Chapter 976: Get down here
“Alright, get ready,” Orion said. “We’re invading another world. Bring every combat unit you can muster.”
“The more firepower you bring, the bigger your cut.”
With Caesar, it was simple. The kid trusted him completely.
The feeling was mutual.
Unlike with Tangere, there was no need for a sales pitch, no cautious hemming and hawing about needing ti to think. Caesar was just in.
With his team locked in, it was ti for Orion to take the lead.
Erald Dream Realm, near the Dragonfla Island archipelago.
“We’ll push ahead. The magical formation will take ti to set up.”
The battle in the sky above had already concluded.
The Deputy Commander glanced at the Kraken, currently locked in a brutal struggle with a Bronze Dragon, then gave Orion a curt nod. He, along with the skeletal dragon and Sever, broke off, pushing the front line toward Dragonfla Island.
The arch lord dragon they had just killed hadn’t yielded a body of faith upon its death.
Clearly, the creature had an escape plan.
Orion had no issue with the Deputy Commander’s departure. The strategy had been set from the beginning. Their forces were split into two balanced fireteams. Orion, the ancient giant-horned whale, and the Kraken ford one—a versatile trio with lee, ranged, and colossal beast capabilities. The storm avatar, the bone dragon, and Sever ford the other, an equally well-rounded squad.
…..
As Orion surveyed the distant front, the fight between the Kraken and the Bronze Dragon reached its fever pitch.
The Kraken was clever. From the mont the fight began, it had dragged the Bronze Dragon into the sea, turning the ocean into its personal arena. The dragon, for its part, was far from helpless in the water, but this was a fight to the death. As it grappled with the massive octopus, it constantly tried to drag the battle skyward.
The open air was the dragon’s domain, a disadvantageous terrain for the Kraken. If the fight moved, the tables would turn instantly.
But the Kraken saw the dragon’s intent and countered, fighting tooth and tentacle to keep it subrged.
The deep, dark water churned violently, sending colossal waves radiating outwards. At the epicenter, the mountain-sized Bronze Dragon breached the surface, its body half-exposed. Rune-etched scales shimred as imnse power gathered around it. Anyone could see it was preparing to unleash so form of draconic magic.
Suddenly, the magical energy around the dragon pulsed, and a pair of imnse, ethereal wings erupted from its back. They were vast and translucent, like two storm clouds blotting out the sun.
The arcane wings phased through the Kraken’s python-like tentacles, unfurling to their full, magnificent span and beginning to beat the air. A deafening whoosh echoed across the water as wind elentals gathered, trying to lift the great beast into the sky.
But the Kraken wasn’t about to let that happen.
It plunged several of its free tentacles deep into the water, and four massive, downward-pulling vortexes instantly ford on the seafloor. The whirlpools anchored the Kraken, and by extension, the struggling dragon.
But that wasn’t enough. In a shocking display of brutal determination, the Kraken tore one of its own tentacles in half, the thick appendage ripping apart with a wet schism. Now, it had an extra limb.
Ignoring the searing pain, the Kraken began to wave the newly-split tentacle, chanting a guttural, arcane verse. Monts later, dozens of tentacles ford from pure seawater erupted from the depths. So shot up to shred the dragon’s arcane wings while others wrapped around its body, pulling it back down into the abyss. The Kraken knew, with absolute certainty, that it could not let the dragon reach the sky. It could not afford to lose its ho-field advantage.
“Last ti, it was you,” the Kraken roared. “You were the one who severed my tentacles.”
“Today, I’ll drain you dry, piece by piece!”
“Get down here!”
With its bloodline ability fully unleashed, the Kraken’s rage crested. It dragged the Bronze Dragon under the waves. Simultaneously, thousands of razor-sharp suckers covering its tentacles pulsed with a vicious light and tore into the dragon’s hide.
ROAR!
The Bronze Dragon was no passive victim. Its own assault was relentless. It opened its massive jaws and spewed a torrent of incandescent dragonfire, a fla so hot it could lt steel. The torrent washed over the Kraken’s tentacles, and the flesh sizzled, blackened, and carbonized in seconds. The surrounding seawater instantly boiled, erupting in a cloud of steam.
Yet the Kraken was undeterred. It pressed its attack, enduring the horrific flas, splitting more of its limbs to create more water-whips to lash at the dragon’s throat, trying to choke off the stream of fire.
The sheer savagery of the battle was breathtaking. Orion watched as the Kraken ripped off its own scorched and severed limbs, shoving them into its maw to be devoured, only for new ones to regenerate monts later.
All the while, the Bronze Dragon raked at the Kraken’s body with claws like obsidian daggers and thrust its barbed, conical tail at the octopus’s core. Several tis, Orion raised his trident, ready to intervene, but stopped. He saw the Kraken withdraw a tentacle just long enough to pull out a vial and drain its contents.
As the unknown potion took effect, the Kraken’s blue-white skin flushed with a spreading darkness. Within seconds, its entire body, from its eyes to its razor-sharp beak, had turned a solid, abyssal black.
Orion had never seen it like this before. The Kraken’s aura hadn’t changed, but he could feel a cold, unyielding killing intent radiating from it.
Schlick! Schlick! Schlick!
A series of sickening, wet tearing sounds followed as the Kraken’s venomous beak and poisoned suckers punched through the dragon’s scales. Having committed to its final gambit, the Kraken began pumping its potent toxins directly into the Bronze Dragon’s body.
The dragon shrieked, a sound of pure, unadulterated agony that echoed even through the water. It thrashed wildly, its claws, tail, and ethereal wings beating in a frenzy.
Orion couldn’t imagine the pain it was enduring, but he saw the dragon lock its jaws onto one of the Kraken’s tentacles and begin to tear and swallow huge chunks of flesh, as if inflicting mutual harm was the only way to alleviate its own suffering.
Unfortunately for the dragon, this only seed to fuel the Kraken’s insane fury.
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