Rev finally take sin a big breath of air. The color in his eyes is restored. He sees as the dragon continues to tar apart the bodies of the guards and devour them. “Dragons. There is not much written about them. Mostly mentioned in the elf dragon war.” Rev sighs. "I hate to say it, but any useful knowledge I have is based on Loka’s notes. Dragons are great beast that contain even greater source than most blessed elves. Dragon's strengths are based on their age as the holder they get the stronger they become. Dragons, for the most part, are unable to use high lvl arts. Their psychical strength and extremely durable scales made them a force to reckon with. Their most dangerous weapon would be their breath/blast attacks. Using their mass amount of source to shoot out deadly beams of fire or other elements. At their cites, dragons only care about strength and proving their strength. It is speculated dragons are born in patches of at least 3. The three kids fight to the death and eat the weaker ones. This causes their population to be very low no more than 200 dragons are Alive. This said any one of those 200 dragons is as strong as a first generation blessed elf. According to Loka, if they had more coordination and unity during the war, they would have won. To get to the point, dragons are crates that run off pride of strength. They live to die in battle.” Rev says to himself. He gets up, healing his wounds. He walks over to the dragon.
“Hey! Tell me your name, dragon,” Rev demands.
The dragon turns, swiping his claws at Rev once more. Rev dodges, this time appearing right in front of the beast.
“I asked you a question. Don’t tell me your to scared to answer.” Rev taunts.
The dragon's eyes narrow. “My name is Klevo.”
Rev steadies his breath “You're after Loka, are you not?” Rev asks.
“I am” Klevo responds.
“Well, it seems we have that in common. I have fraught him already. He had me beat, I have to admit. But he couldn’t take me out. I was imprisoned by the city, you see,” Rev says.
“So, you were the one responsible for the explosion? And you said you fought Loka and lived?” Klevo says skeptically.
“Yes, I lived through the frozen purgatory. So Klevo it would be safe to say if you couldn’t beat me then there’s no way you could beat Loka…but you see there’s a problem as I was captured I was drained of my source there for if you where to kill me as I am now it would let be any indication of strength. So let’s make a deal. If i can deal any real damage to you in my weakened state, then you must let me go.” Rev proposes.
Klevo leans in close, breathing down his steam like breath on Rev. “For what reason do you fight?” He asks.
“To kill Loka,” Rev says without a moment of hesitation.
The forest is brought to a dead silent as Rev looks declares his purpose and stares down at Klevo. He stands there, Klevo’s eye alone large than Rev himself, but Rev’s will is strong and heart is full of conviction with no room for fear. Klevo smiles, his razor-sharp teeth shine in the sunlight.
“Only a coward would give up the chance for a battle. You have a deal.” Klevo says.
As soon as he down Klevo swipes his claw at Rev once more, following it up with anther swipe. Rev dodges these attacks now fully on guard. Klevo blast out a hail of razor sharp nipples. Rev barely maneges to dodge them. “His breath attack shoots out needles. How strange,” Rev thinks. As the needles hit the trees, they branch out quickly, spreading like a metal tree. One needle creates two needles branches and those branches create more needle branches and so on. The needle is no more than 2inch long and is daily thin, but strong. Rev doesn’t have time for full analyze them. As another attack is on its way. Rev is played with as he is forced to run from the rapidly spreads needles at his feet. Rev notices the as the needle make contact with the trees it burns them. It seems the needle is hot to the touch, undoubtably burning any normal person that would touch them on top of ripping them to pieces. Truly a terrifying attack. Rev counties to run from the beast's attacks. Rev uses the massive size of the dragon to his advantage. Try to find blind spots to set up an attack. The beast is roughly 120ft tall, his wings upward of 350ft wide. Klevo shoots up, shaking the ground below him as he does. He then rains down an attack of deadly needles. Rev runs to the tree to get out of sight. He starts carving more and more bullets as he does. The surrounding forest is ripped apart as the trees are uprooted by the needles in the ground spreading. “At his rate am sure to die. I need to find some sort of weak spot” Rev looks at the source he has left. "One clean shot is all ill need. Even if it brings me to the brink of death.” Rev thinks. He finishes inscribing the bullets he needs. He grips his dagger tightly and looks up at the dragon. Klevo dives flapping his wings, sending the surrounding trees flying back. Rev sends 3 bullets fly at Klevo’s face aimed specially at his left eye. Klevo closes his eye to avoid the blast, but a bullet slips through. It sends him off balances. Rev dash onto his wide scale covered neck. He starts to inscribe an art on his scales. Klevo quickly shakes him off.
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“You’ll never get through my scales with such a pitiful tool.” Klevo tells Rev.
But Rev is nowhere to be seen. Klevo turns around scanning the area. Unknown to him, Rev is directly below him. His dagger handle in his mouth. Leaving his hands free to cast. Rev cast a stone pillar. It shoots up out of the ground, driving itself into Klevos' stomach. Klevos' eyes widen as he receives the blow. He scuffs and quickly transforms. Rev dashes away, hiding among the fallen trees. Klevo, now in his more human form, looks around. He appears to be wearing a bright silver jacket covered in needles, creating an almost fluffy look to them. His neck bears a scare on the right side that runs down to his chest diagonally. Rev lets out a breath “here we go” He says to himself. He dashes through the fallen trees, throwing bullets at Klevo as he runs circles around him. Klevo watches as he thanks the shoots and in a sudden moment dives forward, catching Rev’s leg. He pulls him towards him and drives his fist into his chest. Rev uses this to get close to him and activate the art inscribe on his back. Rev had had little time to inscribe, but it’s all the time he needed. The art is incomplete, but it was never meant to be fully inscribed only on the part that pulls source to the middle of the art. Rev uses this to funnel source out of Klevo and into him as fast as he can. Without the art he could never hope to over power Klevos massive pool of source. With in 2 second Rev has gotten more than enough. Klevo, in his time, has landed to powerful blows on his chest, shattering 3 ribs. Rev quickly heals them up and sends a condense fire blast into Klevos eyes.
“AHH!” Klevo screams.
“His speed is impressive,” Klevo thinks to himself. Rev rolls away and quickly cast stone pillars around him, sending them shooting into his side and face. Knocking him around. Rev then uses his loss of balanced to drive his dagger into his stomach and set of the fuse. Klevo goes into a rage as he sends the needles on his back shooting out in all directions. Rev creates a thick stone wall to block the needle storm. Rev is on fighting against time. The needles start to spread around him. Soon enough, there will be no escape. He has no time for this. He starts to run through the hand signs. The surrounding needles. Start to spread to his feet.
“Theres no point in hiding,” Klevo says.
The needles start to tower around Rev. As a sea of needles are about to collapse on him, he is swapped with his dagger. Now appearing right in front of Klevo.
“How did you?” Klevo asks, but it's too late.
“…Hellscape” Rev whispers.
Before Klevo knows it, he is drowning in an endless ocean of molten lava. As a dragon, he is very resilient, but even they have their limits. The heat of the lava heats his skin red hot. Hellscape quickly spreads using the needles as further fuel, as all is quickly melted away. Rev stands on top of it all, looking down at Klevo as he drowns in the lava. “Not safe yet,” he thinks.
Klevo turns back into his dragon form, sending the lava flying away from him. Rev pulls Hellscape back, stopping its momentum in mid air and pulling it back to him. Giant hands come out of what's left of hell escape and pull Klevo down, holding him tight as he tries to fly up. Rev sends a fist of lava hurling at Klevo’s face, knocking him down. Rev uses this to create more lava hand to keep him tied down. They grab at his wings, legs, tail, and neck. His scales themselves begin to turn red hot and melt away. Klevo fires a spread of needles at Rev, but he simply raises his hand and the lava creates a wall that consumes the needles effortlessly. Klevo tries to roll around and get loose but the more he struggle the more source he looses to hellscape and the larger it grows. Even in his dragon form, he is too weak to escape its grasp.
“What is this! You never told me you posses such power!” Klevo tells Rev.
Rev stares into his eyes. As he walks over to him, making sure not to get too close. “Why are you trying to kill Loka? What did he do to the dragons to make so many of you come after him?” Rev asks.
“ahh…Loka caused a lot of trouble for the dragons. He would frequently challenge us to battle to the death. Ahhh…it was when he killed Ashe's brother where the conflict started.” Klevo explains.
“Brother? I thought dragons killed their siblings when they were born.” Rev says.
“Ahhh….ahh..yes, that is true, but they were brothers born at different times. Loka had killed the younger of the brothers. Ash was outrages and..ahhh…he went after Loka. He then also died. Loka used this to mock us dragons of our pride in strength. Ahhhh…Ash and his brother were no ordinary dragons. They were strong, born of the elder dragon havoc. When news got around that both his kids had been killed by Loka, it put in question his strength. Ahhhh!…ahh…Havic was outrages and started killing any dragon that questioned him. The queen…her self then put out a bounty on Loka’s head ahhh…for any dragon strong enough to…kill him would be…the next up ahhhh..to mate with her.” Klevo says, his breath heavy as he is consumed by Hellscape.
“Queen, that right in Loka’s notes, it mentions the queen. All that is said is that all dragon answer to her.” Rev thinks.
“Well, thanks for the information, but am sure letting you live would be worse for you then dieing the battle. I shall grant you your wish,” Rev says.
He brings his hand up and brings them together, squeezing them tight. The lava covers Klevo and starts to compact around him. The pressure soon enough is too much to handle. Klevo scales melt away as he is crushed. Rev hears as his blood and all sizzles away. Rev takes in a big breath as he squeezes all the source out of Klevo and pulls it to him. Rev looks upon the damage that has been done. Rev heals his wounds. Now, with the source of a dragon, he is back at full strength. Even so, he is in no state to be fighting Loka. He looks at Carter city in the distances. “Loka…” He thinks. His hand clenches into a tight fist and his eyes light ablaze. He holds Ein’s red band tightly.
“I’ll kill him. I swear on my soul I will rip his out of him.” Rev declares.
He makes his way through the now burning forest. Ever steps sears the ground below him. Rev covers his eyes with the red band to give his eye rest. He makes his way through the forest, killing small animals and cooking them for food. Gathering and eating mushrooms he probably shouldn’t eat. Either way, Rev moves forward as he walks hand in hand with calamity.