After trading a blow with Akihiko Kayaba, Seiya leaped straight onto Golden Dragon's head and began waging a guerrilla battle against him.
Golden Dragon could fly, and because it was adept at controlling the wind, it was exceptionally agile in the air.
Even against Akihiko Kayaba's various ranged attacks, it could evade them with all sorts of erratic maneuvers.
However, when he saw that one of his ten HP bars had gradually been whittled away by Seiya's cowardly hit-and-run tactics, Akihiko Kayaba stopped holding back.
Before this, his attacks had basically been close-range normal attacks. But as he gripped his scythe again, he began preparing to use a skill.
A crimson blood-red glow burst from the scythe in his hand, and a crescent-shaped blade of light like a scarlet blood moon shot toward Seiya, who was still acting as a "Dragon Knight" in the sky.
The bloody blade light swelled with the wind. By the time it reached Seiya and Golden Dragon, it had expanded to an outrageous size of nearly dozens of meters.
With such a massive attack range, Golden Dragon's sizable body had nowhere to dodge.
Thus, as the scarlet blade light came hurtling over, Seiya could only abandon the mount to save himself. He jumped from the air and watched helplessly as Golden Dragon was cleaved in two by the blade light, turning into data fragments and vanishing.
There was no helping it. In that situation, dodging had been his only option.
'Weapon Parry' was practically a god-tier skill, but it had a cooldown.
As for forcefully withstanding it with other skills, given the difference in levels and stats between him and Akihiko Kayaba, that was basically a dead end.
In reality, even if a Shikigami was defeated, it could be restored by consuming spiritual power and