"Aaaooow..."
A long, piercing scream came from the Green Dragon as he thrashed wildly. Caught in the Golden Dragon's desperate grip, the Green Dragon was clearly no match for a Golden Dragon famed for physical strength. Moreover, this Golden Dragon had evolved three times, and his wounds had made him all the more savage and heedless of death.
Locked in close combat with the Green Dragon, the Golden Dragon used his steel-like body, hooked claws, and enormous, white-fanged maw to leave wounds so deep they exposed bone. The Green Dragon's scales were effective enough against ordinary human arrows, but they fared poorly against the frenzied ripping and biting of a savage Golden Dragon one rank higher.
With the Golden Dragon grappling him at such close quarters, the Green Dragon could not put enough distance between them to attack with his stronger magic. Selt swayed on his back as the two Giant Dragons bit and wrestled, struggling even to keep his footing, let alone attack.
"Despicable human, I told you that you would pay!" the Golden Dragon roared. With a powerful twist of his glittering golden tail, he hurled the suffering Green Dragon away.
Dazed, the Green Dragon plunged toward a distant hill under that tremendous force. From afar, his enormous body looked like a vast green ribbon, whistling through the air as he hurtled down.
The Silver Giant Ape, who had been lying in wait all along, kept his blood-red eyes fixed on the Green Dragon. Just before the dragon hit the ground, his fur suddenly bristled, and he shot out like a silver lightning bolt, racing straight toward the hill.
Rumble...
The Green Dragon's enormous body crashed onto the hill. All the hard rock of the hill, barely a dozen meters high, was crushed flat with a tremendous, earth-shaking