“Magical Girl, fly 15 meters to the right at 15 degrees.”
The pitch-black ancient dragon opened its mountain-like maw and lunged at Mo Yu for the sixth time.
Hearing the scout’s loud warning, the magical girl Mo Yu once again narrowly escaped the dragon’s mouth, avoiding being swallowed.
Seeing Mo Yu unharmed, Liu Yin, the scout of the Hero Party, relaxed her tense expression slightly.
After all, as a scout, besides scouting enemy movements while exploring the Saint Ruins, she didn’t have much offensive capability.
During battle, providing information and reporting the weaknesses of beasts was also part of a scout’s job.
But soon, observing the weaknesses and patterns of the pitch-black bone dragon, she muttered involuntarily.
“Huh, is it my imagination? Why is this bone dragon so interested in Mo Yu and Ye Fufu? And every time it attacks them, it doesn’t use its destructive Dragon Flame, just tries to swallow them—how strange.”
As Liu Yin pondered whether this pattern was strange, the pitch-black ancient dragon, failing yet another attack, vented its anger on A Yao, the main tank who had chained one of its wings.
fwoosh
It directly spat a blast of scorching Dragon Flame.
The massive Dragon Flame struck A Yao’s shield, sending sparks flying.
The air began to feel scorching hot.
Fortunately, A Yao’s shield was a top-tier adamantium-grade item.
Under the intense Dragon Flame, it only gained a scratch, but due to previous attacks, the shield was already heavily damaged.
Seeing this, A Yao’s expression turned grim.
Although his ability was the Yaomen Envoy, which focused on defense and could greatly enhance his body and shield’s defensive power, if the shield really broke, facing a Dragon Flame with his bare body—that would be hard to endure!
“Captain, Mo Yu, can we finish this quickly? My equipment wear rate is too high; I can’t withstand the next attack.”
Mo Yu, who had just escaped the dragon’s mouth, turned around and heard her somewhat disheveled teammate A Yao report the bad news.
She furrowed her delicate brows.
This pitch-black bone dragon was even more troublesome and resilient than she had anticipated.
They had been battling it for nearly an hour, shattering its bone frame several times, but due to the black aura around it, it kept regenerating stubbornly.
Now A Yao mentioned his equipment damage; in fact, Mo Yu also felt that her magical girl mana was heavily drained.
Logically, when encountering such a powerful foe, the Hero Party would definitely retreat, rest, and study the bone dragon’s weaknesses before planning further.
But now, thinking that this bone dragon was the vanguard scout of the Demon King’s Castle, it had already broken through the fourth layer, the strongest beast layer, thanks to its flight.
If allowed to advance, it might quickly complete a map of the entire Saint Ruins.
By then, a monster siege would not be far off.
Not to mention that the Demon King’s Castle’s goal was their good brother Su Qi.
Thinking of these two reasons, Mo Yu instinctively didn’t want to retreat.
But given the current state of the Hero Party, Mo Yu calmly judged that it wasn’t a good time to retreat.
Besides, how could the bone dragon, which had already targeted her and Sister Fufu, simply let them go?
And while Mo Yu pondered the situation, rumble She saw what seemed like a sandstorm rising in the Sand Forest to the west.
In the center of the sandstorm, the silhouette of a big guy charging wildly was faintly visible.
Hearing the sounds of trees crashing down, at that moment, the members of the Hero Party felt a mix of emotions.
After all, this beast didn’t look weak at all.
If it was also a helper sent by the Demon King’s Castle, not only would they fail the hunting mission, but being caught in a pincer attack could lead to casualties.
Even if it wasn’t a helper, this interfering beast would increase the risk of the hunt.
Watching the approaching sandstorm, just as the captain, the Hero, furrowed his brows and prepared to give a retreat order, a surprised girl’s voice rang out a second earlier.
“Little Mo Yu, I think the beast coming now is the Big Guy.”
“Big Guy?”
Hearing Ye Fufu’s reminder, Mo Yu’s eyes lit up.
Because if it was really the Big Guy she knew, then it was an ally!
roar
Sensing a powerful enemy approaching, the pitch-black bone dragon perhaps detected danger.
Instinctively, it raised its dragon head and let out a deafening roar.
Under that roar, numerous timid beasts hiding nearby scattered, and some smaller creatures fainted from fear.
But the oncoming sandstorm did not stop at all.
On the contrary, it sped up, charging at the pitch-black ancient dragon like a meteor.
crash
Like two mountain-sized giant beasts, they collided violently, producing a teeth-grinding tremor and cries of pain.
Under inertia, they smashed into another peak, shattering it.
Dust and rubble flew everywhere; nothing was visible.
But though the view was blocked, within the dust, muffled thuds and the beasts’ cries echoed continuously.
Worried about the Big Guy, afraid it might lose to the ancient dragon, though the dust hadn’t cleared and visibility was poor, entering rashly was dangerous, Mo Yu, frantic with worry, still flew into the dust cloud using her mana to help the Big Guy.
But as she entered the dust, the sight before her made her freeze.
At that moment, the Big Guy, a giant snake, had coiled around the bone dragon, its enormous head with red eyes savagely biting into the bone dragon’s body.
The restrained bone dragon did not back down.
The dragon claws under its huge bone wings clawed fiercely at the snake’s body, and its head bit back at the Big Guy.
The two giant beasts were clearly fighting in the most primal manner.
The scene was brutal and bloody.
But as a high-rank adventurer, Mo Yu wouldn’t freeze at bloodshed.
What truly shocked Mo Yu was that as the Big Guy attacked, the black aura around the bone dragon that had been plaguing the Hero Party began to dissipate—no, rather than dissipating, it was being devoured by the Big Guy.
After the black aura was devoured, the wounds stopped healing.
But likewise, each time the bone dragon bit the Big Guy, pure white energy burst from the Big Guy and was also devoured by the bone dragon.
Watching these two auras, and recalling that Su Qi had eaten the World Tree Fruit, at that moment, Mo Yu had a bold guess.
‘Could it be that the black aura is the Demon King’s power, and the white aura is from Su Qi, who ate the World Tree Fruit, given to the Big Guy?’
But though this guess might be important, there was clearly something more important to do now.
Watching the ancient dragon still biting the Big Guy, Mo Yu’s Magical Girl Wand began to glow faintly.
The next moment, a multicolored flash accompanied by a girl’s shout rang out in the dust.
“Shining Impact~~~”
As the light flashed, the stubborn pitch-black bone dragon’s eyes finally lost their light.
Feeling the bone dragon no longer attacking, having been defeated, the Big Guy raised its head high and let out a victor’s roar!
roar
Professor Yang Ming, who had just reported on fifth plane beasts at the Adventurers’ Guild after an adventure, wanted to record the combat abilities of these pitch-black beasts.
After finishing the report, under the escort of the Night Butterfly Squad, he came to the lower layer of the Third Plane of the Saint Ruins.
Not long after stepping out of the teleportation array, he saw the Big Guy, with Mo Yu’s help, defeat the bone dragon, and then saw the Big Guy interacting affectionately with Ye Fufu and Mo Yu.
Seeing these scenes, Professor Yang Ming pushed up his glasses in disbelief and muttered in surprise.
“Is this the ‘friendly beast’ the Adventurers’ Guild mentioned? No, no, its body has a pure white aura. Rather than a beast, from now on let’s call this Big Guy ‘Holy Beast’.”