Volume 1, Chapter 93 – Kick a Dragon, Make It Faint

“You think you can knock me out like this? First of all, as an undead, I don’t even faint. And secondly, my heart isn’t my weak point. Don’t you even know that kind of common sense?”

Seeing Tianyin’s movements, Ysera’s tone was full of disdain.

Still, even with that disdain, as a dragon, being directly “attacked on the chest” like this was an insult to her dignity as a dragon.

So, the moment she finished speaking, Ysera lifted her body and opened her mouth wide, releasing a torrent of dragon breath aimed directly at her own heart.

Though dragons were immune to magic, they weren’t immune to their own dragon breath. Even knowing that, Ysera resolutely spewed her icy breath toward her heart.

If it had been any other dragon, this would’ve been suicidal. But to Ysera, an undead Frost Dragon, even if her bones were shattered into pieces, she could always reassemble them again.

“My, my~ such a bad temper~”

Facing the incoming frost breath, Tianyin didn’t even look up. To her, it was as if nothing more than a cold gust of snow had brushed past her face.

The next second, the dragon heart under Tianyin’s hand began to crackle and pop. And if one looked closely, they would see fine fractures slowly spreading across its glowing surface.

“This should be about enough, right?”

Even as the cracks widened, Ysera’s frost breath had already reached Tianyin.

At that crucial instant, the look in Tianyin’s crimson eyes turned amused.

Then, she withdrew her small hand from the dragon’s heart and crouched down, wrapping her arms around her head.

This was none other than Tianyin’s signature skill, 【Hug-Your-Head Crouch Defense】!

Almost immediately, the frost breath engulfed her completely.

Watching her own breath swallow Tianyin, Ysera didn’t feel any sense of satisfaction. Instead, a strange unease took root in her heart, as if something about this wasn’t as simple as it looked.

And sure enough, in a place Ysera couldn’t see, a blood-red light seeped into her cracked heart.

A few seconds later, the breath subsided, and just as she had suspected, her frost breath hadn’t inflicted any damage at all.

On the contrary, Tianyin remained perfectly fine, still crouched on the ground in that odd, protective pose.

Although Ysera couldn’t understand why Tianyin stayed in that strange position, the memory of being completely suppressed by her moments ago made her too wary to act rashly.

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“Well, you’re not attacking me even after I let my guard down like this. Compared to those mindless undead who only know how to fight, you’re actually quite rational.”

Seeing Ysera remain still, Tianyin sighed in mild exasperation and stood up.

“In that case, please be ready to faint, okay~”

After that baffling statement, Tianyin’s small figure suddenly appeared before Ysera’s eyes in the blink of an eye.

“I’ll give you ten seconds before I make you faint. Of course, you can refuse, but in that case, you’ll have to tell me how to bring Xiaobingxue back~”

The reason she proposed such a condition was because the true Tianyin, her real self, had made the request within her mind.

“Whatever you want. That girl was never meant to exist in the first place. Saving her is impossible.”

Ysera’s voice carried what sounded like a cold laugh, though her skeletal form made it impossible to tell.

“If that’s the case, then I guess there’s no helping it~”

Tianyin’s crimson eyes widened again, a smile blooming on her face.

But this time, that smile carried an air of cruel delight.

“As one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Original Sin of Wrath, earlier, I wasn’t even using my full strength~”

“Wait, you’re—”

Hearing Tianyin mutter to herself, Ysera’s tone turned to shock.

But there was no time for surprise.

Because—

The battle began anew.

Only, from an outside perspective, this was no battle at all.

It was a one-sided slaughter.

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Boom—!

Bang—!

The sounds of violent impacts echoed across the sky, each one striking the Frost Dragon’s body with earth-shattering force.

From the very first hit, Ysera felt one of the bones in her vast bone wings snap apart under Tianyin’s strike.

And in the very next moment, Tianyin’s figure appeared at another part of her body, delivering another fierce blow.

Although Ysera, as a Throne-class being, wouldn’t die even if her heart were crushed or her bones were shattered, being forced to stand still, helplessly watching her body being pummeled apart, it was like a nightmare.

And now, that nightmare was unfolding before everyone’s eyes.

No, because Tianyin’s body was so small, even those watching from afar couldn’t make out her tiny form as she darted around, assaulting the colossal dragon.

Her speed was far beyond what the eye could follow. Even the approaching Headless Knight couldn’t track her movements.

Fast. Too fast.

In just one second, Ysera realized that more than a dozen of her bones had been broken.

If they had been clustered together, it might’ve been tolerable, but the problem was that those bones were scattered all over her body.

To shatter more than ten bones in completely different places within a single second… it was terrifying to imagine just how fast Tianyin was moving.

In the air, Tianyin’s small body flickered like a phantom, her crimson eyes glowing brighter and brighter with every strike.

“This really is… something I can’t help but get addicted to…”

As she spoke, she smiled, a charming yet unsettling smile.

“I can feel it, you know~ Your anger~”

Even as she laughed, Tianyin’s figure kept flashing across Ysera’s massive body, shattering one dragon bone after another.

It was unbelievable to witness a seemingly frail, powerless girl unleashing such overwhelming strength.

And just as Tianyin had said, Ysera’s fury only burned hotter the more she was beaten down.

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Of course, Ysera could have chosen to take flight, but after being thrown from the sky so easily earlier, she didn’t dare.

Besides, Tianyin’s body was small while hers was enormous. The difference in their size, coupled with Tianyin’s blinding speed, made it impossible for Ysera to even land a hit.

That was why she couldn’t defend herself at all.

As one of the few Throne-class beings of the Graveyard, even if she wasn’t in her prime, she should have been beyond the reach of anyone who dared challenge her.

As a Throne-class Frost Dragon, she not only possessed innate immunity to magic but also had physical defense so high it bordered on absurdity.

That was how she had managed to withstand Karl’s full-powered strike earlier while casting her forbidden spell.

Though it interrupted her incantation, it hadn’t truly harmed her.

And yet now, as a Throne-class being, she was being mercilessly beaten in place by a petite, silver-haired loli.

Such humiliation trampled her pride as a dragon.

Unforgivable!

Absolutely unforgivable!

At this moment, Ysera’s heart burned with fury, just as Tianyin had described. Her rage was about to consume her whole.

After all, dragons were prideful creatures. As a Throne-class being, a symbol of power, her pride ran even deeper.

The pride of the strong, the pride of a dragon, could not be desecrated.

“I can feel it very clearly~ the anger in your heart~”

Within seconds, Tianyin could sense the storm of wrath surging within the Frost Dragon’s chest.

“So what if you can? Hmph. If I’m not mistaken, you’re only temporarily using her body, aren’t you? Which means… this state of yours won’t last long, will it?”

Even in her fury, Ysera still retained some measure of reason, the wisdom of one who had lived for ages.

“If I’m right, your time’s almost up, isn’t it?”

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Tianyin didn’t bother responding. It wasn’t worth the time.

For one, Ysera’s guess was correct.

And secondly…

“You know too much~”

She spoke softly.

Then, under Ysera’s mixed gaze of shock, confusion, and fury, Tianyin raised one foot and stepped down lightly on the side of the dragon’s massive head.

To be precise, it was at her temple.

“Did you know? If a person gets struck in this spot, there’s a high chance they’ll die~”

“So I wonder, what would happen if it were a dragon?”

Hearing her words, Ysera instinctively tried to scoff.

But the next instant, the world before her eyes began to spin wildly.

The sky and ground blurred together.

For the first time, Ysera felt as if she might actually faint.

And then Tianyin’s voice echoed again.

“I see… When a person’s struck there, they die. But when a dragon’s kicked there… they faint~”

In other words…

When a human’s hit, they die.

When a dragon’s kicked, they faint.