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D.I.O - Chapter 255

Published at 18th of March 2023 06:45:36 AM


Chapter 255

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Ting!

Merlin, while rushing forward, called out for his Divine Weapon, and soon, Olympos appeared in Merlin’s hand. When Merlin pulled Olympos’ string all the way to the end, a spell was activated.

And once the spell was activated, a lightning infused magic arrow appeared.

Lightning Blade of Zeus!

Along with a dazzling display of light, the lightning infused magic arrow struck the Gold Dragon’s body. Though the Gold Dragon hurriedly cast a defense spell to protect itself, plum blossoms started blooming next to it.

Ring!

Normally, Sungmuk would bloom hundreds of plum blossoms when he swung his sword, but this time around, the situation was a little different, so he took a different approach and only bloomed one plum blossom.

However, each and every petal of the plum blossom was as vivid as if they were real, and the spirit and divine qi that the plum blossom petals exuded would make any observer revere them as divine objects.

“Immortal’s Solitary Plum! Shall we see how strong a dragon’s hide is?”

The singular plum blossom shot out from Sungmuk’s Divine Red Sparrow sword and made its way to the Gold Dragon’s waist area. Soon, the plum blossom pierced into the Gold Dragon. The Immortal’s Solitary Plum, which represented a singular immortal plum blossom that bloomed in solitary, was an extremely strong single use attack that created a true plum blossom pattern. Furthermore, it was composed of strong qi that originated from the purification of one’s martial arts. Therefore, since the Gold Dragon’s body and defenses were already weakened due to Merlin’s strike, the Immortal’s Solitary Plum strike was able to strike the dragon with full force.

Flash!

Crack!

After the Lightning Blade of Zeus struck the body of the Gold Dragon, Sungmuk’s Immortal’s Solitary Plum embedded itself within the Gold Dragon. When this happened, the Gold Dragon’s golden scales, which covered the Gold Dragon’s entire body, started to break off.

[You scoundrels!]

However, the damage inflicted was only that; the Gold Dragon’s wounds did not open or splatter any blood. The Gold Dragon’s scales, each containing intense energy and power, absorbed all the blows before falling off the dragon’s body.

The Gold Dragon burst out in anger as it tried to fly into the air, but at that moment, Miho’s spell, which she released from Hydra, reached the Gold Dragon. It was released at the same time as Merlin’s Lightning Blade of Zeus strike, but it was just now reaching the dragon, which illustrated just how fast Merlin’s spell was compared to Miho’s.

/The Moonlight of Artemis!/

/Bramblehurst of Gaia!/

A soft moonlight glow momentarily dwelled on the Gold Dragon’s body, lowering its defense and magic resistance, and immediately afterward, a vivid green light shone out before vines with thorns thicker than an adult’s torso grew at terrifying speeds and began to entangle the Gold Dragon.

The Gold Dragon shook its body and tried to brush off the vine’s entanglements, but…

/Bramblehurst of Gaia!/

A Howling spell fired from Merlin’s Olympus once again landed on the Gold Dragon’s body. And as the Gold Dragon was tied up, Arc rushed forward towards the immobilized Gold Dragon.

/Flame Buster! Maximum!/

Click.

With a clicking sound, magic power surged and rushed out. Then, the magic power was triggered. And with that trigger, the prepared spell was activated, and mana was rearranged according to an established magic circuit route. And in no time, an explosion was generated.

“Revolver!”

Fire and flames spewed and flickered over Arc’s armor.

Utilizing her No Thoughts Gold Strong technique, Arc held onto the excessively gathered bundle of mana and continued her spell chant.

“Double spell! Revolver!”

The overlapping magic powers roared out, and dense magic characters rose above Arc’s armor.

“Perfect Vulcan!”

It was her final trigger phrase.

With the activation of the trigger phrase, Arc’s arms flared up with flames as her body’s speed accelerated dozens of times over.

Boom!!!!

[Cheeky thing…]

Arc’s fists rushed toward the Gold Dragon at breakneck speed. Arc’s spell-infused fists were rushing towards the areas of the Gold Dragon’s body that were recently exposed after Sungmuk’s attack, so naturally, the Gold Dragon tried to contort its body to avoid Arc’s oncoming punches. However, it wasn’t able to properly avoid Arc’s attack because of the vines that constricted and immobilized the Gold Dragon, holding it firmly in place.

Because of this, the Gold Dragon tried to defeat all its surrounding enemies by using five to six spells in succession.

“Break!”

[W-what?]

Sensing that the spells it was trying to cast were all canceled after Merlin’s cry, the Gold Dragon glanced over at Merlin in amazement.

Of course, the spells the Gold Dragon was about to cast were all instant cast type spells, which were considered relatively weak spells relative to the dragon’s arsenal of spells, but even still, how was a user able to cancel all its spells, which it was casting with its full power?

In other words, this meant that…

[You… you… are a magic user on the same level as me?]

“Yeah, you dumb hunk of junk. That’s why I called you half-assed creation. Is there even an ultimate spell you can use? Oh, since there’s been a system recalibration, I guess you do have something similar.”

However, the problem was that, for the Gold Dragon to cast its ultimate spell, it needed a minimum of several hours to a maximum of several days to cast such a spell. Moreover, it needed to be in peak physical condition.

As its role as a [War Commander], which was entrusted to it by DIO’s operators, the Gold Dragon possessed tremendous strategic value and was a powerful being, something that Merlin could not imitate or recreate; however, in this critical juncture, with its enemy clearly positioned right in front of it, the Gold Dragon was unable to display its overwhelming power.

Boom!

When the Gold Dragon’s spell ability was nullified by Merlin, Arc, who had landed hundreds of fist punches in an instant on the Gold Dragon’s body, backed away. Soon, plum blossoms started to bloom in the areas that Arc had punched.

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[Ugh! You scoundrels! Do you think you can win by doing this!!]

As the Gold Dragon roared and twisted its body, the vines and thorns that bound its body began to fall away. Realizing that it could not block Merlin’s nullification spell, the Gold Dragon gave up on casting magic spells and unleashed the power contained in its Chintamani Marble in the form of raw magic power.

It was true that Merlin and his party members had cut off all the Gold Dragon’s means of resistance in a short time and superficially wounded it, but the Gold Dragon was still confident that the party had no chance of winning against it.

This was because the Gold Dragon knew it was a Raid Monster.

Unbelievably, for the Gold Dragon, the cheeky human mage was a magic power user who was at the same mage class as the Gold Dragon, and the orc that was wielding a sword was also able to output at the same power level as itself, though the orc utilized a different type of power compared to the human user. However, in the end, the Gold Dragon felt that all these efforts were useless and all for naught.

Merlin had pointed to the Gold Dragon and stated that it was a pseudo transcendent. Of course, this was true. But, from another perspective, this also meant that the Gold Dragon was half transcendent.

The Gold Dragon was a being with an inexhaustible reservoir of magic power and a phenomenal HP capacity monster.

The power realm it possessed may be similar to Merlin or Sungmuk’s, but the specifications of its body were different from the other two. Even if its power realm was similar to Merlin or Sungmuk’s, the Gold Dragon’s body was definitely the body of a transcendent being.

[Do you think these superficial injuries will hurt me! It’s just ticklish!]

The body of the Gold Dragon was over 150 meters long from head to tail.

The expression ‘huge’, rather than ‘big’, was appropriate to describe the Gold Dragon’s size. Thus, even a wound the size of a person’s head, which the party members created through all sorts of attacks, was no more than a superficial blow, similar to the extent of piercing a normal human being with a needle.

If hundreds or thousands of users gathered and inflicted the same attack a hundred or a thousand times over, then, the outcome may have been different for the Gold Dragon, but what could a small party of attackers accomplish?

The Gold Dragon believed that the attackers’ mana and stamina levels would tap out before they even inflicted a proper wound on it, and there was no way that the Gold Dragon would give up, so there was, in the Gold Dragon’s mind, no chance of the users winning.

In a situation like this, the Gold Dragon’s pride was hurt because it was as good as defeated by a party of users in terms of skills and abilities, but eventually, in the end, the Gold Dragon was confident that it would win through the virtue of its transcendent body.

However, Merlin approached the Gold Dragon with a smile, ripped off a portion of the Gold Dragon’s body about the size of a human adult’s head, and put his hand into the lightly bleeding wound.

The dragon considered the flesh wound as something insignificant, as the Gold Dragon’s hide was thicker than an adult’s head. Moreover, the circumference of its body was nearly 10 meters, so such a flesh wound wasn’t something that concerned the Gold Dragon. However, the important matter for Merlin was that he exposed the inner part of the Gold Dragon and was able to see the dragon’s blood.

“You really think it’s just ticklish, huh?”

[What nonsense are you going to spew this time…]

Rumble!

At that moment, the body of the giant Gold Dragon, all 150+ meters, vibrated greatly.

It was such a violent movement that an outside observer would have wondered if the Gold Dragon had shuddered of its own accord.

Since he possessed developed eyesight, Sungmuk, who noticed what damage the Gold Dragon just sustained, looked at Merlin with an expression of utter disbelief.

Quiet Heaven and Ellie, non-participants in the current battle, also groaned after observing Merlin’s unbelievable act.




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