Chapter 220: Eternal Flame of Damnation, Is It Seven Or Nine Rings Of Phenocai? (1/2)

I turned north and started to shoot in that direction as the dragon chased me. The speed it could move was absolutely amazing, and its aura cooked anything that got anywhere close to it.

On top of the oven aura, it had some type of reactive skin that created a ridiculously strong explosion. It was activated when something like the burning body of a Carnica would impact it.

The body would be blown to bits, but there would be no marks on the dark red dragon after. That alone made the creature nearly impossible to fight, but that wasn't even mentioning the deadliest part of the massive creature.

The ability to spit out ten-foot fireballs that could be detonated at will had already almost knocked me out of the air. I had tried to just barely avoid it, but the ball of fire ruptured beside me, sending me spinning through the air.

Luckily, the fireballs also exploded on contact, so I had been hiding in the creatures. Still, the shockwaves from the blast were enough to toss me and the other creatures around from a distance.

The Carnica all seemed to agree that I was not the threat anymore, and they basically let me weave around them, and they plummeted to their doom. I was curious when the three big ones would show up, but I was also not sure if they would.

Even the larger broods were torched or blown apart before a mark could be made on them, which speaks volumes about how quickly they were killed. It might not be worth it to challenge the Dread Dragon at this point.

In my case, that was a problem. Our game of cat and mouse was proving to be tiresome for the dragon, who seemed to be getting tired of playing.

I started to cut east, and then I cut straight down and into the trees. A fireball exploded right behind me as I burned forward, and I used the water whips to grab trees to turn fast.

[He is just playing with you!]

'Better than eating me!'

Then I felt a fireball come directly behind, and then I was catapulted forward before I could react as it went off. I mixed my body and puffed into steam, rushing forward with the blast just before hitting a tree.

[Five miles, and then get ready to move fast. The others lost the Kualu that were following them, and they were about eight miles away. Also, you are burning a terrible amount of energy in this form, so be careful.]

I could feel the strain of this form as I had to keep my body constantly working. I have to keep the water hot enough to stay vapor while keeping myself together.

I could sense the dragon's frustration increase as the explosions started to rain around me, but this allowed me to siphon off more energy. The land here was toxic, and I already tried to absorb some of the energy, but it did nothing but eating the energy that I had.