Chapter 23

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Lilith quickly ran to my side, looking at my deep wound, with only Hanya facing Forus and the Tianhe Justice alone.

"What's wrong with him?" she asked Moana.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, why doesn't he have any magic?" Lilith couldn't sense any magic left on me at all.

Moana answered somewhat cryptically, "I'm not too clear either. Reisgolo was in this state when he arrived here, it should be because of the dragon's tooth in his abdomen."

"Hey, Qin Yang..." Lilith patted my face, my vision was very blurry, and I had no strength to even respond.

"Reisgolo is the name he told you?"

"Yeah."

"He actually told you the dragon name."

Moana was amazed, not expecting that this strange name turned out to be a dragon name.

"I only understand a bit of healing magic, but it can't heal such deep wounds. I can only use my divine fire to induce his own divine fire to heal himself."

"Hey! You can't do that, he will just cough up blood."

Moana stopped Lilith, knowing very well that after I used a bit of magic, coughing up blood combined with bleeding would make death come even faster.

After listening to Moana's detailed explanation of my condition, Lilith concluded, "So, the dragon tooth must be removed for him to be saved." Lilith raised her right hand, her sharp eyes staring at the wound for a long while. With her knowledge, she ought not to hesitate, but she didn't dare to act hastily because she didn’t understand this dragon tooth fragment. She didn't know if taking it out would guarantee the expected results.

"L...Lilith, don't worry... I'll pull it out!"

"Qin Yang!" Lilith furrowed her brows, determined to take a risk.

"Wait! If you dare to take it out, I will kill her." Forus once again threatened us by grabbing Li Yihe’s neck.

"Lilith and I actually don't know each other, are you really sure you can threaten me?"

"Miss Lilith... Indeed... we... don't know each other." Li Yihe smiled bitterly upon hearing Lilith’s words.

"She... saved me..."

"Saved your life, right? Don't say anything if you're out of breath. Damn you, Qin Yang, I really don't want to die together with you like this!" Lilith stood up from my side, picked a petal from the mandara flower, crumpled it between her nails, and casually flicked it behind Forus to an empty space.

"Poor aim for such close distance, huh?" Forus sneered, but suddenly the petal at his feet tore open the ground, and a dark blue ghost hand emerged from underground to grab his ankle. Taking advantage of Forus' distraction, Lilith approached him with a strong kick under her foot, her flame hit Forus' arm. Although Forus reacted promptly, he couldn’t stop Lilith from getting close and freeing the hostage.

"You..." Forus wanted to retaliate, but the highly destructive miniature frame cannon once again impacted the room.

"Moana..." I slowly moved my hand, gently reaching into the wound. My body no longer felt pain, completely numb; relying solely on willpower, I reached inside my abdomen to search for the dragon tooth.

"What's wrong? Do you... want to do it yourself?"

"He probably doesn't have the strength to pull it out. I guess Qin Yang wants us to help him pull out the hand holding the dragon tooth." This time, Cui Dong was smart and guessed right, since they didn’t have the guts to reach into a living person's body to find something, it had to be me who took the initiative.

"Regarding... the two of them... we actually cannot... persist for much longer." Hanya and Lilith, including Nana and Li Liu, will be impacted by the loss of my life, and this discount isn't just a mere discount.

"I..."

"Don't think about it. I feel like only he can save us now. You heard it too, it's a matter of life and death. If you don't come this time, then it really will be up to me!"

"No, let me do it. You are so rough, you'll definitely end up hurting him."

Cui Dong looked innocent. He found it strange that even though he was already injured to the point of being like a vegetable, he was still worried about causing pain.

"I'm more worried about how he'll treat himself after pulling out the dragon tooth."

"Stop talking, let me calm down."

"Hold on tight, they might not hold out much longer." Cui Dong could clearly see that these two beautiful girls were becoming more and more exhausted from the battle.

The situation became extremely perilous with the arrival of a figure in golden armor.

"So you're all here."

"Guild Leader!"

"Don't call me Guild Leader!" Elena inexplicably disliked that title, finding it hard to control her emotions in front of me.

Elena's cone-shaped object floated in the air and attacked like flying needles, a few clangs of metal as Hanya's sword blocked Elena’s assault.

"It's you again, my admirer."

"Elena, this time I must give it my all. I wager my title as the 'First Knight of the Academy.'" Elena's divine image appeared behind Hanya, and this time she didn't entertain the notion that Elena would show mercy to her subordinates.

Elena's floating object unleashed compressed elemental projectiles, red-hot magical bullets carrying scorching heat. Hanya opened a magical barrier to withstand the assault.

"Florus, if The Divine Realm takes Qin Yang away, will it benefit us?" Tianhe Justice asked Florus after seeing Elena intervene.

"She is stronger than us. Now the only choice we have is to help her. If Raku and Emorynia have helped the god clan, we can salvage some national prestige, eliminate one strong enemy in Othrie, and gain further trust from the god clan. It's not a bad idea."

"Moana, hurry!" Cui Dong saw the Valkyrie approaching, her target also being Qin Yang, and her strength made him feel very afraid.

"All right..." Moana trembled as she gripped my hand, slowly exerting force.

"Put more strength into it, he can take it."

"Right, I can endure it. Moana, put your back into it!" I was too weak to say more. If Moana didn't remove the dragon tooth soon, I would bleed to death.

"I found an opening!" Tianhe Justice found a way to break through our defenses in the midst of the multi-faceted battle. His left-handed sword closed in on us, sword energy leaking out. Cui Dong and Moana thought their short lives were about to end.

"Ah..." Moana instinctively closed her eyes, but to her surprise, she did not die.

A mouthful of blood spurted onto Moana's body. She felt her body being filled with some sticky liquid. She opened her eyes to see me pale-faced, slumbering in front of her, with Nofice from her home standing, holding a gemstone wand, readying a defensive magic formation.

"I feel... you can feel it too, can't you... Elena." Li Liu slumped weakly against the dilapidated wall. Nana and her both felt my life force ebbing away severely, making them extremely nervous, and the connection between them grew increasingly dire.

Elena, Hanya, and Lilith had all become weakened, forcing the battle to come to a halt. The only one left capable of fighting was Nofice, who was on the brink of death.

"What are you feeling?"

"Don't you want to admit it yet? The contract on your chest... belongs to Bai Qin Yang! So you... and we all have the same reaction."

"It can't be... I can't love a fickle man... impossible!" Elena felt conflicted inside.

"When you kill him, neither you nor I can escape death."

The blade of Tianhe Justice caused cracks in Nofice's defensive magic array, it was inevitable.

"Why is he spitting blood? Moana, what have you done?"

"It's not me, it's his familiar burning his magic, making him overwhelmed."

"This girl is a familiar, kidding! No wonder I fainted that day, now it makes sense."

"Alright, I'll continue, don't speak." Moana slowly pulled out the dragon tooth. The slow sensation was agonizing, but in the end, my hand didn't have enough strength to hold onto it. Moana took a deep breath, her brows furrowing together as she reached directly into my abdomen to find the tooth in my organs. At this moment, the most agonizing one was Moana.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~~" Moana finally pulled out the yellowed dragon tooth from my body, a tooth from the unhealthy mouth of a fire dragon, only the tip of a tooth, a complete tooth of that size could not be placed inside my body.

"Hey, hey, his blood is flowing fast!"

"I was afraid of this from the beginning." Moana tried to heal with some low-level light magic, which obviously didn't work.

"But... it's possible!" After pulling out the tooth, my body could already feel its existence.

"Woo... what is this? Golden flames." Cui Dong sat down on the ground, startled by the flames emerging from my body.

"Flame of Punishment!" Hisa saw the golden flames, as devout as seeing a holy dragon that still held its faith.

Moana moved her hands away, the incredibly deep wound in front of her healed under the cover of the flames.

"God, his complexion is better, what kind of flame is this?" Cui Dong's eyes twinkled as if he had found a treasure.

"Ah~~~ this really scared me." I stood up in the embrace of the flames, but now there is a problem, in the state of Reisgolo, my magic cannot be used normally. Without the suppression of the dragon tooth, my magical operation started and my eyes, like the last time, turned into heterochromatic eyes.

"Oh no! Is this really fate?" Forus had witnessed my power, and he understood that the situation was quickly being reversed.

I stood with both hands raised to the sky and both feet on the ground, in their eyes, I seemed to be summoning something.

Tianhe Justice fought desperately, he felt no signs of the familiar girl becoming stronger, indicating that he still had a chance.

"It's coming!" Suddenly, a huge object leaped out of the sea, crossing the pitch-black clouds of the night sky, descending vertically from the high altitude of this magic array that could only be entered but not exited.

"Boom!" This massive creature was a giant octopus, its long and thick tentacles thrashing around.

"Hey, could you please release my sword? Mr. Octopus." Wrapped in the octopus's tentacles was a broadsword with a hole pierced through the blade. Each tentacle loosened, exposing it.

After the Dragonbone Greatsword fell out that day, it was never drawn again from the sword hilt. But now is not the time for that, so I had to make do. If the conversion of dragon soul power into magic is not fast enough, I can only undergo partial dragon transformation. Even though the wounds have already healed, it's best not to be too reckless after the trauma.

Gripping the sword, I felt invigorated. The surging magic sent the octopus flying a hundred meters high. Swinging the blade over my shoulder, the debris flew, walls shattered, and steel crumbled.

"How exaggerated, still showing off," Lilith couldn't help but comment on my dramatic entrance into battle. At that moment, the girl's weakness vanished into thin air.

"Whoever it is, don't even think about touching the two people behind me, and Li Yihe!" I confidently declared to them, as Nofice dutifully spread his eighteen wings, floating elegantly behind me, ready in complete silence, exuding a majestic aura at full throttle.