blogombal Chapter 81 It's Too Late
Chapter 81 It's Too Late
With a deep, resounding roar, the wounds on Bazelgeuse's neck and tail were squeezed to stop bleeding by the rapidly growing scales.
Chen Yan looked at the newly grown, hook-shaped, layered scales on the front of its neck. The poor feel of the blade cutting into it gave him a headache.
Meanwhile, Nergigante looked at the Bazelgeuse's large tail, which was covered in crimson scales, and hesitated whether to sacrifice a few teeth to take a big bite.
The Bazelgeuse, caught between a rock and a hard place, is much more straightforward.
The exploding scales on its tail, already glowing red-hot, don't even need to fall off; with just a gentle shake, a massive, overwhelming explosion will engulf the Nergigante once again.
Chen Yan, who was standing in front of it, was hit by its enthusiastic, fiery breath.
Unlike the pure flames of the Pink Rathian, the flames spewed by the Bazelgeuse are ignited by explosive liquid secreted from its internal glands. The temperature is so high and the explosion so violent that it is practically a flame composed of very unartistic explosions.
Chen Yan and Hua Miao stood on the back of the Pink Rathian and swung their blades with all their might. The blades flashed and cleaved through the bursts of flame, trying their best to prevent them from exploding on the Pink Rathian's wings.
At this moment, the three dragons are in a straight line in the sky, chasing each other, with Nergigante in the back, Bakurin in the middle, and Pink Rathian in front.
Scales burst, thorns lashed, blades flashed, flames roared, and black smoke billowed, creating utter chaos on the battlefield. The three colossal beasts, locked in a fierce, pitch-black battle, nearly turned the world upside down.
The Nergigante's fierce yet adorable black face was blasted bright red, but its massive tail was also torn to shreds by the attack.
The relentless pain emanating from its massive tail caused the Bazelgeuse to lose its senses, and surprisingly, it opened its delicate little mouth to bite Chen Yan. In the chaos, it actually managed to bite the tip of Chen Yan's knife.
The iron-like jaws made the blade creak under the strain, and in his desperation, Chen Yan simply jumped onto the dragon head and pried open its jaws.
Flower Cat ran over to help, using a knife to pry open its teeth. Just as it made a small opening, a burst of fiery breath from the Bazelgeuse's throat sprayed directly onto its face. Flower Cat, who now had the same skin color as a black cat, had half of its head hair singed off and was frantically scratching its nose with its eyes blazing with fire.
They were fighting fiercely in the back, while the Pink Rathian was exhausted in the front.
In just half a day, it first flew from Star Base to Coral Highlands, then fought against Dazzling Bird, Wind Dragon, and Nergigante, and was chased by Nergigante all the way to the edge of the Elder's Recess.
It had already exceeded the amount of exercise it used to do in a month. At this moment, the little dragon's tongue was drooping at its mouth, its face was covered in soot from the smoke and dust caused by the explosion, its eyes were glazed with exhaustion, its wings were flapping weakly, and it looked like it was about to collapse.
Just as the leading Pink Rathian was flying lower and lower, and it looked like it was about to lead the Bazelgeuse and Nergigante behind it into the volcano, Nergigante finally couldn't hold back anymore.
He unleashed the angrier roar in history.
He came here to kill! Not to play this boring "you hit me, I hit him" game with Bazelgeuse and Chen Yan!
With a swing of its claws, the Nergigante unleashed a tremendous force in its rage, extinguishing the endless sea of fire.
Once the Bazelgeuse's damned tail, which was constantly growing exploding scales, was revealed, it tilted its head back, waving its enormous demonic horns, and gave the Bazelgeuse an early New Year's greeting.
The horn, carrying enough force to shatter mountains, slammed into its seven- or eight-meter-long, thick tail. The fine red scales were shattered, and the flesh burst open, scalding blood gushing from a mouth half a meter deep.
The blow shattered the Bazelgeuse's tail, but it wasn't over yet. The Nergigante then plunged its claws into the wound, and with another roar, it ripped apart most of the Bazelgeuse's tail with its thick forelimbs, tearing apart flesh and bones with a sound of cracking.
Bazelgeuse let out a deafening wail, and Chen Yan seized the opportunity to draw his sword, staring in disbelief as the ferocious Nergigante devoured Bazelgeuse's bloodied and mangled tail in front of everyone.
Then Chen Yan was horrified to discover that the Nergigante was biting a Bazelgeuse, but its little red eyes were still fixed on him. The reason it was eating so deliciously was most likely because it was treating the meat in its mouth as its own and biting it hard.
"No way, it'll be finished once it's full! Flower Cat, it's your turn to bloom!"
Chen Yan flipped over and jumped onto the body of the Bazelgeuse. As he ran toward its tail, he bent down and scooped up a flammable rock, then threw it at the face of the Nergigante.
With a "smack," a small patch of Nergigante's face was charred. Provoked by Chen Yan, Nergigante, which should have been furious and relentlessly pursued him, ignored him completely this time and simply ate more of Bazelgeuse meat.
Chen Yan sheathed his sword and assumed a drawing-and-slash stance. He charged toward Nergigante while shouting at Bazelgeuse.
"Hey, stop howling! If you don't want to become a bald-tailed dragon, use your ultimate move! Let's work together to force it back!"
Perhaps understanding Chen Yan's words, the Bazelgeuse actually shut its mouth.
It trembled, frantically squeezing the rupture glands inside its body. Under the intense pain, the rupture glands were about to burst, and explosive bodily fluids almost sprayed out from its body, quickly covering all the silver-gray scales on the back of its neck, back, tail, and chest and abdomen.
After the body fluids flow out of the body, they adhere to the hook-shaped scales all over the body and solidify in the blink of an eye into droplet-shaped, red-hot, explosive particles called "exploding scales".
Chen Yan suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Bazelgeuse seemed to only understand the first half of his sentence, ignoring the second half, "Let's work together to force it back!" Judging from its posture, it clearly wanted to blow him to smithereens as well.
It was too late to turn back. Chen Yan could only use all his strength to jump into the air before the scales beneath his feet exploded. In mid-air, he gathered his strength, and a devastating blow gradually brewed in the trembling scabbard.
However, Bazelgeuse's "Heaven and Earth Together" is still one step ahead.
Before being swallowed by the crimson-gold flames surging from every gap in its scales, it let out a violent roar as if it were making a desperate gamble. Its massive body, which was over twenty meters long, was enveloped in a dazzling golden light.
Then came the explosions, the explosions, and more explosions.
Amidst the mournful cries of the air, crimson flames surged ahead, followed by a series of explosions. Layer upon layer of fire surged and churned, engulfing every inch of its body. Its outline, the shape of the Extinction Dragon, and Chen Yan's figure were completely consumed by the flames, leaving only the edges of its wings faintly visible in the sea of fire.
Amidst the continuous rumbling, the shockwave from its final attack swept outwards in a ring, scorching even the wind. The Flower Cat let out a miserable cry as it was completely flattened, and the Pink Rathian was unable to maintain its shape, plummeting straight to the ground.
Fortunately, it had been flying low enough, and after a flurry of frantic braking, it stopped just before crashing into the volcano. But it and the cat were too preoccupied to care about themselves, both looking up at the sky that was glowing red with firelight.
Where is Chen Yan?
Amidst the embers of the fire, the bald Bazelgeuse, stripped of all its scales, was the first to appear, and it staggered away unnoticed.
Immediately following was a roar of rage from the Extinction Dragon, which emerged second from the sea of fire, its left horn missing a piece.
Finally, it was Chen Yan's turn. The sharp-eyed Flower Cat noticed that he seemed to have lost even more weight. A second before he hit the ground, the Sakura Fire Dragon Car, having recovered its strength, rushed forward, its wings together to catch him steadily, and he slid all the way to its neck.
Chen Yan exhaled the breath that had been stuck in his throat, and his whole body went limp.
He looked at the Nergigante above him, still brimming with murderous intent and full of vitality, and reached out to touch the neck of the Pink Rathian in its final moments.
"In my next life, I want to be a dragon. If I had a choice, I want to be a..."
Before he could finish speaking or even touch anything, he suddenly felt dizzy and was sent flying.
If it weren't for Hua Miao's quick reflexes in jumping up and catching him, he might have turned into a puddle on the ground.
Hua Miao winked at Chen Yan and secretly gave him a thumbs up.
"Touching someone's precious granddaughter in front of their grandparents, Chen Yan, you're something else."
Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he looked up.
Sakura's fire dragon was curled up under a fire dragon with beautiful tricolored scales, whimpering softly.
With each groan it let out, the black and red fire dragon beside it grew even angrier; with each scratch and fire blister it displayed, the black and red fire dragon beside it grew even angrier...
It wasn't until its black and red scales were adorned with lotus-like patterns, its aura as terrifying as a volcano about to erupt, that Sakura Rathalos pointed its tail tip at the Nergigante hovering in the sky.
Two dragon shadows roared and charged toward the Extinction Dragon, one on the left and one on the right.
"So you're the one bullying my precious granddaughter, huh?"
Voiced by Chen Yan.
...
Hua Miao, Chen Yan, and Yinghuolong sat in a circle, with a pot and meat roasting over a small campfire among them.
The pot was filled with dried fish soup, and the fire was roasting dried venison. Chen Yan leaned against the wings of the Sakura Fire Dragon and slowly drank a sip of the salty fish soup. A warm current flowed down his throat and into his stomach, nourishing his shriveled stomach.
After drinking half a bowl, she handed the remaining half bowl of fish soup to Hua Miao, whose face clearly said "I don't want to drink it," but who kept secretly swallowing her saliva.
He took a small bite off and handed the remaining half of the venison to the Sakura Rathalos, whose face clearly said "I don't want to eat," but whose stomach kept rumbling.
Neither the cat nor the dragon accepted the food until Chen Yan smiled and stuffed the fish soup and roast meat into their hands, as they were equally hungry.
"Don't worry, I'm fine now. I could fight Nergigante for another three hundred rounds without any problem."
Seeing that his tone was steady, his complexion was rosy, and his body was warm, the relieved Flower Cat and Sakura Rathalos began to eat.
Chen Yan stroked the cat's fur with one hand and massaged the Sakura Rathalos's wings with the other, his eyes fixed on the epic battle in the sky.
...
The Extinction Dragon roared, but the Black Flame King responded with an even more terrifying roar.
The "Ancient Dragon Slayer" Nergigante, whose mission is to hunt Elder Dragons, is now in a state of utter disarray.
His body was no longer as intact as when it was first seen. Most of the black and purple thorns on his body had been burned down to only the short, thick roots, and his scales and flesh had been charred and cracked.
This was caused by the Black Flame King's dragon flame. He dodged in time and only burned off a small part of it, but he did not expect that the flames remaining on his body would trigger a more powerful secondary explosion, which directly shattered half of his thorns.
Under its left forelimb, near its vital abdomen, were several deep, bone-revealing claw marks, from which dripped thick, pungent black blood—the marks inflicted by the Purple Poison Queen's venomous claws.
The Purple Poison Queen's deadly poison also took the Extinction Dragon by surprise. It had planned to rely on its extremely strong poison resistance to withstand a claw attack and then bite back, but unexpectedly, the deadly poison not only instantly invaded its body and began to wreak havoc, but also brought it unbearable pain.
He barely dared to move his left paw anymore, because pulling on the wound was so painful that he wanted to smash his head against a volcano.
The invincible regenerative ability simply couldn't keep up with the destructive speed of Black Flame King and Purple Poison Princess.
The dragon flames continued to burn away at His flesh and blood, and the deadly poison tore at His lungs and internal organs little by little along His blood.
The double torment drove Nergigante almost mad. More than once, it wanted to eliminate or severely injure one of the two dragons first, but what it couldn't understand was that the dragon couple's cooperation was so seamless.
Black Flame King hovered around him the whole time. The Fire Dragon King's unparalleled flying skills and speed made it impossible for the less agile Nergigante to catch up. It never got close, but instead hurled wave after wave of dragon fire at Nergigante, pressing it down until it fell into the attack range of its partner, Purple Poison Princess.
Meanwhile, the Purple Poison Queen had already swung her venomous tail, creating a poisonous zone shrouded in purple smoke on the ground. She danced gracefully within the poisonous zone, her figure hazy and beautiful. In her dance of death, the Nergigante repeatedly missed its targets and was unknowingly scratched and whipped. Before long, even purple blood foam was spitting from the corners of its mouth.
The Extinction Dragon was dizzy from the poison and felt pain even when it was breathing. It folded its wings and then unfolded them again, creating a storm that dispersed some of the poisonous smoke. Taking advantage of this moment, it broke free from the Purple Poison Princess's entanglement and hurriedly tried to fly into the sky, but what it got in the face was a mouthful of dragon fire from the Black Flame King.
This fire takes longer to build up, has a higher temperature, and a more frightening color.
The distorted air, carrying flames, enveloped it like an inverted lotus flower. Knowing that being suppressed would be worse, and in order not to face both the Purple Poison Princess and the Black Flame King at the same time, it could only force its way out before the red lotus flames fully unfolded.
He roared again, his right claw protecting his face, his wings flapping fiercely and pressing tightly against his back, smashing through the flames and returning to the sky.
Facing the approaching Black Flame King, the raging Nergigante suddenly turned around, flinging off all the remaining thorns and the flames clinging to them, ready to explode a second time.
Hundreds of thorns transformed into a black mist, but the Black Flame King neither dodged nor avoided it. It simply folded its wings in front of its body. Its wings, with their flowing red patterns, were far thicker than those of an ordinary fire dragon. The thorns that could pierce through the thick mud armor of the Earth Sand Dragon only left a few white marks on its wing membrane.
After a long battle, Nergigante was almost exhausted. The speed at which the regenerating shell on its body grew thorns was significantly slower than half. Under the dual torment of flames on its body and the deadly poison inside, some of the white thorns shattered and fell off before they even had a chance to turn black.
Purple Poison Princess spread her wings and returned to Black Flame King's side; the three dragons stared at each other.
Faced with the formidable fire dragon couple, who were extremely adept at coordinating and controlling the battlefield, the fearless Nergigante had, for the first time, considered retreating. Meanwhile, Black Flame King and Purple Poison Princess were also puzzled as to why this unfamiliar monster, Nergigante, was still alive.
This was the first time they had ever seen a monster that had withstood more than a dozen dragon fire explosions and more than a dozen venomous tail lashes and was still so full of life.
Seeing Nergigante slowly retreating, the Rathalos couple didn't try to force it to stay. Nergigante gave the Rathalos couple a deep look, then turned and left. Perhaps because it was too badly injured, it flew erratically, sometimes high and sometimes low, until it flew close to the ground, its lowered eyes meeting Chen Yan's.
Chen Yan felt a chill run down his spine. The Extinction Dragon actually wanted to hunt him!
Sure enough, the moment Chen Yan discovered his thoughts, the weakened Nergigante suddenly regained its strength. It stomped its four limbs on the ground, instantly crushing the solid volcanic rock beneath it. Using the force, it transformed into a black lightning bolt, rushing straight toward its prey, which it had always wanted the most!
The distance was too close and the speed too fast; the weakened Chen Yan had no way to dodge or avoid it!
Nergigante grabbed him in its claws, its hungry eyes looking as if it wanted to devour him alive. Meanwhile, the Pink Rathian and Suicune, who had just reacted, tried to save Chen Yan with fire and slashes, but only ended up with two more wounds on its wings.
That's too late!