Drake and the Flame Emperor clashed in the middle of a war between gigantic divine beasts and gods. Drake's four powerful Divine Weapons overflowing with their respective elemental auras unleashed a barrage of strikes, impacting the Flame Emperor's blazing aura shaping as endless shields.
The sound of the divine weapons impacting the flame shields was tremendous, generating shockwaves that shook their surroundings. The floor below shattered apart as their clash continued, black flames against white flames, despite Drake being tremendously big in comparison to the Flame Emperor, the old man seemed to be holding his strength rather decently.
Even as he fought bare-handed, with only his black flames and the two fragments of the red orbs fused into his hands. By merely battling, Drake instantly realized this man was much stronger than he looked like.
"This bastard hasn't been skipping his workout, he's at least over Rank 10!" He thought, as he intercepted the Flame Emperor's attacks, now shaping as dozens of spiraling tornadoes of black flames.
"[Spiraling Infernal Abyssal Towers]!" The old man roared, the flames firing towards Drake, attempting to pierce through his hard golden armor and his defensive shields of divinities mixed together with his draconic aura.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Countless explosion reverberated across the skies, Drake felt his armor melting constantly as he regenerated it back while unleashing blows of his own, combining all the weapon techniques he had learned, he utilized all four of his new weapons at once.
"[Dragon King's Divine Weapon Arts]: [One Thousand Divine Strikes]!"
His gigantic weapons glowed with rainbow auras, concentrating the dozens of divinities Drake held within his soul and body at the same time, the weapons moved faster than their size and weight should allow them, resembling falling meteors as they clashed against the Flame Emperor.
The old man smiled as he greeted the tremendously strong blows, whose shockwaves made the smaller mountains surrounding them begin to crumble one after another, his fists overflowing with the Flames of the End.
"Hahahaha! Amusing!" The Flame Emperor laughed, his Flames of the End seemed to be negating almost all the damage that would had been inflicted on him, as they almost melted the strikes themselves!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
"Hmm, how about this then?!" Drake laughed, his nine heads, all of different colors shone brightly, opening their jaws, and unleashing nine dragon breaths with Drake's full power at once!
An attack like that made the sky shake and the ground crack, any living being within the vicinity instinctively ran away from the intense heat. The nine beams of crescent light pierced through the Flame Emperor's defenses, but the man only laughed.
"If you're going so far, I might as well! [Twin Abyssal Dragon Fists of the End]!" He laughed, lifting both of his huge, muscular fists as the shape of two furious dragons made of black flames clashed against all nine beams at once. The impact of forces negating one another swiftly generated a huge explosion, cleaning the red skies of any clouds and completely destroying any nearby forests within the vicinity!
BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM…!
The explosions' shockwave caused the whole continent to shake for a split of a second. The battle between divine beasts and gods stopped for two seconds, as everyone glanced at the huge explosion, expecting one of the two to remain standing, however, to their surprise, both were as unscathed…
"You're one tough old man." Drake said, his multiple eyes glowing fiercely. "Good, I've got a lot of powers I want to try on you anyways… You'll make for a good punching bag."
"Hahahahaha! Your arrogance knows no bounds, Dragon King!" The Flame Emperor laughed. "Don't worry, I'll make sure to stuff your corpse and put you on full display inside my palace once I'm done with you!"
Both stopped talking and instantly resumed their battle, their powers and divinities clashing and making the entire world around everybody shake! Some started to think the world was coming to an end.
"This bastard's fighting against Drake evenly?!" Surtr glanced from the distance, feeling more afraid than ever before. "C-Can the Dragon king win?!"
"Of course he can." Said Nadia at his side. "But he'll need your strength. Once he gives the signal, you'll join him, Surtr! For now, get as much of that "EXP" as possible from these divine beasts!"
"Let's go! Sir Drake will be alright! He said he wanted to gauge the strength of the Emperor, if needed, he'll call for your help!" Said Mina.
"Alright…" Surtr nodded, clenching his dragon fists. "I have to grow as strong as I can now!" The Fire Dragon dove into the enormous army of Divine Beasts, tearing them apart one after another with his Origin Flames, Skills, and Techniques.
With the aid of Nadia and Mina that never stepped away from his side, Mina's healing and support, and Nadia's powerful physical attacks and defensive techniques, he was steadily breaking through!
At the same time, a large vast field of red and orange mushrooms started appearing across the battlefield, feeding off the monster corpses to spread faster.
The monsters that stupidly stepped on them instantly activated, as the fiery mushrooms exploded like landmines, constantly causing damage over time.
Not only that, but dozens of divine beasts were weakened, some paralyzed in the spot, others had their stats lowed, others were poisoned and lost health every second.
"Jamar! Well done!" Surtr still had yet to reach Rank 8, so fighting monsters at Rank 8 himself without using his Origin Flame Transformation was still out of the question.
However, by weakening them with the combined attacks of all four of his team's members, things became much different! He didn't need to fight everything alone.
If one thing Drake taught him really well, was to let others also bear a bit of his burden. Not wanting to bother others was normal, but in this world filled with dangers, you had to rely on your allies and family, no matter what!
With Jamar, Nadia, and Mina's support, Surtr's Divine Fire Dragon Soul Blade managed to slash through the chest of a huge Volcanic Gorilla King, a fearful Rank 8 Divine Beast, as he quickly gained a tremendous quantity of Experience Points!
SLAAAAASH!
[LEVEL UP!]
[LEVEL UP!]
[LEVEL UP!]
[LEVEL UP!]
[All of your Stats have increased!]
[You're one step closer to Rank 8!]
"This is the way!" Surtr thought.
