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Stop Calling Me "Mate"! I Only Defeated You Once, Not Married You! (Web Novel) - Volume 8, Chapter 83: The Greatest Dragon King
Volume 8, Chapter 83: The Greatest Dragon King
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At that moment the Mandrill had finished gathering power as well, and the vast energy amassed in its maw burst outward.The beam formed by that power was hundreds of meters in diameter. Its glare lit the pitch-black night sky; everything within a hundred li could be seen plain as day.
Even the Mandrill itself, huge as it was, was driven back again and again by its own supercharged blast. Its four colossal claws ploughed several deep, long furrows in the ground, and from its body as the center, countless cracks spread across the earth.
“If that hit us straight on, there wouldn’t even be ash left...”
“Peril-forms from the ancient age... they really are far, far beyond what we imagined.”
“How did the forebears even deal with monsters like this... I can’t fathom it.”
...
That searing magical radiance was reflected as well in the girls’ eyes, far away.
Moon stared toward it from a distance, praying over and over for her sister in her heart.
“Please be all right, big sister... please...”
...
“Big sister... it’s on you—take it head-on!”
“Princess Noa, you can... you will do it.”
...
The blood-red dragon fell from the heavens and flew straight to meet that world-ending beam.
The instant the dragon’s head struck the energy, the shock rippled out in waves.
Everything green—plants and forest—within dozens of kilometers around was destroyed. Some Silver Dragon soldiers who hadn’t made it to safe ground were blown away, but at least they were only blown away—they didn’t take further grievous harm.
The gale swept across the Silver Dragons’ lands. With the Mandrill’s bellow, it poured out a fresh torrent of mana into the blast.
But Noa’s Dragon of Ascension did not yield by even half a step.
Blood-vapor kept boiling off; the side effects grew more and more obvious. If the body Noa was using now were her flesh reshaped by Primordial Force, she would already have been completely eaten alive by the energy of the Night Cannon.
“Not enough yet... this thing... is too strong...”
Noa felt the strain mounting.
She didn’t dare keep releasing the Night Cannon’s power; if she did, this body would collapse in an instant—and the aftershocks would harm her original body directly.
But she half-turned her head, looking through the whirling blood-mist toward her sisters—and toward the Silver Dragons’ lands.
This body was everything she cherished. If the Mandrill stepped past her, then everything would be finished.
So Noa slowly turned back. A slash of resolve cut across those cold eyes.
She drew a long breath and pinched off the last stray thought and feeling. There was no warmth left in her gaze.
“I will stand in for my father and mother... and guard everything that belongs to the Silver Dragons!!”
From within the streaming blood-mist came the girl’s furious cry as she went all-in. With a dragon’s roar, the Dragon of Ascension swelled to nearly twice its size in an instant.
It drove on against that absurd beam; even as the blood-mist was visibly vaporized at a terrifying rate by the energy, Noa still had not the slightest thought of falling back.
“Die—for me!!”
The exalted dragon-roar rent heaven and earth. The Dragon of Ascension split the beam and charged straight for the Mandrill below!
“Rooaar!!”
The monster answered with a roar of its own—but that roar was laden with fear and unwillingness.
In the blink of an eye the Mandrill saw it clearly: the beam that could have pierced mountain after countless mountain was torn open before its eyes by this foe. A flicker of fear actually surfaced in the eyes of this ancient beast.
“Rooaar!!”
The red dragon tore through the beam and, in an instant, swallowed that behemoth whole. The ground shook violently—far, far stronger than the earthquake from a moment before.
Heavy smoke and detonations erupted across the Mandrill’s body, and the rippling wave of unleashed power spread out in all directions together.
“Big sister!!”
“My lady!!”
“P—Princess Noa!!”
“...”
The Mandrill’s presence faded at once. Before the aftershocks of the explosion had even settled, the attendant sisters and the Silver Dragon soldiers rushed toward the thick smoke ahead.
The smoke choked the air and blinded their sight; they couldn’t see ten meters. So the Silver Dragon soldiers unfurled their wings and beat them, fanning the smoke away.
When it finally cleared, the scene before them left even these battle-hardened warriors gaping...
Dozens of towering peaks beyond the Silver Dragons’ border had been flattened. The wreckage of collapsed mountains buried every forest around; mountains and rivers alike had been shattered, and everywhere the eye fell was desolation.
Most staggering of all... the great pit before them: its radius already ran to dozens of kilometers across, and its depth beggared belief.
At the very bottom of that pit lay the Mandrill’s colossal corpse.
The carapace on its back had been completely shattered; its four limbs were broken, thick bones and swathes of flesh laid bare. Its head was now destroyed beyond recognition of any original form; its massive tongue had been bitten off by its own teeth—half jammed in its mouth, half fallen beside those teeth.
“W-What kind of absurd destructive force is this?! An entire mountain range wiped away in almost an instant!”
“Even ten dragon-ridge carapaces together couldn’t produce a crater this incomprehensible...”
“Primordial Force... just how terrifying is this power...”
“...”
Unlike the Silver Dragon soldiers—awestruck by the force and the scale of the destruction—Moon and her sisters, and Xiaoxue, were focused on something else—
“There! Big sister’s there!”
Moon pointed, breathless, beside the Mandrill’s body. Sure enough, a figure faintly glimmering red lay there.
At that, the sisters didn’t care about anything else; they slid straight down along the rim of the pit.
Sherry hurried after them, afraid the Highnesses might run into further danger.
But the pit was simply too vast. Running and flying both, they still needed nearly five minutes to reach Noa’s side.
“Big sister, are you okay!!”
Moon was the first to rush up.
Noa didn’t move at all—and the adult body she had taken on was, bit by bit, dispersing. Flesh and bone turned to motes of luminous white dust and drifted gently into the air.
At last, Noa completely released Primordial Ascension and returned to her usual self.
Everyone crowded close at once.
The Silver Dragons’ medical unit had come with them.
“Your Highnesses, give us room— we need to examine Princess Noa.”
“...”
“Stabilize her first and fix the injury profile;”
“check the bones—especially the right leg. I just saw Her Highness launch that move with her right leg;”
“mana overdrawn—Her Highness is in brief syncope. Begin mana infusion immediately;”
“minor damage to the leg’s magic circuits, currently repairing;”
“right leg fracture—immobilize first, then use healing magic. We must minimize the injury at the first possible moment;”
“minor damage at the sternum—no major issue.”
“No visceral injury, no cranial injury.”
“...”
Listening to the med team’s report, the sisters at the side finally let themselves relax a little.
Thank goodness it was only external trauma; nothing vital was harmed. Aurora looked quietly at her unconscious big sister and murmured:
“But... how did it turn out like this...”
“How did what happen, third sister?” Muse asked.
“Dad told us that back when he and Mom toppled the Empire, he opened the Ninth Gate—and if not for Mom’s Heart-Guard Dragon Scale, the backlash from the Ninth would have killed him.”
Aurora said:
“Big sister doesn’t have the Heart-Guard scale, but after opening the Ninth Gate, she only ended up with a fracture...”
Muse blinked.
“So was there something else that shouldered the Ninth Gate’s backlash for big sister?”
Aurora’s brows pinched. She stared at Noa’s brow. After a moment’s thought, Aurora suddenly understood.
“It was Auntie...”
...
In the mindspace, the two Noas faced each other at the table.
“Before your body wakes up, let’s talk,” the ancestor said gravely.
“About what?”
“I helped you that much—nearly got myself blown to soul-scraps—don’t you think you owe me a proper shower of praise?”
Noa thought it over seriously, then said very solemnly:
“I can let you kiss my face.”
“...”
“And the tail.”
“...”
“Not the belly. I’m really sensitive there.”
The ancestor coughed, stood at once, walked over, scooped Noa up, and planted a storm of kisses on her cheeks.
“You little brat, trying to negotiate with me? I’m telling you— I want all of it!!”
Noa didn’t resist. She kept her little face cold and let the ancestor maul her with kisses.
After all, there’s no refusing a favor—or a hand that’s helped. The ancestor had borne nearly ninety percent of the incoming for this battle; she deserved a reward. Besides...
Even if she got her face all slobbered up in the mindspace, she couldn’t carry it out into the real world so feel free~
At last the ancestor kissed herself content and let Noa go.
Noa licked the drool from her face—one must keep the face fresh even in mindspace—then asked:
“Are you... going to be okay?”
Banter done, Noa’s attention snapped to the ancestor’s condition.
The white-haired beauty scratched at her temple, thought, and answered,
“I’m soul-form anyway. As long as I don’t run utterly dry or get scattered by a move like that, any injury will recover with time, so it’s nothing major. But for a while after this, you’re going to be very weak.”
“...Why?”
Noa frowned.
“You get hurt and I’m weak? Why?”
The ancestor spread her hands, a little helpless.
“Because you have to work to gather power for me. I need you to keep feeding Primordial Force so I can speed my recovery.”
“...Fine. I owe you.”
The ancestor gave a smug little hum, then reached out and ruffled Noa’s hair. Her tone softened.
“But, whatever else, Noa—you did wonderfully. I’m proud of you. And in time, you’ll be proud of yourself.”
Noa lowered her eyes, was silent a beat, then nodded.
“Mm. I know.”
“And also...”
“And also what?”
The ancestor straightened, set her hands on Noa’s shoulders, and lifted her chin a little to meet Noa’s eyes.
“You’ve learned to fight like a Dragon King.
The meaning of battle isn’t killing the enemy. It’s... guarding.”
The Primordial Dragon King smiled with fondness and patted Noa’s cheek.
“Then keep at it, little brat. I believe that one day, you will become the greatest Dragon King in the history of the dragons.”
