Revival

Fire clouds swept over his head. Brando slapped twice at his hair and managed to put out the flames, but in doing so, he neglected something else. His earl's coat was instantly engulfed in fire, turning into a cloak made of flames. A gust of wind swept through, scattering the flames, and the young earl's bare upper body was exposed to the icy rain. The sleet of the wasteland struck his body, the cold seeming to seep into his bones. Brando shivered violently. With his current physical constitution, he could have trained bare-chested in the snow without discomfort, but here, a chill originating deep within his bones rose along his spine.

The cold came from the laws.

"Dammit, this is the real Ice and Fire Nine Heavens!" he couldn't help cursing. Although he had luckily tricked the dragon with Wind Empress Nine Luminaries, the dragon's breath was simply too terrifying. It had swept past from more than ten meters away, yet the fiery aura it stirred up had nearly roasted him into a human torch. Only then did Brando truly understand how terrifying dragons were. In his daily interactions, Aloz had given him too human an impression, almost making him forget that these sky overlords soaring through the heavens were among the most terrifying existences in the world.

Brando turned his head. The two dragons, one ahead of the other, had already flown far away through the curtain of rain, with no sign of turning back for the moment. The distance between him and Kouhua was, in fact, only that one cliff.

Brando stopped on the last rock spike and raised his head.

Dark Kouhua stood motionless atop the cliff. Her bright gaze seemed to pierce through the veil of rain as she looked down at him from above.

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