While the trio was dealing with the carnage created by the Light Disaster.

A few kilometers away from the battlefield, Elliott and Amelia were dealing with absurdly large creatures.

"..."

The back of the dragon closed in rapidly as Amelia plummeted toward it. With Aura in her hand, she braced herself and swiped the green dagger under her.

A blast of wind traveled toward the scales of the dragon, before crashing on it. The attack left no dent on the tough scales of the dragon, who kept its eyes on the woman falling on its back.

The blast remained for a moment, stopping Amelia’s rapid descent. As she floated down slowly, her feet finally touched the dragon.

"!"

Amelia suddenly ran away.

The dragon's back was incredibly wide, with many thorns as tall as houses, and ridges as deep as rivers here and there. It made it difficult for her to navigate through, but there was one issue she couldn't ignore.

Its eyes were always on her. Bending its neck in various direction to always have Amelia in its sight.

She knew the dragon wouldn't take it well to have an intruder walking on its body, and it was exactly as she thought.

While running away, she glanced behind her. A large spike of earth erupted from the ground sideways, before another one quickly chased behind her, then another, infinitely so.

Chased by an unending number of spikes, Amelia continued to avoid the obstacles, and moved toward its head.

"Grrrrrrrrrrr!"

A low rumble came out of its mouth, before it turned its head away.

'Huh?'

Confused, Amelia stared blankly at the dragon that started ignoring her. Then, she felt a small change.

That change became more pronounced with each passing moment, until she understood what was happening.

'I'm losing my footing?! What's happening?'

The ground, being the dragon's back, was starting to turn into a slope. The spikes stopped pursuing her, but she now had to deal with getting thrown off the dragon.

When she looked around her, she noticed that the dragon began to rotate its whole body to get rid of her.

"Ceres!"

Amelia released Aura and changed it for her earth dagger. Hurriedly, she stabbed the nearest thorn before she slid off its back.

The dagger fused with the massive thorn to stabilize its grip, while the dragon flipped its body.

Tightly gripping the dagger's hilt with both hands, her feet left the ground. Before long, her feet were floating more than five-hundred meters above the land.

With the dragon upside-down, she understood it would be easy to arrive at its head.

'It's far too early to give up!'

She observed the surroundings, as it began to return to its normal position. While sideways, Amelia noticed a path from thorn to thorn, making it way easier to go to her destination.

But that required a mobility she didn't have. Unless...

"..."

Her gaze turned to her hands, holding Ceres, before moving downward, toward the green terrain flying at high speed.

'Alright, here goes nothing.'

Taking a long breath of air, Amelia nodded, before letting go of Ceres. The dagger vanished into particles, as she fell off the dragon.

"Leima! Mastery Form!"

She screamed while falling, her body flashing a bright white light. A thunderous sound traveled through the air as if a lightning struck the area.

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Suddenly, a chained dagger flew from the light, piercing a thorn not far from it.

Pulled by the chain, Amelia swung under the thorn back and forth, before leaping away at its highest point.

Throwing the other chain at another thorn, she repeated the process, moving higher and higher while also getting closer to the dragon's massive head.

At one point, she swung around a thorn, before dropping on top of it. The dragon was about to return to its original position, which would make it tougher to swing at that point.

But to her surprise, the dragon began to do something different from what she was expecting.

Its body twisted in a peculiar motion. Putting a rotation maneuver after flipping sideways, wind gushed between the thorns and ridges of its body, creating an incredible vacuum.

The dragon aimed its head toward the sky, and flew even higher than it already was. The air was slowly beginning to thin out at this altitude, making it hard for Amelia to breathe correctly.

Yet, it was nothing for her. She carefully controlled her breathing, and kept the chain dagger wrapped around the thorn to avoid falling off as the dragon ascended.

Then, as the dragon continued to rotate, it suddenly dived.

Not expecting this move, Amelia lost her footing, and fell off the thorn. With the chain tightly wrapped around her arm, it kept her from being completely thrown off.

But she had to now endure the fast change in atmosphere, as the dragon plummeted to the ground rapidly.

To further aggravate the situation, the dragon began to spin uncontrollably. Amelia, battered by rough gales, began to lose consciousness.

'I have to... hold on...'

With the ground approaching, she closed her eyes. The spinning was starting to affect her, warping her vision.

*Crack*

Amelia suddenly opened her eyes, and looked at the thorn Leima was stuck into. Cracks were starting to traveled around the pierced point, threatening to break it.

'No!'

Looking for another thorn, she hurriedly scanned her surroundings. She did found a good spot, but the situation made it impossible to grab onto it.

The spinning, the wind, her warped vision, everything made it impossible for her to aim at it, or even throw her chain dagger.

'I'm not getting off without at least injuring it!'

Glaring at the cracked thorn, she slammed the chain while imbuing it in an incredible amount of magic energy.

Lightning traveled through the waving pattern Amelia made by slamming the chain, before being transmitted to the dagger stuck into its back.

*Crackle*

The sound of lightning violently erupted from the dagger, before bright branches broke through the cracks.

A jolt of pain traveled through the dragon's nerves, as one of its thorns crumbled into dust from the magic.

*ROOOAR*

It released a pained cry, before abruptly stopping its descent.

"Huh?"

*SLAM*

Amelia noticed a shadow approaching her, before she felt a pain in her left side. Her body flew downward, as another thorn bumped into her from the sudden deceleration of the dragon.

The chain dagger now freed from the thorn, she began to fall toward the land below.

"..."

She touched her side, and noticed that it hadn't injured her much. Focusing on the dragon now above her, she cursed her situation.

'Fuck! This was the best opportunity I had to kill it!'

'Now, what am I supposed to do?'

Falling through the air, she glanced behind her.

'How long do I have before touching ground? A few minutes?'

Her gaze returned to the dragon.

But he had disappeared from where it was, making her panic slightly.

"Damn it! Where did it go?"

Amelia looked everywhere, but couldn't find it, until she realized the obvious. She looked straight in front of her, where a large cloud was floating peacefully in the distance.

"Vesta! Mastery Form!"

Her body released the lightning mastery, before changing it to fire. Covered in fire from head to toe, she clapped her hands together.

When she brought them apart, a swirling vortex of fire formed, before she stabbed her arm into it.

Without giving it a second thought, she grabbed a weapon inside, and pulled it out. Tightly holding a spear in her hand, she aimed the tip in front of her.

"Release everything!"

Responding to the order, the magnificent and blazing spear glowed brightly. It had a red fire mimicking a piece of cloth wrapped around the shaft, a long blade attached to the shaft, and two curved blades on each side of it, slightly below the main blade.

As the spear emitted a dizzying heat, a sphere of dark blue flames formed near its tip, aimed at the cloud.

The sphere expanded, before growing larger than Amelia. It kept growing, until the heat warped the air itself.

At that exact instant, shredded into nothing, the cloud disappeared. The dragon was coming straight at Amelia, its mouth wide open, ready to devour her.

"Kh! Make it in time!"

Her magic was accumulating still. She had no way to avoid the dragon as she was free-falling, leaving her in a dire situation she couldn't free herself from.

Ripping the air with its wings, it came at full speed toward her.

"Now!"

An exploding noise, capable of shattering eardrums and glass windows alike, shook the sky as the sphere of blue fire traveled at ludicrous speed toward its target.

Amelia was thrown backward as a result of her attack, losing consciousness in the process for a few seconds.

The dragon, unable to process what was happening, swallowed the dark fire into its stomach, before abruptly stopping.

A sizzling sound entered its ears, as it realized something horrible was happening inside its body.

Dark blue flames erupted from every orifice of its face. Its eyes, its ears, its mouth, everything burned its body from within.

*ROAAAAA-*

As it screamed in agony, the fire began to subside. The dragon opened it mouth, expelling a puff of smoke that lasted a minute.

It opened its burnt eyelids, and moved its damaged eyes around. It couldn't see anymore, and couldn't smell either.

Blind, it still tried to search for the one who caused it such pain, while its body slowly recovered thanks to the corruption inside its body.

Farther away, Amelia opened her eyes while groaning. With her spear in hand, she collected herself, and looked around her.

'I'm still falling?! Where am I?'

When she looked below her, she breathed a sigh of relief.

'The ground is still far away. What about the drago-'

A shadow covered her as she looked above her, seeing a large row of teeth closing in on her.

'Fuc-'

The massive jaws closed shut, with Amelia between them.