Vile Evil Hides Under The Veil

Chapter 1919 Dissolved Dragonoid Form

Cough! Cough! Cough!

Marina coughed up thick, dark red draconic blood as she separated from the butcher.

With one swift motion, she created distance from him before wiping the blood from the corner of her lips.

Her hair was disheveled, and her face was covered in blood and grime. Sweat coated her body — something she hadn't experienced for a very long time.

Burn marks and torn skin covered her body, and she could no longer maintain her perfect humanoid form. Her dragon horns had grown larger, and patches of her body were covered in dragon scales, which had allowed her to withstand the serious injuries she had suffered.

This wasn't her dragonoid form. Not really. Her draconic body had instinctively manifested these features without her consent — a clear sign of her survival instincts taking over.

Marina's clothes were also torn, exposing most of her body. Her perfect feminine curves were on full display, albeit in a not-so-perfect manner. If she weren't injured and battered by Eren, she would have looked even more stunning.

Of course, Marina no longer shied away from exposing her vulnerable self in front of her enemy — she no longer had that privilege.

"You... you are certainly not a human... or... cough!... or a beast for that matter," Marina said grimly, looking at Eren with complicated emotions. Frustration was evident in her voice, but more than frustration, it was disbelief that filled her mind.

Could there really be a living being capable of challenging the might of dragons within the same realm? No... Eren wasn't even an S-Ranker at this point. He was merely a Grandmaster, a rank below Marina, which made the comparison worse for her.

Could someone possess more mana to spare than a dragon? Could anyone surpass dragons in terms of vitality and near-endless regenerative abilities? Eren had to be an exception.

"Keke... kuh... kuh... cough.... I... I'll take that a compliment."

Although Eren ran the risk of foiling his own plans to release the sea monster due to Azurea's uninterrupted efforts, he didn't dare to take on both twin dragonesses at once — a fight he considered pure suicide.

"Erni... You want me to fight her on my own?"

Reen manifested her face on Eren's right chest and asked while looking at Marina.

She, too, was injured and felt some degree of fatigue. However, unlike Eren or Marina, she was far from reaching the point of complete exhaustion. After all, as an Elder Seed Artifact Spirit, she was technically not a living creature but a Spirit Form.

As long as her Spirit Force wasn't fully depleted, she could endlessly regenerate her slime form. She clearly didn't have as many restrictions as living beings when it came to prolonged battles. Furthermore, she boasted a higher Spirit Force recovery rate than all the living beings under S-Rank. The more she was allowed to rest the more she would be able to help her master.

"I.... I don't think that's a very good ide–.... Hmmm?"

Eren was about to speak to Reen but was interrupted. His dragonoid form started to melt away.

Because of the battle with Marina, Eren also realized that he himself was capping Reen's true potential. After all, Reen needed some of his Spirit Force to serve as a medium for his dragonoid form.

With his Spirit Force nearly depleted, he could no longer maintain his dragonoid form in battle. He figured that Reen would be forced to separate from him, and he would have to cancel his dragonoid form within a minute or less — even if he stood still and didn't take another step.

"Erni... I don't think you can continue playing with that overhyped lizard anymore."

Reen had sensed Eren's predicament as well. That was why she offered to fight Marina on her own.

Even though she wasn't as strong as Marina at her peak, Reen's powers had touched the threshold of S-Rank — one of the key reasons Eren had been able to fight Marina on equal footing for so long.