Before I could register her name fully, Zhil jumped in front of me, willing to life his own breath of madness.

  "Get on my back NOWWW", Zhil communicated through telepathy

  I knew this was a dangerous situation so I listened to my dragon friend and hopped on without hesitation.

  Grabbing hold of his thick neck he took flight

  "She has magic resistance . I don't think my fire breath is going to be an effective take down method."

  " So what do you suggest, do we have to get up close and personal?"

  " Maybe she might have high physical defenses too "

  Yea he was right we needed to weigh our potential options.

  Getting higher in the air Zhil said "I'm going to tail Whip her"

  But before we could execute the Ariel strike, Emily emerged from beneath the clouds looking to land a spinning kick in Zhils abdomen.

  Holding on to Zhil ,I instant transmissioned us a few feet away in order to escape the deadly attack.

  The kick sent ripples through the air due to the sheer magnitude of the power it held. She was open for a split second and I used that time to transfer us back to our old position. Giving Zhil the chance to attack with his medium sized claws.

  Pulling back he took a swipe with all his might , claws vs feathers. This resulted in a clanking sound of Emily deflecting it with her right arm. Then tearing Zhils wing with her left talons she sent him tunneling down.

  Luckily I was able to kill the momentum of the fall by teleporting us downward , killing our spiral before it even started. Looking at Zhils torn wing I had to make some decisions under pressure.

  "Zhil use breath of madness to stall her , i'm going to heal your wing "

  Fwoosh I heard the crackle of fire that was raging beside my ear. Placing my hand on the wound I started focusing on repairing his wing.

  "No uh uhh" I heard as Emilysped towards us.

  I was far from a combat expert so i chose to do the first thing that popped into my mind.Holding on to Zhil and gathering mana i teleported downwards into the cave me and Oolia had the bonding ritual.Obviously many things could go wrong but the outcome would be the same so i took the chance on our only opportunity.

  Teleporting to our underground sanctuary I took haste and began healing more vigorously than before. I knew i didn’t have much time, our opponent was highly intelligent and very powerful.

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  Tending to Zhils wounds more quickly than before I heard small grunts of displeasure. I could tell by how deep the wound was that it was painful but Zhil was not the type to show pain . My lack of combat abilities were really starting to land us in deep water… Why didn’t I bring Oolia again?

  “Forgive me My arrogance has cost us the battle “ Zhil said in the midst of being healed

  “I should be more proficient in combat as i act as your main summon and therefore your main lifeline”

  Is that how he saw things? Funny because I saw things in reverse . I was clearly an incompetent leader lacking in experiance.

  “We both have things we need to work on now is not the time to start doubting ourselves. What we need to do is come up with a plan” I replied back brushing aside his self diminishing attempts

  “In situations like this the best plan is strength, not every battle is won on wit alone. Also your soon to be subject will start to get suspicious if were are gone for too long, running is not a good look”

  Oh fuck when the battle started i forgot we had an audience. Good thing we were mostly in the air so I doubt they witnessed me get my ass beat. I had the skill of remainly strangely calm even though logically I was inches away from death. Maybe I just didn’t believe that I would die or it could be an effect of my not so recent , recent race change.

  “Alioth my wound is fully healed… your heal ability is extremely ridiculous”

  Noticing that I was basically pumping mana into the fully healed wing I stopped. Whether or not this had to do with the latent power of my heal ability or if it's due to my newly acquired armor set. Either way it was time to head back into the fray , Zhil was right I needed to look “heroic “ for my new subjects. Time to swing this scythe like my life depended on it.

  “Ready” I asked him

  “Ready”

  Jumping back on him, I teleported to the surface.

  I appeared before my subjects and my enemy

  “OH i guess you didn't run” Emily said in snark fashion

  ….

  FWOOOSH

  Zhil wastes no time talking and began a full force breath of madness that was dodged with ease

  Tsk escaped from the birds mouth as she ran towards us

  I knew I couldn’t keep up with her speed so I used the only weapon at my disposal, my brain. Zhil could defend himself , so he would most likely be able to block her attack and she would either dodge or be deflected sending her…. Where?

  She likes to attack head on so I swung my scythe to his right in full anticipation of the upcoming events.

  clang cling KLINGGG

  Success!! I hit back side of her right wing when she dodged zhils retaliation attack. Holy shit it felt like my scythe had just hit a solid chunk of iron. My arms were vibrating and borderline going numb. I didn't have the time to focus to much on the sensation causing my to turn my scythe and pull it like a hook. Only this time I added mana to the sharp edge to try to make it do more damage.

  She flinched slightly somersaulting out of the way only to be stomped on by an encroaching dragon. Her and Zhil were about the same size , so it didn't take long for her to throw him off. Not letting her recover I swung my scythe like a mallet with the goal of dissecting her organs. Being the combat leader that she was , she easily rolled out the way. Only to be hit by a tail whip from zhil who not seconds earlier was just flying through the air.

  From an onlookers perspective it looked like we had the advantage but anyone that knew the front from the back end of a blade knew that Emily was clearly more skilled. Our attacks were not doing any damage and to me atleast i looked like she was adjusting her fighting to ours.

  Overtime she would be able to read our movements like a blind person reading braille. Our time was limited but so was our arsenal.

  “Zhil try doing a fake with your claws then hit her with a breath of madness, ill pretend to swing but ill empower you”

  “Roger”

  Zhil galloped on all fours rushing towards Emily taking the offensive , then shifted his body weight into a stance that made it seem he was going for a mele . Then suddenly with a burst of strength from his wings flew upwards and charged a breath of madness.

  I wonder if i could user empower more than once? It was worth a shot considering our lives were at stake.

  Empower

  Zhils stomach began to bulge

  Empower

  Zhils mouth began to bulge

  BOOOM

  A Black star was dropped from the sky hitting dead on our target . With a huge backstep she burst out of the flames but this time damaged. I could tell because her feathers were charred . Luckily she forgot about the small fry me in that instant which might have been the reason why i caught her off guard. Time to deliver the final blow taking my scythe i pulled it back in a axe like motion ready to cut off her head.