Silver Dragon Saga - Episode 57
“Tch!”
At Heukhwa’s words, Hong Yuhwa pouted.
“Ugh… ugh….”
Seo Ryongseon trembled all over, watching with a shocked expression as Jehwa moved through the water without any resistance whatsoever.
“H-How can a human….”
Jehwa brought his open palm up to the face of Seo Ryongseon, who was looking at him with an expression that said he still couldn’t believe it.
“…!”
Eyes widening at the sight, Seo Ryongseon quickly tried to move his body to dodge, but Jehwa’s attack was faster.
Crack!
“Grah!”
Jehwa grinned as a blizzard wind instantly blasted from his hand and engulfed Seo Ryongseon.
But at that moment, Seo Ryongseon’s body, which had been sinking deep below the water’s surface, jolted to a halt.
“Hmm?”
As Jehwa tilted his head at the sight, Seo Ryongseon’s eyes flashed.
“…!”
Jehwa flinched.
“You bastard….”
Seo Ryongseon clenched his teeth with a grinding sound and glared with murderous eyes; for a moment, Jehwa was overwhelmed by his momentum.
But a moment later, he shook off Seo Ryongseon’s momentum and put on a relaxed expression.
“What are you? Are you really human?”
Outwardly, he was clearly human. The energy that until just now had seemed nothing but savage was also an aura unique to humans.
Of course, there had been a strange aura mixed in, but he had thought it wasn’t anything to worry about.
But what he felt from Jehwa now wasn’t an aura unique to humans, but a new aura he had never felt before.
On the other hand, it was also a strange aura that felt somewhat familiar. Because it was an aura somewhat similar to his own.
Even so, it was absolutely not the aura of a Divine Beast. It was an aura more destructive and savage than that.
‘Silver Dragon… just what is a Silver Dragon?’
Seo Ryongseon furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought. Jehwa had definitely called himself a Silver Dragon. Silver Dragon? It was a dragon he had never heard of.
“Are you a Divine Beast?”
“No.”
When Seo Ryongseon asked with a stiff face, Jehwa shook his head.
“Then just what the hell are you?”
“Me?”
Jehwa tilted his head at Seo Ryongseon’s question and asked back, then smiled a moment later and said,
“Human! Hmm… no? A Silver Dragon? I’m human… but he said I’m a Silver Dragon.”
At the sight of Jehwa furrowing his face and falling into deep thought over that, Seo Ryongseon was so dumbfounded that he was at a loss for words. He had never imagined there would be someone who didn’t even know what he was.
A moment later, Jehwa came up with an answer that had nothing to do with his worries about whether he was human or a Silver Dragon.
“Well, whatever! I’m going to kill you, so why does it matter?”
“…!”
At Jehwa’s words, Seo Ryongseon’s face hardened like stone.
“Die!”
Boom!
Seeing Jehwa closing in and swinging his fist in an instant, Seo Ryongseon swung his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.
“Huh?”
“Don’t underestimate me! I may have been flustered, but the Divine Beast most adept at underwater combat among the Divine Beasts is the Azure Dragon!”
Seo Ryongseon shouted fiercely, deflecting Jehwa’s fist before swinging his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.
“Eek!”
Jehwa panicked at the killing intent of the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade that seemed ready to slice him open any second, and got out of range.
All the wounds he had sustained until now had already healed due to the demonic energy explosion.
Even so, the pain of the wounds didn’t disappear easily, so Jehwa’s body still remembered the pain.
“Ugh!”
In that instant, as Jehwa flinched from the pain striking his whole body and showed an opening, Seo Ryongseon’s foot struck his abdomen.
Thwack!
“Guh!”
Blood gushing from Jehwa’s mouth dyed the surroundings.
No matter how much the Silver Dragon was a species adept at underwater combat, his opponent was the Azure Dragon of the Four Divine Beasts. If Seo Ryongseon, the Azure Dragon who ruled over water and sky, were weaker in underwater combat than Jehwa, the Silver Dragon, that would be nonsense.
But Jehwa wasn’t being beaten one-sidedly as he had been until now.
Grab!
“Die!”
Whoosh! Boom!
Jehwa grabbed Seo Ryongseon’s foot that had struck his abdomen and threw him straight toward the bottom of the lake.
No longer receiving resistance from the water, Jehwa’s strength was truly enormous.
“Keuh!”
Seo Ryongseon, embedded in the lakebed, glared at Jehwa with wide eyes, then flinched for a moment before launching his body away.
Boom!
“Tch!”
Before he knew it, Jehwa had approached Seo Ryongseon and stomped on the spot where he had been.
“Truly inhuman movements.”
Seo Ryongseon said with a grimace.
With this attack, Seo Ryongseon was certain. That Jehwa was definitely not human.
Seo Ryongseon gripped his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade tightly and began to draw up the Azure Dragon’s aura.
“Hmm?”
At that, Jehwa tilted his head, then flinched and launched an attack at Seo Ryongseon.
But Seo Ryongseon was even faster than that.
“Dragon Fury!”
ROAAAAR!
As Seo Ryongseon swung his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, dragons emerged from it and rampaged.
“Damn it!”
Jehwa spewed curses in an instant.
“I am the Azure Dragon! The one whose power grows stronger in water is me!”
Watching Jehwa dodging the dragons created by the Azure Dragon’s aura, Seo Ryongseon shouted.
While Silver Dragons were unaffected by water and grew slightly stronger when attacking, the Azure Dragon of the Four Divine Beasts grew stronger in water itself.
The Azure Dragon in charge of the East among the Four Divine Beasts was more advantageous in underwater combat than even the Azure Dragon Clan of the Dragon Realm.
“Keuh!”
Jehwa clenched his teeth with a grinding sound as he dodged another dragon aiming for him.
“I’m at a disadvantage in water!”
That’s why Seo Ryongseon had dragged him into the water—would he have dragged him here for no reason?
At Jehwa’s shout, Seo Ryongseon snorted lightly, a sneer spreading across his face.
“Aaack! You just laughed at me, didn’t you!”
In the midst of that chaos, Jehwa somehow saw that and gritted his teeth trying to charge at Seo Ryongseon.
Thwack!
“Urgh!”
But before he knew it, he was sent flying after being smacked by a dragon that had flown at him.
“Damn!”
Jehwa spewed curses without hesitation and gathered energy into his fist. Then, seeing a dragon flying at him, he yelled.
“Drop dead!”
Boom!
Jehwa’s fist and the dragon created by Seo Ryongseon collided.
An enormous explosion rang out, and the shockwave enveloped the entire lake.
“Keuh!”
Seo Ryongseon groaned under the pressure of the shockwave.
And as for Jehwa…
“It hurts!”
He grabbed his hand and screamed.
Of course it hurt—he had just smashed his fist into a massive chunk of energy, so what did he expect?
Having destroyed one dragon in exchange for the pain, Jehwa swung his fist around wildly and said,
“You guys are all dead!”
There was no way threats would work on beings created from Seo Ryongseon’s Azure Dragon aura and moving according to his will.
Once again, the dragons began to charge at Jehwa.
“You little bastards, really!”
Jehwa growled and began sending energy flying in all directions.
BOOM!
The energy blasts created by Jehwa’s dragon demonic power and the dragons created by Seo Ryongseon’s aura collided, sending out an enormous noise.
Soon the dragons faltered, and taking that opening, Jehwa rushed at Seo Ryongseon.
“Die, you bastard!”
Jehwa, clenching his fist and swinging it at Seo Ryongseon with terrifying momentum, suddenly widened his eyes at the feeling of something pulling him.
“Urgh!”
Boom!
And Jehwa was slammed into the lakebed.
“Aaack! What the hell’s so annoying!”
Jehwa shouted fiercely, drawing up his dragon demonic power and dragon fighting spirit to shake off the aura binding him.
But soon, seeing the dragons surging toward him, he let out a strange sound.
“Keuh?”
Boom!
“Urgh!”
Struck by the dragon once more, Jehwa rolled across the lake floor.
“Keugh! I’m at a huge disadvantage in the water. I need to get out now!”
Had he only just realized that?
With an extremely serious expression, Jehwa furrowed his brow and looked around.
‘No matter where I look, all I see is water.’
Since they were inside a lake, that was only natural.
The dragons charged at Jehwa again, who was making an annoyed expression.
“Get lost!”
Boom!
“Keuh!”
The dragon and Jehwa’s fist collided, sending out another enormous noise.
Jehwa grabbed his hand, distorted his face glaring at Seo Ryongseon, then tilted his head after a moment.
‘If I’m at a disadvantage, I just need to drag that guy out of the water.’
Jehwa had finally found the answer, but fell into thought again.
‘But how do I drag him out?’
Swoosh!
As Jehwa began to rise toward the water’s surface while thinking that, Seo Ryongseon’s eyes twitched.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Boom!
“Uwaack! You rotten bastard!”
In that instant, Jehwa gritted his teeth at the massive energy that brushed past him and spewed curses toward Seo Ryongseon.
Then, something came to Jehwa’s mind. And soon, after finishing his thought, he began to charge at Seo Ryongseon.
“What?”
Seo Ryongseon made a bewildered expression at the sudden charge, but a moment later raised his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade with cold eyes.
“Dragon Wind Vortex.”
RUMBLE!
As Seo Ryongseon spun and swung his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, a massive waterspout was created.
“Keuh!”
The panicked Jehwa quickly tried to get out of the vortex’s range, but the tremendous suction made it impossible.
“Damn it!”
Feeling his body being sucked in, Jehwa complained in annoyance, then began spinning his own body as well.
“Dragon Slayer Art, Leg Form, Ultimate Technique—Whirling Dragon Sharp Killing Strike!”
“What!”
In an instant, using the ultimate technique to pierce through Seo Ryongseon’s Dragon Wind Vortex, Jehwa gathered the energy of the Whirling Dragon Sharp Killing Strike into his right foot and shouted.
“Release!”
Swish!
As Jehwa swung his right foot, a surge of energy filled with tremendous killing intent rushed at Seo Ryongseon.
Shhk! Shhk! Shhk!
“Graaah!”
And Seo Ryongseon’s whole body, struck directly by that energy, began to be lacerated repeatedly.
As if that weren’t enough, thanks to the Silver Dragon’s uniquely frigid energy, his body was freezing bit by bit.
“Keugh!”
As Seo Ryongseon trembled and tried to glare at Jehwa, Jehwa appeared before him.
“Huh!”
Seo Ryongseon panicked at that, and Jehwa smiled as he placed his hand on Seo Ryongseon’s chest.
“Silver Demon Wrath….”
Groooooo….
The energy of the Dragon King Ultimate Technique, Silver Demon Wrath—a technique said to be usable only by the Silver Dragon King of the Dragon Realm’s Silver Dragon Clan and his successor—began gathering in Jehwa’s hand.
“…!”
At the enormous aura that was incomparable to anything until now, Seo Ryongseon’s face gradually turned pale.