Ancient Temple in the Tanah Agra (5)

"Did he fail?" Henry Aditya Kane talks to Arken via mind communication.

"Even Daniel couldn't pass it…" Arken didn't blame, but indirectly his voice sounded disappointment.

"But that light…." William Frostfall didn't know how to describe what he just saw.

"Like a soaring dragon which just awaked from its long slumber." Elis chimed in. Perhaps the other Dragons who heard this remark would nod in agreement.

Not long after that, the originally cold raindrops began to feel like hot boiling water. The Arinas slowly moved backwards as if wanted to avoid the hot water droplets.

Confusion is not only experienced by the Arina. The Dragons themselves didn't know what was going on either.

From the sky above the Dragon Castle, a very long thick black chain descended in a slimy spiral movement through the outer boundary of Tanah Agra. The mysterious chain seemed to be swerving at high-speed and sweeping the feet of the Dragons. The moves very swift like a giant snake before crawling up to a higher surface which is the top of Dragon Castle.

Following the movement of the chain, a yellow-orange colored energy coated the chain so thickly that could block the entire street. On the surface of the yellow-orange layer, one after another strokes began to craved the pattern of scales to the entire body of the gigantic—snake—like creature.

The almost well-boiled hot atmosphere further discouraged the Arinas to continue their ambush. They were afraid that their bodies would evaporate when they came in contact with it. Little by little they retreat, leaving the Dragons in great confusion.

"Is that one of our ancestral spirit?" William Frostfall not fully understand what was happening.

"No, that creature is not the spirit of our ancestors." Henry answered with trepidation. "The Ancestors in ancient temple never had the form of a snake. Plus, it's enormous gigantic."

Although it is very huge and Tanah Agra is completely being wrapped by its body, still this snake-like creature is still growing and does not have a head yet. More precisely, the head has not been fully formed.

Meanwhile, Rihan's finger flinched a bit. Consciousness was still with him, but his body had already given up. He felt so weak and powerless. "What is going on?" Rihan was somewhere between confused and lost.

He was relieved that the voices which filled his head before had fully disappeared and was replaced by the faint clanking of weapons along with the sound of nimble footsteps. There is a fight nearby. But Rihan didn't care. Sleepiness and tiredness had taken over his entire mind.

Ah…this feeling… how long has it been since Rihan hasn't felt the warmth of this hug? Rihan immediately fell asleep in comfort and wanted to keep dreaming. A good dream.

"Rihan, you can stop and take a rest whenever you want. But don't ever give up, okay?" This time Freya's voice could be heard as clear as blue sky.

Rihan's gasped and totally awakened by that gentle voice. Now after he recalled, he realized that he was actually in the middle of something. The sound of fight, where does it come from?

Rihan clenched his fist. He turned his body and forced himself to stand up. But as he started to get a grip on himself, more and more blood dripped down especially from his right eye. The tribal tattoo symbol is clearly visible on the apple of his right eye which is already as red as blood and smoldering like magma.

Those eyes looked at Lycan and Latif with an intimidating gaze.

"No need to hold back, Veena. Nullified is here to protect you. Show them your true power and make them understand how terrifying the power of death is." Rihan's voice sounded inside Alvi's head.

Without hesitation Alvi mustered a much larger Deadly Black Flame. The black flame vortex spiraled towards Latief roughly. The anti-black flame armor that Latif was wearing was unable to resist. Hence the poor man was burnt out in seconds with nothing was left.

Alvi is still not done yet. The spiral of Deadly Black Flame changed it direction and now swerved into Lycan. That man whose was the number 1 warrior in Samsara was also devoured miserably by Alvi's flame without giving any resistance. But for a slight moment Alvi felt something was odd. However, when she saw that Lycan's body squirm briefly before collapsing and burning up, that strange feeling was simply brushed aside.

Seeing the two enemies had been defeated, Rihan closed his right eye again, which was starting to sore and hurt. Blood trickled down from the back of his palm and continued to flow down to the sacred-weapon chain that was still unconsciously connected to his wrist.

The sacred-weapon chain responds to the user's blood. The headless snake-like creature squirmed unnaturally and started to howl. The chains that made up as the main bones seem to receive a very powerful energy transfer. Starting from the headless part at top of the Dragon Castle, the body that was originally just a yellow-orange semi-transparent figure slowly turned into something more realistic. Two pairs of claws, bones, nerves and muscle tissues began to build up at an unreasonable speed before being covered by thick layer of pitch-black scales.

The head is the last being formed with a mouth full of fangs, nose, pair of red-burning eyes and forked horns. Lastly the fire-like hair grew along it back and completed the uniqueness of the snake-like creature.

Now this gigantic being was perfect to be called as alive.

The snake-creature's blinked for the first time and revealed fiery red irises where on the right eye is a tribal tattoo symbol. It is certain that this creature is a dragon. But what kind of dragon look like a snake?

"Qiu-long…" Arken muttered in amazement. He had read about this kind of dragon form in a book. Qiu-long is the embodiment of an ancient dragon that lived long before the Dragons ever existed. His stature is like a snake but has a head like a dragon and two pair of claws. Despite not having wings, Qiu-long can still fly freely in the sky. With it four limbs, it is capable of destroying an entire land of Beta Urora. With the flexibility of the body shape, he can dive into the ocean without difficulty. In other words, Qiu-long is excellent in land, sea and sky.

After witnessing the awakening of a dragon, the Arinas fell into trepidation. They chose to retreat to the Raffendel border and regroup with Lady. Surely she looked very displeased when she learned that her plan had failed again.

This was the first dragon to rise since the fall of Tanah Agra twenty years ago. What would Lord Horizon say if he knew that the Dragons had regained their powers?

"Back off!" Lady ordered after seeing no chance of winning.

But Qiu-long—or rather Rihan himself wasn't planning on letting them off the hook. From within the ancient temple, he ordered Qiu-long to attack the Arinas.

The dragon snake-like swerved nimbly from atop of Dragon castle. Its front claws slightly crushed the roof of the castle where the remaining limbs managed to leave Tanah Agra without causing any damage to other buildings.

Qiu-long breath a fierce fire from his mouth and managed to disrupt the rest of the troops that were left behind. After that its lower the position and speeding up to break through the middle formation until he reached the front row.

Lady is there.

Their eyes met and that meant Lady was looking directly at Rihan Daniel.

"Lucie… I will kill you!" the Lady growled furiously before Qiu-long's flame devoured her body along with the rest of the Arina troops in Raffendel.

After finishing mocking the enemy, Qiu-long suddenly entered the froze state. His body slowly began to burn from beneath and this time for sure, Rihan fell unconscious.