Conqueror

"What!?" I was merely confused at what Zeta said. "What's an Elemental Dragon?"

"An elemental dragon has three forms, the first one is the basic form of a dragon. Their identity as an Elemental Dragon is completely hidden while in the first form since they look just like other dragons. They're simply powerful and has a thick coating of armor surrounding their body. The second form is this. Their true nature as an Elemental Dragon. The armor surrounding their body is not an armor to protect themselves, its to protect their enemies." Zeta explained.

"What..? Protect... Us?"

"The armor surrounding its body is merely a seal, binding their uncontrollable powers and violent powers inside of them. Their armor will decay and will be absorbed by the dragon, converting the armor to recover their health, mana and also to boost the powers of their element. It'll be reborn no matter how much we kill it as long as the element inside of them is alive and so is their heart."

"Then the third form?"

"It's death state, once the heart of the elemental dragon is dead... well. Let's just say it won't be good."

"Damn. Well then. Let's just focus on the situation at hand."

"Fire Resistance UP!" Zeta casted on himself. "I can't cast this on you, I'll be disqualified."

"It's fine. I don't feel anything and it's barely doing damage to me."

"The only thing we can do now is wait. The Elemental Dragon is invulnerable while turning into its second phase."

We can only stand by while the dragon is manifesting the flames that it absorbs completely. After a few moments, a giant concentrated mana was felt inside of the dragon.

"Mana Search!" A skill that I cast as I began to look for that surge of mana I felt. And as I looked closely, it seems to be at the heart of the dragon. 

Another explosion covered the whole arena but the three of us blocked it completely.

The dragon roared as it breathed fire in the sky. Its showing dominance. And it's beginning to take action.

It just waved its wings slightly but an unexpected tornado of fire appeared in the middle of the arena, burning our bodies and slowly pulling us in to that tornado.

"Tsunami!" A casted and a gigantic wave hit the flames of tornado but the water suddenly evaporated. "Damn! The flames are way too hot. We can't afford to get near that. It evaporated a tsunami!"

Zeta then casted, "Icicle Blast!" Several icicles summoned around Zeta's body and launched themselves to the tornado. But nothing happened. It connected but it was simply destroyed. 

"Frozen Field!" The entire arena was then covered in a cage of ice but the tornado doesn't seem to stop.

Mizuki took action and hopped right next to the flaming tornado.

"Hey what are you doing!" I shouted.

"Taking action!" She said. She took a yoko strike stance, a position wherein her katana is resting on a horizontal position on her side with both of her hands. "Flowing Tide!" Water came out from the other side of her katana. And as she swung it by spinning around, a gigantic tornado of water was created that flowed beautifully as it rose up in the sky. 

And the tornado itself made the fire tornado the dragon summoned disappeared.

Seeing that Mizuki destroyed the dragon's attack, she stepped back near us.

"What did you do?" I asked.

"I counteracted the flaming tornado the dragon made. I made a tornado of my own spinning in an opposite direction the dragon summoned. Mine was a little bit stronger but the heat of the tornado weakened my water tornado since it was evaporating the water. But good thing both of our tornadoes cancelled out each other." Mizuki replied.

"I see." I took a look at her and she seems to be panting heavily. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. The heat of the dragon is just too much." It seems that she's in pain.

"You gotta bear with the heat. Zeta can't cast fire resistance on us."

"When did I say I need your help?" She then followed up with an exasperated sigh. "Focus on your own. The three of us are enemies. I need that flower."

"I see." When did I become interested in her? I'm just enamored by her swordsmanship. Because that's something I've been trying to pursue all this time. But it seems that I'm easily getting distracted by other thoughts. I wonder what's happening to me. As I looked at Zeta, I remembered his words 

'It's simple really. I like her.'

That guy put the thought of love into my head. Argh. What am I thinking in the middle of battle!? Eliminate all these thoughts! I slapped myself to regain focus and it caught the attention of the two.

"Wh- what's wrong?" Zeta asked.

"Nothing. Let's go!" As I rushed below the dragon's head, I swiped my scythe at it but its body is now way too thick for me to pierce through. 

"Thunder Blast!" A cloud formed above the dragon's head and began to spew lightning all over its body. Zeta followed up with another spell, "Water Bubble!" The dragon is then stuck inside of a giant water bubble. "Double Cast secondary ability activate! Twin Cast Magic: Dragon Lightning!" Two dragon lightning appeared behind Zeta and launched themselves onto the elemental dragon's body, charring some of its flesh while being empowered by Zeta's water bubble, acting as a conductor so that the lightning continues to flow through its whole body.

The water bubble then disappeared as the dragon let out heatwaves all over the arena. But that seemed to exhaust the flames surrounding its body acting as an armor. The elemental dragon fell on the ground and there seems to be small sparks forming on each part of its body.

"Good job!" I shouted at him. This is the time to take action. I'm sure that the small sparks is basically the dragon trying to reignite the flames inside it. "Mana Search!" And just as I expected, the dragon is pumping out flames from its heart throughout all its veins. This is now its most vulnerable state!

I went and got in front of the dragon. "Summon, Soul Scythes!" Hundreds of Soul Scythes began to spawn right behind me. "Combine!" All of the Soul Scythes combined into one weapon, a giant version of my own Soul Scythe.

[Soul Slaying Scythe, a weapon created by combining hundreds of Soul Scythes. Its massive size is known to have slain giant beings such as cyclops, giants, demons and dragons. Has four sub skills,

||Giant Slayer||

Damaging enemies that are ten times the size of you with this weapon will lower this weapon's weight by 90% and increase the damage by 50% and will go up to 100% if you hit the enemy's weak points.

||Pitiful Soul||

Harvesting the soul of an enemy that is ten times your size will grant ten times more permanent strength than normal. 

||Dragon Absorber||

When slaying a dragon, instead of getting one skill from absorbing their souls, you will get five new skills.

||Obsessive Harvesting||

If you absorb 100 souls within a matter of ten seconds, your damage will go up by 500% for ten seconds. This skill is passive. This skill can not stack on itself as an added duration but will only reset the duration.]

I put this gigantic scythe in an overhead position and I swung it on the dragon. And as I brought this weapon down on the dragon's back, the blood of the dragon came spurting out everywhere. Even the blood of the elemental dragon was hot seeing how it melts the ground when it hit.

The dragon is dead but not yet. "Dispel!" I dispelled the gigantic Soul Slaying Scythe. "Torched Body!" My body began to turn into ethereal form and my flesh is replaced with fire. "Fists of Fury!" The gigantic mimicry of the avatar of my hand was summoned. I grabbed the neck of the dragon and raised it up for everyone to see.

The crowd was excited and happy, their deafening cheers was heard throughout the entirety of the sky island. They were waiting for me to deal final killing blow. And I will deliver.

"Fists of Fury!" With my free right hand, I dug the left fists of fury on the dragon's chest. I could hear the dragon's cry as I pierced through its weakened body. I grabbed its heart and ripped it out for everyone to see.

Just as I was about to crush it, Zeta suddenly shouted, "WAIT! It's dead Zieglind! Don't crush its heart!"

"Oh, can we use this for something?" I asked.

"Yeah. We'll take it back to Izgoy."

"Alright then."

Teral suddenly spoke, "Ladies and gentlemen! The fourth round is finished! The Elemental Dragon has been defeated by Mizuki, Zieglind and Zeta! Now! Wait for a second as we tally up the new points!"

"Dispel!" I dispelled the torched body and the hands of fury and I put in my inventory the elemental dragon's heart. 

I looked around to look for Mizuki since she didn't really do much this trial and there she was, laying on the ground. I rushed over to her, "Hey! You okay?"

As soon as she tried to open her lips, I noticed that her lips were dry. She couldn't speak nor move so she just passed out. It seems that she can't continue the fight. "Tracker!" I still had plans for her but I guess we'll meet again someday. I called over to one of the royal guards and they assisted her out of the arena.