Despite their ret adventures, running into a dragon was usually a horrible thing. Dragons were powerful, typically, so they could choose to be really violent if they wao! In this case, a dragon floating above va was less than friendly, the team was in big trouble.

  They only had two options here as far as anyone was ed. They could either run away and hope for the best, or they could attack the yellon directly!

  In this case, the first option was ruled out in three seds, without giving much thought to it as an option. The team weren't keen on running away, and odds were that they couldn't outrun a dragon anyway, no.

  Tim attacked the dragon as soon as he noticed its rapid, violent approach, and he didn't sed-guess his decisioher. Tim wasn’t running away, he shot at the dragon several times instead, but not with a fireball, as this time around he used the Nerve Splitter ability! He figured that if dragoruly smart, then any and all brain damage would cripple them really quickly!

  However, despite his specutions and attempts, the dragon did not slow down! In fact, it charged forward even faster, and that was when Tim decided to rely on a more physically offeastead.

  Tim cpped his hands with the io unleash a thunderbolt against his target, because he figured that pretty much everything was susceptible to tless volts of electricity, this should work. Since he couldn’t split the dragon's nerves internally, it may be more effective to blow its big, slender head off all together!

  Tim tried to summon a single bolt first, in order to get a hang of this ability, because the st time he used it, he had been a stingray. The idea was to unleash a single bolt first, and several bolts right after, but on the at of his level six mana quality, despite his wishes, he ended up unleashing about twelve bolts of thunder as soon as he cpped his hands!

  The bolts jolted towards the dragon, hit its head, and forced the dragon to ge its dire, however, despite his ears ringing because of that thunder cp, he didn't mao kill the elega! It wasn't an easy task to sughter this violent inhabitant, that arent now.

  The dragon was alive, and worse yet, it had willingly taken a deep dive towards the va pool, moments after it got hit by bolts of thunder!

  Tim was terrified when he saw it swim in va, he could not fathom a creature being that strong, yet such raas dispyed here, right in front of him! This dragon may as well be what forced the city of Mao shut these mines down, so many years ago, as this was quite a solid reason.

  “Look at that bastard go!” He shouted, and poi the yellon, who then leaped out of the va with a streak of elegahat would outshine all of the fish in the sea.

  “It's a big bastard alright,” Skendus added, “Its head is steaming, and it's not steaming because you hit it with bolts. It wants our flesh, it just wants to see blood!”

  “Well, it doesn't look like I kill that long-ass bastard.” Tim followed along, “Any volunteers?”

  “Move,” Arvena grunted, and then dragged him away from the viity of the va pool.

  Afterwards, she stepped in closer, and shot several fireballs towards the yellow beast, without aiming at it all that much. Her fireballs were te wide, so some of them were bound to hit the target regardless of effort!

  “What?!” Her heart sank seds ter, she was in panic. “It didn't even flinch, how…?”

  “It's paiors are barely active right now,” Skendus then added, as he was still reading through the dragon’s mind. “The two of you barely scratched it, and the sound of Tim’s thundercp just spooked it, that's why it's swimming around like a maniac. Shooting a bunch of fireballs at a dragon that swims in hot va, might not have been the smartest use of your mana, Arvena.”

  Most people did not appreciate being criticized, but oting this very hostile situation into sideration, it arent that critical thinking was their best friend right now. They had to correct each other, and e up with better attacks, or they were all going to die today!

  Luckily, after getting spooked by the thunder cp, the dragon was not in a rush anymore. It just swam around in its hundred-meter wide pool, and this was good, because Arvena was given the ce to recollect her thoughts. She needed a pn, because she couldn’t afford to be scared forever.

  “Its mana quality is almost a realm above mine, I felt that as soon as my fire touched the bastard's scales. Geie stands no ce against him either, I have to keep him away.” Arvena loathed, quietly, and then she came up with a colossal pn. “I'm ial, but her is this va muncher, so a Celestial Spear should do the trick!”

  A celestial attack of any sort sounded like the best way to handle a stronger oppo, but iy it was a really sacrificial course of a. For a start, it was difficult to summon a Celestial Spear, because it required a spoken-word spell, amongst other things, and even if she was successful, she would get knocked out cold at the very least!

  “Everyone, back away.” She said, and pushed the team until they were about five meters away from her. “I’m going to try something here, but I might faint after, so please don't leave me here for dead.”

  The team just nodded along, they agreed with whatever it was she tried to do, because it arent that she was trying to help here. Despite her ret moodiness, she reparing to do something very selfless, and that was obvious, they could see her desperate goodwill just by looking into her eyes! Even if that wasn't the case, they still wouldn't leave her behind.

  “Okay, dragon.” She whispered, “I hate to spend a single point of mana on you, but I won't let you embarrass me twice with that disgusting fidence of yours...”

  Afterwards, she sat down in a meditative position, and stretched her arms outwards. This was the best way to summon a celestial spear, and all that was left to do now, was to recite the spoken-word spell.

  “My will is but mana, and mana is the definition of baself.” She meditated on those few words, and then she loudly ted. “I summon thee, Celestial Spear, for my enemy is about to best me, and I dare not be bested. Take my mana, for that is my most treasured possession, and distort its quality if my enemy is to die as a result of distortion!”