Emma hurriedly begins to recite a combat prayer while continuing to move toward the lizardman leader: "Oh, supreme sovereign of all dragons, you are the one who represents power and strength, who dominates it in an absolute manner!, your faithful believer begs for your absolution, forgive her for not having sufficient power, we beg you to grant us your gift!, so that we may eliminate our enemies!"
An emerald and golden glow comes out of Emma's armor, lightly enveloping her body, with this her strength, power and all her other capabilities increase, such as her speed and agility.
With this enhancement, Emma can quickly dodge the tail of the giant lizard, which passes dangerously over her head, Emma does not fear this lizard, especially with the improvement of the cultivation technique and the resources that her venerated god has given her, stepping from the mystic realm grade 5 to grade 9 peak, this lizard is threatening yes, since it is at grade 6 of the mystic realm, but it is only a nuisance to her, an obstacle.
When she reaches the lizardman leader, she immediately reacts instinctively and blocks the spear attack with her shield and says: "You are a very slippery bug, luckily you have some value for my venerable lord."
Valtoe'ktek replies furiously to this human: "Bug?, who do you think you are human!?"
In an agile and fluid manner the lizardwoman with her sacred steel spear begins to deliver cuts, thrusts and multiple attacks to give no reaction time to this damned and disgusting human.
But Emma only dodges with a smile and says: "Is this what you have?, you are nothing more than that, a bug."
Valtoe'ktek furiously accelerates the rhythm with increasingly fierce, faster and more lethal attacks while saying with notable anger in her voice: "This Valtoe, of the glorious Ktek clan, is no insect you stupid human!"
Emma dodges and uses her shield from time to time, waiting for an opening to bring her down with a single blow… but she notices something strange, the spear of this lizardman, is it only a pseudo artifact made of mortal steel?, she could not feel absolutely any energy being emanated from the spear, which indicated that her prediction was more or less correct.
Soon the burst of power of the lizardman began to decrease in speed, no matter how cultivators are superior in endurance to mortals, in the end they do not have infinite stamina, much less when such a large amount of energy is wasted in a stupid manner.
Then when the lizardman leader takes a bad step, Emma injects energy into her shield and swings the shield to the side in a completely horizontal movement, the shield along with her spear begins to change form, first it coils around her wrist, hand and forearm, subsequently the metallic gauntlet that is anchored to the shield fully merges forming a new and more resistant one.
This gauntlet changes its colors from a simple dull gold to a gold with emerald, additionally two gems are revealed, one gem in the center of the palm and another that is on the back of the hand, which both are of a bright yellow color.
Electrifying flashes cover the gauntlet and thus Emma throws a powerful hook at full power to the abdomen of the lizardman leader before she stabilizes…
When it impacts Valtoe'ktek feels a wild electrical discharge running through her entire body, her body bends in a C shape, she cannot believe that this human is so strong, it is true that her cultivation realm is two grades above hers, but this…
Soon the electricity paralyzes her and makes her lose consciousness, Emma without hesitation places her on her shoulder and runs, barely managing to avoid the giant wood-scaled lizard who furiously launches itself in a brutal charge at the one who dared to injure her master.
But Emma is not intimidated and says to it: "If you want her come for me little puppy."
And just like before she propels herself and runs at her maximum, the prayer will soon stop taking effect, she has to immobilize this thing and hide it, but the giant lizard does not make it easy, every step that Emma takes is followed by a bite, a claw swipe or a tail strike, this lizard does not give up so easily.
Even so Emma is more stubborn than the lizard, while dodging it she passed through the enemy troops in combat and at a certain point she saw this as an opportunity, sliding under two lizardmen who were fiercely defending themselves against two of Emma's troops and subordinates, allowing her to completely evade the next tail strike of the lizard.
With that, the whistling sound of that tail strike is heard and the next thing that is heard is the impact of the tail of the giant wood-scaled lizard hitting squarely the side of one of the lizardmen and then the other, the blow was so strong that the sound of bones breaking could be heard.
Then Emma quickly gets up and hands over the leader, before taking out the sealing talisman and putting it on her, by the time the giant lizard turns around to once again continue the pursuit, Emma hands the helpless leader to the two soldiers and tells them: "Retreat and take her with you, I will take care of the little puppy!"
The soldiers quickly obey, they know they are not rivals for the lizard even if their cultivation improved, Emma then holds her spear with both hands and says to it: "Do you want to play a game?, if you can pass from here, you will be able to recover your master."
The desperate giant lizard launches itself furiously to attack, charging with all its strength, but Emma only smiles inside her helmet, with her spear she quickly braces to withstand the charge while from her gauntlet the same electrical sparks begin to emerge and Emma whispers: "I am going to show you why this artifact is called the dragon lightning guardian."
Then it happens, the lizard faces the spear tip that stops it, not without making Emma move thanks to its great mass, but that is not all, the lightning released by the gauntlets fully discharges into the poor lizard which releases a pitiful groan Cruacckk
And Emma takes advantage, using all her strength and levering against the ground she lifts it into the air with the spear, throwing it to crash against a tree, the poor tree cannot withstand the impact and falls split in two.
Emma stops to catch her breath, that was a bit tiring, then she prepares to rejoin the fight, when she is completely sure that she has already recovered enough stamina.
That is when she hears the painful roars of the lizard, Emma then turns around to finish the life of that creature, with spear in hand she walks at a fast pace and with relentless force, the lightning returns to her spear and her emerald and golden energy surrounds the spear giving it an ethereal touch.
With a cut she quickly launches to kill, the energy slash shines with the thunder of a lightning bolt that spreads throughout the sound of the battlefield leaving the few who have time to observe it astonished to see how one person eliminates a fourth combatant in such a short time.
But then a shadow at a speed slightly faster than Emma jumps over the lizard and a silver glow coming from what appears to be a spear splits the slash with some difficulty.
The newly arrived shadow, a completely black lizardman with the exception of the ventral scales which are white, speaks with a slightly irritated voice: "Does it make you happy to intimidate a miserable beast?"
Emma does not get irritated at being questioned, instead she shrugs and says: "Intimidate?, no, this is a hunt, are you perhaps the only ones who have the right to have one?"
The black lizardwoman says: "A hunt eh?, if things are like that… then let me be the hunter."
The lizardwoman launches herself at great speed with her spear in hand, Emma is not intimidated, although this lizardman is faster and more agile than her, it is not an insurmountable difference and injecting her spear with her energy, she clashes her spear with that of her enemy blocking her attack.
And the exchanges begin, every time the lizardman attacked her and Emma blocked it, she counterattacked quickly, a thrust, a slash, punches, kicks, it is an intense fight, every moment that passed, Emma became more serious, they were certainly winning, of the 15 lizardmen and the 3 giant lizards not including this new one, now there were only 11 and only two giant lizards…
But she felt that something was not right, she needed to end this quickly, so when her turn to counterattack came she decided to use a technique: "Emerald-golden dragon arts!, Emerald slash!"
The lizardman quickly dodges to the side knowing that it is not good to try to block that, but even so the slash manages to graze her tearing a light wound on her side.
Emma looks at her and says: "Is that all you have?"
Then Emma feels a sense of alert, which is suddenly confirmed with Mila's shout: "Emma careful!"