Emily was smiling a bit foolishly, very happy.
After Shu Yue had run off earlier, Emily had chased and chased, but soon lost sight of Shu Yue.
She also got lost in the forest, but she didn’t give up.
While searching, she saw birds flying overhead.
The flock seemed frightened, fleeing from a certain area.
Emily climbed up to the tree canopy to look and then saw dust rising a few hundred meters away, along with some rumbling sounds.
After hesitating for a moment, she decided to risk going over to take a look.
Saying she’d go take a look, her running speed was not slow at all, not conserving her magic power in the slightest.
When she arrived, she happened to see Shu Yue slam into a tree trunk and then fall heavily to the ground.
And that terrifying magic beast, with cruel red light glowing in its eyes, was walking toward Shu Yue, seemingly intending to eat her right then and there.
Emily immediately panicked, disregarding her body’s limits and charging over at the fastest speed of her life, slamming the Darkgold Dragonbeast away eight or nine meters.
Even though her body had briefly exceeded its limits, causing some chaos in her magic power, reducing the enhancement effect on her physique by thirty percent, and causing faint pain from muscle dissolution and tearing.
Emily was still smiling when facing Shu Yue, her voice not trembling in the slightest.
Shu Yue could see Emily’s current state.
She had originally wanted to scold Emily for meddling.
But the words reached her lips and she swallowed them back…
After being slammed away, the Darkgold Dragonbeast also regained a bit of clarity from its frenzied state.
Its scarlet vertical pupils fixed firmly on Shu Yue and Emily, while it lowered its posture.
Shu Yue also noticed its movements.
She immediately stopped pretending, standing up from the ground.
Getting slapped by the dragon beast earlier had indeed injured her a bit, but that injury was nothing.
After activating her bloodline for the Dragon Maiden Transformation, her body might look like a delicate, adorable young girl, but her actual physique was stronger than an elite warrior.
Taking that hit just made her uncomfortable for a little while.
Now Shu Yue was completely fine.
After standing up, she also released her grip on the potent alchemical magic potion, taking out a dagger and tossing it to Emily.
“Take this and use it.”
Her only two weapons, a short sword and a dagger.
The short sword was still stuck in the Darkgold Dragonbeast’s chest, leaving only one dagger in the small pouch at her waist.
Emily was clearly a Sword Maiden, accustomed to using a sword.
A dagger would be hard for her to use at full strength, but now was not the time to be picky.
The Darkgold Dragonbeast wouldn’t let Emily go retrieve her sword to fight again.
Even with an extra person, it still had no intention of retreating.
Its thirst for dragon blood made it choose to fight to the death.
This wasn’t the thinking of a shrewd hunter, but it was an instinct rooted in the genes of a magic beast possessing dragon blood.
The moment Shu Yue threw the dagger, it moved.
Emily had just caught the dagger Shu Yue threw over and hadn’t even had time to thank her when her body suddenly flew into the air.
She belatedly realized Shu Yue was holding her.
The young woman’s face flushed slightly, her heart filled with joy, thinking her decision to come was indeed right!
Shu Yue’s face, however, darkened a bit.
Emily was really too scatterbrained.
When the dagger was thrown to her, she hadn’t paid attention to the Darkgold Dragonbeast at all, her mind entirely on the dagger, giving the dragon beast an opportunity.
Shu Yue rushed over, wrapped an arm around Emily’s waist, and pulled her away to dodge the Darkgold Dragonbeast’s pounce.
But it wasn’t over yet.
The tail-blade shot over swiftly!
Whoosh!
The sound of splitting air rang out.
Shu Yue first pushed Emily away with her hand, then stepped on Emily’s stomach with her foot, kicking her out.
Emily snapped out of her happy state from receiving something from Shu Yue.
By now, she had already been kicked by Shu Yue.
The kick was quite strong, almost making Emily vomit bile.
The two separated in opposite directions.
The tail-blade pierced through the space between them dangerously close.
At the closest moment, it was about twenty centimeters from each of their bodies.
If Shu Yue hadn’t kicked Emily away, Emily might have been pierced through the waist, turning into Emi… ly.
Emily fell to the ground, rolled, stood up again, and looked toward Shu Yue’s direction.
Shu Yue did a backflip in the air, dodging the tail-blade while landing at the side of the Darkgold Dragonbeast.
She turned and darted under the dragon beast’s body, grabbing the hilt of the short sword and forcefully pulling it out.
“Roar!”
The Darkgold Dragonbeast roared in pain, then turned its gaze toward Shu Yue, who was running away from it.
It chased after her without the slightest hesitation.
Shu Yue dodged attacks while shouting to Emily in the distance.
“Help me distract it! I have a way to deal with it!”
“Huh? Oh!”
Emily finally snapped out of it.
She had been somewhat mesmerized watching Shu Yue’s movements just now.
As a noble lady, she had seen many agile experts, but someone as nimble and graceful as Shu Yue was a first.
Every twist of Shu Yue’s body was like dancing, her smooth hair following the movements, shining silver in the sunlight, those brilliant golden eyes also very striking.
Because with the dragon tail, Shu Yue could perform many mid-air twists that ordinary people found difficult.
Emily tightened her grip on the dagger in her hand.
She looked at the Darkgold Dragonbeast, took a deep breath, and charged forward.
Actually, from the very beginning, when she briefly exceeded her limits to slam into the dragon beast, she had already thought about dying together with Shu Yue.
Rather than going back to get married and have children, it was better to live and die with the person she liked.
Falling in love after just one meeting?
Yes, Emily felt she had fallen in love at first sight.
That mysterious aura on Shu Yue deeply attracted her heart, and that beauty perfectly matched her aesthetic.
Emily had never believed in love at first sight, thinking it was just an excuse men used to hit on women.
Until she met her…
That feeling of a pounding heart, that urgent desire to seize her made Emily charge forward despite the danger.
The joy and excitement of seeing her again, the blood rushing quickly, all told Emily one thing: she had truly fallen in love with a heteromorph girl she had only met twice.
So she didn’t hesitate at all about what Shu Yue said.
Even if Shu Yue had tricked her and run off alone, Emily held no resentment or regret.
She even thought, if she died because of her, would Shu Yue remember her always, occasionally recalling that day she abandoned her and ran?
Even if Shu Yue escaped, even if she quickly forgot about her, Emily was willing.
Because she really didn’t want to grow old in an ordinary way.
Shu Yue glanced back and saw that although Emily was chasing from behind, her eyes weren’t focused on the Darkgold Dragonbeast but were constantly on her.
Shu Yue felt a bit annoyed.
‘What are you looking at me for? I gave you that dagger so you could stab the magic beast’s butt!’
Realizing Emily was a bit scatterbrained, Shu Yue decided not to rely on her.
After Emily ruined Shu Yue’s plan to feign defeat, Shu Yue still had another method to defeat the Darkgold Dragonbeast: forcibly using Dragon’s Majesty to intimidate it, then attacking with the potent alchemical magic potion.
But doing that would leave her almost no chance to refine the Darkgold Dragonbeast’s spirituality.
The corpse would attract powerful predators, and the commotion here would draw those searching for Emily.
Shu Yue really didn’t want to give up on this Darkgold Dragonbeast’s dragon blood.
She could feel its dragon blood volume was far higher than that Rock Dragon Lizard’s. Giving it up would be such a waste!
“Whatever, I won’t save it anymore…”
Shu Yue steeled her heart, took out a semi-transparent glass tube from her small pouch, pressed the cap to inject magic power, then threw the glass tube in her hand.
But not at the Darkgold Dragonbeast—she threw it into the air in front of the dragon beast, while not forgetting to warn Emily.
“Watch your eyes!”
“Huh?”
Emily froze for a moment, not doing as Shu Yue said, but instead looked at Shu Yue in confusion.
Shu Yue had already turned her head away.
The next instant, intense light instantly turned the surrounding fifty meters into a white world.
Fortunately, Emily finally listened to Shu Yue’s words and closed her eyes.
The Darkgold Dragonbeast suffered from not understanding human language, taking the full brunt of the white flash.
With a boom, it crashed into the trunk of a Gray Giant Pine, its pursuit coming to an abrupt halt.
Even with her eyes closed, Emily still got a face full of intense light.
When she opened her eyes again, she could barely see.
Tearing up, she vaguely saw the Darkgold Dragonbeast’s body and charged over, forcefully plunging the dagger into the dragon beast’s body.
The power of her Battle Method was quite strong.
As a peak Tier 1, her strength was only slightly less than Shu Yue’s.
She also used a battle skill with the dagger.
Unfortunately, the dagger wasn’t as compatible as a longsword, only allowing the sword aura to penetrate ten centimeters.
The damage caused wasn’t particularly significant for the Darkgold Dragonbeast’s size.
The Darkgold Dragonbeast roared in pain, got up, and attacked wildly, trying to keep enemies from approaching.
Its huge body thrashed, but Emily stubbornly held onto the dagger, though she was finally thrown off, bringing out a splash of bright red.
A dagger, after all, wasn’t a nail.
Shu Yue also stopped, turning to look at the frenzied Darkgold Dragonbeast.
Her heart ached with pain.
She had the cheat-like Star Tempering Art, which could completely extract a single trait from an item.
That’s how she could make that thing.
It wasn’t a Flash spell, but a flashbang tube Shu Yue created by tempering the trait from lampstone that reacts with magic power to release light.
It was very effective, just a bit expensive. Moreover, making it was particularly troublesome and time-consuming.
“Sigh…”
Shu Yue glanced at the chestnut-haired girl who had just gotten up from the ground and was sitting rubbing her eyes.
‘As long as she’s not blind. Even taking a full flash shouldn’t blind her, but she won’t be able to see anything for a day. And her vision will decline after recovery, so she still needs to have the awareness to turn away from the flash.’
Setting Emily aside for now, she focused her attention on the Darkgold Dragonbeast.
The Darkgold Dragonbeast had ended its initial panic.
Having lost its vision, it began relying on smell and hearing.
But Shu Yue had already won.
She walked unhurriedly to a spot five meters away from it.
Shu Yue took a deep breath, puffed out her chest, a pair of small buns pushing against the fabric of her clothes.
“â”—|ï½€O′|â”› Awoo~~”
She used Evil Dragon’s Roar!
The Darkgold Dragonbeast didn’t back down either, opening its big mouth and roaring back.
The Evil Dragon’s Roar was very effective!
Shu Yue grinned mischievously and said.
“You ate my flash, so now eat my fire too!”
Another tube of alchemical magic potion was thrown right into the wide-open mouth of the roaring Darkgold Dragonbeast.