The Red Dragon Just Wants To Do As It Pleases-Chapter 516 - 310: The Tremor of the Earth

With the Tree of Life severed by Pafila’s mighty blade, it thunderously fell to the ground.

Having lost their avatars as vessels for their descent and the supply of divine power, the three goddess projections began to flicker in and out of existence like a mirage.

The city center fell into a dead silence. It seemed the Elves were somewhat in disbelief that even the avatars of the deities could be defeated by mortals.

It wasn’t just the Elves; even Attilicia, the enforcer, was a bit stupefied. Looking at the smooth yet scorching red cut on the remaining stump, she thought to herself, Are Divine Artifacts really this formidable? And this was just a temporary projection of divine power by Pafila.

Just as she was about to ask David what to do next, or whether they should go and assist other teams working to destroy the Dragon Mad Lock, she heard David’s warning:

"Don’t take this lightly. The methods of the gods, I fear, are not as simple as we imagine."

Before David could finish his sentence, under the vigilant watch of the two Silver Dragons, they saw the three goddesses rise from the ground like fallen petals in the spring mud, their eyes filled with increasing pride, indifference, and anger.

Clearly, even for deities like Them, being put at a disadvantage by mortals like David’s group was already a humiliation that all beings would never forget.

It was just like when the God of Dawn had been ridiculed by the other gods for hundreds of years for having a drop of Rosanda’s Blood hammered out of him by Samast.

"As expected..." David observed the street that had been leveled by his own attack and was now covered in blooming flowers, an unsurprised expression on his face.

"What should we do?" Attilicia looked towards David in panic, seeing the three goddesses who had been ambushed and struck down only to rise again.

"Find a way to lead them away from the earth! They are life goddesses; without the nourishment of the earth’s roots, they are fruits ripe for the picking." David’s gaze, however, was fixed on the remaining stump.

"This place is covered by an Air Ban Mystlock! We can’t even fly!" Alicia quickly reminded him.

"Leave that to me." David once again raised his claws and wings high, adopting the stance for his signature Map Slice.

Sure enough, one of the three goddess avatars, the Lady of the Night Sky, almost reflexively and with no other choice, dragged herself across the ground, sending sparks flying as she charged at him.

A triumphant smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, because this time, he wasn’t planning on charging up a big move, but merely feinting.

He muttered to himself the cringeworthy line that he found so ’intoxicating’:

"With thunder, shatter the darkness."

BOOM. Dark clouds filled the night sky, immediately flickering with dense lightning that thundered down upon David’s raised claws and wings.

[Authority—Gluttony]

Millions of amperes of electrical energy, under David’s will, eerily formed a ring of incredibly orderly electromagnetic turbulence around him, like a Tokamak ring without its physical apparatus.

The mana energy, which already perplexed and made the Elves envious, surged once more.

At the same time, it also became an almost physical barrier of thunder, causing the Lady of the Night Sky, who had instantly appeared before David in the darkness, to stiffen mid-air.

Her sword had already penetrated a short distance but couldn’t move forward even half an inch more.

[Thunder Guard]

[Authority—Pride]

"With blazing flames, shatter the earth!"

David’s claws, already glowing red and charged with high-energy lightning, slammed down with a rumble, like a stone giant causing an earthquake.

But the target was not the Lady of the Night Sky, who was within arm’s reach, but rather the empty space before him.

"No!!!" Under the unwilling gaze of the Moon Goddess’s avatar, amidst the terrified stares of the Elves.

That strike, like a giant god exerting power in the age of dawn, poured the fury of creation into the earth.

Instantly, from the point where David’s claws touched the ground, fiery red cracks spread out in all directions like lightning; the ground at the center of Dewensen undulated like waves.

The buildings, already scorched by the ’mana sun,’ now began to crumble like dry leaves in autumn, shaking before collapsing and fracturing.

The once towering and sturdy city walls also began to crumble in large sections before this unbelievable and terrifying force.

Huge blocks of stone and dust soared into the air, obscuring the moon and casting the entire district into twilight.

The ground’s trembling caused the city’s wells to spurt forth, turning the once prosperous streets unrecognizable, leaving only rubble and dust. The statues of the Queen and monuments in front of the Royal Capital collapsed together.

These cracks, spreading across most of Dewensen, directly shattered the Air Ban Mystlock that enshrouded the city center.

Not only the Air Ban Mystlock, but the Dragon Mad Locks brought from various planes and hidden by the Elves were also revealed one by one. David’s followers, emerging from their lairs, immediately converged on them like behemoths sensing treasure.

And at the center of this trembling earth, the three avatars of the goddesses were inevitably... lifted from the ground.

Then, Attilicia and Alicia, the two Silver Dragons, disregarding their own safety, grabbed Mother of Wings and Golden Heart in their claws. Withstanding the Elves’ arrows and heavy bolts, they spread their wings and soared into the sky.

The Lady of the Night Sky, also blasted off the ground, grabbed onto David’s dragon horns, trying to use them to throw herself back to the earth.

But she saw a red tail, like a python, sweeping toward her chest. As if struck by an incredibly forceful throw, she, along with the other two avatars, uncontrollably flew into the sky.

With no more obstacles before him, David immediately strode over to the Tree of Life, which had been cut down and had its roots partially exposed by his earth-shattering tremor.

He wrapped his arms around the main body of the Elven goddess’s avatar and then, under the desperate gaze of the Elves, pulled it from the earth in a ’Lu Zhishen uprooting a willow tree’ manner, letting out a long howl as he did so.

He then seized Aria, who still retained the consciousness of the Moon Goddess, from the entangled roots, forcefully pulling her out. David then began to gag violently.

"URGH!" The Mithril Enigma Lock he had prematurely swallowed was now regurgitated. After giving Aria a pitying look, he still forced her into the keyhole of the lock.

David, not having Attilicia’s convenient half-plane on hand, smacked his lips. After consideration, he seemed to have no choice but to stuff it back into his stomach for the time being.

Worst comes to worst, I’ll just have to ’return’ Aria by mouth later, he mused.

[Sin of Lust]

Just as David was about to stuff the Mithril Enigma Lock containing Aria (whom he had just sealed) into his mouth, intent on personally destroying the remaining Mystlocks within the city to prevent The Slaying King Star from descending on Elariya...

David suddenly felt himself locked onto by a wave of killing intent, a mix of fury and hatred. He saw Leopold, the wandering Chosen of God, twin blades in hand.

He actually returned?!

"David Uthos!!!" Leopold, his eyes bloodshot, hysterically screamed David’s name.

In response, David immediately thought of one possibility.

Looking at his former enemy, who had lost the blessing of divine power yet still charged toward him without hesitation, David couldn’t help but reveal a trace of absurdity and pity in his expression.