The Novel's Draft

Draan then walked outside the gates and raised his index and middle finger.

Incus paused for a moment then walked after him.

"Did you know, the first ever demon king was a dragon?" Draan then swiped his finger, an invisible slash warped the air, "Behold, the strength of a true dragon."

A second later, the window screen was severed in half along with the crimson sky.

The pool of spherical water also explodes, the water raining down.

"So now do you see the difference between us—?" With blood pouring down his mouth, Incus had summoned all of the hero swords.

So that’s why she took a while to walk after Draan.

"Such a cowardly tactic!" Draan slammed Incus away, "After all of the second chances I’ve given, you still choose to insult me like this."

"Shut up." Incus then lunged forward with all eight of the hero swords, the ones that wasn’t in her hand were floating just behind her.

Incus unleashed an onslaught of combined sword strokes.

"Excaliburn!" An explosion of flame in the form of an arc shot out at Draan.

Maneuvering behind Draan, she shouted:

"Excalifrost! Ten thousand blades!" A wall of ice made of ice swords then stood in front of Draan, "Die."

The swords of ice then shot at Draan, his figure barely visible.

"Excalearth!" Multiple pillars of the surrounding earth slammed into Draan, on top of the ice swords.

After a few minutes, Incus began huffing for air.

"Finished so soon?" Walking out of the barrage of attacks, Draan was completely unscathed but his clothes were eviscerated, "Mana isn’t limitless, don’t go and expending it as if it was."

Grabbing the remnants of his cloak, he tied it around his waist.

"Impossible! That should have killed you!" Incus spat in outrage.

"I am the strongest dragon." Draan reached out a hand at her face.

Swinging the earth hero’s sword, Draan grabbed it by the blade.

"Quite pointing these swords where it shouldn’t." Draan then slammed the bottom of his fist on the flat face of the blade.

Impossible.

Draan had broken a hero sword.

"Maybe next time you will learn, that you should not irritate me." Draan then punched Incus in the abdomen, sending her flying up in the sky.

"Follow after her!" I shouted

"Cloaked wind!" Ulna conjured wind to wrap around us, to hasten our speed.

"Rising wind..!" She conjured another spell to launch us upwards.

As we were in the air, Draan suddenly appeared and grabbed Incus.

"But it would be a major mistake for me to give you the change to grow stronger, so I will be taking off an arm." Draan the grabbed Incus by the wrist. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"You will be doing no such thing." Incus then closed her left eye before opening it, the pupil of her left eye burned the color of crimson purple.

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[Chapter 144: The purifying of the water kingdom (6)]

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Activiting her unique skill: [True eye of the Truthseeker], Incus pulled back her other arm.

"Sky severing thrust." With a revolving motion, Draan was sent back.

Falling back on the ground, they stood just on the garden by the moat inhabiting a large serpent.

Patting his chest, Draan was somewhat surprised that he didn’t get wounded.

’So she used the broken hero sword to push me back, how sentimental.’ Thought Draan, before opening his mouth to speak, "Your eye changed to a different color, so what? It won’t change the fact that you’ll still die."

Not bothering to listen to his words, Incus dissipated the [Earth hero sword] then summoned the [Wind hero’s sword] and the [Lightning hero’s sword].

"Excaligale. Excalibolt." Wind and lightning then cloaked around Incus.

Leaping towards Draan she released a combinations of attacks, the blades being reinforced by [Blade aura].

Yawning, Draan parried every slash by patting them away.

"Scales of dragon, strengthen me." But she didn’t just stop with the strengthening of dragon scales, she also activated her skill [Limit surge].

As their battle began to draw out longer, Draan noticed something.

’She’s getting stronger, this is impossible..! A few measly skills shouldn’t allow this, there must be something else at play here.’ It was small but a tiny drop of sweat fell down Draan’s face.

The mental limitations that has been holding Incus back from unleashing her abilities to it’s fullest extent has grown loose.

The battle against the Demon king’s generals weren’t alone, she had the help of an entire kingdom when battling against the demon general Rechine, and she had the help of Steinen against Dragonborn.

These factors didn’t make Incus truly push herself as there was always something to lean on.

But now, a single mistake could lead her to be decapitated.

Her left pupil shook furiously as it foresaw the future.

Moving just enough out of the way, Incus dodged every attack with elegance.

"Impact line." Incus slashed down at Draan’s neck.

Blocking it with his forearm, Draan countered with a barrage of attacks.

Moving just narrowly out of the way, Incus released multiple slashes of impact lines.

The chains holding her back grew weaker.

"Damn it!" Stomping on the ground, Draan activated [Absolute strength], making his power multiply.

Torquing his body back, Draan threw a devastating blow, the shockwave of the attack making the area crumble, using his skill [Damage absorption] to absorb the relapse of [Absolute strength].

Incus thought the punch was just a regular attack but was sorely mistaken, because of then, she was sent skidding back.

"I will now show you the true extent of my power." Draan then did a dance, before releasing a barrage of kicks, the air shifted to a resemblance of a dragon.

"Two Thousand spear sky." Multiple sword thrusts then engulfed Draan.

But because of his mastered perception, he was able to see every individual thrust.

Doing a swift dance, Draan punched with both hands, the air shifted and resembled two twisting dragons.

Stomping both of his feet into the ground, Draan did a combination of attacks as biting dragons shifted in the air.

"Now for my ultimate technique." Draan paused before glaring into Incus’ soul.

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