[Boom!]
As if a meteorite had fallen into the sea, a great spray of water was thrown up, dousing the flames still burning on Yama Tsukami's body.
In front of its mouth, the two tentacles tipped with triangular barbs shot out, pierced through the splashing spray, and stabbed with extreme accuracy into the Flame Dragon couple.
As scales shattered, the Flame Dragon couple let out pained roars, wanting to seize the tentacles to counterattack, but the two tentacles swiftly retracted again, and the two streams of flame breath thus struck only empty air.
Only at this moment did Yama Tsukami's figure re-enter Logan's field of vision.
Large patches of vegetation on its body had shattered, revealing beneath the plants that black tar mixed with dragon-element energy; that solidified tar was like Yama Tsukami's scales, and although some of it had broken apart, it had still helped it block most of the damage from the explosion just now.
At this moment, Yama Tsukami's back was like a mountain whose wildfire had just been extinguished, bare and pitch-black, and the four broad tentacles that served as its limbs also had varying degrees of damage on their surfaces.
Judging from its exterior alone, it even looked a bit pitiful.
But in reality, for a creature of this level, injuries like these probably only counted as superficial minor wounds.
Seeing Yama Tsukami float up from the surface of the sea once again, Logan in the sky let out a roar toward the Flame Dragon couple, who still wanted to continue recklessly charging in.
The Flame Dragon couple immediately halted their movements and flapped their wings to climb rapidly.
They very quickly converged with Logan; Yama Tsukami's rising speed was not slow, but after losing the initiative, it began to be suppressed from above by Logan and the Flame Dragon couple, who kept attacking downward at it, consuming the gas on its body and forcing it to move in the direction of Astera.
Amid the broken walls and ruins of third floor of Astera, Nergigante finally pulled itself free; the exaggerated recovery ability of its super regeneration caused the wounds on Nergigante's chest and back to heal rapidly.
Just as it was planning to charge out again, a faint white mist, almost impossible to perceive with the naked eye, wrapped around it; the wounds that had already been recovering at high speed unexpectedly accelerated yet again, as if someone were using a pair of large hands with Sheer Force to press the wounds closed, and in the blink of an eye they sealed up, to the point that not even the slightest trace of blood could be seen.
The astonished Nergigante shook its wings; it had not even had time to properly feel the pain before the wounds had actually healed.
The most important thing was that the energy it had expended to restore these wounds had not even reached half of what it would normally cost.
Shaking its head, Nergigante's brain, which was filled with muscles, could not quite turn the corner, but this did not stop it from giving up on thinking; howling, eyes red, it charged toward Yama Tsukami, which was being entangled by Logan and the others and was thus unconsciously drawing closer over here.
With the air currents controlled by Logan, Yama Tsukami, which was originally accustomed to floating by going along with the air currents, was unknowingly approaching the New World; only at this moment, as it was using its tentacles to continually attack the three Elder Dragons flying about at its side with its mind occupied on many things at once, it did not think too much about the changes in the air currents.
Three-colored flames and fireballs continually fell on its body; even though the dragon-element energy blocked most of them, the remaining high-temperature damage still caused it intense pain.
The series of howls it let out because of the pain even formed wave after wave of sound ripples spreading outward.
But whether it was Logan or the Flame Dragon couple.
At this moment they were like clingy flies, clinging tightly to Yama Tsukami, coordinating their attacks with one another, throwing Yama Tsukami's attack targets into confusion, and bit by bit achieving their goal.
At this time, Nergigante, which had withdrawn from the battle for a while, appeared once again.
Unlike the pattern in which Logan and the others avoided Yama Tsukami's attacks through speed and agility, this big muscular hedgehog, after dodging the lash of the tentacle, actually charged up in pursuit along the tentacle.
Its muscle-filled forelimbs seized one tentacle in a death grip, and the spikes that rapidly turned from white to black helped Nergigante firmly fix itself onto the tentacle.
"Roar! Roar!! Roar!!!"
Each roar was more resounding than the last.
Nergigante's whole body of muscles was engorged with blood; amid the pounding sound of its heartbeat, eyes red, it beat its pair of great wings at an extremely rapid frequency.
This guy was actually grappling in a contest of strength with Yama Tsukami!!
It was, by sheer brute force, forcibly shaking this "mountain" with its enormous body.
Yama Tsukami wanted to pull its tentacle back, but was yanked by this sudden strange force; in a stagger, bursts of gas surged out from the gaps in the white membrane of its abdomen.
Logan's eyes lit up.
The reason why Yama Tsukami could fly without wings was precisely that it relied on these special gases.
It itself was like an inflated hydrogen balloon; as long as those gases were reduced, its ability to fly could be limited to a very great extent.
And even Yama Tsukami could not produce such gases in large quantities within a short time.
Thus, almost at the very instant the gas appeared, Logan's breath followed right after.
A massive breath, enough to cover Yama Tsukami entirely and with a spread extending over a hundred meters, was sprayed out.
Logan beat both of his wings, stirring up a violent gale; while expanding the coverage of the flames, he also added pushing airflow for Nergigante, which was "tugging" against Yama Tsukami.
As for the fact that this breath also covered Nergigante, Logan did not feel the slightest psychological burden.
After all, relying on Nergigante's self-healing ability, these flames—used merely to ignite those gases for the sake of expanding the affected area—would not cause too much harm.
However, Logan overlooked one factor, which was that the gas Yama Tsukami had unintentionally leaked was flammable!!
Just like leaked gas being ignited, the flames that had originally only covered Yama Tsukami's back instantly swept across its entire body; amid the violent booming explosion, even though Yama Tsukami stopped the gas leakage at the first moment, it was still caught completely off guard by this enormous blast radius.
And the position of the explosion was quite awkward: Yama Tsukami had already failed to adjust its posture during the contest of strength with Nergigante, and the sudden explosion beneath it immediately threw its body off balance.
Amid intense pain, its body tilted entirely, wavering crookedly like a deflating hydrogen balloon.
And Nergigante, still clinging tightly to the tentacle, also suffered the explosion damage together with Yama Tsukami.
But this guy was truly tough; even at zero distance from the explosion, it still clung deathly tight to Yama Tsukami's tentacle, only having enough time to fold back its wings to cover its own body, relying on the regenerating carapace to continually catalyze black spikes in order to reduce the damage it received.
The Flame Dragon couple would not miss this opportunity; the two intertwined, and their life energy surged.
Large amounts of dust and flames surged out along with wave after wave of wind pressure.
Flames ignited upon Logan's body; on both wings, the scales bulged up, and with the motion of his wingbeats, they fell like rain.
These scales, infused with combustible liquid and catalyzed through the Sheer Force ability, were like small missiles, falling onto Yama Tsukami's back and triggering continuous explosions.
And the "Supernova" jointly used by the Flame Dragon couple had also finished charging at this moment.
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