Last Egg: Reincarnated as a Dragon in a Game

491  Battle In The Space, part 1/2

POV Vesuvius:

As the last wisps of cosmic dust cleared, the dragon's shield flickered out. His armor buzzed with raw, stellar energy, spitting purple solar plasma into the void. The energy of the enemy rays lingered and relentlessly devoured his armor, disintegrating it molecule by molecule.

Suddenly, the void blazed brighter, the purple flames turning golden and purging the remnants of the exotic energy. The cracks started to mend, yet a storm of fury brewed inside of him. 'Ambushed, unprovoked!' If he could growl in the vacuum of space, he would.

Drawing from his core, a torrent of mana surged, fueling his wrath and morphing into a devastating force within his jaws. The anticipation of unleashing his supernova breath for the first time sent a thrilling shiver through his immense body.

'Burn!'

Then, with ferocity in his eyes, he guided more energy and annoyance into his breath gland.

A black beam, burning with purple solar flames, lanced forth, slicing the star system in two, its radiance rivaling that of the star behind the dragon. It met the enemy vessel, cleaving it effortlessly, the hull peeling open like a fruit. The ship crumbled, sucked into the beam's maw, disintegrating into nothingness.

But the dragon was not done. Swinging his colossal neck, he swept the supernova beam across the battlefield as if it were a giant sword.

The beam's gravitational pull pulled asteroids, enemy crafts, and the scattered debris of war into itself, tearing and crumpling the metal like thin sheets of paper. Drawn into its blazing core, everything was obliterated in a flash, leaving nothing but the void in its wake.

A dozen ships vanished before a single heartbeat could pass, and dozens of XP notifications flashed through his vision.

[+580 XP]

[+125 XP]

[+320 XP]

[+1750 XP]

...

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You are now level 138

Your second soul reached level 73

Ding!

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You gained a title: [Ultra Mega Grandmaster Nitro Sniper]

Conditions: Accurately hit and kill the enemy at a distance of at least 100 million kilometers.

Effects: Decreases all damage and power reductions of ranged attacks from the attack distance by 95%

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Vesuvius didn't even have time to think about his new title as he felt the drain on his mana, a gnawing emptiness spreading through him. Reluctantly, he ceased the onslaught, the light fading from his maw. 'This consumption…' Even as his star core quickly replenished the spent mana, Vesuvius reeled from the realization that he had consumed an amount of mana that was equivalent to his entire reserve before his last evolution.

Yet he didn't get any chance for respite as more of the ships in the distance turned their pointed tips at him, emitting an ominous orange glow.

Vesuvius wasted no time. With a powerful beat of his cosmic wings, he propelled himself forward, bending the fabric of space with sheer gravitational force. His glowing eyes brightened as his domain moved on instinct. His mana burned, turning into a stellar nebula gushing out of his body and forming colorful clouds around him.

The enemy's weapons pulsed and discharged in unison, a barrage of orange particle beams cutting across space toward the speeding dragon.

At the same time, the newly produced matter condensed under the gravity force of his domain into a pitch-black barrier, and the two forces collided once more, engulfing him in orange light.

As Vesuvius channeled more mana into his barrier, the overwhelming glow dimmed, yet his armor burned under the attack, cracking and eroding from the strange, devouring particles that leaked and passed through his barrier even though it still held.

'The last time divine energy worked against it.' Even though the tickling sensation was all over his armor, the dragon kept his mind clear and analyzed the situation.

He directly tapped into the reserves of his divine energy and directed it into his armor, infusing it with his divine energy.

Instantly, the purple flames erupted into a dazzling golden inferno, igniting the runes on the armor in a brilliant burst of light. This golden radiance pierced through the engulfing darkness with explosive force.

As the golden glow intensified, the orange energy was obliterated.

Witnessing this, the dragon, Vesuvius, channeled a surge of golden power into the dark gravitational barrier enveloping him. The barrier blazed with golden fire, disintegrating the orange beams into nothingness.

'So their weapons are useless against the absolute concepts of divine energy.'

With a predatory gaze, he eyed the distant ships, now not as threats but as coveted prizes—hulls, armaments, cargo, and crew morphing into valuable loot in his eyes.

With a mighty beat of his wings and a surge of golden flames and gravitational waves propelling him forward, Vesuvius lunged at the nearest vessel like a golden meteor.

More of the orange beams, shining like stars, passed and exploded within the golden flames, not even a single one of the deadly particles reaching his body.

Meanwhile, blue and red rays darted past him, their speed eclipsing his as they surged toward their foes. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Vesuvius chuckled to himself. 'They mistake my assault on the orange ships as a sign of alliance? As if they, too, haven't hindered me.'

The dragon kept speeding up, yet the orange dots of the enemy ships grew closer only slowly, the vast distance of the star system and annoying space disruption proving to be an immense obstacle.

Eyes narrowing on his distant loot—the daring enemy spaceships—Vesuvius grasped the enormity of the battle. The sheer scale of the solar system, with hundreds of ships exchanging deadly beams across the void at great distances.

'Even an entire planet is nothing on this scale.'

Vesuvius contemplated unleashing another supernova breath to obliterate the ships, but he wouldn't allow enemies to simply die without paying him deserved compensation.

'Everything that they own will become my compensation.'

His horns gleamed brighter, commanding the gravitational forces around him to propel him forward with increased velocity. Lightning arced through the void, with particles from his stellar nebula forging connections and boosting him even further.

As Vesuvius harnessed each gravity wave and summoned lightning, his velocity soared, the distant orange glimmers intensifying as he quickly closed toward them.

With flashes of light, more orange beams struck against his golden-black barrier, harmlessly burning away in a storm of golden and orange sparks. Yet the dragon's star-like eyes shone only with greed.

(AN: For some reason, I think I might have gone a bit in a weird direction with this. I am not sure if I made the right decision here. But, I truly wanted to finally allow MC to blow something up :D)