Conqueror

"Ladies and gentlemen! We are now moving on to the fourth trial!" Teral's voice always manages to lift up the hype of the crowd. "Now... Let us move to another arena!" He snapped his fingers and we were moved again to another place. It seems that we're in a... cave? "For the first time since the trials of sky island has begun, this is the first time that someone got past the third stage. With the basilisk's eye, no one has ever gone past that. But today is different. Will today be the day the trials be overcome!? Who knows! But this fourth trial requires absolute, strength, mastery of technique and absolute power! The fourth trial ladies and gentlemen... A GIGANTIC DRAGON!"

The clouds above were suddenly blown away by a large gust of wind. A loud roar was heard ringing throughout the entire arena. And then, a large shadow covered us all in the arena as a dragon descended from the sky and landed on the opposite side from where we are.

To show dominance, it breathed fire up to the sky and then roared at us loudly.

The crowd was raging in excitement as if thousands of people attended a lollapalooza. The crowd roared in amazement, fear and hype all at the same time.

Teral snapped his fingers once again and the whole entire arena expanded five times the normal size. "Don't worry dear spectators, there'll be a barrier surrounding the entirety of the arena so don't you worry about the attacks of our contestants or the dragon. You are guaranteed to be safe no matter what. Alright then! Let's start shall we? The fourth trial!"

The dragon swiftly hovered in the air and began to breath fire towards us as it flew by us.

"Flesh Eater Ring, Release!" My ring released lots of blood all over the place but I gather it by changing it as a weapon, "Bow!" I took aim at the dragon and shot with the bow. It pierced through the dragon's wing but it seems to be doing nothing. But now I know how easy it is to pierce through its body. I don't know how strong this is but let's try other ways.

"Frostbite!" Zeta casted and the dragon's body were suddenly freezing seeing how there's frost marks suddenly generating.

But the dragon casts a fire spell that completely melted off the frost attack Zeta did against it. 

"Dispel." I made the blood weapons disappear, "Come, Bloodlust." Black lightning struck my hand and summoned both of my weapons. "Twin Blade Form: Lashes of Eternity!" With absolute power, I swung both of my blades. My attack created a large burning ravine in the middle of the arena. The spectators were in awe but not at me. Their eyes were locked at the dragon. As I looked up, the dragon has no damage or wounds noticeable on its body. "Wha-"

The dragon then dived at me head first at rammed straight to the other side's wall of the arena.

"Barrier!" Zeta casted, trying to protect me.

"Dispel!" Teral counteracted, destroying the barrier set up for me by Zeta.

"UGUAH-" I was slammed right at the wall of the arena. 

Teral then announced a formal warning, "Zeta, protecting other contenders isn't allowed on this trial. One more offense and you'll be disqualified."

The dragon flew up in the sky and created a gigantic fireball and hurled it right at me. Damn... I have no choice... "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE!" Just before the gigantic fireball that the dragon hit me, the sky above me turned dark and black lightning struck my body summoning my strongest armor. I braced for impact as the giant fireball of the dragon caused a huge explosion. "Dispel!" Before the fog dissipated, I reverted myself back to my normal form. I took a look at my health points and it seems that I didn't receive that much damage at all.

Teral was about to announce me dropping out, "That's a shame! At the fourth round, Zieglind has now dropped ou- oh wait! Wait! What is this!? Zieglind came out of the blast the dragon did on him fully unharmed! What a turn of events! It seems that Zieglind is ready to battle it out once again!"

It seems that the other contenders are in shock because I blocked the dragon's attack. "Hey! What are you all doing? Attack!" It seems that snapped them back to reality as they spammed countless spells at the dragon. 

The dragon grew angry so it flew right up to the skies where we couldn't see. And seconds later, a barrage of fireballs came falling down and as soon as it made contact, its destructive power managed to knock out one of our contenders.

As the barrage of fireballs came falling down and as we were also busy dodging the dragon's attack, it came flying down at us breathing fire everywhere. This is impossible to dodge. "Dispel!" I sent back my Bloodlust, "Gazer Form! Come, Death Scythe!" I then took a stance that's telegraphing that I'll be an unleashing a wild and wide attack. "SWEEPING DEATH!" 

All the fireballs and the dragon's breath got cut up and suddenly disappeared just by one of my skills.

"Silence!" Zeta casted on the dragon and it seems that it can't open its mouth any longer. "It can't cast any fire spells anymore! Go! Kill it!" Zeta shouted.

Everyone took action, the other contenders began to shoot arrows and spam magic, "Thunder Hammer! Dark Chains! Damage Receive Increase!" The dragon couldn't take the blows anymore and it fell on the ground. But Zeta's silence spell ran out of duration.

The dragon dug its head in the ground. We didn't know what's happening but we took advantage of the situation and hopped on its back.

"Twin Blade Form:..." I raised up both of my nodachi in an overhand stance. "Fallen Down!" And slammed it down at the dragon's back as the dark energy I created with this sword skill created a beacon of darkness that shot up to the sky.

That blast was powerful, to the point that I completely destroyed the dragon's armor. Mizuki jumped at the back and kicked us all off the dragon's back.

Mizuki unleashed her true power, "First Act: Eclipse!" The sky turned dark and Mizuki's sword absorbed the dark sky as it lit her sword in a pure white light. She then put her blade inside of the scabbard. "Second Act: Crescent Slash!" Mizuki barely moved her hand as she also barely pulled out her sword out of the scabbard. The entire arena had shaken for two seconds. 

Mizuki then jumped down the dragon's back. We were all confused on as to why she did that. Then a second later, the dragon's entirety of body was cleanly sliced up perfectly. She killed the dragon with ease.

The crowd roared in excitement and awe. Teral did too. "What... destructive power! This is unprecedented! Such strong contenders in this day's trial! But in exchange for passing the fourth trial, they lost most of their contenders. Three contenders remaining! Zieglind, Zeta and Mizuki! But... is this... truly... the end!?"

The three of us looked back and the dragon's body parts suddenly were reconnecting one by one. 

Mizuki rushed up to it but her attacks did nothing at all. 

Zeta tried to put the parts of the dragon inside of the barriers but the barriers simply broke.

There was no stopping in the dragon's... resurrection. 

The dragon's body was complete and a loud thud of heartbeat was heard ringing throughout the arena. It was none other than the dragon's. The dragon looked at us and spoke, "Fear... the... FIRE!!!"

"What!? It talks!?" I couldn't be helped but be shocked that the dragon could talk.

"You can understand it?" Mizuki asked me.

Zeta answered her, "Zieglind has a Universal Language skill. But to think that he can understand the language of the dragons..."

Their questions were held off as we looked at the dragon suddenly pulsing energy waves throughout the entire arena. It was waves of shockwaves of wind, powerful enough to blow us away. But we held our ground as we see the birth and resurrection of this dragon.

The dragon's armor fell off like a snake shedding its own skin. A giant heatwave was felt through the entire arena. The artificial rocks in the cave that Teral created was melting too. It was an excruciating and painful heat.

But what came next blew our minds.

The dragon blew fire in the air and it created a giant fireball that made the heat even worse. The dragon then went inside the fire. After a couple of seconds, it began to move, it absorbed all the fire of the fireball it created.

As it emerged, its whole body was no longer covered in hard armor. But pure, violent and raging flames. As it roared loudly and bared its wings for everyone to see, fires were raging everywhere, burning off everything it sees and wrecking havoc.

Zeta looked at the dragon with intent and uttered, "It's... an Elemental Dragon."