Overgeared

[One must have some shame to feel embarrassed. The way you argue with me is almost like gibberish.]

“......”

The moment Zeratul said this, Biban stopped explaining to him the meaning of a surprise attack and shut his mouth.

He recalled the experience from a while ago, when his surprise attack had easily been blocked by the golden dragon’s forearm.

The top dragon, Kubartos.

In the past, he had been considered the ‘greatest enemy’ of the Tower of Wisdom, because the tower saw no situation in which they could actually afford to face an old dragon. They were determined to avoid the old dragons because they concluded that the old dragons couldn’t be stopped. As such, the top dragons were considered a top priority threat.

‘I thought it would be worth fighting, but—’

It didn’t feel much different from Trauka in terms of hardness. His body stiffened despite chills running down his spine. The aftermath of an ominous premonition was overwhelming him.

In the words of Huroi, Grid’s closest confidant, he looked like XX hard excrement.

In the end, Biban seriously reviewed the gravity of the situation.

“This isn’t the time to argue between ourselves. The scales of a top dragon are harder than I expected.”

[He is also agile.]

Zeratul was also aware that Kubartos was a difficult enemy to face. The palm energy, which he’d fired with all his might, was blocked by Kubartos’s iron-like hand. Despite the palm attack being launched from close range, the reaction was immediate.

[He also happens to be a gold dragon... Should I say he is on a level similar to Raiders with weakened powers?]

“That would be appropriate. We have no time to waste.”

First of all, they had to break through this guy to even stand a chance of saving Grid...

After a brief discussion, the two of them raised their strength. A colorless energy emanated from their heads and shoulders, distorting the surrounding landscape.

The ice dragon Revola was barely pulling his body off the wall. The wounds inflicted by Kubartos and Zeratul were frozen over with ice, causing the bleeding to stop.

[He is pretty tough as well.] Zeratul stated.

“But he can’t be compared to a top dragon.”

[Let’s deal with him first.]

[Wait, I’m in this situation because...] There was no time for Revola to explain anything.

Zeratul used Shunpo and moved between Revola’s legs. He hit the dragon’s inner thigh, shaking it. Biban took advantage of this slight gap and dealt a joint attack.

The blow split the ice armor in half. However, it quickly repaired itself.

A chill so strong rose from Revola’s heart that it even froze Biban’s huge sword, which had been piercing through his scales.

‘Is he a top dragon we didn’t know about?’

Biban was quite surprised, but he showed no signs of agitation. He observed the dragon meticulously, taking in as much as he could of Revola’s appearance with his calm, gray eyes.

The insight of an Absolute saw through many facts in a split second: the fact that this blue dragon was stronger than expected, that he was already injured, that he didn’t fight back, etc...

[Great job, Revola. As expected of my subordinate.]

Therefore, Biban wasn’t deceived by Kubartos, who was using despicable whispers in order to induce confusion.

Biban narrowly escaped Kubartos’ claws, which had left behind a gold-colored trail like sunlight reflected on the surface of water. Then he spoke to Zeratul.

“These two seem to have a toxic relationship.”

[Do you only understand now?]

responded as if Biban was

was covered

a moment later than you, so it took me a while to figure

[Are you bragging?]

explain it to you... No, wait? You

[Yes.]

did you ask me

enemy is necessarily an ally. This is even more applicable when the opponent is

opinion, so he infused willpower into the sword

out of a gap

conversation halted for

and approached Biban like he was gliding on ice. He bent his upper body back significantly in order to avoid

the size of his sword, the enlarged blade dug into Kubartos’

Kubartos released Polymorph

range before he could even scream. He immediately used Shunpo to make his way back to the entrance of the lair, and saw that Zeratul

victim to the same trick that

Breath materialized in front of him in the blink of an eye.

blow cut his hair. It was just the right

and trampled Biban, smashing the ground

for

from the ground directly with both legs, taking advantage of the recoil from Kubartos breaking

giant sword pushed Kubartos back several steps. Kubartos’ mouth formed a straight line, and his brow was

metal breaking, and it was most definitely

in his Polymorph state. He didn’t feel constrained by Polymorph, just like an old dragon would have felt. Before he knew it, he had been cut dozens of times by Biban’s dragon weapon, which swirled

“Grid is a nuisance.”

continuously fire Breaths to

future. I

bottom to top, and turned his body. Biban’s sword, which had returned to regular

Biban was pierced in the abdomen by a sword protruding from Kubartos’ coccyx, a

of his sword upside-down, spun back and faced Biban head-on. But the blade that penetrated through

He tried to

take it out with his hand. He tried hitting it with his sword,

use Shunpo, but it was

his vision. Ironically, he used the basic magic called Light. An Absolute who died because

activating his mental world despite being quite overwhelmed in his

should’ve recovered a bit

He clicked his tongue.

mean

was like a sword and struck at Kubartos’ sword. To his surprise, Kubartos’ sword froze.

“What is this?”

my friend. It is a

who said that wasn't the

that rose in his throat, only to suddenly

accepted help from someone who was close to one

he anything

was rough. He’d said he was faring better than Biban’s, but Zeratul hadn’t

His sword energy hadn’t regained its proper circulation, either. This would be especially devastating for Zeratul, who used a wider variety of

have a chance of

this fight

were different. He wasn’t the type to recklessly bluff

the midst of

helping them by pulling out the essence of your heart?” Kubartos’ gloomy

was directed at Revola, who was now

from him.

them. I’m trying to protect Trauka. I can’t let you go into the

a very good

to be very weakened. It didn’t feel like he’d intended to polymorph. In fact,

the icicle in

pluck it from

plucked it? He

“Why?”