Chapter 167: Burning

  I clearly saw the giant dragon laugh again, yes, it was a relieved smile.

  "Humans, you are so insignificant, but I admire your courage. Alright, I'll grant your request. To be honest, I was worried that you would refuse the challenge. If that were to happen, my dream of returning to my own world would be shattered. I've waited for a thousand years, a thousand long days, to keep this promise. I hope you can survive under my dragon's breath and we can both be happy." The giant dragon lowered its massive head towards me, speaking in a voice that made me almost smell the intense odor from its mouth.

  I suppressed the urge to escape from its mouth's intense flavor, standing proudly in front of the giant dragon, and said calmly: "Let's begin, I hope you can keep your promise."

  The giant dragon sneered and blew a breath out of its nostrils, unfolding its massive wings as it took a dozen steps back. It raised its head and said, "A giant dragon's words are never taken back. Put your mind at ease and accept my challenge. Let me see just how weak magic users have become these days. Back in the day, I was even defeated by a single magic user."

  I waved my hand, letting Evan and the others leave me at a safe distance. Each of them hugged me with all their might, and Xilu and Fure also kissed me forcefully on the face. After everyone left, I turned back to the giant dragon and said: "Perhaps in terms of skills, I am indeed not as good as the magicians you have seen, but as long as our spirits remain strong, one day there will be a magician who can truly defeat you, this person may not be me, but it must start with me."

  "Alright, human, may your strength be as great as your boasts, feel the fear of death!" The giant dragon let out a mighty roar and a stream of dragon breath shot out from its mouth.

  At the same time, my lightning arrow had already flashed out of my hand and hit its cheek. At the same time, I launched a short-distance instant movement to my left side one meter away. The dragon's head was slightly biased by the sudden lightning arrow, and the dragon's breath passed by my side and sprayed onto a huge rock behind my original position. The rock instantly melted into magma at high temperature, and the splashing magma hit my magic shield, almost shattering it.

  Seeing the molten rock, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. If it weren't for that flash of lightning arrow, if I hadn't decisively used one-third of my magic to activate the instant movement spell and didn't hesitate to consume more magic to open up a magical shield, my fate wouldn't have been much better.

  The giant dragon stared at me with some surprise, saying: "Lightning magic? Space magic? As a magician, you really know quite a few things, although in my eyes you are still very weak. However, you have given me a little surprise, and I have a bit of confidence that you can survive under my dragon's breath."

  I suppressed the fear in my heart and said calmly: "Don't underestimate a magician, I'll bring you even more surprises."

  This time the giant dragon did not speak again, it brewed for a moment, and a sound came from its throat, and another blast of dragon's breath was about to spew out of its mouth.

  I stared intently into its eyes, and when the giant dragon's gaze turned to me again, I launched a mental assault on it. The dragon's lingering wariness of me and its past fear of the magician who had defeated it suddenly transformed into an irrepressible terror in its heart. It took a step back, its body suddenly shrinking, and the powerful blast of dragonfire that was about to erupt from its mouth was also instantly extinguished by this terror, turning into a small flame that spewed onto the ground in front of it, utterly powerless.

  But for the giant dragon, the emotion of fear could only last for an instant. The dragon quickly reacted and easily shattered my painstakingly maintained mental shockwave with a massive backlash, leaving me gasping in pain as if I had been heavily struck in the chest and head. I let out a muffled groan and fell to the ground, spitting out a large mouthful of blood. At this moment, I felt extremely uncomfortable - this was what Losa meant by "backlash". It seemed that using mental magic wasn't so easy after all, especially on a giant dragon. I had used it on the dragon once before without any counterattack, leading me to think I could get away with something big, but this time I ended up suffering the consequences myself.

  "Human, you are cunning. Don't use such despicable means again. This time, consider yourself lucky to have escaped." The giant dragon said, staring at me.

  "Xilu shouted loudly from a distance: "Alec, are you okay? If not, give up!"

  I wiped the blood from my mouth, struggled to stand up, and waved at Xilu in the distance, indicating that I could still hold on. Then, I turned to face the giant dragon and said, "One last time, come on, I'll meet your attack head-on." Although I said so with my mouth, in reality, I knew that except for the lightning magic, my magical power was no longer enough to allow me to use instant movement again, and mentally, I had suffered huge damage from the backlash, unable to reuse the same trick against the dragon. The only way left was to resist head-on. In my heart, I didn't have confidence in withstanding the dragon's attack, but there was nothing else to do but try my luck.

  The giant dragon nodded, and the Dragon's Breath was launched in that instant. I had set up a unique defensive spell from Shaman's Lightning Magic called "Lightning Array" for myself, which I saw Salen use once and then taught me, and at the same time, I used all my remaining magic to open three layers of elemental shields for myself, and on the last layer, I also opened an "Absolute Defense" spell.

  The rolling dragon's breath was blocked by the lightning array for less than ten seconds before it fiercely tore open the defensive magic and struck my magical shield. The magical shield shattered like an eggshell, one layer, two layers, three layers, and even the final "Absolute Defense" magic couldn't hold on, shattering!

  Although the power of Long Xi had been reduced to a minimum after breaking through layer upon layer of defense, it was still enough to turn me into ashes. I felt a chill in my heart and thought: "It's all over!"

  In that instant, the pendant hanging from my chest suddenly lit up, and the energy inside it suddenly became active. The energy formed a thin layer of defense around my body, and although the fierce dragon's breath pierced through this layer again, its power was reduced by more than half by this strange pendant.

  Despite that, the dragon's breath still set me ablaze, scorching hot air enveloped my upper body, and the skin on my body lost all sensation of pain in the high temperature. In the moment I fell, I only smelled a burnt smell, then everything was no longer related to me, my consciousness sank deeply into the darkness.