Ember Dragon

Chapter 682: Shocking Roar
"boom!"

Cassius flapped his wings and lowered his head. Countless dazzling spots of light burst out from his chest. Terrible energy accumulated in his throat, and it all poured out accompanied by the sound of air exploding.

The original spit!

Thick pillars of fire tore through the sky. The outer flame had turned into a brilliant blue, while the inner flame was an extremely bright white. Its temperature had reached tens of thousands of degrees. If an ordinary mortal was here, it would probably be evaporated by the aftermath.

But as the embodiment of war, as a god who has been fighting since ancient times, Gruumsh has killed many dragons and is very familiar with their breath weapons - even though the power of this breath is beyond imagination.

"Om-"

A clanging sound was heard, and countless complex patterns appeared on the orc's mottled, battle-wounded black plate armor, and dozens of high-level divine spells were cast on his body.

"You think you can defeat a god with this ridiculous breath?"

Gruumsh rose into the sky amid billowing black smoke. He stretched out his left hand and pulled out from the void a huge shield projected by divine power and engraved with the one-eyed emblem, and held it in front of him.

Suddenly, the blue-white pillar of fire was blocked, or even reflected, and the high-temperature flames turned into a raging sea of ​​fire in front of the giant shield, almost burning the space into a hole.

However, Gruumsh was not afraid at all. His divine power turned into blood-red light and attached to his body and the surface of his shield. The powerful divine protection was indestructible.

And his single eye was full of ferocity as he stared at the red dragon not far away, with a bloody light flashing in his pupil. That look even made Cassius feel a little chilly - that was the Unblinking Eye!
"not good!"

Cassius quickly turned his head, deliberately avoiding looking at Him, but that single eye burst into an overwhelming bloody light that even swallowed him up.

In an instant, Cassius seemed to have returned to the ancient battlefield. Before him appeared a sea of ​​blood and corpses of elves, dwarves and orcs. Rather than an illusion, it was more like the power of the Orc God pulling the red dragon back tens of thousands of years to reconstruct the world of the past!
Gruumsh's true form was holding a bloody spear, sitting on top of a hill of corpses, looking down at him, his voice like thunder: "The blasphemer shall be pierced through the heart by a sharp spear!"

In the real material plane, Geumsh's right hand also clenched the blood spear, the veins on his arm bulged, accumulating terrifying power, and the tip of the spear was pointed directly at Cassius' heart.

The sharp tip of the blood spear was wrapped in black light, emitting a thin black mist and exuding a murderous aura - that was the power to slay a dragon!
This power can cause great damage to any existence with the essence of "dragon" - even if it is just a little bit related. In the ancient wars, Geumsh used this method to kill several famous ancient dragons.

As the owner of ancestral blood, the essence of "dragon" in Cassius is extremely strong, almost equivalent to the word itself.

Taking advantage of the moment when the red dragon was confused by the Unblinking Eye and lost his focus, Gruumsh quickly launched an attack.

"The blasphemer shall be pierced through the heart by a sharp spear!"

Geumsh's voice was like thunder. He used all his strength and threw the blood spear with a grim smile. The blood spear filled with the power to slay a dragon broke through the air and flew straight to the heart of the red dragon.

At this moment, Gruumsh on the ancient battlefield also stood up from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He roared angrily and threw a bloody spear at Cassius.

For a moment, Cassius' body, mind, and even soul were all attacked at the same time. The blood spear surging with the power of slaying a dragon was about to kill him completely! Wipe out all his existence in this world!
"No, it's dangerous! This is clearly an illusion!" Cassius roared in his heart.

The next moment, raging flames burst out from the red dragon's light golden vertical pupils. The ancient battlefield in front of it burned fiercely, crumbling into pieces like a broken mirror, and the blood spear also suddenly broke.

The ancient battlefield constructed by divine power was destroyed in an instant!

Gruumsh was slightly startled, then laughed and said, "He actually managed to break free. But it's too late now!"

The blood spear had pierced through the sky, turned into a black stream of light, appeared in front of Cassius, and was about to pierce his heart.

Feeling the highly targeted "dragon-slaying power", Cassius' expression suddenly changed, and he thought to himself that something was wrong.

"This method is worthy of being the embodiment of powerful divine power!"

He felt an instinctive tremor, fear and hatred. He could even hear his ancestors - those ancestral dragons that were hundreds or thousands of meters long, roaring with their heads raised and making mournful roars.

This feeling was the first time he had experienced it since he was promoted to a sub-zudai dragon. Even if he had the hardest scales and the thickest skin, he could not resist this attack that went straight to his essence.

I must get out of the way! I must get out of the way even at any cost!
Cassius roared in his heart, and thousands of complicated thoughts suddenly emerged in his mind. Dozens of spells were cast one after another, blessing his body under the influence of the tide of spells.

The spell inscriptions on the red dragon's scales suddenly lit up, and various colors of spell auras shone together on its huge body. Dozens of protective spells overlapped and appeared on its surface, and the transformation spells increased its speed and physique to the extreme. There was also a mixed space turbulence surging around him.

At this moment, Cassius was like a moving magic fortress. He flapped his wings and was about to turn into a red afterimage.

However, Gruumsh's one eye was full of confidence and contempt. In his eyes, the spells of ordinary things were meaningless and as fragile as paper, which could not withstand his attack at all.

"His-"

The blood spear carrying the "power to slay the dragon" tore through the void and continued to fly towards the red dragon's heart. It kept chasing, getting closer and closer, as if it would never stop until it pierced it.

"Click."

A clear voice sounded.

A golden pocket watch engraved with intricate patterns appeared high in the sky, and its hands suddenly stopped with a sound, remaining at a certain moment.

In an instant, accompanied by an incomparably powerful force of time and space, the space within a radius of dozens of miles seemed to be stilled, and the flames, gravel, and dust all stayed in the air.

And on the Blackrock Mountain battlefield below them, the bullets and artillery shells remained in mid-air, and the flames from the muzzles of the imperial soldiers' guns were motionless.

The orcs were roaring ferociously and charging towards the hail of bullets, making gestures to swing their battle axes. Their faces were hideous and their saliva was suspended in the air.

There was even an orc whose forehead was just right where the bullet stopped. As long as time resumed flowing, the next moment, the bullet would shatter his skull and penetrate his head.

In a sense, Cassius temporarily saved his life, but the orc whose mind had stopped knew it.

Cassius fully unleashed the power of the [Time Pocket Watch]!

It will create a time stop lasting up to twelve seconds, but conversely, after this use, the power of the pocket watch will be greatly reduced, or even directly damaged.

But Gruumsh in the distance was not affected at all, moving freely in the frozen space and time. He just frowned slightly and murmured, "It's actually Roald's breath, that damned ancient time dragon..."

He raised his head and looked at the red dragon in the distance, with the corners of his mouth curled up: "But, do you think that a mere pause in time can stop the existence of a powerful god?"

"Shh-"

The blood spear also pierced through the stagnant time and space and continued to stab at the red dragon's heart, but its speed had slowed down a lot. It was not like before - if it was slower for a moment, it would be pierced through the heart instantly.

In this silent world, Cassius flapped his wings frantically, flying low at an unimaginable speed, constantly dodging the pursuit of the Blood Spear.

"Stop struggling—"

"Stupid red dragon! When this time stops, your life will end!"

The orc god's arrogant voice echoed in the sky, causing the world where time stood still to tremble slightly. Gruumsh traveled through space again and again, following the red dragon from a distance, ready to watch with his own eyes as his enemy was pierced through the heart by his blood spear and lost his life.

"You're too happy too soon!"

Cassius suddenly turned around, and the dragon crystal on his chest was as dazzling as a celestial body, emitting endless light and heat, and the whole world seemed to be covered by this light.

At the last moment when time stood still, the flames of chaos, the fire of order, and the power of the sun intertwined and poured out, and an incomparably powerful and manic torrent of energy erupted from the mouth of the red dragon!

"boom--"

The blood spear still rushed towards the red dragon's heart, but under the impact of the energy torrent, the blood spear was like a boat going upstream, and its speed became slower and slower.

The "dragon-slaying power" wrapped around the blood spear was also eroded and offset by this torrent, becoming increasingly weak, and finally turning into bursts of black mist.

Finally, the blood spear condensed from divine power completely disintegrated in the torrent, turning into scattered points of light, which were swallowed up by Cassius's plundering breath.

The next moment, the time pocket watch dimmed, tiny cracks appeared on the dial, and the effect of [Time Stop] suddenly stopped. Time and space began to flow again, thick smoke billowed, strong winds swept the earth, and gravel danced in the wind.

Due to the imbalance of time and space caused by [Time Stop], the space at the edge of the spell's range of influence began to distort, and streaks of time and space turbulence appeared.

On the battlefield on the ground, the bullet mercilessly penetrated the orc's head, causing brain matter to splatter and bones to fly everywhere.

"boom!"

"For the glory of God the Father!"

"For the Empire! Long live His Majesty Cassius!"

"Crush them!"

The smoke of gunpowder filled the land. The orcs charged, waving their weapons, but fell one after another under the brutal firepower of the imperial soldiers. This cruel and bloody world has finally revived!
For a moment, Geumsh's expression looked a little ugly. He gritted his teeth, his face filled with anger, and a deep light burst out from his single eye again.

That blood spear was the projection of his real artifact, a product of condensed divine power. After the blood spear was swallowed by the red dragon, Geumus felt that his real artifact was also consumed by one thousandth.

This is no small number. After all, it is the accumulation of the Orc God for thousands of years. What’s more, it was damaged by a mere mortal creature!
Cassius had already noticed the faint light in the unblinking eye, and hurriedly dodged it, flapping his broad wings, stirring up a scorching gale, and soaring towards the northern sky.

In previous battles, he was able to use the power of prophecy spells such as [Heavenly Tribulation Dragon Eye] to predict his opponent's actions and make reasonable counterattacks.

But Gruumsh's status is too high, and his powerful divine power is enough to make him immune to all prophecy spells: no mortal has the right to spy on him, no magic can affect him, and no illusion can confuse him. This is the god's magic resistance.

Instead, Gruumsh can use the deity's omniscient perception to accurately predict the next actions of mortals and other lesser gods.

The supreme law of Erezegai suppressed the power of the gods, forcing them to come to the world only in the form of incarnations. The power of their incarnations was less than one thousandth of their real bodies, but it was enough for them to stand at the top of the material world.

"Red Dragon! Do you think you can escape?" The angry voice of the Orc God echoed between the sky and the earth, making the world tremble.

He raised his right hand, a blood-red light surged, and the powerful divine power transformed into an ancient, heavy battle axe. The axe blade was stained with the blood of elves and dwarves and was already mottled.

——It is said that the battle axe once chopped off the head of an elven god!

Gruumsh held the battle axe in both hands, raised it high, and leaped hundreds of meters high, dragging black smoke, and chopped towards the red dragon's head.

"Those who blaspheme the true God will eventually be judged!" Gruumsh roared angrily and slashed towards Cassius with unstoppable momentum.

Blood light transformed from divine power surged in from all directions, and Cassius felt that he could not move at all, as if he was bound by heavy chains, and he even had difficulty breathing.

"boom--"

But Cassius raised his head and let out an earth-shaking roar. The power of the ancestral dragon was completely aroused, and the hot blood in his basal blood vessels flowed continuously.

The red dragon's face became more and more ferocious. He flapped his wings hard and used all his strong limbs to smash the field of divine power into pieces with his huge body as big as a hill.

Due to the nearly sixty-meter-long dragon body and the incomparable muscle strength, Cassius's casual attack is already beyond most spells. Now, he can easily destroy a city and cause the sky to collapse and the earth to split with his flesh alone.

"Death!"

Gruumsh held the battle axe and chopped it down at the red dragon, but Cassius narrowly avoided it. However, the battle axe still hit the red dragon's right arm, which it didn't have time to withdraw.

There was a loud clanging sound, blood spurted out, and the battle axe soaked in divine blood instantly cut through the scales and directly chopped off a large piece of scaly flesh on the red dragon's right shoulder!
The cut was neat and tidy, with a bloody divine light attached to it, which continued to erode the flesh and blood and expand the wound.

Then, the battle axe fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust, and created a deep crack on the earth that was hundreds of meters long and ten meters deep. It also split the hill in the distance into two halves, and even a space crack that connected the sky and the earth appeared in the air.

This is the powerful divine power. Even if it comes to the world in the form of an incarnation, it is enough to create a disaster that destroys the world!
"Ow—"

Feeling the excruciating pain of the divine power eroding his wounds, Cassius let out an angry howl, and uncontrollable rage burst out of his light golden pupils.

Taking advantage of the gap when the orc pulled the battle axe out of the ground, the red dragon swung its left arm with all its strength, and its ferocious claws tore through the air, breaking through the air from left to right.

Seeing the red dragon's giant claws waving, Gruumsh's body dodged flexibly and rolled over as expected, causing the red dragon's giant claws to hit the rock wall heavily, causing the hill to collapse and rubble to roll down.

Gruumsh climbed up from the ground and swung his battle axe with his backhand. He chopped down at the red dragon's unprotected left neck at an extremely fast speed, trying to chop off the dragon's head.

Cassius caught a glimpse of the orcs' movements from the corner of his eye and quickly dodged, avoiding his vital parts.

A flash of blood streaked across the air and slashed onto the red dragon's torso. The axe blade carrying divine power easily split the hard golden-red scales, cut through the thick skin, and was about to penetrate deep into it.

At the cost of his own injury, Cassius twisted his body suddenly, turned around, and slapped Geumsh who was chopping with his right claw. Under the huge recoil force, Geumsh also flew backwards, spurting out a large mouthful of divine blood from his mouth.

But He also left a hideous wound several meters long on Cassius' body, almost cutting his torso open.

Golden light descended, [Dragon's Breath] continued to repair the red dragon's body, and the power of the ancestral dragon was also making him recover quickly, but that blood-colored divine power was still like a thorn in the flesh, corroding his wounds.

"Although his incarnation is not as powerful as mine, this old greenskin has been fighting for thousands and tens of thousands of years. His combat skills and experience are much richer than mine. He also has the ability of divine perception, which is like a cheat."

Looking at Geumsh who was crawling up from the ground with a grin not far away, feeling the severe pain of his body being cut and eroded by divine power, Cassius licked the blood from his mouth, his expression becoming more solemn.

He was sure Gruumsh had foreseen the blow, but the orc god had accurately judged that the gains would outweigh the losses, and so he chopped down despite the red dragon's bombardment.

4800 words long chapter, burnt out

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