Today, the origin of the dragon family is impossible to verify, and after the turmoil set off by Saladin, the dragon soaring in the sky has withered away and completely disappeared from the stage of the continent.

The Frost King, the dragon's spark of inheritance, was ruthlessly split into four parts by Saladin: one piece of flesh was used to seal Terella (dragon egg), and the other was used as a lock for the tomb (Frost Gate); Some of the souls are used to forge the holy artifact [Dead Touch], and the other part of the soul is used to refine the guardian of the Himereung (metal dragon).

At this time, the metal dragon in front of Levi can be regarded as a quarter of the Frost King at most, although there is a broken dragon soul in its body, it is only an alchemy creature in the final analysis.

However, it is difficult for Levi to define what level of strength he is.

"Flora!" He shouted.

Hearing Levi's signal, Flora's palms lit up with a rosy red aura, and when she closed her fingers and opened her palms again, the aperture disappeared and appeared on top of Ornos's head.

The rose-red aperture exploded silently, and fine light fell from the aperture and shone on the surface of the metal ice dragon.

Ornos was about to raise the dragon's claws, but in the folded space, this movement was slowed down indefinitely.

Levi's chanting was over, and dozens of thick turquoise vines emerged from under the floor, tightly wrapping around Ornos's jaws and arms.

Dragons aren't just as powerful as they are born with sky-covering wings and massive bodies, but in the eyes of experienced dragon slayers, the most tricky weapon on the dragon's body is definitely the dragon's breath.

Therefore, Levi never wanted to give Ornos a chance to spit out the dragon's breath, and after immobilizing Ornos, he immediately chanted the forbidden spell [Earth's Touch].

A brown elemental character lit up on the ground in front of Ornos, and soon a second and a third appeared...... In the blink of an eye, the dense elemental texts formed a circle more than ten meters in diameter, enveloping Ornos's ice-blue body.

Levi's fingertips stopped carving the elemental text in midair, and the chanting in his mouth was over.

A mountain of terrifying pressure fell on Ornos, its graceful neck bent down, its head slamming to the ground, its wings, tail, and limbs clinging to the ground, smashing cracks into the stone brick floor.

The metal squeezed and collided with a tooth-aching sound, but Ornos's body was harder than Levi had imagined—the ice-blue prismatic scales were still as smooth as mirrors, and there wasn't a single crack in them, under the weight of enough to crush ordinary people into powder.

"You don't give as much gravity as the snow in my lair*."

Ornos's calm and elegant voice came as it had three front toes and one back toe on its right front paw, with a crown of slots on the middle front toe.

As its words fell, the crown of the cracks on the sharp claws suddenly became like a living thing, and the ring swirled and twisted like a stream of water, exuding an aura of extreme contradiction.

Levi and Flora only felt that the ground beneath their feet suddenly became extremely wide, the arc of the hall became as high as the sky, and the space around them stretched out as if it were stretched......

In the blink of an eye, the Great Hall of the Masters turned into the Masters Square, and the forbidden runes that had trapped Ornos disappeared to the ground, where they had gone.

Looking at Ornos high in the sky, Levi realized that the dragon's shadow he saw on the pillar of light outside the tomb might be the scene in front of him.

"Does it modify reality?"

Flora looked at the twelve long windows around her, which had become huge arches, and Ornos's treasured books had been moved to the edge of the square, the self-proclaimed poet dragon unwilling to let them be affected by the battle.

"A wide space is more conducive to its fighting." Levi's eyes narrowed, "Can you recognize what kind of metal its body is made of?" ”

Breaking free, Ornos spread her ice-blue metal wings and flew high into the air. Its wings, unlike the leatherical wings of dragons, are made up of thousands of thin, hard metal feathers that shimmer with a sharp light.

A new miniature circle of light appeared in Flora's palm, and she gazed at the Frost King in the sky, surmising: "Judging by its color and hardness, it must be some kind of ancient alloy, and the texture of this alloy must be very light, otherwise it would not be possible to make it fly." ”

"If only I could know the body structure and inner workings of the Frost King." For this monster that can't be beaten, Levi can't help but feel a little tricky because he can't formulate targeted tactics.

However, according to what has been learned, the Crown of the Cracks can no longer directly affect him and Flora, and can only change the reality of foreign objects, and is also subject to some unknown limitations.

This means that the direct role of the Crown of the Cracks in battle has been infinitely weakened, otherwise Levi would not have to fight it at all, and it would be better to move directly to Ozer.

"A perfectly spliced alloy...... Levi muttered.

"You'd better move faster." Flora said with a solemn expression, "Ornos will inevitably recall the eight consciousness reflections, and I don't want to be beaten by a group of sages. ”

Levi ignored Flora, two whistling cloaks raised behind him, and his body flew high into the air like arrows, speeding close to the Frost King.

Each spell has a different cast range and effective range, and it is impossible for him to be too far away from the Lord of Frost to defeat him.

When Levi was only three hundred meters away from Ornos, his chant was over, and in the face of an enemy based on the power of frost, his chosen spell was the Fire High Magic [Celea Barnes's Fire Phoenix].

A loud chirp resounded in the air, and a cheerful flame flew out between Levi's hands, and the flames swirled and spread out, forming a firebird with a wingspan of ten meters.

The firebird vibrated its wings and swooped down on Ornos in a twisting wave of heat. Faced with the threat of the heat, Ornos swooped down without fear, her whole body shimmering with a cold metallic sheen.

The huge firebird looked a little thin in front of Ornos, and the orange-red figure and the ice-blue figure bombarded together, like two meteorites colliding, emitting a dazzling dazzling light.

Ornos's metal claws clawed at the firebird's body, and countless streams of fire flowed through its body, but it didn't leave a single burn mark on the scales.

Its wings spread out, hovering in the air, its neck sticking forward like a swan, and a cloud of dragon breath spitting out of its mouth—

The ice-blue flames rolled and spread out, rushing down like a flood that burst the embankment, and there was not a trace of scorching heat in the flames, only a continuous awe-inspiring cold.

Levi had no way to avoid the overwhelming Ice Blue Dragon's Breath, relying on the Whisking Cloak to fly out of the range of the Dragon's Breath, but he didn't want to easily trigger a limited number of counterspells, so he opted for the Displacement Magic [Photon Jump].

His body turned into thousands of points of light, which dismantled and separated, leaping to the top of the Frost King's head and recondensing into human form—he held a blue lightning spear in his hand, a spear that bundled hundreds of slender and twisted bolts of lightning together, and struggled in Levi's fist, as if trying to escape from his palm and tear through the sky.

Levi spread his fingers, and the lightning spear fell with unimaginable speed, slashing at the spine between the Frost King's wings!

The lightning magic [Zuth's Lightning Spear] contains unimaginable power of thunder, and these lightning bolts bombarded Ornoth's metal scales, turning into a sea of churning electric sparks.

Ornos let out an angry chirp, its body shuddered in the air, and then flipped over, its long tail whipped like an iron whip into the sky for Levi.

Levi urged the whistling cloak to dodge quickly, but the wind from the long tail still made his face hurt. The [Fire Phoenix] and [Lightning Spear] cast successively failed to cause considerable damage to Ornos, and he couldn't help but think a little more highly of the Iron Skin of the Frost King.

Between thoughts, his fingertips threw a flickering ball of light, which flew in front of Ornos like a butterfly, and then exploded, and the dazzling light filled the sky, and everywhere Ornos could see, there was a sparkle and blankness.

This is an extension of [Illumination], a medium magic of light [Flash], a spell that briefly blinds enemies with a strong flash.

At the moment when the Frost King was blindly hovering in the air, Levi condensed a [Queen's Sword] in his left hand and a [Diamond Mallet] in his right hand, and he swooped down and swung both sharp weapons at the same time.

The Queen's sword, known for its sharpness, slashed across Ornos's metal scales, and it didn't last long before it broke in two, turning into a useless icicle; Although the hammer, which is known for its hardness, was not broken, it only left a shallow white mark on the metal scales.

The physical damage was also ineffective, but the Frost King regained his sight from blindness, its metal wings stretching out, and the wind blew Levi aside, then reached out and grabbed Levi's body with a sharp claw, brutally crushing him into pieces.

[Fission Escape] was triggered, and Levi split into two, one flying high, and three [Flashing] clusters of light appeared in the hands of the other, intending to flash the eyes of the Frost King again.

Before the flash of light, Ornos closed her metal eyes to block out the flash, then swung her wings and swirled, spitting out a large amount of dragon breath regardless of it, and the ice-blue flames enveloped half of the air, covering the entire space around her, leaving no gaps.

In the terrifying chill, Levi's body froze into an ice sculpture and then quietly melted. His second layer of counter-magic [Snowman] was triggered by the cold flames in the sky, and his body condensed in a safe place hundreds of meters away - if it weren't for the snowman's rebirth distance, maybe his third layer of counter-magic would have to be put in.

Suddenly, Levi only felt that everything around him had become very strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, just a vague bad premonition. Before he could figure out why, a metal dragon claw suddenly poked out from behind him, grabbing him into a bloody mass of minced flesh!

At some point, the Lord of Frost had come behind him, but he was completely unaware of it, and he had been deceived by both his sight and perception.

The minced flesh turned into countless black crows in the air and flew in all directions, and the one that flew the farthest suddenly swelled and transformed into the appearance of Levi. [Body Decomposition] was Levi's last layer of counter-magic, but before he could react, Ornos disappeared from his vision again.

"It's a hallucination...... Levi's face became very gloomy.

The Lord of Frost possesses terrifying attainments in the spiritual realm, which is even more difficult to resist than his scorching dragon breath, and it is impossible to tell whether the scene around him is real or not.

Danger looms behind the false scenes, Ornos could strike a fatal blow at any moment, and Levi has no time to replenish the counter-magic, so he can only grit his teeth and chant the extended spell [Magic True Body] of [Transfiguration]. Extended spells are also known as advanced spells, and the advanced magic of [Magic True Body] is a bottleneck for animal magicians, which can make the strength of magicians change qualitatively.

For example, the venomous ring snake transformed by Arthur Liszt in the [Poisonous Ring] is his true magical body.

If an animal mage wants to find and transform into his only true body, it will take a long time of research, cultivation, and chance, but Levi's, who has become an archmage, can't do this, so his magic true body can only be regarded as an unusually powerful transformation technique.

High in the air, Levi's body swelled, his head turned into a snow-white eagle's head, behind him grew strong wings full of brown feathers, his limbs transformed into the claws of a lion, and his tail vertebrae bulged out to form a powerful lion's tail—the magic he had chosen was a griffin!

Almost as soon as Levi's griffon turned into a griffin, the Lord of Frost appeared above his head, four metal claws piercing down like razors.

The griffon flapped its wings and lunged forward, dodging Ornos's sharp claws. Smaller, faster, and more agile than the Frost King, the Gryphon circled in mid-air and landed on Ornos's head, swinging its claws to deliver a powerful blow to the Frost King.

The lion's claws grazed into the metal head in a spark, a blow that could be heard from Ornos' roar, but it was not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, and turned to pounce on the griffon.

Levi still had a human mind, and he used his quick form to avoid Ornos's pounce, and with a small tossing and turn, he scurried onto Ornos's back, and the lion's claws slapped down like a drumbeat.

Ornos wasn't really torn apart by the griffons, it was just annoyed that it had been humiliated by an inferior species as a noble dragon.

It roared with its head up, its wings stirring up a fierce wind, and its body slammed and rolled high in the air, throwing the griffin off its back.

Forced to break away from Ornos's back, the griffon took the opportunity to open its beak and let out a roar between roaring and screaming, and spat out a black magic bullet from its mouth - a racial talent for the griffon, which can condense the storm element in its body into an energy substance, causing extremely staggering tearing damage.

Ornos ignored the burst of black magic bullets, and it burst out of the slashing wind, its sharp front paws gripped at the griffon's wings.

The griffon's fragile body could not withstand such an attack, and its body quickly shrunk and reverted to Levi's form, and although it was traumatized, it escaped from under its sharp claws. At this point, a large amount of blood flowed from the cuffs of Levi's arms, and the damage that Ornos grabbed on the griffin did not affect his humanoid state, but only slightly debuffed.

The Frost Lord didn't want to stop there, it flew in, spewing out an awe-inspiring ice blue dragon breath from its mouth, engulfing Levi inside.

Seeing that he was about to be engulfed in frost flames, Levi chanted a displacement magic [Flame Flight] as fast as he could, and his body burst through the raging flames, soaring nearly a hundred meters into the air, avoiding the enveloping range of the dragon's breath.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Levi stabilized his figure, a sharp claw on the top of his head mercilessly grabbed -

The Ornos below and the overwhelming dragon's breath are all illusions!

At the last moment, a rosy circle of light appeared at the side of the Frost King, enveloping it, causing the space around it to fold and extend repeatedly, but the speed of the claw's movement did not slow down, as it was still an illusion.

The true Frost King was close at Levi's feet, his ice-blue pupils locking onto Levi's figure, and dragon breath gushing out of his mouth—

"Levi!" It was too late for Flora to come to her aid, and she could only watch as he was engulfed in the ice-blue dragon's breath.

The griffon's figure flew out of the dragon's breath, its whole body in a state of frostbite, and it didn't fly far before it shrunk to a humanoid form, reproducing Levi's appearance.

Despite his haste to resist the dragon's breath with his magical body, Levi suffered severe frostbite: his lips were blue, wisps of cold air were exhaling from his mouth and nose, and his body had several skin cracks, and blood soaked through his cloak.

Ornos swooped in after her, a cold light flickering on the metal claws.

However, at this time, Levi was still unsure whether the dragon in front of him was a hallucination.

The rosy circle of light flashed behind Levi, and Flora leaped out of it, and she opened her arms to embrace Levi in her arms, revealing a rosy glow around her.

Almost at the same time as the refractive shroud appeared, ice-blue claws tore at the shroud from a strange angle, and the Frost King came to their rear at some point.

Then, before Ornos had disappeared from behind, another sharp claw grabbed from the side, and then another sharp claw appeared again and slashed in a completely different direction, causing the rosy light mask to tremble...... Each time Ornos attacked in an illusion, eight times in a single breath, tearing the rosy shroud into pieces of fluttering petals.

In the meantime, Flora also seized the opportunity and shot a rosy light arrow to hit Ornos's dragon claws, but even if the refraction could not cause fatal damage, it only pierced a few dragon scales into a crack, which was insignificant to Ornos.

Flora only felt that Levi's body in her arms was cold, and it was obvious that he had been cold to the bone, and he had to be treated as soon as possible.

"Get out of here with an hourglass!"

Flora said in a hurried tone, the situation was very critical at this time, and there was no chance of victory.

In a hurry, she stretched out a circle of light and carried Levi through it, appearing in the low sky nearly a thousand meters away, but it didn't take too long for the Frost Lord to catch up, and she didn't have much Origin power left to squander.

Not to mention, the reflection of the eight consciousnesses controlled by Ornos may have been on the verge of arriving here, and by then they may not even be able to last a breath.

"Ahem, it's useless." Levi's tone was a little weak, "Although Ornos can't modify the Libra Hourglass, it can modify the laws of space around it. ”

He took the Libra Hourglass out of his sleeve, and Flora realized that the sand in the hourglass was all concentrated in the pool of quicksand above, and could not flow through the holes.

Their greatest reliance and means of escape has been locked up!

"Death is only a short-lived pain."

Ornos's voice came from all around them, a calm and wise voice that seemed to encircle them, and it was impossible to tell where it came from.

"With My blessing, you will have eternal life in Ozer."

Nearly ten ice-blue metal dragon claws grabbed at the same time from all directions, and under the countless sharp knife-like claws, Flora and Levi couldn't tell the difference between truth and falsehood.

This is not a distorted reality, but a reality hidden in an illusion, a power different from the Crown of the Cracks - a talent that belongs to the Lord of Frost himself!

Levi's lips opened and closed slightly, he took Flora into his arms with his backhand, stretched out an arm, and an invisible and colorless flow of energy emerged from the palm of his palm, and the strong shock spread out in all directions with his body as the center, and even the air and light became distorted, as if he groaned silently under this terrifying wave.

Among all the dragon claws that grabbed them, two sharp claws trembled, and the metal layer on the surface of the claw tips suddenly cracked, and countless pieces of fine ice-blue metal flew into the air......

The Lord of Frost let out a tormented dragon groan, and with it, the illusion it created shattered and disintegrated into nothingness—its two front paws were riddled with cracks, and the most badly wounded toe was half gone.

"It's ...... Quasi-forbidden spells? Flora looked at the Frost King's mutilated claws in amazement, not surprised by the level of the spell, but at the result of it.

Levi breathed a sigh of relief that his last attempt had paid off.

The Earth Forbidden Spell [Great Shockwave], a means of destruction based on vibration, is less destructive than the same forbidden spell [Earth Stroke], but it is more effective against this excessively hard metal shell.

Now that he's found a weapon to break through the enemy's defenses, he'll have to find a way to get rid of the illusion's interference...... After all, if the [Great Shockwave] is released in the form of diffusion, there is no way to focus the damage, as it is only a quasi-forbidden spell after all, and it is still a little less interesting to use it against the Lord of Frost.

"It's not really hard to debunk illusions, at least it's much easier than breaking away from a distorted reality." Levi's face turned pale, and he stared at the Frost King in front of him, "False things are always false, and you only need to use some small means to distinguish them." ”

Previously, he had spent most of his time thinking about what kind of magic to use, and only a small part of his energy was devoted to thinking about illusions.

Levi chanted quickly, backed by the Jiling Center, he didn't pity his magic at all, and released all kinds of low-level magic one after another, shooting in all directions—

[Fire Bomb], [Water Arrow], [Wind], [Whirling Knife], [Frozen Rain], [Blacksmith Bellows], [Poisoned Spear]......

In the midst of these various spells, Levi calmly watched in every direction, his eyes reflecting all the details and changes, reflecting a brilliant light.

("Great Shockwave: Nature's earth-based advanced magic, area-of-effect magic, creator unknown.") Creates an invisible but extremely powerful wave of vibration with destructive power that can completely collapse the target from the inside out. —The Magic Illustrated Forbidden Spell)

("Fire Phoenix: Heat's higher flame magic, directed magic, created by Siraya Barnes.") Unleash a giant firebird and incinerate everything in its path. This spell is an advanced spell for fledglings. - "Illustrated Magic: High Magic")