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Chapter 502
She looked at the three beasts.They looked back at her.Her spear was up, still up, still formed, still burning at the tip,but the flame on it was running at a level that had honesty in it, the flame of a technique that was being maintained by the last of something rather than the middle of something.'''Okay.''' She thought.'''Three.''''''No flame aura.''''''One spear.'''She looked at the nearest beast.It took a step forward.She adjusted her grip.'''Alright.''' She thought. '''We do it the old way then.'''The beast lunged…"'''Flame Technique Ignis Sweep — Carving Arc!'''"The voice came from the left.Fast and close, arriving at the same time as the technique, a wide, low arc of orange flame that came in from the side of the lunging beast and hit it in the flank with the specific force of something that had been travelling before it detonated. The beast dissolved, the flame consuming it, the ash drifting upward.A horse landed beside Mira.Not gracefully, the specific l
Chapter 501
Dero was standing ten feet back from all of them.She was looking at Asta. At Jabber on the floor. At Flora's hands pressing the healing technique into Jabber's chest. At Egries standing with her hands at her sides and the specific expression of someone who was managing something enormous behind a face that was holding itself together through will alone.She looked at all of it.Then she looked at Asta.And she smiled.Not the jagged smile. Not the cold knowing smile from before. Something quieter than both of those,a smile that had something in it that was almost private, almost genuine, the smile of someone at the end of something who is choosing to end it a specific way."I think." She said."My time here is up."Her voice was light. Conversational. The tone of someone concluding a visit that had run its natural course."It was nice seeing you." She said, looking at Asta directly. "Emperor Dragon vessel."Behind her, the grey domain began to dissolve, not catastrophically, but g
Chapter 500
“That the Emperor Dragon saw my plan from the very beginning." She tilted her head slightly. "Buohuo." A sound, not quite a laugh, something between a laugh and a syllable, carrying the specific pleasure of someone who has executed something they planned. "But it seems his vessel was just a little too weak to act on what he saw." The smile held. "Buohuo."Asta opened his mouth."Get away from him…"She didn't look at him.She was already turning to Loki. Already looking at the purple eyes, at the hands on the whip, at the specific quality of the struggle,the strength in it, real, genuine, Loki's will still pushing back against the restriction even now.The smile faded.What replaced it was something without performance in it. Something direct and serious and carrying the weight of something that had been decided long before tonight."It is time." She said to Loki. Quiet. Almost gentle, not the gentleness of warmth but the gentleness of inevitability. "For you to remember who y
Chapter 499
'''Jabber's body was not built for sustained output from another being's will at this intensity. The internal pressure has been building since Loki took control,every exchange, every technique, every strike has been adding to it.''' A pause, brief, the pause of something moving fast through information it is trying to give clearly. '''The nose bleed is the body's first warning. The first sign that the pressure has exceeded what the body can quietly absorb. After the nosebleed…''''''What comes after.''' Asta said.'''It escalates.''' The Emperor Dragon said. '''Fast. The systems that are under pressure are not isolated, they are connected to each other. When one shows strain, the others begin to compensate. And when the compensating systems start to strain as well…''' He stopped. '''Jabber could be incapacitated for days. Weeks. The flame aura depletion alone would take that long to recover from. But the internal damage, if the pressure continues, could go beyond depletion.'''
Chapter 498
She leaned back.The elbow passed.Her free hand came up from below, a compressed grey burst, short range, aimed at his chest.He took it.The cold hit him and went through the purple flame running across his surface and hit him and he staggered one step back, his chest bright with the impact, the specific cold of it working through the fabric and into the body underneath.He stayed on his feet."Is that the best you have?" Dero said. Not breathless. Not strained. The tone of someone observing a demonstration that has not yet produced anything interesting. "I expected more. From the Lord of Mischief, I expected considerably more."Loki looked at her.Then both circles reformed, pulling back to their positions at his sides, the orbit resuming, the purple rebuilding at the edges."It seems." Dero said, watching the circles."The student is still far from the master.""You were never my master." Loki said.He came again.……..This time the circles stayed at his sides.He didn't send
Chapter 497
Asta reached inward.‘’’Is it true?’’’ He said to the Emperor Dragon. ‘’’What Loki just understood, is that actually how it works? Dragon siblings can hear each other's thoughts?’’’The Emperor Dragon answered.‘’’Yes.’’’ He said. ‘’’But not all dragon siblings, it is specific to those whose flames share the same origin point. When two dragons come from the same ancient lineage, the same source flame, the connection between them does not sever when they are separated.’’’He paused. ‘’’It bends. It stretches. It can be suppressed by certain techniques, interrupted by certain distances. But it does not break.’’’ Another pause. ‘’’Loki and his sister share an origin flame. Whatever exists between them persists even now, even with her sealed inside another vessel, even inside this domain.’’’Asta looked at Dero.At the smile.At the grey pulsing cold.‘’’So she has been able to hear everything we've said in here.’’’ He said.‘’’Everything.’’’ The Emperor Dragon confirmed.Asta lo
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