Seeing that its attacks were ineffective, the dragon beast, thrashing about like a headless fly, felt its strength steadily weaken as dense, overlapping Ritual Matrices across the ground gradually lit up.
No one took to the air to meet it. While the ritual steadily weakened its power, the main force on the ground spread throughout the dense forest and launched attacks at the sky.
The White Fog that had originally wrapped around the dragon beast and shielded it from those attacks slowly dispersed. Even its sturdy scales seemed to be melting in the radiance of the Divine Ritual. As it roared and spewed flames at the forest, its mutated flesh warped into an increasingly grotesque and terrifying form.
It tried to rush toward the brightest center of the divine light on the ground, but at that moment it heard a Dragon Roar from directly overhead. Before it could raise its head to see what was happening, claws descended from above and tore apart its dreadful fourth wing.
"Roar!"
Its miserable howl carried far into the distance, but the Dragon that had attacked from above did not leave. Crystal-colored Dragon Breath pierced through the entire right side of its body. The massive amounts of black blood pouring from the torn and pierced wounds fell toward the sea of trees, immediately Igniting swathes of the forest.
The dragon beast struggled to abandon a small portion of its body before finally escaping the "predator" above. As its body rapidly regenerated, it saw that the creature which had fought it at close range just now was indeed also a Dragon.
But that Dragon was far smaller than it was, and its body appeared exceptionally nimble as it beat its wings. Its scales possessed the luster of crystal, even gradually becoming transparent under the reflection