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Chapter 207: Ladon (3)

While Drako was fighting Ladon, the rest of the group were on the top of the mountain.

"Let Artemis go," Zoe demanded.

Atlas walked closer to the chained goddess. "Perhaps you'd like to take the sky for her, then? Be my guest."

Zoe opened her mouth to speak, but Artemis said, "No! Do not offer, Zoe! I forbid you."

Atlas smirked. He knelt next to Artemis and tried to touch her face, but the goddess bit at him, almost taking off his fingers.

"Hoo-hoo," Atlas chuckled. "You see, daughter? Lady Artemis likes her new job. I think I will have all the Olympians take turns carrying my burden, once Lord Kronos rules again, and this is the center of our palace. It will teach those weaklings some humility."

"I don't understand," Percy said. "Why can't Artemis just let go of the sky?"

Atlas laughed. "How little you understand, young one. This is the point where the sky and the earth first met, where Ouranos and Gaia first brought forth their mighty children, the Titans. The sky still yearns to embrace the earth. Someone must hold it at bay, or else it would crush down upon this place, instantly flattening and everything within a hundred leagues. Once you have taken the burden, there is no escape." Atlas smiled. "Unless someone else takes it from you."

He approached them, studying Thalia and Percy. "So these are the best heroes of the age, huh? Not much of a challenge."

"Fight us," Percy said. "And let's see."

"Have the gods taught you nothing? An immortal doesn't fight a mere mortal directly. It is beneath our dignity. I will have Luke crush you instead."

"So, you're another coward," Percy said.

Atlas's eyes glowed with hatred. With difficulty, he turned his attention to Thalia.

"As for you, daughter of Zeus, it seems Luke was wrong about you."

"I wasn't wrong," Luke said. He looked terribly weak, and he spoke every word as if it were painful. "Thalia, you still can join us. Call the Ophiotaurus. It will come to you. Look!"

He waved his hand, and next to them a pool of water appeared: a pond ringed in black marble, big enough for the Ophiotaurus.

But there was a problem, a mistake that Luke and the rest have commit. It wasn't Thalia the one that the Ophiotaurus was following, it was Percy. In fact, the son of Poseidon almost call the Ophiotaurus by accident.

"Thalia, call the Ophiotaurus," Luke persisted. "And you will be more powerful than the gods."

"Luke…" Her voice was full of pain. "What happened to you?"

"Don't you remember all those times we talked? All those times we cursed the gods? Our fathers have done nothing for us. They have no right to rule the world!"

Thalia shook her heard. "Free Annabeth. Let her go."

"If you join me," Luke promised, "it can be like old times. The three of us together. Fighting for a better world. Please, Thalia, if you don't agree…"

His voice faltered. "It's my last chance. He will use the other way if you don't agree. Please."

The fear in his voice sounded real. Luke was in danger.

His life depended on Thalia's joining his cause. And Thalia might believe it, too.

"Do not, Thalia," Zoe warned. "You're a Hunter now, we must fight them."

Luke waved his hand again, and a fire appeared. A bronze brazier, just like the one at camp. A sacrificial flame.

"Thalia," Percy said. "No."

Bianca stood there in silent, she was too scared to say anything.

Behind Luke, the golden sarcophagus began to glow. As it did, they saw images in the mist all around them: black marble walls rising, the ruins becoming whole, a terrible and beautiful palace rising around them, made of fear and shadow.

"We will raise Mount Othrys right here," Luke promised, in a voice so strained it was hardly his. "Once more, it will be stronger and greater than Olympus. Look, Thalia. We are not weak."

He pointed toward the ocean. Marching up the side of the mountain, from the beach where the Princess Andromeda was docked, was a great army. Dracaenae and Laestrygonians, monsters and half-bloods, hell hounds, harpies, and other monsters. The whole ship must've been emptied, because there were hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand. And they were marching towards them. In a few minutes, they would be there.

Boom!

The mountain trembled. The battle between the two dragons was affecting the whole landscape. The army was shocked, fearing an enemy attack. It was quite and hilarious scene.

"This is only a taste of what is to come," Luka said, calming himself from those temblors. "Soon we will be ready to storm Camp Half-Blood. And after that, Olympus itself. All we need is your help."

For a terrible moment, Thalia hesitated. She gazed at Luke, her eyes full of pain, as if the only thing she wanted in the world was to believe him. Then she levelled here spear. "You aren't Luke. I don't know you anymore."

"Yes, you do, Thalia," he pleaded. Don't make me… Don't make him destroy you."

There was no time. If that army got to the top of the hill, they would be overwhelmed.

At that moment, the earth shook again.

"Up," Bianca said.

They all looked followed her eyes, and they met the most incredible thing of the night.

The golden flame ascended directly to heaven. A few seconds later, that same golden ray fell, threatening to split the mountain in half.

The tremors caused by the battle between the two dragons stopped completely.

The battle was over.

"RrrroOOooooAAAAAAARRR!"

The youngest did not know what that majestic roar meant. But Zoe, Atlas and Artemis, those who had lived for millennia, knew perfectly that it was all this oppressive aura that was gathering in the mountain.

"One more dragon has reached that level," murmured the goddess.

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Let's return back a little bit.

Drako was fighting Ladon, and both were quite injured at the time. The difference between the power was quite wide, but Drako's skills narrowed that gap to the point where they were now more or less even.

Ladon's attacks did not vary, they were always the same, but at the same time they were impossible to avoid. Drako was much bigger than the Evil Dragon, which at the same time made him an easier target for Ladon to attack, and much harder for the young dragon to defend himself. The main problem with Ladon's attacks was the poison he inflicted on each of Drako's wounds. Little by little, this poison weakened Drako.

Especially problematic were Ladon's magical barriers. Not only was Ladon's defense extremely high, but his barriers were very difficult to penetrate. Using [Infernal Dragon Punch], Drako's most powerful attack not counting his Noble Phantasm, he could barely destroy those barriers and strike a blow at Ladon. Of course, this consumed an immense amount of mana. Drako's MP was dropping at about the same time as his HP.

"RRrrroOoOaaAArrRRR!"

Drako used his best attack again, and Ladon repeated his strategy. With a powerful magical barrier, the Evil Dragon blocked 80% of Drako's attack. His scales blocked another 10%. Instantly, he counterattacked him with his hundreds of heads.

But, Drako had already learned this pattern of defense and attack. He had already prepared his own defense for that moment, the moment when Ladon was at his weakest.

Using [Dark Fang], Drako caught just under a dozen heads. However, instead of biting and releasing them to escape, Drako held them a little longer. Inside, he was channeling yet another attack.

The dark flames burned Ladon's heads. Drako had used [Breath of Darkness] while the heads were still inside, burning them at close range. This attack was very effective, as Ladon attacked like crazy trying to get Drako to release them.

But Drako did not release them, and continued to burn them without stopping. With [Numbing Darkness Claws], he defended himself as best he could. With a little luck, several of the heads that were hit by him would freeze, and fall directly to the ground. This was a side effect of this ability.

With the repeated use of these skills, Drako would level them up. Thus, he was doing more and more damage to Ladon.

[Level of normal skill [Breath of Darkness] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of normal skill [Breath of Darkness] was increased from 7 to 8]

[Level of normal skill [Dark Fang] was increased from 5 to 6]

[Level of normal skill [Infernal Dragon Punch] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of normal skill [Numbing Darkness Claws] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of normal skill [Numbing Darkness Claws] was increased from 7 to 8]

But even if he defended himself as best he could, and defeated many of Ladon's heads, he still had infinite heads to attack. The attacks did a lot of damage, but what was really killing Drako was the poison. It was being applied so many times, and from so many different places, that it was slowly consuming him. Even the [Poison Resistance] and [Pain Resistance] levels were not saving him.

[Level of resistance skill [Poison Resistance] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of resistance skill [Pain Resistance] was increased from 7 to 8]

[Level of resistance skill [Physical Resistance] was increased from 5 to 6]


Chapter 208: Ladon (4)

What was really saving Drako from death was none other than his skill [Automatic HP Recovery], plus the very regeneration that his Nephalem Dragon King race was giving him. Per second, he should recover a little more than 350 HP. However, his skill at level 4 was 4 times that number. Thanks to that, he was able to slow down the damage caused by the poison.

With the [Poison Resistance] skill at level 7, the poison damage was 100 HP per second per wound. Right now, Drako was losing almost 3000 HP per second from the poison alone - the poison was taking away 1600 HP per second!

If this continued, Drako would die in the next minute. If Ladon continued to create wounds from which to poison Drako, our protagonist was going to die a great deal within a minute. Maybe thirty seconds was the most the dragon could hope for.

Drako was fucked up, but he wasn't the only one.

Both dragons smiled mercilessly at their adversary despite the brutality of their battle. As much as Drako was a Nephalem, a hybrid, you could now see that his origins were the same as the dragon in front of him.

Because of Drako's skills, he could deny much of the damage he was receiving. He was understanding at this time why even Ladon, with statistics lower than Aphrodite, was part of the group of dragons feared by all mythologies. If it weren't for all the skills Drako had, he'd be more than dead right now. This poison, these magical barriers, Ladon's entire set was fearsome.

Ladon had the perfect combination. A virtually impenetrable defense, a terrifying poison, and hundreds of heads to apply it. The best way not to die in front of Ladon was not to confront him.

But, that doesn't apply to a monster like Drako.

Ladon didn't have all of Drako's literally broken skills, so even if he could deny 90% of [Infernal Dragon Punch's] damage, he couldn't do the same with the rest of his attacks. Dozens of his heads had died in this fight, and he was close to death as well.

Ladon had less HP than Drako at this point, and both knew it. If they continued to fight like crazy, the chances were that they would both die.

Drako opened his dragon eyes wide when he saw what Ladon was doing.

"Grrrr... I didn't expect you to be a coward," Drako said.

"Hahaha, there is nothing more pleasant than watching my adversary die drowned in poison.

Ladon had locked himself in his own fence. Not only that, but he was putting up barrier after barrier in front of him.

The Evil Dragon did not want to die after being brought back to life, he did not want to die again. That's why, if there was a way to win without dying, he was going to do that. Even if it led to him being considered a coward for the next millennia.

Drako didn't stand still when he saw this. He threw himself into it, constantly hitting the barriers of Ladon.

But it was no use.

It was obvious that by putting up barriers so quickly, they would become weaker. And so it was. Now, with each punch, Drako was breaking two barriers. The problem was that for every two barriers he destroyed, Ladon created three.

In less than fifteen seconds, Ladon had created a dozen barriers between him and Drako.

Drako went through a brief moment of despair. Was he going to die here?

No, he still had cards to play.

In fact, Drako had not yet used his most powerful cards. He hadn't, though, for obvious reasons. A dragon couldn't use Noble Phantasm on humans, could he?

So what could Drako do?

No, no. Wait.

"Ufufufu, I have one that wasn't originally used by a human," Drako laughed.

"What?" Ladon asked when he heard him muttering.

Drako didn't answer, and only showed his teeth in a cruel dragon's smile. Ladon began to have a bad feeling inside.

"Laevatein."

A small (compared to Drako's size) sword appeared in front of Drako.

The sword was off, with all its power sealed under nine seals

The sword that Drako obtained through the system belonged to a fire giant, Surtr. It was a sword that a giant used, so its true size should be much larger.

And so it was.

Ladon watched, with fear in his eyes, as the sword that was ten times smaller than him grew to a height similar to that of Hera's golden apple tree. The sword, which was originally dull, burst into a golden glow when it reached Drako's hands.

"Yes, if this is what it takes... there's no way I can't kill you," Drako smiled as he grabbed the sword.

The feeling he had when he held the sword was the same as when he held it in his hands in human form. It seemed that Rama's Fate Skill was still acting even when Drako was a dragon.

"My question is... how many of your seals can I lift with my current strength?"

Nine seals limited Laevatein's power, making the sword only an A-rank.

Drako introduced all his magical power into the sword. He was to spend all his remaining MP in a single attack, a fatal attack with which to kill Ladon.

The seals had nothing to do with MP, but with magic power. Drako could choose how much of his magic power he was going to attack with, and obviously he was going to use it all.

First seal, opened.

Second seal, open.

Third seal, open.

Fourth seal...

Drako felt he had hit a bottomless pit when trying to unlock the fourth seal. His magical power was insufficient to unlock the fourth seal.

"Well, three seals are enough," Drako muttered.

Blood was already starting to flow from his mouth. He had just over twenty seconds to live.

The sword shone like the sun. Ladon was shaking from behind his barriers. For the first time for the Evil Dragon, he felt fear.

"You know, I don't want to destroy the whole state," Drako said. "But this attack should be enough.

Drako had no doubt that by using Loptr Laegjarn, he would at least destroy the state he was in. With all the seals unlocked, Surtr was able to destroy the nine kingdoms of Scandinavia. How much could Drako destroy with three seals?

That's why he was only going to use Laevatein's real name, an attack similar to Artoria's Excalibur or Mordred's Clarent Blood Arthur.

Laevatein: The Sword Akin to the Sun of Calamity

The sunbeam shot up into the sky, and fell on Ladon's barriers.

Drako only watched with cold eyes as barrier after barrier was destroyed under the power of Ladon. The Evil Dragon had strengthened them by seeing the power of the sword, but it was still insufficient.

Laevatein broke through the last, and strongest, defense. Ladon launched a last defense, throwing acid flashes on the sun's attack.

"It is useless."

And indeed. A second later, Drako was notified.

[50.000 experience points have been obtained.]

[Because of the effects of Title Skill [Walking Egg]. Another 50.000 experience points were obtained.]

[The level of [Nephilim Dragon] raised from 107 to 125.]

[[Nephilim Dragon King] has reached its MAX level.]

Drako fell to his knees, his HP continued to drop.

HP – 17500/17500

The rise in levels had made Drako gain 15,000 HP, prolonging his life a few seconds more.

"Evolve," Drako said with what might be his last breath.

[Evolving into Nephalem Great Dragon King in 3…]

HP- 12000

[2…]

HP- 6500

[1…]

HP- 1000

"Grrrrr…"

Drako felt a searing pain inside as her body experienced changes once again. He felt the bones in his back pierce his skin, causing immense pain. Drako sometimes wondered what would become of him if he didn't have the skill [Pain Resistance].

[Evolution Completed]

[Reached the Great Dragon King category]

[Congratulations, now you are one of the six Great Dragon Kings]

[Stats Boost: +500]

[You still have 78.000 exp to use, levelling up]

[The level of [Nephilim Dragon] raised from 1 to 118.]

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Drako

Race – Nephilim Great Dragon King

Level – 118/250

HP – 215231/570000

MP – 278120/560000

STR – 3225

END – 2850

AGI – 3575

MAG – 2800

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Drako's boosted statistics as he evolved had saved his life at the last second!

This evolution had brought him incredible improvements! Drako felt that he could kill Ladon without any problems in his current state. There was no need to use his Noble Phantasm.

Not only that. The evolution came with an interesting series of level-ups.

[Level of special skill [Sage] was increased from 3 to 4]

[Level of special skill [Presence Detection] was increased from 3 to 5]

[Level of special skill [Automatic HP Recovery] was increased from 4 to 6]

[Level of resistance skill [Holy Resistance] was increased from 3 to 4]

[Level of normal skill [Breath of Darkness] was increased from 8 to 10]

[Breath of Darkness MAX level. MAG boost]

[Breath of Darkness evolve to Breath of Abyss: Lv1]

[Level of normal skill [Dark Fang] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of normal skill [Infernal Dragon Punch] was increased from 7 to 8]

[Level of normal skill [Numbing Darkness Claws] was increased from 8 to 9]

[Level of normal skill [Anti-illusion eyes] was increased from 5 to 10]

[Anti-illusion eyes MAX level. MAG boost]

[Level of normal skill [Holy Breath] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of normal skill [Holy Fang] was increased from 5 to 6]

[Level of normal skill [Holy Healing Claws] was increased from 6 to 7]

[Level of title skill [In-fighter] was increased from 5 to 7]

[Title Skill [Dragon's slayer] acquired.]

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Drako

Race – Nephilim Great Dragon King

Level – 118/250

HP – 215231/570000

MP – 278120/560000

STR – 3225

END – 2850

AGI – 3575

MAG – 2900

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Special Skills:

[Sage: Lv4] [Flight] [Darkness attribute] [Holy attribute] [Senjutsu] [Presence Detection: Lv5] [Automatic HP Recovery: LV6] [Aigis: Divine Scales of the Nephalem Dragon]

Resistance Skills:

[Physical Resistance: Lv6] [Fall Resistance: Lv5] [Hunger Resistance: Lv5] [Poison Resistance: Lv7] [Magic Resistance: Lv7] [Darkness Resistance: Lv5] [Pain Resistance: Lv8] [Fire Resistance] [Holy Resistance: Lv 4]

Normal Skills:

[Inspect Status] [Breath of Abyss: Lv1] [Dark Fang: Lv6] [Infernal Dragon Punch: Lv7] [Numbing Darkness claws: Lv 8] [Anti-illusion eyes: Lv5] [Art of human transformation] [Arrow Creation] [Touki: Lv6] [Stealth: Lv4] [Holy Breath: Lv 6] [Holy Fang: Lv 5] [Holy Healing Claws: Lv 6]

Title Skills:

[Dragon King's Son] [Walking Egg] [In-Fighter: Lv7] [Harmful Insects Killer: Lv2] [Path of Evil: Lv 5] [Hero: Lv4] -> [Path of the Hero] [Devil Killer: Lv2] [Fallen Angel Killer: Lv1] [The One Who Is Loved By Nature]] [Archer] [Evil King] [Holy King] [Magus Killer: Lv2] [Artemis Blessing] [Dragon Slayer]

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