Chapter 720: 3 Flags And Lily's Lost Opportunity - 2

The dragons hadn't even figured out what had started to happen when they saw a pink-haired human girl calmly float towards them.

"The human from Aurelius Beast Academy!!" They instantly recognised her from her distinctive appearance, even in the night.

No matter how prideful and strong they were, even they were made to study the top dogs of the Human and Elven academies.

That naturally included Leo and Lily.

"Careful! She has great control over the wind element and is also very strong!" Fyranth warned his men, who were already riding on his back.

Even on the blue dragon's side, Pyrakon, the dragon in his beast form, was carrying his academy students on his back just like Fyranth.

Even he had heard of Lily, and the first thing that came to his mind was to retreat. Simply because they were too tired after the battle with the yellow dragons, and the timer getting reset would be no problem for them because they were the ones who had attacked.

Meaning, even if they somehow win, the timer would still reset.

"Lord Pyrakon! But if we retreat, we will only be left with 2 other flags to capture. We don't know if other dragons from Azirith or Sunborn will intercept us at that time!"

"Yes! We will risk elimination!" Another dragon also spoke.

Apparently, Vyrmora Academy—the academy of blue-flame dragons—had yet to capture any flag. Till now, they had been busy hunting other academies. But the funny thing was, they had only managed to hunt 1 academy while also having scored 1 point in the first phase.

Meaning they had only 11 points till now.

In their attempt to show their presence and dominance, they ended up becoming last.

Pyrakon gritted his teeth, and while he was still deliberating the best course of action, something came right at his face.

Or rather, it was someone.

"You shouldn't waste time thinking about useless things when your elimination is guaranteed."

Leo said with a grin as he observed Pyrakon, his leg already coming down to strike the dragon's head.

Blue-Flame Dragon [Pyrakon] (Low 4-star) - Super Bloodline [Intelligence - Adolescent]

"Wha—!"

THAM!

The jaw that had just opened to speak something was crushed back closed while his eyes rolled back in his skull, and Pyrakon was sent crashing down onto the sandy floor.

The blue-flamed humanoid dragon's eyes contracted, and he rushed to intercept Leo without a second thought.

That cost him his body—and body in the literal sense—because the massive wind blade released by Leo smashed into his front.

Leo was so fast that the dragon didn't even register his movement before finding a deep, very deep gash running up from his lower waist through his chest, neck, and face, all the way to his horn, which had already broken. The cut was diagonal, and the bleeding was profuse.

"AAHHHHHH!!" The dragon fell through the sky while being thrown back due to the pressure and screaming hysterically.

Somehow, his tough body managed to not get sliced apart, and the single attack wasn't classified as a finishing move for him to be teleported away.

As the dragons fell to the ground, Leo observed that their regeneration had already started to work, and Fyranth—the yellow dragon whom Lily struck first—had already healed up and was charging at Lily to attack.

But the humanoid blue dragon wasn't lucky. The moment he hit the ground, he was teleported away.

Pyrakon somehow managed to regain consciousness mid-fall and flapped his wings just in time to land appropriately, though the people on his back still fell off because the landing wasn't that soft.

The next second, the human dragons found themselves clawed through their whole bodies. Three deep claw marks pierced through their tough, immature, scaly skin and dug deep enough to damage the organs under their bones.

It was Shyra in her smaller form, and in the dark curtain of night, she moved through the battlefield like a shadow. While Pyrakon had barely had time to regain his balance, all of the foot dragons of both academies had been dealt with.

Now, the only remaining ones were Fyranth, the 2 yellow-flame humanoid dragons with wings in the sky, some foot dragons that Fyranth had on his back, and finally, Pyrakon.

Pyrakon looked up to get a proper view of who had attacked him, only to see a dense mass of flames descending on him.

"I-is it Prince Azrakar?!" That was the last sentence he spoke before he was swallowed up.

Leo could still see the dragon struggling. It seemed that their scales were really durable, but not long after, a roar filled with agony came through the flames, and Pyrakon was sent away.

When Leo stopped the [Solarflare Torrent], what remained was sand turned red-hot, which rapidly cooled down into blackish, crystal-like glass.

Suddenly, after a strong gust of wind, he turned to see Fyranth standing alone, his scales sliced and diced all over the place.

There was no sign of the others.

Lily had already dealt with them.

Soon, Lily stepped on the dazed dragon's head and thrust her sword into his skull as if slaying him. The next moment, Fyranth disappeared, leaving Agnivar in the distance gulping his saliva down nervously.

She had just defeated a draconic being who, even though he seemed to be the same star rank as him, was still a dragon.

And he was just a wyvern.

There was not even a chance that he could try to run away.

Thankfully, Lily got distracted by the announcement at the centre of the flag region.

The capturing team has been driven away!

The timer resets!

00:40:21

06:00:00

05:59:59

The timer started once again, but Leo and Lily had no interest in waiting and capturing it.

Leo simply stored the huge worm's corpse in his spiritual space and took off on Agnivar's back towards the different flag location.

And just like that, the 3rd- and 4th-ranked academies were also crippled to a great degree by Aurelius Beast Academy.

In the Emperor's chamber, Aurex was rubbing his forehead, trying his best not to say anything that might only prompt Louis and Cyrandel to make fun of him.

"Ah… Well… Wait." Aurex suddenly found something to talk about.