Chapter 114: Counterattack! The Black Dragon!

Chapter 114: Counterattack! The Black Dragon! Counterattack! The Black Dragon!

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What is that black lizard anyway?

Suddenly appearing and spouting whatever it pleases.

Then saying “Die” just because I was disappointing?

What is that black lizard anyway?

Don’t mock me.

How dare it treat my life that way.

Don’t mock me, don’t mock me......don’t mock me!

The black dragon, an embodiment of injustice.

Facing that overwhelmingly superior existence that struck her with death – the terminus of life.

What surfaced in Emi’s heart was not despair.

Nor regret. Nor sorrow.

Joy and delight were naturally absent as well.

It was anger.

Her heart was simply filled with rage.

Anger toward the injustice that was the black dragon.

Anger at her fate forcing such an unjust life upon her.

Anger at her own weakness.

<<<I’ve had enough. Die.>>>

With those curt words, the black dragon swung its claws down toward Emi.

But Emi was enraged.

Her anger fueled her, igniting her murderous intent.

The insignificant humans, the merciless monsters, and her insufferable life!

The murderous intent she had bottled up in her small heart, accumulating endlessly, overflowed!

“SHUT UUUUP!! YOU DIEEEE!!!”

The instant Emi screamed those words, the black dragon’s claws descended upon her!

But Emi......once again nimbly evaded using 【Grasshopper】!

Leaping away, landing!

Then withstanding the wind pressure, the shockwave produced when the black dragon’s claws struck the ground in her wake!

Emi reinforced the earth beneath her feet as much as possible with 【Solidify】, adhering herself in a crouched stance with 【Adhesion】.

This way, she wouldn’t be blown away.

As for handling the shockwave itself?Thê source of this conte/nt n/o/v/(el)bi((n))

If she took it directly, no matter how reinforced her body was, she would likely be shredded into pieces.

However, Emi had already acquired a technique to disperse and withstand it.

Mana conversion.

Using her entire body, Emi continued converting and dispersing the encroaching shockwave through mana conversion!

Resisting injustice with the technique bestowed by her revered master! Defying it! Confronting it!

In other words, the black dragon’s eyes!

From the outset, Emi had assessed that her attacks likely couldn’t pierce the black dragon’s scales.

However, its eyes were a different story.

Those unguarded golden orbs should be vulnerable to her strikes.

She gambled on that possibility.

Emi had already reached the black dragon’s right cheek.

Her target was right between its eye and nostril!

While dashing up at tremendous speed, Emi concentrated her magic power into her right arm.

What she would unleash was a 【Magic Strike】.

Quite literally striking with all her mind and soul.

No holding back.

Her opponent allowed no such leeway.

Compared to the black dragon, she was but a speck of dust. Yet for a human, the immense magic power Emi poured into her right arm was utterly abnormal.

Giii......mishiii......

The air groaned.

Her right arm screamed in pain.

But Emi ignored it.

Instantly closing the gap to the black dragon’s eye.

<<<Ohhh!? What? What!?>>>

Seeing Emi charging straight for its eye, the black dragon opened it wide in shock.

How fortunate. Don’t close it now.

With the momentum from her ascent, Emi struck that small fist carrying all her might directly into the black dragon’s eye!

That fist was her rage.

Shattering injustice to push forward!

Her way of living itself!

DON......OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!

Emi’s fist impacted the black dragon’s eye, the resounding boom following slightly delayed.

The sheer impact force whipped the black dragon’s face backward, staggering it.

As for Emi’s state?

Her body had virtually no magic power remaining.

She had poured everything into that one strike.

Maintaining 【Silverfish】 was no longer possible.

Stumbling, her feet separated from the black dragon’s scales as she plummeted straight toward the ground.

And the black dragon?

What of its golden eye that Emi had struck with all her might?

The conclusion?

It remained completely unscathed.