She smeared the poison across three daggers in quick succession, and quickly stabbed them in.
The exact moment she did so, she let go, letting gravity drop them. Thus she narrowly avoided the swat to her, meant to kill her.
There was one thing she had been counting on to slow the Azure Dragon, and it worked. See, the dragon had several daggers half-stabbed into its neck.
The Azure Dragon was fast enough to swiftly slam a claw on its neck, and thus kill her. However, that would guarantee every single blade would violently seek much deeper into the Azure Dragon's own neck, severely injuring it.
Theoretically, it was the clear winning play for the dragon. It would receive an injury, yes, but win on the spot.
But she had bet it wouldn't do that. It was much, much stronger than her. To trade a heavy injury for the life of a weakling… would that really be worth it, in the eyes of the Azure Dragon?
She had bet no. And the facts had proven it.
