Although Stone Drake only had a slight dragon bloodline, it still retained the Dragon's innate arrogance and pride as the strongest monster species.
It is like a real Dragon; It is not customary to build a herd or join a herd as fellow humans always do.
The Stone Drake that Zen was facing was also like that.
It didn't have a flock – tens, no, these hundreds of smaller Stone Drakes were its children, not its flock!
Compared to the Stone Drake itself, this other Stone Drakes was very tiny; these is only 3-10 meters long.
They were Stone Drake's baby!
Even so, that doesn't mean that the threat posed by these baby snakes is small.
They each had the ability to release Petrification Breath, so it would be dangerous if Zen was surrounded by these baby snakes.
Clicking his tongue in annoyance, Zen used one of the elemental magic he had mastered – Earth magic!
Zen placed his palm on the surface of the rock, then controlled it with magic to form a wall around him to prevent these babies from approaching him.
Meanwhile, Zen jumped up and started climbing and chasing after the Stone Drake itself.
This cunning bastard, ever since it saw Zen stalled after realizing the existence of its babies, it had prepared the Petrification Breath to attack Zen from a distance.
Zen had to stop this bastard first!
{Darkness Grip}~!
Using his Innate skill, Zen transformed both of his hands into dozens of dark tendrils formed from a mixture of physical and magical objects.
Zen uses these tendrils to climb faster.
Although Zen's climbing speed was quite fast, he was still late.
Stone Drake managed to shoot Petrification Breath!
Zen moves quickly.
He used his wind magic to push the wind back into Stone Drake's throat.
The Petrification Breath that was originally just about to be fired was quickly returned to its original place.
Stone Drake was startled and let out a scream that echoed throughout the cave.
It seemed, even to itself, the Petrification Breath was still something dangerous.
Zen quickly approached it.
His tendrils were attached to the ceiling of the cave and used earth magic to control the rocks on the ceiling.
Zen smiled sarcastically.
"I'm sorry, but my fighting experience is far more than you can think."
Under the influence of Zen's Earth magic and his powerful control, the ceiling cracked rapidly.
Then, with a loud bang, the rock ceiling detached and fell along with Stone Drake's huge body.
Zen hung over a stalactite and barely had time to avoid the falling rocks.
"Stone Drake shouldn't be able to move for a while. I have to kill it immediately, but..."
With his
Some of them headed towards Jonna and the others.
If it was one tail or two, Jonna and the others would definitely be able to handle these babies easily as long as they were careful.
However, if faced with dozens of Stone Drake babies, then they could only suffer defeat and become stone statues.
In the end, Zen was forced to go down and block these baby snakes.
Before he retreated, Zen used his earth magic to grow sharp spikes between the rock ceilings that overlapped the Stone Drake, hoping that it would injure or slow down the Stone Drake.
***
Dealing with the Stone Drake Babies was very easy because Zen was attacking silently.
With a large hammer that he formed using his earth magic, Zen was able to destroy the heads of these 3-10 meter long snakes with a single strike.
After cleaning up the Stone Drake babies that was creeping towards Jonna and the others, Zen built a simple barricade near the cave entrance.
Turning to Jonna and the others, he said: "This monster unexpectedly has a lot of babies. The babies will mostly be fought by me while I face Stone Drake, but some will probably attack you."
"Position yourself well on the barricades and fight the babies carefully!" Zen commands.
Jonna, Farna, Igav, Dean, and Jord immediately answered firmly after understanding what Zen meant.
After all, they couldn't just allow themselves to be protected by this Zombie all the time.
They were part of the Red Trickerss, and the Red Trickerss had never been a group of pirate who were afraid of monsters!
***
After building minimal protection and giving a warning to Team number 2, Zen immediately returned to the place where Stone Drake was buried.
He killed many Baby Stone Drakes during it.
Putting the stone hammer he had made using earth magic to his shoulder, Zen shouted towards the pile of stones.
"Until when will you pretend to be asleep? I know you're still alive!"
Zen's
And, as if to prove this, a riot occurred.
Cracks spread on the rock surface of the cave under the feet up to a radius of 100 meters from the pile of rocks.
"Oh?"
Zen grinned.
He remembered what Farna had said earlier.
"Is this your Earth magic?"
The surface of the rock shattered a split second later.
Hundreds of stone needles rose up and almost pierced Zen's body.
Zen continued to avoid the stone needles that grew up and down from the cracks in the rock surface.
Although he looked like he was having a hard time dodging all the needles that kept growing, Zen still kept his full attention to the pile of stones.
He waited for Stone Drake's next move.
At that moment, when Zen stepped backwards to avoid the stone needle that was almost make him become pierced Zombie, the rocks that formed the pile of stones were sent flying towards him.
Zen widened his eyes.
"Not bad!"
Zen quickly threw away the stone hammer he was holding and turned his right hand into dark tendrils.
He reached the surface of the rock and used his earth magic.
The surface of the stone quickly became stable within a radius of 30 meters from where Zen was standing.
Then, just before the stone that the Stone Drake shot could hit Zen, a thick stone wall had formed to block it.
However, Stone Drake was definitely not an ordinary monster without intelligence.
It followed up its attack with a burst of Petrification Breath.
Zen detected the arrival of the Petrification Breath even when his gaze was blocked by a stone wall thanks to
He used his left hand to use wind magic; pushing the Petrification Breath back towards the Stone Drake.
Stone Drake roared.
This time, it finally came out of the pile of stone that covered it.
Regardless of the Petrification Breath that attacked Its body, it moved like a whip with it's huge body and crashed into Zen along with his stone wall with its thick tail.
Stone Drake's tail created a roaring sound as it managed to break the air barrier.
A very powerful force exploded the stone wall as well as the stone surface tens of meters long behind.
Dust mist was scattered everywhere.
Stone Drake's vertical eyes swirled around in an attempt to check if Zen had survived its attack or not.
Silence filled the area other than the sound of small rocks falling after being thrown by the attack just now.
"Wow, that was a very ferocious attack just now..."
Suddenly, heat attacked Stone Drake's tail.
"-!?"
Stone Drake quickly checked the origin of the heat.
It was surprised to see Zen there with an uninjured body except for the fact that Zen's body was now covered in the color of dust.
Zen's body was now enveloped in flames.
He entered the [Burn Up] state!
Both Zen's hands and feet turned into dark tendrils.
The tendrils that Zen grew wrapped around the Stone Drake's tail and were firmly embedded in the surface of the stone.
"SSSHHHHHAAAAAAA!!"
Stone Drake went berserk.
It rebelled and slammed its body here and there in an attempt to release Zen from it.
Unfortunately, Zen clung tightly to it and didn't look like he was about to let go of his grip.
Burn up not only strengthens Zen's physique, but also affects the endurance of the tendrils he creates.
This even made it difficult for monsters like Stone Drake to match Zen's physical strength in this state.
The flames that enveloped Zen's body also burned Stone Drake's skin and flesh, so this monster felt very miserable at this time.
However, that wasn't the only bad news for Stone Drake.
The most terrifying thing was the invasive dark energy that Zen had implanted into Stone Drake's body.
This dark energy was a kind of curse.
This curse would gradually destroy the cells of Stone Drake's body and contaminate its magic energy.
As time passed, this curse would spread more and more into its body; which is very dangerous for it. Not only is it weakening, but this curse is also able to kill Stone Drake with enough time.
Therefore, Stone Drake tried it best to release Zen from it's body.
It even attacked Zen with a stone needle just now.
Zen's body had long been full of holes.
Despite being full of holes and covered in blood, Zen was still fine.
After all, he was dead.
Even if his heart was destroyed, it wouldn't bother Zen's Zombie body too much except give him pain.
As long as the surrounding magic energy could still be absorbed by Zen freely, Zen wouldn't 'die'.
Well, at best, Zen was afraid that Stone Drake's constant attacks would split his body, which would be bad for his current situation.
His current blood energy and magic energy were quickly depleted in the use of curses, Burn up, and self-regeneration.
Zen is also racing against time.
He had to defeat Stone Drake before his blood energy and magic energy were depleted.
Both parties; Zen and Stone Drake, are stuck in a stalemate.