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When the blazing Holy Sword pierced that thick skull, the drake's rapid descent immediately lost more than half its momentum. It wasn’t an instant death as its brain hadn’t been destroyed, but the damage was severe enough that it could no longer control its mana.
A drake’s flight wasn’t powered by its wings alone. The true engine of its aerial prowess was the mana organ near the wing bones.
The drake’s body was simply too massive, too heavy. Its thin wing membranes—barely a hundred meters—might allow it to glide at best. Sustained flight was only possible thanks to that organ.
“Grrrk... grrk... grk...”
The same maw that once roared with pride and spat breath now foamed with blood. The monster was already as good as dead.
Its life force, like a fraying rope wedged in a sheath, was hanging by a thread. It was only a matter of when it would snap. Its ruined, blinded eyes still flickered faintly, proof of lingering consciousness.
“Grrr... rr...”
Fly. Fly to that hated foe.
It fanned its dying embers, stirring the flame of its fading soul to beat its wings one last time. Forward. Forward. Its only compass now was the golden light.
It had to crash into the one...
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