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‘‘Boy.’’His voice came from somewhere very deep. Already fading at the edges.‘’It's time.’’In the dark space between waking and sleeping, between himself and the Dragon, Asta heard it.‘’Take care of that body. It's yours.’’A beat.‘’...You did well. Today. In this fight. In this moment.’’‘’Really well.’’Then the presence,vast, ancient, warm in a way Asta had never expected, pulled back completely.And Asta Xavier fell forward.…………..His knees hit the stone before he even knew he was falling.His hands came down a second later,palms flat, arms shaking, barely catching himself before his face met the ground. His vision was white at the edges and grey in the middle and nothing was making the kind of sense it was supposed to make. His mouth tasted like copper and ash. His arms felt like they had been filled with wet sand.Every single part of him hurt. Not dramatically,not the sharp, specific pain of a fresh wound,but the deep, total, everywhere ache of a body that had been pushed
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And somewhere in the space between one breath and the next, the weight of the last several minutes settled fully onto his shoulders.Old Man Kael walked up beside him at a pace that could only be described as a stroll. His hands were clasped behind his back. He looked down at Ragnar's motionless form, tilted his head slightly, and made a quiet sound in the back of his throat."Mm."The Emperor Dragon looked at him sideways.Kael gestured mildly at the scorched, cracked, partially molten disaster area that had, not long ago, been a training arena."Quite the campfire." He said.The Emperor Dragon stared at him."That.” The Dragon said, slowly and deliberately."Was a technique capable of vaporizing solid stone at a molecular level.""Mhm.""It would have destroyed half the academy.""Probably more than half, if we're being precise.""And you are calling it a “campfire.’"Kael considered this. "A large.campfire." He amended, entirely unbothered. "I'm giving the boy credit."Somethi
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Old Man Kael didn't turn around fully.He didn't need to.He just tilted his head slightly to the side,the way a person does when they've already assessed a situation and found it beneath their concern and spoke over his shoulder in that dry, unhurried voice of his. The same voice he used when he was telling someone their tea had gone cold."Close your mouth, Emperor."The Emperor Dragon realized, distantly, that Asta's mouth was hanging open.He closed it.Kael finally turned. His brown robes settled around him like dust after a long fall. His face was as unreadable as old stone,no urgency, no drama, no sense that he had just casually intercepted enough firepower to level a small mountain with an open palm. He looked, if anything, mildly put out. Like a man who had walked into a room and found someone had rearranged his furniture.His eyes, pale, deep set, ancient in a way that had nothing to do with age, moved from the Emperor Dragon to the scorched ring floor, to the cracked and sm
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This boy who understood,truly, deeply understood,what strength was really for.A smile spread across Asta's face, the Emperor Dragon's control, but Asta's emotion.‘’’You…’’’The Emperor Dragon's mental voice was thick with feeling.‘’’You are a really tough one, boy.’’’‘’So are you, old dragon.’’Asta's mental voice had softened, warm despite the terror of what they were about to do.‘’Now let's do this. Together.’’‘’Together.’’The Emperor Dragon's hands moved.Asta's hands,but moving with centuries of dragon precision combined with human determination.The two iron swords came up, crossing in front of his chest.Then, with deliberate care, he adjusted the angle.Blade to blade. Edge to edge. Forming a perfect V-shape with the handles at the top, the tips pointing down and forward.A wedge.He gripped both handles,one in each hand,his fingers wrapping around the worn leather, knuckles already white from the pressure.His arms were shaking.Not from fear. From the effort of holding
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‘’’”VERDANT ANNIHILATION…”’’Ragnar's voice rose to a roar that shook the very foundations of the arena."’’...ROAR!!!"’’And the fire came.Not a stream nor a blast, but a wall.A solid, towering wall of green flame that erupted from Ragnar's mouth and expanded outward like the end of the world made manifest.The column was massive,twenty feet wide at its source and growing wider with every fraction of a second, spreading like a tidal wave of pure destruction.The roar of it was deafening. Not just sound,it was a physical force that pressed against eardrums and made skulls vibrate. Like standing inside a jet engine. Like being at the center of a tornado made of fire.The heat hit first.Before the flame even reached halfway across the ring, the temperature spiked so dramatically that people in the observation deck gasped and stepped back.The air between Ragnar and the Emperor Dragon didn't warm,it ‘’ignited’’. Oxygen molecules combusting spontaneously, turning the space into a shimme
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He could feel the vessel straining under the power he was channeling. Could feel Kaito's consciousness buried deep in the back of his mind, locked away but still aware, still watching.‘’Sorry, boy.’’ Ragnar thought with something that might have been regret. ‘’I know this hurts. I know you didn't ask for this. But I NEED this. I NEED to prove myself.’’’‘’’Just hold on a little longer. This will be over soon.’’’He broke the blade lock with a sudden twist, spinning away, his glaive coming around in a wide slash that forced the Emperor Dragon to duck.The Emperor Dragon went low, both swords sweeping out in horizontal cuts.Ragnar jumped, avoiding the blades, already bringing his glaive down in an overhead strike.The Emperor Dragon rolled forward, under the strike, coming up behind Ragnar.But Ragnar had anticipated it,spun in mid-air, landing to face the Emperor Dragon, already attacking.They moved faster now.So much faster.The exchanges that had seemed impossibly quick before
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