All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 481
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Chapter 480
"He is."Egries looked at him."Is that… is that good?" She said. "Should he be…""It's fine.” Jabber said. "That's just what he does. When Asta isn't worried, he gets comfortable. When he gets comfortable, he starts…" He gestured at the fight, at the slight smile, at the unhurried movement. "That."Egries looked back at the fight.At Dero's grey flame assault hitting nothing but space.At Asta moving through it with the patient, unbothered ease of someone who has all the time in the world and none of it feels urgent."She's going to run out of pace." Wabash said quietly. "The transformation has a cost. Every exchange at that speed draws from the grey flame reserve. And she…" He watched. "She knows it. That's why she's pushing harder. She's trying to end it before the cost becomes a problem.""And he?" Egries said.Wabash watched Asta step to the side of a strike that had been aimed at his temple, let it pass, and turn to face Dero's recovery with that same small smile."H
Chapter 481
Then the Emperor Dragon's gold faded from his left eye.Slowly, not suddenly, the way a flame goes low rather than goes out, the gold retreating and leaving his own dark iris behind, blinking once as if adjusting to being the only one in residence. The scale on his left side followed, pulling back, the plates dissolving from the extremities inward, the texture of his skin returning, the colour returning, until it was just his arm and just his face and just him standing in the chamber with a slightly torn shirt and dried blood at the corner of his mouth from Dero's earlier hit.He exhaled.One long, slow, complete exhale.Then he turned around.……………..The group was watching him.Flora had both hands pressed together in front of her, the green healing flame extinguished, her eyes moving from his face to his arms to the now-absent scale and back again. Jabber was standing with one hand still at his ribs and the expression on his face of someone who has just watched something and is ta
Chapter 482
"We were interrupted earlier. But that doesn't mean we're finished."She looked back at Wabash."Move." She said. "And I start with the smallest one."Wabash stood completely still.The green in his eyes was burning, not with the calm certainty of the Phantom Sovereign settled and in control, but with the specific, barely contained quality of something that was being held in place by an act of will that was costing him more every second.He looked at the children.At the small faces in the grey.At the specific child at the far left, the smallest one, barely four years old, her eyes large and fixed on him with the complete trust of someone who has no understanding of the situation except that this man was coming toward her and looked like he was coming to help.Wabash looked at her.Then back at Dero."Don't do this." He said.His voice was level. He was working to keep it level and the work was showing.Dero looked at him with the jagged smile."I have to.”She said simply. "It'
Chapter 483:The Forbidden Flame Technique
Nobody moved.The domain had claimed the chamber, the grey pressing in from every wall, the cold sitting in the air like something that had decided to stay, the light gone and replaced with the specific dark of a technique that had its own rules about what existed inside it. The children were still suspended somewhere in the grey. The torches were dead. The only light came from the thin green flame at the domain's boundary where Wabash's vines pressed against the edge of it and held.And Wabash was on the floor.The grey spike tree had come from nowhere — risen from the domain's floor in the specific way of things that belong to the technique, growing from the dark itself, and the largest branch of it had gone through him before anyone had finished processing that it was there.Through his stomach.Clean and cold and complete.His blood dripped from the branch in slow, heavy drops that hit the stone floor and spread, each drop landing in the silence with a sound that was the loudest
Chapter 484
‘’’Because she serves the Grand Master of the dark realm.’’’‘’’Yes.’’’ The Emperor Dragon said. ‘’’And the Grand Master's elite guards are not simply strong fighters. They are repositories. They carry the dark knowledge, the things that were supposed to be destroyed, the techniques that were supposed to never exist again. That is what it means to be a Grand Elite Guard.’’’ A pause. ‘’’They are each, in their own way, a weapon that should not exist.’’’Asta processed that.Then… ‘’’Wait.’’’He looked at Dero somewhere in the grey.‘’’Are you telling me there are more of them? There are more guards like her?’’’‘’’Yes.’’’The Emperor Dragon said simply.Asta stared into the domain's grey dark.‘’’There are more of her.’’’ He said, not quite to the Emperor Dragon, not quite to himself.‘’’Four others.’’’ The Emperor Dragon said.Asta looked at Wabash on the floor. At the blood and at the branch.‘’’We need to end her.’’’He said, and the word end came out with a specific, flat ce
Chapter 485
‘’’I would need the body.’’’Jabber looked at the grey. At Wabash. At the children. At Dero moving through her domain like something completely at home in it.‘’’This is our only chance.’’’ Loki said. ‘’’The domain is closing the window. Every minute she holds it open, the transfer becomes harder to reverse.’’’Jabber exhaled.‘’’Alright.’’’ He said.He closed his eyes.The shift happened from the inside, a specific sensation, like stepping back from a window, like the thing that was Jabber pulling back a single step and the thing that was Loki moving forward into the space that was created. It wasn't painful. It wasn't dramatic. It was just a change of who was in front.His eyes opened and were now purple.Deep and flat and ancient,the specific purple of Loki's gaze, carrying the quality of something that had been awake longer than most things in this room had existed and was now fully, completely present.Loki looked at Dero through Jabber's eyes.He looked at the domain.He look
Chapter 486
Purple. Deep and flat and ancient. Carrying a quality that had nothing of Jabber in it, not the easy sarcasm, not the comfortable confidence that Jabber wore the way other people wore clothes. What was in those eyes right now was older than sarcasm. Older than confidence. The specific, unhurried awareness of something that had been looking at the world for a very long time and had stopped finding most of it surprising.Egries looked into those eyes.And she stopped pushing.The Doomsday sword was still burning in her hands. The white flame hadn't died. But she stopped pushing and just looked at the eyes on the other side of the purple shield."Loki." She said.Not a question. A confirmation.The purple eyes looked at her steadily. Then, in Jabber's voice but carrying Jabber's voice the way a room carries furniture, as context rather than content, Loki said:"I cannot let you do this."Egries stared at him."She has Wabash…" She stopped. Started again, and the steadiness in her voic
Chapter 487
Her voice was light. Casual. The tone of someone greeting an acquaintance at a gathering they had expected them to attend eventually."Loki.” She said. "What took you so long?"Loki looked at her.Through Jabber's face, through Jabber's eyes, from across the grey domain,Loki looked at Dero and the thing sealed inside Dero, the thing that had his sister's flame running through it alongside the grey.He raised both hands.The purple flame came up, not the shield this time, not the protective configuration. This was different. Two circles of purple flame, spinning at his sides, each one moving in a slow orbit around its center point, the flame trailing behind itself in the spin the way something trails when it's moving fast enough to leave a wake.The circles spun.The purple deepened at the edges.And Loki looked at Dero across the ten feet between them with the expression of something that had been in a very long situation and had finally, after considerable time and considerable pa
Chapter 488
The defensive captain came riding through again.He came between them at a canter,his horse taking the gap between their positions without slowing, him leaning slightly forward with the expression of a man managing seventeen things and finding all of them insufficient."Less talking." He said, as he passed. "More fighting."Caius and Beatrice both watched him pass.Then Caius looked at his retreating back."He said less talking." Caius said, at full volume, to Beatrice."I heard him.”Beatrice said."And yet.""And yet.” She agreed.The captain pulled his horse around at the far end and came back. He pointed at Caius specifically. "That means you.""Me?" Caius said, with the expression of someone who has been falsely accused. "I was not talking. She was talking. I was responding to the talking. There's a difference…""I don't care." The captain said."With respect, sir, if you would just…""I don't care." The captain said again, slightly louder, and turned the horse and was a
Chapter 489
He saw Web's eyes flick to the right, just briefly, the involuntary glance of someone who knows what's coming from which direction and that was enough, because Roderick had been in enough fights to know that when the person in front of you looks to your right you have maybe a half-second before the reason arrives.He started to turn.Not fast enough.Kyx came from the right with everything her full speed, the specific commitment of someone who had been waiting for exactly this angle for longer than the last thirty seconds. She was aimed at Web's liberation and Roderick's neck simultaneously, the economy of a move that accomplished two things at once with the same motion.Her elbow drove into Roderick's axe arm, knocking the left axe wide, breaking the line at Web's throat.Web stepped back immediately, out of the half-inch range, and Kyx was already pulling back from the elbow and turning it into the follow-through, her body rotating, the momentum of the first hit feeding into the s