"What do I do?"
Lin Lei looked up at the hundred-plus dragons circling overhead. Every fire dragon wreathed its body in flames, sending the air temperature skyrocketing, while the green dragons with their emerald scales radiated a bone-chilling cold that made one's heart tremble.
Fire and ice—a world of extremes!
Below Lin Lei, the two massive eighth-level Rapid Dragons watched him with great amusement. Suspended sixty or seventy meters above the ground, Lin Lei had nowhere to run. The entire flock of dragons in the sky observed him with keen interest.
The intelligence of eighth-level magic beasts was absolutely no less than that of humans. Lin Lei understood perfectly well that before these dragons, he was nothing but an ant—his life and death meant nothing to them. What they cared about was... whether he could bring a bit of amusement to their endless lifespans.
Toying with him!
Just as humans toy with tiny ants, and when they lose interest, simply crush them underfoot!
"I'm not about to play the part of a helpless ant, Bei Bei." Lin Lei exchanged a glance with Bei Bei. "Get ready to run!"
"Whoosh!"
Lin Lei plunged straight downward at terrifying speed. His body weight combined with the acceleration from his 'Flight Technique' turned him into a heavy hammer slamming toward the ground. But just before impact, he abruptly slowed. That violent shift from extreme speed to near-stillness sent his blood surging through his body—he nearly vomited.
"Good thing I'm not just a mage, but also a fourth-level warrior. My body can take it."
Behind him were two enormous Rapid Dragons, and above, more than a hundred dragons with massive membranous wings spread wide. With no time to think, Lin Lei charged straight into the barren wasteland ahead.
"ROAR~~" The two Rapid Dragons roared.
"ROAR~~" "ROAR~~" "ROAR~~"...
Over a hundred fire dragons and green dragons in the sky joined in with their own roars. Then the two Rapid Dragons immediately set off after Lin Lei with thunderous strides, each footfall shaking the ground. Meanwhile, the hundred-plus dragons in the sky dove down one after another, and in an instant, Lin Lei felt the sky go dark.
A single dragon was already enormous enough. Over a hundred of them completely blotted out the sky. Dozens of fire dragons opened their gaping maws—big enough to swallow a person whole—and hurled fireball after fireball down at Lin Lei.
"BOOM!" "BOOM!" "BOOM!" "BOOM!"...
Huge fireballs, each roughly as tall as Lin Lei himself, rained down from above. The 'fireballs' of eighth-level fire dragons were no ordinary magic spells—they contained not just elemental magic but also the dragons' own dragon flames, burning at temperatures so extreme that even seventh-level Rapid Dragon armor would crack and split from the heat.
"WHUMP!"
A massive fireball grazed Lin Lei's body and crashed into the ground beside him. Fleeing for his life, Lin Lei caught the acrid smell of burning hair.
"Boss, your hair's singed," Bei Bei's voice echoed in Lin Lei's mind.
But Lin Lei knew the hair hadn't actually burned—the fireball was simply so hot that proximity alone was enough to scorch it. Lin Lei moved like an agile monkey, constantly changing direction, weaving frantically between fireball after fireball.
The fire dragons didn't swarm in to finish him off. They were toying with him, using fireballs to torment him at their leisure.
"The gap in power is just too vast. I'm a seventh-level dual-element mage, but against eighth-level magic beasts, death is a foregone conclusion." Lin Lei felt the terrifying heat of the fireballs, while the dragons could effortlessly spit out one after another.
Fortunately, the fire dragons had no intention of killing him right away.
Suddenly, Lin Lei felt a piercing chill. His body, already acclimated to the searing heat, shuddered involuntarily.
"SHOOM!" A translucent spear, tinged faintly with green, embedded itself in the ground right beside Lin Lei, then shattered. The horrifying cold radiating from it forced Lin Lei to immediately change direction.
Looking up, he saw dozens of green dragons in the sky opening their mouths at intervals, launching ice arrows downward. For the massive green dragons, these were mere arrows of ice—but for Lin Lei, each three-meter-long projectile was a terrifying spear.
Under the bombardment of dragon-fire fireballs and freezing ice spears, Lin Lei poured everything he had into dodging and changing direction.
Exhausting!
Lin Lei felt completely drained, body and mind. That taut string of willpower could only hold for so short a time—if stretched too long, it would snap. He was already finding it harder and harder to evade. Running at full speed was taking an enormous toll on his stamina.
"WHUMP!" A fireball smashed into Lin Lei's right arm.
A cracking sound rang out. Cracks appeared in his Jade-tier Earth Guardian Battle Armor, and the earthy yellow Earth-system elemental energy raced along the fractures, trying to repair the damage.
"The offensive power is terrifying. A direct hit would probably crack my Jade-tier Earth Guardian Battle Armor in one shot." In this life-or-death crisis, Lin Lei's latent life force seemed to erupt, and he dodged and shifted with renewed speed and uncanny agility.
This evasion ability was something even Lin Lei himself found astonishing.
This was absolutely his peak state. But no matter how peak he was, against over a hundred dragons, he didn't have the slightest chance.
"ROAR~~" "ROAR~~~"...
Over a hundred fire dragons and green dragons in the sky were delighting themselves by toying with Lin Lei. Watching him scramble to dodge over and over, they found it increasingly entertaining. Even the two massive Rapid Dragons behind him were threatening him with casual swipes of their tails from time to time.
At this moment—
Lin Lei was like a grasshopper, a helpless little grasshopper being played with by a group of overwhelmingly powerful beings.
One careless move, and Lin Lei would die. His life or death meant nothing to these dragons. They were simply thinking: "How long can this tiny human keep this up?"
Five minutes!
Lin Lei had held out for five minutes under this 'playful' assault.
Five minutes—three hundred seconds!
It sounded short, but to Lin Lei, time crawled by with agonizing slowness. Every single moment, he was teetering on the edge between life and death.
"Those bastards. If I slip up and they kill me, they probably won't give it a second thought before going right back to their comfortable lives." Lin Lei understood all too well—he was nothing more than a small diversion in the dragons' existence.