In that opening, he quickly placed his palm on the dragon’s chest before muttering. “Stop, break.”

The Dragon then quickly leapt back in haste, quickly looking down at it’s chest as it did so. There were a few cracks in it’s scales. 

It then dropped to it’s knees as it felt an immense surge of pain, in the area where it was touched.

The Dragon then leapt once again to the left, barely avoiding the young man who swung his fist at him from above. However, right before he could land. The young man disappeared and reappeared behind the dragon once again.

But the instant, he did. Ice spikes extended out of the ground, heading straight at him, forcing him to shadow step to dodge it. But it was all part of the Dragon’s plan.

Right as the young man shadow stepped. The dragon sent a kick, straight up at the young man, hitting him straight in his heads he appeared right where he had predicted.

*Crack*

The kick was so hard, the dragon felt a crack. He kicked the young man straight up to the ceiling. And right before he hit it, the dragon, leapt up, reaching there before the young man, before kicking him down straight down to the ground.

*CRASH!*

The young man was slammed into the ground and the dragon, followed it up, by creating an ice footing above him, before using it to leap straight down at the young man.

There was no way to dodge.

*BOOM!*

The sheer impact from the contact, caused a loud sound to resound throughout the cave. All the A-Rankers watched with surprise, at the sight which stood ahead of them. 

The young man stood on his feet, staring up at the dragon who stood still mid-air. He had swung his fist to finish of the young man, but he ended up getting stopped by a very hard barrier, formed out of thin air. It wasn’t made by ice yet was denser than it.

They had all group up and stood beside the Guild-master to check on his condition.

“Shouldn’t we help him?” The cloaked girl asked

“No… We’d only get in his way.” Said the Guild-Master

“Bullshit, I’m waiting on position till he calls. If he needs help, then I’ll be ready.” Said Hexo as he slammed his fist into his palm. Truth be told, he didn’t just want to sit back and watch. He was full of rage.

The other A-Rankers heard this before looking over at the young man. They all shared the same thought. ‘Does he really need our help?’

The dragon could instantly tell what it was, and was surprised to see it.

“Condensed Magical Power as a shield… Not to mention It’s hard to break…” It muttered before sending a kick straight down at it.

The kick quickly made it’s way down, to finish it off as cracks had begun to form, however, right before it did. The shield split up and turned into shards, before being propelled straight at the dragon.

It quickly canceled it’s quick and raised it’s guard to block it, but it was all a set up. The young man disappeared before quickly appearing at it’s blind spot.

The young man then pulled out his dagger, before slashing straight at the dragon’s arm. 

*Clang* 

He couldn’t cut through. It’s skin was hard, harder than a wyverns and even rumored to be harder than that of a diamond.

As the impact caused the young man’s hand to be pushed back having hit an object which was too hard. The Dragon used the opportunity, to grab on to the young man’s leg with it’s tail, before rotating it’s body and sending a kick straight at his sides.

The young man, didn’t bother to dodge, he simply let the kick make it’s way onto his cloak before hitting him directly on his sides.

*Crack*

The young man was the one who got kicked and yet, once again, cracks began to form on the scale of the dragon’s leg as it was pushed back.

“Return…” The young man muttered

In that moment of confusion, Before the Dragon could even react to what had happened to it. The young man grabbed on to his face, before propelling them both down on to the ground as he muttered

“Break.”

*CRACK*

Blood spurted out of the dragon, as cracks formed on it’s humane face. It now had the look of pain on it as it’s confusion only grew. 

“Bre-“

Before the young man could use the spell once again, he suddenly shadow stepped away. Only to reappear a few meters away from the Dragon.

He looked down at his hand and noticed that it was completely frozen. Not a frostbite, but actually frozen. This was a surprise as he had thermal magic active as a barricade but it wasn’t strong enough.

For his hands to reach that state, it only indicated that the dragon was now serious, and it’s true power could reach extremely low temperatures.

“Damn… I’m tired of waiting…” Hexo muttered

His blood and anger were boiling to fight. He couldn’t sit back and watch, not when there was a dragon right ahead of him.

The dragon slightly bent down, while placing most of his wait on his dominant leg. The ice on the ground beneath it cracked as it did so.

Something was coming, the young man raised his staff and let it go, allowing it to be sucked into his spatial storage ring. And in that instant, with a single heart beat, the dragon leapt off the ground, straight at the young man.

His knees out, aimed straight at the young man. Only to end up hitting the air, as he went past him. The young man had dodged it, in that last second, by fully leaning back.

The Dragon went past, however, the attack wasn’t over. He quickly rotated his body midair, back towards the young man. Before making an ice footing out of thin air and leaping off of it again.

As this happened. The young man’s footing was frozen as the ice beneath him, rose and entrapped his feet as ice spikes quickly extended out of the ground beneath his leaned back body.

Two attacks simultaneously making their way towards him, from both beneath and behind. He could have shadow stepped to avoid them. But, no. He no longer wanted to drag on the fight.

He took it head on.

*Shatter*

The ice beneath him, along with the rising spikes, shattered into pieces after being hit by a shock, giving him free footing.

He then quickly turned his body back to the dragon only to get kneed straight in the face.

*Crunch*

“Return.”

The sound of crunching didn’t come from his face getting smashed in, however, but it came from the dragon’s knee having been broken and cracked from the impact.

“?!”

Confused, once again the dragon was propelled back as it’s knee was pushed back by a mysterious force. It was as if the power used when he hit the young man’s face was redirected right back at him, no, that was exactly the case.

The Dragon had only realized this now, but it was too late. Before he could get enough from the impact. Once again, he was suddenly pulled back towards the young man by a mysterious force.

In that instant, he formed 10 ice shards around him before pointing it at the young man and propelling them at him.

However, they shattered right before hitting him as a shock wave passed through them. That very same shock wave, caused the dragon’s eyes to turn back as it yelled out in pain

“AAARGH-“

But before it could properly scream, it’s face was grabbed by the young man who suddenly shadow stepped in front of it, before tightening his grip and muttering break.

*Crack*

Even more blood spurted out as the dragon’s humanoid face became more deformed. The young man, then slammed the dragon on to the ground again, shattering the shards which the dragon had formed above him in his blind spot.

“Break.” 

*Crunch*

Again, the young man cast the spell, making the dragon’s humanoid face now unrecognizable. The Dragon tried kicking and punching the young man to let go, but each and every attack would only ruins it’s own body Armour as it was all redirected back at him.

The young man had just about had enough and was going to finish it off.

“Stop.”

He then raised his left hand, forming a miniature black hole. All the A-Rankers watched, unable to believe their eyes. This whole fight, lacked logic, but this. This was something else.

Light disappeared from the room, as the dragon began using all it had to stop the young man. Two large ice pillars extended out of the walls aiming straight at them to stop him. However, right before hitting him, they shattered.

The temperature around the dragon got progressively lower, half of the young man’s being, however it wouldn’t go past a certain point. He was countering it.

The dragon’s human deformed human mouth began to glow as it forced out another beam, but before it could be completed. It was too late.

“Black hole.”

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!”

*ROAAAAAR!*

A single roar, resounded through the room, before it was enveloped in an abyssal silence. And in that moment, with their mouths wide open. All the A-Rankers could do, was stare.

It was a massacre. The Dragon stood no chance, Magic, Physical power, Defense. It had lost in all aspects. 

And in that moment, they all shared the same single thought.

‘He was not someone to mess with.. If he had wanted, he could have killed everyone in the guild, after they raised their weapons at him, without wasting a sweat.’