Chapter 96 - Chapter 98

On the dangerous and narrow mountain path, a very tall man was walking with no visible fear or hesitation. He was nearing the tallest mountain in this entire mountain chain.

Dragon had been walking on this path for a few hours, but nothing too exciting had happened. A small portion of the path, breaking apart. That was about the most exciting thing that happened on his journey.

He finally arrived at the spot after another thirty minutes. At this point, the path divided into two directions. One would lead you to pass this mountain, and the second one would take you up the mountainside. And Dragon's goal was the top of this mountain so he chose the second path without any hesitation.

He started walking up and immediately he could feel that the air was different on this mountain. And he felt a powerful presence at the top.

A while later, he had finally reached the top of this mountain. The path leading up the mountain didn't lead to the highest plateau. So Dragon had to jump, and with the help of air bending, he flew up at great speed and landed on the top plateau.

"Well hello there." As he landed he immediately felt a gaze lock on to him. So he greeted the lord of this mountain.

At the centre of this plateau, there was an eagle sitting on guard and watching Dragon. It was massive in size and it had a natural arrogance about it. Dragon inspected it from where he stood, and he was sure it had to be at least twenty-five meters in height. And its wingspan was maybe between twenty or thirty meters.

Its entire body was angelic white in colour. It had eyes that glowed with a sharp silverish light. And inside its eyes was a spark of intelligence, letting you know this wasn't a normal eagle in any way.

"This might be a stupid question, but do you speak?" Dragon asked with not much hope for a response. But to his surprise, the eagle shook its head as if it could understand him.

"Do you understand me?" He immediately grew excited about the revelation.

The eagle nodded and screamed loudly like he was establishing his dominance.

"Tone it down, that's too loud!" Dragon pointed at the eagle and said in a stern voice.

What he got back was just another even louder scream. And the giant bird also spread its wings while screaming. They were massive and the intimidation level that the eagle had, shot through the roof. Now it looked like an apex predator staring down its prey.

"You get only one more chance to calm down. Or this will turn ugly." Dragon said and glared at the bird.

The eagle didn't listen and it started to move its wings. And Dragon looked around shocked at the power behind each wing flap. The winds started turning violent and trying to push him off the mountain.

"Oh no, think again." Dragon waved his hand lightly against the Eagle. And so the eagle's and Dragon's winds collided with each other, and it caused a little outburst that struck both of them.

Dragon was sent flying a meter or two, but he recovered immediately. The eagle didn't get moved, but he got more annoyed by the fact that its winds couldn't get rid off this human.

Dragon smiled in excitement and threw a palm strike toward the eagle, sending a massive air blast towards his opponent.

The giant bird that saw the attack approaching did a sideswipe with its wing to block Dragon's attack. But he couldn't stop it with his wing alone, so the eagle was struck and sent flying off the edge.

"Size doesn't matter. You could be a hundred meters tall and I would still win this." Dragon said.

The eagle had recovered in the air and he was hovering above the plateau.

"Want some more?" He looked at the eagle and smiled with confidence. The eagle took it as a challenge and he dived down towards Dragon.

Dragon had learned a very handy trick to use in combat. And that was when he needed to dodge he would perform a quick kick and at the same time blast air from the same foot. And this would propel him towards whatever direction he aimed it at with very high speed. And he named this technique air-dash.

And he could essentially use this to stay in the air for as long as he had the stamina for it. So when the eagle dove down, he used it to dodge to the right, and immediately after that he gave chase to the eagle.

They were both up in the air now and trading blows. The eagle flapped its wing and sent a razor-sharp air gust at Dragon.

"I'm not that weak!" Dragon saw the attack close in and he gathered very dense wind on his palm and then he slammed the razor-sharp gust head-on with his palm. The two attacks collided and gave wake to a small hurricane that broke apart parts of the plateau.

Dragon recovered faster than the eagle so he used air-dash to approach and land on the eagle's body. He covered his hands with a small visible armour made of wind. Similar to how haki users cover their bodies with haki. With the wind fully covering his hands, he slammed them both down on the eagles back. And with the extra force caused by his wind armour, He sent the eagle crashing down on the ground.

The eagle crashed down on the plateau and screamed in pain. Dragon air-dashed down immediately and slammed his palm on the exposed back of the eagle. It had just tried to get up again, but Dragon's palm decisively knocked it out.

'Now that the alpha has been identified between us, hopefully, this bird will at least not attack me again.' Dragon sat down beside the giant eagle and decided to meditate whilst waiting for the bird to wake up.

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