It took quite a while before the enormous dust cloud has subsided. suddenly, a small turtle wooshed away from the ground, sprinting madly towards the grand golden palace in the far distance.
"I knew it! There is still hope!" Dash sprinted with incredible vigor inside him. He had figured out something that would give him another trump card against the Thagdas.
"I can absorb their water essence! I am the Lord of the Water Realm after all! hahaha! Just you wait for you scumbag fake elemental Dragons. I will suck your water essence dry until you are nothing but a useless pile of dragon meat!"
Dash recalled how he had managed to figure out this natural Lord powers. It was when he had stomped at the Thagdas and his authority naturally connected to the Dragons triggered by physical contact. With more experience in using such powers, he should be able to execute the same power even without contact.
Being a Lord of the water realm is indeed cool!
One thing that Dash also found out is that the enemy he was facing is not pure Dragons, but half water elementals as well. Considering that he had the Divine Water Authority, he summoned the water essence out from its body and it left the Thagda into nothing but a pile of crumpled meat. With half of its natural body composition gone, the proud leader of the Thagdas was just lying there without any spark of resistance.
As much as he wanted to finish it off, Dash knew that his time is running out with the three gluttons on their way to the Golden Palace. His only hope lays in the strength of the magical barrier he asked the red-tailed princesses before sending them off.
"I must hurry! Now that I have this power, all I need to do is made direct contact on those creatures and suck their water essence dry! I will wipe the poison in my body in one go after I finished them all." Dash made up his plan as he transformed himself into a one-meter long sea turtle and swam his way towards his next destination where other fights await.
After a few more minutes, another creature arrived from the location where Dash had left.
thud~thud~thud~
The fourth-born came scrambling at the location of the massive crater trying to find the leader of the pack. And just as he expected, he found the leader lying in agony in the middle of the cracks.
Apparently, no traces of Dash can be seen so far. Judging from his motive, he must have gone towards the Golden Palace where the three gluttons are. With worry in his eyes, the fourth born hurried to his dying brother and stood before him.
"Brother!"
The fourth born looked at the youngest but smartest member of the pack. Despite having the most perfect body of all of them, the sheer might of the gargantuan turtle amplified by his Lord essence brought unimaginable damage to the supposed to be the indestructible body of a Dragon.
"I.... am not... gonna make it." The leader weakly whispered. Its big mouth barely moving and its body completely crumpled like a piece of paper. "I think he found our weakness."
"What do you mean?! Stop talking and focus on recovery!" The fourth-born reminded him.
"It is useless."
"Why? We have Dragon blood with us. We have the craziest recovery ability from all beings that existed! We are bound to be immortal in the future!" The fourth born tried his best to spark hope to his crippled brother. Despite his hate for it, he was still after all his brother. They are born with the same place and the same reason although with clearly different builds. One of the reasons that the fourth born strives for the best is because he also looks up to the fifth-born.
"I told you its useless." The leader added. "He figured out our weaknesses. It seems that the turtle wasn't just an ordinary one. He sucked the water elemental essence out of my body! As if he was the Lord of this realm!"
"That turtle?! A Lord of this realm? Then why is it so weak?"
"I.... do not know. But the way I observed him, it seems that he is still trying to figure out his powers as well. I would really love to have got a taste of that rare turtle but now, it seems I am done for."
"You can still recover! We still have the Dragon blood!"
"Don't forget we are half dragon and half water elementals. Now that I have no water essence in me, I am nothing but an unstable body of dragon meat with an imbalanced essence." The leader explained. Seeing that the fourth born was still confused, he added:
"In other words, my recovery is useless because I am not what I used to be. I am just a pile of powerful meat with no means to move. I am not gonna-"
Seeing his brother dying slowly the more he spoke, the fourth born quickly interjected.
"Then I will bring that turtleback here and demand your water essence back that way you can-!"
"eat me."
"what?!"
"Eat my remains. So that you can use the remaining Dragon meat and essence to purify your body and possibly evolve." The fifth born added.
"What are you talking about!? I know our Dragon meat is a powerful elixer but we do not give up that easy! We will bite them back until there is nothing left for us but dust!-"
"LISTEN TO ME!" The leader said with a commanding growl. The fourth born quickly attended.
"With the turtle now able to claim our water essence, we don't stand a chance against him. But I have a better plan. Our bodies are most compatible with each other. If we get to merge everyone into one, just imagine our overall power. What I mean is fusion. And it's a success will be up to you." The fifth born confidently declared.
Knowing that he doesn't have time, the fourth born gave a serious look to his drying brother and said.
"Tell me what to do."
With a creepy dying smile, the fifth born replied.
"Eat me... and the others. After then, you will have the unstoppable power that you need to wipe this place off. Not even our maker can stop us and that Turtle? It will be a piece of cake for you!"
Seeing his resolute brother, the fourth-born finally gave up to his command. His mouth suddenly expanded with an oversized stretch covering the whole body of the fifth-born.
"That's it! Eat me! Eat m-"
CRUNCH!