Volume II, Chapter 146
The most obvious feature of the Crashing Dragon's patience is that the speed at which the Ice Giants are destroyed increases rapidly, with the cooperation of Ruli's jaws and claws, every time the Crashing Dragon attacks, more than ten Ice Giants will be slapped into ice slag, in fact, if it weren't for some of the Ice Giants who have been staying behind the Crashing Dragon's hind legs, it would have been possible to be wiped out all at once.
What really caused a qualitative change in the situation on the battlefield was that there was finally a time when the Ice Giant's Ice Heart was hit by the jaw of the Crashing Dragon. Previously, if the Ice Giant was attacked by the Broken Dragon's Jaw, it would change its body to avoid being directly attacked by the Broken Jaw's position to the Ice Heart, but due to the increased speed and amplitude of the Broken Dragon's attack, one Ice Giant was unable to avoid the Ice Heart being attacked in time. And even if the Ice Heart was much harder than the Ice Giant's body, it was still not enough to resist the sharpness of the Collapse Dragon's jaws, so the Ice Giant with the Ice Heart cut through it turned into ice chips without the need for the Crashing Dragon's claws to make up for it.
This situation was clearly seen by the Crashing Dragon, although the Crashing Dragon belonged to the ancient yasaurus with low intelligence that was almost close to the beast, but it had survived for so long, even the beast was enough to have enough intelligence, or combat experience. Crashing Dragons instantly realized that the weakness of these Ice Giants, who had been holding them back and would resurrect almost indefinitely, was the Heart of Ice.
In Crashing Dragon's opinion, one of the things that the Ice Giant can cause trouble for himself is that great strength, although this strength cannot be compared to his own, but with the collection of numbers, it is enough to make it difficult for him to move forward. Another point is the near-immortal recovery speed, whether it is smashed into pieces or directly smashed into ice mounds, it can quickly recover, so that not only can he not reduce the number of ice giants, but because of the summoning of the ice dragon, it will continue to increase. Originally, because of the appearance and recovery of the Ice Giant, a blue light shot out from the location of the Ice Dragon, so the Crashing Dragon believed that the Ice Giant's continuous resurrection was due to the Ice Dragon's continuous use of magic, so the Crashing Dragon thought about how to directly attack the Ice Dragon. However, because the Ice Dragon is hiding among several Ice Giants who do not participate in the attack, it is difficult for the Crashing Dragon to find the location of the Ice Dragon and launch a powerful attack. As a result, the Crashing Dragon could only play a tug-of-war with the Ice Giant, trying to find the exact location of the Ice Dragon.
Now that Crashing Dragon has inadvertently discovered the Ice Giant's weakness, the situation is immediately different. The dragon no longer needs to find the location of the ice dragon to kill, all it needs is to destroy all the ice giants. The Ice Giant's hard body was not too different from Thin Ice in the face of the power of the Crashing Dragon. With a casual wave of his claws, the dragon can destroy or even shatter the Ice Giant's body, and then the Dragon will find the Ice Heart that fell from the Ice Giant's body and use more force to completely destroy the Ice Heart.
The Ice Giant is a subordinate of the summoning class, which usually has some limitations. The limit of the Ice Giants happens to be the number limit, and there is an upper limit to the total number of Ice Giants that the Ice Dragon can have. This upper limit can slowly increase with the age of the Ice Dragon, but overall, it is difficult to reach the three-digit number of Cheng dรน. And even if the upper limit can reach a certain level, the number of ice giants that the ice dragon can summon still depends on the number of ice hearts contained in the ice dragon's body, and with the size of this ice dragon, fifty ice giants is almost the limit of its possession.
It only takes one wave of the claw to destroy an Ice Giant, and it will take a few seconds at most to destroy the Ice Heart. Fifty Ice Giants are theoretically less than three minutes for the Collapse Dragon to be destroyed, not to mention that if the number of Ice Giants drops to a certain level, the Crashing Dragon can completely ignore the existence of the Ice Giants and directly attack the Ice Dragon.
The only thing that reassures the Ice Dragon a little is that the power of the Crashing Dragon is too strong, and if it is hit head-on, the Ice Heart in the Ice Giant's body will fly far away. This distance is completely negligible for the Ice Dragon, which can summon the Ice Heart back to its side, but it is enough for the Crashing Dragon to quickly find the Ice Heart and destroy it. However, the Ice Dragon requires additional mana to summon the Ice Heart.
However, even if the Ice Dragon was willing to spend more mana to summon the Ice Heart, it still couldn't stop the Ice Giant from decreasing. After all, not all Ice Giants will be knocked away by Ice Heart when they are attacked, and after discovering that Ice Heart cannot be found many times, Crashing Dragon changed his attack method and changed the claw sweep to a direct slap, although this way one of the Ice Giants attacked each time, and it is likely that it will not be able to completely shatter the Ice Giant's body, but it ensures that Ice Heart will not fly out of its attack range due to its own strength.
The Crashing Dragon changes its attack, and the Ice Dragon also has a countermeasure. After smashing the Ice Giant, the Crashing Dragon needs a digging motion to turn out the Ice Heart before it can be shattered with its claws. The time it took for the Ice Dragon to summon the Ice Heart was about five seconds, which was about the same as the time it took for the Crashing Dragon to shatter the Ice Heart. It's basically a half-to-half chance that the Ice Dragon can summon the Ice Heart back to its side before the Crashing Dragon shatters it.
In this case, after losing nearly ten Ice Hearts, the Ice Dragon's proficiency naturally increased because of the continuous summoning, and the summoning was nearly two seconds faster than before, so that basically as soon as the Broken Dragon dug out the Ice Heart, the Ice Dragon was able to complete the summoning, greatly reducing the possibility of the Ice Heart being destroyed. In this regard, the Crashing Dragon also tried to counteract, first choosing not to dig out the Ice Heart but directly piercing it with its claws. However, since the hardness of the Heart of Ice is much higher than the ice layer below, there is no place to focus on it, and even with the claws of the Crashing Dragon, it cannot pierce the Heart of Ice on its own, and this method can only make the Heart of Ice sink deeper on the surface of the ice. After discovering that the first move didn't work, Crashing Dragon also tried to crush the Ice Giant directly into its claws. However, firstly, the Ice Giant's ten-meter-tall Broken Dragon's claws cannot be fully controlled, and secondly, the Ice Heart can move freely in the Ice Giant's body, and the Broken Dragon's practice makes the Ice Dragon not even need to summon the Ice Heart, so it is necessary to restore the body part of the Ice Giant that fell from the crack in the Dragon's claws into a complete Ice Giant.
For a while, the confrontation between the Crashing Dragon and the Ice Dragon had once again fallen into a stalemate, but after the previous battle, the Crashing Dragon had advanced the battle line a lot, and the circle of Ice Giants covering the Ice Dragon had retreated to the edge of the huge ice lotus. Moreover, since the Broken Dragon is still looking for the Ice Heart after smashing the Ice Giant's body, as long as the Ice Dragon is not paying attention to it, there will still be Ice Giants who will be completely destroyed by the Broken Dragon. The battle situation is already very unfavorable for the Ice Dragon.