"Enough talk, kid. Since you can't prove your identity, let me send you away. Judging by your expression, it doesn't seem like you're going to give up that easily," Dimitri said coldly, his voice dripping with disdain.
Doomscale Dragonification!
As soon as he finished, Aengus transformed into his Dragonoid form, unleashing a formidable pressure that rippled through the air.
But to Dimitri, it was nothing more than a child's play.
He laughed coldly, his tone mocking.
"Is that all you've got? Turning into a lizard—what a joke."
Without hesitation, Aengus launched his attack.
Venomous Flash Strike!
He unseethed his blade slashing down with enough force to make the air tremble, distorting the very space around them.
"Weak!"
Before Aengus could even process what happened, he heard Dimitri's disdainful snort. In the next moment, he was violently thrown into a nearby rock with a deafening crash.
"Boom!"
Dimitri had altered the space, causing Aengus's attack to miss entirely. The smug grin on Dimitri's face deepened, watching with mockery as Aengus shook off the rubble and debris.
Aengus met Dimitri's gaze, unshaken. His eyes blazed with determination, knowing he couldn't afford to back down, no matter how overwhelming the odds seemed.
Space Warp!
Spectral Blade Storm!
Aengus repeatedly using Space Warp, trying to close the distance or strike Dimitri, but the emperor seemed untouchable, blending seamlessly with space itself.
"Is it because of his space laws?" Aengus wondered in frustration.
Dimitri chuckled, his voice filled with disdain. "Hahaha, trying those pitiful space skills on me? You truly are a child who doesn't understand the difference between heaven and earth."
"Huff...."
Aengus was starting to feel fatigued from the repeated use of Space Warp, a skill he wasn't fully accustomed to yet.
But he refused to back down. With renewed determination, he unleashed a barrage of skills:
He seethed, his pride deeply wounded. His aura flared dangerously as he vowed, "To erase this disgrace, I will grant you utter annihilation!"
"Spatial Collapse!" Dimitri commanded silently, twisting his face in rage.
Aengus felt the space around him distort, crackling as if the very air was about to implode on itself. The ground beneath him warped, and reality seemed to twist as Dimitri unleashed his devastating attack, aiming to obliterate him completely.
Aengus tried to flee using both Space Warp and his high agility, but it was too late; the collapse had already caught up to him.
"Crack, Crackle!"
Aengus was engulfed by the space collapse, drowning in the chaotic flow of a space storm behind the once-beautiful world's spatial barriers.
"Argh!"
The pain from being torn apart by the chaotic spatial energy was overwhelming, that even his pain resistance failed to suppress it.
His body suffered deep cuts and burns as the intense radiation sank into his flesh.
If any normal ranker was in his place, they would have died by now. It's only thanks to his high stats and Dragonification skill he had survived till now.
"Ugh!" Aengus cursed himself and activated his most powerful ability to escape the situation and turn the tide.
"Helllfire Leviathan Of Death!"
This was his trump card, and he hadn't wanted to use it so early, but the circumstances forced him to reveal everything he had.
"ROOARRR...."
With a rumbling roar of devastation, Aengus transformed into a mythic dragon-like creature, emanating an aura of death and searing black flames.
"Rumble! Rumble!"
With a thunderous noise, Aengus broke through the space barrier with sheer force, returning from the chaotic storm before he could be swept away.
The spatial barrier near him was weak, so it was not that tough.
His massive form—a 200-meter-tall, 500-meter-long leviathan—was revealed to the world.
The aura of death and corrosion radiating from his body shattered the nearby spatial constructs created by Emperor Dimitri with hard work.
The trial participants who had survived looked around in confusion, finding themselves in open field all of sudden.
But when their gaze fell upon Aengus's Black Death Leviathan form, they were struck speechless, and some even wet themselves in sheer terror.