Tale of the Red Dragon Without Dragon’s Might
Chapter 327 - 322: Group Fight

Chapter 327: Chapter 322: Group Fight

To some extent, alchemy is not much different from cooking; the distinction lies in cooking turning various ingredients into a delicious meal, while alchemy transforms various alchemy materials into a gleaming and round elixir.

In this case, if Human Elixirs are like quick stir-fry dishes, requiring constant addition of ingredients and seasoning, then Heavenly Immortal Pills are akin to elaborate feasts like Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. They require rare ingredients, extensive preparation, and days to slowly stew over a low flame—allowing the alchemist time to attend to other things in the meantime.

In summary, unless crucial moments arise, alchemy does not require the alchemist to stare at the furnace every moment without stepping away. Even a slight error or delay often has no lasting impact; remedies can usually be implemented afterward.

News arrived of someone forcefully landing on the Volcanic Island and advancing toward the volcano. Leon immediately put down his current tasks.

"Mother, stay here and behave. No slacking off, no stealing bites, or else don’t blame me for being merciless."

After warning Anglistra, Leon quickly followed Salovis out of the Alchemy Room. It wasn’t a Dragon Turtle after all; it was a massive Kraken he recognized from afar.

The Kraken’s strength was considerable, and on Volcanic Island, apart from Leon, no one could match it—even the adult Red Dragon Anglistra, nicknamed Lady Magma Maw, was no equal. Anglistra was presently tending the flames in Leon’s Alchemy Room and had no way of confronting it.

A squad of Salamanders launched an attack on the Kraken but was swept away entirely by its tentacles. If not killed outright, they were crippled. The remaining Salamanders could only keep their distance and hurl spears at the Kraken, but those massive, human-sized spears were mere toothpicks in front of the colossal Kraken.

Tassera, as a Blue Dragon immune to lightning, took an attack from the Kraken’s Lightning Beam unharmed. However, her own Lightning Breath failed to injure the Kraken in any way.

The Efreeti was less fortunate. A misstep in positioning led to him taking a full blast of the Lightning Beam, then being snared by the Kraken’s tentacles wrapping around his legs and hoisting him into the air. Were it not for the Kraken’s lack of appetite for a fiercely burning Efreeti, he would have been swallowed whole and subjected to gastric acid. In the end, he was merely tossed into the sea—left to his own luck.

"I’m here. You may retreat for now," Leon announced, already having reverted to Dragon Form and activated his Three Heads and Six Arms Dharma Body, summoning six Fine Gold Greatswords into his six hands.

Leon glared at the Kraken, puzzled as to why one appeared out of the Flash Sea. For a moment, he couldn’t determine if this was the very Kraken he had fought before, as distinguishing one fish, shrimp, crab, or octopus without memorable features could be challenging.

"I’m counting to ten—leave this place immediately." The Kraken was undeniably powerful, making it difficult to kill within a short time. Leon was anxious about his elixir and didn’t want to waste time battling the Kraken. He intended to temporarily drive it away, finish alchemy, then explore the deep sea later for retribution—he never promised to let bygones be bygones.

"Yield to me, and I’ll spare you." A three-headed, six-armed Red Dragon—was he really one of Tiamat’s chosen? Using swords felt oddly out of place. Regardless, the Kraken didn’t flinch; even gods would face no respite against it.

Leon didn’t waste words, flapping his wings and soaring high—hundreds, then thousands of meters—before diving toward the Kraken.

His dive was disrupted by the Kraken’s flailing tentacles. Leon nimbly dodged them and landed squarely on the menacing fish-like head.

Without hesitation, two of his six arms thrust swords into the ground for balance while the remaining four wielded swords to parry incoming tentacle strikes. Simultaneously, his left and right heads each bit onto a tentacle, leaving the middle head free to unleash Samadhi True Fire without restraint.

The Samadhi True Fire was immensely potent, but instantly incinerating the Kraken proved overly ambitious.

The Kraken’s body was imbued with electricity. With its mere will, every creature within its aquatic domain would succumb to lightning vulnerability and electrical assaults. However, Leon’s Vajra Body rendered him immune, leaving the Kraken thrashing and rolling furiously in frustration.

Leon’s strength and durability were on par with an elder Red Dragon, yet even he struggled against such a formidable foe. Soon, he was flung onto the earth, though nothing more severe transpired.

The Kraken had stubby limbs ill-suited for use but countered this with ten daunting tentacles and a menacing mouth—totaling up to eleven offensive appendages.

Leon’s Three Heads and Six Arms afforded versatility. When stationary during combat, he leveraged his legs; his wings, ordinarily for flight, could exercise formidable strength—possibly greater than his limbs. Including his tail, he exceeded the Kraken’s aggression count.

The Kraken’s challenge rating was 23, slightly below Leon’s. Nonetheless, it wasn’t an adversary Leon could easily overpower or crush outright. Though the terrain favored him—being an island under his dominion—subduing the Kraken required time.

The real advantage here was that this was Volcanic Island, a domain where Leon commanded countless allies. Furthermore, his Vajra Body invoked no concerns of friendly fire; his comrades could attack without restraint or hesitation.

Salovis took a deep breath, her chest seemingly glowing like heated iron—similar in many ways to her brother Leon. Flames surged forth as she unleashed her Flame Breath.

Cecilia had rushed back to the Volcanic Island from Watchtower Port, alternating Poison Breath and Confusing Heart Breath in steady blasts.

Fiora, being a bronze dragon, wielded Lightning Breath ineffectively against the Kraken. However, her claw attacks and bites were formidable, bolstered by her warrior class expertise.

Isily had been watching from the sidelines but decided contributing was more courteous than abstaining.

As a teenage dragon, her Frozen Breath and Paralyzing Breath were weak, but they were better than nothing.

The Efreeti had climbed from the sea.

The Salamanders rolled forward a Crossbow Cannon.

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Dissociation Technique—still Dissociation Technique. Tassera exhausted her spells but remembered she possessed a deadly weapon. She promptly departed the battlefield.

Returning to Mage Tower, she activated the Focusing Eye, a devastating weapon dismantled from the Witch King Su Ausis’s pyramid in the Ancient Fallen Empire. After channeling over a minute’s worth of energy, the resulting laser depleted all the Mage Tower’s accumulated reserves and punched a gaping hole in the Kraken’s body.

The pitiful Kraken—displaced from the deep sea, far from its lair, now stranded on land—had invaded Leon’s stronghold. It stood no chance against Leon’s unleashed offense, supplemented by dragons, an Efreeti, Salamanders, and countless others. Bereft of advantageous conditions—time, location, or allies—it was doomed.

By the time it fully realized its dire situation, its tentacles were battered, severed, leaving it gasping its final breaths.