Splosh!
The moment she plunged into the clouds, Luo Li was instantly soaked to the bone.
At this point, even a towel wouldn't have helped.
The clouds were nothing more than condensed mist.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Li had become a drowned rat.
Behind her, Mochizuki Shingen began to tremble violently.
Flying at such high altitudes was already taking a severe toll on his deteriorating condition.
The high-speed flight allowed the wind to strip away even more body heat, and the hazy drizzle further lowered his temperature.
He had almost reached the limit of human endurance.
The fact that he hadn't lost consciousness yet could only be attributed to his sheer strength of will.
Luo Li knew she couldn't stay in the clouds for long, not just because of Shingen's condition.
The lightning that occasionally flashed through the mist was enough to make anyone's heart skip a beat.
If she were unlucky enough to get hit, she would become a textbook Saintess roast.
Judging by her current physical constitution and resistance...
She would probably end up medium-well.
Just the right flavor.
Ugh, shut up!!
I don't want to die in a place like this!
Sorry, Shalin, I'm the type to settle every score, but it seems this grudge is coming and going pretty quickly.
Luo Li reached out and patted the griffin, whispering in its ear.
"Don't worry, I've got this."
Perhaps it was Luo Li's words that worked, or maybe it was her gentle tone, but the griffin gradually began to calm down.
As a griffin, it hadn't gone through life without seeing dragons, but encountering a member of the true dragon species alone...
It simply couldn't handle the pressure!
Ignoring the griffin's internal panic, Luo Li stood up, her toes balanced on the creature's back.
She turned around mid-air, facing the rear.
"I, the Moon Witch, beckon here."
The gale howled in her ears, and her long black hair whipped forward as she turned against the wind.
It flailed incessantly.
"O, my demon god Sariel... answer my call."
The girl extended her five sharp fingers and made a grasping motion in the air.
The Sword of Death, covered in scarlet patterns, slowly emerged from the void.
"I control all souls! I am the sovereign of spirits!"
Clang!
With a crisp ring of the blade, Luo Li held the sword in one hand, facing the giant dragon.
"Dark moon, crimson light, in the name of God, I declare."
"I, in the name of the Moon Witch, strip you of your soul!!"
"Endure the wrath of God!!"
"Special Class Authority—Soul Authority!"
The moment the girl pointed her long sword at the dragon!
In the sky, a pitch-black full moon suddenly materialized!
The entire world became clear in an instant, illuminated by a light of unknown origin that reached every corner.
This radiance lit up the path before Luo Li and parted the clouds, exposing the dragon.
A massive hole was instantly punched through the cloud layer!
On one side stood the black-haired girl atop the griffin.
On the other was the blue dragon soaring through the sky.
The sudden disappearance of the clouds left the dragon in a state of bewildered confusion.
She didn't seem to understand what had happened.
However... she felt a certain power within her body rapidly draining away.
In the blink of an eye, an extreme sense of weakness washed over her.
Right before her eyes, a massive figure slowly materialized behind the girl.
Six black wings, two long scythes, and short black hair; though the face was obscured, it was clearly the form of a shirtless male.
The scythes in his hands seemed to possess a magical allure.
He swung them down suddenly!
In that instant, Shalin felt something within her vanish!
A direct connection had been severed.
This sensation plunged her into a state of total confusion.
Immediately following that, the phantom figure slowly pressed the shadowy essence cut by the scythes into the girl's body.
In the next second, a majestic aura... erupted from her petite frame!
"Is this... what power feels like?"
In a single moment, she had stripped fifty percent of the attributes from a level sixty dragon.
Her entire body was suddenly filled with a violent energy that she couldn't vent.
She even felt that, at this moment, she could crush the dragon before her with a mere flick of her wrist.
However, Luo Li knew this was just an illusion brought on by the sudden surge of power.
It was only because the disparity in their strengths was so vast that it gave her this feeling.
But that wasn't the point!
Luo Li slowly raised the Sword of Death, facing the dragon.
Sorry, Shalin, I hope you can survive this strike!
"Combat Art! Blood Moon Slash!!"
The girl swung the long sword down, and following the path of the blade, a scarlet air blade shaped like a crescent moon shot forth!
At the same time, another scarlet air blade followed closely behind the first.
Unlike the crescent moon blade, this second strike was triggered by a passive skill.
Its power was only equivalent to her full-strength normal attack.
But Blood Moon Slash was different!
Blood Moon Slash—a sword technique that carves a path of the blood moon; targets hit by the blood moon's trajectory suffer triple damage.
As the Blood Moon Slash sped forward, the two-meter-long scarlet crescent suddenly expanded more than threefold.
With an unstoppable momentum, it headed straight for the frost dragon!
At this moment, Shalin was still in a daze, the weakness pervading her body making her realize...
This was undoubtedly the work of the demon not far away.
But she didn't understand what exactly had happened.
By the time she noticed the scarlet crescent, it was already too late to dodge.
The Creator is fair.
A massive body gave the dragon race incredible defense and combat power.
However, it also limited other things.
For example... a large body made them an easy target for skills! Especially area-of-effect attacks!
Shalin could only curl her body, protecting her neck and head while shielding herself with her wings.
But although dragons were famous for their defense, their wings were still fragile points.
Slash!
The scarlet moon tore through her thin wing membranes with almost no resistance.
Without stopping... it carved directly into the right side of her body.
Riiiiip.
Even for a dragon's body, its defensive power had dropped significantly after being stripped of half its attributes.
The Blood Moon Slash tore through the dragon's flesh with almost no obstruction.
It left a massive gash eighteen meters long on her side.
"Roar!"
With a pained draconic howl, the frost dragon began to plummet under the agony.
This caused Shalin to instinctively flap her wings.
But the torn wing made it impossible for her to maintain balance, and though it slowed her fall significantly...
She continued to drop until she hit the sea.
Boom!
Waves were kicked up over a hundred meters high.
The nearly five-hundred-meter-long frost dragon crashed into the ocean.
Watching the frost dragon fall into the sea, Luo Li kept her eyes fixed on the turbulent surface.
She didn't want to kill a dragon with her own hands; after all, this was just a misunderstanding.
Even though she felt she had held back, she hadn't used the Crescent Light.
That was the real bugged ability.
Once that special class authority was activated, the damage she dealt became 'incurable'.
Aside from the healing art in her Saintess form, other healing spells would be almost useless against such a wound.
In other words, once someone was injured by it, they would either have to endure it with their own vitality or eventually bleed out.
Of course, 'incurable' was a relative concept rather than an absolute one.
This 'healing' likely referred to skills categorized as healing arts.
Furthermore, the authority itself likely had a time limit on the affliction.
After all, energy must be conserved, right?
Otherwise, this skill would be truly invincible.
But even so, it was powerful enough.
It was practically a god-tier skill for group combat.
Once hit, the injured party could only fight with their wounds; a light scratch might not matter...
But if the bone was damaged, they would lose their combat effectiveness entirely, at least in the short term.
Suddenly, the surface of the sea began to churn.
Next, a massive dragon head emerged from the water.
Beneath its feet was a massive platform of ice floes.
Seeing this, Luo Li smiled.
Shalin was quite clever, learning and applying knowledge on the fly.
Luo Li had used ice floes to transport the army before, and now, the dragon had created a platform for herself.
Although her wing was injured and she couldn't fly for the time being, at least she wouldn't drown miserably in the sea.
Luo Li felt relieved seeing this.
She looked at the position of the wound on the dragon's side.
It was already covered in frost, and within that eighteen-meter-long gash, there seemed to be another smaller wound hidden inside.
A wound within a wound.
It was likely the damage caused by the Blood Qi Moon Blade that had followed.
Of course, that hit wasn't as strong as the initial Blood Moon Slash, but it still added insult to injury.
She hadn't expected that the first time she used her Witch authorities would be against an ally.
What a mess.
She felt the Sword of Death in her hand.
At this moment, the sword felt like an extension of her own arm.
She had to admit, max-level swordplay was incredible.
She even felt that with this sword, she would dare to challenge the Dragon King right now!
Of course, that was just an illusion.
She tossed the sword back into her storage space.
She glanced back at Mochizuki Shingen, who was slumped on the griffin.
Though his body had reached its limit, his eyes remained bright.
Having witnessed the scene just now, Shingen was looking at her with a very strange expression.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You are very powerful."
"Heh."
Luo Li let out a soft chuckle, her natural charm surfacing.
She spoke casually.
"Don't worship me; I'm just a legend."
"???"
"Cough... nothing. Let's go home."
Tch! Does this kid not get such an old meme?
Have I fallen out of touch with the times?
Or does this era simply not have similar memes?
Luo Li pulled the reins and snapped them!
Time to high-tail it out of here!
"Roar!"
A roar of indignation and fury from the dragon echoed from behind.
Luo Li smiled; I'll remember this grudge.
...
After that, everything was calm.
The strait wasn't very long to begin with, and they flew across it in short order.
However, because of the ten-minute struggle with Shalin, they had likely drifted off course.
Since she couldn't accurately judge her direction in the storm, she could only fly east based on instinct.
And so... they flew for five hours.
Previously, flying straight across the strait would have led to the Great Wall.
But now, as Luo Li saw the situation below, she couldn't help but frown.
The coast below wasn't the Great Wall, but a massive dock.
Although the dock was temporarily out of operation due to the storm, it was clear that it was a very prosperous place.
As they got closer, the dock became clearer.
Behind the harbor... a majestic city emerged in her field of vision.
The massive city seemed to be built upon a large mound.
The central part of the city was much higher than the surrounding areas.
The city walls were semi-circular, enclosing the city and the ocean together.
Inside the vast city, despite the constant storm, the streets were still bustling.
The wide roads were filled with heavy traffic.
People were still walking about in the streets.
By the shore, people were pulling ropes to secure ships, preventing them from being pushed away by the waves.
The entire city seemed very orderly.
At a glance, this city was even a size larger than Brilliant City.
There was almost no doubt... this city was Moonrise City!
In the entire Kingdom of the Moon, there were only two major coastal cities.
One was Moonrise City in the east, and the other was Seaview City in the southeast.
Since Seaview City had just gone through a war, it couldn't possibly be this prosperous.
So the only option left was Moonrise City.
"Moonrise City? How did I end up here?"
She vaguely remembered that although Moonrise City was a major city, its location was quite awkward; it was close to the demons but furthest from the other nations.
Therefore, while it was a large coastal city, its actual commerce wasn't very developed, relying mainly on the maritime industry.
In other words, they made a living by fishing.
Because this was an era of magic, fish could be kept fresh even when transported long distances.
Most of the fish she ate came from here.
In fact, Moonrise City provided the highest quality seafood in the entire Kingdom of the Moon.
That such a massive city could operate normally for so many years in such an awkward location was precisely for this reason.
"Seafood, huh..."
Countless delicacies instantly popped into Luo Li's mind.
Sashimi, steamed lobster, braised or steamed sea fish of all kinds, grilled fish... Ssss... no.
Drool was about to start leaking from the corner of her mouth.
The more she thought about it, the hungrier she got.
Using so many skills and flying in the sky had consumed quite a bit of physical strength.
Although she had some dried rations and fruit, they couldn't compare to a feast.
But... she touched the pair of horns on her head.
Then she looked at Mochizuki Shingen, who had almost lost consciousness behind her.
The girl sighed.
In her current state, it didn't seem appropriate to land directly in the city.
Otherwise, she feared the first thing to greet her wouldn't be a delicious feast, but a blazing burning stake.
Before entering the city, she had to find a place to land and switch back to Saintess mode!
Yes, that was the plan!
She was going to...
Go on an incognito visit!
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