The golden flames formed from Danyla's blood fell like sparks from the stars, setting the monster ablaze the instant they touched its body.
Then, like maggots burrowing into bone, they bored into the monster and ignited its flesh.
The coral and barnacles covering the monster cracked like shattering glass, breaking apart and falling off in great sheets. The monster, over a hundred meters long, soon became a vast mass of fiercely burning flames.
Thick black blood kept seeping from its wounds, giving off the pungent stench of rotten eggs as it burned like rancid grease.
"Roar!"
The monster roared in agony again. More than a dozen tentacles thrashed wildly against the sea, while the countless eyeball-like growths on them let out piercing shrieks.
The immensely powerful monster soon whipped up waves over a hundred meters high. Powerful jets of water also shot straight at Silverwing.
The Great Dragon Silverwing hurriedly climbed to escape the danger. Rhaena, already nearing exhaustion, clung tightly to the Dragon Saddle, her knuckles whitening with the effort.
She could feel how agitated Silverwing had become, how desperately she wanted to get away. Since Rhaena had first succeeded in riding Silverwing, the gentle Great Dragon had never shown such obvious aversion to a place.
The agony of burning drove the monster completely mad, and its wails grew ever shriller. Not only Rhaena, but even Danyla began to feel dizzy.
Rhaena was almost unconscious now. Without her guidance, Silverwing began climbing rapidly to flee. Azure Scales and the other three young dragons had long since slipped inside the Dragon-Taming Tower to romp around.
Fighting through her discomfort, Danyla took several weirwood seeds from the leather pouch she carried. After soaking them in her blood, she tossed them down as Silverwing flew over the monster.
Through the churning gray