549 Chapter 549: Coiling Dragon (1/2)

”I'm impressed,” I continued, shaking my head. ”You really forced my hand. That said, I'm pretty worried. If you'rre this strong, I can't imagine how much stronger Fan Le Lao will be. Just great…that means it will be extremely difficult for to defeat him.”

”What are you talking about?”

Xu Wu Cheng stomped toward me, each of his footsteps leaving a distinct crater.

”Don't you dare speak of his highness Le Lao in that manner?! You think I'll allow you to ever get close to him?”

”What makes you think I need your permission?” I muttered, rolling my eyes as I retreated from him. Glaring at Xu Wu Cheng defiantly, I smirked. ”And you seem to be mistaken about something, Xu Wu Cheng. You're just someone who has accomplished nothing (basically I'm making fun of his name Wu Cheng, which literally means no accomplishments). You're just a tiny stepping stone to Fan Le Lao.”

With a roar, Xu Wu Cheng infused his foot with mana and raised it, kicking toward my head, presumably to break my skull and kill me.

His foot never reached my head.

”Green Dragon.”

The sudden appearance of my Celestial Guardian swept Xu Wu Cheng off his feet with a single flick of his paw, his majestic figure uncoiling and whipping across to send the rest of the vampire forces into disarray. As they panicked and frantically dispersed, the great dragon raised his head and roared, his immense bulk almost filling out the entire space of the warehouse.

”W…what the hell is that?!”

Xu Wu Cheng spat out blood as he slowly rose to his feet, his injuries from Green Dragon's claws slowly healing. The legendary vampire regeneration, huh?

No matter. I would like to see how immortal a vampire was against a dragon.

”Get rid of them for me, please, Green Dragon.”

My Celestial Guardian grunted at my request and lashed out.

”Guuaaaaah!”

Xu Wu Cheng bellowed in agony as he was flung across the devastated warehouse, Green Dragon's tail having caught him in the chest. An entire wall of the building was razed, and the structure collapsed. Unaffected by the falling debris, Green Dragon shrugged off broken beams and the shattered ceiling, bellowing as he stomped toward the remaining vampires who had yet to be incinerated by Vermillion Phoenix.

The warehouse was getting very crowded now…

The vampires fled, or attempted to, but Green Dragon's maw yawned and an emerald stream of mana swept out to obliterate them. Vines and wood sprouted from the floor, entangling the fleeing vampires and ensnaring them in suffocating tendrils or mercilessly cutting them to shreds with razor-sharp thorns. The more resilient were battered and crushed by thick logs of wood.

”Aaaaah!”

”Nooooo!”

As for the rest, Vermillion Phoenix incinerated them with his flames, in conjunction with Rossetti's Flaming Phoenix Kagura Dance. The wood was incredibly flammable, and consequently the whole warehouse was ablaze. Kufa also helped, darting in to thrust his katana and stabbed the entangled vampires in their chests or heads.

”Hey! Pick on someone your own size!”

Xu Wu Cheng bellowed and unleashed his blood hydras on Green Dragon, the fanged serpents hissing as they attempted to bite and bind the titanic dragon. The Celestial Guardian merely cast a bored glanced at them before he stomped his foot on the ground, conjuring a wall of wood and vines to wrap around the lunging bloody serpents and forcibly halting them in their tracks.

”…!”

Xu Wu Cheng jumped back to avoid getting ensnared by the vines and thorned tendrils, but he stubbornly continued to harry the immense dragon. Blood spears burst out of the ground, only for vines to burst out of the ground and coil around them, crumbling as they were crushed by the green plants. With an annoyed growl, Green Dragon lumbered after a retreating Xu Wu Cheng.

”Monster!”

The crimon-haired vampire noble spat in mixture of rage, dread and defiance. He raised his hand and coalesced his mana, firing off another barrage of blood spears again. With a flick of his tail, Green Dragon smashed the offending projectiles aside before blasting Xu Wu Cheng with emerald mana. Cursing, Xu Wu Cheng flipped his body high above the destructive stream and landed some distance away. With a swing of his hand, he conjured a fresh batch of blood hydras to attack Green Dragon.

As expected of Fan Le Lao's second-in-command. He was actually faring very well against Green Dragon. Honestly, he was much better than I thought. Perhaps it was because of all the blood he had sucked over the last week, but he was evidently stronger than he was when Rossetti and I double-teamed on him back then. Well, he was due a powerup, otherwise it would be boring to crush him. What, you think only the protagonists can get stronger? The antagonists would somehow sit around, fiddling their thumbs and wwait for the protagonists to beat them instead of improving themselves in the meantime? That wasn't very realistic.

The other vampires, inspired by their leader's defiance, had regrouped and resumed their assault. Except that Vermillion Phoenix and Rossetti were still around, backed up by Kufa. Rossetti's dancing spells boosted my Celestial Guardian's firepower and he unleashed an inferno to incinerate the scattered vampires of the Crimson Blood Demonic Night clan. Meanwhile, Kufa weaved through the edges, taking out any stragglers who had strayed too far from their main force.

A few of them broke away to target me, plunging forward in a suicidal charge. With their leader distracted by Green Dragon, they took it upon themselves to slay me. After all, my Celestial Guardians would disappear along with my death. Recognizing that I represented the biggest threat, they were willing to sell their lives to take me out just so the rest of their group could survive.

I pushed my glasses up as I turned to face them, impressed by their bravery. Instead of swinging Hei Yue and Bai Ri to prepare for a melee battle, I summoned another of my Constellation spirits.

”Leo.”

Leaving my back to Green Dragon, who continued to concentrate solely on Xu Wu Cheng, I allowed my dependable lion to materialize beside me. The charging vampires paused briefly in their charge, registering the danger.

They were too late.

”Regulus.”

At my command, Leo unleashed the golden pillar of destructive mana at the incoming vampires. They immediately dispersed, but three of them weren't able to dodge in time and they screamed as their bodies were instantly disintegrated by the torrent of golden light.

”That's…!”

”…pretty powerful?” I asked as I drove the black blade of Hei Yue through the chest of the asker. His comrade spun around and slashed at me with her blood claws, but having anticipated that, I parried her strike with the white blade of Bai Ri.

While the dead vampire slipped off Hei Yue, I infused Bai Ri with cold mana and blasted the female vampire at pointblank range. The wave of azure mana surged from the white sword and froze her arms.

”You…!”