As Roland spoke calmly, Hatireim's body shot away like a taut bowstring suddenly released. Even if it temporarily could not use a skill as convenient as moving through spacetime, floating and moving with magic like the Flügel was no difficult feat for it.
Even though a change it could not understand had occurred, just as it had said before, a mere time stop could not bind it.
But Roland's abnormal act of wasting power to stop time despite knowing it would be ineffective still made Hatireim's pupils abruptly widen, unable to conceal its shock.
It suddenly realized that without absolute confidence, this arrogant enemy who had never failed would never make such an abrupt mistake.
I have to strike first!
"Dragon Roar-!!!"
The dragon's heart erupted with an engine-like hum. Vast magic whipped up brilliant light and thunder, tearing through the atmosphere. Layer upon layer of storms became shattered gusts that poured down like torrential rain.
Without even pausing, Hatireim unleashed its life-consuming ultimate move a second time, shooting the boiling magical energy toward Roland's heart in an even more concentrated form.
Boom-
Yet, just as before, the only result of this attack was the explosive sound of the mighty wind and thunder being extinguished.
Within Roland's outstretched hand, the only traces left by the Dragon King's roar were the rings of air it had sent rippling through the atmosphere on its way.
As those five slender fingers slowly closed, the energy gathered from the primordial dragon's timeline shattered like a mirror falling to the ground.
Unable to accept this fact, Hatireim even forgot it was on a battlefield. It stood frozen in astonishment, feeling only an indescribable cold completely freeze its soul.
This was a reality that even a Time Dragon capable of disrupting causality could not understand.
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