I rely on myself

Chapter 56: Dragon

The light and heat gradually faded, revealing the figure of the girl inside.

I saw that the spiritual equipment that Stella had stabbed into her chest had disappeared, leaving only a claw-like mark that was constantly flashing.

Seeing Stella's figure appear, Yihui couldn't help but yelled again: "Stella!!"

As Ikki was about to go to Stella, but suddenly dozens of lines emerged from the ground in front of Ikki and connected with the previous barrier, blocking Ikki's progress.

"Lin Yuan!"

Yihui recognized that this was Lin Yuan's spiritual outfit, so he was very puzzled as to why he was stopped from approaching Stella.

However, Lin Yuan did not respond to Yihui's call, but looked at Stella with a very serious expression.

Seeing this, Yihui and others turned to look at Stella. At this time, they all noticed the strange feeling from Stella.

"This is, this terrifying feeling, Stella, this is..."

After Ikki calmed down, he discovered that from Stella at this moment, Ikki's combat instinct and mind were constantly warning him that the girl in front of him was no longer a knight, but a creature standing at the top of the food chain.

"Bang————!"

Accompanied by a burst of light and heat, a shadow slowly emerged from behind Stella, who had been keeping her head down and keeping silent.

It was the shadow of a dragon that slowly spread its ferocious wings.

At the moment when the dragon shadow appeared, the mark on Stella's chest near her heart also reacted.

It was beating like a pulse, flickering on and off, making Stella's skin and red hair seem to respond to its pulse, emitting a burning light from within.

The next moment Stella raised her head and opened her mouth.
"Roar--------!!"

The next moment, Stella roared.

That was not a roar that a human could make. It was a howl that shook the atmosphere.

Announcing his birth.

Proclaiming one's own strength.

There is no doubt that it was the true roar of a dragon.

"————————"

Everyone affected by the roar felt their bodies stiffen and they were unable to move at all, because their instincts told them that what appeared before them was the being that stood at the top of all living things, at the top of the food chain.

That is————《Dragon》.

Looking at Stella, who was extremely confident and proud under the shadow of the dragon, Ikki and others were so shocked that they couldn't say anything.

But Lin Yuan smiled with great satisfaction.

"Yes, that's right. You are the holder of the world's most powerful magic. You can't look like that before. You should maintain this confident and arrogant look."

Stella lacks self-confidence, or more accurately, "her own pride", which is a fact that can be seen by Lin Yuan, as well as the chairman Shinguji Kurono and Saikyo Ningyin.

So before the training camp started, the two of them asked Lin Yuan to help make Stella aware of her shortcomings.

It was for this reason that Lin Yuan had been fighting head-on with Stella in his previous battle, and in order to finally defeat Stella head-on, he even used his trump card of high-density magic.

All of this was to arouse Stella's resentment and make her resist.

Originally, Lin Yuan thought that he would have to do it a few more times, but Yihui's sudden appearance made Stella's emotions burst out completely, thus awakening her true power. Looking at Stella who was wantonly showing her power.

Lin Yuan was extremely relieved.

Stella has better talents than anyone else, but she also works harder and never slacks off.

Some knights have inferior magic power than her but possess superior skills, so she respects and admires those knights.

This humility is a virtue of being human.

However, these principles may not necessarily apply to Stella.

For ordinary people with average abilities, humility may be a virtue.

But this statement does not apply to this extraordinary genius at all.

She doesn't need to look up to others.

What she should be holding is not humility, but arrogance.

As the "absolutely strong one", she should be proud of this.

Because she was a lion since she was born into this world.

No lion in the world would envy a rabbit.

She must be arrogant, she must be proud, she must be greedy.

She must firmly believe that there is no one stronger than herself in this world.

In this way, her talent will fully satisfy her arrogance, her pride, and her greed...!
After venting some of her newly awakened power through howling, Stella finally calmed down a little. She looked at Lin Yuan and preached loudly.

“Lin Yuan! Although I am very grateful that you helped me awaken my true ability, I still have to beat you up before I can swallow this anger! So you better grit your teeth!!”

As Stella spoke, she took a step forward and stepped lightly. In an instant, a large pit full of cracks was created on the ground by her body containing the power of a dragon. At the same time, under the reaction of this huge force, Stella herself rushed to Lin Yuan like a bullet.

Looking at Lin Yuan who was so close, Stella raised her right hand, clenched her fist and threw a right straight punch that broke the sound barrier.

Lin Yuan smiled bitterly as he watched Stella use her own dragon power to deliver such a powerful right straight punch.

'Is this what you sow for your own sins?'

While making fun of himself, Lin Yuan did not dare to be arrogant anymore. He held the hilt of the sword with both hands to block Stella's fist. At the same time, he filled the interior of the sword with minerals that had long been absorbed by his universal ability and stored in the spiritual suit, in order to increase the toughness of the spiritual suit.

Watching Lin Yuan's greatsword change from pure white to gray-silver, although she didn't know what was going on, Stella didn't care too much about it and directly punched the sword.

"Boom--!"

The next moment, a loud sound like the sound of a bell rang out. The sound was so loud that even after being weakened by the barrier set up in advance by Lin Yuan, it still scared Yihui and others, not to mention Lin Yuan who was at a close distance.

But Lin Yuan didn't have the time to pay attention to the sound, because even if he held the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands, even if he strengthened the toughness of the sword and absorbed some of the power through his ability, Lin Yuan still felt that his hands were completely numb.

"As expected of a giant dragon's power, even if I was prepared, I still struggled to receive it."

Just as Lin Yuan was marveling at Stella's strength at this moment, Stella did not stop. Instead, she retracted her right fist and threw another punch with her left hand with the same power as before.

Lin Yuan could no longer block this punch. Stella's left fist directly pressed the big sword and hit Lin Yuan's chest. The strong impact directly penetrated the defense and hit Lin Yuan. The surging force penetrated the sternum and pierced the back, causing Lin Yuan's feet to leave the ground. He was knocked away and hit the ground more than ten meters away.

(End of this chapter)