It wasn’t till the sky darkened all of a sudden that Aapped out of his daze. Looking up, he noticed a gigantic creature c half the sky. ‘Is that a…’
“ROOAAAARRRRRR!”
That roar alone was enough t half of the warriors present to their khe aura it radiated was like nothing they’d ever felt before. Even Ace could only look up in horror. ‘That dragon is the stro creature I’ve ever seen.’
He didn’t eveo use his haki to realise it was far strohaher of those two saints who fought above Wushan Town all those years ago. In fact, he didn’t dare use his haki for fear of attrag its attention.
“You humans have really crossed the lihis time.” The dragon’s voied through the city. Just the sound of his voice forced some of the weaker humans to cover their ears to resist. And everonger ones felt their legs shake as they realised what a talking magical beast meant.
“Sss…
Saint…
Saint-level Bck Dragon!” One of Venerin’s men muttered, barely able to spit his words out uhe pressure of the enraged dragon.
“What happened?” Wukong asked as he fearlessly stepped forward, seemingly unphased by the dragon’s presence.
“Hmmm.” At first, the dragon was surprised that a human was able to talk to him so calmly as he was certain that there were no saints on the human’s side, but when he id eyes o that had dared to talk ba, a hint of shock fshed across his cold reptilian eyes. “What are you?”
Ace was slightly surprised by the dragon’s question, but he was also curious as it was clear that Wukong wasn’t wholly human. But after finding out about Wukong’s unique bloodline, he assumed it was just a perma mutation caused by said bloodline, uhe Baruch family’s trolled ability to transform inton warriors.
Wukong didn’t seem to bat an eyelid at the dragon’s question, almost as if he’d expected it. “This king is Wukong!”
“I said what, not who.” The dragon said icily.
“This king heard what you said, and my answer remains the same,” Wukong replied fearlessly.
The dragon didn’t respond for what felt like ay to everyone else, and every sed that ticked by seemed to add to the ridiculous pressure they were already fag.
“Iing!” The dragon said.
Ace couldn’t tell because he couldn’t see all of its face but from the look in the dragon’s visible eye, it looked almost as if he was smiling.
“Seeing how I’m in a good mood, I’ll give your people a ce to give back what was taken, and I promise no saint-level magical beast will get involved iide.” The dragon said in a somewhat magnanimous tone.
“Do you have any idea as to who it was and what they took?” Wukong asked, fully aware that even if it were one of the residents of Silverlight City, they wouldn’t fess up with a saint-level bck dragon looming overhead.
“I don’t know who, but they dropped this as they escaped.” A colossal bck scaly cw desded from the sky and flung its arm in Wukong’s dire. “You don’t o worry about what they stole; you just o know that we dragons will do whatever it takes to get it back!”
Wukong caught the bloody arm with one hand, not seeming to mind the goriness as he exami.
“What, do you know who it is?” The dragon asked, excited by the thought of getting what was stolen when he saw the iing ape-man’s eyes focus on the arms bicep.
“This tattoo is the insignia of the cult of shadows.” Wukong holy replied. “This king doesn’t know where the man is now, but this king knows he isn’t here.”
The dragon paused at the name of the ‘Cult of Shadows.’ As an almighty saint-level beast, he, of course, knew all the major human powers, but whehought of what they stole, all hesitation vanished. “I know he’s not here now, or I would’ve smelt him, but I smell that he definitely came through this way.”
“’t you go around this city? The residents had nothing to do with all this?” Wukong pleaded, not wanting a senseless massacre to take pce.
“Sihe thief was human, all humans must suffer. Either you deliver us the human thief, or we crush every human we find that happens to be oh of that man’s escape.” The dragon said arrogantly.
Wukong didn’t know what to say at this point, he knew full well that he couldn’t force the Cult of Shadows to do anything, especially not hand over a treasure so valuable that it had the dragons willing to go so far, but he also didn’t want to just let so many i civilians die.
Gng at Ace, Wukong seemed to have thought of something as his eyes fshed with ingness.
“Which would you say are the superior race, magical beasts or humans?” Wukong asked as if he was genuinely unsure.
“Us magical beasts are superior in every way!” The dragon replied, almost insulted by the fact that he even had to answer.
“How about we make a bet?” Wukong said mogly. “We have three different battles. The first is for those between ranks one and three. The sed is for those between ranks four and six. And the st for ranks seven to nine.
If yical beasts win on at least two or more battles, what happe is up to you, but if we win at least two battles, you go around the city before you carry on.”
“Hmph! Why would I eveo make a bet when I destroy you and the city in the blink of ahe dragon said with uncealed disdain.
“This king was always told that dragons were creatures with pride like no other…” Wukong shook his head with disappoi.
“Hmph! A DRAGON’S PRIDE IS NOT SOMETHING THE LIKES OF YOU IS QUALIFIED TO UAND!” The dragon roared. “Fine, I’ll py your meaningless game. I’m sure the boss will find that human thief anyway, so I afford to py around with you a bit.”
“The King of the Dragon’s pit is involved as well?” Wukong said in shock with a hint of horror, having uood the only creature this saint-level dragon would refer to as boss is the ruler of all the dragon’s living in the forest of darkness.
“Hmph! Whether it’s the Cult of Shadows or the O’Brien Empire, we will get back what was taken from us!” The bck dragon growled, showing the stance of the Dragons oter.
“Ooh, and just so you know, you’ll be the first I eat when you lose!" It said, eyeing Wukong as if he was looking at his dinner.
Wukong paid no more attention to the dragon. Instead, he turo Ace with a fident smile. “You make sure to win this round one, a to leave with our lives.”
Aew that Wukong was likely fident in his ability to win the final battle but held no such faith in the warriors of Silverlight city to win the sed battle, which meant…
‘He’s betting it all on me!’ Ace thought to himself as he fshed a fident smile and walked to the edge of the wall. “Leave it to me!”
“What are…” Before Venerin could finish his sentence, Ace had jumped off the wall nding behind the human troops.
“Kong, are you mad? He’s just a child; this battle is too much for him!” Venerin shouted, e Wukong’s irresponsible behaviour.
“That child’s talent surpasses that of even this king. He’s the ONLY reason this king could afford to make such a bet!” Wukong calmly expined. “And us winning this bet is the ONLY way we make it out of this alive!”
Venerin was shocked by Wukong’s statement. He more than most uood how deep Wukong’s arrogance ran. For him to admit his inferiority, to a child no less, Ace must genuinely be a genius the likes of which he ’t even imagine. But even so, the thought of putting so much pressure on a child didn’t sit right with him.
He was about to try and vince him to call Ace back wheiced the blood trig from the palm of Wukong’s furry fist. Looking up at the titan-sized dragon c the skies above, he uood that Wukong likely didn’t want to do this, but he saw no other choice. “I uand.”
On the ground, as Ace made his way towards the cleariweewo forces, the Silverlight city soldiers stared at him with varyiions. They had all heard Wukong’s voice when he was talking to the bck dragon in the sky.
None of them could believe that a kid was being chosen to fight on their behalf against a bloodthirsty magical beast. Looking at his age, they knew he was, at most, a warrior of the sed rank, and even that was unlikely. They also khat the beasts would likely pick a magical beast of the third rank.
Fet defeating a magical beast of a higher rank; everyone khat magical beasts were usually superior to humans at the same rank. In their eyes, this little child was beio his death.
The guilt they felt alpable, but none could find the strength to speak out against the decision, not with a saint-rank bck dragon looming overhead. They could only pray that this brave boy didn’t suffer before death.
Ace, oher hand, didn’t seem the slightest bit nervous. His gait was steady, and a calm, fident smile hung on his lips as he deftly spun his give – that was taller than him – in his hands.
“So, whie of you is my oppo?” Ace asked as he came to a stop 20 meters in front of the front line of the Silverlight army. Aed glint in his pitch-bck eyes as his jet-bck hair swayed in the wind.
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