The Elemental God waited for Elric's reply with his clones aiming their weapons to the latter.
"I see. So I have to pass you first huh?" Elric raised his head with a determined glow in his Dragon eyes. His fist tightened until he could start hearing cracks. His aura changed from a calm human, into a volcano that is about to explode.
He could feel the power brewing up.
"I see." The Elemental God suddenly said. "I will take your silence as your refusal to my command, human. "
"I just wan't to obtain the Elemental Authorities, does it hurt you to give it to me right now so I can leave?" Elric did his best to calm down and try to settle everything as peaceful as possible.
"You are not worthy to gain control of the Elemental Authorities. Mhata was wrong to entrust it to a cursed human like you, and while we are at it..." The Elemental God stares at Elric and suddenly he appeared just a meter before him,
The Elemental God lifted his long, pale arm and grabbed Elric's neck with an unexpected might and said,
"I am taking back those Elemental Authorities with me..."
SHOOOO~
Suddenly, Elric felt like his soul is being sucked.
"So is this how helpless I am against a God?" Elric realized the disparity in their strength.
With the small human gasping for air while being choked, The Elemental God opened his smallmouth and the Elemental Authorities inside Elric's body suddenly moved and traveled from his dantian towards the Elemental God mouth.
A glowing beam of red and blue light passed out of Elric's mouth, nose and eyes towards the small mouth of the Elemental God.
Elric felt his strength draining in each second that passes by and he could also feel his control of the Ancestral Dragon Essence losing up.
"No!~Ack!" Elric struggled from the powerful grip of the Elemental God, its long pale fingers possess unimaginable strength far beyond his expectation.
"No! At this rate, I will die and fail!" Elric tried his best to summon his power back but with the Elemental God draining him of every strength he has, he could not help but feel like he was trying to fill a glass with a large hole at the bottom.
No matter what he does, he could not summon an ounce of strength before this divine being.
Helpless!
A feeling that Elric hated the most.
Now that he is quickly losing his strength, so does his consciousness. His body hanged like a puppet from the hands of the tall figure of the Elemental God.
Elric could see the glowing eyes of the Elemental God. They were unexpectedly full of mystery and brilliance. It was powerful and at the same time, divine.
In the face of this being, Elric who thought he had finally achieved an unparalleled power, felt like he was just an ant.
In the eyes of this creature, Elric could see himself; and within him, is the true power he needs right now.
As his eyes closed to complete surrender, Elric suddenly found himself in the darkroom inside his soul. It was the room where the Ancestral Dragon's Essence was stored.
Unlike before, Elric did not have the full power of the Elemental Authorities of Fire and Water, and with his resistance being sucked out, the corruption of the Dragon Essence quickly surged inside him like excited water.
And with the surge of the corrupted Dragon Essence, came the unholy power of the Dark Dragon.
Elric's body suddenly burst with unexpected power.
"What!?" The Elemental God quickly realized that something was amiss.
Elric's right hand, which started to grow some dragon scales, moved and grabbed the Elemental God's neck, choking it tightly like a boa strangling its prey - stopping the latter from sucking out more of his Elemental Authorities.
The unexpected strength of Elric caught the Elemental God with a surprise, causing him to turn his guard down briefly. Elric, who noticed this chance, took this opportunity and gave the Ancestral God a full swung punch.
BOOOOOOOM!
Elric's punch sent the Elemental God, flying to a good distance.
SWOOOSH!
SWOOOSH!
SHING!
The Elemental God clones immediately reacted by assaulting Elric with their own attacks. Arrows, spears and other sorts of magically enchanted weapons were launched to Elric's location.
ROOOOOAR!~
Elric's body unleashed the Dragon Seal and revealed his Heavenly Dark Dragon body. From a small human form, his body expanded to that to more than twenty meters covered with glistening dark scales and long black horns!
His eyes glowed with sheer power and a dominating presence halted the movements of the clones.
The aura of corruption quickly exploded and a terrifying presence covered the entire area. Fortunately, Elric is facing a God of The Elemental Realm.
Thanks to the power of the Soul Cleansing Pearl, Elric still managed to take full control of his form albeit for a short duration.
"I am quickly losing my control because of corruption. I must finish this fight as fast as possible!"
Elric knew that every second count here. He must recover back the lost Elemental Authorities from the Elemental God as soon as possible or risk losing his mind again.
The Elemental Realm has a natural destructive atmosphere against pure Dragons. But with the small remaining Elemental Authorities in his body and the abnormally powerful body of the heavenly Dark Dragon's scales, it allowed him to resist the corroding effect of the elemental Realm albeit not for long.
"KILL HIM!" The sound of the original God of the Elemental realm echoed across the sky and the clones seem to have snapped out of Elric's dominance. Brandishing their weapons madly, they charged at swung at Elric's humongous body only to result in an even more catastrophic event.
BOOOM!
Elric deflected all the weapons sent by the Elemental God clones with his sheer armored body. And just as he expected, they are not as powerful as before!
Elric could feel as if they were all gentle tickles!
ROOOAR!
BOOOOOM!~
All the thousands of clones came charging towards the Dark Dragon and Elric welcomed them with a couple of good tail swipes, claw slashes and sometimes, a fireball to finish them in batches!
Pop!
Pop!
Popop!
The Elemental God clones disintegrated like tiny bubbles under the unexpected might of Elric. If compared before, the power of these clones is close to that of an Elemental Lord's level. But with Elric in his Godlike dragon form, these Lord-level clones are just measly ants for him.
"How dare you resist my power!" The Elemental God finally came back with a fuming expression in his badly distorted face - most probably from Elric's punch.