Flames bloomed like a beautiful blue flower, they covered the sky above him like a massive cloud.

Ved could see the dragon through the cloud of blue fire. A massive amount of the lightning making up it body disappeared.

Although the dragon had the power almost if not rivaling a weak rank 5, it durability was much lower.

Even weak attacks could shave a layer of it body. To be more specific, it was using the lightning to combat those attacks thus expending it but same difference.

Before the flames could die out, it head appeared, looking directly at Ved with it red eyes.

However he was prepared, without giving it a chance to react he fired a huge two metres thick nuclear beam.

As soon as it peaked below the flames the beam was already Infront of it. It cut through it head, lightning dispersed in all directions.

All that was left was a dragon body without a head. A wound like this would've killed any other creature but this was not a living creature.

Merely a manifestation of the heavenly tribulation laws. Even without a head it still had to fulfil it duty.

Ved immediately created dozens of spinning disks around himself, some of them were enhanced with the first order extinguishing tribulation lightning making them spin faster.

The disks spun around him forming a barrier, thin almost invisible strings were attached to those disks.

The dragon crashed through the barrier of spinning disks dispersing more of it body. It claws reached Ved faster than he could dodge.

However Ved was aware that he would never be fast enough to dodge it but he couldn't allow himself to keep getting wounded and wasting more stamina.

The strings took action. They weren't intended to stop it, he couldn't make strings that strong.

Their purpose was to work as an alarm of sort, he couldn't follow the dragon's movements, it was too fast.

Even if he can see it through soul sense he was not fast enough to act before getting hit. So he made a kind of automatic response.

As soon as one string broke, another connected to it and to a lightning charged disk dragged Ved to the side faster than he could ever move by himself.

The dragon's blood red claws passed right where he was a moment later. A chilling realisation hit Ved.

That attack would've pierced one of his hearts. Had it not been for the random idea to create such a system, he would've lost one of his lives.

However Ved knew something like this wouldn't work often. To begin with, it only worked because he had time to create it while the dragon dealt with his other attacks.

However he doubted he would get that chance again. As expected, the dragon turned faster than he could track it.

He saw a green blur heading straight for him, the next thing he knew one of his strings broke.

A lightning enhanced disk spinning faster than others, faster than the dragon moved, latched into the string and pulled him down.

Ved's body blurred like a shadow, the next moment he found himself standing below the dragon.

He opened his mouth to fire a nuclear blast and suddenly found his body being dragged to the right.

The dragon had attacked faster than he could react again. Dealing with something moving so fast was too troublesome and frustrating.

The feeling of helplessness would've been damaging to his pride, fortunately he changed his dragon will and redefined what pride was to him, otherwise he might've done something reckless.

However now, he actually felt more prideful for constantly surviving against something this ridiculously more powerful than him.

And he noticed the effect of his new will, strength through survival, the longer he survived, the more wounds he suffered and survived, the stronger his body became.

The effect was stronger the more grievous the wounds were. However even with his body becoming stronger, he still couldn't match the dragon.

Not to mention he was running out of strings, he will have to deal with it by using his body as a punching bag again.

That would definitely make his body stronger but unfortunately his stamina couldn't handle it.

He gritted his teeth, the situation was becoming more dire with each passing moment.

As expected, a moment later the final string broke, he would have to dodge the next attack himself.

He immediately flooded his entire body with nuclear energy. The moment the dragon touched him, flames would explode out of him hitting it on the face.

This move was a bit dangerous, one move and it could backfire. He didn't even have a chance to think it through before he felt his stomach being pierced by five red claws.

As soon as it claws touched his scales, the flames exploded. He was sent flying back like a missile.

At this speed, he knew if he didn't stop himself he would leave the domain of the cloud which would lead to the heavens thinking he was bailing and killing him immediately.

They already thought of him as an abomination and hated him which is why he was facing such a terrifying tribulation.

Right now, the only reason he was alive is because as powerful as the heavens were, they still had to function under certain laws.

If he bailed, they would use that opportunity to kill him immediately and he wasn't going to give them that excuse.

However he moving too fast, his wings weren't powerful enough to slow him down. He created wall after wall of wax, then created disks and ropes.

His body broke through the walls one after the other. Along the way he left balls of wax floating through the air.

He gritted his teeth as he did so, he didn't want to use this yet, he was saving it for the final tribulation.

He knew it was going to be even stronger than this one and will most definitely be a living tribulation as well.

The ropes tied to the disks and dragged him away, as soon as he was pulled up by the flying disks the dragon appeared where he was.

Ved snapped his finger, as soon as he did, the wax balls exploded, a black miasma spread out. It latched into the dragons body.

The dragon roared, lightning exploded out, burning away some of the miasma. However the black death poison was very persistent.

Although the lightning could burn it, the dragon couldn't get rid of it, not without will which meant it was totally stuck on it.

To burn all of it away would require the dragon to use a lot of it lightning. As a mindless construct, it couldn't think things through.

It continued attacking Ved while burning itself out trying to get rid of the black death miasma.

Ved suffered more grievous wounds but they healed very quickly. Before long the dragon burnt itself out completely, the last lightning disappeared before reaching his face.

Ved slumped to the ground and closed his eyes, he was trying to rest and regenerate as fast as he could.

His web fluid was down to less than 30 percent, he will have to use it more sparingly and wisely in the next fight.

His nuclear energy was slightly above 50 percent and his poison was around 60 to 70 which sounded like a lot but it really wasn't.

Only his lightning was a bit more but it wasn't as effective against a living tribulation as the others, those things are kings of lightning, especially tribulation lightning like his.

The only good thing was that he had four hearts which increased his stamina regeneration speed by 4 times and as a result effected the regeneration speed of his traits as well, though he doubted that would be enough.

However for some reason the lightning didn't fall for a few minutes, allowing him to rest a bit longer than he had expected, until something appeared above him.

The world turned red, Ved looked up. Two creatures appeared in the clouds, the moment they did, his image immediately appeared behind him bringing a soothing aura like a warm embrace of a mother.

( Warning: Third order extinguishing tribulation lightning descending. May fate be with you host.)

' Well, that doesn't sound good.'

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