"What a beautiful creature!!!"
Hovering in midair with a beat of his wings, Ulysses stared in shock at the massive Dragon charging straight toward him. It was a creature he had never seen before, one that existed only in myth and legend!
Its body was enormous without seeming bulky. Each beat of its wings carried it hundreds, even thousands, of meters! Its long limbs were powerfully built, and as it seemed to tread on empty air, the entire space trembled beneath its might!
Two branching deer antlers rose from its head, and two long, slender whiskers streamed back along its cheeks. Its golden slit-pupiled eyes commanded fear without a trace of anger. A single glance was enough to make anyone recoil.
This was a Dragon!
A ruler at the pinnacle!
It was fierce, beautiful, and magnificent!
It swept in with endless frost and ice, as though it would crush everything in its path!
"Not good!"
Ulysses suddenly blanched and threw his body to one side. But he was too late. While he had been transfixed by Loa's majesty, the Dragon had already reached him and raked a claw across his body.
Slash!
Ulysses avoided a direct collision, but his bent torso was not so lucky. The claw caught him, tearing in half a man who had emerged unscathed from every attack before it!
Blood sprayed high into the air, filling it with a repulsive, rotten stench.
It was a dead man's blood. Cold blood.
Surprise flashed through Loa's eyes when his claw struck home. He did not pause. He beat his wings, twisted his body, and swung his powerful, spiked tail backward, intent on smashing Ulysses to pieces!
Unfortunately, a wound that fatal seemed to pose little danger to Ulysses. After he was severed in two, blood swiftly gathered around