At that moment, within Bronze City, a colossal creature fifteen meters long darted through the water at fifty knots, constantly circling two human figures.
"Too slippery!" Lu Mingfei threw a punch at the Dragon Servant's waist, only for the current kicked up by its high-speed swimming to knock his strike off course.
Caesar was beginning to feel the strain as well. Though he was no slouch in hand-to-hand combat, his most commonly used weapon had always been his hunting knife.
For some reason, every time he transformed into a Magical Girl, the only weapon he could use seemed to be that wand. The moment he grasped Dicktator, his hand would involuntarily go limp and let go.
Underwater combat was simply too difficult. Not only was movement hindered, even the force of their punches was dispersed by more than half in the current.
Not to mention that their opponent was a massive creature with a normal swimming speed of fifty knots. Even swordfish were only that fast under normal circumstances.
Lu Mingfei gradually lost momentum after leaping up, and Caesar stepped in to block the sweeping dragon claw.
"We can't keep this up. Buy me some time," Lu Mingfei said.
Magical Girls had limits to their stamina too. This Next Generation Species Dragon Servant clearly possessed considerable intelligence and was completely kiting Lu Mingfei and Caesar.
Although he did not know what Lu Mingfei intended to do, Caesar chose to trust him and moved in close to block the Dragon Servant as it tried to pounce on Lu Mingfei.
With him facing the enemy alone, the pressure soared. After several clashes, even Caesar's body, enhanced by Magical Girl Power, had been clawed with bruises and bloody gashes.
Fortunately, Caesar seized an opening. He kicked away the dragon claw blocking his path, twisted aside to evade the biting dragon head, and grabbed the iron ring on the metal mask forged over the Dragon Servant's face.
"Roar!" The mask was embedded in the Dragon Servant's face. That pull forced it to stop swimming, its whole body yanked into an L-shape.
Faced with an enemy tugging on the mask that symbolized its nobility, the Dragon Servant's Golden Eyes flared brightly. Its overwhelming fury brewed into endless flames within its mouth.
High-Risk Words of Power · Monarch Flame! "Lu Mingfei!" Caesar shouted urgently.
"Coming!" Lu Mingfei roared, raising his wand before his chest. "Shine! Brilliant Gem!"
The next moment, the staff in Lu Mingfei's hand shattered, transforming into a huge pink heart-shaped gem embedded in his chest.
The water was violently forced aside, and even the bubbles Lu Mingfei exhaled were shattered into countless tiny flecks of foam.
Like a skipped frame in a movie, Lu Mingfei had been standing in place one second, yet was already beside the Dragon Servant the next.
A pair of massive hands clenched into iron fists and smashed down thunderously.
"Boom!!! Crack!" The explosive collision boomed beneath the water like a war drum.
The resistance of the water seemed to vanish. Samson's fifteen-meter body was instantly blasted backward into a V-shape and embedded in a nearby bronze wall, leaving only a massive cloud of blood mist and shattered bones behind.
His thick hands clapped lightly, and the shockwaves they created blew away the bloody mist. What appeared in Caesar's constricted pupils was a three-meter-tall, musclebound hunk wearing a pink dress.
The blood-swollen muscles and veins crawling across his torso all displayed the pressure of an apex predator. The face that was only eighty percent similar to Lu Mingfei's had been squeezed by his muscles into sharply defined bands of black-and-white shadow.
Magical Girl Pink · Lu Mingfei · Brilliant Mode!
"It's not dead yet! Keep going!" Lu Mingfei said, his voice no longer carrying its former youthful immaturity, but instead a sexy, bubbly low voice capable of captivating ninety-nine percent of girls with a thing for older men.
That was assuming he wore a custom-tailored suit rather than a pink dress, white stockings, and little heels.
The moment he finished speaking, Lu Mingfei kicked off through the water, preparing to bring down an axe kick.
Unexpectedly, the Dragon Servant suddenly broke free from the bronze wall and shot in one direction like an arrow.
A strange utterance spilled from its throat. If a doctor of Dragon Language had been present, they would have recognized it as the Dragon Language word for "king."
"Hmph, trying to run?" Lu Mingfei's heavily muscled brow pressed sharply downward. "Did you ask me?"
He slammed both hands down. The surging force stirred up a massive whirlpool that directly dragged the fleeing Dragon Servant back.
Then Lu Mingfei swung one arm in a full arc. The torrent raised by his hand chop was no less powerful than the strongest water-cutting machine, mixed with the Dragon Servant's own shattered bones and sharp fallen scales as it sliced out like a whirlwind.
"Roar!!!" The Dragon Servant did not even finish its scream before that blow split it in two, its cross-section smooth as a mirror.
Lu Mingfei carried one half in each hand and slowly swam over to Caesar. "It's over. What now?"
Caesar looked at the three-meter-tall muscular Weirdo before him, then at the Next Generation Species dragon corpse split in half like a butchered white-feathered chicken, and swallowed faintly.
After calming his turbulent emotions, Caesar said, "Next, we should go find the Bone Bottle."
Lu Mingfei nodded. Though Brilliant Mode consumed an enormous amount of stamina, he did not cancel his transformation just in case.
"By the way, why did it choose to run at the end?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled. From his perspective, if the Dragon Servant had not chosen to flee at that critical moment and had instead charged Caesar, it might actually have escaped.
Caesar frowned. "I don't know either."
He might have looked impressive as both the Student Union president and the young master of the Gattuso Family, but he had slept through Dragon Language studies. Or rather, aside from practical combat, he had barely avoided failing every subject thanks to his professors' mercy and his Weasel Sickle pulling its weight.
Then, as if to answer them, an unexpected change occurred.
From the patch of water the Dragon Servant had charged toward at the end, waves of scorching heat began to travel through the water.
A humanoid figure, like glowing red-hot iron, had appeared in the distant water at some unknown point. His diving suit had melted from the heat, and the air tank on his back had exploded under pressure, yet he paid neither any mind.
He slowly crouched down and gently lifted a huge shattered bronze jar. Endless sorrow poured from his eyes like a breached river.
"Little brother, little brother."
The shattered bronze jar slowly cracked open, revealing the pale body of a young man within. Only a pair of blazing Golden Eyes gazed smilingly at the being holding him.
The youth raised a pale, scaled hand and gently touched his face. "Brother, you finally remembered me."
As soon as he spoke, his arm fell limply, and the life drained from him.
"Little brother!!!" The man suddenly let out a boundless cry of agony, utterly heartbroken.
"What is going on?" Lu Mingfei asked Caesar beside him with a complicated expression. "How did this suddenly go from a hot-blooded shonen manga to an eight-o'clock melodrama? And a cheesy incestuous BL one at that?"
What was with this boss battle suddenly feeling like a CG cutscene?
Caesar was rather speechless at Lu Mingfei's wild train of thought.
He could tell that this so-called "little brother" was the Dragon King that had emerged from the Bone Bottle, while the one holding him was the other "brother" of the Dragon King twins.
And, unfortunately, the aftermath of Lu Mingfei's battle seemed to have shattered the Bone Bottle, causing this "dragon little brother" to die from being "born prematurely."
"It looks like you accidentally killed his little brother," Caesar said.
"Ah!" Lu Mingfei was shocked.
"Um, excuse me," he quickly turned to the man and said. "Look, this isn't my fault, okay? We were fighting normally. How was I supposed to know someone was hiding inside a jar? If you want to blame someone, blame that dead dragon over there. I already avenged you."
As though he had heard Lu Mingfei, the man slowly raised his head, fury blazing to the heavens. "You deserve to die!"
At that moment, Lu Mingfei's pupils suddenly contracted when he finally saw the man's face clearly.
"Lao Tang!?"
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