Above The Sky-Chapter 1736 - 338: You’ve Seen Through My Disguise? I Can’t Let You Live!

"Gradually adapting to the Crystal Dragon Body, the power of Heart Light can also be slightly utilized."

Facing the incoming Annihilation Cannon, Ian remained unflustered.

Although the Crystal Dragon Body was only at the Second Energy Level, under the support of the Biological Alchemy Furnace, his Origin Quality was not lacking. With his computational prowess, even without a Heart Light Field, he could offset the opponent’s advantage with extreme precision.

Moreover, his soul was gradually adapting to this avatar-like body, and the appearance of the Heart Light Field meant that except for lacking the Third Energy Level Sublimation Organ, he was essentially half a Third Energy Level.

The Third Energy Level of the Arcane Pathway.

His blade-like dual wings crossed, and the instant they intersected, a massive streak of cyan-red lightning erupted, thick plasma scattering around, colliding with the crimson light cannon.

Facing the Third Energy Level and Ether Armament’s attack, Major General Demka still held the upper hand. The figure of the Glazed-Glass Dragon was swallowed by flames, but before Major General Demka could press the advantage, two steel blade wings sliced toward the smoldering armament like giant swords.

At first, Major General Demka was rather dismissive, thinking it was just the dragon beast’s desperate struggle, but he soon realized something was amiss. These two blade wings were not simply mindless brute force strikes; on the contrary, their coordinated attacks were extremely disciplined, almost as if two master swordsmen were launching a life-or-death assault on him.

"What?" The man sensed something was wrong: "This dragon actually knows swordsmanship?"

He had completely noticed the situation was far from right; the fact that the dragon beast could still attack using its wings proved it wasn’t severely injured, and this sword skill was even superior to his own. Ordinary swordmasters couldn’t manage to control two swords simultaneously in such an offensive.

Moreover, since it was a remote-controlled body without a core, even if Major General Demka blocked the blades, he couldn’t figure out how to counterattack at once.

In a moment, the crisp clash of swords echoed thousands of times, a continuous, rapid barrage that sounded like terrifyingly piercing wails.

Retreat!

Noticing that the arm parts of the Aether Armament were showing signs of cracking, without hesitation, Major General Demka immediately unleashed his power upon realizing something was wrong. The magma plates on the surface of the smoldering armament exploded at once, blasting away the dual blades as he instantly turned around, intending to withdraw.

Relying on instinct and keen awareness, he had already sensed that this dragon beast’s strength was likely far beyond his expectation, and even if it truly was only at the Second Energy Level and just in its death throes moments ago, their skirmish just now had lasted long enough for The Empire’s formidable forces to redirect their fire and besiege him. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

— If I don’t retreat now, death is a certainty later.

It must be said, there’s no fool at the Third Energy Level. Major General Demka’s judgment was correct; he indeed found a sliver of survival amid all possible deaths.

[Don’t run]

But Ian couldn’t let such a perfect practice target escape.

Without Demka’s attacks to counter, he couldn’t so swiftly achieve a deep fusion between his soul and the Crystal Dragon Body and thus unleash the power of Heart Light fully.

The next second, amidst the thunderous explosion, Ian accelerated, closely pursuing Demka, and the two blade wings returned to his side, slicing towards the Aether Armament.

The atmosphere was torn apart, a vacuous vortex forming in the high-temperature muddy rain caused by lightning and previous explosions. One could only see, amidst the dust-laden sky, the crimson magma and cyan-red lightning flickering and chasing through the subterranean and the dust fog. Occasionally colliding, they formed a vacuum zone with a radius of hundreds of meters and intense tempests capable of blowing away small hills.

The sea next to the land was evaporated, forming numerous tornadoes, and even Ironclad Sharks previously bred in the Atlantian Megalopolis were swept into the sky by the aftermath of their battle, turning into terrifying sharknadoes.

"No, this dragon’s purpose isn’t to block me!"

Demka quickly realized something was wrong again. This Glazed-Glass Dragon entangled with him seemed to fight fiercely, indeed making him exert all his strength, but it hadn’t even bothered to shake him off and intercept the execution teams heading to the Terra Dragon’s remains on their mission.

The opponent seemed to only be putting on a fighting stance, in reality letting them succeed in their operation?

But why?

[Sir, you’re not a Guardian of The Empire, are you?]

Seeing through this, Demka immediately used the ’physical link’ formed by crossing swords to communicate; he said solemnly, [No matter who you are, as long as you let our operation succeed and let me go, I will certainly reward you handsomely in the future!]

Demka thought he had discovered the truth.

But he received a vicious response.

[You managed to see through my mask?]

[I can’t let you leave!]

Being uncovered the real intention, the originally blue-tinted Crystal Dragon that was acclimating to Demka’s familiarity with the body instantly lifted its head as the vast computational power from a distant space-time descended upon this body.

At this moment, Demka was astonished to find that theoretically much weaker Origin Quality of the Crystal Dragon had become incredibly solid. It felt like one side was still water, while the other had already frozen into millennia-old ice; even though water could engulf ice, ice could effortlessly pierce any defense constructed by water.

— This is no ordinary dragon beast, Fourth Energy Level, or even higher skills... Is this a Dragon King Incarnation?!

Realizing this possibility, Demka was dreadfully alarmed, knowing many legends about True Dragons and Dragon Kings, understanding these ancient powerful beings sometimes descend their split spirits upon the world due to their excessively long lives.