《Reborn as a DRAGON》Chapter 86: The battle of Piya
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I constantly dodged the barrage of glowing spears sent towards me from the city. A few magical spells were mixed in between the attacks, yet none of them were truly dangerous to me. Still, the shield that surrounded the capital was a pain.
I reached out to my soul space, the previously bare blue world had a single statue with only the legs in the middle of the world. It was a strange monument, yet the interesting part was not the fact that It was incomplete, but the cosmic mana that seeped out of it.
This was the blessing of the king that I had been granted before I left for my rite of passage. I slowly, and carefully reached out for the cosmic mana in the incomplete statue, when It suddenly began to glow a faint dark blue color, the cosmic mana then quickly rushed out by itself like a tidal wave.
My eyes blinked back into reality as I dodged another large spear. It was then that I felt a strange tug coming from the sky above, no not the sky, but beyond that. In that second, I felt as If I was connected to an extremely vast world, far beyond what I was familiar with.
The cosmic mana inside my soul space stirred as the incomplete sculpture glowed even brighter. I could feel It was the reason behind that strange tug in my soul. My eyes widened in surprise as I felt the cosmic mana reaching back to me, almost as if asking me for my intentions.
I gulped down hard in excitement and asked for Its help in taking care of the city shield. Heeding my request, the cosmic mana then moved. I could feel a small almost invisible thread of mana leave my body before a pillar of said cosmic mana abruptly descended towards the city shield out of nowhere.
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I watched in awe as the dark blue pillar broke through the clouds and made contact with the shield causing it to glow brightly before...It disappeared...There were no ground-shaking explosions, no space breaks, no collapsed buildings, heck, I didn't even see any casualties to the guards below.
One moment the magic shield was there, the next, It was gone as If It had been sucked by a black hole. The humans must have been shocked since the barrage of glowing spears stopped as they stared in disbelief at the slowly disappearing blue pillar of cosmic mana.
'Holy, that was an overkill,' I inwardly mumbled before I tried to reach out to the cosmic mana once again, only for me to frown as It no longer responded. 'Well, I'll be damned, what a waste of attack,' I grumbled in annoyance. Cosmic mana was truly stingy, my request had been to break the magic shield around the city, and It did just that.
I was sure that the previous pillar had the power to completely obliterate the capital, yet It didn't. It was as If the mana had restrained itself and simply fulfilled my request without any additions. 'Heh, I refuse to believe that mana is not conscious, how the hell would you explain this then?' I sighed, It seemed like I had an affinity to a troublesome element.
Flapping my wings, I launched myself towards the city now that the humans started to panic. The city guards were riding their oversized birds while encircling the mages. Water materialized around my body, dancing like a blue snake.
"A-Attack!" Someone screamed, to which the guards followed. They brandished their weapons and closed in on me before they all were suddenly sent crashing into the ground below, their bodies alongside that of their mounts were instantly mummified.
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The small army that suddenly attacked me was immediately annihilated. My attack was quite simple, I simply sucked out all of the moister from their bodies. Water was truly an overpowered element, and I was slowly figuring out more ways to utilize it.
Seeing the number of people that had suddenly died, the remaining guards and mages moved back as I could feel the disturbance in the flow of mana. The robbed mages surrounded themselves with a shield of mana, each mage using a different element while the guards, interestingly enough used a different type of energy, the one that felt familiar yet I still did not know what It was.
No one dared to approach me, their eyes were wide open in fear as I could feel all of their emotions. They were struggling to remain in their positions, as I was sure all of their instincts were screaming at them to run, yet they still stood their ground.
For that, they were already worthy of my respect. Yet the fact didn't change that they were all going to die today. With them too afraid to come closer, I instantly rushed forward targeting the mages. The guards seemed to come out to their senses at that moment as they cried out and moved to face me.
Leading the charge were two commanders with a strong aura surrounding them, they each held a two-handed longsword and attacked from both sides while riding on their oversized birds. The water mana that danced around me moved to block the attack of one of them, while I slashed at the mount of the second one causing him to be sent free-falling to the ground.
To my surprise, one of the guards moved nimbly and managed to catch his commander before he landed, I didn't pay them too much heed as I moved to finish off the one whose attack was blocked using my water mana. Attempting to drown him or suck out the moister out of his body was useless at the moment, especially since I could feel that strange power covering his body.
I willed the mana causing the temperature to drop sharply, layers of ice quickly forming around his body causing his speed to decrease significantly, his mount seemed to have reached his limit and he knew that. The commander then went for a suicidal attack as he stood up and jumped towards me, the strange power that coated his body seemed to b going out of control.
A frown made its way onto my face as my scales tingled, whatever he was trying to do was bad. I hastily twisted my body mid-air and attacked using my spiked tail sending him flying back towards his men, his eyes widened as he glared at me unwillingly before an ear-deafening explosion occurred.
'The crazy bastard blew himself up,' I was honestly quite surprised by his resolve, yet unfortunately for him, his attack had failed, and instead It was their side that suffered immense casualties. I was about to continue towards the mages when suddenly, the flow of mana around me changed.
I had no time to react before an abnormally large cage made out of thick green vines instantly appeared around me, locking me in place and preventing me from flapping my wings as It tied my limbs closely together. This caused me to be sent crashing towards the buildings below, instantly flattening a few with a loud bang.
'Damn It, that hurts,' I groaned as I struggled to break free. It seemed like I was still a bit too careless.
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