Yes, Aiweier crashed. 🚁
Perhaps their ultimate moves were comparable in power, but there was a huge difference in self-defense.
After all, a 🐲 is a 🐲; its physical strength far surpasses that of humans.
Blood flowed from her mouth and nose; her body was in disarray.
This was a standard battle damage outcome.
Meanwhile, the Ice Shield was gradually dissipating and thinning.
Although Aiweier’s teammates were perfectly protected, the girl’s mana was exhausted, so she could no longer maintain the shield.
This is probably the end~.
However, Ka Xiya was still cautious and kept a certain distance from them, not rashly approaching to check or finish them off.
It wasn’t that she feared those three ordinary humans.
Although these people were decent adventurers with plenty of courage, even when facing a demon dragon that utterly outclassed them, they could still re-form their battle lines and protect their severely wounded leader (the main DPS) behind them.
Just being able to do this was already extremely difficult.
After all, a weak human with insufficient willpower would feel the mana released by Ka Xiya’s breath and, due to the soul-striking intimidation, would physically want to flee.
Come to think of it, this was probably the first time since joining the Demon King’s Army that Ka Xiya had personally witnessed a human adventurer team that, on the verge of despair, could still fight side by side and never abandon each other.
Mentally, they had earned the complete approval of our princess~.
After all, what she hated most were cowards.
In that regard, Ka Xiya treated humans and demons equally.
But appreciation was appreciation; it didn’t mean she would go easy on the enemies before her.
Barging in here and causing such chaos was itself an act of contempt and underestimation of the demon race.
If she didn’t annihilate them all, that would be a real pa~pa~ slap in the face.
Moreover, Ka Xiya had no habit of taking prisoners.
Whether they surrendered or were defeated, she would deliver death to her opponents.
A battle was like a grand ceremony; only the death of one side could draw the curtain that signified its end.
Of course, today’s situation was special because the Demon King had ordered them to take prisoners alive, so Ka Xiya wouldn’t annihilate them, but at most she would spare one.
And the one who would survive could only be that ice-elemental mage.
Besides the key reason that she was the team leader and thus had higher capture value, there was also a recognition of the strong.
As for why Ka Xiya hadn’t made the final move, the reason wasn’t complicated.
It was that Aiweier’s too straightforward “crash landing” had made her feel something was off.
Logically, they were opponents of the same level.
Even if both sides went all out from the moment the battle started 🗡, winning too easily made Ka Xiya suspicious and hesitant.
From her perception, the opponent’s mana was indeed pitifully weak, and her life force had become a candle flickering in the wind, ready to go out at any moment.
But for some reason, Ka Xiya’s intuition told her there was definitely something fishy.
But that was fine.
She could continue to test the waters.
After all, the magical clash that just occurred had affected the stability of the teleportation array.
Before that crystal could recover from dimness to lighting up again, Ka Xiya was confident she could end this farce.
And because she wanted to keep the opponent alive, plus she was still in the magic circuit’s cooldown period, the princess’s attack wasn’t as spectacular as before.
The next moment, mana gathered in her palm, and a dazzling ball of molten lava appeared above Ka Xiya’s phantom dragon claw.
“Blazing Molten Light!”
Although this move wasn’t too powerful—it just turned the high-temperature lava into fine shot, creating a group attack like a meteor shower—the difference in magnitude was too great.
Even with Ka Xiya holding back, the three opponents couldn’t easily take it.
“Lina!”
“You go treat Aiweier. Leave the rest to the two of us!”
The one speaking at the forefront was Miss Linka, the shield-bearer of the team.
And she felt deeply guilty about the situation that could lead to a team wipe at any moment.
When the demon dragon launched its attack, it should have been her duty to block the first wave of damage, but she didn’t react in time.
Not only did she fail to help, but she also became a burden due to steam burns, allowing the lovely Lady Aiweier to be injured like this by the evil dragon!
Absolutely unforgivable!
Although she knew she was no match for the red-haired demon dragon girl before her, Linka would not back down.
Even if it cost her life, she would make sure Aiweier and the other teammates escaped.
Besides, she was the oldest among them, so it was only right to leave the hope of living to the juniors who had a bright future.
But unfortunately, she did not see her master today.
This mission, besides helping the angelically pure Miss Aiweier realize her dreams, also involved a selfish motive that Linka had never mentioned to her teammates.
The mentor who guided her to become a shield knight was none other than the previous Shield Hero, Fei’ouna, who had once been slandered as a traitor but was later vindicated today.
After her master’s incident, Linka, despite her excellent talent, once chose to live passively, left the adventurer team, and gave up being a shield-bearer.
Until later… she met Aiweier, and her stagnant, lifeless life gradually gained a hint of color.
So Linka would never allow Aiweier to come to any harm!
Facing the molten meteor shower released by Ka Xiya, she did not choose to use a full-team shield skill for defense.
Instead, she concentrated her mana and deployed a Holy Light Barrier for her three teammates, which had a smaller range but was thicker.
As for Linka herself, she did something that Ka Xiya didn’t expect.
This tall woman didn’t dodge or flee; instead, she charged toward her with her shield raised.
Although Ka Xiya’s power was mostly limited during her cooldown period, making it a perfect time to attack her…
It wasn’t that this approach was impossible…
But the one challenging her was too weak, wasn’t she?
A shield-bearer with poor reflexes, instead of thinking about self-preservation at a time like this, charges in with her body?
Such an act was no different from suicide.
She decided not to use magic spells first, as doing so would prolong the cooldown period.
So Ka Xiya chose to let this brave woman who couldn’t face reality taste the feeling of a dragon claw piercing her chest.
She didn’t even need to dodge; she even deliberately adjusted the trajectory of the Blazing Molten Light to give the opponent a path to charge through.
The next second, Ka Xiya’s dragon claw collided violently with the shield.
Although the shield was made of a composite metal fused with high-purity magic crystals and crafted with a special coating process, Ka Xiya’s dragon claw was no simple matter either.
Besides her pure, powerful physique, her dragon claw also had a layer of sharp crystal blades formed from solidified magma.
Not only was the shield pierced, but Linka’s body was also completely impaled by the dragon claw.