novelraw Chapter 447 447: Xeno'jiiva Subjugation (I)
Chapter 447 447: Xeno'jiiva Subjugation (I)
Logan was the fastest. The moment he detected Darren's signal flare, he immediately flew here at full speed.
Only when he saw Xeno'jiiva did Logan finally understand why—despite having constantly monitored the Everstream's energy—he had been unable to detect Xeno'jiiva's location the instant it emerged from its cocoon.
At this moment, Xeno'jiiva had not yet converted the bioenergy within its body into an internal circulation to form a perpetual energy engine. In its current state, it was entirely an aggregate composed of Safi'jiiva genes and bodily structure, yet still formed from extremely high-concentration bioenergy.
In other words, the current Xeno'jiiva was the incarnation of Everstream energy itself. Before it severed its connection with the Everstream, the energy fluctuations it emitted were no different in the slightest from the Everstream energy of the Elder's Recess.
This method of masking its aura could also be considered a special kind of juvenile protection mode.
However, the current situation was not particularly optimistic.
Nearly all of the spines covering Xeno'jiiva's body had already turned pitch-black, and the massive scales on its back were beginning to develop texture. Although the entire dragon lacked any real experience in using energy, it still instinctively chose the crudest approach—yet one that, while it remained in an energy-aggregate state, existed at a critical threshold with virtually no side effects.
This technique is something most Elder Dragons can use. It is nothing more than concentrating energy in a certain part of the body to carry out high-intensity attacks. However, for flesh-and-blood organisms, this kind of usage truly damages the self, so they almost never choose this kind of fighting method where you injure the enemy by a thousand and injure yourself by eight hundred.
Seeing Xeno'jiiva take the initiative to rush toward Darren, the two sides collided once again.
The Terastal film over Logan's body swept past in a streak of flowing light.
In the next second, dozens of electromagnetic Terastal spikes fired in a fusillade; at a speed like thunder and too fast to cover one's ears, they stabbed into Xeno'jiiva's wings, which still carried wrinkles.
This sudden attack, together with the intense pain, made Xeno'jiiva's body involuntarily retreat two steps. Darren, who was rolling and shifting beneath it, also took the chance to slash twice toward the joint area of its forelimbs.
However, although the damage was cut out, Darren discovered that the toxin that should have been enough to stop Xeno'jiiva from healing itself was quickly flushed out clean under the scouring of the high-temperature bioenergy.
It could be seen that, in this brief span of time, Xeno'jiiva had already mastered a method of using bioenergy to offset and expel heterogenous energy. This rate of growth was who-knew-how-many times faster than even young Nergigante.
Logan, who was diving in, naturally also noticed this point. It was not because his eyesight was good enough to see the effect of Darren's attack, but because his electromagnetic Terastal spikes had not achieved the expected explosive effect.
After the Terastal spikes pierced into Xeno'jiiva's wings, the violent energy was just about to erupt when it was blocked by the bioenergy. The power of the explosion was reduced by quite a lot, but the prior physical penetration did not suffer the slightest discount.
Therefore, Logan instantly judged that Xeno'jiiva was currently in a phase where its energy was vast, but its physical body was comparatively weak.
Without any hesitation, arcs of electricity streaked across his body surface. The Terastal membranes on both wings rapidly extended, lengthening the wings by more than double, as a dazzling white light flared across them.
Heat Blade Wings — Terastal-enhanced version!
Using the speed of a high-velocity dive, combined with the activation of his own muscles by electric current, Logan swept across Xeno'jiiva's body like a beam of light.
In the next second, a long blade mark was carved across the platform fixed atop the massive Bioenergy Crystal, with crimson scorch traces spreading toward the edge of the platform.
Under this attack, Xeno'jiiva stiffened for half a second. In the next moment, an extremely painful wail burst forth from its newly formed vocal cords, catching Darren—who had intended to seize the opportunity to attack—completely off guard and leaving him somewhat dizzy from the shock.
From the base of Xeno'jiiva's wings to its neck, a massive wound slowly split open. Enormous quantities of bioenergy erupted like a fountain as the entire dragon slammed heavily into the ground. Its hind limbs kicked wildly without control, while its tail—charged with a large amount of accumulated energy—smashed aimlessly against the ground, triggering successive energy explosions.
Such injuries and pain caused the just-born Xeno'jiiva to experience a pain threshold beyond what it could endure, and the entire dragon instinctively began absorbing the bioenergy of the nearby Bioenergy Crystals.
After landing a successful strike, Logan showed no sign of joy. Such wounds would not count as fatal injuries even for ordinary Disaster-level Elder Dragons—let alone now. Moreover, the sensation he felt upon landing that strike had been somewhat off.
Aside from a momentary blunt resistance when colliding with the scales, there had been no sense of obstruction from tearing through muscle at all.
Just as he stabilized his posture and was about to turn back to deliver the next strike, a beam of high-temperature bioenergy shot straight toward him, nearly slamming into his face.
Xeno'jiiva, lying on the ground, was actually still able to launch a counterattack with its breath under these circumstances!
Logan turned sideways and used his wings as a shield. While blocking the breath attack, he also used its force to propel himself back into the air.
However, once airborne, he witnessed an extremely unbelievable scene.
The bioenergy within the massive Bioenergy Crystals all around was now transforming into visible substance, like connecting bonds, linking to this platform and then being transmitted through the ground into Xeno'jiiva's body.
In other words, as long as Xeno'jiiva stood upon this land, there would be an endless influx of bioenergy pouring into it. This efficiency far surpassed that of the post-metamorphosis Safi'jiiva, which actively plundered the land's bioenergy.
Not to mention that Xeno'jiiva was still a semi-energy organism at present—even if it had already completed its metamorphosis and developed a fully physical body, under such a massive infusion of bioenergy, it might not necessarily die even if its heart were pierced through, let alone with the injuries it currently bore.
Likewise, in other words, there were only two ways to kill Xeno'jiiva.
Either wait until it reached the point where its internal energy circulation was on the verge of completion, precisely at the moment when its biological characteristics surpassed its energy characteristics, and then strike a vital point to heavily wound it before killing it.
Or, before that, sever its connection to the bioenergy of the land of the Elder's Recess and then inflict fatal damage upon it.
There were very few things in this world capable of isolating bioenergy. Even after his Terastal energy was solidified, it could not achieve complete isolation.
But what if one were to add Kulve Taroth—an Elder Dragon with deep understanding of Everstream energy, and the ability to melt the land through extreme heat?
"Roar!!"
The sound of Bioenergy Crystals shattering rang out. As a massive Bioenergy Crystal pillar fell into the abyss, Kulve Taroth—draped in its imperial golden mantle—burst forward, slammed heavily onto the platform, and without a word immediately charged savagely toward Xeno'jiiva.
This forced Darren to hastily roll, attempting to evade Kulve Taroth's attack trajectory.
However, Kulve Taroth's appearance was far too abrupt, and its position was extremely awkward. A single roll was nowhere near enough to completely avoid it.
Just as Darren abandoned evasion, raised his greatsword sideways, and prepared to face the dragon charge head-on, a chunk of Terastal crystal slammed into his back and became firmly lodged in the weapon hook.
In an instant, the sound of electric current crackled. Amid a faint numbing sensation, Darren was yanked from his original position by arcs of electricity, left hanging suspended in midair.
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