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Rewards:
Cultivation Level ↑
General Class ↑
Swordsman Class ↑
$2278 → $4567 Thalers
General Class (LV.2) Meter: [19.6%] → [24%]
Swordsman Class (LV.2) Meter: [54%] → [59%]
Cultivation Rank 6 Meter: [0%] → [21%]
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The manifestation from the clouds and thunderous weather with the glowing beastly red eyes transformed into physical form the closer and visible Julius could see it. As it approaches, sparks are generated around its nose and mouth, also breathing out electricity enough to summon its own thunderstorms within its personal space. A ring encircled clockwise, hovering directly above the dragon’s head and spewing waves of fire cleaning the air’s potential dirtiness. It longed and breathed as the black scaly skin formed above the flesh, completing the transition into the physical world.
Please, don’t tell me I have to fight that humongous dragon. Julius reacted when staring at it flying towards him. No way, are there two? He saw another manifestation underneath, flying in the distance at a much brighter color. It too had flashing eyes, but yellow in difference.
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New Mission Added (1):
Confront the two Heavenly Dragon (天堂龙 )
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Julius braced himself when he got overwhelmed by the menacing choir chants seemingly following the path of the two dragons, making it louder in volume as they reached closer to him. Unfortunately, Julius’s inner gut knew these two could take him out in one shot if they ever got the opportunity to raise a notch.
The only thing he could do was brace for any impact or hope for no legitimate battle confrontation.
“Who is this person that heeds the call?!” The black dragon roared. With no time spared, he blasted a thunderous breath, strangling Julius to a standstill.
The second dragon whooshed through the clouds and revealed developing flesh, outlining the head. Its mouth all opened and too fired a heavy breath at Julius.
He reacted with his eyes closed, creating a tiny barrier around his neck. His mouthpiece reacted hastily and masked up in a spare second before the smoke from the second dragon blew all over his face and body. The strangle was insanely uncomfortable and painful probably due to the nerves it triggered around his entire body. Adding on to the smoke storm that fogged his entire point of view when opened them after his qi shield made enough to block his eyes from any further contact.
Julius moaned while enduring the pain, not anticipating it would end soon. His brain ticked, triggering his eyes, forcing it open all the way and numbing his eyelids. That particular feeling reminded him of being trapped under the dark set by Hu; a memory that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Furthermore, another tick accompanied by the sharp sound like a bell when the clock’s long hand reached a certain minute.
The blend of cold and hot feelings returned within his body, overriding his pain receptors. The knees that were tumbling to the strangle regained their strength, pushing Julius back up straight.
“I knew you had it in you…” Hu’s voice said, came uninvited into his head.
“You gave me horror in the dark. But only you. Nobody else can perform ill with it. Not even the friendliest at the slightest.” Julius responded, proceeding to break the electrifying rings. The black qi departed out of his body, constructing a layer over his appearance. The second dragon’s smoke caused a chain reaction, generating a lightful of energy as it radiated.
The energy ignited, releasing a ball of sunlight into the air. The release spread out, hovering over the entire sky and distant enough with enough force to push the two dragons back.
Julius summoned Licht and performed a revolving slash, dissipating the qi-filled smoke that was blocking his view.
“Two mythical creatures. I hope you’re not crazy to face them,” Hu said.
“Me too. But my body filled with qi is telling otherwise.”
Julius hovered in the air as the tower holding the tower had collapsed, far gone. All around him are unnatural black clouds, taking the lower levels of the sky. And a few clusters of fire clouds with blazes of flames all around it. He skewed away from the stem, lifting his head up and witnessing the underneath of a mushroom cloud that had penetrated a part of the atmosphere. It looked like it might have reached into space, but he didn’t want to find out and refocused back to the two dragons. They were bewildered, giving their eye and eyebrow facial expressions.
Breaking free from the struggle had already caused enough damage to the atmosphere from the looks of it.
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Black Heavenly Dragon (黑色天龙 ) HP: 98%
Yellow Heavenly Dragon (黄色天龙 ) HP: 98%
Julius HP: 85% → 79%
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That sounded as miserable and fascinating as igniting an explosion with firepower strong enough to spread at least tens of miles apart. Only to take two percent of their health down.
“Skoltor has a scanning feature to measure world things at your own will. Try it.” Hu mentioned.
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Total distance: 61 Miles
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What an abomination. Bigger than the theorized radius of the largest nuclear bomb built on Earth. Julius was shocked by the given number; he blurted out at the two dragons.
“What the hell are you two doing?! This is what I get when I call for help?!” Julius yelled in the speaker’s voice. “Am I an enemy to you when I banged the drums?!”
“No, every drummer who heeds the call withstood the process to prove their worthiness of our help.” The Black Heavenly Dragon replied while its sclera was bleeding red like a waterfall.
Seriously? Julius’s mind went blank, not comprehending completely what it meant. So, every drummer went through what I just experienced?! “ That sounded ridiculous,” he answered and looked down at the damage. “Not only now the drums are gone, but your test of worthiness also annihilated a part of the country! Empress Cai needs your help as the whole dynasty is under attack. I know you two can put this to the end because I read your histories…otherwise, if you are not willing to put yourself on the line, somebody will do the damn job. And you don’t want that right?!” Julius lifted his greatsword into the air, with a residue of the dark qi at the tip.
The yellow and Black dragon quieted with non-verbal exchanges and glared around the scene of the damage in the air now that almost a minute had passed, the air grew tense and suffocating.
“Alright, we accept!” The Yellow Heavenly Dragon replied, bowing its head multiple times.
“They accepted. Relax Licht.” Hu said to Julius.
“I swear these tests at the moment of emergency almost put me at the brink of lines being crossed. Grhh!” Julius grunted. He relaxed his greatsword, letting them lead the way as they are supposed to know any direction of the problem takes place.
The two dashed away using lightning and electricity as a form of traveling at high speeds. Julius flew at their same speed without much effort while keeping himself hovering above and watching them like a disappointed parent. Hu telepathically suggested he relax which Julius politely refused to do as his faith in the two dragons is at time low.
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Mission Completed (1):
Confront the two Heavenly Dragon (天堂龙 )
New Mission Added (1):
Stay on the path. (620 miles)
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Good lord, how far did they travel to defend. This is devastating. Julius felt disheartened as the Empress and Daiyu were multiple states worth of distance away from Longyue. In fact, everyone is as Solomon, Celeste, Sally, and Victoria aren’t in their usual rooms in the tower.
He still remembered the distance he traveled from the hotel to the coffee shop back in Underground Kriegshan before his one-year demise. At that speed was almost twenty-one miles in a minute. The current improvement was impressively high and obvious as his new odometer was reading at a whooping thirty-eight thousand miles per hour. And by the time he looked away from it, he was already half a minute’s distance traveled.
< Hey, are you alright? > Licht asked.
“You must be Licht?” Hu responded, confirming that a multitude of telepathy does exist.
< Woah. Yes, you must be the lady from earlier. Well, nice to meet you. >
“ It’s a pleasure. A party for sure. I’m sorry I didn’t mean to interrupt, continue.”
<< No, I’m not really fine, mentally. Immediately getting pulled into a fiasco after an unexpected time dilation is making my head sick. I’m trying not to think about it, but that anger is straining my head. >> Julius replied to Licht’s concern.
< This dark qi you obtained back at the Blue River. I feel dangerous. As in fact, we are. For me, I feel an indescribable drive of energy the more I suck up the qi. Maybe that anger could be the result of it escalating your past personality. >
<< That’s a mix of rubbish. I’m not in that state of mind. No way that could happen. >>
“I can’t say from my experience, but you had faced me once as a full nine-tailed fox. That dark qi could turn your instincts into such aggression or amplify your worst colors if you let it take over.” Hu added, supporting Licht’s curious feeling of the uncertainty of the dark qi.
< I don’t want to talk about this, please. I just need this battle to finish at our victory and give Longyue a damn break and temporary peace whenever possible. >
Boom!
The two dragons pulled their brakes at their speed, triggering an inverted supersonic. Julius does the same with more ease probably due to his weight. And therefore, the three take a nosedive down. Tonight was cloudy pretty much everywhere. Even at the spot near the target as Skoltor indicated only twenty miles left to arrive.
“I’ll turn this on for you,” Hu said. Skoltor opened up an altimeter and dragged it onto the corner next to the speed meter.
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5680 mi/hr. ↑
300,000 ft ↓↓
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“Thanks,” Julius said.
Quickly, they passed through the entire rows and columns of clouds. In the next couple of seconds, it revealed an entire dirty and ridden battlefield. From high in the sky, it looked like a world war of ants, adding the flashing lights and explosions everywhere.
“This isn’t good. All of a mess,” Julius muttered, as rain poured the further the descent.
He glided as Skoltor guided the last bit of the spot, and the two dragons deviated. One hard landing, crashing into a mud pile and letting the dark qi and his black overcoat do the job, hiding the stains.
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Mission Completed (2):
Confront the two Heavenly Dragon (天堂龙 )
Stay on the path. (620 miles)
New Mission Added (1):
End the Rain Swamp War ( 雨沼泽战争 )
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As the rain poured everywhere while the background was bombarded by bombs and explosions like a horrific party, he glared around the shallow swamps. Thousands of howling soldiers of diverse identifications clashed their swords and martial arts to death, flooding the swamp with pure red blood. With Licht in his grip, he had to begin fighting to get through the stampede. Right now, he couldn’t sense any traces of qi nearby.
< I’m ready… > Licht insisted, with a voice of desperation to draw blood.
Julius leaped up high in the sky, performing his ordinary slashing move on the upcoming stampede. He went on a full deployment, annihilating them with ease.
About to continue, he felt a familiar qi coming right towards him. Reacting to it, Julius turned abruptly to the left and dashed right to the source. He found Daiyu below on foot, bloodied and breathing.
“Daiyu!” Julius yelled, landing on a sturdier ground.
“General! You’re alive!” she yelled in relief, partially tipping right to Julius’s chest.
“What’s happening?!”
Daiyu pointed to behind her. “Empress Cai. She’s in trouble. You can heal right?!”
“Just enough. What’s going on?!” Julius grew concerned. Daiyu didn’t respond but pulled his hand and took him to where after a few hundred feet, he saw her. All lay in the grass with both eyes bloodied and soaked like having a cover over it.
Empress Cai sustained multiple slashes and wounds. Her warrior clothes were torn, her right leg fractured, and losing two fingers on her left hand. Luckily, she was right-handed, and other than major injuries she was breathing normally. Julius tumbled down to his knees violently and began the life-saving procedure.