Chapter 288: The Sovereign! (1/2)

Darcia was unable to understand what had happened suddenly, but the intense earthquake had at least made her realize that she was tricked by Ozul.

Though she didn't fear the Beast that had been slumbering underground, it enraged her that she was tricked by him. Not to mention, she would still have to use her cannon which she was reluctant to.

”Doesn't matter! I was planning to test it on something anyway!” Darcia muttered while she continued to gather Mana around her.

Ozul realized that he didn't have time to examine his improvements as a massive giant beam of light was shoved at his face.

Covering himself with the Ball of Purity at the same time, he jumped to the side with enough force to launch him high up in the air before the beam of light even hit him.

Boom!

The beam of light hit the ground as debris flew everywhere.

With the small explosion, the earthquake suddenly stopped as well and in place of where Ozul was standing before, a huge blurry figure could be seen behind the smokescreen.

Ignoring the ruckus below him, Ozul momentarily looked at the group that was spectating from far away in the distance. Right now, his eyes fell on the figure of Raven who was being persuaded by Blaze to leave with him.

Although they were hundreds of meters away, his eyesight was improved to the point where it wasn't difficult for him to observe even small details like Raven's face full of worries.

Noticing her reluctant expressions, he realized that she was also looking at him. His serious expressions turned a little softer before he nodded at her and shifted his focus back to the mess at hand.

He didn't worry much that Raven wouldn't leave the scene with Blaze because he knew her the most. She might be a little emotional because of her love, but he was confident that she would be able to decide what was best for them in the end.

He had made it clear to her that their presence would only hinder him before, and Raven was smart enough to realize that despite her emotions.

What he failed to notice was the tears in her eyes as she turned around to leave with Blaze and the Rogue Crew. After all, together with everything else, she could also discern that the situation was anything but under his complete control.

Back to the battle, Ozul noticed that Darcia had stopped attacking him and was instead staring at the blurry shadow behind the smokescreen.

He tried to take advantage of the moment and sneak attacked her from behind with hair-thin needles, but it seemed that she hadn't completely dropped her guard.

The needles he had sent at her stopped just before piercing her skin as the light shield became visible to the eyes.

Darcia turned to glare at Ozul with a deadpan face, but her main focus of attention was still the towering figure which hadn't made its move yet.

Although his attack failed, Ozul was again about to attack her but he was also forced to stop when intense heat waves suddenly washed over everything in the vicinity of that entity.

'What is this!?' he shouted in his mind as he felt difficulty in even breathing!

Looking at Darcia, he noticed that even she had to cover herself with a layer of Mana to be able to breathe and protect against the torrid heat waves.

The debris and the smokescreen slowly died down revealing the massive figure of what appeared to be a wolf(?).

However, it was too enormous to be called a wolf. Not to mention, its tail and both of its ears were actually made of fire!

Covered in red, the massive beast had strands of its fur flowing in the air as if they were all flames instead. One could also observe occasional strands of flames appearing around its paws before disappearing just the next moment.

”RRRROOOAAAARRRR!!!!!”

The massive beast suddenly roared while looking at the sky. Its roar alone was enough to shake the ground!

Following his cry of rage as if it was furious at being woken up from its sleep, all the Rank-8 and Rank-9 Beasts on the snow peaks in the vicinity also joined in!

ROAR!!... KREE!!!... HOWL!!!

Zzzz...!

The ground started shaking with even more intensity as all kinds of screeches from all those Beasts on the mountains!