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Chapter 384 Flee.

Gura raised her hands together, interlocking its fingers, then swung her joined hands like a hammer to push Soma away from mid-air. With a 'bam,' Soma, who practically crossed his hand in times, managed to block the attack, but his body fell.

Before hitting the ground, Soma turned in mid-air and used the boost passive skill to give him a foothold and avoid a body slam. However, Gura had predicted that, so she appeared beside him from a blind side and unleashed a straight kick that directly hit Soma's ribs.

"Kuh!".

A heavy blow jolted his body and brain, and Soma's face contorted. Upon contact earlier, he could hear a bit of crack. However, thanks to his sturdy body, the damage was not too significant—only a bit of crack, not broken.

He pushed aside his pain and regained his footing, putting his feet on the ground. Soma prepared his counter by unleashing a flurry of crimson lightning around his body, which responded by Gura's magic circles. Now, she only used one of them.

She raised her hand, and from above, a massive magic circle spread before spinning rapidly. Then, with a single command from Gura, it began to activate.

"Maelstrom!".

Upon hearing the spell name, Soma frowned, and a heavy turbulence that pushed his body downward began to bear its fangs. A giant maw of swirled wind emerged, and it sucked everything within its path.

The spell was conjured so fast that it reached the ground in just a second. A massive storm had just shaken the city, causing a stir among the people present. They hurriedly took cover in their own place, abandoning everything they did.

Soma barely dodged the Storm, looked around, and found all the buildings seemed fine enough, thankfully no person got sucked there except for the body of the awakeners, which Gura had killed earlier, and a lone female awakener who painstakingly held onto a street lamp.

Because of his distracted attention, Soma was blown to the side and received Gura's punch in the face.

"Tch, it's troublesome but…".

Soma focused on himself and began to gather his energy toward his right fist. Gura, who found something was in the process, lunged at Soma and rained down her attack relentlessly. He sharpened all his senses and dodged every attack of Gura that came at him.

A fist coated by a flame approached his face, and Soma, using his left hand, only deflected its trajectory. He entered Gura's domain and launched a counter. His fist managed to embed deeply into her stomach, pushing her further.

Then, when the time was up for him to launch his technique, Soma ran forward toward Gura and unleashed its right fist.

Gura's body tensed all over, thinking that the attack Soma prepared was for the Storm, not herself. She prepared to leave, but that was what Soma wanted, a slight hesitation in her mind, giving Soma enough room to unleash his technique.

[Martial Saint Technique Lightning Steps Beyond Heaven's Might]

The aura around his boots burst open, giving Soma a momentarily boost like a missile. Arriving in front of Gura face-to-face, he launched a kick that hit her jaw, letting her body fly up.

Then from below, Soma clenched his right fist tight and put everything in his might to destroy both the Storm and the Demon.

[Martial Saint Technique Ashura]

A god-slaying demon figure emerged from Soma's back. Imitating his technique, it punched forward and unleashed a tremendous shockwave that concentrated into a single point.

Like a beam, its crimson light shot upward toward Gura, swallowing her figure, and destroying the Storm.

The sky returned to its blazing color, and a red haze danced in it. Probably, the spell's aftereffect ruined the beautiful sight, with blood splatter everywhere.

Soma, who landed on the ground, looked around, and many of the bodies of awakeners who the Storm ate got minced and only left a trail of blood and pieces of meat scattered across the city.

The building is fine, but one thing that bugs him again is that there is no announcement of his defeating Gura. That vexed him after the two meetings they had, which Gura had managed to leave unnoticed.

"Tch, I failed again, huh".

{...Hmph, foolish!}

Soma wanted to retort because his devil self also had the same outcome at that time, but he held off and decided to help the girls in their battle.

"I need to help them".

The moment when those words left him, the ground beneath him shook and threw him off balance. A terrifying chill gripped his consciousness, turning his gaze toward the source only to find an enormous black beast roaring toward the sky as a sign of apocalypse bringer.

"Rooooaaaarrrr!".

His whole body tensed after looking at the figure that envisioned conquest and fear, standing fifteen meters above the ground. Black scales running through its entire body overlapped like armor, strong limbs that could destroy a mountain with a single clench.

Soma knows that appearance. In the novel, it is also conveyed in the arc when Leon visits the Xiao family, a Beast that Luxuria had prepared inside her womb, nourishing it using her own method.

"...Dragon!".

The being that once ruled over the land feared by many and called the personification of destruction, was a dragon, an ancient beast that had long been extinct on the planet.

With a flap, the Dragon spread its black wings, showing off its majestic presence. Its long tails wiggled, destroying the buildings behind it.

Without further ado, Soma rushed ahead, approaching the Dragon's side. This was also where the girls were fighting Luxuria. Also, the fact that the Dragon had been summoned only means that Luxuria had died.

When Soma almost reached the place, a black limousine caught his eyes below him. It caught his attention, but when he saw Xiao Rui was escorted inside, his face paled, and he feared something wrong had happened to her.

As he reached the car, he met Lin Fan, who stiffened, shocked at his figure.

"Lin Fan? What are you doing here? What about my Aunt?".

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"...She is fine. I was just intending to come here to figure out something, but instead, things turned worse."

Lin Fan's brows knitted, and he took a look toward the Dragon, who had barely left its place and had already destroyed half the buildings around it.

"Lin Fan, I found no injured people around, a lot of them ran away and …died. Soma!? You are here?".

Leon, who came with a bitter expression on his face after seeing dead bodies for the first time, was shocked to see Soma.

Before Soma could say anything, an earth-shattering roar shook their eardrums, making even the ground vibrate with its terrifying strength. Lin Fan and Leon stood dumbstruck, seeing a legendary beast that was told in Legend.

"Tch, sorry Lin Fan Leon I will catch up to you guys later!".

Soma shot forward toward the sky and ran toward the scene where the Dragon ran rampant. The two couldn't tell if what Soma did was bravery or just plain suicide, but his resolve did not dim even in the face of the mighty Dragon.

That alone sparked something within their hearts. The two exchanged glances before eventually nodding their heads in firm determination.

In a matter of seconds, Soma finally arrived at the scene, one word that emerged from his mind. It was utter carnage. Buildings are gone, and there are many traces of blood and bodies lying around.

A mountain of rubbles, and easily, the Dragonn sweeps it away using its tail. Soma's face is grim. His surroundings have turned flat, and he can't find the whereabouts of the girls.

Soma scanned his surroundings while approaching the Dragonn's trace. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a burst of strong wind blast away the rubbles that trapped the people inside.

His eyes shook to see Serafina was holding the two girls in her hands, unconscious, seemingly out of mana.

Terror happened when the blast was also noticed by the Dragonn. It roared and began to walk toward Serafina's side. With each step, the ground shook, causing small earthquakes. Soma put more strength into his feet and shot forward like a missile.

Within his sight, he could see Serafina also in a bad state, her face pale and blood smeared her fair skin, but she kept on protecting the others.

"Sera!".

"!?".

Before Serafina could understand anything, her vision distorted, and she felt weightless and warm, which embraced her cold and frightened body. She recognized the voice and the warmth; she clenched her hands, holding Hina and Xiao Lian on her, and whispered something while tearing up.

"Soma, I…".

"Save your breath, You guys are doing a great job. So leave everything to me now!".

Soma maneuvered in mid-air and avoided a direct confrontation with the Dragon. He leaped back and stayed away from the scene.

"Roaaar!".

The Dragon was enraged because someone had taken away its toy. Soma ignored the thing chasing behind and took a globe relic from his storage relics.