Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)
Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel) - Chapter 582: Earth Dragon (2)

Information was definitely important, but what was written in textbooks was not always absolute, and Xiao Lin now got to experience that. In the initial exchanges with the earth dragon, Xiao Lin had to admit that he had underestimated it.

As a lesser dragon that had inherited the strength of dragons, an earth dragon's strength, defense and resistance to magic were all excellent, but its speed and reactions were its greatest weaknesses, but the one in front of him was different.

After realizing that, Xiao Lin had already activated his Ruin state. In his hand was a sword that had been picked up from the fallen mercenaries. With Anna's help, he had naturally chosen the one with the best quality, but it was still only a Bronze-ranked weapon, and it seemed like it had been damaged from the original owner's battles.

Under his Ruin state, his sword aura was incredibly powerful, and after dodging the tail, Xiao Lin took the opportunity to slash at the beast. He was concerned that the trees nearby would cause a fire and affect the others, so he did not use his flame sword aura, but its power did not decrease because of that.

Clank!

The Bronze-ranked sword was unable to pierce through the earth dragon's spine. That beast might not have the scales of a true dragon, but it was still extremely hard. He could see that there were various scars of differing sizes on its surface, probably a result of their prior attacks, but none of them had pierced its scales.

Xiao Lin's slash had immediately drawn a line of blood. With his sword aura and his Ruin state, that thick outer layer was thin as paper, and Xiao Lin managed a sigh of relief. At least that beast was not untouchable. Even though its combat ability exceeded expectations, as long as Xiao Lin could pierce through its defense, nothing would be a problem.

The other students had already taken the chance to distance themselves. All of them had varying injuries on them, and they already knew how devastating the earth dragon's skills were. They could not help but clap and cheer loudly for Xiao Lin.

Regardless of how competent Xiao Lin was as a monitor, on Planet Norma, power was more convincing than leadership ability. Being able to bring everyone out of difficulties and save the other students, that was already enough for Xiao Lin to be called the monitor of Class Seven in their eyes.

It took only a few seconds for him to drop from the air. Using the earth dragon's blind spot, Xiao Lin had already taken the opportunity to launch at least twenty strikes. Divine Movement and his enhanced agility caused his strikes to be stronger, and it increased the speed of his attacks.

After landing, Xiao Lin immediately pulled away, dodging the dragon's incoming attack, and he could not help but exclaim softly. His attacks had left a giant wound on the earth dragon. Its back was already littered with blood. A large amount of warm blood was flowing out of its back, and had fallen on the grass on the ground. Strangely enough, the grass and flowers that had been destroyed during the battle had immediately come back to life after touching the blood, and they were growing at rapid speeds.

Xiao Lin was shocked. Dragon's blood had its innate recovery abilities, but lesser dragons did not have that strong of an effect. Regretfully, his all-out attack earlier did not kill that beast on the spot. Its stubbornness had exceeded his expectations. Of course, it was possible that, after converting his attributes to agility, his strength was a little lacking.

Just as he was lamenting it, a few rays of light once again fell on Xiao Lin's body. Looking back, Gu Xiaoyue was waving her wand at him with a serious expression, pursing her lips. There were a total of eight rays of light, and with Gu Xiaoyue's extremely quick casting, it had only taken three seconds.

Xiao Lin's eyes twitched, even though he never learned support magic before, it did not mean he did not study any of the theories relating to it. Gu Xiaoyue's spells ranged from Black-iron to Bronze rank, it enhanced both his speed and his strength, and enhanced things like physical damage and defense as well. The amount of spells were already enough to render people speechless. After all, for most people, even if they used support magic, they would only learn it as a secondary ability after considering combat prowess. However, that woman seemed to be determined to fully walk the path of support magic.

The earth dragon roared as it appraised him. Xiao Lin could not retreat because Gu Xiaoyue and the others were behind him. This time, he shifted some attribute points to strength and rushed forward. He needed to lure the beast somewhere else. He also needed to buy himself enough time to gather up his energy to use his dragon's breath sword aura.

However, the earth dragon did not give him the chance; its large body did not seem to affect its agility at all. Its huge body jumped abruptly, suddenly twisting and pulling off a difficult evasive posture, because not far away from it, a few arrows shot at it.

Xiao Lin looked at Anna, who was not far away, in surprise. Even though the earth dragon had avoided it, the arrows were shot very accurately. They were aimed at its soft eyes that had no scales to cover it. It was obvious that the woman's archery skills were quite good.

With the sounds of metal clashing, Xiao Lin, who had chosen close combat, suddenly felt like the battle was much easier. The attacks that he needed to use all his focus to avoid earlier could now be avoided just by shifting his body, and his sword aura had left even more deep wounds on the earth dragon. He could even manage to see its white bones.

Gu Xiaoyue's buffs were evidently very effective, but it actually only had that sort of effect on Xiao Lin's body. He had always relied on such an explosive combat style, and under Miracle and Ruin, he was able to pull off Silver-ranked levels of power despite being at Bronze rank.

The higher his basic attributes, the more evident the buffs were.

As he used his Phantom Steps to easily avoid another tail attack, everyone else was dumbfounded as they looked on. It was an enhanced Phantom Steps, and was even better at dodging. When using it to its limits, it was able to produce actual illusions. Xiao Lin had never used it to its limits, but he was using it at that moment.

The after-images had messed with the earth dragon's decisions. Even if it quickly realized the differences, it had already lost the combat initiative.

At that moment, after a few minutes of intense battle, Xiao Lin had already thoroughly seized control of the flow of combat. He did not even need to use his dragon's breath. After all, that powerful sword aura that exceeded Xiao Lin's limits had too large of a side effect. It weakened him after using it, and gathering the power was too obvious. They were all massive weaknesses.