With the Fierce Beast gone, there was much more room to move around inside the Longevity Cauldron.
Toothless grew extremely irritable under their combined attacks and kept spitting flames. In her usual play fights with Little Fatty and the others, she would have won hands down, but even she could not withstand their relentless rotation. After several hours, exhaustion began to show.
Dongfang Minghui watched from the sidelines, her heart aching. She noticed that apart from Toothless, her eldest uncle, Lien, and the others were all injured to varying degrees, and their wounds were far worse than Toothless's.
Ding Ding stood on her shoulder, surveying everything from that vantage point, but was much quieter than usual, behaving itself without saying a word.
"Ding Ding."
"Little Ninth, what's wrong?"
"I want you to let out that ice-element Fierce Beast from before." As a spectator, she had the clearest view this time. Seventh Sister and the others were powerful, but they still struggled to withstand the assault of fire-element Spiritual Power. After fighting for several hours, their Spiritual Power was nearly depleted. Little Fatty and Yuchi Shou, both fire-element users, bore the brunt of it, but they were facing Dragon Clan True Fire, after all. Having blocked many of Toothless's attacks, they were visibly exhausted too. More importantly, the Dragon Core remained inside Toothless, a ticking bomb at any moment, while Seventh Sister's plan had met an obstacle: Toothless had grown stronger. "That beast has the ice element. It should be able to wear down Toothless's fire-element Spiritual Power."
Ding Ding's nostrils twitched lightly. "Mm, Little Ninth, I think I smell roast meat."
Dongfang Minghui glanced at it in surprise, a flood of mixed feelings welling up inside her. She felt guilty, as though she had mistreated a little child. Soon, however,