Chapter 727 Gaia's Champion

Before Shiro could do anything, the dragon unhinged his jaw and breathed out a wave of green energy which surged towards Shiro.

Feeling danger immediately, Shiro threw Nivlim into the air and pulled herself towards the roof.

Dodging the breath narrowly, she watched as a sheet of petrification could be seen on the floor.

"Wait a f*cking moment! When the hell did petrification become a thing in this tower???" Shiro muttered in confusion since all of the records just show that this place was focused on defence. There was not a single mention of petrification.

However, when she remembered that the trials were tailored to her, she couldn't help but curse her luck.

"Of course it has to be petrification doesn't it? Why not just reshape the entire f*cking world while you're at it." She cursed under her breath.

But just as she muttered this, the dragon spread its wings as the surrounding walls started to move.

"I was f*cking kidding!!!" Shiro shouted back as she activated Ouranos' divinity and sent gusts of wind to attack the dragon.

*KSH KSH KSH!!

Striking against the stone body, the wind blades left shallow marks and were barely able to harm the dragon.

Clicking her tongue, Shiro quickly kicked off the roof and dodged the roots that suddenly appeared.

Notching Nivlim into her bow, Shiro pulled back and fired it towards the dragon's head.

*CLANG!!

Embedding itself into a crevice, Shiro tugged at the chains and dragged herself towards the sword.

However, just as she did this, the dragon's eyes shimmered for a moment as Shiro felt danger once more.

Gritting her teeth, she sent a blast of air above her and descended instantly.

*KRRRR!!!

Dodging the flash of light that petrified everything in sight, Shiro clicked her tongue.

"Tch, does everything need to be petrified for you???" Shiro retorted in annoyance.

However, seeing the green energy shimmer, Shiro quickly raised her hands and forced a smile.

"I kid I kid." Shiro chuckled before flicking her wrist and slashing at the dragon some more, applying more stacks.

Quickly dodging back before the dragon could land more hits on her, she narrowed her eyes and flung her sword around his neck.

Swinging herself to his back, she notched a few arrows and fired at point blank range which only caused some shallow wounds.

'Seems like I can only really damage it with my sword.' Shiro thought to herself since her sword allowed her to ignore a certain amount of armour.

However, the same couldn't be said for her bow.

Activating her flight, she jumped off the dragon's back and resummoned Nivlim.

Dodging its attacks to the best of her abilities, Shiro continued to apply stacks as she soon reached the optimal amount.

Consuming it all, a purple aura erupted out of her.

"Error hon, you know the drill." Shiro said as red circuits wrapped around her sword with eagerness.

Making some distance between her and the dragon, Shiro activated her True Spirit Nature.

With her black dress fluttering behind her, Shiro raised her bow and pulled back as hard as she could with the sword notched on the strings.

Suddenly, a green flame coated the surface of her blade while her bow had ice spikes slowly growing out of the body.

With all of her powers fused into one attack, she fired the sword.

*BANG!!! KRRRR!!!!

Sending out a shockwave, the sword flew towards the dragon as a trail of ice could be seen on the ground.

*CRACK!!!

Slamming into its chest, the dragon was pushed back by a few steps as the sword dug deep into its body.

However, it failed to reach the core as Error tried to attack it.

Seeing this, the dragon narrowed his eyes before rearing his head back.

*URAHHH!!!!

Crying out in anger, a pulse of green energy exploded out as Shiro widened her eyes and quickly slammed her hand down.

Erecting a wall of ice in front of her, she summoned her sword back to her side and saw Error who was partially petrified along with the sword while the ice wall was unaffected.

'Seems like the closer you are the more it affects you.' Shiro thought with a frown.

Looking down at her sword, she was a little annoyed that it was now partially petrified but she didn't get a notification saying that it was broken so she figured that she could probably still use it.

Snapping her fingers, green flames erupted out from the underground chamber as chains shot towards the dragon.

Unlike Adriel, the dragon wasn't as nimble so the chains had an easy time latching onto him.

*KRRRRR!!!

Seeing the ice coat its body, the dragon glared at the chains as it thrashed its body around in anger.

*URAHHH!!!!

*CLANG CLANG CLANG!!!

However, despite its efforts, the chains refused to snap. Even when there were some cracks, Shiro was able to quickly fix them up with more ice.

Once the green energy stopped pulse, she dived out of her cover and ran towards the dragon. Her True Spirit Nature was on a timer so she couldn't spend that time dawdling. If she did, she'll be wasting a lot of potential damage.

Twisting her body, she slashed towards the dragon's head.

*CRACK!!

Since she was still under the effect of the stacks, her damage output had increased dramatically as the dragon was knocked back by a few meters.

Seeing this, Shiro grinned and flexed her fingers. Suddenly, ice gathered behind the dragon before launching a spike towards its rear.

Relying on its instincts, the dragon slammed its tail into the ice spike before it could reach.

"Tch why the hell is it so on guard?" Shiro muttered in annoyance as she threw her sword and dragged herself towards the dragon once more.

She did try to use the butterflies but it seemed like the dragon didn't have a 'soul' so it wasn't as useful as she had hoped.

Since her True Spirit Nature focused on fighting living beings, it was only natural that it would struggle against golems like the dragon.

Glancing at her timer, Shiro frowned when she saw that she only had 15 seconds left of her form.

Furrowing her brows, she decided to launch an all out offensive against the dragon in these last 15 seconds so that she could kill it before she's weakened.

Landing on its wings, Shiro pulled her hand back before slamming her sword against the joints.

Activating her armour ignore, a spider web of cracks spread out across its wings as part of it could be seen falling off.

Dodging the roots that tried to attack her, Shiro slammed her hand down against his spine as a column of ice exploded out.

*BANG!!!

Forcing it on its knees, the ice prevented the dragon from moving too much.

Clasping her hands together and creating a dense orb of air, Shiro breathed a mouthful of cold mist onto the orb before throwing it against its head.

Exploding into a blizzard, the dragon's head was frozen for a moment before petrification spread across the ice and shattered it to pieces.

"Tsk!"

Using the chains as a swing, Shiro swung herself under the dragon and sent a blast of air against the abdominal area.

Cracking some of the rocks protecting his insides, Shiro grinned as a huge magic circle spread out from beneath her.

With only 2 seconds left to her timer, Shiro cast her final ice based spell.

A wave of ice blades shot out of the ground and pierced towards the crack she had made while the pillar pressing the dragon down was turned into a giant sword.

With swords trying to piece it from both sides, the dragon could only struggle as some of its armour was shredded apart.

Naturally, Shiro wasn't going to watch her magic do all the work.

Summoning her sword, she started to carve away at the dragon's stomach.

Just as the energy started to pulse, Shiro used air to push herself out of harm's way.

Throwing her sword around the dragon's head, she pulled herself up so that she came face to face.

If one could see Shiro right now, they would see pure concentration in her eyes which seemed like it could read anyone like an open book.

All of the dragon's moves had been seen through by her and it hadn't been able to land a single hit yet.

"Error!" Shiro commanded coldly as the circuits wrapped around the sword with its remaining energy since it failed the first assault.

Grabbing the rocks that symbolised the horns, Shiro stabbed Nivlim down as hard as she could.

However, it wasn't enough to pierce the armour.

Clicking her tongue, Shiro used the horns as handles as she flipped her body and slammed her foot against the pommel of her sword.

*BANG!!!!

Shattering a bit of the skull, Shiro narrowed her eyes as Error dived into the crack.

Making a condensed orb of air, she jammed it as deeply as she could before retreating.

Snapping her fingers, an explosion of wind blades could be seen on the dragon's head while red circuits exploded out of his body like a parasite.