The Journey of the Rainbow Dragon

No time to care about anything else.

The three people who narrowly avoided fatal attacks quickly climbed up from the smelly bones in embarrassment, and invariably raised their heads to look at the sky.

"That is!"

Looking at the huge monster hovering in the sky, Bill's eyes suddenly opened wide.

"Pengniao?"

After finally coming back to her senses, Fran looked at the monster in the sky that looked like a raptor, but was much larger than an ordinary adult dragon, and murmured its name.

The rhinoceros is a solitary animal that can live for centuries.

They will bring trees, tents, broken boats and caravan wreckage from all over, tangle with each other to form huge nests, and set them in cracks on the cliff that are difficult for lower creatures to reach.

Sometimes, the roc's nests contain treasures from caravans or ships that it plundered. However, these super-giant creatures don't actually care about these gadgets and simply imitate their natural enemies, the giant dragons.

Yes, the roc, like the blue-footed dragon and snake, is a creation of the Titans and is the natural enemy of the true dragon.

But the difference is that the creator of the Green-footed Dragon Snake is the Storm Titan.

The creator of Pengniao is even more terrifying and powerful.

He is the starting point of all things, the father of the Titans, and the creator who is as famous as Io - Annan, the father of the giants!

Legend goes back to ancient times when giants and dragons competed for world hegemony.

Annan, the father of giants and titans, used clouds and breezes to create the [Peng bird] race so that their worshipers (the giant race) could challenge the dominance of the dragon race in the sky.

After the ancient war, the Titan Lord Annan disappeared, and these super giant creatures known as [Aerial Titans] were freed from the control of the giants and began to freely thrive around the world.

To this day, the traces of Pengniao have spread throughout the star world, and

Although cloud giants and storm giants sometimes seek out and tame these large birds as mounts, rocs also regard the large giants as prey.

Compared to the 'true dragon', the natural enemy of the roc, the giants who have enslaved the roc for tens of thousands of years are actually even more hated by the roc.

"How is it possible? How can there be a young roc bird here? This is obviously not a livable area for it, right?"

Looking at the giant beast that was still circling in the sky with a wingspan of more than 50 meters, Fran shouted in panic.

Although the title [Sky Titan] is partially due to the dragons' malicious ridicule of the Pengniao, it also proves the terror of the Pengniao family.

At least in terms of size, Pengniao is not inferior to ordinary Titans.

In order to satisfy the huge consumption caused by their huge bodies, rocs often fly to very far places to forage. Above the clouds is their favorite hunting ground, and its food is often a huge, slow-moving target ( such as giants, whales or elephants).

Even though this roc has a wingspan of over 50 meters and a body length of over 23 meters, it is a huge monster. But in fact, if converted into the age of a dragon, it is only equivalent to a young dragon.

In other words, it is still a preteen!

"Look at its wings!"

Bill frowned and pointed to the right wing of the roc hovering in the sky.

In the beautiful red and blue wings, there were two huge cylindrical holes, as if they had been pierced by something.

"This roc seems to have been injured. I guess our previous hunting target must have been captured by it, and the wound should have been caused by it while hunting the ferocious horned cow."

Bill analyzed calmly.

"With its eyesight, it should have discovered us a long time ago. The reason why it chose to attack in a sneak attack may be because its body has just suffered heavy injuries."

Fran's eyes lit up:

"That is to say."

The three of them looked at each other and suddenly nodded in agreement.

If a level 4 monster can harm it, it means that this behemoth is not invincible.

If a [Sky Titan] can be defeated, there is no reason not to give full marks to a few people in the assessment mission?

"Bill, Laya, the first set of tactics!"

Fran suddenly shouted, and the other two people instantly understood her plan.

Without any hesitation, with the blessing of the blast technique, the three of them immediately rushed towards the low bushes not far away, hoping that these obstacles would hinder their view of the sky.

The roc is a creature that relies heavily on vision for perception.

Watching them seemed to rekindle their fighting spirit.

Tina, who was originally ready to take action, hesitated for a moment, but finally gave up on interrupting to rescue them. Instead, she continued to remain invisible and followed the three of them to prevent any accidents from happening.

Just as the three of them were running into the jungle and thinking about the battle plan, the roc bird that had been hovering in the sky for a long time seemed to be losing its patience.

The wounds on its wings were still draining away its strength, so it had to kill the opponent quickly.

In fact, if the group of humans hadn't approached its territory, it really wouldn't have wanted to take action after killing the mad cow.

"Chirp——"

A fierce light flashed in the bright eagle eyes.

The next moment, a golden claw mark light suddenly flew out from the tips of its three talons, hitting the three people fleeing below.

Bill was keenly aware of the wind pressure from this blow.

"Spread out and take cover!"

Without any hesitation, after reminding the two of them, Bill stepped on a tree trunk beside him and used the rebound force to retreat ten meters, successfully avoiding the attack range of the energy claw attack.

Laya and Fran, who were blessed with the Feather Falling Technique and the Swift Wind Technique, also used similar methods to avoid it.

Although the magic shields of the two people could theoretically resist this tentative blow, too much magic would be wasted in that case.

A qualified mage must know which attacks should be avoided in battle, which attacks can be resisted (or cannot be avoided), and allocate one's physical strength and magic power according to the state to maximize utilization. Only then is a spell caster basic operations.

This leads to the fact that the less magic power and the lower the level, the more flexible and versatile the magicians are, like melee magicians.

There is no way, there is too little magic power, and your spell shield is as fragile as paper.

And in the later stages.

Those mages who have reached Legend are too lazy to do any physical operations. 'Flicker away' and 'Resist with magic shield' are the basic operations.

Seeing that the attack failed, Pengniao seemed a little annoyed.

"Chirp!——"

It let out a long roar, and its blood-red sharp claws waved out several claw marks again. At the same time, the pair of red and blue wings also violently waved several times, and countless wind blades carried the golden eagle claw marks and flew towards the direction of the three people's escape.

"boom!"

After another thrilling escape,

Looking at the large pit in the shape of an eagle's claw that was ten meters long and over one meter deep in front of him, Bill frowned slightly and reminded:

"The attack power of this roc should have reached the standard of a level 5 monster. Don't think about taking its attack forcefully."

As Fran ran, she carefully observed the young roc, which was floating in the air 700 meters above and constantly releasing attacks, but showing no intention of landing:

"This guy seems to be planning to use long-range attacks to consume us, so we have to find a way to counterattack."

"The key is, it keeps flying in the air, our traps and magic can't hit it!"

Not far away, a somewhat embarrassed Laya, who was covered in mud and water, pulled her legs out of a small puddle and shouted helplessly.

When she was dodging just now, she was accidentally attacked by the aftermath of the wind blade. Fortunately, she was protected by her inner armor and was not injured. She was only hit by the air wave and flew into a small circular quagmire.

"We need to let it land on its own, or..."

Just as Raya frowned and thought.

"Raya, watch your back!"

Bill, who was entangled by the wind blade, suddenly widened his eyes.

"ah?"

Laya, who was running, was stunned for a moment and turned her head reluctantly.

But before she could turn around.

Sudden! A red light silently flashed out from behind Laya.

It turned out that the roc, which was originally guerrilla in the sky, unknowingly swooped behind Raya, who was the slowest, while launching a magic attack!

It was also a claw attack, but this time what Raya faced was not an illusory energy claw mark, but a real Peng bird's claw!

This giant bird, which can rival ancient dragons in adulthood, finally showed its terrifying speed at this moment!

Either don't attack, or attack, and you'll kill with one strike!

Although it was still in its infancy, it did not affect the Peng bird's sharp claws that could tear apart the dragon, easily tearing apart Raya's protective magic shield, and clawed straight at her head.

"Raya!"

Ignoring the wind blades around him, he cut open his own protective gear, sparking a stream of blood.

Bill gave up all resistance without hesitation and rushed towards Raya's position crazily.

"What?!"

Fran and Tina, who were following behind, finally reacted at this time.

This juvenile bird actually learned to camouflage? !

The way it deliberately dawdled in the sky just now was just pretending that it wanted to consume the three people to death and make them relax their vigilance.

Compared to the three people who were unscathed, the Pengniao whose wings were seriously injured should be in more need of a quick victory!

"Damn it, I can't make it in time!"

"Do you want to release that?"

Fran clenched her fists, a trace of struggle flashed in her eyes.

In those clenched fists, the white gravel that had just been secretly taken from the corpse was lying quietly in Fran's palm.

The sharp stone tip even scratched the palm of her hand, and drops of blood slowly covered the entire rubble.

"No matter what, the most important thing is to save Raya!"

In the blink of an eye, Fran, who had no time to think, finally chose the instinctive answer.

She waved her hand suddenly, and the power from her blood instantly enveloped the stone.

"Time pauses!"

With an invisible gray wave.

In an instant, everyone present, including the swooping Tina, was imprisoned in place.

Except Fran.

At this time, she had lost too much blood, and her face began to look pale.

Perhaps, this is also due to the nearly nine-ring magic that completely exceeds her current casting limit.

Without any time to think, Fran quickly ran away from Raya and Bill who were suspended in the air not far away.

That stone allowed her to transcend the circle and release a time-forbidden spell, but it didn't mean there was no cost.

At this time, the gray-white gravel had escaped from Fran's hand and was suspended in the air.

Having absorbed a large amount of blood, it seemed to be completely awake at this time, constantly emitting waves of unknown fluctuations.

It is like an invisible spear, firmly nailing space and time within a radius of tens of meters around it!

But at the same time, it is rapidly disintegrating like weathered rocks at a speed visible to the naked eye.

7 seconds!

This is the maintenance time calculated by Fran.

5 seconds!

It took two seconds for Fran, who was blessed with the wind technique, to quickly pass by the invisible Tina, and finally came to Laya's side.

3 seconds!

She ignored the red eagle claws with clearly visible pores on her head and stretched out her hands.

1 second!

Fran gritted her teeth, grabbed one person's inner armor strap with one hand, and dragged the two of them into a jump, instantly rolling out of the attack range of the roc's claws.

next second

"boom!"

The roc's sharp claws were like a hot knife cutting paper, instantly piercing into the ground below, erupting into a terrifying attack wave.

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at the same time

The other side of the Ibi Forest.

"Um?"

Ron, who was lowering his head to calculate something, suddenly raised his head, frowned and pulled out a silver-white, half-broken rune stone from the scales under his neck.

"Strange, why did this thing suddenly become active?"

Ron looked at the time rune stone that was constantly vibrating in his palm with some confusion.

This thing has never changed since he snatched it from Tina when he entered the royal capital.

Apart from giving Ron a slight growth speed bonus, this time rune stone didn't show anything surprising, so much so that Ron almost forgot about its existence after carrying it with him.

At this time, this suddenly vibrating rune stone seemed to be conveying some message to Ron.

"What's wrong? Are there any missing believers?"

Just as Ron was frowning and observing the rune stone, a beautiful silhouette came to him along with the fragrant wind. She leaned behind Ron without any care and asked curiously.

The visitor was none other than Elise, who had completely surrendered to Ron.

At this time, she was wearing a green gauze dress that was a little cool. She was no longer flustered and returned to her elegant and naughty image.

Behind one person and one dragon, dozens of uniformly dressed corpses were lying in a dark cave.

At the same time, a large number of members of the Blue Legion were still searching inside and outside the cave to see if there were any missing persons.

This is a stronghold of the [Holy Cult].

But this place should soon be ruthlessly destroyed by Ron like the previous strongholds.

Obviously, with the help of Elise and the Blue Army in the search, it would be much more convenient for Ron to search for these worms hiding underground.

"This is just a small base. I didn't get any useful information, but I found something interesting."

Ron casually stuffed the time rune stone that stopped trembling into the scales, and then picked up another newly captured item on the ground.

Looking at the key in his hand that exuded the aura of the Abyss and the Succubus Queen, the corners of Ron's mouth rose slightly.

In fact, he was not too interested in what crimes this holy religion had committed.

He just wanted to confirm whether this organization was related to Malcantheut, and then take revenge.

But now, he seems to have found something more interesting.

Savoring the different breaths of the abyss, Ron smelled a fishy smell that belonged to a certain kind of baboon.

"interesting."

Ron fiddled with the keys in his hand and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

Behind this [Holy Religion], it seems that there is more than just the support of an abyss lord, Mecanshut?

This drama is getting really interesting.

Elise behind her looked at the key curiously and asked:

"Then what to do with the remaining personnel?"

"It's time to eat. It's time for your little babies to come in handy."

"Hmph~~~Obviously they are all your seniors."

".Is your butt itchy again?"