Chapter 30 – The Limits of Life-And-Death Combat

Volume 3

The amplified Dragon Flame blasted toward One-Eye at high speed. This time, Fake One-Eye no longer dared to take the Dragon Flame head-on.

It moved swiftly, turning and fleeing toward the rear.

After the amplification, the Dragon Might Domain once again enveloped One-Eye. Combined with the enhanced power of the attack, Fake One-Eye was instantly seized by an overwhelming sense of danger.

Star's Skill quality was too high, and his strength was too great. Fake One-Eye had already realized that it was absolutely no match for Star.

Although the Demon Worship Cult's Sacred Beast had no intelligence, the will to survive was instinct!

So Fake One-Eye wanted to run!

Noticing Fake One-Eye's movement, Star let out a furious roar. With a slight tremor of his wings, he pounced straight in Fake One-Eye's direction!

Under the effects of the Dragon Might Domain and the amplification, Star's strength rose while Fake One-Eye's fell. The gap between them had become completely disproportionate.

Before Fake One-Eye could even break into a run, Star had already charged up behind it!

Two enormous dragon claws clamped down on Fake One-Eye's hind legs. Then, tremendous force surged forth!

Star was actually trying to tear Fake One-Eye in half with brute strength!

Sensing Star's intention, Fake One-Eye immediately let out a savage roar. Seeing that its movements had already been restrained by Star, and feeling a Tear-like agony rip through its body, it instantly abandoned the impossible idea of escape and twisted around, lunging at Star's head!

A series of cracking snaps rang out. Fake One-Eye had now completely entered a desperate, all-or-nothing state.

Just the simple act of turning its head, because of the immense force Fake One-Eye exerted and the awkward position of its body, directly caused it to snap its own spine.

The Life-And-Death Combat Ability took effect once more.

Unfortunately, within Star's Dragon Might Domain, the effect of the Life-And-Death Combat Ability was directly weakened by eighty percent. The actual results it could produce were pitifully small!

Seeing Fake One-Eye completely disregard its own body, violence surged in Star's eyes. He opened his massive jaws and bit down on Fake One-Eye's head!

Star was already much larger than One-Eye to begin with, and the burns covering Fake One-Eye had shrunk its body considerably. As a result, this bite completely engulfed Fake One-Eye's head.

Uneven fangs flashed with a cold gleam. Waves of sulfurous stench poured from his mouth. With those razor-sharp fangs and saw-like rows of teeth, Star's biting power could only be described as terrifying!

Like a guillotine, Star's huge jaws clamped down with crushing force.

Gray-white flesh and blood splattered in every direction.

That attack directly bit off One-Eye's head!

But Fake One-Eye still did not die.

The ability of the Flesh Tome meant that it would only truly die when half of its body disappeared. At this moment, Fake One-Eye's injuries had already reached a critical threshold!

This also meant that Fake One-Eye's Life-And-Death Combat Ability had reached its strongest state!

Raging Tyrannical Flame surged upward and rapidly changed into the shape of a dog's head, replacing Fake One-Eye's vanished head.

Then Fake One-Eye swung its forelimbs, black flames dancing over them, and pounced fiercely at Star!

Fake One-Eye's current Physical Attribute was close to 400 Point. Without the weakening effect of the Dragon Might Domain, its Physical Attribute would be roughly around 2,000 Point!

In other words, the upper limit of the Physical Attribute boost that Life-And-Death Combat provided One-Eye was tenfold!

Unfortunately, none of this had any effect in front of Star!

A gigantic dragon claw blotted out the sky as it descended toward Fake One-Eye's head. It forcefully cut off One-Eye's upward momentum and, in the same motion, slapped Fake One-Eye's body straight into the mud!

The blow made the earth tremble. Even the entirety of East Mountain shook twice under that massive force.

His right forelimb pinned the struggling Fake One-Eye firmly beneath his claw as Star threw back his head and roared!

It was a cry of victory.

Then Star lowered his head slightly, looked at the Tyrannical Flame still erupting violently, and raised his claw again!

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

The enormous dragon claw rose and fell, rose and fell…

Like an executioner carrying out a sentence, Star used his actions to declare Fake One-Eye's death penalty!

The Black-Robed Man stared blankly at Fake One-Eye under Star's foot, whose life fluctuations were growing weaker and weaker. Then he looked at Star, still holding his head high and swinging those sharp claws. He swallowed hard, immediately activated Teleportation, and fled into the distance.

Clearly, the Black-Robed Man had given up on recovering the Sacred Beast… all for the sake of his own miserable life.

…

A long while later, only when Fake One-Eye beneath Star's foot had been smashed into a bloody pulp did Star finally stop.

Sensing that Fake One-Eye's life fluctuations had completely vanished, Star slowly lifted his claw and looked down.

Fake One-Eye's original torso had turned into a lump of mush. Under Star's puzzled and surprised gaze, that mush-like mass slowly began to change.

First, it started to flow bit by bit. Then its color gradually shifted from grayish-white to white, until it became a blob of pure white, gelatinous matter.

The gelatinous substance kept gathering together beneath Star's foot until it condensed into a perfect sphere. Then it slowly hardened, finally coming to rest in the huge pit Star had smashed into the ground, motionless.

Star scratched the top of his head with his enormous claw. The murderous and violent look from moments ago was gone from his eyes, leaving only curiosity behind.

Stretching out a huge claw, Star gently poked the spherical object in front of him with one sharp finger.

Mm. Soft and bouncy.

Star tested the feel of this unknown thing, then used a little more strength and poked it again.

Perhaps that poke caused the thing in front of him pain. The white dough-like mass before Star suddenly sprang up, while strands of white, thread-like material shot out from its body and snaked straight toward Star's head.

They were fast, and the attack came so abruptly that Star had no time to react before the threads struck his face.

Like gas, the threads slipped directly through Star's facial features and into his mind.

Then…

Star suddenly began swaying, as if he were drunk.

But it lasted only an instant. After swaying just twice, Star steadied himself again.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft, pfft…"

Standing where he was, Star sneezed several times in a row with all his might. The air blasting from his mouth and nose carried faint white vapor and blew directly onto the white dough-like mass, sending it rolling far away!

Only then did Star realize what had happened. So that thing just now had been trying to control him with some underhanded trick.

Once he realized that, Star immediately flew into a rage. Looking at the white dough-like mass, which now seemed a little smaller than before, he jabbed it hard twice more.

Only then did he connect to Wen Yu's consciousness.

Wen Yu's response was simple: Stand there and keep an eye on that thing. Wait for me and One-Eye.

After receiving Wen Yu's reply, Star looked around at his surroundings, then looked down at the white dough-like mass beneath his foot, which was the size of a washbasin. Remembering how it had felt when he inhaled those white threads just now, he hesitantly stretched out one finger…