Even If I’m Reborn as a Cute Dragon Girl, I Will Still Make a Harem-Book 6: Chapter 98: Countermeasure
Book 6: Chapter 98: Countermeasure
Black flames devoured the scattered stars across the desolate expanse. Those once radiant celestial bodies fueled the fire’s ever-intensifying blaze, as if they were dry firewood.
Then, with a flick of Lilith’s finger, the black flames flew over five thousand kilometers and almost instantly engulfed the Dragon Queen entirely.
There was nowhere to run.
But the Dragon Queen never intended to run.
She raised her hand and grasped at the void.
A faint glow bloomed between her slender fingers.
A thunderous hum rumbled through the void.
Those under the Thoughtless Deity Lord’s command who had not fled far enough were severely injured by that noise. Blood streamed from their seven orifices.
Even the Thoughtless Deity Lord’s expression shifted. She silently repositioned herself farther from the unfolding chaos.
Amidst the sea of encroaching black flames, the Dragon Queen stood calmly. She closed her fist and… made a punch.
There were no fancy movements. Even a three-year-old child could have waved his fist like that too.
Yet the moment her fist moved, the world wailed in agony.
Space itself buckled… and shattered.
The void beyond, revealed in the wake of broken space, was torn asunder.
But what lay beyond the void?
Before this moment, no one knew.
But after the Dragon Queen’s strike, everyone saw—it was all white.
A blank, empty white… devoid of light, matter, or meaning.
Not radiance. Not illumination. Just a colorless existence beyond the void that had been torn asunder.
The Dragon Queen stood within that “emptiness”, for she had shattered everything.
Authority broke. Laws vanished.
Everything was crushed by the sheer violence of her fist and swept directly toward the black flames like dust.
“Blocked?”
The word slipped from every observer’s lips in disbelief.
Even Gerald felt his heart leap to his throat.
For a fleeting moment, it truly seemed the black flames had been halted by those fragments.
But it was only for a moment before a harsh noise was heard, like something hard being gnawed.
The flames surged again, devouring everything in their path mercilessly.
“Hahaha! Is that the best you could do? Feeding the black flame?” Gerald, who had just secretly exhaled in relief, now sneered mockingly. “Feed it a little more, and maybe when it’s full, it’ll even start answering to your call!”
“Fool.” The Dragon Queen’s voice was cold and unbothered.
Gerald’s heart lurched.
Because that cold voice… sounded too close to him.
The Dragon Queen, though engulfed by the black flames, had somehow closed the distance between them in an instant.
Her icy golden eyes, filled with murderous intent, locked on him.
The silhouette within the black flames looked more like a phantom at this point.
“How did you—?” Gerald screamed in terror, but only a deadly wind generated by a flying fist answered.
*Clang.*
A sharp noise rang out.
Once again, the black crystal, crowned with the name of absolute defense, stood between him and certain death.
Even though the Dragon Queen’s punch could tear space and Authority itself, she still could not break this layer of black crystal that was as thin as a cicada’s wing.
For her, this black crystal, capable of deflecting everything, remained the most vexing barrier of all.
No matter how terrifying the black flames were, they offered no protection—only devastation.
Yet behind the shield of the black crystal, the one person the Dragon Queen most longed to kill stood just inches away… At the same time, it felt like he was farther than the edge of the universe.
Even so, the Dragon Queen didn’t so much as furrow her brow. She swung her fist again.
Space shattered beneath it, debris hurled straight into the surging black flames.
Exploiting the momentary opening while the flames were busy devouring matter, she reappeared in another direction beside Gerald and launched another blow.
Still, the black crystal blocked her attack.
But Gerald finally understood her intention.
Her seemingly absurd attempts at feeding the black flames were her method of countering them.
The flames were unstoppable, but they were not intangible. They had form.
They could not simply appear from nothing or vanish without a trace. Their strange, unpredictable mobility came from their ability to devour space.
And that trait was also their only flaw.
Devouring required time.
No matter how fast the process was, it was still a process.
And where there was process, there was delay.
The Dragon Queen was trying to seize that delay.
If the delay wasn’t long enough, she would keep feeding the flames.
If space wasn’t enough to stall them, then she would offer up the void, which was far more substantial.
Sooner or later, they would slow down.
And that was when she would find her opening.
This was the unique countermeasure devised by the supreme ruler of the dragons, the one whose “absolute violence” had once shaken the Great World itself.
“Tch… who can possibly do that?”
Watching from afar, the Thoughtless Deity Lord winced.
“She ripped apart the void with her bare hands? What a monster. No wonder the Heavenly Order hates her. She fights like she’s tearing down her home.”
She glanced up with a crooked smile. “But I guess even the Heavenly Order wouldn’t dare show its face right now.”
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“Useless! Useless!”
Gerald’s bloodshot eyes bulged as he roared at the Dragon Queen, still hammering away at the black crystal relentlessly.
“So what if you can dodge the flames? You still can’t break this black crystal!”
The Dragon Queen said nothing. Her focus remained locked on the crystalline barrier before her.
One punch. Then another.
Each strike was powerful enough to obliterate an entire star. Each blow caused the void around her to ripple and tremble.
From time to time, the black flames would lash out from unpredictable angles, but she would simply tear a piece of void or matter from the surroundings and feed it into the flames. Then, like a specter, she would reappear in another spot, swinging her fist.
The black crystal remained untouched, but the sight of a madwoman relentlessly swinging her fist with murderous intent was enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine.
Gerald pointed at the Dragon Queen, then barked at Lilith as if the entire situation was her fault, “Can’t you do something about this?!”
Her lifeless gaze drifted toward him. Like a doll with no soul, she tilted her head slightly as if saying, *”I don’t know what you mean”*.
“You idiot! Just coat the black crystal with the black flames! That b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲ Regalis won’t dare get close then!”
Lilith tilted her head the other way, still looking confused.
“Coat! The black crystal! With! The black flames! Do you hear me?!”
Lilith paused, then slowly nodded… as if she had finally understood.
She clapped her hands together, then…
*BOOM!*
A spectacular firework exploded in the sky.
It erupted, just like Gerald’s furious expression.
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Book 6: Chapter 98: Countermeasure
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