The Bow Puppet ran out of arrows while rapid firing at the Forest Dragon, so William was forced to recall it to his side.
On the other end, the dragon was riddled with wounds and missing a few scales. Embedded in its flesh and wings on all sides were a few dozen arrows, making the dragon look like a giant hedgehog. Its eyes glowed a ferocious red as it had lost all semblance of reason, ready to fire off another flame breath the moment it returned to the sky.
Unfortunately for the dragon, William wasn't planning to let the dragon have its way. He launched himself forward, slicing into one of the Forest Dragon's wings with his Sword of Shifting Sands, ripping through the webbing without much resistance.
The dragon roared in pain, taking to the air despite the damage to its wings. Somehow it was still able to fly, albeit much slower than before.
William realized his Puppets were in a dangerous situation once again, so he recalled them to his Space Ring just before the flame breath spread across the room.
This flame breath was much stronger than the previous wave, despite the poison weakening the Forest Dragon. It must have been the final death throes of the Magical Beast, but William was still unharmed. He bathed in the flames like it was a bath, finding it incomparable to the pain from the most recent Fire Affinity upgrade.
Ahh, that feels good... William hadn't had a hot shower in so long.
He walked out of the flames casually, feeling refreshed and reborn as the Forest Dragon looked at him with wide eyes. It couldn't believe a mere human, a Core Formation Cultivator at that, could survive the flame breath of a Nascent Soul Dragon.
The dragon had made an understandable mistake, assuming that William was in the Core Formation Realm, but the reality of the situation was that William's Stealth Talent made the dragon think he was hiding his Cultivation. If the dragon knew William was a non-Cultivator, it would probably be ashamed for the rest of its life.
William wasn't completely uninjured, having sustained minor burns across his entire body, but a quick sweep with the Life Element healed everything in mere moments.
William channeled Mana of the Fire Element into his Mana Gathering Staff, launching a flamethrower spell that he hadn't used in a long time. The flames were just as intense and flew slightly faster than the Forest Dragon's, targeting its wings and body while the dragon did its best to dodge.
What it couldn't accept was that William's defenses were even stronger than the dragon's own scales. If another dragon were to hit the Forest Dragon with a powerful reverse tail swipe like that, there was no doubt that the attack would draw blood and it would lose many scales.
But William was mostly unharmed! His Spirit Aura was incredibly solid, absorbing most of the momentum, while his Earth Element was almost as powerful.
If William had a fully charged Tribulation Transcendence Protective Amulet, even his clothes wouldn't be torn by such an attack.
The dragon tried to back away and recover some stamina, but William wasn't going to give it any chances. He rushed forward with his sword in hand, executing as many strikes as possible to cut away the scales on the dragon's shoulder before it could try anything else.
William jumped over the Forest Dragon's tail, twisting to the right midair to avoid the reverse swipe as the tail returned to its original position. He made use of his downward momentum to stab deep into the dragon's now unprotected shoulder, disabling its right arm and forcing it to the ground.
With that, the fight ended in under five minutes, the Forest Dragon eventually bleeding out while the poison continued to spread. Even though it had been struck by so many arrows, the poison still wasn't the main contributor to its death. This just proved that dragons were incredibly formidable creatures.
The Forest Dragon disappeared into particles of Mana while William was teleported as usual.
Welcome to the 150th floor, the final step in this portion of the trial. You have 6 hours to rest before the trial begins...
A Challenger has entered the 150th floor...
William surveyed his surroundings after the trial creator finished speaking. The room was incredibly dark, so he first activated a minor fusion spell of the Plant and Fire Elements, creating a dozen balls of flaming moss that flew at an incredibly slow pace towards the back wall of the 150th floor.
What William saw next made his jaw drop in complete shock, his knees shaking as he was suddenly overwhelmed by a mass of anger and bloodlust that made him dizzy.