At first, the terrifying Divi only had eyes for Bebe. To it, the st of the little mouse’s blood was almost heavenly, but when it heard Ace’s words, its aloof reptilian eyes focused on the human beside its main prey.

  Due to its rank, it was uo speak in human tongue, but as a Divi, its intelligence couldn’t be pared to other beasts of the same level. Its intelligence was already parable to that of a human teenager. As such, it was more than capable of uanding Ace’s words.

  It hadn’t met many other dragons due to growing up in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts instead of the forest of darkness where the dragon pit was located. Still, it had met a myriad of other Beasts, including various types of lizards, and without fail, none of them could pare to it.

  It may not know much about its lineage, but what it did know was that it was no mere lizard. The fact that a human dared to say that was an insult to its supreme bloodline. Sihis human was in such a hurry to die, it would kill him first before fog on his primary target.

  It wasn’t just him. Even Linley felt insulted by Ace’s remark, especially as he was fully aware that at least two of the ‘lizards’ Ace was referring to were he and his brother. Still, he kneas her the time nor the pce to say anything, as Ad Bebe were likely about to be in for the battle of their lives.

  As he looked up at the beast, though, he felt a slight affinity to it. The longer he looked at it, the more his blood thrummed with excitement as it coursed through his vein. It was hard to put into words, but if he had to try, the only word that came to mind was aral.

  Of course, it didn’t make much seo him, especially when sidering he was human and the dragon before him was clearly still an infant, but it was how he felt all the same.

  “Does he have to provoke everyone he meets?” Julius asked helplessly.

  Even though he heard Ace say he wasn’t fident, like the rest of his cssmates, Julius had unwavering faith in Ace. In his eyes, Ace was uable, and their time in the wild this st month had only ted that viewpoint, so whilst he aowledged the fearfulness of the dragon before them, he didn’t feel all that worried…

  Until he heard Amira’s voice. “That… That’s an Azure Dragon!”

  “Ooh, y?” Cowart asked with a hint of surprise as even he didn’t reise it despite his wealth of experience.

  “My family’s library has many books doting various types of Divis. But of all the various types of Divis, there were four that stood at the very peak. That Dragon, it’s infinitely smaller than the one I read about, but it’s still the spitting image of a genuine Azure Dragon!” Amira expihe worry on her face quickly turning to anger, frustration, ament as she turo the ghost-like old man. “And because of you, I ’t even help him!”

  D could only smile wryly at her words and say nothing as he knew she wasn’t wrong. Still, he didn’t regret his decision. It was the only way he could save both his disciple and Bebe. ‘If it es down to it, I’ll use what’s left of my strength to ensure all of you get away safely.’

  Thinking to there, Cowart couldn’t help but give the light-skinned girl beside him annce.

  Before his ‘death’, D Cowart was quite the schor. What kind of library hadn’t he visited during his time? He’d heard of Divis, but any information on them was scarce, to say the least – they were simply too rare. Yet this girl seemed to know far more about them than even he did.

  ‘There’s definitely more to her thahe eye.’ The former saint thought to himself as he turned his attention back to Ace, his i piqued. ‘What’s the deal with these freakish kids?!’

  Ad Bebe had no idea what the others were talking about. They couldn’t afford to lower their guard against a Beast like this for even a sed.

  Upon making its decision to kill Ace first, the dragon didn’t hesitate in taking a nose dive towards the ground, its feroaw wide open as if it wao swallow the infuriating human whole.

  But both Ad Bebe prided themselves on their speed, and with both of them receiving a buff in the form of [Supersonic] – Ace from Amira and Bebe from Linley – their speed was inparable to what it was when they fought each other, not long ago.

  Like a fsh, they separated, allowing the dragon to bite down on nothing but earth.

  And before it could regain its bearings, Ace had already returned, standing right beside him. His [Hak coated give tore through the air as it aimed to split the scales on its ned kill it in one go, but despite its head still being buried in the ground, its tail shot forth like a whip g with Ace’s bde.

  “Ugh!” Ace grunted as he slid backwards along the ground, his arms almost numb from that one csh.

  ‘That thing’s power is no joke,’ Ace thought as he studied the beast in front of him with an oddly nostalgic smile suffusing his lips. ‘It almost reminds me of that freak Kaido.’

  As that thought crossed his mind, his blood began to boil with excitement. Whilst a member of the Whitebeard pirates in his previous life, he had watched ‘Pops’ csh with ‘The King of Beasts’ once or twice over the years. He had always aspired to stand at that level one day, and although he couldn’t in his st life, he could in this one.

  The dragon watched as Ace vanished from his position, appearing right before it. It would be lying if it said it wasn’t surprised by the speed of the little human. It had to admit that as far as speed went, it was slightly inferior, but unlike Bebe, speed wasn’t an attribute it articurly proud of. No, that was its virtually imperable scales and its peerless strength.

  Ace watched as the Dragon thrust its cw at his face. He could tell just from the way the wind howled around it that if the cw were to nd, his head would instantly be reduced to paste, but he had no iion to pete with it in raw power. Instead, he skilfully used his bde to sp the cws up whilst he ducked, narrowly avoidih.

  Just parrying took more strength than he would’ve liked, but the smile on his faly widened as he came to that realisation. The thrill of battling against such a powerful oppo was almost overwhelming.

  If he were alone, he would love to go crazy and really push himself to his limits in a battle to the death against the Divine Dragon, but he couldn’t afford to do that, not with Amira and fatty being there, especially in their dition.

  Instead, he sent a message he knew Amira would uand. As he danced around the dragon, parrying and dodging each attack, he suddenly tapped the upper rear of his neck.

  Other than Amira, Cowart was the only member of the group that saw Ace’s a, but he couldn’t figure out what it meant.

  “Linley,” Amira called out whilst her eyes remained focused otle. “ you pass a message to your partner?”

  “Errm, yeah. Why?” Linley replied in fusion.

  “Every dragon has something called a reverse scale. It’s a scale that’s signifitly weaker in parison to the others. Unfortunately, every dragon has theirs in a pletely unique position.” Amira expined. “Luckily, it looks like Ace just found the one belonging to this specific dragon.”

  Linley and the others were all shocked by that revetion. Not about dragons having reverse scales, but that Ace was able to actually locate it.

  Till now, it genuinely looked as though Ace was being thhly suppressed and was holding on for dear life, yet somehow, he was still able to locate the ‘reverse scale’ as location to Amira.

  Linley could only sigh as he admitted his inferiority. Everyone sidered him to be a genius seen on a geion, but as it stood now, he and Ace couldn’t even be mentioned in the same senteill, he kneasn’t the time to get caught up in his feelings of inferiority if they wao survive. He hurriedly passed the location given to him by Amira to Bebe.

  Whilst Ace was fighting for his life against the dragon, Bebe had been patiently hiding in the shadows waiting for his time to act. As soon as he received the location of the reverse scale from Linley, his beady little eyes locked on to it.

  Oop of its neck, hidden by part of the milky white hair on its back, was an unassuming azure scale that faced in the opposite dire pared to the others around it. If not for Ace, Bebe never would’ve noticed it, but now that he had…

  The dragon had long sinown where its primary target had been hiding. It had been expeg Bebe to pou any moment, so when Bebe made his move, an almost human smirk appeared on its face, but that smirk quickly disappeared.

  From the moment that Bebe and Ace dodged his attack, it khat they were both the speedy type, but it never expected the little rodent to be this fast. At its top speed, Bebe was even faster than Ace.

  Still, it saw Ace as the bigger threat of the two. Though it had been the one dominating thus far, and Ace hadn’t been able to break its defence as yet, after g for so long, it uood that Ace’s on definitely posed a threat to it if it weren’t careful.

  The moment Bebe made his move, Ace shifted gears, going from passively defending to attag.

  As the tip of Ace’s give shot towards its eyes, the dragon chose to ighe rat and trust in its near imperable defence as its long winding tail acted like a whip striking Ace’s sinister give away.

  Believing it had Ace right where it wanted him, the dragon prepared to pounce when it was suddenly overwhelmed by pain the likes of which it had never experienced before.

  Bebe’s frighteningly sharp cws and razor-like teeth had torn straight through the dragon’s reverse scale, allowing it to deal a savage blow to its insides, causing the dragon to release a heart-wreng roar.

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