novelraw Chapter 302: Mixed Doubles — The Witch and the Hunter
Chapter 302: Mixed Doubles — The Witch and the Hunter
The sea breeze continuously blew past as a silver-gray steam boat carried a lively crew composed of adventurers, navy personnel, and hunters.
Thanks to the new power engine provided by Bonfire Energy Company, they had arrived here early.
However, for safety reasons, they only dared to stand at a distance, watching the distant battle through telescopes.
The sudden appearance of the Flower Witch ignited this calm sea.
A navy soldier with a sunken nose said excitedly:
"It really looks like a fight is about to start. Is this really a battle we should be watching?"
A bloodthirsty navy soldier shook the dice in his hand:
"Getting to witness the battle between the legendary Flower Witch and the Dragon Tamer King - even dying would be worth it! Anyone want to place a bet? I bet Dragon Tamer King Jie will defeat Flower Witch Fen and the Black Hunter within three minutes! Ten thousand Shell Coins!"
"I bet one million Shell Coins! He'll take them down within one minute! If I lose this round, I'll directly go serve noble ladies at Moonstone City's shops! Anyone following?"
A rather handsome navy youth with curly hair smiled slightly and generously took out a full one hundred gold coins.The navy personnel began a round of extravagant betting, after which the navy vice admiral running the gambling operation turned his gaze toward Dya and An.
These two were both experts among third-tier Transcendents, talented geniuses who might be able to predict the final outcome of this battle.
Dya readily took out an ancient snake coin worth five million:
"Five million! Within three minutes, the Black Hunter won't lose! Even if he does lose, it will be glorious!"
As someone defeated by the Black Hunter, Dya believed that until he could defeat the Black Hunter again, the stronger the Black Hunter became, the stronger he himself would become.
An shook her head and sighed:
"I lack understanding of Dragon Tamer King's power. Perhaps one of them might escape Dragon Tamer King's pursuit."
The navy personnel looked puzzled. This wasn't a jungle but the vast ocean. The flying dragons in the sky could clearly see everything happening on the sea. Escaping from Dragon Tamer King's claws was an extremely difficult task.
Pelu raised her head and confidently voiced opposition:
"I bet ten million Shell Coins that both will escape completely unharmed!"
"???"
Ten million! Completely unharmed!
The navy personnel were shocked. Everyone knew that Dragon Tamer King Jie's Black Thunder Dragon King hadn't fallen even when facing Tiger Shark General's Blade Release technique 'Hundred Whale Long Wave Spear'.
Even if the Flower Witch was legendary, ultimately, she was only someone who had recently advanced to legendary status. Thinking she could escape from Dragon Tamer King Jie's hands was simply too naive.
The navy vice admiral running the bet stroked his beard:
"Miss Pelu, this is ten million Shell Coins? Are you really sure?"
Everyone wanted to dissuade Pelu, but soon, a thunderous drum sound attracted their attention.
Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Zzzzt!
"I'll capture you together! Lock you in a dark, narrow room to experience endless fear!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie completely changed his previous combat style. His right hand covered in dragon scales condensed into a lightning spear.
Dragon Tamer King Jie had undergone the forbidden surgeries 'Dragon Scale Blood' and 'Golden Dragon Pupil', while also practicing a powerful dragon breath breathing technique. Even as a seemingly fragile beast tamer, he possessed a body of reinforced steel and extremely powerful close combat capabilities.
His speed, enhanced by 'Dragon Scale Blood', had become terrifying enough to execute extremely effective evasions in an instant.
Then, he leaped down from the Black Thunder Dragon King's head, and with his lightning spear thrust forward, charged directly toward Chen Qi!
His first target was the Black Hunter!
Clang!
So fast! Chen Qi gathered qi force into his blade, barely blocking this lightning spear attack. Scorching lightning pierced through, leaving one burning scar after another on his skin.
Defeat Dragon Tamer King Jie? While struggling to hold on, he contemplated his subsequent tactics.
To defeat Dragon Tamer King Jie, he must target his heart! Simultaneously, he needed to inflict equally effective damage to the Black Thunder Dragon King's heart!
Soon, Chen Qi's strength began to waver. The dark fire hands behind him moved forward together, burning with dark flames, converging into ten eerie, terrifying arms that charged toward Dragon Tamer King Jie.
Chen Qi's body, freshly infused with life energy by Fen, brimmed with spiritual energy. These ten hands gathered for a strike that crashed like a high-speed eerie train, violently smashing Dragon Tamer King Jie's face until it concaved! Knocking him back five meters!
"Interesting! These flowers, truly interesting!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie stabilized his posture, spitting blood from the corner of his mouth. His right arm had completely withered, and his left foot began to sprout flowers that continuously absorbed his power.
His spiritual energy, his life force - all were constantly being diminished.
This was Fen's 'Blooming Bloodflower' released in coordination with witch relics. In this state, flowers would continuously grow from wounds, and these flowers would absorb life energy at an unimaginable rate, thereby reducing all his power.
Fen's Release after advancement could spread through tiny petals and spiritual energy, making it more concealed and harder to detect.
In the instant he contemplated this, the flowers spreading across Dragon Tamer King Jie's left foot suddenly grew violently. In that moment, the skin on his left foot withered like aged tree bark, the outline of bones becoming clearly visible.
"Within the domain, extremely faint spiritual energy transmission..."
Dragon Tamer King Jie began circulating his own qi force, then formed an absolute qi barrier on his skin's surface.
However, Fen wouldn't give him this opportunity.
The instant he began casting his technique, Fen charged forward with her staff!
As Fen closed in, she suddenly unleashed a vine technique. The wooden buds on her staff continuously grew, transforming into thick, powerful vines that tightly wrapped around Dragon Tamer King's entire body.
For a moment, Dragon Tamer King's intact left arm was firmly bound by vines, unable to move.
Dragon Tamer King Jie, being consumed by flowers, experienced a significant decline in physical capabilities. This was the best opportunity to finish him off!
In the next instant, flowers scattered from Fen's body into the air as she prepared to deliver the final blow!
Boom!
However, contrary to her expectations, Dragon Tamer King Jie hadn't moved a single step. Instead, he used his withered skeletal left arm to condense a sizzling lightning spear, then violently thrust upward! Smashing Fen into the air!
Lightning Strike!
Why could a skeletal arm being consumed still launch such a powerful attack? Fen, with blood streaming from her abdomen, fell into stunned confusion mid-air.
"A moth flying into flame! Seeking your own destruction!"
"Black Thunder Dragon King, slaughter her for me!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie spread his arms and roared.
Boom!
The Black Thunder Dragon King raised its right hand, gathering infinite lightning. Its massive dragon claw became as scorching as molten lava, with immense lightning crackling and gathering in its hand. Then like a massive mountain, it violently smashed toward Fen in the air.
Boom!
Colossal lightning exploded across the sea surface!
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the dark fire hands behind Chen Qi reached toward Fen in the air, firmly wrapping around her before violently smashing her into the seawater, narrowly escaping this dangerous fatal blow.
"!!!"
Fen tremblingly raised her head, a flower of terror sprouting from her hair.
Chen Qi used twelve hands to hold Fen against his chest, warning:
"Don't casually approach Dragon Tamer King. In terms of raw strength, Dragon Tamer King is superior to us."
If she had taken that hit from the Black Thunder Dragon King just now, even with the protection of her witch gown, she would have been at a significant disadvantage.
"Mmm..."
Fen blushed and nodded.
The battle situation was urgent. Without saying more, Chen Qi made a snapping sound and directly tossed Fen back onto the water surface.
Although Fen currently wore a bright red flower-patterned gown and her skin was covered with dark red blood flowers.
Although she appeared corrupted from the outside, her combat approach remained just as careless, lacking experience!
Dark flames began to ignite across Chen Qi's body.
During the previous battle, the Black Thunder Dragon King hadn't launched attacks. Its chest continuously heaved, with a hundred whale-hunting spears still embedded in its chest!
Tiger Shark General had delivered a Blade Release to the Black Thunder Dragon King! This significantly weakened the Black Thunder Dragon King's combat capabilities!
Dragon Tamer King Jie's right arm had already recovered. He wiped blood from the corner of his mouth, making an inviting gesture:
"Still dare to come?"
Chen Qi coldly explained:
"Dragon Tamer King Jie masters the forbidden technique 'Dragon and Heart'. Even when an arm has lost its flesh and blood, he can still use this secret technique to draw power from the dragon's heart and blood through his own heart.
However, the Black Thunder Dragon King's heart is already injured. This means that if we can inflict serious damage to his heart again, we can severely wound both of them."
After speaking, Chen Qi threw the Deep Sea Tentacle Sphere from his belt into the ocean.
"..."
He actually knows my technique? Dragon Tamer King Jie's pupils sharply contracted.
Dragon and Heart - this was a life-saving skill he obtained from an A-grade dimensional rift. How could the other party know how to counter it?
Immediately after, Chen Qi held his knife in his left hand as scorching dark flames began to burn across his face:
"Fen, you hold off the Black Thunder Dragon King. I'll hunt his heart."
Dark flames like evil spirits gradually covered his form.
In an instant, Chen Qi charged out like a madman, like a desperately thirsty wild dog.
Shadow Flame Demon. Activate!
Dragon Tamer King Jie first froze momentarily, then revealed an astonished expression!
These two people facing him not only weren't running away, but dared to charge toward him!
"Seeking death!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie roared violently. The golden dragon scales hidden beneath his skin fully manifested, tearing through his clothes.
This was an extremely high-level flesh surgery that appeared like dazzling golden battle armor from the outside.
But Chen Qi paid no attention to the opponent's defense. His entire body was already covered in massive flames, his eyes filled with furious fire. The twelve tentacles behind him became extremely thick and powerful, his entire being turning eerie, sinister, and brutally savage, like a demon from the depths of darkness.
The momentum he generated in that instant, in that brief moment, even surpassed Dragon Tamer King Jie's Dragon's Might.
Chen Qi ignited the blue flames of Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker and slashed down.
Clang!
Dragon Tamer King directly blocked with his right arm while simultaneously unleashing lightning that pierced through Chen Qi's entire body.
However, Chen Qi in his Shadow Flame Demon state felt no pain whatsoever, his mind occupied by only one simple thought - to smash the Dragon Tamer King before him.
Boom!
The twelve brutal dark fire hands behind him instantly ignited, then continuously threw hundreds of punches.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dragon Tamer King's hands possessed superior speed, reaction, strength, and even technique. However, he only had two hands. Every time he blocked a slash or punch and prepared to counterattack, another of Chen Qi's frenzied dark fire hands would immediately follow.
An impenetrable barrage of frenzied continuous strikes!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Coupled with the forbidden healing special effect of 'Flesh and Blood Severed' and the life steal of 'Blooming Bloodflower', Dragon Tamer King could clearly feel his powerful body becoming increasingly fragile.
The sensation in this moment felt like a single person, holding a rusty broken knife, facing a frenzied giant dragon.
Crack!
Cannot engage in prolonged combat! Dragon Tamer King Jie roared violently, gathering all his spiritual energy to execute 'Qi Transformation. Raging Dragon's Wrath'!
As he threw a punch, a qi-constructed tyrannosaurus rex opened its bloody m wide, biting toward Chen Qi's head.
Bang! However, in this instant, Chen Qi suddenly became calm. His frenzied posture stopped, switching instead to a defensive stance with his knife held ready for blocking.
The demonic flames burning in his eyes instantly turned into cold blue flames.
Blade Release. Sacrifice My Flesh and Blood!
Chen Qi used his long knife to barely block Dragon Tamer King's strike, then completely absorbed all this power, absorbing it—
Sever Their Bones and Sinew!
Slash!
This single strike stirred up hundred-meter giant waves, directly targeting Dragon Tamer King Jie's heart!
Dragon Tamer King Jie's heart-protecting scales were cut open, revealing an extremely vivid red wound.
"!"
Dragon Tamer King gritted his teeth, unable to suppress a scream of agony as he clenched his fists.
As a legendary being, he was actually being suppressed by a frenzied third-tier! Injured by a third-tier!
He looked back and saw that somehow, the sea beasts in the ocean had been attracted by dragon blood and were biting the Black Thunder Dragon King's thigh.
Simultaneously, one thick deep blue tentacle after another emerged from the deep sea, coiling around the Black Thunder Dragon King's limbs.
Meanwhile, Flower Witch Fen continuously used vine techniques to attack the Black Thunder Dragon King.
You two, one playing with tentacles, one playing with vines!
Having quite the fun!
An indescribable killing intent flashed in Dragon Tamer King Jie's eyes.
Being suppressed by third-tier Transcendents and falling into such an embarrassing situation had plunged the arrogant Dragon Tamer King into unprecedented rage.
Humiliation! Truly humiliation!
If news of this defeat reached everyone in the Witch Sea, how could he, as one of the Seven Sea Pirate Generals, negotiate with the navy and Blackfin Crew with authority even if he captured Chen Qi?
"Black Thunder Dragon King!!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie no longer restrained himself.
Release! The flames in Chen Qi's eyes violently ignited.
Under normal circumstances, a legendary being would absolutely not use their Release when fighting against third-tier opponents!
In that instant, tiny lightning flashes appeared in the sky.
The Releases that legendary beings could unleash were limited and consumed enormous energy. If using Release didn't cause effective damage, it meant a significant disadvantage.
This was also why Tiger Shark General hadn't continued pursuit after using his Release.
Should I really use Release against the Witch and Black Hunter? Because of these two, use Release? Dragon Tamer King Jie struggled to use rationality to suppress his anger, anger, anger—
"Roar!"
However, accompanied by the Black Thunder Dragon King's mournful cry as it was whipped by tentacles and vines, his rationality completely vanished!
Rage transformed into boundless Blade affinity power and Heart affinity power!
Blade affinity power and Heart affinity power then transformed into the power to unleash Release!
Dragon Tamer King Jie, bound by vines, stared fixedly at the two, unprecedented dazzling lightning flashing in his dragon pupils.
Let me show you what true Release means! What the insurmountable gap between legendary and third-tier truly is!
"Go!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie withdrew, making a massive backward leap onto the Black Thunder Dragon King's head.
"Roar!!"
Then, the Black Thunder Dragon King spread its massive wings, breaking through the restraint of tentacles and vines at the cost of injuries.
Instead charging toward the thick dark clouds in the sky. The instant it charged toward the sky, all the lightning within kilometers of dark clouds surged toward the Black Thunder Dragon King itself.
First Stage. Lightning Attraction!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless lightning strikes hit the Black Thunder Dragon King's body, condensing into a dazzling light sphere.
"All Thunder Returns to Self!"
Dragon Tamer King Jie spread his arms, greedily absorbing countless lightning strikes!
Using lightning to shatter this sea!
For a moment, the massive lightning sphere in the night sky resembled a dazzling pale sky.
Everyone in the Dragonflower Archipelago sea area raised their heads to look at this dazzling lightning in the sky.
"Ah?"
Exhausted Burry was already stunned. He could only watch this battle from the island with a small red crab, observing from afar in the wind.
Impossible to stop... Fen stared blankly at the countless lightning strikes in the sky, continuously retreating.
In the distance, the navy personnel lowered their telescopes, completely bewildered.
Why!? What was happening!?
Pelu excitedly picked up her camera, aiming it at the sky:
"Release! Activating Release at this timing?"
Dya meanwhile murmured:
"Already been three minutes..."
"Blade Release, Dragon Tamer King was forced to use his Release!"
"What joke is this! A legendary being forced to use Release by third-tiers!"
"I won, the Black Hunter already lasted over three minutes! Give me the money!"
As the lightning grew increasingly dazzling, Dya who was squinting suddenly woke up and shouted:
"Shut up, run! This range is within Dragon Tamer King's Release attack range!"
"Ah?"
The navy personnel immersed in gambling suddenly realized.
The lightning sphere in the sky continued absorbing lightning. The entire night had been completely illuminated!
A legendary being's Release could definitely reach their location!
Everyone throughout the Dragonflower Archipelago fell into panic.
"Release..."
Fen raised her head, her pupils completely covered by the dazzling lightning.
Using a Release technique meant Dragon Tamer King Jie would be pursued by Tiger Shark General, falling into unimaginable disadvantage.
Against a legendary being's Release, only by risking one's life could there be a sliver of survival hope.
Fen fiercely bit her lip, horizontally gripping her staff with both hands as the blood-colored petals on her body fell with the wind:
"Qi, get behind me..."
"Go!"
However, Chen Qi didn't give her time to speak. Directly using slippery tentacles, he roughly wrapped them around her entire body, then directly dragged her into the seafloor.