"Hmph, I hope your strength matches your reputation."
sSun Princess Sorlina scoffed.
"This is a fair fight, none of you should interfere."
She instructed the elven troops of the Deepwater Fortress.
"I will defeat this arrogant Lord of the Dragon Court by myself!"
As she spoke, a divine aura of golden flames swirled around her, its blinding light illuminating the surroundings and turning the vast expanse of the sea into molten gold.
Garon's gaze narrowed as his overwhelming dragon might surged forth.
**Hum!**
Boundless golden seas were pushed aside, creating a temporary vacuum in the deep ocean.
The terrifying dragon might swept over, striking Sorlina with such force that her golden aura trembled violently, as if a flame buffeted by strong winds, uncontrollably transforming.
**Boom!**
While the dragon might had little real effect on Sorlina, when it struck the Maze Wards of the fortress behind her, it caused a thunderous noise, forcing the wards to reveal themselves, their surfaces cracking densely.
Many sea elves changed their expressions.
Seeing that the wards held without breaking, they relaxed slightly.
If just the aftermath of the dragon's presence could breach the Maze Wards, they couldn't fathom the true extent of the Dragon Court's Lord's power.
Meanwhile.
Layers of golden aura gathered and condensed around Sorlina, quickly forming a magnificent suit of golden armor that covered even her face, with crystalline substances over her eyes.
The armor's joints at the elbows, knees, and shoulders featured blade-like structures, sharp and eye-catching.
A long bow, as tall as she was, was strapped to her back, and a godly sword ablaze with golden flames appeared in her right hand, with ten solid orbs of fire, like mini suns, floating in an orbit behind her.
Her battle boots, adorned with feather motifs and mysterious magical runes, flowed and shifted.
Clad in golden armor, Sun Princess Sorlina stood bold and resolute, her aura soaring.
Golden Flame Armor, Bow of Purging, Sword of Blazing Gold, Boots of Sky Stepping, Ring of Ten Days—these artifacts were personally crafted by the elven chief god for his beloved daughter.
Each item, taken individually, was of such quality that ordinary deities would envy.
Gazing at the now formidable Sun Princess, Garon's eyelids twitched, and he involuntarily swallowed.
He realized.
This princess was like a walking treasure trove.
No wonder she had triumphed repeatedly on the battlefield of demigods.
Her gear could only be described as luxurious, fully armed to the teeth.
"Nice equipment, but it'll be mine soon."
Garon rarely used artifacts himself, but he didn't mind enlarging his collection.
The silver giant's body swelled within the boiling sea, instantly transforming into a colossal behemoth of a kilometer in scale. With each breath, he stirred vast oceanic tumults, his wings alone capable of summoning hurricanes.
"I have slain creatures larger than you in the abyss."
Sun Princess Sorlina, undaunted even in the face of a giantized Garon, declared with a sharp edge.
Amid the tumult of extraordinary power, the armored princess also grew in stature rapidly, soon reaching a towering height of over two hundred meters. Though still considerably smaller than the giantized Garon, it at least wasn't a chasmic difference anymore.
With a stomp.
The boots Sorlina wore erupted with strange spatial ripples.
Her figure vanished instantly from its original position, and in a blink, she appeared above Garon's back, her Sword of Blazing Gold descending in a fiery arc to cleave through the silver dragon's scales, the intense heat penetrating his flesh.
**Hum!**
The world spun, collapsing within Garon's gaze.
Time Division!
Temporal Explosion!
As soon as Sorlina's figure vanished from his sight, Garon unleashed two devastating temporal abilities, having locked onto her landing spot well in advance.
The fractured layers of time struck Sorlina, a formidable impact following suit.
She grimaced beneath her covered face.
**Crack, crack, crack.**
The Golden Flame Armor burst with popping sounds as a web of cracks spread across it.
Sorlina retaliated with a backhand strike across Garon's spine while simultaneously withdrawing from the fractured zone of the Temporal Explosion and Time Division.
Her counter due to the lack of time to gather power merely left a faint crack on Garon's scales, failing to fully penetrate.
However, clusters of golden flames sprang up from the crack, eroding and burning Garon's scales.
Garon felt a slight sting and burn.
Time's power extended upwards, extinguishing the remaining extraordinary forces.
Simultaneously, the Armor of Imaasca unfolded, coating Garon in a layer of golden mail.
The battle between the Lord of Dragon Court and Sun Princess was akin to a clash between a golden dragon and a golden elf.
After
a brief exchange, Garon seized an opportune moment, spreading a Time Stasis Field from himself, restraining Sorlina's movements.
Taking advantage of the Sun Princess being affected by the Time Stasis Field, the giant dragon roared lowly, his majestic body raising monumental waves as he parted the ocean, revealed under the night sky.
With a swipe of his Time-Sliced Claw, he cut through the sea layers, aiming straight for Sorlina's midsection.
In a moment of crisis, Sorlina's body erupted with divine power, using an immense outpouring of extraordinary force to withstand the effects of the Time Stasis Field.
**Hum, hum, hum.**
One by one, the orbs of golden fire dispersed.
They spun rapidly and then poured out solid golden flames from their circular outlines.
**Crash!**
A column of fire hundreds of meters in diameter, like a celestial river poured forth, collided with Garon's claw.
Garon felt a strong impact, but it was not enough to halt his attack.
The power of his giantized body surged.
The mail of golden scales covering the sky-sized claw tore through the flames, carrying terrifying power as it clawed towards the Sun Princess.
Unfortunately, the brief delay allowed Sorlina to break free from the Time Stasis Field's effect.
She agilely shifted her body, raising her Sword of Blazing Gold high and striking at Garon's arm.
The Sword of Blazing Gold collided with the dragon's scales amidst a symphony of metallic clangs, sparking intensely, even igniting the oceanic waters which could not be extinguished for a long time.
The quality of Sorlina's artifacts was very high.
With a full-strength strike, both the Armor of Imaasca and the scales were cut through.
The Sword of Blazing Gold penetrated into Garon's flesh but had also lost most of its sharp power, stopped by the dragon's iron-hard muscles, causing only minor injuries.
**Boom!**
The golden dragon's limb swung powerfully, flinging Sorlina through the air with a force of a billion tons.
As she flew backward, Sorlina drew the large bow from her back.
Bending the bow, drawing the string, shooting the arrow.
Arrow after arrow of condensed divine power shot forth, like thousands of golden lights, accompanied by blazing flames, heading straight for Garon.
On the other side, Garon took a deep breath.
**Whoosh!**
A breath of icy blue frost exhaled, sweeping across the densely packed divine arrows with the dragon's turning neck, freezing them along with the flames in mid-air, creating a peculiar scene.
At the same time, a mirror appeared beside the dragon.
Temporal Reflection!
Garon and the Temporal Aberration simultaneously employed Temporal Reflection.
Two mirror images of Sun Princess Sorlina emerged from the past currents of the Time River, flanking her on both sides, collaboratively striking at her.
Because Garon's biological level was actually slightly lower than Sorlina's, these two reflections did not possess all of her strengths.
But together, they briefly entangled the Sun Princess.
Meanwhile, Garon opened his dragon maw.
Between the intercrossing dragon teeth, he held a dangerously potent energy.
The Breath of Time Fragmentation targeted Sorlina, ready to be unleashed.
In this critical moment, something unexpected happened to Garon.
The Ring of Ten Days suddenly erupted, spreading out and encompassing both Garon and Sorlina.
**Hum!**
Boundless rays of golden light burst forth, with ten solid orbs firing beams that interlinked, quickly forming a distinct spatial zone.
The two Temporal Reflections' forms blurred and vanished, expelled from within.
Left in this isolated area were only Garon and Sorlina.
**Boom!**
The Breath of Time Fragmentation was released, unsurprisingly failing to hit Sorlina.
After expelling the breath, Garon closed his mouth, surveying his surroundings.
What entered his vision was a world of gold.
All around, barriers of golden flames obstructed him, with nothing else but Garon and Sorlina inside.
Coronal Domain, one of Sorlina's abilities, amplified and activated by the Ring of Ten Days, had created a sturdy independent space.
This space was incredibly durable, hard to break in a short time, especially with an enemy looming. Moreover, once the Coronal Domain was established, due to its overly stable structure, even Sorlina herself couldn't close it quickly.
Therefore, to exit the Coronal Domain, there was almost only one way.
Defeat the enemy.
"You're quite impressive."
"Stronger than any other elven demigod I've encountered."
Garon wasn't stingy with his praise for his opponent.
Sorlina's equipment was excellent, but her ability to simultaneously use five artifacts also demonstrated her skill, much like the Imaasca artifacts of the past. Artifacts also consumed a vast amount of divine power
and imposed a significant burden on the user.
Sorlina looked at the silver dragon, her expression becoming much more serious.
She had already used all her methods.
But now, it seemed, the other side still seemed to be at ease.
"Just not enough to satisfy me."
The dragon said, first raising then suppressing, slightly shaking his head in disappointment.
"The language is not small."
Sorlina's face chilled.
Although at a disadvantage, she obviously wasn't convinced.
At the same time, ten suns rose within the Coronal Domain, beginning to pour down beams of fire toward Garon, while Sorlina, gripping her Sword of Blazing Gold, streaked towards Garon with a trail of light, shooting straight at him.
The drawback of a giantized body is that it's not good at dodging concentrated attacks.
With fire beams attacking from all directions, Garon scoffed, deciding not to dodge at all.
He concentrated his gaze, covering his colossal body with a stream of stilled time.
State of Void.
Simply put, invincibility.
Under the influence of the stilled time stream, the golden dragon seemed to become a statue, motionless.
Sorlina paused briefly, then unceremoniously combined with the sky-high flames, repeatedly slashing at the dragon's body, but to her disbelief, her attacks landed on Garon's surface without even leaving a scratch.
The dragon's eyes moved.
Seizing the moment Sorlina attacked, Garon deactivated the State of Void, regaining his mobility.
In an instant, the golden dragon's wings swept sideways, stirring up a roaring wind.
Sorlina stepped on the void, her divine power breaking through Garon's constructed Dimensional Anchor and other sealing spells, narrowly avoiding the dragon's heavy wing strike.
Just as she stabilized her body, ready to counterattack.
But a glance upward caused a pain in her heart, a sensation of being targeted.
Looking up, she saw the dragon standing upright, his robust arms holding a divine bow that had been drawn taut, a time-power condensed arrow quietly resting on the string.
Moonlight God's Bow.
Garon rarely used artifacts.
But that didn't mean he couldn't.
He had acquired the Moonlight God's Bow over a hundred years ago and was well acquainted with its uses.
Dressed in an ultra-short black skirt, a nearly naked little fairy sat at the top of the god's bow, her pale legs swinging, simultaneously staring at Sorlina with malicious eyes, joining Garon in a bow-drawing posture, targeting the Sun Princess.
"This is bad."
Sorlina's heart tightened.
Garon had never used an artifact in previous battles, giving the elven deities the impression that the Lord of the Dragon Court only relied on his own power.
But this was an illusion.
Garon intended to defeat Sorlina easily, but he knew it wouldn't be easy to kill or capture her alive, so he used the Moonlight God's Bow.
Garon made no concessions, concentrating a vast amount of time power into an arrow and releasing the dragon's claw.
At the same time.
Sorlina's heart chilled.
Physically chilled.
As Garon released the time arrow, the Sun Princess's heart was pierced and torn apart instantly, a gaping hole visible through the front and back of the Golden Flame Armor.
Severely injured, Sorlina struggled to maintain her artifacts' operation.
Several cracks simultaneously appeared on Sorlina's surface, revealing dazzling golden light.
Her body seemed about to shatter.
At the same time, Sorlina's face twisted in pain as she mobilized all her divine power, fighting the invading time power within her own body.
Garon watched silently.
Time flowed as usual.
After a while, Sorlina's divine power nearly depleted, but she managed to heal her divine body, albeit falling into an unprecedented state of weakness, her body returning to normal human size.
**Clap, clap, clap.** Several sounds rang out.
Garon clapped his hands, deactivating his giantization.
"I'm glad to see you're still alive."
The Moonlight God's Bow, originally belonging to the god of archery, was an extremely dangerous artifact.
Whatever the energy, it became lethally powerful when used with the Moonlight God's Bow, its sole power being concentration, aimed at sending enemies to their doom.
It was much stronger than Sorlina's Bow of Purging.
When Garon shot the time arrow, he wasn't sure if Sorlina would survive.
She should take pride in not having given Garon an easy capture and for using so many abilities.
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