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Phoenix appeared seconds later, and he too was appalled by what was taking place. At once, he rushed toward them but soon hit a barrier.
This slick man actually set up a barrier around them two.
So he and even Cephina couldn’t stop the fight in anyway. Phoenix’s body trembled from rage and he tried his best to shatter it.
Every hit that Lavana received, he himself also suffered the pain, but he knew what he felt was a fraction of hers, “Damn it,” he couldn’t help cursing as he relentlessly attempted to break the barrier.
Suddenly, a lot people, almost numbering 50, appeared behind him.
Phoenix harrumphed and with a snap of his fingers the same five men of before appeared and he ordered them to defeat the evils. Then he focused on trying to ruin the barrier.
Lavana turned invisible and teleported, appearing behind the man, “You broke the rules,” she stated, launching a mighty ice chain around his neck.
He turned around and though he couldn’t see her, he knew her location coz of the ice chain.
Smirking, he replied, “So what if I broke the rule? It’s your mate’s fault,”
His eyes turned silver and he looked at the enraged Phoenix.
Then after muttering inaudible words, his eyes returned to brown.
“What did you do?” she asked, using her telekinesis to pull him closer to him. The ice chains melted and she held him by the neck.
He didn’t reply but instead kept the annoying grin.
Enraged, she punched his face, throwing him to the ground and quicky sitting on his stomach.
“Tell me what you did,” she growled, her nails transforming into wolf claws with which she pierced his cheeks but he laughed, further pissing her off.
“Tribrid, go join your father,” he laughed, suddenly landing a punch as Lavana’s gemstone.
Lavana felt her gemstone fall out and break into pieces.
She felt blood trickling down her face and a great headache. She could hear her mate desperately calling her name.
She felt weakened and though the hole in her forehead closed up, stopping the bleeding, the headache magnified.
She fell off him, slumping to the ground.
She saw the smug Antero rise from the ground and squat, “Tribrid, you are too weak to try defeat me. You’ve got potential to do so maybe in five years, you and your mate. But unfortunately, you and your mate’s lives end here. Go and wait for him at the gates of hell,” he laughed, hitting her neck hard.
The reverse scale appeared and he attempted to pull it out.
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But the moment he touched the reverse scale, he felt an electric current in his hands, causing him to retract his hand. Ah, he forgot! How could he? This lass was a thunder dragon. He took out a pair of black gloves from his storage ring and wore them, before attempting to pull out the reverse scale.
That was when the atmosphere turned eerie as strong wind suddenly blew and the sky above them turned gloomy.
“What’s happening?” he wondered out loud, getting to his feet to stare at the clouds.
Lavana’s eyes had turned a glowing purple as she’d risen, feeling a surge in her body.
“Antero, go to hell!” she yelled. Immediately, lightning came down from the clouds above, shattering the barrier, the force even sending Phoenix and his men, who had already defeated the evils Antero summoned, flying.
Light shone around his mate and her figure increased, evident she was transforming. By the time it dimmed, all could see a purple-eyed black dragon in mid-air, looking enraged.
“Lord,” one of Phoenix’s men said in worry.
Yes, he was amazed by how huge her dragon form was, but she’d lost her gemstone and almost lost her reverse scale, forcing her into this situation.
Phoenix without responding to his subordinate flew to Antero and landed a heavy punch in his face, “You cursed old man. How dare you?”
Not giving the sorcerer time to respond, he held him by the throat and flew upwards, throwing him towards the dragon who caught her enemy with her tail that were covered in spikes.
She opened her mouth and lightning poured out at the man, causing him to scream in pain and tremble greatly.
As his eyes turned a mazarine blue again, several giant blue vines shot out of the ground beneath, heading for the dragon, but Phoenix got in their way, launching attacks at them nonstop.
His men made sure to seal the area so that the evil Antero couldn’t vanish out of the vicinity and escape.
His escape would mean bad news for their Lord and his Luna.
Antero vanished from the dragon’s hold. The spikes and lighting were no joke. If he didn’t do so, he’d die. He wanted to live and rule over all races. So he must escape. But to his dismay, he found that he couldn’t leave.
Using blood from the cuts on their palms, Phoenix’s subordinates had created an array. So no matter how much he tried, he couldn’t get out of the vicinity.
“Damn it,” he couldn’t help cursing in frustration. Then he suddenly felt a massive tail whip him from behind.
He stabilize himself before he could hit the damn array and before he could think about what to do, he felt a force pull him closer to the damn dragon.
Then he received another hard hit from her tail. He was sent flying towards another end of the array in the vicinity but at the last point, he managed to stabilize himself as he vomited blood.
He was even having difficulty maintaining his levitation.
“Please let me go. I promise to never tell anyone anything regarding you two,” he pleaded while trying to avoid the dragon. Still, he got another hit from the dragon who had been making good use of teleportation.
He now felt his body didn’t belong to him anymore. His ribs were broken and he dropped to the ground. Still, gritting his teeth, he tried to rise, but there was rumbling heard in the sky. Several bolts of lightning descended on him at once, giving him no chance to flee. His miserable cries and the sound of lightning bolts kissing his body were the only things heard, until he could no more scream.
Phoenix threw two daggers at him and they landed right in his eyes, blood began to flow from the ruined eyes.
The vines and quicksand disappeared and Lavana’s mate made the daggers return to his hand, forming a bloodied peacock fan once again.
The lightning bolts resumed striking him once again, this time, even fiercer than before.
The dragon landed not too far from him and launched four red spikes from her wings in quick succession.
The spikes accurately cut off both hands and legs, causing him to let out a bloodcurdling scream.
No more lightning descended from the clouds and Phoenix flew over to the frustrated foe.
He took out grey bottle containing black liquid. Since Antero was already screaming his lungs out, there was no need to make him open his mouth. Lavana’s mate emptied the bottle’s content into the old man’s mouth, forcing him to swallow everything.
Soon, Antero started begging, “Please, kill me. Kill me, I’m begging you. I can’t take it anymore,” he cried.
He felt both the need to run a marathon and scratch all over his body- his head and privates, not even spared!
But each second, he was reminded of the fact that he’s disabled, he can’t even see.
Phoenix told him to be quiet and smilingly took out a bottle containing pepper. His fan turned into to single dagger and he used it to raise up the charred robes of Antero. Then slightly pulling on the pants, he emptied the contents of the bottle and then let go of the pants. Quickly retreating as Antero’s plea for death worsened. His subordinates gave him a thumbs up. Their Lord would never waste an opportunity to torture someone.
Lightning bolts descended on Antero once again. He reached a point where he couldn’t even whisper as he was drained of strength and frustrated.
A few minutes later, he expired, but lightning continued to descend in the corpse and the dragon still looked enraged.
“You guys, have you finished mending the road?” Phoenix asked.
“Good as new sir, but the trees, we applied some tonic that would make them grow back within two months,” one of them named Calistro replied.
Phoenix nodded, “Thank you. You guys can go. Say my regards to my parents for me,” he said with a small smile.
From his tone, they could sense something was off but they were in no position to pry or push their luck. So nodding their agreement, they said their farewell and vanished.
Now it was Phoenix and his mate left. The gemstone that had been broken to pieces by the evil Antero had long vanished.
Cephina was no where to be found, but he assumed she had retreated to slumber.
Judging by the look of things, his mate was still very much mad at losing her gemstone. But she could still teleport and the fragments of the gemstone were no more on the ground.
He flew towards her, dodging the lightning bolts, as the area the lightning struck had increased to almost the whole forest.
Reaching the neck of the dragon, he sat and rested, gently caressing it while whispering comforting words to her. A few minutes later, the lightning stopped and the gloomy clouds disappeared.
Then he got off her and flew downwards, landing on the ground.
He turned around and took out clothes from his spatial ring. Soon he felt a tap on his left shoulder and without looking back he handed his mate the clothes.
He applied a cleaning spell on himself and he soon had no stain on him.
A minute later, she told him she was done and so he turned to look at her.
“Lavana,” he called out gently, his arms spread.
She quickly ran to tightly hug him, “We defeated him,” she happily stated.
“Yeah,” he hugged her back, caressing her hair, “that scum is no more. I’m sorry I couldn’t stop him from crushing your gemstone. I felt just a fraction of the pain and resulting headache. I…”
“Ssh! Say no more, Sullivan,” she said in a gentle tone, standing on her toes to plant a kiss on his forehead.
“He’s more experienced and sold his soul to the devil. You, on the other hand, are young and an expert among your peers. We didn’t expect to meet him so soon, but what matters is, that we defeated him together,” she added.
Phoenix smiled and made her stop standing on her toes. Then he lowered his head and initiated a deep, long kiss. They parted a few minutes later when they were running out of breath.
“I love you, Phoenix,” she smilingly declared.
“I love you too, Lavana,” he replied, planting a peck on her forehead before adding, “More than my life!”