Hearing that ant-like fellow making such a racket, Dvalin, already corrupted by the Abyss, had red light flashing in its eyes as it charged toward him.
“Ah… Watch out!”
Neo had his back to Dvalin because he wanted a picture together.
When Paimon saw Dvalin charging over, she immediately cried out in alarm.
Hearing Paimon’s warning, Neo instinctively turned around and raised his hand, giving it a wave.
“Weaklings, begone!”
A fan-shaped dark shockwave was sent flying out.
Dvalin was like a train from Snezhnaya speeding at full speed that it had crashed into, and the entire dragon was knocked backward a distance before coming to a stop.
The collision with the dark shockwave left Dvalin’s head dizzy.
It tried to launch another attack, but after staggering closer, it fell directly onto the platform.
Neo jumped away in time and wasn’t hit by its head.
“S-so amazing! You stopped Dvalin with one move!”
Paimon leaned forward, showing a shocked expression.
“Traveler! This is a good chance! Quickly attack the poisonous blood that has condensed on Dvalin’s wounds!”
That attack had only been simple pushing force and didn’t cause much damage, so Venti immediately seized the opportunity to remind Lumine.
Lumine hurried forward, trying to climb onto Dvalin’s neck and attack the poisonous blood condensed on its back.
But Dvalin had only been knocked unconscious for a moment from being forcibly stopped in its dragon cart.
Before Lumine could destroy the condensed poisonous blood, it woke up and shook its head, throwing her off.
And Neo’s attack just now had clearly angered Dvalin.
After flying back into the air, it flapped its wings and roared at the sky, creating countless wind blasts that bombarded the platform where Neo was without distinction.
The firepower was too dense, so Jean, Diluc, and the others had no choice but to use the wind currents to jump onto other platforms nearby.
However, this happened to split up the battlefield, because Neo and Lumine chose a platform on the other side.
For a moment, the group became divided into a four-two formation.
Under Dvalin’s relentless bombardment, the original platform collapsed directly into the storm, so for Neo and the others to regroup, they could only run around the platforms in a full circle.
“Dvalin is pretty fierce…”
Seeing part of the platform blasted apart, Neo said with some surprise.
He didn’t remember its attacks having this much power…
“Yes. After all, it’s been corrupted by the Abyss. It should be in a lot of pain right now.”
Lumine nodded beside him, holding the dull sword in her hand while watching Dvalin.
After destroying one platform, Dvalin continued attacking the people who had moved to the other platforms, but its target wasn’t the smaller platform where Neo and Lumine were.
Instead, it was the other platform where Jean, Diluc, Venti, and Paimon were.
“I have to go help…”
Seeing Paimon and the others being attacked by Dvalin, Lumine immediately looked at the other platforms surrounding them and decided to go around and help.
Their plan had already been decided.
They would knock Dvalin down, then have Lumine shatter and purify the poisonous blood constantly corroding Dvalin’s wounds, thereby saving Dvalin.
“No need. Traveler, I have a way to lure Dvalin over. You just prepare to attack the poisonous blood on its back.”
Neo hurriedly called out to stop Lumine from going around.
He naturally knew that purifying the poisonous blood on Dvalin’s back had to be left to Lumine.
Even if the others knocked Dvalin down, it would be useless.
“Okay, thank you.”
Hearing Neo’s words, although she wasn’t very familiar with him, she felt that going all the way around this circular platform really would be troublesome.
It would naturally be better if he could lure Dvalin over, so she nodded.
“Leave it to me, then.”
Neo walked to the edge of the platform and looked toward Dvalin on the other side.
At this moment, it was attacking Venti and the others on the platform with its claws and breath.
Taking a deep breath, Neo raised both hands in a cupped shape around his mouth, then shouted toward Dvalin, “Dva! Lin!”
“You’re not as good-looking as the evil dragon Durin!”
“…”
Under Lumine’s speechless expression, Neo’s shout reached the other platform.
‘…You didn’t say that just now!’
Venti, holding his bow, showed an incredulous expression.
At the mention of “Durin,” Dvalin suddenly turned its head, the red light in its eyes flashing.
Although it had already been corrupted by the Abyss, it still remembered that the culprit behind its suffering was that evil dragon.
Dvalin then let out a roar and charged toward the platform where Neo and Lumine were.
“See? Works pretty well.”
Seeing Dvalin charge over, Neo turned back and said to her.
“It does work… But Dvalin seems even fiercer now…”
Lumine didn’t know what to say for a moment, but immediately dodged to the side.
Dvalin’s claws struck the platform, leaving deep claw marks in it, but they didn’t hit Neo and the others.
After its first attack failed, Dvalin immediately turned around, roared, and released a huge wind blast toward the platform.
“Traveler, stand behind Bron!”
Neo immediately took out his thick ice shield and blocked the way in front of Lumine.
‘Didn’t he say his name was Neo?’
Seeing the huge, thick shield that was like a wall, Lumine felt a little more at ease.
Although she was somewhat puzzled about the name, she still hid behind Neo.
Seeing that the wind blast was about to fall, Neo’s mind stirred.
‘This wind blast feels like a good opportunity…’
Thinking this, Neo held his breath until the wind blast was about to reach him.
“Caria-style Reversal!”
Taking careful aim at the timing, Neo held the shield in one hand and swung it horizontally from right to left.
[Caria-style Reversal: LV1]
[When holding a shield, swinging the shield at the precise moment can negate all non-physical ranged attacks and convert them according to their original attack power into automatically fired Glintblades. The initial number is 3, increasing with level.] Find the original chapter at novelping dot com.
[Upgrade Condition: Has a chance to trigger when precisely parrying and eliminating a ranged attack]
As Neo swung the ice shield, a blue radiance capable of absorbing ranged attacks spread across the shield.
Then Neo watched with his own eyes as his shield swept past the wind blast when it was still a little distance away.
It didn’t touch it at all.
‘…’
‘I forgot to turn off Snowland Survival Law again!’
Only then did Neo remember this, and after the wind blast failed to be precisely negated, it landed squarely on Neo, sending him and Lumine behind him flying.
After all, the defensive ability and absolute defense provided by “Unbreakable” were both applied to the shield.
“…?”
Lumine, who had been sent flying, stared at Neo in midair with a face full of question marks.
It was as if she were asking, ‘Why did you suddenly move the shield away?’
‘Are you getting revenge for that sword strike just now?’
“Traveler!”
On the other platform, Paimon cried out in alarm after discovering that Neo and Lumine had been sent flying.
Fortunately, Neo reacted quickly.
While in midair, he quickly condensed Cryo elemental power into the shape of a chain, with a spear at the end.
Whoosh!
Neo threw the spear, driving it into the platform.
He then grabbed Lumine’s hand and pulled hard on the chain, throwing her back onto the platform so that she wouldn’t fall into the storm below.
Neo himself used the chain to swing around beneath the platform before jumping back onto it from the other side.
What annoyed Neo, however, was that he hadn’t completely blocked that attack just now, and Lumine had still been hit by the impact.
Therefore, it didn’t meet the system’s conditions and didn’t trigger a reward.
On the other side, after recovering from the surprise, Venti quickly raised a larger wind current, allowing them to use it to cross the destroyed platforms instead of going all the way around to regroup with Lumine.
After releasing the huge wind blast, Dvalin immediately charged toward the platform where Neo was.
Lumine didn’t have time to question Neo about why he had suddenly moved the shield away just now.
She hurriedly gripped the dull sword with both hands and prepared to face the enemy.
Caria-style Reversal was naturally useless against Dvalin’s charge, so Neo stopped fooling around and honestly raised the shield in front of him.
Bang!
Dvalin’s body crashed solidly into the shield.
Facing the huge impact, Neo didn’t move an inch.
Instead, Dvalin once again passed out just like when it had been hit by “Weaklings, begone!”
“Uh, so Dvalin is a headbutt type of dragon…”
Neo hadn’t expected Dvalin to take another hit after already suffering once.
‘Could dragon cart be a basic code shared by dragon-shaped creatures?’
[Host has blocked “Dvalin’s” attack for “Traveler,” obtaining a number of draws…]
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