"Shameless wizards, when will you get rid of your lousy habit of stealing other people's things?"
"You arrogant reptiles, you evil ones who toy with the world, how dare you provoke the great Fanyaxis, Wings of Death time and time again? Are you prepared to be burned to ashes?"
The ferocious dragon approached step by step from the cave entrance, forcing Leo back to the black door at the deepest part of the cave that led to the second world.
The dragon roared angrily at Leo Leo, distorting his face with its fury.
With his heart pounding like a drum, Leo forced himself to remain calm as he saw the entirety of the dragon named Fanyaxis.
Its entire body is covered in large, pot-lid-sized scales that gleam with a blackish-gold light. Each scale pulsates with energy; these are the dragon scales, known for their strongest defense. Even Leo's full-force attack couldn't break a single one!
Inside some of the crowded caves, Fanyaxis could only curl up slightly, yet his size still exceeded five hundred meters;
The retracted wings still reveal clear energy circuits, the most natural runes, present from birth, signifying that this dragon possesses the strongest magical talent.
The powerful dragon claws crushed the hard rocks in the cave into tofu. Leo had no doubt that with his current defenses, if he were caught, he would suffer the same fate as those rocks.
Along the high dragon spine, rows of sharp barbs grow from head to tail, sharper than any weapon;
The tail that retracted behind it had a bone hammerhead like a battering ram at its tip. Judging from the deep marks it left on the ground, it could easily smash a mountain.
As the dragon fully entered, surging elemental energy, seemingly accompanied by a deathly howl, rushed in from the cave entrance, slamming into Leo like a heavy hand, slamming him against the black gate leading to the second world.
Although he was in Hunter mode, he still felt a suffocating pressure, every cell in his body screaming in pain. Just feeling the dragon's oppressive aura made Leo tremble so much that he wanted to prostrate himself on the ground.
Level 5
It's still that incredibly powerful level 5!
Facing the level-five pressure, Leo saw death as a noose around his neck, just short of kicking over the stool at his feet.
"Dear Mr. Fanyaxis, would you believe me if I said it was all a misunderstanding?"
Leo endured the oppressive aura emanating from the dragon. This being was far beyond his ability to cope. Feeling powerless, Leo immediately chose to beg for mercy. Leo even shamelessly offered to say that he was there to clean up for the dragon.
"Die!"
Unfortunately, before Leo could finish speaking, his actions were like a match that lit a fuse, and the forced smile on his face looked more like an insult.
Fanyaxis's dragon scales instantly unfurled, causing the elemental energy within the cave to explode. In an instant, the entire mountain shook violently, and countless rocks fell from the summit, as if the dragon's lair would collapse at any moment.
"Boom"
Before Leo could see anything, he was suddenly struck hard in the chest, his entire body was instantly blasted through the mountain and sent flying into the sky outside the mountain.
The bones in his body crackled and popped in unison with the heavy sonic booms outside his body. Leo was speechless. His injuries, which had only just begun to heal, had been severely injured again.
"Roar"
With a roar, Leo saw that it was getting dark.
The smell of dragon breath and stench filled his nostrils, and he felt a sticky sensation beneath him. Only then did Leo realize that he had been swallowed by this black dragon.
The difference between the two was so great that he didn't even know when he was swallowed.
A strong sense of crisis washed over him, every cell in his body frantically sending out warnings, as if he would face death in the next second if he didn't find a way to escape!
With eyes slightly closed, I sensed a point of light in the darkness.
"Walk!"
When you try to touch it with your mental energy, the body instantly disappears.
The black dragon Fanyaxis in the sky raised its neck, intending to swallow the wizard in its mouth, but with a flick of its tongue, it felt nothing at all; the food that was about to enter its mouth had vanished...
"Roar"
"Shameless wizard, I will definitely kill you."
The black dragon Fanyaxis, its eyes burning with fury, surveyed the entire plane. In the blink of an eye, it locked onto a location and flapped its wings, ready to fly over and tear apart the shameless thief who had escaped through its mouth.
However, just as his body was about to leave the mountainside, the massive dragon's body was suspended high in the air, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not move forward even a millimeter.
The fully extended dragon's body was over 600 meters long, and a simple flap of its wings could create a hurricane of several dozen levels in the sky.
With energy tides at his side, he is the dragon riding the waves, standing at the pinnacle of dimensional energy changes!
The humiliation of having a weak life escape from his grasp filled him with rage. Explosive magical power echoed in the sky, and in an instant, the entire sky was filled with lightning and thunder, dark clouds rolled, and hurricanes raged, as if the world had suddenly fallen into an apocalypse.
No matter how hard the black dragon tried, or how awe-inspiring its strange phenomena were, it could not move forward an inch.
He was like an insect locked in a box; no matter how much he stirred up inside, he couldn't cross the box.
" Fanyaxis, your time is up. Go back to guard the gate."
The Little Bookworm appeared before Fanyaxis's eyes; it was only Little Bookworm size of a thumb, smaller than the tip of Fanyaxis's nose.
But when the Little Bookworm appeared before Fanyaxis, Fanyaxis's raging anger vanished instantly, his magic dissipated, and the strange phenomena behind him disappeared as well, leaving only a pair of eyes that still spoke of his resentment.
"But that wretched wizard stole all my treasures! I must get them back!" Fanyaxis shouted angrily.
"Your treasure has been stolen? Think carefully before you speak. Was that your treasure?" The Little Bookworm's eyebrows instantly furrowed as he sat on Fanyaxis's nose and asked coldly.
Fanyaxis fell silent, his large dragon eyes fixed on the Little Bookworm on his nose, his gaze filled with humiliation. He didn't know whether this humiliation came from Leo or from the Little Bookworm before him.
"I'm asking you a question, is that your treasure?"
Seeing that Fanyaxis remained silent and dared to display such a humiliating expression, the Little Bookworm coldly asked again.
The tiny, bean-sized eyes stared at the enormous dragon's eyes, causing Fanyaxis's pupils to contract sharply. The two were worlds apart in size, yet the dragon Fanyaxis was far less imposing than the Little Bookworm.
"Yours, yours, all yours."
Enraged Fanyaxis flapped his dragon wings and flew towards the cave, his earlier urge to kill Leo a thousand times gone.
Since the stolen treasure wasn't his, he didn't care anymore and completely gave up, adopting a "what's the use" attitude.
Upon hearing Fanyaxis's words, the Little Bookworm's face immediately lit up with a smile, as if a teacher were praising a student. He patted Fanyaxis's nose and said reassuringly:
"Don't worry about your little possessions. As long as you find my brothers and sisters, you'll live a life of luxury with us from now on. I can build you a world paved with jewels."
"Hmph, you've been saying that to me for tens of thousands of years, and I haven't seen you find a single one."
"Don't rush, I feel like it'll be quick this time."
You've said that countless times.
"Hehe, you noticed that."
As Fanyaxis's figure flew into the dragon's lair, the sounds of their conversation quickly faded away.
Jungle Laboratory
Leo's body tumbled out of the shadows with a thud, and the first thing Leo did upon emerging was cast a healing spell on himself.
As soon as his injuries lessened, Leo sensed the black dragon's presence and prepared himself for relentless pursuit.
In the energy world, the black dragon continuously stirred up energy waves atop the high mountain in the center of the plane, then remained motionless.
"What does 'immobile' mean? Is it preparation for an ultra-long-range attack?"
He couldn't see any physical movement in his energy field, only changes in energy. Leo remained constantly vigilant, fearing he might be killed by an attack that seemed to fall from the sky.
The difference in their levels was too great; what the dragon wanted to do was completely beyond Leo's imagination. He could only speculate about the dragon's actions with the utmost suspicion.
But as time went on, Leo realized that he might have been overthinking things. The black dragon was unable to leave the mountaintop area, and its actions seemed more like an outburst of impotent rage.
And soon after, the black dragon withdrew its aura and flew back into its lair, seemingly forgetting that half of its treasure had been looted.
"Does that mean he can't leave the dragon's lair for long? Or rather, he can't leave that door for long?"
"Was this also the basis for those two Stigmata Wizard' accurate prediction that they would be attacked by dragons during the beast tide?"
According to the descriptions of dragons that Leo read in books, anyone who steals his treasure will be hunted down until the end of time, and the thief will not be spared until he is caught and killed with the cruelest torture.
The black dragon has already returned to its lair without even being pursued, which is completely different from the nature of the dragon race.
Judging from his furious appearance, he didn't seem indifferent to the fact that his home had been raided. Leo could only guess that he had a reason why he couldn't leave.
But even after the black dragon returned to its lair, Leo didn't dare to relax. He continued to sense the dragon for several more hours and, finding that it showed no signs of pursuing him, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
A quick physical examination revealed that all of Li Xi's ribs were shattered, and his internal organs were in complete disarray. Leo still didn't know what had hit him; the speed was too fast, completely beyond his sensory perception. He didn't even realize he was seriously injured until after he was hit.
His defensive system was directly pierced through. His Indestructible Body, Body Refinement Wizard, and even the shadow that absorbed 50% of the damage were as fragile as a piece of paper in the face of absolute power.
However, the black dragon must have held back; otherwise, it could have killed him with a single blow. The reason it held back wasn't out of mercy; Leo guessed it wanted to take back his treasure.
"I should be fully recovered in three months." After a quick check-up, Leo gave himself this diagnosis.
Although this raid encountered many unexpected situations, such as the door leading to the second world that couldn't be opened, the black dragon's soul being bound to that door, and the Little Bookworm that hid a lot of crucial information.
Despite some setbacks along the way, the outcome was positive; he recovered a large number of treasures in just three months of severe injury.
Within the Shadow Space lay a small mountain of dragon bones, along with tens of tons of stones and sand imbued with dragon breath. As for the most valuable treasure, the dragon's riches, Leo initially estimated its total value to exceed 500,000 energy crystals!
It's out! It's out!
Plunder is indeed the best way to get rich!
Leo didn't rush to melt the bones to extract the dragon's Bloodline. Instead, he quickly recovered from his injuries. Although Fanyaxis couldn't come out now, it was uncertain when he would be able to next time.
Just in case, it's best to focus on recovering from the injury first.