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The moment the phantom giant bear crashed onto the hall’s floor, it reverted back into human form.

Most of Lucas’s power had already been drained.

Although he hadn’t been injured in the previous fight, he could no longer maintain the bear form for long.

Lucas scrambled to his feet and swept his gaze around.

He didn’t see any enemies.

All he saw was Luca standing in the middle of the hall, watching him from the corner of his eye.

“Where’s Blood Dragon? Don’t tell me he’s already escaped?”

Lucas asked, a hint of puzzlement in his voice.

Luca had just opened his mouth to answer when he felt a surge of overwhelming power hurtling toward Lucas.

“Move! Now!”

He shouted the warning while activating his flaming magic runes.

A blazing fireball shot off in Lucas’s direction.

Lucas flinched, startled.

But his instincts still made him dodge.

The instant he stepped to the side, an invisible arrow made of blood whipped past his cheek.

If he hadn’t moved, that blood-forged arrow would have gone straight through his forehead.

Before Lucas could react further, the fireball Luca had launched was already upon him.

The fireball slammed into the invisible arrow, triggering a violent explosion.

The blast hurled Lucas into the corner of the hall.

Yet for him, this wasn’t entirely a bad thing.

At least with Luca’s help, he’d narrowly escaped Blood Dragon’s ambush.

And now he was at the edge of the battlefield, where Blood Dragon was far less likely to make him the primary target.

“How irritating! You still have time to worry about someone else?”

Blood Dragon’s voice boomed from directly above the hall.

Both Luca and Lucas tilted their heads up toward the ceiling.

What they saw left them stunned.

The area that once glowed with blue light was now completely coated in congealed crimson blood.

In the middle of that dark-red expanse, a twisted dragon-man slowly emerged from the gore.

This warped creature had three arms and four legs.

Its body was long and sinuous like a serpent.

Its head bore a grotesque mix of human and dragon features.

Aside from a nose and mouth vaguely like a human’s, every other feature of his head was that of a dragon.

Most striking of all was the number of his eyes.

Thousands of them were densely packed across his forehead.

Each pupil rotated in a different direction.

Blood Dragon’s current form made Luca realize at once that the opponent had been cursed by some immense power.

He felt he had no choice but to destroy him here and now.

With that resolve burning inside him, Luca tightened his grip on the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword in his hand and immediately activated the shadow magic runes.

“You’re completely twisted now!

I won’t let you leave this place.

If you escape, you’ll bring a catastrophe on the world.”

He spoke those cold words and then leapt high into the air with the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword raised.

At that moment Blood Dragon’s body had not yet fully stabilized, so he could only brace himself against Luca’s attack—there was no way to dodge.

But the curse had made Blood Dragon’s warped body unbelievably tough.

Even though the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword carried a special power against the dragon race, the cursed Blood Dragon still managed to withstand Luca’s strike.

He swung his tendril-covered arm and smashed Luca down to the ground.

“I’ve told you before—you can’t defeat me!

My power has grown even greater than before.

I’ll kill you and your companion, then destroy the entire Black Forest camp!”

Even warped by the power of the curse, Blood Dragon still seemed determined to carry out the task given to him by the Dragon King.

Luca, now lying at the bottom of a huge crater in the hall’s floor, slowly rose from the pit.

He wiped the blood from the wound on his forehead and stared coldly at Blood Dragon.

“I’ve told you before as well—I’m not letting you leave this place!”

With that, he raised the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword once more and launched another attack.

This time, he no longer intended to hide his true strength.

As someone who had completed a second awakening profession change and reached level 75—a human prodigy seasoned in battle—he would not be brought down so easily here.

As Luca unleashed his full power, the situation on the battlefield flipped in an instant.

Even though Blood Dragon drew every drop of half-congealed blood into his own body, he still couldn’t suppress Luca anymore in direct combat.

As the battle dragged on, Blood Dragon’s disadvantage became more and more obvious.

After all, every strike from the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword inflicted additional damage on him at the very level of his soul.

Lucas, who had been watching from the edge of the hall, could already tell that Blood Dragon was on the losing side.

He figured that at this point it should be safe enough for him to lend Luca a hand.

And he also felt he couldn’t just stand by any longer.

After all, he was the captain and the most experienced of them all; if he kept hiding while the others fought, it would be utterly disgraceful.

With that decision made, Lucas once again manifested the phantom giant bear form.

He leapt high into the air, flying straight toward Blood Dragon.

Both Blood Dragon and Luca noticed Lucas’s movement from the start.

Blood Dragon immediately shifted the direction of his attack.

He decided to kill this reckless fool first.

Luca, meanwhile, felt a flicker of exasperation.

He had assumed Lucas would stay hidden until the fight was over.

His entire battle plan had been built on that assumption.

Everything had been going smoothly until Lucas intervened.

Not only did Lucas fail to help, but he also threw Luca’s plan into chaos.

Now Luca had no choice but to save Lucas first.

If Lucas died in this fight, Luca would face far more trouble back at the Black Forest camp.

On instinct, he hurled the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword.

The blade struck Blood Dragon’s body and pinned him to one of the stone pillars above the hall.

Luca seized the opening, darted to Lucas’s side, and with one sweeping palm slammed the giant-bear-shaped Lucas down to the floor.

Both Blood Dragon and Luca were lightning fast.

Lucas had no time at all to make any judgment.

He only saw Blood Dragon and Luca’s bodies blur into something ghostlike—then felt a massive force slam him into the ground.

Crashing onto the hall floor, Lucas instantly reverted from the giant bear form back to human form.

He was utterly confused.

But he also realized he couldn’t recklessly jump into the fight again.

He thought to himself that it would be better to stay in a safe spot and just watch.

After successfully clearing up the trouble Lucas had caused, Luca fixed his gaze once more on Blood Dragon. Follow current novls on ovl_Fir.et

By now Blood Dragon’s condition had become utterly dire.

The Dragon-Slayer Greatsword had completely torn his soul apart.

Although some unknown cursed power still propped Blood Dragon up, he no longer had any consciousness.

He had already turned into a monster acting purely on instinct.

Such a monster, of course, would be very easy for Luca to destroy.

“Using the power of a curse demands a terrible price,” he murmured.

Luca had encountered many people and monsters before who used cursed power.

No matter what their original goals had been, no matter what their reasons were, in the end the curse devoured them completely.

No living being could remain at peace in the face of cursed power.

No mighty existence could resist the curse’s erosion.

So, in Luca’s view, any rational person should always keep their distance from such power.

“Now let me end your miserable life!”

Luca wrenched the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword out of Blood Dragon’s already mangled body.

Then he raised the Dragon-Slayer Greatsword and brought it down hard toward Blood Dragon’s head.

The Dragon-Slayer Greatsword split straight into Blood Dragon’s forehead.

The thousands of eyes spinning in every direction were destroyed in an instant.

Blood Dragon’s soul and life were annihilated completely.

Just then, a fragment of Blood Dragon’s memory suddenly surged into Luca’s mind.

It was the memory of Blood Dragon receiving his orders from the Dragon King before setting out.

The Dragon King had kept a human form.

In their conversation he had clearly mentioned having Blood Dragon eliminate the Crimson King’s subordinates around the Black Forest camp.

And at the end of the conversation, he had cryptically warned Blood Dragon to find out by any means what the Goddess of the Night’s final oracle truly was.

The memory quickly faded away.

Luca stood where he was, frowning in thought.

“The Goddess of the Night’s final oracle?

The Dragon King actually knows of the Goddess of the Night’s existence.

And he even knows she left behind a final oracle.

Does this mean he might also be working with the Ancient Gods?”

Suddenly, Luca thought of the most terrifying possibility.

If the Dragon King had already formed an alliance with the Ancient Gods, then this time he would face a truly immense danger.

The Ancient Gods already hated him with a passion.

If the Dragon King were to fight him, the Ancient Gods would undoubtedly intervene and aid the Dragon King.

However, Luca quickly shook his head, realizing he had been worrying needlessly.

“The Dragon King probably isn’t working with the Ancient Gods.

If he were, he would’ve already been able to completely wipe out the Crimson King.

I’m overthinking this. I shouldn’t be scaring myself like this.”

Luca chuckled bitterly at himself.

At that moment, Lucas ran up to his side.