LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 370: Unexpected appearance
Once the dust settled, Tulip opened her eyes to see Ninth, standing alone in the chasm of darkness.
Her right arm was mangled beyond belief—a side effect of unleashing all the prismatic power in her body to destroy the other two clones in a giant explosion.
Her entire body was bleeding from every orifice. Her Soul Time was now reaching dangerously low levels.
Ninth then turned around and looked at Tulip. Her legs soon gave up, making her knees buckle.
Tulip rushed over to her side and supported her in the ground.
"What…what are you doing…here….go…go now…"
Ninth's breathing was getting more and more shallow.
VOMIT!
Ninth coughed up blood, leaking blood to her mouth.
'No…no….this can't be happening,' said Tulip. She couldn't understand why the human tried to fight the Queen. She could have saved herself and her team if she had just let Tulip die.
But instead, she fought.
And now, even though they couldn't understand each other's words, Tulip knew that Ninth was telling her to run away now.
But how could she run away after seeing a human sacrifice her life for her?
"Go..go before she…she returns…"
Even when she sacrificed her body to try and kill the Queen, Ninth knew that she had failed. Even though they couldn't see the Queen's body or her clones in their sight, Ninth still felt the oppressive aura of the dragon in the air.
If the Queen truly died, then her domain would have disappeared with her. But they were still trapped in the deathscape.
And Ninth knew that she couldn't fight the Queen a second time. Her Soul System was too damaged. She couldn't even feel power down in her body, meaning that she couldn't use any of her LifeSkills, much less her domain, to fight another futile battle with the Queen.
'This is getting annoying,' a floating voice said.
Dread and fear flashed on Tulip's face. Even when the human sacrificed herself, they could do nothing against the Queen. It was as if she was an invincible monster.
'It's time for me to kill all of you.'
A large shadow cast over the entire battlefield. Tulip looked up and saw the majestic red dragon in the air. It emitted strength and power unlike anything she had ever felt before. This time, the Queen wasn't playing around. She was serious.
It finally decided to kill Tulip and the humans in one giant explosion.
Ninth squinted her eyes and looked at the dragon.
Then, a smile formed on her face.
On the dragon's side was a circular scar, reminiscent of an explosion.
It looked like everything Ninth did wasn't in vain. She was able to inflict enough damage towards the dragon's body that its scales couldn't protect it.
That was enough. Ninth was satisfied.
Her eyes slowly closed as a violet storm of energy gathered in the dragon's mouth.
Slowly, power gathered at the dragon's mouth, growing the dark violet ball into a large sphere bigger than its head.
The atmosphere turned turbulent, with huge winds that could uproot trees from the ground.
Lightning rumbled in the skies, signalling the Queen's furious state.
It was going to kill everything and turn this battlefield into a wasteland. She was going to make the world forget she was ever disgraced to such a degree.
No matter how much she tried to regenerate her body, she couldn't get rid of the scarring on her body. Explore stories at My Virtual Library Empire
The Queen glared at Ninth. That human was able to reach her. That was supposed to be impossible, but she did.
She needed to get rid of them all.
She let out of all her anger into the ball of energy and released it with a fiery breath.
GRAGGHH!!!
The dark violet sphere crashed towards the ground, with the rumbling intensifying as it came close to making contact with the floor.
BUUGGSHH!!!
An explosion larger than the one Ninth emitted spread throughout the domain, turning everything into a desert wasteland.
It tore every fiber of everything it touched, turning it into mere atoms.
The explosion continued to persist much longer than a usual bomb, and created an even larger crater as an aftermath.
The mighty red dragon floated in the air.
She took a deep breath and a sense of superiority returned on her face. Now that all her enemies were gone, she was the only superior being in her kingdom.
Nobody shall ever threaten her throne again. The prophecy was destroyed by her own hands.
But…there was something wrong.
Even though Tulip and the humans were dead, destroyed into mere atoms by her Atomic Void Explosion, she felt as if there was a different presence inside her own domain.
Then, the dragon's head looked down, right at the very center of the crater she created.
She noticed them.
Tulip and the rest of the humans were alive and well. Somehow, a circular area of the ground they stood on was able to withstand the tremendous power of her explosion.
She couldn't understand it. The humans were barely even alive, meaning they would have had the power to create a defense that could withstand that much power.
Tulip was a normal Canzer without any powers, meaning she wasn't the one who was responsible.
Just then, the Queen noticed something different.
There was a new human in their midst.
This human was healthy and uninjured, unlike the rest of the humans.
Strangest of all, the human seemed as if he was too busy tending to the other injured humans to even notice the tyrannic red dragon staring down at him.
No, he knows I'm looking at him…he just doesn't care, thought the Queen.
And upon closer inspection, the Queen recognized the man.
It was the human who she imprisoned in her dungeon! Somehow, he escaped!
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"Are you okay?" Atlan asked as he wiped blood off of Ninth's mouth.
Ninth's eyes widened as she realized who was speaking to her.
"Atlan…is that you?"
Her eyes were no longer working as good as it used to.
"Yes…I'm here," Atlan said, holding her arms.
"Get out…run away with Tulip…before…before…the dragon…"
Just then, the entire ground trembled as the dragon landed behind Atlan, with its gigantic body posturing its superiority towards Atlan.
But even then, Atlan kept his eyes on Ninth.
"Don't worry. I'll deal with the lizard."