The Ring Arcanists of the Tree Hole Association probably did not know the effects of Shade's thaumaturgy, but the woman standing atop the dragon beast still refused to let the Moonlight Dragon approach.
In the exchange of dragon breaths, the dragon beast was at a disadvantage. As it kept retreating through the air, its thick tail suddenly lashed violently through the air.
It first smashed apart the brass Mechanical Creations that had been trying to reassemble themselves after being shattered. Then its tail abruptly lengthened into the form of a long snake and bit toward the Moonlight Dragon's neck.
"Wall of Sighs!"
Miss Owl immediately cast a counterspell. A gray wall embedded with countless undead appeared in the air before the dragon beast's tail, but the wall was immediately smashed head-on by the tail.
Shade had no choice but to stop breathing fire and fling the Moonlight Wheel at the tail. The wheel severed it, but the dragon beast's body rapidly healed.
At that moment, Mr. Gerald Delong appeared once more. As his Destiny Ring spun, two enormous brass mechanical arms clamped down on the still-growing dragon beast from either side in midair. Then a great sword assembled from tiny mechanical parts descended from the sky and slashed at the dragon beast's head.
But the strike had no effect. An identical monster appeared out of thin air above the struggling dragon beast and blocked it. Then five dragon beasts squeezed out together from shattered spacetime rifts, opened their mouths toward the Thirteenth Ring Warlock and the Moonlight Dragon, and breathed black flames at them all at once.
The five streams of flame converged, and the violent Elemental Reaction left neither side daring to withstand it directly. The scattered brass mechanical components from before formed a great shield before Mr. Delong,