"Oh, dear god, that's not good." Vivian scratched her nose as the sleeping dragon in Josephine Wong's story was woken by the loud and violent thunder cracks, "So I guess there's no reason to hide and keep a hush-hush anymore huh? Did your professor tell you what the dragon was then?"
"Well, not right away. But she did tell us what she thought it was eventually." Josephine Wong slightly adjusted her position on the bed, she hadn't felt this powerless and weak in quite a long time, even sitting in the same position for a short while made her feel sore and uncomfortable. Jianmen's spell did sort of removed her wound created by the defiler, but even the best healing spell in the world could not relieve her of the exhaustion and fatigue, she checked her phone one more time, to make sure that the new agent in charge of taking care of Jianmen is in place, before continuing with her story: "She told us, that from what we were seeing and what the dragon looked like from a far, she thought it as a Nightmare Serpent."
"Well, seeing that it was probably the Omen Dragon we saw today. I'd say she was close." Pei chuckled.
"Professor Kapur was correct." Nameless said: "If I remember correctly, from the legends and ancient records of Omen Dragons, Nightmare Serpent was just avatars or aspects of them, or they could be the Omen Dragons before they reach adulthood."
"Yes, and she realized that when we came back to the academy, after consulting some records on ancient and mythical entities." Josephine Wong sighed: "And you're right, Pei, that Omen Dragon, is the same one we saw today. His name is Tze Cha, and he was there to hunt, and to rest and heal, believe it or not."
"He's there for the energy field. Isn't it?" Blue said: "His power is very chaotic, very dense and full of anger and grudge, so I would imagine a place with chaotic and volatile energy fields like that could actually be beneficial for him."
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"Boom! Boom boom boom!" the thunder continued to crack right above the black omen dragon, and awakened it from its slumber.
"Fuck, gogogo!" Professor Kapur cursed and urged all four of her students: Josephine Wong, Glenda Grimes, Dorothea Clarkson and Tony Barnes: "Don't worry about the creatures! Go go go! Get outta here!"
The ball lightning continued to grow in size as well as the density of lightning energy it contained. Its color changed as it grew - first it was light blue, then shifted to light green, then as the team for five were almost at the middle part of the slope from which they descended, the ball lightning's color became light purple, and it began to shift to red.
The Omen Dragon rose from the ground and shot up into the sky, flying towards the ball lightning head on, with his mouth open. A dark energy vortex appeared in his mouth, and a strong energy suction force field was created.
The ball lightning started to change in shape, a long and liquid-like drip of lightning energy appeared at the bottom of the ball lightning, which was then consumed and absorbed by the Omen Dragon.
"Holy crap, is it being serious right now?" Glenda Grimes looked back at the Omen Dragon and couldn't help but cursed out loud.
"It's trying to devour the energy from that ball lightning, gutsy. But kind of reckless." Josephine Wong said: "And it's not pacing - we better leave, it doesn't matter if it succeeds or fails, we shouldn't be here to find out what the aftermath is."
"Boom!" as if someone in charge of the lightning was eager to please Josephine Wong and Glenda Grimes, or that someone was trying to play a cruel trick on the Omen Dragon, three bolts of lightning with colors green, dark red and and black struck the ball lightning almost at the same time. The energy from these three lightning bolts flowed and merged into the ball lightning, greatly increasing its energy density and changing its energy composition.
"Crack!" the energy vortex inside of the Omen Dragon's mouth was disrupted and almost broke down. As a result, the flow control of energy into his body was mostly lost, he practically choked on the energy power.
The inflow of energy, with higher energy density and different composition did to the Omen Dragon what anyone with a common sense on magical energy knew it would - it burned his throat and food pipe, as well as other organs, exacerbating the pre-existing injuries in his body, and creating new ones at the same time.
The Omen Dragon whimpered and had to forcefully cut off the energy inflow as he fell off from the sky. Cracks appeared on his body, pieces of his scales and shell flew off from him along with droplets of his blood.
Some more bolts of lightning landed onto the ball lightning, leading to changes in the energy composition of the ball lightning once again. They seemed to be something of a natural occurrence, and the Omen Dragon was just way too eager and greedy for his own good.
A dangerous and even tempting smell and energy pulse radiated from the scattering pieces of dragon shells, dragon scales and dragon blood. Dangerous and destructive as they were, everyone who had heard of a thing or two about dragons would know that these things are of incredibly high value, for medicinal purposes, alchemical purposes and for a few hundred other different purposes.
Only a fool would think the temptation of dragon parts would affect only humans. As the Omen Dragon fell, the mountains and earth started shaking and the team of five could sense there were a few other giant creatures approaching the bottom of the basin, from several different directions.
"Boom!" the ground on the higher place of slope and about several yards above the team of five exploded, a giant deep hole appeared, and a foul smell gushed right out of it. A pale, eyeless worm head with slimy rubbery skin with six twitching tentacles made of flesh and skin, a mouth that could open in four ways and the size of a small car slowly revealed itself.
The worm head extended in great length and rose to the sky, with nothing supporting its weight; its tentacles flailing and twitching, seemingly trying to catch all of the scent in the air.
"Fucking hell." Tony Barnes complained silently.