Chapter 79
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Chapter 79: The Fall Of The Holy Sword Alpha
Arriving at Minglong Island, the island with the world’s strongest combat power!
“Oh my, isn’t this the defeated Hero Zelan? How did you come back so quickly?”
As soon as he landed on the island, Zelan was ambushed by Veltia.
Zelan’s body had already been modified, supplemented with positioning magic crystals. The closer to Zelan, the stronger the crystal’s reaction.
Veltia had sensed Zelan’s signal getting stronger from far away.
So, after Zelan landed on the island, he immediately encountered Veltia who was waiting here.
The black dragon quickly transformed into human form upon landing. He summoned a green long sword and pointed it at Veltia.
“Veltia, I want to challenge the Dragon Queen!”
“You loser, you want to dirty Her Majesty the Queen’s hands again?”
“Veltia, I know what you’re planning, but no matter what, I will never betray humans. Even if I’m not recognized by humans, I will hold fast to my Hero’s heart!”
Veltia’s expression instantly turned cold.
“Foolish one. Holding fast to a Hero’s heart doesn’t mean coming here to die.”
On the surface, Veltia was ice-cold, but in reality, she was about to explode with anger.
Even if Zelan wasn’t recognized by the human race, he could still find a remote mountain to survive. Yet he still wanted to come back and challenge Her Majesty the Queen.
Is there something wrong with this person’s brain?
“I must save Leo! The righteousness in my heart absolutely won’t allow me to desert him. Since Leo was captured because of me, I can’t just abandon him so easily.”
“So, you’re coming to offer a buy one get one free deal?”
“Veltia, don’t underestimate humans too much! My strength may have even broken through the human super-tier now!”
“Heh, you can still say you’re human? Your physique has been strengthened now, don’t you think about whose credit that is.”
“The reason I became a dragon race is all because of the Dragon Queen. If it weren’t for the Dragon Queen, I wouldn’t have fallen to this state. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be denied by my comrades. It’s you who deprived me of my human identity! All of this was not my own will! Becoming stronger was not my true desire!”
Zelan gripped his long sword tightly, his eyes rippling with disgust for the dragon race.
“Have you ever thought that if you weren’t human, you’d be a corpse by now. Isn’t it good to be alive?”
“Being alive is good. Humans need me, the Kingdom of Dia needs me. I possess power from beyond this world, I can become infinitely stronger, so I indeed want to live, to live for the sake of protecting humans. Whether my body is human or not doesn’t matter at all, what matters is my heart that fights for humans.”
“Fighting for humans doesn’t mean coming here to throw your life away for nothing. Go back to your human kingdom and try to protect the humans you care so much about as a dragon.”
“I…”
Zelan was almost drawn in by Veltia. He shook his head. It was clear that Veltia very much wanted him to leave. Why? Zelan didn’t understand, but he couldn’t care about that much now.
“Right! I’m here to save Leo. If it weren’t for me, Leo wouldn’t have been captured. If my death can exchange for Leo’s rescue, I’ll die willingly!”
“Leo? That guy who abandoned his companions and ran away time after time? You don’t know, do you? He came to challenge Her Majesty the Queen six times, and each time, he would abandon his companions and flee not long after the battle started, always so decisively. He’s not worth you sacrificing your life to save.”
“Stop your slanderous words! Veltia, let’s fight. I won’t believe another word from you dragons. Today, I must rescue Leo!”
Zelan stopped arguing with Veltia. He knew that no matter what, Veltia was trying to persuade him to give up on holding fast to his human Hero’s heart, to let him slowly fall and become a dragon.
Today he could abandon Leo, who was captured because of him, out of fear of death. Tomorrow he could waver in his determination to protect humans because of doubts about his own body.
Green light surged from Zelan’s body.
His eyes were full of surging battle intent.
Veltia was utterly disappointed in Zelan.
She had never seen such a stubborn fool, refusing the path to heaven and insisting on entering hell.
Purple light overflowed from her body, her form rapidly expanding. A giant dragon over ten meters tall stood before Zelan.
“Roar!!!”
Beating her wings.
Fierce winds swept towards Zelan.
“Alpha Strike!”
Using his skill to dodge the whirlwind while closing in on Veltia.
Green sword light flashed on and off on Veltia’s body. Veltia felt like she had been scratched by tree branches, neither painful nor itchy.
Pinpointing where Zelan would land.
Raising her front claw, she swept it down.
Before her claw touched Zelan, an invisible pressure had already heavily struck Zelan, knocking him back over ten meters.
While Zelan was still in mid-air, Veltia leapt high, directly pouncing down like a mountain, her hind claws landing on Zelan.
“Ugh!!!”
Veltia’s speed was so fast that Zelan had no time to react and dodge. He was directly stomped into the beach by Veltia.
His whole body felt a pain like his bones were breaking.
But Zelan’s body was a dragon’s body, and with the protection of sword energy, even with Veltia weighing several tons pressing down on him, he wasn’t crushed into meat paste.
Then an amazing power erupted from his body, directly pushing away the purple giant dragon on top of him.
Zelan could only fight in his weak human form against Veltia in her full-power state.
Moreover, Veltia’s strength was likely above the Emperor level.
Zelan’s physical attacks couldn’t cause much damage to Veltia at all. On the contrary, although Veltia’s form was huge, with the help of dragon magic, her movements were very swift. Zelan was beaten miserably.
Fortunately!
Fortunately, his dragon body helped a lot!
Otherwise, being manhandled by Veltia like this, he would have been beaten into meat paste long ago.
How nice.
Being a dragon is really nice.
Born with such a powerful body.
So, for Zelan, ordinary physical attacks couldn’t hurt him either.
Zelan was like a ball, being slapped back and forth by Veltia, until Veltia adjusted her direction and slapped him into the sky hundreds of meters high.
Then flapping her wings in the air, she opened her dragon mouth.
Purple lightning crackled in her mouth, a ball of lightning in front of Veltia’s dragon mouth grew larger and larger as it flashed.
Hero Zelan had nowhere to escape.
If he transformed into dragon form, he couldn’t use the Holy Sword, and judging from the energy density charging in front of Veltia’s mouth, even if he transformed into dragon form he couldn’t withstand Veltia’s attack.
But if he maintained human form, he had no wings, and the time of free fall was enough for Veltia to complete her charge and kill him.
“Holy Sword Alpha! Zero Rated Power, Release!”
Draw upon my life force, Holy Sword Alpha.
Zelan was willing to give up his life to save Leo.
I should have been dead anyway. If I really abandoned Leo and lived on in this world, I would surely spend the rest of my life in guilt.
Green light representing life force continuously flowed from Zelan’s body into the Holy Sword.
On the other side, Veltia had finished charging, purple lightning spewed out from the lightning ball in front of her mouth.
“Ultimate Sword Energy!”
Zelan beautifully turned his body in mid-air.
A green sword energy was slashed out from the Holy Sword.
It split open the purple lightning, heading straight for Veltia.
But lightning is not like ocean waves, it doesn’t just drift to the sides when split. The lightning simply bypassed Zelan’s long sword and directly enveloped Zelan’s body, zapping him with electrical therapy.
[System, help me!]
To save Zelan, the System once again used its backup energy to neutralize the electric current on Zelan’s body.
Although the System kept reminding Zelan in his mind that if he continued to fight so recklessly, the System would leave him.
But Zelan stubbornly wanted to give his all.
Zelan would never forget that Leo was the one who understood him, it was Leo who remembered that he was still human, who wouldn’t mind the changes in his body. Instead, he patiently persuaded him to persist and wait, wait for Leo to come rescue him.
But now, he had successfully escaped from prison, while Leo was imprisoned because of him!
How could he possibly abandon Leo and live on with such selfishness!
In order to electrocute Zelan to death as quickly as possible, Veltia didn’t let go of her mouth, but took Zelan’s sword energy head-on.
“Boom!”
The sword energy exploded in Veltia’s mouth.
Veltia’s lightning attack on Zelan was also forcibly terminated.
Although she successfully ate part of the sword energy, and the remaining sword energy didn’t enter her body to injure her, she herself was also knocked back by the powerful impact of the sword energy.
The purple giant dragon lost its upward momentum in the air and crashed to the ground with a boom.
Raising a huge cloud of dust.
Veltia only suffered minor injuries from the fall. She quickly got up and looked towards the purple lightning gradually dissipating in the sky. Zelan shouldn’t be able to continue fighting even if he wasn’t dead, right?
However, that wasn’t the case!
Zelan only had a few wisps of smoke coming from his body. He transformed into a black dragon and spread his wings in the sky, flying towards the direction of the palace.
Today, he must rescue Leo no matter what!
Veltia watched Zelan fly away and hurriedly took flight to chase after him.
But Zelan was like he was on steroids, flying forward desperately. Veltia could only match Zelan’s speed, unable to catch up to him at all.
Almost there, almost there!
Zelan knew that Leo must be locked up in the laboratory.
Dragon Queen Iris was very curious about the System on him and Leo. She must be researching Leo now.
Moreover, she must have used some kind of shielding magic to prevent him from contacting Leo and prevent Leo from escaping. As long as he turned the laboratory upside down, Leo might still have a chance to escape.
“Boom!!!”
A violent strike suddenly came from above.
The force was so strong that Zelan’s brain was almost shattered. His wings stopped flapping, and his consciousness briefly disconnected from his body.
Under the sudden heavy blow, Zelan’s body fell almost vertically.
He crashed into the ground like a meteorite.
“Boom!”
The violent sound spread throughout the entire palace, and all the dragons in the palace felt a slight tremor.
Zelan crash-landed just ten meters in front of the palace gate.
His head was deeply buried in the ground, and his body was also sunk in.
He temporarily lost his hearing, sight, and sense of pain, his whole body convulsing and twitching.
When his senses cleared, the pain of his brain being shattered instantly tore at his cranial nerves.
He couldn’t even make a whimper.
Chaotic footsteps approached, seeming to be dragon soldiers coming to surround him.
He felt slight tremors from the ground again, then his head was grabbed by a sharp dragon claw. His blurry vision saw a red silhouette standing right in front of him.
Blinking his eyes, he could finally see clearly. That red silhouette was Dragon Queen Iris, with a cold and noble countenance, her crimson vertical pupils full of irritation.
“Why is this guy appearing here?”
“I deeply apologize, Your Majesty! It was my fault for not watching him properly!”
Veltia’s heavy voice came in dragon form.
“What’s the reason for his return?”
“He said he wanted to save Leo, and was even willing to give his life for it.”
“Is that so? Admirable courage.”
Iris looked at the severely injured Zelan. She raised her hand and said to the soldiers beside her.
“Give me a sword.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
A soldier drew the long sword from the scabbard at his waist and presented the sword with both hands to Iris. Iris grasped the hilt.
“Let him go, Veltia.”
Veltia obeyed and put down Zelan’s head.
Iris leapt into the air. A red flash appeared for an instant. When Iris landed, Zelan’s right wing had silently slid off his body, blood gushing out.
“Ah…”
[System, help me…]
Zelan struggled to continue crawling towards the palace gate. At the palace gate stood another familiar figure, a pure white silhouette.
Another sword stroke, severing Zelan’s hind limbs.
Blood splattered everywhere. Iris used magic to create air currents, letting the blood rain drift past her. Her red dress remained spotless.
But Zelan’s body, enhanced by the System, still had the ability to move forward on his remaining hind limb and forelimbs.
Another flash of sword light, and Zelan’s other leg was also cut off.
He kept his mouth tightly shut, trying hard not to let out a single moan. In his heart, he pleaded with the System.
[System, help me again…]
Realizing the insurmountable gap in strength.
The System fell silent.
It decided to just quietly wait for Zelan’s death, and didn’t give Zelan even a bit more energy.
For Iris, the sword was merely a decoration. What severed Zelan’s limbs was Iris’s magic. Otherwise, even if Zelan was injured like this, ordinary cold weapons wouldn’t be able to pierce through Zelan’s defense in dragon form.
Whether it was the first encounter with Iris or seeing her again.
Zelan had no room to struggle at all. He didn’t even have the chance to power up, and was directly chopped up by Iris.
He knew that the System had abandoned him, and he reverted back to human form.
Iris deliberately waited for Zelan to return to human form, then sliced off Zelan’s dragon horns.
Finally.
Beheading.
Zelan’s consciousness returned to nothingness.
But at the last moment of his life, his remaining arm still reached out towards the palace gate.
Until Zelan’s scattered limbs and body all returned to stillness.
Iris handed the clean long sword back to the soldier.
The soldier received it with both hands and put the sword back in its scabbard.
“Remember to call someone to clean this up thoroughly.”
Iris walked to the palace gate.
Disturbing one’s sweet dreams, how unpleasant.
She had been taking a nice afternoon nap with Naya when suddenly a maid knocked on the door to report that a black dragon was approaching the palace.
Carrying her irritation from being woken up, Iris personally came to strike down Zelan, swatting the noisy mosquito dead.
She carefully observed Naya, who was staring intently at Zelan, trying to read the emotions in Naya’s eyes.
She wondered what Naya would think upon seeing this persistent Hero.
Naya came back to her senses. She turned to look at Iris and reached out to grab Iris’s cold hand.
“Let’s go back.”
However, the truth was that Naya only had a vague understanding of this matter.
She was simply shocked by how effortlessly Iris killed the Hero, and by the overwhelming chasm between the Dragon King and the Hero that made one feel insignificant.
The wizard Of SILVER
Finally… He died!