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Chapter 14: Bluffing
On the outside, Dorian was the picture of a cool, confident, godly dragon giving off an unsurpassed aura with silea his draconic nature
On the inside… Dorian was freaking out
Back when he was a hu He’d perfor too serious, but still so he enjoyed He’d also participated in a few se
Stage fright was a terrible thing, but it was a fear he had thought conquered
Noever, as Dorian put up an angry face, glaring in fury at the warriors and wizards surrounding him, he realized that was a sentiainst his will as he slowly turned his neck, glaring at each offending side He could only pray they didn’t notice He wasn’t even sure if his face actually looked angry Hoas he supposed to kno a dragon’s facial expressions looked?
His eyes glowed as he forced hi as if he was about to be sick
After the two sides began fighting, Dorian had ierous a situation he was in The sheer power and strength each side showed off was so he could easily die fro could incinerate him
It would be impossible to sneak away safely, not when he was directly between the two sides, and standing still and doing nothing would be like asking to die
So, he did the only thing he could think of
‘Ausra, how do I activate the Aura we stored?’ He’d asked as the battle began to unfold
‘Simply will it to surround you fro you’ Ausra’s response had been concise, but inforenie in his Soul Spell Matrix said, activating the Aura was like drawing a blanket around hi himself He’d mentally willed the s upon it
As he did so, the bead visible grew s of power and strength sweltered upon hi upon the world with do here was , sweeping through hisas inspiration, Dorian began acting like how he thought a godly dragon would act
THUMP THUMP
THUMP THUMP
THUMP THUMP
Graxital saw his death
He stood absolutely still, not daring tolike the footsteps of a great, lu behemoth in his ears His eyes were completely open as he put his full and coon in front of hiave off an aura that was so incredibly hty that Graxital knew that if he moved, he would be killed within seconds Its deep, black eyes gleaer as it stared into his soul
Even now, he could see theoff of it Its face was pulled up in an unnatural, hideous snarl, grotesque and horrifying to look at The half eaten deer thighbone it held in its claas like a sword of destruction, power pulsing around it
The beast was clearly beyond reasoning with
It was a wonder that he was still alive, in fact
Graxital was a tried and true htning Department for more than 12 years He had reached the Grandmaster Class just last year, and was considered one of the roup
It was because of this that heStar of the Black Lightning Department
His late father had always told hi results, but only if whoruff, forbearing, but most of all honest
He’d only followed the man for a year, but had been extrerity and the care he showed, not only for hiruff, silent personality was reat man
As his life flashed before his eyes, Graxital felt himself reach a sense of inner peace
He needed to warn Lord Hadrion This vile, twisted Dragon before him a creature that was at least at the peak of the Lord Class, er Even Lord Hardion could be killed if taken by surprise
He could not let thatto die to ensure that
Far, up above, his spell Black Calling had finished, several enor for It was a powerful ele use of the environthen one’s attack
Unfortunately, an attack of this scale that wouldn’t even be able to scratch the dragon in front of hi to try
He closed his eyes, and then opened theic: Requie every fiber of energy he had in his body into casting this spell They could not depend on the mercy of this beast to spare them Even Aymon, the Space Wizard, was frozen in terror, unable to flee
Requieic It e shockwave
This spell was usually used to blast away large nu in an explosion It was a rather unco Departan to slip into unconsciousness, seeing the shockwave start to expand a thousand , evil dragon glaring death at hi hi with tears at his sacrifice
Oblong stared at his idiot coe He’d known Graxital was the quiet type when they’d partnered up, but had been completely unaware of his apparently suicidal nature
‘Are you trying to get us all killed?!’ His eyes were bloodshot, tears of frustration and fury welling up as he saw Graxital cast his spell and then collapse Oblong’s ar ahold of the fool’s body
What a terribly unlucky day
Far above, an enor apart the clouds that had for shot up into the air, crackling Around the black lightning, white energy began to crackle, further fueling the expanding shockwave
Blasting off like an enor realized his co hi hi certainly wasn’t
BOOM
The re as it collided with Oblong’s innate barrier He forced hion Several of the warriors standing off to the side were stunned by the iround
"Our deepest apologies, your Lordship&8221; He stuttered out, proud of hi Every word he spoke had to be forced froonhi with all the ht of an ancient beast
"BEGONE!&8221; Its voice thundered out, a single word filled with arrogance
Oblong tre as he sed hard, forcing hiuards nearby had collapsed from fear and terror, unable to hold the aurajerked Graxital’s unconscious body into the hands of one the warriors that were standing nearby All of them, whether they were the Black Iron Guards or the soldiers provided by the Nobel Fa like he was their only hope
He rabbed their wounded or injured, and began to back out of the valley The Royal Wizard Aye scale spatial et them as far away as possible
"H, drake?&8221; As they were fleeing, Oblong vaguely heard the voice of one of the Nobles call out at the dragon, filled with arrogance
He grinned cruelly as he heard this The idiot was asking for death He smirked as he hurriedly ran away, pleased that at least the Nobles would suffer from thissensation that he’d forgotten so
Dorian had froze when he saw one of the wizards cast a spell, his heart dropping as he thought he’d been seen through
However, it see a spell he’d cast earlier that caused the clouds to gather A huge shockwave had arisen as a result of this, stunning Dorian and nearly knocking his tiny dragon body unconscious
When he ca his eyes, he saw the worried look of the fat wizard staring at hi the part of a godly dragon, filled his voice was as ance as he could muster as he yelled out as loud as he could,
"BEGONE!&8221;
He al the humans to respond
His bluff seeroup of hu their co fro, however, Dorian was forcibly reminded that there was another side here
"H, drake?&8221; Gaia’s voice boiled out, do towards the s?’ Brutusin one of the two Vae spoken by hand The powerful warrior was incredibly on edge, having retreated backwards several dozen steps when the dragon unleashed its aura His eyes continued to track both the dragon and Gaia as he responded, ready to flee at a moment’s notice
‘Its body is clearly heavily weakened, you see it as well as I It must be a heavily injured beast, reduced to this state with only its Aura re No natural beast could have that Aura while also being so young’ Gaia replied back, her eyes flashing Va that of humans Even now, both Brutus and her could clearly tell that the dragon before them eak, physically only at the Earth Class, unlike a powerful beast
Her words had a certain level of logic to them
Her heart was still filled with nervous fear, however, the aura before the…
‘This is a one in ain both fear and exciteet the blood of a beast that was at least at the peak of Lord Class for free…
Beasts that had a bloodline that could reach the Lord Class were very rare, and very powerful Those that could reach the King Class were even rarer, and those that could reach the Angelic Class were alic had an entire host of spells that required the blood of outside beings A Lord Class’s beasts bloodline would prove i neither of theain as they were now, not in any sufficient amount It would be that final push she needed, Gaia believed, to break past the barrier of the Grandmaster Class
Gaia steeled her heart, ready to risk it all as she cast a spell,
"Blood Magic: Sweltering Shade!&8221; Immediately, a dark aura of blood rose and spread into the air
"YOU DARE OFFEND THIS GODLY DRAGON?!&8221;
Gaia cringed as she heard the dragon’s roar, the fear in her heart rising Her spell continued spreading, causing the valley to start falling into darkness
The fact that the dragon hadn’t uess was accurate
"YOU THINK DARKNESS WILL AFFECT THIS GODLY DRAGON? FOOLISH MORTAL, I WAS BORN IN THE DARKNESS! MOLDED BY IT! YOU HAVE MERELY ADOPTED IT!&8221;
The dragon waved the half eaten deer thigh bone in its claws at her in a threatening and dis at her hat seeht in the valley faded away
Gaia’s hands treon, visible only to her thanks to her spell
This dragon was the real deal She wholeheartedly believed that if it hadn’t been injured and weakened, it would utterly destroy the
"Saluers Immediately, the powerful Blood Wolf appeared in front of her, its body shivering with power
Gaia studied two branches of Blood Magic, that ofFate
Salum was the Blood Beast she had raised for years, the cornerstone of her strength, and her proudest creation She had formed him fro a massive beast of beauty and power
"Shole&8221; Her eyes shook as she focused on the sh the darkness and the red haze of power that surrounded the dragon, ordering her Blood Wolf forward
The wolf dashed forithout a worry, inherently following her co doithout pause
As it did so, both she and Brutus ju to flee at aBrutus, in fact, fled back nearly 40 lared at her angrily
‘Die you bastard’ Sheher 3 on, praying that the dragon would be killed
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