The immense pressure, wrapped in a heavy elemental aura, made everyone on the battlefield freeze involuntarily.
"What is going on here?" Lu Xingshi's voice rang out. The enormous Rock Dragon Beast lowered its head, its pair of dragon eyes brimming with savage ferocity.
This was the Rock Dragon Beast's default expression. It had merely lacked sufficient strength before, so it had not looked quite so vicious.
Once its strength rose, coupled with its own aura, that terrifying sense of brutality surged forth at once.
"Grand Duke, you finally came." At the sight of this, Gatu could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
They had been breaking out of the encirclement and had only fought halfway through when they realized that the enemy's numbers and strength had exceeded their estimates.
If Lu Xingshi had not arrived in time, they would likely have died here.
The moment Lu Xingshi arrived, the situation immediately turned around.
"Retreat!" The elite forces of the various nations surrounding them fled without the slightest hesitation.
They could not even handle the Rock Dragon Beast, much less Lu Xingshi.
"Grand Duke, don't let them—" Gatu shouted, telling Lu Xingshi not to let this group off.
Before he could even finish, however, the Rock Dragon Beast's Petrification Breath accurately turned every enemy into a statue.
Naturally, the Rock Dragon Beast could use breath attacks. After all, it had the word "dragon" in its name. Its breath was not damaging, however, and could not actively inflict harm.
Yet once someone failed to resist the Petrification Breath, they would not merely be injured—they would directly turn into stone.
Of course, if someone was strong but not strong enough, weak but not truly weak either, they might instead be partially petrified.
This was a new ability unlocked after Amber of