of sigils! He was using a weaving in mid-battle?!
Ethry did not just sit there.
Her tail whipped through the air and slamd into his body like a lead weight. He did not stop but blood spurted from his side.
His mane never stopped and the traces finally connected. A flash of light and gravity was altered on the platform. Ethry tried to fly away but went towards him. She and the audience only thought things were reversed but when she dodged left she went straight up!
A ball of fla appeared between his horns as erald flas built up in his mouth. Shock flooded the dragons and phoenix races as the fla in the horns felt primal. It felt like the origin of all flas!
The 2 flas enjoined as he launched them and the primal fla made his dragon breath a thousand tis more dangerous even just viewing it remotely!
Eyes began to cry as they tried to keep looking but it was too much! The Dao was too powerful!
Ethry was the only one that did not look away and the streams of energy thickened around her. She did not know how to evade it so she simply prepared to endure!
Lind was bleeding from his injury and now his mouth smoldered as his own flas had hurt him before he could cut them off.
He flew up after his attack, as if knowing it was not enough despite all that power!
Ethry smiled wide with her maw as prismatic flas shot out but the streams of energy joined in!
[Origin Fla!] Lind's eyes went wide as Ethry's flas transford. His potential victory was shredded as her once prismatic flas shifted to all colors of flas until a darkness glinting with gold settled.
The first flas were not a raging inferno nor an unstoppable force unleashed into the cosmos. It was a spark in the vast darkness of the primordial tis. That spark was how it all began and no fla could stand up to it.
That tiny spark caused his enhanced harmonic breath combined with Primal Dao Fire could not withstand it!
The price paid was high. Ethry fell at first until gravity shifted and she was moved left before shooting up and right. The movents finally clued the audience into what the weaving did.
Gravity had been separated into different segnts. It was not a change in direction but like thousands of pocket dinsions all around the fighting stage.
There was not a sliver of borders to be detected so it was a work of art, yet all were looking as Lind tried to evade the final attack. He was far from tired and he could move plenty fast enough but it was like his blood was sluggish.
The Origin Fla was not just the source of fire, but of the races closely tied to it! Dragons, phoenixes, and any beast related to fire would find their power generally lowered. Lind tried to tear through space only to recall that his injuries were not so light.
More blood exploded from his mouth as the dark fla with a tiny sliver of gold slamd into his left side. It was so cold!
Lind then realized that was not it. His nerves were already destroyed! He was losing sensation not feeling cold! The flas were like a tar. He could not remove them and had no choice.
His own upper claws ripped his body away just below his dantian. Blood flowed like rivers but quickly slowed as he invigorated his body's regeneration ability. He fell straight down but did not care as he was already low to the ground.
He was dizzy and hanging on when the thud of a body drew his eye. Ethry was bleeding from several wounds as she had been slamd onto the stone by his gravity sharding weaving.
Her last attack had been all she had so nothing had been left to protect her but the rise and fall of her body gave him relief. She lived.
The judge walked out tentatively with the other 2. They quickly examined Ethry and then looked at him looking back.
[Winner by knockout: Lind Frey!]
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