Ch.299 Greater than Dragon

Ch.299 Greater than Dragon

But before Drako could show off his power, the strange creatures were suddenly bombarded by hundreds of silver beams that emerged from somewhere on his right. The attack was very quick and very insidious, targeting wings and causing many of the creatures to fall to the sea where they were very likely to die, and all of this happened in just a few seconds.

‘So bizarre...’ Drako pondered inwardly. He didn’t need to use his Spirit Sense to figure out who the attackers were, it was undoubtedly the infamous Moonlit Wasps, a colony of insects that had appeared out of nowhere to take a spot at the top of the food chain.

As usual, they were very quick to react when their Queen was in danger. It wasn’t just him that had plans of attacking. The wasps just so happened to react before him.

Drako would have snorted if there wasn’t a very chance that doing so would cause his attack to literally backfire. That would be bad. And embarrassing.

In any case, since he couldn’t claim the glory of being the first attacker anymore, he was going to go for the next best thing. The best attacker.

He immediately sent more mana to his mouth, causing the flames gathered there to not only move more vigorously but also shine brighter. If he released the attack now, with how much mana he had put into it he would definitely cause a lot of damage, and he was just about to release it when he caught a hint of purple in his peripheral vision.

He kept his head steady but looked to the left with his eyes, catching the sight of the Crystal Dragon King breathing out a torrent of purple-coloured flames on a group of the deformed creatures who had gotten close enough.

And in typical fashion of the illustrious Dragon Breaths, it didn’t just engulf that group, it had also covered a good portion of the sky.

The attack was very impressive and caused quite a few charcoaled corpses to drop in droves, one of them even had the fading aura of an Enlightened Beast, even if only at the first stage.

The Crystal Dragon King huffed out a cloud of smoke after the deed, looking unfazed and unbothered as if what he did was no biggy.

It was cool. Impressive. Flashy even.

He could only thank his ever-shifting luck that he chose the Wind Supreme instead of a different one.

But moving on, as an ex-snake, he had been born with the ability to spray venom and he did not lose that when he became a Divine Dragon, despite the fact that his entire head had changed. But that was not what he wanted. He wanted the Dragon Breath.

So he worked on his venom spray almost every day in the hopes of someday achieving his dreams, and eventually, he learned how to infuse flame mana into his venom, creating a fiery venom spray technique of sorts. But that was still far from what he wanted.

Eventually he reached his limit when it came to venom spray techniques, and although he created something special, it was still not enough.

So he went back to the basics. He started working on the good old gathering-mana-into-your mouth-and-releasing-it-into-a-breath technique, something that - once again - most Beasts could do. He kept working on it, going through various experiments that often ended up injuring him, sometimes severely.

But his efforts were not for naught. At one point, he learnt how to combine his fiery venom spray with the fire breath. It did not increase the raw power, but it did increase the damage that it could cause. It gave the breath the ability to apply a burning venom to whatever it touched, making his attack extremely deadly even if you survived it.

The amount of times he had heard of someone dying to this venom days after the attack had hit them was not small. There were even a couple times that his foes begged for the cure. Not that he had it.

This technique was obviously special and would not have been possible without his previous proficiency in the more normal ‘fiery venom spray’. In a normal situation, he would have encountered the issue of his venom being evaporated by the fire itself. But he overcame that issue easily and created a truly powerful technique.

But this was STILL not what he wanted. He wanted, much, much, much more. Something even greater than the Dragon Breath that he had been coveting.

And eventually... he got it.

The technique that gave him the courage to call his race the Divine Dragons, greater than real Dragons.