Chapter 81 - Vs Fafnir

"I think we ran far enough brother Yun." Said Xia Yan as he started to slow down.

Tang Yun slowed down and shook his head. He turned his body to the area that they were running from.

"Brother Wulin really did save us." Said Tang Yun with a face of concern.

"Was that really brother Wulin?" Questioned Xia Yan with a fierce frown.

"Well, he had that Golden Spear and did help us escape from Fafnir. Plus it wasn't like anyone knew who Tang Wulin was." Said Tang Yun causing Xia Yan to nod his head.

"For now, let's just gather all of the humans that were scattered." Said Tang Yun with a regretful sigh.

He wanted to help Tang Wulin but just from the overwhelming pressure that was radiating from Fafnir, he knew he wouldn't have been able to move a muscle.

'Even if it's unrealistic, you must survive brother Wulin!'

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'You have a plan?' Thought Tang Wulin.

"Survive?" Said Zeref as he was gazing solemnly at Fafnir.

Tang Wulin lips twitch as he heard Zeref advice. He was wondering why Fafnir hasn't attacked him yet as the wolf was just staring at him thoughtfully.

Shaking his head, he clenches his Golden Dragon Spear and then glared at Fafnir. Unconsciously Tang Wulin Asura blood started to boil from the scent of battle.

A red aura started to surround his body and his eyes started to shine with a blood-red glint. His killing intent spiked as his mind became clear and his sense sharpens as they started searching for a weakness on Fafnir.

Tang Wulin felt all of his battle experince beings condense causing him to shift out his spear stance into a relaxed stance and two hearts were beating rapidly.

Fafnir eyes narrowed at the aura that flowing out of Tang Wulin and just for a second he felt like a blood-red sword was being directed at him. Fafnir could feel a different type of strength from his unknown foe this time, and it was somewhat familiar.

...Wait!

Fafnir narrowed his eyes as he now realized why this being felt familiar. He and the other calamity felt a twitch or a pulse from the awakening of a being a while back. They all felt that being would grow to become strong enough to rival or even surpass them.

"It was you." Said Fafnir as for the first time in years he opens his mouth.

"The one who has the potential." Said Fafnir as he tilted its head.

Yes, Fafnir felt it would be quite a waste to kill him now. What he wanted were a challenge and the man in front of him just maybe able to provide that but.

"Survive well." Said Fafnir as it expression started to radically change.

SWOOOSH!

Whether it was through his instincts, the Asura Killing Heart or Tang Wulin battle experience. Either way, he was able to predict where Fafnir was going to attack him as he pushed his body to move.

Fafnir appeared on Tang Wulin left and send one of his paws at him. But then his eyes widen when he saw the man in front of him reacting to his attack.

Tang Wulin moved his spear in front of Fafnir attack and put up no resistance against the paw. Then he used the overwhelming force of the palm to twist his body and thrust out his spear toward Fafnir.

Fafnir watches as Tang Wulin one spear turned into a thousand spears that were all aim towards him and yet he didn't block or evade it, as it was unneeded.

The thousands of spears made contact with Fafnir fur but none of them were able to pierce his fur, even with the added kinetic energy of Fafnir palm. Tang Wulin instantly back up while keeping his senses on Fafnir who was staring at him.

'Alright, so normal spears techniques won't work.' Thought Tang Wulin.

Fafnir thrust out one of its palm toward Tang Wulin, who was moving back and watched again as his palm faced no resistance when it made contact with the golden spear.

Tang Wulin did the same thing with the kinetic energy of Fafnir palm, but this time activated his left arm leg bone and causing his Golden Dragon Spear to shimmer.

'Mountain Dragon King: Weight Manipulation.'

Fafnir eyes widen when the Golden Dragon Spear made contact with its fur. It noted the weight of the spear was far heavier than before as it was sent skidding back from the force of the thousand spears.

Tang Wulin narrowed as he knew that his Golden Dragon Spear became as heavy as a mountain and yet it was only able to send that wolf skidding back. Not wanting to wait for another attack of Fafnir, he began twirling his spear and slash down as his left arm bone appeared.

'Jade-Eye Dragon King: Space-Time Slash!'

Tang Wulin watches as a purple blade slash cut through Space and Time to hit Fafnir. Yet no damage was done to Fafnir, in fact, it only seemed to have peaks its interest.

'How...'Thougth Tang Wulin as he saw none of his attacks were having any effect of Fafnir. In fact, the only thing it seemed to have done was to show the terrible gap between him and Fafnir.

'Is there nothing that can work?' Thought Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin body was sent flying again and it smashed into the ground beneath them. He could feel his bones creaking and his organs compressing from just two of Fafnir hits.

As he slowly began to get up from the rubble, Fafnir appeared behind him and simply began to press down a paw to the ground. Tang Wulin cursed as he forces his screaming body to roll out of the way to avoid the paw that was slowly descending.

Bang!

From Fafnir paw simply making contact with the ground, a huge gust of wind and ripple throughout the land was formed. Tang Wulin body was being blown across the rugged terrain but he was somehow able to stop by piercing the ground with his Golden Dragon Spear.

'This is just getting ridiculous.' Thought Tang Wulin.

"Maybe your Annihilation could work?" Zeref offered from Tang Wulin Spiritual World.

Tang Wulin gritted his teeth as he agreed it's worth a shot to try. Yet he didn't know if this wolf would give him a chance to use it or how he was going to land it.

'After all, I doubt it would try and tank an attack that could threaten it.'

Tang Wulin gripped his spear and began to focus as he knew he couldn't react to Fafnir movements anymore. A red light started to form at the tip of the Golden Dragon Spear as Tang Wulin began to channel Annihilation through it.

As the red energy started to show up at the tip of the spear, something else started to appear. Tang Wulin eyes widen as purple sparks and a red sword started to appear next to the red light.

He couldn't think much about this as he felt his whole body screaming out after the appearance of these two energies. He could feel both of his hearts were hammering and beating rapidly as if they were about to burst asunder.

'Damn it.' Thought Tang Wulin as he began focusing the three powers at the tip of his spear and started to condense them into a small ball.

The red light started to encompass the red sword and the purple sparks began to crackle around both of them. Tang Wulin knew he couldn't hold on to the attack any longer and thrust out towards Fafnir who was watching him.

SWOOOSH!

Fafnir eyes widen as it saw a small red ball crackling with purple sparks coming towards it. Yet even now, he still refuses to get out of the way and watches as the ball made contact with its fur.

A deafening explosion was produced in front of Tang Wulin. He had to use his spear to stop himself from being blown back too far from the explosion. After a while, it died down with Tang Wulin trying to see the body of Fafnir.

"Interesting." A voice rang out causing Tang Wulin eyes to widen as Fafnir appeared in front of him.

He saw there was no damage done to the wolf at all. Fafnir showed a wicked grin on his face as he gazes at Tang Wulin for a while and then turns to leave.

"What are you doing." Said Tang Wulin.

Yet Fafnir didn't give him an answer as he started to walk away. Tang Wulin watches as Fafnir body started to become hidden by the dust and dirt.

Tang Wulin gritted his teeth as he knew what Fafnir had just done.

"To be this outmatch." Zeref mumble.

They weren't just outmatched but way out of Fafnir league. Tang Wulin knew he survived only because of the Regalia and Fafnir losing interest.

'It has been a while since I was this outmatched.' Thought Tang Wulin with no emotion.

Yet not even that could hide the way his hand was clenching his Golden Dragon Spear or the fact blood was spilling from him clenching his other fist so hard.

"Brother Wulin!"

Tang Wulin blinks his eyes and then turned his head to see Tang Yun running toward him. He raised a brow at him, wondering why he was here.

"Don't give me that look, I was worried." Said Tang Yun with a bitter smile causing Tang Wulin lips to twitch.

"Where is the army at?" Asked Tang Wulin.

"Xia Yan right now is gathering everyone all up." Said Tang Yun as he begins looking at all the damage that happened.

He ran over here, just in case Tang Wulin was too weak to make his way back to them. For some reason, Tang Yun was confident in Wulin chances of surviving against Fafnir.

"Did you actually beat Fafnir?" Questioned Tang Yun in shock.

"No. I didn't even hurt him." Said Tang Wulin with a bitter smile causing Tang Yun to sigh and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"It's ok brother Wulin. You're already a monster just for fighting it off and surviving. After all, no one as ever survives a battle with the calamities." Said Tang Yun.

Yet, that did nothing to alleviate the frustration in Tang Wulin.

"Go help gather all of the humans with Xia Yan. I need to go to check something out again." Said Tang Wulin.

Tang Yun nodded his head and dash toward where Xia Yan was. Tang Wulin began making his way back to the tomb where the Mountain Dragon King was.

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"Interesting."

A voice rang out in an area of abysmal darkness that only source of light was a shallow pond that was displaying a scene. In the scene were Tang Wulin and Fafnir who was disengaging from fighting.

"To think there was someone out there that could survive a fight with a calamity. Beings who have threaded on the path of the gods."

"And that it would be a human."

"I wonder what else you would do."

Across from the pond sat a being who was shrouded in darkness. No one would have able to see what they looked like except for their eyes that were red.