A Dragon against the Whole World

The dragon group launched an even fiercer attack.

However, although the giants’ expected anti-air measures were ineffective, this was still their territory they had managed for decades, and they still held the home advantage. Moreover, the number of giants present overall exceeded the invading dragon group, and there was no sign of a one-sided defeat in a short time.

The battle between the dragon group and the giants quickly entered a stage of intensifying heat.

However, the most important area of the entire battlefield remained the zone of combat between the King of Molten Iron and the Mountain King.

The King of Molten Iron and the Mountain King tacitly distanced themselves from the main battlefield and commenced a king-to-king combat amid the more desolate and perilous peaks.

Here, only jagged boulders and cliffs like knife-carved axes witnessed this king-to-king slaughter.

The Mountain King stood majestically on the ground, his enormous physique over forty meters tall appearing even more magnificent against the jagged rocks.

In terms of sheer oppressive size, he even surpassed the opposing Red Iron Dragon.

Facing the Mountain King, who held the Legendary War Axe and stood ready for battle, the Red Iron Dragon showed no sign of underestimation.

At the onset of the fight, he unreservedly activated his spirited state and blood burst state, while preparing to opportunistically activate the lotus state, which required thermal energy accumulation, during the battle.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The heavy, ancient war drum-like heartbeat boomed from his strong chest, and the muscles beneath the black-red scale armor bulged massively with explosive power.

Simultaneously, dazzling golden electric arcs danced and crackled on his body surface.

The Star Self Face transformed into a helmet, greatly enhancing perception.

The Star Self Arm transformed into an arm, activating the four-arm form.

In an instant, the Red Iron Dragon’s speed, power, neural reactions... all attributes soared to a new level, his overall momentum surging upward.

The Mountain King clearly felt the oppressive aura emanating from his opponent, not daring to show any negligence.

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes; with both hands gripping the thick handle of the Earth Ripper tightly, he took a mighty step forward, the heavy footfall cracking the ground, then wielded the war axe in a wide arc as the first to launch an attack.

The war axe tore through the air with a piercing shriek, slicing forward in a wide arc.

Buzz—!

A materialized, nearly twenty-meter-long earthy axe light burst forth, cutting through the air like a crescent moon, aimed directly at the Red Iron Dragon.

The speed of this axe light was not comparable to the Legendary Sword Saint’s visually beyond reach attack, nor did it carry an inevitable hit effect.

However, the Red Iron Dragon it targeted suddenly felt a weight descend upon him, as if gripped and squeezed tightly by an invisible giant hand, his movement becoming slightly sluggish.

Clearly, this was some effect associated with the Earth Ripper.

The Red Iron Dragon’s eyes narrowed, his wings suddenly spreading to their utmost.

Scarlet energy light glowed like flames on the wing membrane, resembling a pair of dazzling light wings unfurling suddenly.

The dragon wings merely swung in midair, a powerful force burst forth, shattering and dispelling the oppressive sensation of the invisible hand.

The Red Iron Dragon easily dodged the solidifying axe light strike.

Swoosh!

Almost simultaneously as he avoided the axe light, the Red Iron Dragon opened his maw, a Destructive Dragon Breath Bomb, slightly enhanced by internal thermal energy, shot out explosively, straight towards the Mountain King’s face.

The spherical dragon breath’s power was slightly inferior to line breath but more flexible and swift, closing in on the Mountain King almost in the blink of an eye.

The Mountain King, rich in battle experience, did not dodge the oncoming dragon breath bomb but steadily raised the broad axe face, like a shield, sweeping toward the dragon breath bomb.

Boom!

The violent explosion sound erupted, fiery flames and shockwaves surged and spread.

The Mountain King staggered backward a few steps under the shock, hot flames filling his vision instantly.

Yet, just at the moment when the flames hadn’t entirely dispersed, a sharp dragon claw, like a giant blade, tore through the fiery curtain, smashing fiercely toward the Mountain King’s head!

"Caught in the trap!"

Unexpectedly, the Mountain King did not show fear; instead, he grinned broadly, showing a smile.

Unlike the other hill giants of his clan, who usually had brutish, straightforward personalities, Groom was always coarse yet fine, with keen instincts.

From the moment he saw the King of Molten Iron spit out that dragon breath bomb, the Mountain King, relying on rich combat intuition, had foresight of a possible close-up assault the opponent might conceal using it and had already made preparations to counter.

While his body was being blasted backward by the dragon breath, he had already driven the heavy handle of the Earth Ripper forcefully into the ground.

Earth Vein Slash!

Rumble—crack!

With the axe blade’s impact point as the center, the ground was forcibly ripped apart by an irresistible invisible force, a raging energy shockwave erupted from the ground, aiming at the relatively vulnerable abdomen of Galos rushing from the flames.

Some smaller stones along the way shattered into powder within this shockwave, and the pervasive flames forcibly dispelled.

The air seemed to plow out a transient vacuum passage.

Confronted with this sudden counterattack, the Red Iron Dragon remained unfazed.

His evolved dragon wings contorted at an unimaginable angle, vibrating at high frequency, performing an almost right-angle upward maneuver during rapid charging, avoiding the direct impact of the Earth Vein Slash.

However, the shockwave spreading at the attack’s margins still grazed the dragon’s body.

Galos’ body slightly trembled, the scale armor on his surface showing some minor minute cracks but not breaking, and his insides experienced a minor uncomfortable feeling as if minor internal bleeding from light impacts.