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    "[Draconic Tempest Kick]!"


    Seconds before the abomination could devour the people it had "marked" and captured, Emerald arrived, descending from the skies, and imbuing his legs with a powerful Divine Wind Gust!


    BAAAAMMMM!!!


    Despite how little trust he had on his own strength, that kick alone made the aberrant creature have its whole jaws broken apart, sttering around the surroundings, failing to devour the innocents it captured.


    "SHYAAAGGHH…!"


    Its vines quickly started to move away the moment it saw Emerald, whom it had seen before. The beast had not realized how truly strong the fearful beaked dragon truly was!


    "L-Leave them alone!" Emerald was mustering his courage, although deep down he was very afraid. "Let them go! You won''t eat them! I won''t let you! [Wind Cutting ws]!"


    He swung his sharp golden ws towards the many vines and metallic cables, shing them apart one after another with powerful cutting wind attacks!


    SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!


    Several people were dropped on the ground, barely having enough strength, those that were not unconscious quickly started running away. The warriors around the vige already gathered surrounding the creature, ncing in surprise over what was happening!


    "It''s the Sacred Beast?!"


    "He hase to save us?!"


    "And where did that monster came from…?"


    "W-Was he right the whole time…?!"


    "T-Take the people to safety! T-That thing has… somehow marked them! It will keep trying to get them!" Emerald tried to tell the warriors.


    "R-Right!"


    They quickly started dragging the unconscious away and helping those barely awake to move farther from the creature, yet its vines kept regenerating, emerging from the ground, and trying to get them!


    "Don''t even think about it!"


    Emerald rushed forwards, imbuing his body with his Divinity of Windstorms without even truly knowing its powers, as if it was a reflect of his own body, his green-feathered body overflowed with an emerald-colored windy aura, enhancing his reflexes and speed, while giving him the ability to hover over midair for a short amount of time!


    FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!


    Using his newfound speed, he started to cut the vines before they could reach any of the vigers, all while the beast kept directing many of its vines and steel wires towards him, constantly covering his body with bleeding wounds.


    Wind Dragons didn''t specialize on defense, and even a Rank 9 Wind Dragon had a rather poor physical defense. This was because their scales were thin and small, and rather weightless so their bodies could be light enough to fly at the supersonic speeds their speciallyrge wings could bring them along.


    Additionally, because they had feathers, they had less scales than normal dragons, and many exposed areas over their bodies where attacks could reach!


    CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!


    His wind-cutting ws and the beast''s vines shed constantly, yet Emerald was slowly beginning to lose his stamina.


    "Hahhh… Ugh!" Emerald vomited a mouthful of blood, gasping for air.


    "T-The Sacred Beast…!"


    "We have to help, somehow!"


    "Use fire! It is a nt monster after all!"


    Tyrannus suddenly stood up again after being healed by his daughter, his wife still captured by the beast''s vines, unconscious, he had to battle and find a way to get her back!


    He was surprised that Emerald had appeared, and that indeed, he was right and he hadn''t lied either, but right now there was little time for exnations, they had to get moving.


    "Fire, right!"


    "Magicians! Summon mes!"


    "Bring the torches and fire spirit stones!"


    "Father, let me help too!"


    Amehia ran forward, summoning the Spirits of mes and conjuring tens of fireballs, firing them towards the aberration.


    Everyone else did the same, throwing torches, explosive fire spirit stones, and fireballs using magic towards the monster.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


    "SHYAAAGGHH…!"


    When the beast''s sharp vines and metallic wires were about to pierce Emerald''s body once more, it suddenly recoiled in pain, its nt-body was burning!


    Despite being a Divine Beast-level threat, mes were still incredibly strong against its nt-based body, and the pain was insufferable.


    "You bastard… Give back the people you kidnaped!" Emerald mustered his strength as he felt his body beginning to slowly heal, Amehia in the distance conjured healing nature magic. "Amehia!"


    "Emerald! Are you okay?!" Amehia ran towards him.


    "No! Stay behind, don''t get closer!" Emerald cried. "I-I''m a monster, I''m hated by everyone… It''s better if you don''t get involved with me!"


    "W-What are you talking about?!" Amehia cried. "You-"


    "GRAAARRRGH!"


    The nt-like monster waited for nobody to finish their words, a mass of burning vines suddenly materialized into a huge wooden spear, reaching Amehia in an instant!


    "AMEHIA!"


    Tyrannus screamed as he realized he was too far away to push her away in time!


    "I told you to move away!"


    Emerald ran towards her, attempting to put himself in front of Amehia to take the hit with hisrger body!


    CLAAAASSSH!!!


    "Hey now, what is this thing supposed to be?"


    However, the attack did not reach Emerald nor Amehia, and insteadnded on a new guest of the vige that had just made his appearance a few minutes ago.


    An ice giant whose body was mildly covered on blue and silver scales, with long silvery-white hair, draconic golden eyes, and beautiful and sharp ice crystal dragon horns spiraling from his forehead.


    The powerful spear made of wood had been blocked by his bare hands, covered on severalyers of scales, and imbued with the power of the Earth Dragon Bloodline to boost his defenses even more.


    "U-Uncle Drake!" Emerald cried in surprise. "You came!"


    "Tch… Of course I woulde, you damn brat!" Drake was incredibly pissed Emerald just jumped into action and left everyone behind. "It was my intention from the beginning to get here!"


    He swung his tail and smacked Emerald''s head with it!


    BAAAM!


    "Ouch… S-Sorry!"


    As Emerald apologized, the nt-like monster started growing restless, its vines and metallic wires wrapping around each other, forming dozens of sharp spear-tipped tentacles!


    "GRRRHHH… GRYAAARRGH!"


    With a monstrous shriek, the aberration attacked Drake and everyone else surrounding its gigantic body, going on aplete rampage!


    CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAAASSHH!!


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