novelraw Chapter 262-1: The Might of the Black Dragon, Rescuing the Juvenile Nurarihyon (1)
Chapter 262-1: The Might of the Black Dragon, Rescuing the Juvenile Nurarihyon (1)
[The colossal dragon soaring across the skies looked down below, where the remaining six celestial palaces were crammed full of surging Outer Demons pressing up to the front of the cloud bridge…]
[However, the six Star Lords were all immensely powerful, and for the moment, over a hundred Outer Demons were unable to break through the defense of the cloud bridge.]
[Among them, the Second Celestial Palace of the Great Door Star and the Seventh Celestial Palace of the Shaking Light Star still had the largest number of Outer Demons remaining…]
[Please select which celestial palace you wish to support…]
The Seventh Celestial Palace was being guarded by Lu Caiyi, whose Endless Strength talent was still stacking.
Once she finished accumulating all the strength bonuses, Little White would definitely be among the first Star Lords to eradicate the Outer Demons.
As for Li Xingyue, holding the Second Celestial Palace, her Shell was an assassin type. Her single-target burst damage was extremely high, but her efficiency against large groups of monsters was comparatively slower.
Lin Xun did not choose to support his female superior or Lu Caiyi, but instead opted to steal kills from others.
[You beat your wings, stirring up a howling hurricane, and in the blink of an eye arrived above the cloud bridge of the Third Celestial Palace, the Celestial Measure Palace!]
[Below you were dense masses of vicious Outer Demons. Blades of sword aura slashed and crisscrossed among them.][The Lord of the Wealth Storage Star held the Demon-Slaying Sword, and each swing of the blade severed several Outer Demons limb from limb…]
Guarding the Third Celestial Palace was Kunlun Roving Enforcer Shangguan Yu. As a top-tier powerhouse, he had chosen a buff to increase the boss drop rate rather than boosting his own strength, clearly very confident in his abilities.
[The pitch-black dragon’s eyes glimmered with a savage light as it opened its jaws above the cloud bridge…]
[In your maw, black, surging dragonfire condensed. A deep bluish ink aura of draconic essence coiled around your body, converging into the flames like all rivers flowing to the sea.]
[Your Shell Skill Dark Dragonbreath is empowered by the attribute bonus of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo. The skill’s power increases tremendously!]
[Between your jaws, an ultimate darkness seethed and gathered, swallowing the surrounding light like a black hole, making the sky above the palace dim…]
[Dark Dragonfire Breath poured down!]
[It was as if the sky had split open into a colossal maw, with the void connected to the Northern Abyss Sea, and ink-black seawater cascading down like a waterfall!]
[The Dark Dragonfire Breath crashed onto the cloud bridge. The surging toxic breath erupted in waves of black flames, swallowing all one hundred plus Outer Demons into a black inferno prison!]
[Any Outer Demon that so much as brushed against the waves of dragonfire melted into a stinking pool of pus before it could even scream.]
[Soon after, under the scorching high heat, the pus fully evaporated, leaving only clouds of poisonous smoke…]
[…]
[When the dragonfire finally burned out, only the Lord of the Wealth Storage Star remained standing alone on the cloud bridge.]
[He cupped his hands and bowed toward you, expressing his deep gratitude for your assistance…]
Shangguan Yu’s expression was not very pleasant.
It was obvious that Lin Xun had come to steal kills rather than help.
Supporting others meant intervening when another Star Lord was unable to hold the line against the Outer Demons, not ‘helping’ slaughter monsters while the Star Lord was handling them with ease.
“Sorry about that.” Lin Xun said, lifting his head with an apologetic look that seemed perfectly sincere. “This summon beast is rather rare, and raising its loyalty is extremely difficult, so it doesn’t listen to orders very well…”
What could Shangguan Yu do? He had no choice but to go along with it, waving his hand hastily to show it was fine.
At the start, when he’d received Li Xingyue’s invitation, he’d assumed he was coming to carry the group and give the Vice-Chairman’s niece some face.
But afterward, Li Xingyue had discreetly hinted that she had brought him mainly to make up the numbers, not to lead the team.
There was a top-tier expert in the party, that was the real carry.
Shangguan Yu had been startled and eager to see this so-called ‘top-tier expert.’ After hanging up, he had immediately booked the nearest flight straight to Wen City.
All to meet someone he’d never heard of before who was called a ‘top-tier expert.’
Now that he’d seen the expert’s true strength… was he convinced? Naturally, he was thoroughly convinced.
For someone as proud as a Kunlun Roving Enforcer to face blatant kill-stealing without getting angry, if word of this got out, it would shock a lot of Apostles.
But it was because the creature overhead was a true giant dragon, not a subspecies drake, and certainly not a mixed-blood Rhinoceros-Horn Earth Dragon.
An ordinary subspecies wyvern already possessed terrifying might. A true giant dragon of pure lineage was simply beyond compare.
“I must establish a good relationship with Lin Xun. Never mind raiding together in the future, even if he’d be willing to share which chapter and strategy he used to tame this giant dragon, I’d gladly be his follower!”
Of course, Shangguan Yu didn’t know that the little dragonkin was actually a Shell, not a summon beast, nor that its strength could not match a real giant dragon and could only sustain its transformed state for a short time.
However, the little dragonkin possessed the mythic+ grade skill Hermit Bloodline, able to grow by devouring dragon bloodlines. Its potential far exceeded that of ordinary dragons.
Even if someone offered a real giant dragon summon beast in exchange for the little dragonkin Shell, Lin Xun would never trade it.
Shangguan Yu had only spaced out for an instant before seeing that the Head of the Ning City Surveillance Division, Du Cheng, was also ‘suffering.’
The black dragon, having stolen all his monsters, flew straight to the Fourth Celestial Palace of Celestial Authority – Literary Star, releasing another breath of dragonfire to clear the field in an instant.
Only Du Cheng and his skeleton warriors remained, staring in bewilderment.
Then the Fifth Celestial Palace of Jade Balance – Honorable Restriction Star also failed to escape the black dragon’s claws. The Rhinoceros-Horn Earth Dragon that Yin Linlin rode was so terrified at the sight of a real giant dragon that it trembled uncontrollably and nearly buried its head in the ground.
After ‘supporting’ three celestial palaces, the black dragon lazily flew back to the First Celestial Palace, the Celestial Pivot Palace, without moving to help the remaining palaces.
Lin Xun explained that the summon beast wasn’t obeying, had gone on strike, and needed to be fed properly before it could be ordered again.
Naturally, Shangguan Yu and the others all knew this was just an excuse.
How could it be such a coincidence?
All of them, Apostles he didn’t know very well, had been ‘forcibly supported,’ while Lin Xun’s circle of close friends were left unscathed. Even a blind man could see what was going on.