Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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"It seems your Princess is working her best there, hm? She has been destroying the gates one by one… I am honestly surprised. I wonder if you'll be able to even hold for a second against me though."

The giant black skeleton dragon greeted Acorn, Nieve, and Johanna with his sharp phantasmal eyes, the trio glared at him fearlessly.

"What? You're nothing but just another of the many undead we've defeated! What even makes you unique, pile of bones?" Johanna smiled, her gorilla arms going back to normal size, but her entire body became larger, reinforcing her physical power.

"Johanna don't underestimate him…" said Nieve. "I think this dragon… have we met before?!" the fairy pointed her rapier at the dragon.

"Have we now?" smiled the skeleton dragon. "I don't know what you're talking about, hahaha!"

"It's weird though! Where are the Players at?!" Acorn wondered. "What did you do to those people?!"

"Oh? The Players?" smiled the bony dragon. "They're gone now, attacking your magic shield as we speak."

"What?!" Nieve asked. "We have to- No, we can't return!"

Nieve noticed that there were hundreds of dragon skeletons surrounding them within mere seconds since they stepped into the backlines of the enemy army.

The nether gates stopped summoning undead, but the ones already summoned were much more than they had seen from afar.

"Where did these Undead come from? They weren't here when we got here!" said Acorn.

"I didn't see them coming from the gates either, so it's weird, yeah!" Johanna nodded.

"Could it be…?!" Nieve's eyes widened, glaring at the dragon once more. "You're him, aren't you?! But we killed you! How are you…?!"

"Hahaha… I have no idea who you're talking to!" smiled the dragon. "I am a humble skeleton dragon lord! And nothing else anymore! Now, my dragon undead, tear them to shreds!"

Nieve noticed that the shadows of this dragon were moving around and flickering, as new dragon skeletons emerged from within them!

"I knew it!" Nieve said. "He's bringing the dragon skeletons from his shadows!"

CLASH!

"Wait what?!" Acorn asked as he clashed against three dragon skeletons at once with his heavy claws. "{Freezing Breath}!"

Still with the power of ice within him, he released a freezing breath, freezing many undead and crushing them with the power of his claws afterwards.

CRASH!

"So what if you know anyways?" laughed the dragon, flying into the skies. "You're already within the range of my domain."

"What?" Johanna looked into the skies, as the dragon's shadows spread out across the entire sky, rapidly engulfing them!

"W-Wait, a domain?!" Acorn screamed.

"Don't get separated!" Nieve said, rushing towards Acorn and Johanna.

"{Cursed Dark Dragon Arts}: {Abyssal Dragon Graveyard World Domain}"

TRUUUM!

Space around them distorted immediately afterwards, as the entire world began to transform and twist around.

Before they knew it, they found themselves within a world of endless darkness, with a red sun, lakes of blood, and countless skeleton dragons.

There were more of them coming from the ground too, endlessly…

"Just what in the world happened?!" asked Acorn. "A domain of this caliber…? I've only seen Lady Planta use something like this in that fight against the demon!"

"Hah, this is unbelievable, one problem after another, can't take a single break!" Johanna complained.

"You weren't even there yesterday, don't complain!" said Nieve. "Ugh, let's remain together and fight off the skeletons!"

The dragon remained in the skies, laughing.

"Hahaha… Hahahaha!" he kept laughing endlessly. "Now that you're inside, no matter what, you'll die! You know that there's a time dilation inside? This is my domain! One second outside is one hour in here! Can you fight for so long until someone comes to help you?!

Can you fight whole days maybe?! Can you!"

"W-What? That long?!" Acorn asked.

"No, that's impossible, he has no power over time, he's… definitely lying, right?!" Johanna wondered.

"I-I have no idea, but if that's the case, we must somehow break out on our own then!" Nieve said.

The trio clashed against the dragon skeletons, destroying them with the best attacks they could while keeping a close look at their stats.

Unlike Players they weren't going to revive if they died… this was a real threat, something they had to handle on their own now.

Planta might be right around the corner right now, but if the time dilation is the truth, the time perception of them will be so much that before she can even get here…

They'll either all die, or they somehow manage to escape.

And the latter seems incredibly unlikely.

"Try however you want, this Domain of mine is indestructible from the inside!" laughed the dragon. "It is my ultimate new ability, something my lord has granted me! It is the tool I'll use to kill all of your friends! Hahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!"

The undead dragon kept laughing as the trio struggled trying to find an exit.

But there was simply no exit.

Wherever they ran into, there was only more and more dark landscapes, more and more skeletons.

Hours passed.

One hour.

Two hours.

Three hours…

"Hahhh… HAHHH… T-This is endless! I can't… how long have we been fighting?!" Acorn screamed. "My body hurts so much from keeping the transformation for so long… Aaggh…!"

"Hang in there Acorn! Drink an Elixir!" Nieve muttered; her ice was already beginning to leave frostbites on her skin. "W-We must keep… trying to find… an exit…"

"T-This shit is hopeless…" Johanna sighed. "Ah, and that fucker keeps laughing at our asses!"

"Hahahaha!" laughed the dragon. "Three hours have passed. Do you want to guess how long has it been outside? Three seconds."

Their eyes were slowly beginning to feel despair.

"H-He has to be lying… this can't… this can't be true right?" Acorn muttered. "No… No… Noo! I don't want to die!"

"Acorn calm down!" said Nieve. "We have to keep our cool!"

"Hahh… Granny…" Johanna started crying. "I'll die here… I'm sorry."

"They've given up to despair so soon?!" Nieve thought.

Her cold mind was what allowed her to keep her cool even in this situation, but Acorn and Johanna, who were much younger than her and also more emotional, were already giving up to despair.

What could Nieve do now?

"That damn dragon…" she muttered, gritting her teeth. "Acorn, Johanna… I think there's a sure way to get out of here."

"Eh?"

"How?!"

"We have to hit that monster so hard that he deactivates the domain!"

"Hoh?" the dragon smiled. "Come and give me your best try!"

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