Drakefang Salamander - II (Awakened)

The moment it appeared, the forest was consumed by a whirlwind of fire and smoke.

The towering three-metre-tall salamander-like beast lifted its head. Its obsidian scales now cracked with veins of molten fire that pulsed like liquid magma beneath the surface. Jagged spines grew along its back, glowing like heated rocks with trailing embers. 

"Shit." 

Its golden eyes, once that of a beast.

Became those that burned with the pride and malice of dragons, calculating, vengeful and seething with rage. 

"Asuka, can you still fight?" Leon forced a hoarse voice through his cracked lips.

Leonhardt's eyes narrowed, gazing at the swirling coils of flame that wrapped the beast's limbs tightly, neither consuming nor fading but responding to its will. Where it trampled, the earth blackened, and the lake churned with steam and a boiling surface.

"Ugh… my body hurts…"

Shudder