Chapter 44: Final Clash: Dragon Flame and Lion’s Fang

“If it were ordinary fire attribute Magic, Leona’s tornado would have extinguished the flames…”

Joey shook his head from the side and said:

“It’s just a pity…”

“The legendary Dragon Flame is called the inextinguishable fire. Leona was perfectly countered…”

Joey spoke lightly.

But in his heart, he still felt a bit uneasy…

This stupid dragon…

Exposed her own identity…

I wonder what the attitude of the People will be…

All the People fell silent, but it only lasted for a moment…

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!!! It’s really a Dragonkin!!”

“So cool! Even the Demon King has liberated a Dragonkin and made her a Cadre!!!”

Seeing everyone’s enthusiastic reaction, Joey finally let out a sigh of relief.

He had forgotten…

The previous Demon King was too extreme…

He wiped out entire races at the slightest provocation, so now the People are all afraid they’ll become the next Dragonkin.

That was also Joey’s purpose in bringing Chiyang into the Demon King Cadres.

To let everyone know he wouldn’t destroy a race without reason, so the People wouldn’t live in constant terror.

At the side, Aiki also let out a silent sigh of relief in her heart…

As expected of the young master…

So it was all part of the plan from the beginning…

Honestly…

I’m starting to like him more and more…

***

Below the Arena…

“Huff… huff…”

Leona’s golden eyes brimmed with blood.

She stared at the blue and silver Giant Sword before her.

Humiliation…

Enormous humiliation…

She had been… played…

And by a complete amateur…

So what if she’s a Dragonkin…

I am…

The Shizi Wang!!

Leona stood up, her short golden hair growing wilder and longer, until it reached her waist.

Her beast ears also slowly emerged, her body growing taller and more muscular, until she matched Chiyang in stature.

Finally, her hands transformed into lion’s claws padded with flesh…

This was the first stage of Beastification…

“Chiyang, very good… I haven’t had such a good workout in ages…”

With that, Leona lifted the Giant Sword with one hand and charged at Chiyang.

Chiyang looked at Leona, who was fighting with all her strength, and grinned arrogantly. She then grabbed the Giant Sword to counter Leona.

Though both moved to attack, the People couldn’t follow their movements with the naked eye. All they saw was the two vanishing from their spots in an instant…

The next second, the two collided, Giant Sword against Giant Sword.

At the moment their swords clashed, the entire Arena was lit up by the flash.

“Boom!!!!”

Dust filled the Arena. Leona didn’t continue her standoff with the Giant Sword but abruptly withdrew, taking a step back, causing Chiyang to lose her balance and her Giant Sword to smash into the ground.

Leona then stepped on Chiyang’s Giant Sword, channeling Magic, and used Wind Magic to protect the blade, preparing to unleash a powerful wave.

But Chiyang reacted quickly, pressing a button on the Giant Sword…

In an instant, a pair of motorcycle wheels appeared on the sword’s blade, spinning and pushing Chiyang back two steps, making Leona lose her balance and almost fall.

Seizing the moment, Chiyang retracted the wheels, turning the blade back into a sword, and swung at Leona.

But Leona feigned a stumble to create an opening. As Chiyang struck, Leona released the Wind Magic wave she’d been building up, sending it surging from her blade toward Chiyang.

Chiyang hurriedly used her tail to scatter the wave.

But Leona had hidden behind the wave, and in the brief moment Chiyang was distracted, she grabbed the Giant Sword and slashed directly at her.

“!”

Chiyang didn’t expect Leona’s tactic.

In desperation, she opened her mouth and unleashed Dragon Flame.

Though the Dragon Flame was powerful, Leona didn’t dodge. She charged straight through, swinging her left to strike Chiyang.

!!!

Chiyang couldn’t believe Leona barreled right through her Dragon Flame, and before she could lift her Giant Sword, Leona struck her shoulder.

“Urgh!!!”

Fortunately, Chiyang raised her tail to block part of the blow; otherwise, her arm would’ve been sliced off by Leona…

Still, the wound was deep…

“I didn’t expect someone as prim and proper as you to be so crazy…”

Chiyang looked at her trembling, numb arm, then at Leona.

“Heh… right back at you…”

Though she’d seriously injured Chiyang, Leona herself had been badly burned by the Dragon Flame. She used the Giant Sword to prop herself up.

“You can still laugh…”

Chiyang gritted her teeth and raised the Giant Sword with one hand…

“Boom!!!”

She poured Magic into the blade, covering it with fire attribute Magic…

“This is my first time seeing a move like this…”

“Though I hate your twisted personality, I admit I’ve learned a lot from you…”

Chiyang spoke as she raised the Giant Sword toward Leona…

“I’m a bit tired too. Let’s settle this with the next blow…”

“Stop bragging…”

Leona looked at Chiyang and said, “You amateur, I’ll finish you with the next strike…”

“Then let’s see…”

Chiyang narrowed her eyes, a spark of fire flickering in her red pupils…

Leona once again unleashed Wind Magic, gripping the sword with both hands, the blade cloaked in green wind energy…

With both hands on the sword, Leona charged at Chiyang.

“Heh…”

Chiyang didn’t panic.

She charged forward, holding the Giant Sword in one hand, pressing a button as she ran.

In an instant, the Giant Sword transformed into a motorcycle engulfed in Dragon Flame.

Chiyang mounted the motorcycle and rushed at Leona.

When the two entered each other’s attack range, Leona activated her Magic, summoning a transparent, emerald-green Lion’s Manifestation behind her…

“Roar!!!”

At the same time, Leona lifted her sword and struck left at Chiyang, who was riding the motorcycle.

Seeing this, Chiyang lifted the front wheel, launching herself and the bike into the air to dodge Leona’s left strike…

Leona didn’t stop.

Using the momentum from her strike, she spun gracefully, slashing at Chiyang in midair.

“Perfect timing! Leona!!!”

The fire in Chiyang’s eyes burned brighter as she transformed the motorcycle back into a Giant Sword, and a pair of Dragon Wings appeared behind the red-haired beauty, surging with Magic…

A fiery, transparent Magic Dragon appeared behind Chiyang…

“Roar!!!!”

The Magic Dragon roared, a ferocious beast charging toward the Lion’s Manifestation behind Leona…

Chiyang herself swung the Giant Sword at Leona…

“Bang!!!!!!!”

The impact shook the entire Arena.

The two faced off, pressing their Giant Swords against each other, locked in a stalemate.

Behind them, the Lion’s Manifestation and Magic Dragon clashed as well…

Veins bulged on both Chiyang and Leona’s bodies, their faces flushed from exertion.

Leona knew this couldn’t go on.

Gritting her teeth, she poured all her strength into the Giant Sword, unleashing Wind Magic to blast them both apart.

Chiyang was caught off guard and stumbled back two steps.

And in those two steps, as Chiyang lifted her head, Leona struck again.

Chiyang knew—this was Leona’s signature triple slash…

The red-haired beauty raised her Giant Sword to defend…

Left… right…

The last one would definitely come from the left!!

Chiyang prepared to defend left—

But Leona feinted, never intending to follow through.

Instead, she pulled back, kicked Chiyang over, and sent her sprawling.

“Urgh!!!!”

The kick was solid, and even the Magic Dragon behind Chiyang vanished…

“It’s over… Chiyang…”

Leona raised the Giant Sword above her head, pinning Chiyang’s face with her foot to prevent her from breathing Dragon Flame.

Then Leona channeled Magic…

A massive wave of Wind Magic wrapped around the blade…

The Wind Magic formed a giant sword twenty meters long…

It was so huge that even the Giant Eye Monster summoned by Velvia was split in two…

Leona lifted the Giant Sword and brought it down on the fallen Chiyang…