With the resounding sound of thunder, Asterion balanced himself on the dragon while Ancalagon was thrown slightly backwards by the 150 km/h winds. Even the dragon seemed to have trouble moving in the face of a storm. The rain felt like a snake bite when it touched the skin of Asterion's face.
Turning his face to look at the horizon, he saw that the inky sea seemed to be covered in stormy clouds, lightning dancing in the clouds like serpents before tearing through the air with brutality in mere moments. Waves of nine meters broke on the sea and became even bigger again.
At the same time, a tornado linked the sky and the sea in a water spout capable of frightening even the most voracious sailor. A truly apocalyptic scene.
Asterion recognized where he was, he had already exorcised a Special Grade Cursed Spirit in this infernal sea off the coast of Brittany in France, although he had not entered French territory.
Sea of Iroise.
Frowning, Asterion looked around, but apart from the darkness of the night and the dripping rain nearby, there was no one beside him, Rose and Luna were missing and probably knew nothing of their surroundings or even where they were.
At that moment, like Rose, he also cursed the technology of mass apparation, it still needed a lot of polishing to be used in case a war happened.
Suddenly, Asterion's eyes caught a flash of red light in the corner of his vision, turning his head, he noticed the red flash again, but this time, he realized it was magic, someone calling for help or trying to locate themselves in the storm. As there was only Rose and Luna, Asterion assumed it was one of the two women.
However, the place where she was was very dangerous!
It was practically next to the Water Spout!
Ancalagon, who didn't need Asterion's orders, moved his body through the strong winds and approached the spot, struggling to remain stable in the face of the extremely strong and brutal winds, although something like this proved to be a difficult task.
As he got closer to one of the most energetic events on the planet, Asterion could feel the wind increasing and the amount of water in the air was simply colossal. The pain of the water droplets turned from a snakebite to sharp knives, a considerable pain, to the point of forcing him to re-summon his armor; after all, unlike Ancalagon, he had no natural scales to protect him from too much damage.
Drawing his wand, Asterion managed to raise his arm because of the armor, he chanted a spell in the next second. A bolt of crimson lightning shot out from the tip of his wand and tore through the air with electric bursts and spread for miles. He made the spell as thin as possible so that it would travel a greater distance, practically shouting everywhere that he was in that place.
His response was a blue spell letting Asterion know who the unlucky girl was to be teleported next to a Water Spout in the middle of a storm in one of the planet's violent seas.
It was Luna.
As Asterion expected, he located Luna's magical aura and her dragon. Knowing the exact location of the Seer, he put a huge Protego around Ancalagon, helping him to fly in the storm, and rushed to the scene.
Luna's dragon wasn't as strong as Ancalagon or Oberon de Rose, it was a normal dragon and in the face of the force of nature, a hatchling dragon definitely couldn't withstand much in the face of one of the most energetic weather events on the planet.
After a few minutes that seemed too long in his perception, Asterion saw a silver-blue streak in the air not far from him, but at that moment, he noticed that he was just under fifty meters from the Water Spout, even the Protego that protected Ancalagon was deformed in the face of the extremely strong winds and water trying to drag it down and swallow it whole.
Knowing that he couldn't go on like this or he would be dragged into the Water Spout, Asterion summoned his Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
"Sadalmelik-Albus." Asterion muttered and a ten-meter curtain of smoke appeared behind him, from which emerged a humanoid Cursed Spirit, if it weren't for the tail in place of the Cursed Spirit's legs.
Sadalmelik-Albus looked like a human woman with blue skin and long hair made of water, which rippled like waves on the sea. Her generous bust was hidden by two white shells.
But unlike a normal human woman, instead of legs like any normal person, there was a fish tail covered in blue ladders full of beauty and brilliance. In her hand, she held a golden trident.
She looked like a sea goddess full of sacredness rather than a cursed spirit. Sadalmelik was about ten meters tall, her enormous body like a masterpiece made by the gods. His tail moved with surprisingly graceful movements, and a voice reminiscent of a mermaid's song hung in the air.
Sadalmelik seemed very happy with the current environment and knowing her mission, the Cursed Spirit swung her trident, making the water in a hundred meters practically bow before her, the range would normally be kilometers, but as Asterion wanted to save magical energy, he decreased the range.
Under her will, the water in a hundred meters began to form a thin but incredibly resistant film, covering an area of a hundred meters.
Asterion sighed with relief as he felt the atmosphere calm down, at least inside the dome created by Sadalmelik. Hearing the sound of wings flapping next to him, the Black patriarch looked up to see an apparently very tired dragon flying around Ancalagon.
Riding the dragon, Luna waved at him with a tired and very exhausted expression. Apparently, even her magical energy was almost depleted, showing that she had had to use a lot of magic to protect herself.
"Asty, I don't know about you, but when I meet Dumbledore, I'm going to make him regret being born into this world. He'll see the power of a Seer when we get angry! I swear he won't sit in a chair safely, I promise pain and anger for that old man!" Luna commented with an exhausted tone on top of the dragon, the girl's eyes practically screaming with vengeance. The hatred for Dumbledore in her eyes was louder than ever, in this damned race she had only suffered and gained nothing.
In the desert, she was chased by three dragons, in the sea she almost died because of a huge Water Spout! By the time she reached the third part of the race, she would probably die!
Asterion pursed his lips at Luna's words, the girl had really suffered a lot in this Dragon Race. "Let's try to find Rose and find the portal to the third part of the race."
Luna nodded and muttered to herself. "Just you wait, Dumbledore, your ass won't come out intact in the face of my wrath."
Ignoring Luna's grumble, Asterion controlled Sadalmelik and while both dragons moved away from the site near the Water Spout, the water dome made by Sadalmelik followed them both, driving away the strong winds and the cutting water at those speeds wherever it went.
Ten kilometers away from the Water Spout, Asterion canceled Sadalmelik's invocation and the water dome broke apart, exposing him and Luna once again to the strong winds and splashing water that hurt worse than knife cuts.
Luna felt very upset by the dampness all over her body, the clothes stuck to her body, making her extremely uncomfortable. She had decided, she hated rain with all her might from that moment on.
And she began to hate Dumbledore even more for letting her suffer this sadistic torture while the man sat comfortably in his chair drinking a cup of tea to warm himself on the cold night.
Suddenly, Luna noticed Asterion trying to talk to her with signs.
"Let's go. Find. Rose. And. go. To. Some. Island." Luna muttered to herself, trying to decipher Asterion's signals in the middle of the darkness and in the middle of a bloody storm. She showed an okay sign and controlled her dragon with the reins to move further away from the storm above her.
Asterion made Ancalagon overtake Luna's dragon and took the lead without a second thought, making Luan's dragon surf through the vacuum created by Ancalagon.
Luna noticed this and showed a grateful expression, only she knew how tired the poor dragon beneath her was getting. She stroked the dragon's scales and spoke in a low, gentle tone. "I'm sorry for forcing you to take part in this, but when we're done, I promise I'll find the best Dragon Breeding Reserve with the most beautiful female dragons in the world so you can have a huge harem."
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