Chapter 60 - Cataclysm 2

"A dragon has such terrifying defense?" Bewildered, thought Marc and Leona.

"Surprised humans?" Asked Etoirir with Telepathy Magic.

Continuing while raising its head high and standing on two legs while looking down at Marc and Leona, she said "Did you really think you could damage me with those puny attacks? You, humans, are truly foolish to think that you are the most intelligent species. Utter nonsense. The truth is you are nothing. We dragons are the most superior existence in this world be it intelligence, power, or talent. No one can compare to us."

Hearing the dragon's words in his head, Marc thought. "So we are dealing with a dragon that has a superiority complex. Great—that's just terrific." Though it was meant just as a thought, Etoirir managed to hear it over the open telepathy connection.

*Roar* You, an inferior race belittling me? How funny you puny humans are. But enough is enough." It wasn't funny at all. It made Etoirir angry that her food dares to have such thoughts.

"!?" Gobsmacked that the dragon just heard his thoughts, Marc tried feeling the telepathic connection. He was very vigilant and immediately tried to control the thoughts shared and succeed quickly. Leona was already familiar with the magic so she wasn't vigilant against it like Marc. He was afraid the dragon would be able to read his thoughts and predict his every move.

"Fucking overgrown lizard." Marc intentionally cursed over telepathy, enraging Etoirir. She slammed a claw down at Marc which he evaded quickly like a slippery rat. Behind the big blue dragon, appeared Leona intending to hit Etoirir in the back, just to be slapped away by a dragon wing and caught by Asi who used his gold sand to catch her in the air.

Nort letting Leona off, Etoirir stretched her neck and opened her jaws wide open, ready to swallow Leona the next instant. The jaws of death filled with rigged teeth were only three meters away from Leona's demise.

*Swoosh*

But Marc appeared over Etoirir's blue dragon head and quickly laid down with his back on it with his legs in the air before he with a big burst began repelling the air and pushing the head down just enough to miss swallowing Leona.

*Roar* "Get off now!" Roared Etoirir in Marc's head and began swaying her head wildly to shake him off. Four swings were all it took for Marc to nearly jump off on his own, as Etoirir raised her claw to tear him to pieces. He didn't dodge though as he knew his friend would back him up.

Etoirir who was just about to squash the puny human on her head suddenly felt the world around change based on her senses, but in her eyes, it was still the same.

Rofta used his Inverted World Magic spell, [Axis Reversal] to make a three-dimensional bar chart world only he can see or imagine. After creating this world he unsheathed his cane sword and stabbed the air a few times very quickly in Etoirir's direction.

Back to Marc who could see the incoming claw and was holding on to one of the fins on the dragon's head. All of the sudden, between the dragon's elbow and forearm, a blocky pillar rose and stopped the claw from reaching Marc only to shortly after another similar pillar appeared behind the dragon where it wanted to step and pull the arm back. Before it could destroy those two big pillars, a big golding hammer made out of gold sand smashed into Etoirir's stomach, making her stumble back and destroy the earth pillars.

Seeing that the dragon is falling, Marc did a [Teddy Bear Landing]. He jumped off the head and landed on the ground with a big boom and creating a big paw crater under him. Very vigilant, Marc observed the big blue fish-looking dragon intently that wasn't moving. Feeling waxed as to why it wasn't getting up again, Marc's heightened senses with [Panthera Disaster] suddenly screamed like never before to urgently do something.

"Quick, make a sand dome around us!!!!" Marc screamed with urgency to Asi. Leona and Rofta quickly got inside the golden dome that was very much like Gina's spell earlier. The difference was that it was gold and had a more edgy form than just completely round.

The four were now being protected inside the dome, but Marc didn't feel safe at all and his senses still warned him.

"Leona, heat the dome up, fast!" Marc ordered with a sharp look. Asi and Leona were perplexed as they knew adding heat would just make the dome take a liquid form which would ruin the defense. Though Leona still did it as she trusted the foe she had fought before.

She placed her hands on it, before the glow around her hands intensified and the inner layer of gold sand protecting them began melting and run down the sides. Before fully liquifying, Marc began 'hammering' the walls with his palms like a blacksmith. It greatly interested Rofta, and if it wasn't for their current predicament he would question where Marc has learned this from.

In under ten seconds, the gold sand dome turned into a real gold dome that was multiple times more durable.

*ROOOOOOOAR*

A furious roar that was angered beyond reason sounded over the battlefield. Etoirir was beyond mad that these puny humans made her fall on her back. It was very humiliating even though it didn't hurt her. While getting up, her long neck began lighting up with light blue lines with energy flowing up to its jaw before Etoirir opened it wide. A blue spinning water ball began enlarging in its mouth before releasing it shortly as a water beam.

[Water Dragon's Roar]

The sheer pressure by this attack destroyed the ground in its path and continued shooting at the golden dome surrounding Marc and the others.

Bigger alarms ringed in Marc's head that indicated if he didn't do something more, the shiny gold dome would be destroyed. "What else can I do?" Questioned Marc restlessly, he didn't know why his instincts were screaming for him to do more and that a dragon trademark dragon roar attack was nearing with incredible force behind.

Leona and Asi didn't know what was happening outside either. The only person who knew was Rofta that was still maintaining his [Axis Reversal] spell to make the three-dimensional bar chart world and could feel anything inside it. When he felt the incoming attack, he immediately knew that they would be done for if they didn't lessen the power behind it.

"Curses, there's no way in hell that I'm dying already," Rofta told himself before stabbing the air numerous times with his cane sword. Outside the dome, pillars of earth rose from the dome all the way to the big concentrated water dragon breath attack. Multiple sounds of the pillars being destroyed reverberated.

*Boom*

A very high-pitched boom reverberated when the enormous water attack hit the gold dome that was protecting Marc and the others.

Their fate was unknown. Did Rofta manage to save them? Or did Marc?

…

At the location where the other dragon that Lisa was tasked to kill as quickly as possible.

She spent no time taking in the sight of the pure white dragon that was cleaning up the last remaining soldiers of the cavalry from Seven.

Before attacking she took out a black key in the air and chanted "Open, Gate of the Punisher, Umon" and a dark misty looking portal showed before her.

"He~ He~He~. You better not have summoned me without fulfilling the conditions girl. Normally it's a great crime for a Celestial Spirit to kill their contractor, but make no mistake. I will kill you if you haven't." A big, black humanoid monster with a very muscular body came out slowly. It has a big mouth with an array of sharp teeth and its brain is fully showing, no eyes or ears, and have red scars on its arms and traps. A criminal in the eyes of Celestial World is the most powerful Celestial Spirit Lisa is contracted with and the first escapee the Celestial King imprisoned himself due to serval reasons.

Lisa swirled her finger around in the air and asked "Three true dragons that are about to kill more than 1500 soldiers should be good enough."

When Umon heard the words "are about to" his eyeless head turned forcefully and quickly and 'looked' intently at her while being up close. He was standing only a few millimeters away from her and yelled to her face "Are about to? Meaning they haven't yet. Do you take me for a hero? You are just asking to be killed." Saying that Umon raised his big black hand and neared Lisa's neck intending to break it. Before the hand could touch her, Lisa punched with a fist covered in a golden aura on Umon's chest, making him slide a few meters away.

"Don't touch me!" Yelled an angry Lisa, before continuing saying "Just use your special magic to determine how many intelligent beings those dragons have killed already and help me kill this white dragon."

After dusting his chest off where Lisa's fist hit, Umon used the magic that played the biggest reason to why he's called The Punisher, or Shinigami depending on the person's view of good and bad.

[Judgement Sight]

Having used the spell, Umon looked at the relatively young white dragon that just bit mildly on a soldier from Seven before throwing him in the air and bit him over from the chest down. The soldier's facial expression couldn't express how much despair he was feeling in those two seconds the white dragon toyed with him.

"1183 innocent kills…" Umon stated. [Judgement Sight] makes him able to determine the amount of different innocent blood the target has experienced from the soul.

"There you got it. Fits the requirements so quickly help me kill it." Lisa was relieved that the white dragon fitted Umon's requirement to have killed 1000+ innocent intelligent beings.

"Is it destiny? The heavens are helping me and Marc to stay together." Lisa thought and imagined the happy housewife life with Marc before quickly getting her thinking straight to dispose of this dragon.

"1343 innocent kills" Umon turned his attention to the dragon covered in ice and stated its innocent kill count before stopping on the blue sea monster-looking dragon.

"1998 innocent kills" Umon's voice was getting continually deeper after looking at these three dragons.

"I promised Marc to kill this dragon quickly so give me a hand." Lisa urged.

"He~ He~ He~. No need. Summon that stupid-looking clock and this bastard will be dead in one- no three minutes." Umon laughed madly before telling Lisa what to do, which she wouldn't have normally done as no one can order her around. But for Marc's sake, she set aside her arrogant attitude and pulled out a silver key and pointed it in the air before chanting "Open, Gate of Time Wizard, Tempus."

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(A/N: Umon will flex in the next chapter with the help of another Celestial Spirit.)

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