Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 433: Hardships

The dragon looked at Rain with its vicious eyes, and adding to the already chilling atmosphere, Rain felt more shivers… it seemed that not even while using his strongest buffs and the best way of attacking, he would have a good chance of damaging the monster.

In the next moment, the dragon swung its right paw to smash Rain, but he blocked the attack with his gloves, and he was sent flying to the ground… when he landed, the ground beneath his feet cracked and sank, but Rain didn't suffer much damage.

"It seems that its dragon's rage increased the power of its ice magic and endurance but not its physical strength and speed," Rain thought.

In the next moment, the dragon breath was fired again, and this time, Rain took it directly… the cold wind made his lips get blue for a moment, but he was able to punch all the ice spears fired with his giant gloves, and they didn't suffer any damage.

The dragon's eyes blazed with an infernal rage as it watched Rain blocking its mighty dragon breath. Its pupils, usually resembling deep, fiery chasms, now showed a searing intensity that bore down on Rain like twin suns. The fury within those eyes was almost physical, and it was as if the great creature felt personally affronted by Rain's audacity.

The dragon, a majestic and elegant beast with scales like gemstones and wings that could eclipse the sky, was not used to having its power contested. Rain, in comparison, seemed like a mere worm before the wrathful enormity of the dragon. The creature's anger was so overwhelming that it felt as though a monstrous tempest was growing within its soul.

At that moment, it was clear that the dragon considered Rain nothing more than an insignificant irritant, a pitiful worm daring to challenge its majestic authority.

"So unreasonable…" Rain furrowed his eyebrows. "Maybe I should retreat and ask Josar to use some earth crystals on me to gain time. It isn't running away, it is a strategic retreat."

That probably wasn't a good idea… not only would Rain probably get less experience by defeating the dragon that way, but he also wouldn't raise the morale of the magic people that much. He didn't care about their feelings if they died or lived, but Rain needed them to put up a good fight.

While Rain was thinking about that, the aura of the dragon began to change and became more contained… It wasn't affecting the environment in a large area like before, but the creature's aura was thicker and more ominous than before.

In the next moment, the ice dragon opened its mouth just a bit and then fired an ice beam on the ground that immediately began to freeze the entire area and eventually reached Rain. He just kicked the ground and smashed all the ice around him.

The ice dragon was annoyed thanks to that, but it kept freezing the whole area… the creature was probably trying to create a battlefield that Rain wouldn't have the upper hand, and the beast would have.

"This one doesn't seem that prideful, and that makes it smarter… too bad, it arrived a bit too late to the party," Rain thought and then inclined his body again.

Rain used Impulse and then frosted the area insanely fast… the dragon tried to chase him with its eyes and soon found him sliding on the ice quite fast as well… while moving around the area.

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The dragon ended up accepting the challenge and then landed in the frozen area and before anything, the creature made some ice spikes that were ten meters long emerge from the ground and right below Rain, but he suddenly increased his speed and then avoided them.

The ice dragon did that several times and missed all of them… how could that be possible? The attacks were almost instantaneous, and yet… while Rain was circulating around the monster, the creature eventually took notice of the coral spear on his back… that was the reason for Rain's Ability to move so fast, even on the ice.

While Rain was trying to gain some time for the magic people and for himself to come up with a winning strategy. The ice dragon began to move as well… without moving its legs… just like him, the creature was sliding on the ice and slowly gaining speed.

"It isn't like I didn't consider this, but…" Rain furrowed his eyebrows.

Eventually, the ice dragon began to chase Rain at his same speed… It was quite insane that a several-ton beast could move as fast as him, which was around three hundred kilometers per hour.

As if that wasn't enough, the monster began to zigzag as well and soon appeared in front of him. The monster swung its claws at Rain, and then he punched it. The impact made the ice in the area crack and created a shockwave that crossed hundreds of meters… still, even with all his might, Rain wasn't able to push away the claw.

"When it has some footing… things end up like this, huh?" Rain thought.

The endurance of the dragon increased thanks to that powerful aura. Thanks to that, a hint of pride crossed over the eyes of the creature before the monster used an ice beam directly at Rain… he immediately jumped and kicked the claw of the beast to propel himself backward and avoid the attack… that all happened in the blink of an eye.

"This might be bad…" Rain thought.

Rain still had one option… change his build. Fighting at close range with the Wiseman's Path and skills wasn't the best option, even if he could use Magic Boost to its limits with all that mana. Still, Rain wanted to keep leveling up that path because it was evident that he needed more mana from now on.

The battles were becoming too large in scale, and he needed more energy to deploy strategies that would hinder his enemies.