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As I am charging the Crystal dragon, he shouts with a proud voice.
-I am the last Dragon of my tribe! My name is Ateri Kemira and I accept your challenge, Ammy!
I hold the iron sword with a smile while imagining a surprised expression on my father.
When I run 2 meters of distance, he gets on his fours and I feel immense pressure from him.
Suddenly, he opens his mouth and an Ice beam comes out of his mouth and I instantly use the great sword as a support, by stabbing the ground with it and using the flat side of the blade to jump out of the beam's range while the great sword is hit with the beam.
While Ateri charges another Ice beam, I look at the great sword. The blade got encased in ice, leaving only the hilt intact. I try to lift the sword, but even with [Telekinesis], I could only get it out of the ground and lift it up a little in the air, before it went crashing towards the ground, leaving only the hilt as I let go.
I look back at Ateri and he's about to shoot another beam still while I was trying to recover my blade. When he shoots the beam out of his mouth, I quickly do a back flip and the beam quickly goes by where I was.
With the great sword long gone, I run as quick as I could beside the Ice beam towards Ateri.
He stops the ice beam and charges another.
I jump to the sides randomly, confusing him about where I would jump.
It is a really simple pattern actually, three jumps to the right, three to the left, two the right, four to the left and repeat. But I guess he doesn't notice it and closes his mouth and waits for me to get closer. I pull the great sword's sheath out of my back together with the iron sword with [Telekinesis], but I rapidly separate the two as the gap between me and the Dragon was getting closed with each quick small jump I did. With the Great sword's sheath on my mouth, I use it as a support to jump towards him.
With a small hope of piercing his hard scales with the help of the impulse, I point the iron sword at his chest as I pull it from the sheath with my mouth and let go of the sheath.
But by crossing his claws in front of my blade, the blade couldn't even last a second after touching them, only making a small splinter of his claw as the blade breaks in half.
With a left lunge with his claws aimed at me, I dodge it barely by twisting my body as much as I could, but still get hit as he swings his arm at me, sending me straight to the ground. Doing my best to avoid breaking my body, I adjust myself to land, when my paw touches the ground, I roll as I noticed Ateri's eyes glowing blue.
In groups of five, fifteen ice spikes appear behind his head, immediately, they set themselves towards me and fly in an incredible speed.
I dodge them by running around him and distancing myself from him, making me a small target. That was the plan, but as soon as the second group of ice spikes finishes attacking me, he raises his head and chases me, easily closing the small gap I created. He is almost as fast as I am and four of my small jumps is one step of his.
I dodge the spikes by hair breaths, but the last spike of the third group made me jump backwards to avoid it. While I'm flying, I look behind me and see a spike coming to claim my head but I dodge it by lifting my head, but the last spike hits my back left leg, piercing it.
I land on my fours and immediately let out a small cry as I flinch from the pain, and in front of me looking at it, Ateri. In a worried tone of voice, he speaks with me as I glanced at the crystal and saw blood flowing out.
-Ammy, you won't win. I will make a blade for you with my power so you can kill me.
I look back at him with rage and he looks at me with a surprised expression.
-Giving up already?! Even though I saw you smile when the spike pierced my leg?
His surprised expression turns into a smile and I smile back with relief.
Yes, when the spike hit me, he smiled, commemorating the hit.
I turn to my back leg and grab the spike with my mouth. I pull it from my leg and break it in half with my fangs while looking at Ateri. He makes a surprised expression and I say proudly.
-If you let me recover again, I might kill you next time Ateri. I'm not here to play with you forever.
I jump up and try to jab him with my claws. He does a small jump backwards and I make a small hole in the ground where my claws strike. He looks at me with a impressed expression and questions me.
-Scales? How did you get that skill?
Yes, the reason I used my claws was because I coated them in a dark blue, almost black scales, because of the skill [Scale body armor].
Since [Scale body armor] is a skill, it doesn't need a chant. I just discovered how to use it, when I saw the spike piercing my back leg, I embraced for the pain and instead of the spike hitting my body, it hit the scales diminishing the wound.
I can control where the scales coat my body because I have the [Magic Control] skill. This skill had a hand in improving myself, letting me use the great sword to block previously. But I quickly notice the problem with [Scale body armor]. I can only protect my body with scales by a small amount and only one part of my body at one time.
I coat my left paw with the scales, making my claw much more studier and powerful as I feel it in my body. Ateri looks at my left paw and understands the reason I wasn't dead until now, with a calm tone, he talks with me.
-I see that Lotome gave you a bit of his power so you can understand him. But how did you get that skill? If he gave you a piece of his crystal, then you would only get the [Lizardman's language].
I charge him while shouting at him.
-Now is not the time to monologue Ateri!
-!?
I put much more strength in this charge, surprising him with my sudden increase in speed.
His eyes quickly shine blue as he goes into his back legs. And a 2 meter crystal wall appears in front of him, as the wall finishes raising, a crystal torrent with a lance head come from the walls while aiming at me. While they travel in the air towards me, they leave bridges of crystal through were they pass.
I side step the lance of the torrent and jump on the bridge it made. I glance back and see that the lance already materialized itself and is making its way towards me.
Another crystal torrent appears out of nowhere and almost hits me, but it was too slow. The torrent crashes at the bridge I'm standing on and breaks it in half and unintentionally saving me from getting turned into a wolf skewer as another torrent was about to hit me. But before I could sigh in relief, the broken part of the bridge quickly turns into another torrent and continues to chase me down together with the other torrent.
In the middle of closing the gap between me and the wall, I notice the torrents on my sides and above. Running ahead to aim for me, they prepare an ambush. But by clawing the bridge I ran, I halt before I could pass by them. Not expecting me to come to a stop, two torrents crash into the bridge while the other missed.
Immediately, I jump out of the crumbling bridge and go to another which was beside me and as I watched the torrent ahead slowly recover, I jump back to the original bridge as soon as I could.
The torrent which I was on recovers and lunges at me almost immediately, surprising me a little as I tried to dodge it as best as I could, but could only make it scrape my back as it avoided crashing into the bridge. I almost fall off, but I quickly recover and arrive next to the crystal wall. With a jump forward and my claw clad in scales aimed at the wall.
My claws hits the wall full on and only creates a hole big enough for me to squeeze through, no way back. I land back on the bridge, but suddenly, two torrents come out from the walls and lunge at me from the sides, by jumping, I barely dodge them as they crash into each other. While on the air, I twist my body to dodge another torrent which came from behind and it hits the wall full on.
But when I thought it was over as I land back on the bridge, another torrent appears from below my feet, barely letting me dodge as I throw myself to the edge of the bridge. As the torrent makes a sharp turn, I coat my claws with scales and barely hold on to the bridge. With a pull with all of my strength, I throw myself at the incoming torrent, but I quickly twist my body, when I land on the bridge again, as I still bled from the hole in my leg and bruise in my back, I look at the torrent making a turn below me, aiming to attack me from behind.
The torrent easily reaches me as I tried to run towards the small hole, but with a simple jump, I make the torrent hit the wall full on again, breaking an even bigger hole in the wall. I continue running and reach it before Ateri could make more torrents to attack me.
But when I arrive at the hole's edge to the other side of the wall, I don't see a giant Dragon that should be there. Confused, I turn my back to the room and claw the wall as hard as I could, and slowly slide down the crystal wall. Immediately as I land, the ground wraps itself around my feet like water.
Hearing his calm voice, I try to search for Ateri around the room.
-Ammy, I am sorry to do this to you. But you could have just accepted the offer and executed me, but you wanted to fight me. But I guess it was fun, I never fought an enemy that survived my attacks for so long. They all died quickly to my attacks, but you... you survived long enough to make me think in strategies to kill you, something I did only when I was younger. But this is the end, so goodbye my Wolf friend, our battle was fun.
A gigantic crystal spike forms in the middle of the air as he emerges from the crystallized ground. He closes his eyes, and the crystal flies towards me in great speed. I stare the crystal and chant in my mind while opening my mouth as much as I could.
[Magic consumer]!
I knew it. I noticed when Amataz asked me that question.
"Do you remember when you got asleep on my back? Did you feel anything strange?"
And when I saw the [Magic Consumer] in the spell list. I found out what I did back then, I consumed Amataz magic.
The crystal shrinks in front of me and get in my mouth. I felt magic flowing into me while having a small pain in my stomach, together with a headache. Then a white box appears in front of my vision as I am consuming the crystal.
[Magic consumed. MP recovery is starting.]
Then when I finished eating the crystal, two white boxes take place of the one that just disappeared.
[MP recovered. MP recovery ended.]
[Ice resistance rose to level 2]
I coat my back legs with scales and struggle to break the crystal enveloped around it. Little by little, I free myself. Suddenly a white box appears in my line of sight.
[Scale body armor rose to level 2]
I coat my legs more with the scales and finally break out. I look ahead of me and see that Ateri is praying for me, like I died. I charge with both claws coated in scales while angrily shouting.
-Like I said Ateri! If you let me recover again, I would kill you!
Ateri opens his eyes and makes a stupefied expression and he tries to jump away from my attack. But I already thought he would do that, so I didn't attack early and instead chased him. When he lands, I jump as he is sliding backwards from his jump.
I cut his left leg and make a wound just as big as me on it, but still not enough to make him bleed.
-Grawrl!
After a scream in pain, he swings his left claw at me, and I clad half of my body in scales, successfully blocking the break neck speed attack and getting launched through the room. When I hit the ground, my right arm dislocates as I bounce and end up further into the room, ignoring the pain after letting a pained cry, I try to land on my feet by spinning my body in the air, but the moment I try to support myself with my right arm, I feel an immense pain as I throw myself to my left side along with another pained cry. As I panted heavily, I looked at Ateri as he looks at his wound with an impressed expression and talks to himself in a happy tone.
-A wound… ah… haha… ahahahahahaha!
He laughs with a strange smile while looking at the wound. After he finishes laughing, he looks at me with a happy expression.
-To make a wound in me, you are quite something Ammy.
I laugh weakly as I stand up in three legs and then talk in a happy tone, trying to hide my pain behind it.
-Everybody has a hidden trick. You showed yours and I showed mine.
When I looked back at the torrents when I arrived at the hole in the wall, I noticed that the torrents had his eyes in each one. He somehow fused into the crystals and made me think he was behind the wall. His expression turns into a serious one as he speaks in a happy tone.
-Yes, truly surprising. But just as you said, I won't let you recover Ammy. You proved you are an enemy to be taken seriously.
He runs towards me and tries to pierce my body with his claws from above.
I dodge it by sidestepping to the right. And I try to fix my dislocated arm with [Telekinesis].
I'm sure I can do it, but the pain is too much.
I imagine the bones of my right arm getting back into place and use [Telekinesis].
-!
With the pain making me flinch, Ateri creates a giant ice spike and quickly sends it towards me, aimed at my head. I quickly use [Magic consumer] and eat the spike and two white boxes appear quickly one after another.
[Magic consumed. MP recovery is starting.]
[MP recovered. MP recovery ended.]
I stand on my fours with the pain from the fixing of my arm and quickly try to swing at Ateri with my claws coated in scales.
He jumps sideways and dodges it. Then I feel pressure coming from him and an ice beam comes out of his mouth almost immediately. I do a back flip to dodge the beam, and while he stops his ice beam, I land and try to attack Ateri with my claws by charging at him, and he counters my charge by attacking ahead of where I would pass by.
I slow down, making him strike the ground and I strike his claws instead.
When our claws hit each other, mine only sacrifices the scales while cutting his claws in half. As he pulls his arm back to him, I use his nails stuck to the ground as support and on his right arm. And with no pause in between, I throw my body upwards while keeping my back paws on his arm, and immediately push my body downwards with my claws aimed at his arm and make a hole in it.
-Grawrll!
He screams in pain and tries to crush me with his left hand and I dodge it by side stepping and jumping on it. He shakes his hand violently, almost throwing me away, but instead I slide into the ground near his feet, and without letting me attack him, he makes create distance between us by making the ice spikes again, with side steps and back flips I dodge them all, and try to close the gap forced into me. But in the way to Ateri, a crystal springs out of the ground, halting my charge as he somehow turns into liquid and fuses with the room. As I watched everywhere I could for a hint of him, he talks with me in a mocking tone.
-Sorry Ammy, But you will die by my hand.
I continue to look around the room while speaking back in the same mocking tone.
-Do you still want to die that way you asked? Do you regret accepting my request?
I look at the ground and see his figure inside the crystal below me. I jump backwards as he emerges from the crystal while doing an upper cut and then diving back into the roof like he's swimming through the room. I keep looking out for him while speaking with a playful tone.
-Dirty trick, Ateri. I can't hit you while you are doing this.
I feel him laughing at me from somewhere.
Suddenly, I feel pressure coming from the wall and I see him putting his head out of the wall as he was about to fire an ice beam at me.
I dodge it by side jumping and think a strategy as he fuses back into the wall.
I can't use [Scale body armor] in my head, since it probably won't affect my teeth. I have to use my claws to hurt him as he's out of this state, because my claws coated in scales are the only thing being able to hurt him.
Ateri suddenly appears above me with his left claw aimed for me. and I dodge his attack by side jumping to his right. As I am dodging by a hair's breadth, I slash his right eye with my left claw when he passes by me.
-Grawrll!
He doesn't transform into liquid this time due to the pain, making his body hit the ground.
Since he's big, I had to jump awkwardly by launching my back into the air and using my back legs to throw myself backwards. I roll on the ground when I land on my back and safely dodge Ateri's body.
He agonizes and wriggles his huge body around, accidentally striking me with his tail. I fly a meter from him and stop laid down on my left side. I quickly stand up and watch Ateri agonizing in the ground. I speak with him in a mocking tone.
-Having fun?
He slowly stops agonizing and looks at me with his left eye. His right eye is closed but the blood still runs down through his face. He sits down and puts his right hand on his wounded eye while speaking with a happy tone.
-Yes, it's something I missed from my younger days. The pain, the happiness of hitting an enemy and the desperation to make plans while trying to predict the enemy's movement. Ammy... I need to thank you, please let me have the honor of naming you before we continue. Because even if you die when we continue this fight, I still want to tell my family of the one who fought with me in equal power. I relax my body and say in a proud voice.
-I am Ammy, a Moon's wolf pack member!
He looks at the ceiling and puts his right hand on the ground, showing his closed and bloodied eye. And begins to talk in a proud but strict voice.
-I, Ateri Kemira, give you Moon wolf member, a name to be remembered by your enemies and close ones. The sky won't forget, the sea will tell, the ground will write your name, Ammy!
I suddenly feel magic power growing in my body, and then a white box appears in front of me.
[Ateri Kemira names individual Young Moon wolf as Ammy]
I wag my tail and then howl in celebration.
A name, something that makes me different from the normal wolf. Even if it's something useless, I can't help but feel happy.
I stop howling and then get ready to continue the fight with Ateri.
-Thanks Ateri! But now is the time to finish this!
Ateri gets on his fighting position and shouts back.
-You are right Ammy! lets finish this!
He roars and I howl back, we both charge each other with our full forces.
This is the final exchange of blows. I know that if I can't kill him now, then he would kill me the next moment.
When we get near each other, he creates various crystals spikes and immediately they go ahead of him at me as we close the distance between us.
I use [Magic consumer] to eat the spikes, but they are too much, and before I notice that, three of them pierce my body and Ateri tries to swing his right claw at me, and I'm forced to dodge it by jumping over. I use his claw as support and launch myself towards his chest and then concentrate all the [Scale body armor] in my right claw.
I pierce his chest and then get my paw stuck in the hole I made on his chest.
-Grawrll!
He screams in pain and gets on his fours while I am stuck to him. He rolls on the ground, making me be on top of his chest. While we are both breathing roughly, I look at my body. And check my sad state.
A wound in the back, a hole in my left back leg, a spike going through my entire right back leg, another spike going through my back and stopping in my stomach and another stuck in my right arm.
I stand up weakly and push my paw out of his chest with my last ounce of strength and then lie back down. I look at him and check his state just to see how good did.
I couldn't see if the wound on his left leg was still there, but he's blind in one eye and has a hole in his arm. I couldn't count the claw I cut in half because he already grew it back. So I could only count three wounds in him and I'm unsure of the other.
I think "That's so unfair...", but I guess I should have expected. While looking at the ceiling, he speaks in a melancholic tone while still gasping for air.
-Ammy, you were an incredible opponent. I never in my entire years battled anyone with all of my power just like I did.
He looks at me who is gasping air rapidly and continues to speak.
-Ammy, I need to ask you one last request and give you one more present to you.
I kiddingly speak to him while looking at his face.
-Ateri, you keep giving me gifts. This battle was one, then the name, now another one? Are you trying to charm me? Sorry, I am not into old dragons, ahahahaha. *cough* ... sorry.
I vomited blood on his chest while laughing. He looks back at the ceiling while talking in a tired voice but in a happy tone.
-Ahahahaha. Truly idiotic... You still joke in these dire times? We are both about to die and I will be the first one. But it's okay... you need to listen to my request if you survive this.
His tone turns into a serious one. I rest my head on his chest.
-My tribe will turn into eggs Ammy, they won't die. They will wait for a time when this planet needs us when it does. They will hatch before it hits a catastrophic accident, killing all the living beings on this beautiful planet. I want you, Ammy. To help my tribe, by coming back here and guiding them to a crystallized dungeon in the far north, beyond the sea. Lotome will know what to do there. Now to your gift, there is a rainbow crystal where I was when we first met. That crystal will give you the power to create wings and control the crystals. Before, I would not give you this gift, because I wanted to Lotome to be the Leader with those powers, but...
He looks at me with a smile and continues to speak in a happy tone.
-You remembered me about my reason to live and recognize the shameful request I made to you, to be killed without a fight is worst than anything. I shouldn't give up my life, I should have fought for the purpose Life gave me. To survive, that is my purpose and every single living being's purpose. If you are unhappy of it, then you should still continue living and surviving, and surely, Life will give you another purpose until you accept it.
He looks at me and speaks in a tired voice.
-Now, I must go to my family and tell them about... it. So... Good... bye...
He drops his head in the ground and I feel him stop breathing. I speak in a tired voice while my consciousness fades.
-Yeah old man, it would be an honor to shoulder that request...
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