Celestial City, Dragon King Palace
Moments after Valefor ventured into the depths of the Dragon Vein, AI Pangea immediately contacted the Celestial Dragon King.
"There’s something else you should know, Celestial Dragon King. I believe this matter is also more important than Fanghorn City’s situation."
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"Oh? What is it?"
"An unknown being has entered the Dragon Vein and is making its way to Celestial City very rapidly. It seems to be completely unaffected by the pressure of the Dragon Vein Depths."
The Celestial Dragon King immediately raised his eyebrow in interest after hearing this from AI Pangea.
"An unknown being, huh? If you were able to detect it, you should have visual footage of its appearance. Yet, you call it an unknown being? What does it look like?"
"It has a human appearance of Darkan ethnicity. However, its aura is too malevolent and sinister to be anything like that of a human. It may be a demonic being from the other side."
"Is it alone?"
"Yes."
"Heh."
After confirming the unknown being was alone, the Celestial Dragon King quickly lost interest.
Even if that being was a demon from Gehenna capable of withstanding the Dragon Heart’s environment, he didn’t believe it would make it past Celestial City’s gates. The Celestial Dragons in the golden sea would put the intruder to death before it could come any closer.
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Although the Dragon Vein was made of various branching and interconnected pathways, Valefor had no problem delving deeper into its lower layers to reach the hidden Celestial City.
In fact, it was quite easy to find the right pathway; he simply needed to follow the passage with a higher concentration of golden dragon blood mixed in the seawater.
The moment Valefor entered the Dragon Heart’s golden sea, the Celestial Dragons swimming in the area quickly blanked upon discovering his presence. A few breaths later, they immediately turned hostile.
Although Celestial City also had Celestial Humans, they were all Lunarans. Any other human ethnicity could only mean they came from the surface land.
"A Land Dweller? How bold! How dare you sully our holy sea with your filth!" a Dragonoid woman quickly snarled. She kicked against the seawater and propelled herself toward Valefor in a flash.
At the same time, Valefor grinned, knowing he didn’t need to waste time on meaningless words and could jump straight into action.
However, being an anchor in the water, Valefor felt a lot of water resistance when he moved quickly. When he tried to smack the Dragonoid woman, it felt like his hand dragged the entire sea with it.
As such, his movements were slower than on land.
On the other hand, the Dragonoid woman demonstrated incredible agility and versatility. It was as if her dragon tail and wings were the fins of fish.
She easily evaded Valefor’s palm and kicked him into the sea floor, thinking her leg would break his neck effortlessly. However, her expression changed at the moment of contact.
It felt like she had kicked the densest object in the universe; it was hard beyond imagination.
What!
The Dragonoid woman cried in self-inflicted pain as Valefor slammed against the seabed.
Meanwhile, the normally calm surface of the golden sea suddenly erupted in waves, crashing the vine walls and city shores. Dozens of Celestial Dragons were immediately surprised and alarmed, while hundreds more within the city were attracted to the noise.
As the Dragonoid woman grimaced, she tried to peer through the rising cloud of white sand, hoping to confirm Valefor’s status. Suddenly, his figure shot out, unscathed, heading straight for her like a torpedo.
Boom!
Due to the proximity of the sand cloud, the Dragonoid woman had little time to react. She evaded Valefor’s feint attack, a palm strike, but got struck in the stomach by his horse kick.
Bubbles of air sprayed out of the Dragonoid woman’s mouth as the strong force quickly ejected several dozen meters above the golden sea surface.
"Lady Shaanil, what’s going on in the golden sea?" A dragonoid man quickly recognized the dragonoid woman as she fell back into the golden sea.
After a big splash in the golden sea, Lady Shaanil emerged from the surface water again.
"There’s an intruder in our holy land! His body is very strange!"
Shortly after delivering the information, Lady Shaanil submerged back into the water to engage with Valefor. However, she was quickly shocked to find out he was already right in her face.
"Hi," Valefor’s expression seemed to say before Lady Shaanil felt a strong force striking under her chin. She was immediately launched out of the water again.
At the same time, Valefor forcefully kicked against the seawater to eject himself out of the golden sea as well, hurriedly catching up to Lady Shaanil. He grabbed her dragon tail and spun three times before releasing his strong grip, throwing her straight into the solid edge of Celestial City.
Boom!
The powerful impact caused the thick metal plating to deform as ripples spread across the already chaotic golden sea.
Meanwhile, the alarmed Celestial Dragons nearby quickly locked onto Valefor’s figure. Although they were surprised by his presence, they didn’t hesitate to attack once they determined he was an enemy.
"Kill him!" a Dragonoid man who adored Lady Shaanil barked.
Valefor quickly found himself surrounded by more than two dozen Celestial Dragons. Even if he was swift, he couldn’t block so many attacks at once.
There was an obvious difference between fighting against six and fighting nearly thirty, let alone over unfavorable terrains. As such, Valefor was forced to become defensive as he covered himself in Asura Flames.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Countless blows broke through the Asura Flames and landed on Valefor’s body. He was tossed back and forth by the consecutive strikes. For every blow he blocked, countered, or evaded, he would receive several more at once.
Nevertheless, the barrage of attacks only lasted a short moment before the Celestial Dragons all retreated, growling in pain. Their powerful physiques could not protect them from the destructive power of the Asura Flames.
"Be careful of that black fire! It is very strange and destructive!" a Dragonoid man warned.
Suddenly, another Dragonoid man leaped over from within Celestial City, carrying an enormous and heavy sledgehammer behind him as he prepared for a wide swing.
"Make way!" the Dragonoid man roared.
Valefor locked onto his new target with narrowed eyes and decided to take him head-on. He was beginning to think the Celestial Dragons were all bare-handed brutes when a weapon user finally showed up.
The person’s golden weapon looked quite grand, heavy, and intimidating. However, Valefor could tell its power wasn’t as impressive as its appearance made it out to be.
If he wanted, he could stop it with one hand—was what Valefor thought.
However, before the moment of content, the giant sledgehammer glowed with a strange silvery-grey light. In that instant, the sledgehammer’s weight and force multiplied several folds.
"Hm?!"
Valefor was surprisingly caught off-guard by the last-second power spike in the attack. He didn’t exert enough strength to stop its momentum.
As a result, the giant sledgehammer contacted his palm before slamming into his body, shooting him straight into the golden sea, creating a rising pillar of golden seawater to erupt.
The other Celestial Dragons immediately followed Valefor into the golden sea.
Although Valefor suffered a loss due to a rookie mistake, such as underestimating his opponent, his excitement only grew upon discovering such a skilled weapon master.
’That was definitely Weapon Intent!’ Valefor thought excitedly.
To understand Weapon Intent was the same as comprehending a Law—but for weapons. It was a Weapon Law, and in this case, it was called Hammer Intent, which seemed to amplify weight and force.
People who could understand Weapon Intent were rare, and those who comprehended it and were at his level at the same time were even rarer!
Despite Valefor’s eagerness to return and challenge the sledgehammer user again, he was obstructed by several dozen Celestial Dragons. More annoyingly, he couldn’t break free from their coordinated encirclement while he was in the water.
He was forced to engage them in the golden sea and couldn’t get out.
As a result, Valefor’s excitement quickly turned into frustration, then finally settled for anger.
Enough!
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Slaughter energy surged out of Valefor’s body in billowing waves, transforming into Asura Flames that sizzled the golden sea and forced all of the Celestial Dragons back.
Valefor used that small window of time to slice open a spatial rift and slip through, dropping straight into the middle of Celestial City. At the same time, the golden seawater also followed him as it poured into the city, flooding the area.
In an instant, the orderly streets of Celestial City became chaotic. The ordinary Celestial slaves and servants doing labor in the area were soaked in golden seawater and quickly fell ill.
The rich golden dragon blood in the seawater was no different from poison to them.
Although some Celestial Dragons tried to save them, the majority of the group went to confront Valefor. At the same time, the Celestial Dragons from the golden sea followed him.
Most of them chose to return to Celestial City the long way around while several brave souls directly charged through the lingering spatial rift. Seven and a half passed through the rift as the last Dragonoid man got caught in its closing and left his lower half behind.
As it happened so far, the half-body dropped to the ground with confusion when it tried to land on its feet. The pain only registered in its brain as it slowly bled out.
"Sir Jonas, your body…!"
"Ahhh!! Where’s my lower half?! Where’s my prized manhood?!?"
"That’s what you are worried about?!"