It didn't take long for the guardian's chamber to fall silent again, so Billy and his friends decided to open it. A single touch on the door was enough to do that. In the next moment, they were welcomed by a thick, purple haze leaving the room. Since they were wearing the rings Billy made and their resistance had increased a lot, they endured the poisoned air, but they still felt a bit dizzy due to the amount of poison on it. Staying for long there would be fatal...
The room was completely dark and the group couldn't see much, their vision barely let them see anything fifty meters away from them and since that place was massive, they couldn't see the ceiling or the walls either. Billy decided to improve their vision by making the poison air concentrated above them and then used fire magic to burn and illuminate the area. That improved things a bit, but they couldn't find anything or anyone around.
"Did you hear that?" Billy asked.
"Hear, what?" Alexander and Sarah asked in unison.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing… I always wanted to say that," Billy said.
They sighed… Way to go to decrease the tension. Still, that was Billy's intention since his friends were way too nervous. That being said… Perhaps Billy didn't pick the best moment to do that because the ground began to tremble and they began to hear some heavy footsteps approaching.
Billy felt the vibrations coming from their three o'clock, so he turned and prepared to fight. His friends did the same, but their focus waved when they a massive monster approaching. It was like five meters tall and its width was about the same… However, that was just the size of the creature's head… The real problem was the length of the rest of the body, which was around forty meters. The creature had a scaled face, and some purple crystals on its back. It seemed like an oversized lizard that had one hell of a big mouth and teeth… Billy almost screamed: dragon, but the creature didn't have wings… Still, he confirmed what it was after using Appraisal.
Billy had planned to strike first and kill the creature, but he didn't expect that a fucking dragon would show up. So, he lost the chance to attack and the monster used its breath attack… It really was a dragon… When Billy saw that, he immediately emerged a wind wall to block it. The breath was purple like the poison they saw earlier, so it would be better to send it right back at the monster. Still, it was clear that a war of attrition wouldn't be a good idea.
"Move to the sides and attack that beast!" Billy said. "Focus on damaging its face as much as possible!"
Alexander and Sarah nodded and then followed the instructions. Approaching was too risky, so Alexander picked the crossbow that Billy gave to him. Meanwhile, Sarah made several ice arrows appear around her. The dragon looked at them, recognizing them as threats, so it stopped its breath attack… A not smart move. In the next moment, Billy fired the strongest lightning bolt that he could fire. While it costs around one thousand points of mana, it was thick as himself and made the beast tremble… Just a little bit. However, aside from that and some damage, it didn't even burn the monster's head…
"Seriously…" Billy muttered. "I guess that is what Shock Resistance does…"
Billy didn't expect that one of his best ways to attack would be useless like that. Fortunately, Billy saw the enemy's resistance and he knew what he had to use. In any case, before the dragon could do anything, Alexander and Sarah attacked. Their projectiles were aimed at the monster's head in order to draw some blood and debilitate its field of vision, but the creature moved one of its paws and blocked the attacks, suffering only some small scratches. Even the bolts fired by Alexander that were supposed to be from a natural element and could be resisted didn't do much… Because of Fierce Aura.
"To think that even a monster would know that… I suppose that is a dragon for you," Billy thought.
While protecting its head, the dragon charged. It couldn't attack those three now that they were away from each other with its Poisonous breath. It targeted Billy first, and that gave him the perfect chance… Billy grabbed his chain spear, and used stamina Manipulation, and rage, before using the improved version of Light spear on one of the monster's eyes. However, the powerful beast blocked the attack with one of its claws. Still, at least Billy managed to pierce the scale and the skin of the creature making some blood gush from the wound. Not to mention, his attack stopped the charge of the beast.
"Only concentrated attacks of this level can actually damage it, huh…" Billy thought.
While his friends were attacking the monster's sides, the creature charged at Billy again, but he jumped backward while spinning many times and gained distance over the creature. The monster opened its mouth to attack Billy in the air, and he prepared to use his wind magic, but by copying Billy, Alexander charged and pierce the neck of the dragon with his light spear. The pain made the beast stop for a second and it looked annoyed at him…