Two days had passed since Rex leave the city they are on the side of the roads, the driver is preparing to camp for about 3 days while waiting for Rex to finished his business. Rex leaves the soon to be camp towards the higher grounds. He was looking for a cave that is big enough to fit a dragon inside.

The moment Rex reach place far enough from the driver he manipulates his mana to flow to the ground below him and then he raises the earth below making a pillar of earth. From on top of the pillar Rex search all around the mountains. After a while, he can see a cave so big that he is wondering how can the earth hold up all the masses and not collapse but since this is a world of magic he figures that must have something to do with mana.

Rex's jumps from the pillar of earth toward the cave with the help of his new wind spell that he develops on those two days journey that is called flying. He uses wind on his foot as a propeller and another wind on his body to stabilize himself. The caves itself is 200 meter from the earth pillar that he was just standing before. Oh and because of the lose of mana to control it the pillar just collapse because of the weight.

He finally made it to the front of the caves and from inside it, he can see fire coming towards him. Without much preparation, Rex raises the earth in front of him to shield himself from the burning flame while simultaneously spraying water inside the caves.

The water and fire meet in the middle and make a big amount of steam that blocks his view. At first, the fire is far bigger than the water but after a bit, the water seems to be overpowering the fire until finally the fire stopped but Rex water still advancing inside.

While lowering his earth shield. Rex stops his water and on the inside of the caves, he can see a big shadow getting out of the caves slowly but surely.

"So it's a sea dragon that I sensed earlier, it is strange that you come so far from the sea to made your territories" The shadow spoke with an aggressive roar.

When the thing finally comes out of the caves, Rex can finally see the big as fuck red dragon standing majestically under the sun. Its scale is scarlet red, the colour of his eyes is a shade darker than black like a Fanta black that absorbs light, its leg is big and sturdy as the earth itself, the belly of the dragon is protected by red scale that is different from his other scale and his majestic wings spread blocking out the sun.

When the creature finally sees whos he has been fighting these whole time he is visibly shooked.

-Flashback a few days earlier-

When the red dragon feel an aura made by big amount of mana beaming from the human city, he believes that there's another dragon out there claiming territory for itself, that's why he escapes from his lair not too far from the city but not too close either since the mana he feels is a lot more than his own mana. He just following the rules of the monster: 'When a monster spreads out his aura and you feel inferior from it, run'

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-Flashback end-

"you are ... a human? With mana pool as big as an elder dragon" The red dragon asked Rex while lowering his head to meets Rex eyes.

"You can talk?"

"Every intelligence species can talk, what's the problem with me talking?"

"I-I'm just surprised a monster can speak the human language"

"I'm more surprised seeing you with that amount of mana inside a little body"

"Is it really that much? I feel just fine"

"Much is an understatement, I even thought that you a wandering dragon that wish to claim territory for itself"

"Why do you think like that?"

"It is because of your aura, every monster that has a little bit of mana can sense it making them hide"

"Wait what is that why I never encounter a monster? What even is an aura, I don't even do anything"

"Doing nothing is doing something, by not controlling your mana you let your aura flaring out at the world and that is exactly why they hide"

"How can I control it?"

"I can teach you how to control your mana to hide your aura but it is not free"

"What's your price?"

"By the looks of it you are searching for me and its not for controlling aura, tell me human why are you looking for me?"

"Oh yeah about that, I got a quest to hunt you down"

"Hahaha hunt me down, just because you have a big amount of mana it doesn't mean that you can control it all let alone defeat me."

"wanna make a bet? If I defeated you, you must teach me how to control my aura then after that I'll kill you"

"And If I win"

"Well if you can defeat me, which I doubt, then you are free from one annoying pest"

"To crush your confidence is a reward enough for me, deal" Immediately after saying that the dragon breath fire out of his mouth.

Rex is using the same strategy as the last one, raise a shield in front while blasting the dragon with water. The fire and water once more made big steam in the middle and the moment the fire stop Rex earth shield is broken by the claw of the dragon.

Rex dodges the claws by jumping up to the air and float in front of the dragon that is looking straight at the human eyes. Rex sends a barrage of wind blades toward the dragon head but the thick scale of the dragon shrugged the attack that is strong enough to carve a mountain.

With his wing, the dragon is trying to knock Rex out of the air, but because of the surprisingly superior control of the wind Rex can easily dodge all the dragon attack.

Rex uses his fire magic to make fireball and bombard the dragon with it. The fireball just lands on the dragon scale without doing anything. And with a thundering roar the dragon laugh "hahaha, you are using fire against a fire dragon"

To Rex surprise, the dragon eats the fireball that is being thrown at it. Without thinking much about it Rex used another strategy to attack the dragon. Rex uses his favourite magic against the dragon, earth spikes raise from the ground trying to pierce the dragon but sadly the scale is still too tough to be pierced by the earth.

Realizing his magic is useless against the dragon, he flies all over the place looking for a weak spot. Finally, Rex sees an opening, the eyes the most fragile body part of any living creature that has them.

Rex plans to lure the dragon to use his fire breath and when he's breathing out fire Rex plan to use his winds blade to attack the dragon eyes.

Rex flies close to the dragon head and thrown out his blade and when he sees the dragon is preparing to use his fire breath he dodges and fly close to the eyes and start bombarding it with his wind blades.

But to his horror, the dragon has a protective eyelid like those on a crocodile. Shocked that his plan failed, he doesn't even see the dragon wings coming towards him. *thud* The sound of Rex landing on the ground hit by the wing.