After realising that, Ved struggled to survive with all his might. He kept being punched around like a ball.

But with every attack the lightning dragon grew smaller and weaker. Ved created hundreds of web ropes.

The ropes danced around him like snakes forming a massive net. It was hard for the massive lightning dragon to get through the net untouched.

Although the web ropes burnt the moment they touched it body, they still managed to shave a layer of lightning everytime.

Ved's blood formed a pool on the tower roof below, each attack cracked his scales and shattered his bones.

The pain was mind numbing even with the regeneration trait healing his wounds. His entire body was steaming hot.

The air boiled around, his feathers burnt and fell to the ground. Ved gritted his teeth, at some point he had lost both his arms during this battle.

Of course they regenerated in seconds. Unlike organs, limbs regenerated much faster which was great, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to move.

At that point, even with regeneration he would've still died. Fortunately the force of the attacks never even reached his organs.

His massive body absorbed and distributed the force through it. The fight continued for an entire hour, an hour of him being a punching bag.

The worst part of this was that, unlike the lightning bolts, he couldn't absorb the lightning from the dragon which sucked.

Eventually the dragon became as small as human. Ved tried to bite and consume it to absorb the lightning.

However even at that size, it was still much faster and stronger. It dodged and hit his snout from above.

His mouth closed with a bang, causing a massive shockwave. He flew down headfirst and felt his skull crack against the tower roof.

He turned and looked up but didn't see any sign of the dragon. He breathed a sigh of relief.

' Finally, that was too crazy.' he slumped on the ground with a heavy breath. His entire body was sore.

Although regeneration could heal the wounds, it wasn't a pain killer. He touched himself and even his scales felt tender which made sense.

They were newly grown scales, he didn't even know how many times he had to grow new scales during this battle alone.

' At least that ove... Wait.' he remembered this was only the fourth lightning bolt.' Fuck.'

Just as he cursed, the lightning swam through the pool of clouds above. A new shape started forming.

Ved looked up without moving. Being angry wouldn't help him, this was happening either way.

' Should I use it?' then he dismissed the idea. This was only the fifth lightning bolt, using it now would only weaken him later.

Instead he created an army. Thousands of clones formed around him. He covered them with wax armour.

Each clone was imbued with the nuclear reactor trait. He knew they would never be fast or strong enough to contend with the lightning dragon.

However they could kamikaze themselves if the situation calls for it. ' Let hope this works' he didn't want to get any more wounded, regeneration drains too much stamina.

The lightning dragon formed above him. It was different from the one before. This was a winged dragon like himself.

It was massive with a wingspan of over 70 metres. It was fully covered in green lightning scales.

It eyes and claws were deep red. It glared at him emotionlessly. Ved stood up, he created tens of massive web ropes around him, creating a gigantic net around his body.

Even if the ropes couldn't do any damage to the dragon, they could at least reduce the lightning forming it, at a much faster rate.

The dragon lunged, it was even faster than the last one. Ved couldn't react at all before he found himself bashed against the tower below him.

He coughed up blood, the web ropes disintegrated into ash and dozens of clones near him died from the shockwave and heat.

Some were turned to ash by the rogue lightning arcs. Ved's body started regenerating rapidly, his broken bones mended themselves in a blink of an eye.

Hundreds of his clones lunged at the dragon but they all turned into ash upon coming into contact with it.

The dragon flapped it wings and took to the skies. His clones followed, flying after it. It flew through them like a streak of green light.

Every clone it passed by turned into blood mist. It headed straight for Ved who conjured shields to block it

However they did nothing to even slow it down. It red claw pierced throughout his chest, lightning burnt his insides.

However he did something he had never tried before. He coated his hearts with the none toxic gel but that all he managed to do.

The lightning did not destroy his hearts but his lungs weren't so lucky. He coughed up blood and breathing without lungs while not underwater was torturous for him.

However he grinned through pain with bloody teeth, his body lit up blue like a torch and blue flames spread out with him as the centre. Although the dragon retreated it was still caught up in the blast, shaving another layer of it lightning.

Ved clicked his tongue, ' You're smarter than the first.' this one even knew to retreat. Giant ropes of web appeared around Ved.

They flew around him forming a net. The clones lunged at the dragon at the same time.

It roared, the sky shook and Ved felt like his eardrums were going to rupture. The clones weren't do lucky.

Their eardrums did rupture and those closest to it had their bodies completely destroyed by the sound wave.

Ved wasn't discouraged, instead he continued sending the clones after it in droves.

With each clone it destroyed, a layer of lightning was shaved off. The others looked at this with open mouths.

" He...he's winning." Whispered Nimue. " What kind of regeneration ability is that? It's so...." Ursela said, not even finishing her sentence.

She knew Ved had a regeneration ability but she had no idea it was so powerful. She saw him regenerate in seconds from wounds that would've taken others with regeneration abilities hours at the very least.

" It's still too early." Whispered Novak in a grim tone. As a battle enthusiast, he could read the fight better than his wife and the little girl.

He could see that although Ved appeared fine, he was running on fumes. For a dragon to be so drained of energy in such a short time was unnatural.

That regeneration ability obviously comes with a massive stamina expenditure. If this continued, he won't be able to handle the last tribulation lightning.

They watched the fight. Ved struggled and just like that, over an hour passed and the dragon had barely lost 40 percent of it lightning.

' As expected, you're more durable than the last guy but no matter, my preparations are done.'

Ved had imbued the clones with the nuclear reactor trait but not once had they used nuclear energy in this fight and all of that was for a reason.

Ved looked up, the dragon came from above like a bolt of lightning. It hit him on the stomach and sent him flying down like a streak of light.

He grinned, it was right where he wanted it. Tiny blue sparks lit up around it, lightning up the sky like fireflies for hundreds of metres around it.

These tiny fireflies were from the dead clones, they were made of condensed nuclear energy set up by every dead clone.

As soon as the dragon entered the kill box, Ved smiled and waved his hand, ' Boom.' he whispered and a blinding blue light filled the sky.

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