Emma runs like she never has before, she does not stop even for a second to look back, she has to take advantage now that the serpent is still immobilized by the impact of the roar of the celestial dragon, but obviously she does not have it easy the lizardmen warriors are already catching up to her even the leader is pursuing her…
But she cannot stop, she is not going to let her best friend, her soul sister die here, she will never do it no matter how many difficulties are placed in her path, she will not give up, no matter how impossible it may seem she will face that challenge.
When she is finally about to reach her two of the shadow spears interrupt her path, among them, Tashaze saying: "Where are you going human?, why such a hurry?, I am not finished with you I have to return to you what you did to me."
Emma losing her patience, tells them: "Get out of the way you damn savage beasts!"
And with her spear she cuts launching an emerald-golden dragon cut with all her strength she tries to hurry, the two enemies did not expect so much strength, especially Tashaze who had fought almost evenly before, it was noticeable that the two prayers substantially increased her strength and power.
The lizard leader who finally catches up tells her: "Aren't you being too arrogant by ignoring me?" she launches herself using spear shadow at an incredible speed.
Emma clicks her tongue and then says: "Damn it, you really like being annoying!" and with her gauntlet charging with energy she looks at her furiously and speaks again saying: "If you want to fight so much I want to see how you stop this…"
When the lizard leader uses her technique again, Emma shouts and activates a skill of her gauntlet: "Thunderous strike of the lightning dragon!" and the image of an energy fist with a large amount of lightning element energy strikes the enemy spear, stopping it on the spot and even forcing it to retreat.
Unfortunately for Emma it is useless, she remains surrounded and her enemies begin to attack her from all sides, she with extreme difficulty barely manages to dodge or lessen the impacts, but she does not stay still, every time she can she counterattacks striking her enemies or injuring them with her spear.
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For her part poor Mila is not exactly well, although the serpent stopped and withdrew her fangs terrified, she can feel her terrifying and powerful aura, although she does not know why this serpent can damage the barrier so much or how that black mist continues corroding it.
She does understand that Molly is terrified because of the serpent, although she does not know why, after all both are from the beast clan and even if they were prey-predator, she would recognize the beast in front of her.
But nothing about this serpent feels familiar to her, while she was thinking what to do it was when finally the effect of terror passed on the serpent and raising her head she looked again at her prey, behaving almost as if nothing had happened she looked at them with disdain and raised her head again, the natural inscriptions on her neck began to light up in a bright purple and with that her mouth opened releasing the black mist again.
Moments later she bites the barrier again with more force, Mila became more nervous, the priestesses of the temple of the emerald-golden dragon, all know how to fight, all have their own power, it is part of the creed, each one must earn her place with her own strength, she herself is no exception.
Even so, although she can and knows how to fight it is something totally different to face an energy beast several grades above and not to mention that energy beasts just like other superior races are on average 5 to 10 times stronger than someone from the 14 mortal races… than a human like her.
The serpent begins to use her body to coil around the barrier and starts constricting it with ferocious brute force, more and more cracks appear in the barrier and Molly begins to release painful sounds, Kyuuuk, Kyuuk, Kyuuuuuk
Mila cannot stand it and hugs her, then in preparation she uses the same prayer she used on Emma on herself and on Molly, she puts Molly on her leash and takes her battle staff, which she divides into two becoming two rods.
Her weapon is not very special it is only a growth type artifact, although uncommon it is standard issue of the temple, her family although it has always been a worshiper of the emerald-golden dragon god, is not one of those families with powerful legacies, influence, power or wealth within the temple or with connections to the dragons, so they do not possess a powerful artifact related to dragons with incredible effects.
She also takes out a light feet scroll of those that Feicui Long gave them, as well as a swift steps talisman, when the cracks are everywhere Mila prepares for the worst…
She trembles, although she swore she would never do it again to her parents, that she would remain strong for them, that she would fulfill the dream of both when they died before her eyes, she cannot help it, but even so, she gathers courage trusts and believes in her god… believes that he will give her the courage to fight against the impossible just like Emma does…
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Have passed what, 5-10 minutes?, Emma thinks, most likely the serpent has already recovered and she is still here trapped by these damn two-legged lizards, but even worse… she already feels that she is getting tired, the armor issued by the temple to paladins is of very high quality, even that of an apprentice paladin like hers is already earthly palace quality grade 3 – upper rank.
That is to say only an earthly master realm could pierce her armor, but that same thing makes it very energy consuming, every attack the armor blocks consumes an important part of energy at least for her realm.
Emma is desperate… she has no other choice she will use that and deal with the consequences later, she cannot afford more delay with these damn ones.
The lizard leader then uses another technique saying arrogantly: "Are you tired already human?, how fast I thought you would last longer, let me show a bit more of my power, Howling shadow spear!"
A dark black and purple energy gathers in the spear of the lizard woman leader and forms a spiral similar to that of a drill, gathering momentum and force and using shadow impulse to increase her speed in an exaggerated manner she launches herself toward Emma.
Emma looks at her furiously and tells her: "I am also tired of this…"
Then gripping her spear with her gauntlet she uses the maximum skill she can use at this moment shouting loudly: "Let the thunder of destruction fall, as if the very wrath of the dragons were unleashed!, Devastating discharge of the lightning dragon!" the gauntlet begins to expel energy like a madman into the spear, with thunderous lightning circulating through the air and causing burns on the ground.
Raising her spear she smiles at the leader and does not even try to dodge the enemy attack, driving it forcefully into the ground before the leader reaches her and… the next thing that is heard is a BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM and a tremor shakes the area, lightning with an electricity capable of killing 100 elephants explodes in the surroundings, even part of the earth explodes forming a small crater and melting the ground.
One of the soldiers fails to get out of the range of the explosion and has the misfortune that one of the lightning strikes hits her, the immediate effect at plain sight is seen how her scales heat up to such a great temperature that they begin to carbonize, she does not even have time to scream in pain because the current spreads throughout her body, making her body… now corpse convulse violently before falling to the ground.
This leaves the four survivors in shock, so much so that they do not see when Emma runs off again without wasting time saying: "Let me make it in time, let me make it in time."
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Finally the barrier breaks with a tragic sound of glass shattering and Molly screams in pain but does not separate from her owner, then the most feared happens the serpent launches herself beastially toward Mila with incredible power with her jaws open.
Mila who had already prepared herself mentally quickly jumps to the side and using energy in her legs uses an emerald impact to leap avoiding touching the body of the serpent who crashes abruptly against the dirt ground.
But that does not stop the serpent, recovering after a few seconds she quickly begins to chase her, snapping bites in the air, while Mila dodges in zigzag trying to avoid being devoured.
Molly who partially recovered, begins to raise psionic shields to block, violet-colored crystalline barriers interpose between the serpent and them, but to the serpent that is nothing and she continues attacking them without stopping in the slightest, each bite is a barrier about to break.
Mila does not know where to run, she is thinking about going to where Emma is or perhaps going to the army so that the combat maids help her, after all they are in the mystic realm grade 9 and come from a rich family, that has earthly palaces, it is impossible that they do not have equipment or protections to kill a beast in the ascendant realm…
But at the same time that would put the troops who are weaker in danger, only a few are in the mystic realm, the great majority are in elemental realm grade 9 or the peak of the elemental realm…
Without realizing it Mila trips on a rock and falls, the serpent rushes savagely to devour her prey, in her eyes only a rich bite…