Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 681: A Dragon's Ballade: [Day and Night Cycle] Unleashed.

The 75-meter-tall puppet looked at the opposing dragon and opened its mouth to roar with a fierce cry.

RAHHH!!!!

Yasenia stood on her hind legs, and she not only roared but also used [Moon Dragon Roar] while her wings unfolded in all their glory.

ROAAAR!!!!!!!

Using her [Moon Dragon Roar] in her dragon form made it several times more potent, and a visible silvery ripple spread through the space toward the Epoch Devil Puppet. The silvery tides crashed against the sound waves of the puppet, piercing through and impacting it frontally.

Xiang Yinnu and the puppet screamed while taking a few steps back. Her brain shook, making Yinnu dizzy, and her body felt cold and freezing.

Yasenia returned to four legs without losing the chance and rushed forward with agile strides while opening her giant maw.

"[Moon Dragon breath]!"

A silver beam of pure Moon Energy created a giant wave of fog in the air. Yinnu felt danger, and she controlled the puppet from the inside, even when her head was pounding in pain, and her limbs felt stiff.

"[Devil Puppet Wall]!"

BANG!!!

The wall, several times taller and thicker than before, completely blocked the dragon's breath attack, but it gave Yasenia enough time to reach a melee distance.

Using her dragon body, she burst through the frozen and brittle wall, arriving right before the giant puppet.

Yinnu recovered and saw the giant dragon pouncing on her while her two frontal limbs swirled with Moon energy.

Twisting the body of the devil puppet and taking a step sideways, she avoided the first clawing motion. A large wave of frost froze everything in several hundreds of meters before the claw attack. It was an attack carrying [Draconic Crescent Moon].

Still, as if Yasenia had expected it, her dragon body bent in the direction of the claw attack, making the miss broader. Yinnu was confused for just a moment until she felt enormous pressured air hitting her back.

A massive tail strike landed on the puppet's back. "GAH!"

Xiang Yinnu gritted her teeth when the entire puppet shook, and the giant body flew for hundreds of meters, rolling on the ground.

The rumbling and deep dragon roar that followed told her that another breath attack was coming her way, making her feel constricted. "AHH!!!"

With a scream of pain, while half the shoulder of the puppet was frozen, she took the attack while rushing at her and punched Yasenia with the abnormally long arm.

Red and black energies swirled while the air exploded in the wake of the enormous fist.

The dragon snorted, and her body glowed with tremendous amounts of Moon energy. The cold temperament perfectly suited the Empyrean dragon, as she rapidly flapped one wing to move out of the way while using her powerful hind legs to jump at her.

Yet, Yasenia was in for a surprise when Yinnu returned the favor with a similar strike that landed right on the side of her head.

Following the motion of the missed punch, Yinnu agilely back-kicked Yasenia on the head.

Recovering and rising from the ground, Yasenia looked on coldly while blood dripped from the side of her head.

Then, she opened her maw, and an ethereal chant reverberated throughout the arena.

"A Dragon's hush, A [Starry Sky]. A [Draconic Crescent Moon] lights up the night."

The empty phantom night sky began to shine with stars, and the Moon reappeared.

Yinnu was confused when the surge of energy around Yasenia increased, making her dragon body emit even more pressure than before.

It was the start of [Day and Night Cycle] in her Dragon self.

From a distance, Xiang Yinnu saw Yasenia going on her hind legs and elegantly slashing at her with quick attacks.

Silver crescents that would slice hills in half rushed from each of her claws, making Xiang Yinnu take quick defensive measures.

While she blocked the incoming attacks, Yasenia's ethereal voice echoed one more time, like an enchanting whisper that came from the cosmos.

"A [Heavenly constellation], a [Draconic Moon Charge]. Everything bows down to the Dragon's liberation."

Xiang Yinnu almost lost sight of the giant creature as the already fast dragon suddenly rushed at her while a silvery aura swirled around her. 'W-What?'

ROAR!

Before the Epoch Devil Puppet, many of her life-saving treasures created tens of barriers, and the clone summoned the strongest [Devil Puppet Wall] it could.

However, it was lacking in front of the fully charged [Draconic Noon], enhanced by Yasenia's Intents and skills.

Furthermore, while in [Day and Night Cycle], [Draconic Noon] summoned an additional attack from above, something Xiang Yinnu detected relatively late.

BOOOM!

An explosion that would level a mountain swallowed the Epoch Devil Puppet and Xiang Yinnu.

Yet, the dragon didn't rest after falling onto her four limbs; she charged forward again.

A blazing Epoch Devil Puppet rushed forward from the golden fire that consumed the place where Xiang Yinnu had previously stood.

Inside it, the Puppet Master was heavily wounded with bloodshot eyes, completely mad and using everything she had to continue fighting. "I WON'T LOSE!"

Yasenia's eyes shone with admiration. 'To think she still can fight after that attack, worthy of being one of the most talented of a continent.'

However, from then on, it was a winning battle.

The attacks of the dragoness only got heavier in the sunset part of [Day and Night Cycle], and they were too heavy for the injured Epoch Devil Puppet.

Each attack that landed ripped off a chunk of the muscular creature.

After a while, Yasenia used Dawn to change all her gathered Sun energy to Moon energy and finally used one of her most powerful attacks, [Draconic Midnight: Falling Sky].

The beaten Xiang Yinnu could only look up to the sky as a silver meteor surrounded by thousands of stars fell onto her.

'Ah... So beautiful. If you were mine, how much more beautiful would you be.' Her beautiful but weary doll-like face couldn't help but show regret with a smile.

Following that thought, an explosion that demolished the arena ensued, disintegrating everything in a tsunami of silvery-white light.

Yasenia stood in the middle of the crater, heavily breathing, and her body aching while her stomach and chest area still hurt because of the sword strikes.

Weary, she looked around and tried to find Yinnu's spatial ring, but she couldn't find anything. 'It has probably been destroyed.'

[Congratulations, you've won the battle.]

Yasenia saw the message, and a smile spread on her dragon face. "Right, I won."

She laughed happily, delighted that she could use most of her cards in battle. 'It wasn't easy...'

The dragon slowly shrunk, and Yasenia returned to her human form. Her body was riddled with minor wounds, with two large ones, while her face showed two scars.

However, even the large wounds were already scarring, so Yasenia didn't care.

Though wounds might not entirely translate from human to beast form and vice-versa, they remained and carried on with similar severity.

The kick to her head, the sword thrust that sliced her face, the sword wound that pierced her chest, and the one that slashed her waist.

Those four were the most damaging attacks. The slash on her face had already been transformed into a pink scar that would naturally heal with time, while the kick strike had healed, leaving behind a small mark that would eventually vanish.

The last two had stopped bleeding and needed nothing but time to heal.

Then, her sight blurred, and she returned to her room.

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Author Note: Well... 1.5 million words! "What?" I can already read your thoughts. Yep, with the previous chapter, we crossed 1.5 million words. I just didn't want to interrupt the flow of the fight, so I placed the announcement here.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all of you who have come this far with me. Whether you have been here since day one or just binged the entire novel a day ago, it means the world that you were invested in and liked my novel enough to read this far.

Let's continue our adventure together, and I hope to see you here at the 2 million mark!

Much love, many hugs, and Merry Christmas.

Mortrexo.