Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 645: Dragon’s Breath
Saryx's throat flared.
The bright light around his mouth condensed into a point, then expanded in an instant.
SWOSH!!! 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
A beam of violent breath erupted forward.
It carried black-green brilliance mixed with warped space, like the air itself was being ripped and melted at the same time.
Mingyue slashed down, cutting a purple line in front of them, and the space along that line turned stiff and cold.
Alex stepped into it and used it like a foothold.
They vanished to the side together.
The breath swept past where they had been.
BOOOOOOM!!!
The ground exploded.
A long trench tore through the forest, trees turning to dust.
The shockwave rolled outward and flattened everything, turning the edge of the clearing into a bare scar of cracked earth.
The breath kept going, carving forward until it hit a distant ridge.
BAM!!!
The ridge collapsed like rotten wood, and debris rained down.
The once green forest was gone.
Only a wasteland remained, smoking and steaming, with rocks glowing red inside the cracks.
Alex's eyes narrowed.
He could feel that despite the leftover violent energy in that trench, the area was already beginning to recover.
'Just what is his fortress? It seems we can really go all out fighting here.'
Mingyue's purple ice qi flickered.
Ice lotuses started appearing all around her.
Just like Alex, she also felt they could go all out here.
Saryx turned his head slightly.
"Nice dodge."
He lifted his chin.
"But can you keep doing it?"
Alex and Mingyue moved again.
Mingyue's ice lotuses shot forward, one above the other, and the space between them tore into a space rift.
Alex stepped through it.
They appeared behind Saryx's back at the same time.
BAM!!!
Alex's warhammer slammed down toward the back of Saryx's neck.
Mingyue's twin blades came in from both sides, aiming for the joints under his shoulders.
Saryx's body blurred.
The space around his spine shivered, and he shifted away without moving his feet.
The hammer missed his neck and hit his upper back instead.
CLANG!!!!
The impact drove him forward, and the ground under him sank.
Mingyue's blades still landed.
SCRRRT!!!
Purple frost scraped across his scales and stuck, spreading in thin branching lines.
Saryx's eyes flashed.
His violent aura surged out of his body like a blast.
BOOM!!!
Alex's runes on the hammer dimmed for a moment.
Mingyue's frost aura began to dissipate.
Alex gritted his teeth and forced more runes into place.
'Since his energy has an innate dispersing effect, I'll make a formation that disrupts the process.'
He stacked three runes, then five, then eight, pressing them into the hammer head.
Mingyue crossed her swords and compressed her energy until the space around her began to distort.
Saryx turned around and grinned.
"Good. Now you look like you might survive a little longer."
The space around his fist warped again, and violent energy wrapped around it like a second skin.
BOOM!!!
Alex blocked.
The moment the fist touched the hammer, the violent energy tried to tear through the runes.
It was like breaking the connection between each atom, except this time it was energy.
Alex could feel the rune structure collapsing from the contact point outward.
'So this is not enough.'
He realized he needed something else to change this dispersing effect.
If he kept countering it with formations, it would never work.
Saryx's dispersal was an innate effect of his energy, while Alex's defenses were created through complicated formations.
That made it easy for Saryx's dispersion to break the formation's connections.
Mingyue struck from the side.
Her blades cut two purple lines that intersected at Saryx's elbow.
For a fraction of a second, the joint stiffened, like the space itself had turned solid.
Alex rotated his hips and drove the hammer into Saryx's ribs again.
BAM!!!
The hit landed hard this time.
Saryx was pushed back.
But his violent aura surged again, and the pressure slammed into them like a wall.
Alex's rune barrier flickered.
Mingyue formed an ice wall on instinct, and it was shredded across the surface, flakes of purple frost bursting into the air.
Saryx appeared above them.
His heel came down.
BOOM!!!
Alex twisted and took it on his barrier.
The barrier cracked, and Alex's knees sank into the ground.
Mingyue stabbed upward, using both swords together.
Saryx caught the blades with his palm.
CLANG!!!
At the same time, the ice lotuses around Mingyue shot out, stabbing toward gaps in his scales.
Purple ice spread like roots, trying to enter his body.
Saryx's violent energy exploded from his palm, and the frost on the edges snapped off in chunks, scattering like broken glass.
Mingyue felt her cold being dispersed, broken into pieces the moment it touched him.
"Just what is this energy? This isn't star power," Alex said.
Saryx's smile returned.
"Of course it's not. Star power only helped me awaken this ability."
He leaned forward slightly.
"So tell me, pest.
How long do you think you can survive against me?"
The space behind Saryx rippled again.
A sharp pressure gathered around his chest and throat, as if he was compressing the energy into something smaller and far more deadly.
Alex tightened his grip on the warhammer.
Mingyue raised her twin swords, purple ice crawling up to her wrists.
Then the ground beneath them started to tremble, the violent aura forcing the area to break apart.
Alex felt a sudden warning in his gut.
The next shot would not just disperse things. It would erase them completely.
'Just what is this power? Is this the innate power Vesa talked about before? But she said only first and second generation dragons have it.'
That was why Alex had never taken precautions against it.
Based on what Vesa said, each dragon was born with an innate element.
When they awakened it, their energy gained its own unique properties.
For example, corrosive. Or freezing. Or, in Saryx's case, dispersal.
Alex took a deep breath.
'I need to find a solution for this.'
