Chapter 51

Taking a breath, Zuyuan tried to absorb Qigong from his surroundings even though he wasn't in meditation. Seeing that Tom was still struggling with the dragon-like man, Zuyuan knitted his eyebrows and sent a telepathic message to XB11. 

-"XB, help him."- 

Quickly, Zuyuan's vision was sent to XB11's mind and pointed to its next target. Right after that, XB11 replied, -"Acknowledged."- 

XB11 quickly flew towards the direction of its next target, quickly pointing its gun at him and intervening in the battle between Tom and the Dragon-like person.

With rapid fire shots, it immediately gained the dragon-like man's attention who managed to block all the bullets with his gauntlet.

"Oh, so we have some flies in here as well?" Said the man with a smirk full of arrogance. 

As the dragon-like missionary started to create another huge fireball to turn XB11 to ash, another voice erupted from the ground. 

"Where are you looking, lizard freak!?" Bellowed Tom while he jumped high in the air, swinging his sword and breaking off the concentration of the dragon-like person. 

XB11 then flew above the man who had managed to dodge, shooting a powerful laser beam down towards him.

With a bright light shining, the beam of energy flew into the dragon-like man who barely managed to grasp it with his gauntlet, crashing down towards the ground.

A small crater formed as the man's feet touched the ground. He squeezed the beam with his claw-like gauntlet and forced it to dissipate. 

"How dare you bring me to the earth, you imbeciles! I, Vorgron, am a descendant of the dragons! One of the Dragonkin! This blasphemy shall not stand!" The dragon-like missionary named Vorgon bellowed in rage, his anger rising due to being brought down against his will.

"Yeah, yeah keep talking princess!" Tom mocked as he came in from above, having jumped with his sword raised high.

The blade fell from above and landed on Vorgron's gauntlet, who was using it as a shield. "Who are you calling a princess? You overgrown gorilla!" Vorgron yelled and slammed his other hand into Tom's chest, pushing him away and before sliding for about five meters.

XB11 then took the opportunity to fly to the back of Vorgron, shooting a barrage of bullets at the man's back with his gun.

The man in question had grown tired of these games and summoned a circle of flames that exploded out with him in the middle, blasting through the battlefield for a good forty meters and blocking all of XB's bullets, melting them in the air.

XB11 got caught up in the blast radius, getting flung a good twenty meters away. While Tom was forced to once more tank the flames, charring his armour further to the point that he was even losing hair. 

Other than that, he seemed to be as energetic as ever.

"I'll barbeque you!" Vorgron shouted and rushed towards Tom with his gauntlet shining a crimson light, it ignited into a blue flame whose brilliance illuminated the battlefield.

"Now this is what I call a high quality sauna!" Tom braced himself with a large grin as he prepared to block with his sword.

However, he never got the chance to experience Vorgron's blue flame, as the now recharged with Qigong Zuyuan rushed in and grabbed Tom by the belt, flinging him away at his top speed.

"What?!" Vorgron showed an expression of surprise, as he looked to the side where his two enemies now stood.

He skidded to a halt as his blue flaming gauntlet slowly cooled down, returning to normal.

Zuyuan looked at Tom, grumbling in displeasure, "Are you trying to get yourself killed?" 

"Hehehe…" Tom chuckled, "Sorry brother, just having fun." 

'In the middle of a battlefield…?' Zuyuan thought to himself, turning back to face the dragon-like missionary.

"I think it's my turn now," said Zuyuan with a smirk, confidently gazing at Vorgron as he pointed his sword at him. "Come on flame boy, I can take you on any day of the week."

"Flame boy…?" Vorgron muttered in irritation, his eyes shining with crimson light, "I am a Dragonkin you buffon!" He roared, furious at the ever more annoying taunts of his enemies.

"Did I ask?" Zuyuan smiled widely, brandishing his blade to the side and entering a battle stance.

Vorgron then chuckled, voice full of derision, "A smart ass huh…? Let's see you deal with this then…" 

With his voice echoing, Vorgron raised his left hand that wore the gauntlet and concentrated his flames onto one spot in the middle of his palm.

Soon, blue flames once more erupted from his hand however this time they were controlled, molded and forged into what seemed to be a blade.

Vorgron grasped the pale blue blade, bringing it to an equilibrium and turning it into a near perfect sword. 

"A battle of swordsmanship then, what do you say? You trash!" Vorgron bellowed as he immediately charged at Zuyuan and Tom with indomitable speed.

"Bring it on, lizard!" Zuyuan dashed as well while filling Estgard to the brim with Qigong, extending its reach with a bright blue light that reached two meters in length.

Within the next breath, the two combatants collided into one another, the sword of energy against the sword of flames. 

A sea of flames blitzed everything behind Vorgron as he pushed down on Zuyuan's blade, bringing him down on his knees.

"You die here! Human!" Vorgron roared, seeing victory before his eyes.

"You keep forgetting about me, Lizard boy!" Tom shouted while feeling rather lonely on the inside, swinging a horizontal slash right above Zuyuan's head and into Vorgron's blade.

The two missionaries together were able to push back the dragonkin, forcing him to step back as Zuyuan activated his Phantom Sword's ultimate technique. Materializing the transparent doppelgangers around him, Zuyuan ordered them to attack Vorgron at the same time, unleashing a barrage of slashes in all directions. 

"Kuh! Fools!" Vorgron's gaze glowed brighter, with a trail of flames created on the corner of his eyes. Soon, his body was covered in bluish flames as he ignited the powerful burst of his draconic fire with his body as the medium. 

"Burn to cinders!" He roared as the flames burst into all directions.

An eruption with Vorgron's body as the centre occurred. The inferno of flames encompassed Vorgron's surroundings in a seventy meter radius and reduced them to ashes. In no time flat, even the group of orcs that had been watching the battle unfold from the beginning had received some casualties on their side. 

Flapping his wings to the ground, Vorgron leapt high in the air while he took a look at the destruction of his attack. 

The ground had been completely charred and dust had covered everything. Many orcish warriors had burnt to a crisp, leaving only charred corpses that littered the ground on the edges of the blast radius.

'It would seem that victory is at hand.' Vorgron thought to himself with a smirk, pleased at his attack's results.

But before he could get excited over the victory, a shining bluish sphere had appeared among the clouds of dust and ashes on the battleground. Inside that energy shield, XB11 had protected Zuyuan and Tom while staring at Vorgron silently. 

"My turn." Muttered XB11 while it pointed its gun and had its energy gathered at the tip of the gun's muzzle.

"Power Shot."