Chapter 464 Soul Space
The Blessed Blade might only be 30-centimeters-long but that didn't really matter against an opponent such as the several hundred meter long Red Dragon.
The inflicted wounds were, at most, 30 centimeters deep and that was not exactly enough to severely injure the Red Dragon.
This was also the reason why a large number of wounds all over the Red Dragon's body could only be considered shallow. Dilan understood this very well but he was not exactly bothered by this.
On the contrary, Dilan was exhilarated that the Red Dragon was still certain of having an upper hand.
The Mythical creature was laughing at him for thinking that he was stronger than himself, even if the current situation may look different. After all, Dilan had a total of four deep wounds on his body that were inflicted by the Red Dragon's attack.
Two holes were in his stomach and a large amount of blood continued to gush out of him while the remaining two holes had been inflicted in his right arm, preventing him from properly wielding the Cursed Dagger.
Dilan's combat prowess was drastically reduced due to the aftermath of the attack, yet, the Red Dragon was perfectly fine…or so it seemed.
Its strength was drastically reduced due to the influence of the Cursed Mantra and it was also very obvious that the strongest defense of the Red Dragon had been removed in several dozen spots all over its massive body.
Its scales had been destroyed by the impact and terrific sharpness of the Blessed Blade and that was clearly visible now that all scales had turned into replicas of the sun's flaring lava.
There were dozens of gaps all over the Red Dragon's body, and by observing them intently, Dilan could clearly see the pulsating flesh below.
This was more than enough for Dilan to sheath the Blessed Blade and to retrieve a different type of weapon, which he procured from one of the three settlements he and the others had destroyed in the short time they had been on the mysteriously different planet.
An azure-colored spear with a crystal clear blade had manifested in Dilan's left hand. He grasped the spear shaft with his right hand as well, but this didn't really help him much other than hurting him tremendously.
However, the pain allowed him to stay fully focused on the task ahead. By circulating the winds around him and using his tremendously high Agility precisely with the [Master of Gravity] ability, Dilan's speed became much faster than that of the Red Dragon.
He was pretty sure that his Agility would even be higher than that of the Red Dragon without it being influenced by the Cursed Mantra. Dilan was confident in his capabilities and the Red Dragon was still underestimating him.
He was only a Tier-2 Ascender, after all!
Yet, underestimating Dilan was the biggest mistake the Red Dragon could do, especially after everything it had already witnessed. It was obvious that Dilan's stats exceeded that of a Tier-3 existence by far right now, but the Red Dragon was too ignorant to see and accept the glaring truth.
It was too prideful to acknowledge that there were other existences with the capability to increase their power to the extent that they could fight beings of a higher Tier than theirs.
This was also why Dilan was able to emerge less than a meter in front of the wounds the Red Dragon had already sustained before he pierced out the two-meter-long spear.
Dilan was attacked by the sun serpents, which was why he couldn't focus a lot on inflicting mortal injuries. However, by using the special effect of the azure spear, Dilan was able to turn the shallow injury that had been inflicted with the Blessed Blade.
[Power Drill] was the effect of the azure spear and the function of that effect was pretty obvious.
The spear's blade began to rotate around its own axis at a rapid pace and the aftermath caused tremendous damage to the Red Dragon.
Yet, before it could even react, Dilan had already pierced the azure spear deep inside the Red Dragon two more times.
"You see, the moment I will attack your eyes, your ears, your butt, and your wings, you will end up as a cripple! Follow me and you will be fine or reject my offer and I will kill you!" Dilan gave the monster two options to choose from.
Three minutes had passed since the start of the battle and Dilan could clearly tell that his time was running out. His body was slowly tearing apart and he could tell that he would face permanent damage if he kept using all of his abilities.
[Undying] was activated but that was barely enough to make sure that he wasn't torn apart at any moment.
However, Dilan made use of that to keep running around while awaiting the answer from the Red Dragon
As he did not receive an answer even after ten seconds had passed, Dilan started to insert more mana and air currents inside the azure spear to increase the lethality of his attacks.
He returned to the back of the Red Dragon, who slashed at him just to start tearing apart the area between the Dragon's wings.
"Don't force me to tear apart your wings from the roots, or you will be a red lizard rather than a dragon!" Dilan warned and he received an earth-shaking roar as a response.
[You darn human!!!] The Dragon shouted in his mind but Dilan didn't even think of listening to the curses of the Dragon. He increased the damage of his attacks and made sure that his opponent would face as much damage as possible.
The strength of the Red Dragon was slowly dwindling, which could be seen in the intensity of the metamorphosed scales' color density and the fact that it's roars were getting weaker.
Dilan's entire body was covered with molten skin, blisters, and multiple other injuries but he ignored all of that because he knew that his situation would improve sooner or later.
There was no need for him to hesitate, or be bothered about any kind of injury as his body would heal and overcome all types of injuries even if it might take a while.
Thus, Dilan activated the newest ability he had bound to his Essence crystal to show the Red Dragon what he wanted from it and that his offer was much more serious than it first thought.
Dilan activated [Soul Space] a passive ability that required three passive ability slots to be bound to the Essence crystal…an ability that had no grading and no real description.
This ability was what Dilan wanted to make use of when facing the Red Dragon and it was no sooner that he activated [Soul Space] that a small golden-colored box the size of a dice appeared in front of Dilan.
"Become mine and you will become the strongest of your kind! If not, become my nourishment so that I can take someone else and give them the opportunity to devour your body, evolve, and become my loyal follower!" Dilan said in a tone of finality.
He had had enough, which could be seen clearly. Dilan activated [Mantle of Elements] to summon an Intermediate Lightning Spirit to further enhance the power of the azure spear and it was just a quarter of a second later that he disappeared from his earlier location.
Through this, he evaded the blazing flames of the dragon and its claws and he appeared in front of the Dragon's ginormous eyes, pulling the spear backward, ready to pierce it into its eyes!
"It's now or never!"