Alexia

Both dragons nod their heads and the three of us all identify the monster, making all of our eyes narrow immediately after seeing the result.

{Arxlos Dar Val – Dragon of Cataclysm – Level 301}

“Guess it is a dragon after all,” I comment, making both dragons next to me grimace as the Tier 3 Cataclysm Class monster turns its attention to us and roars. “It’s also noticed us.”

I’m kind of surprised it has a name though. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a monster with a name before.

After all, the entire point of a monster being a monster is that it’s not sapient. And this dragon is obviously not sapient considering what we’ve seen of it and what everyone else has seen of it thus far.

In that case, maybe it used to be sapient and lost that sapience somehow?

I frown at that but decide that now isn’t the time to be thinking about it. Considering that the dragon is flying straight towards us while roaring nonstop.

“We should be able to take it on,” Ethan comments, making both myself and Vargas nod our heads in agreement.

At this point the three of us are around level 275 to 280. So a level gap of a couple dozen levels shouldn’t mean much when it’s a three on one battle.

Fortunately the Legendary Feats aren’t locked to a single person if multiple people help kill something, so we should all get a Legendary Feat if there is one for killing a Cataclysm Class monster before anyone else.

Both dragons immediately fly into the air before moving down towards the dragon, meanwhile I teleport into the air. And without hesitation, the dragons begin sending magical attacks towards it consisting of bolts of flames and bolts of ice as I join them with Quantum Bolts.

But the dragon just shrugs them all off as crimson lightning begins to coat its entire body from the head down to the tail as it snakes through the air towards us.

I hope that counts for my lightning adaptation.

The dragon suddenly speeds up, creating a sonic boom behind it as it rushes straight towards us with its mouth wide open and another roar coming out. But the dragons and I all avoid the attack, leaving us on the sides of the large dragon as it passes.

I quickly use Quantum Resonance on my body, increasing my physical strength in the process before rushing forwards while summoning my polearm. And the moment the tip of my polearm makes contact with its scales, a loud screeching sound echoes out from the point of contact and my polearm and I continue moving with the blade’s tip simply leaving a light scratch across the surface of the thing’s scales.

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So I teleport backwards with a frown at just how little damage my attack did.

Stronger than I thought it’d be, that’s for sure. But still not strong enough to take all three of us.

I turn to look at the two dragons on my side before smirking when both of them transform into their true forms, making two orbs appear. One of hellfire and one of hellfrost, following which the orbs grow and eventually reveal two dragons once the orbs vanish.

Both dragons have four legs and two wings, but one of them is a crystalline blue with some small amount of frosty air leaking from its mouth while the other is a crimson shade of red with smoke and embers leaking from its mouth. And neither of them look very happy as they rush forwards to strike at the sides of the Cataclysm Class dragon.

To my surprise though, they only manage to do a bit more than I did. Leaving scratches as well, albeit deeper ones than my own.

It really does have strong scales.

I teleport backwards as the Cataclysm Class dragon flies back around to face us and charges up a large and powerful ball of crimson lightning in front of its mouth. A ball that has me immediately teleporting over a thousand meters a way through the sky, leaving the ball to grow even larger before shooting out with dozens of bolts of lightning discharging from it at everything it passes, including the dragons and the islands. But both dragons take the hit and open their mouths to shoot out their own breath attacks. One a large ball of liquid ice and the other a ball of black flames.

And it’s at this point that I realize the real difference between a quantum reaper and a dragon.

All of my racial skills up till this point have been defensive ones.

An immunity to 80% of physical damage. An immunity to status effects. And an immunity to any attacks related to the spirit.

I haven’t had a single offensive racial ability yet, unlike these dragons whose entire onslaught of racial skills are offensive ones.

This point really sinks home as I watch the destruction caused by all three dragons’ breaths. As the three balls of power clash in the air, creating a storm of ice, fire, and lightning that ravages the islands around them.

And I can’t help but think that if I were hit by those it would really hurt, even if it wouldn’t kill me and I’d be able to reverse it afterwards.

Magic really is a young quantum being’s weakness.

I frown at that before deciding that I don’t want to be left on the sidelines like this.

So I teleport several hundred meters closer while making sure to stay out of the range of their attacks. And without hesitation, I finally activate the skill I’ve been saving up power for for a very long time now.

Observation Effect Absorption.

I pull on the power that has been stored within the skill for a long time and begin charging it right in front of my hands, making a large ball of purple and blue energy appear in front of me. One that quickly begins glitching out just like all of my other attacks. But unlike my other attacks, this one shows the oddities that only the quantum energy can show as the ball of power rapidly shifts forms over and over again. First to some sort of black hole, then a large boulder, then a ball of lightning, a ball of fire, of poison, of ice, of dirt, all the way till it begins changing forms too fast for even my eye to keep up with.

Eventually the quantum reality around the attack begins to distort and cracks begin to form from all of the power I’m pushing into the skill. Power that is only enhanced when I go ahead and shift into my Wave form mid-use, making the orb grow even larger.

Soon enough my orb catches the attention of all three dragons, and I grin at them with the pure power of the quantum built up in front of me.

I will not be sidelined.