Chapter 1029: What Comes Next?

Chapter 1029: What Comes Next?



To them, it felt like an eternity had gone by, the pace of battle unrelenting, and their minds constantly forced into a state of high alert. But the reality was far from that.

In a fight that went like a rollercoaster, attacks from both sides threatening to take lives at a moment's notice, were a single mistake made; time had seemed to pass by so fast, yet only a few minutes ticked away.

This was both a good and a bad thing, in some sense.

With how short the battle had spanned, the risk of the dragon egg across the doors from them to hatch was low, but it came with its own downsides.

A significant one being that they were all spent.

Alex could tell all of them were running on fumes, aside from him. He could tell he wasn't at a hundred percent, but he still felt fresh enough to battle another pair of dragonkin.

The same couldn't be said for his companions.

Unfortunately, they didn't have the luxury of time to rest anymore.

Alex could feel a source of mana across the humongous double doors growing by the second. They were in a race against time.

"David. Come, give me a hand," Alex said, walking toward the doors.

David looked at Alex, his eyes trailing to the doors, and by the look in the latter's eyes, he knew something was up.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Coming."

As they reached the doors, stopping just in front of them, Alex whispered to David.

"You can feel it, too, right? It's not just me?" he asked, his tone wavering.

"I can now," David responded, resting his hand on the door before him.

The mana across the large stone doors. It was not only growing at an insane pace.

It was pulsing.

*Oom oomph*

*Oom oomph*

"It's close to waking up," David said, his eyes turning gloomy.

"We need to get in there and break that egg."

Kary didn't like the sound of that. Even if they were plenty strong to throw a person into a portal, it was a lot more complicated than that.

"And is there a way to shield us from the pressure of the dragon being born?" she asked, trying to find a solution.

"Alex might be able to, but then our strongest asset will be out of commission to fight the darned thing. I think it's best if we all collapse and he fights it than to waste his strength on

protecting ours."

Kary clicked her tongue in disappointment.

"Actually, I think we have another person who can take the dragon down, even if I'm incapacitated," Alex pointed out, looking at the bow in Jin-Sil's hands.

"Her?" David asked, following his gaze.

"You're kidding, right?" he added.

"No, listen. That weapon is as strong as an artifact. And it's out here. Even if she isn't as powerful as I am, that weapon can close that gap. I sure as hell wouldn't want an arrow from that thing to hit me in the chest," Alex commented.

He had been looking at her fire the weapon for their entire fight, and even if she infused little to no mana into her shots, the arrows that left her bowstring were supercharged. It was like

she was firing magic missiles in a condensed package.

They packed a wallop and came at little cost to her own reserves.

"Are they really that powerful?" Kary asked.

Although her senses covered a wide area, they weren't as sharp as her boyfriends. She couldn't

tell the amount of mana coming from the arrows as precisely as he could.

Even David wouldn't dare say his mana senses were as sharp as his.

"Oh yeah. They are plenty strong. I'd say her current power level on a single arrow equals the

power I could muster during the tournament. I know it's not ideal, but it is plenty. This

dragon is never going to be as strong as an actual dragon. Not at awakening."

"I'll do it," Jin-Sil said, stepping toward them.

She had heard the entire conversation, even though she was meters away.

"If you give me a shot, I'll send that dragon into the next life. I swear it."