The Jinouga leader plummeted through the air at tremendous speed. Perhaps it had accepted its fate; it no longer struggled, simply letting its body fall freely.
Luo Yun dived after it, his gaze locked firmly on his target. Only after the Jinouga leader smashed through the thin branches and crashed into the lower levels beneath the Ancient Tree with a dull boom did Luo Yun plunge down, stirring up a gust as he hovered low beside its body.
At least half of the Jinouga leader's body was embedded in the ground. From such a height, even an Ancient Dragon Class creature would not have escaped unharmed, much less one already gravely wounded.
Seeing the Jinouga leader coughing up bloody foam, its blood spreading across the ground while its remaining Lightning Bugs scattered, Luo Yun prepared to finish it off with a blast of fire.
Suddenly, he felt a faint tingling sensation run through his body, tiny currents skittering over the surface of his scales.
Luo Yun suddenly recalled how certain special Jinouga variants had died in his previous life.
He rapidly beat his wings, swiftly climbing higher and putting distance between himself and the Jinouga leader's corpse.
The next second, an explosion like roaring thunder erupted. Violent currents lashed the nearby plants, and blinding light completely illuminated this dark lower region.
"Hiss—It hurts! It hurts like hell!"
Although he had moved away in time, the electrical explosion had been far too fast. Part of the tip of his tail was still caught in it.
A Rathalos's hide had terrible lightning resistance. Luo Yun's tail burned with searing pain, and several of its spikes had even snapped off.
As the lightning faded, the Jinouga leader's shell had turned ash-white. The blood in the wounds torn open by its fall had completely