The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns Chapter 280: The True Power Of The Baby Fire Dragon Card

Listen While Reading: Our Perilous Fate
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The card showing a bubbling, poisonous black and purple swamp manifested into reality, encompassing the volcanic dragon’s surroundings.

“Ah, she’s trying to override the dragon’s terrain ability so it doesn’t hurt her monsters anymore?” Belphegor thought. “That card is not the worst, but… It won’t work; the volcanic land will appear again next turn anyway!”

As Belphegor smiled, suddenly…

RUMBLE!

The volcanic land and the swamp… started to interact with one another!

“What’s this?! Something nobody expected! The Volcanic Land isn’t gone, and its… mixing with the oil swamp—wait a second!”

The referee gasped in disbelief; everyone did!

FLUOOOSH!

The swamp bubbled fiercely; a sea of flames covered everything constantly!

“Of course, it works! Oil + fire, you can do the math, Belphegor.”

“But that’s… why are you even setting your land on flames?! Are you trying to kill yourself ahead of time?!”

“Oh no, this is my master plan.” Bing Xue smiled.

With only two cards left, what sort of strategy had Bing Xue thought that would help her turn the tables in her favor?

Nobody could guess, not even the game’s creator…

“Now! I use Rejuvenation Elixir on my Volcanic Dragon!”

POOF!

A green elixir manifested above the volcanic dragon, who was splashed by its green liquids.

SPLAAASH!

“Grooaarr?! Graaaah!”

Slowly, the Volcanic Dragon started growing…

Smaller!

“Gryaaah!”

Until it suddenly turned into…

A Baby Dragon!

“She turned her monster into a baby…” Muttered Belze. “This is…?!”

Belze suddenly started seeing it clearly now.

With the last card in Bing Xue’s hand.

How she would turn the tables!

“You turned your dragon into a baby? Don’t you know they become weaker?”

“Yes, I know… But! The Baby Dragon is a new monster altogether, with a new ability too.”

“New Ability?”

“The Rejuvenation Elixir Ability specifies that it brings the monster to its infancy if they’re adults, or to their prime if they’re old, and if they don’t have a baby form, it reverts them to their previous evolution while keeping their Tier.”

“Previous evolution…?”

“The Volcanic Dragon doesn’t have a baby form; it is, apparently, the evolution of a normal Fire Dragon… Yeah…” Belze muttered. “But that’s knowledge from Hell itself… It isn’t… Oh, you did read all the books in the library, huh?”

“Indeed, I am quite hungry for knowledge,” Bing Xue smiled. “It was a nice way to pass the time during the training I had with my disciples and my children for five months. I know a lot about hell, and I know these monsters are based on that hell too. So…”

…

[Baby Fire Dragon (Tier 5): Defense Position]

[LIFE POINTS: 5.000]

[ATTACK POINTS: 5.000]

[SPECIAL EFFECT: BLAZING EGGSHELL]

…

“Gryaaaah!”

Suddenly, the Baby Fire Dragon roared as the flames around it began accumulating around him.

Endlessly.

Why?

Because this was a terrain that constantly produced more and more fire!

FLUOSH!

Until a big egg formed around the Baby Fire Dragon, and its tiny eyes appeared within the eggshell while it began moving.

“Normally, the Baby Fire Dragon would need to get attacked with fire moves, I presume, to activate its defensive ability,” Bing Xue said. “But of course, I had foreseen that and decided to give him endless flames. What’s the result, Belphegor? Tell me.”

“T-The result…?”

Belphegor started sweating as he saw a gigantic, blazing egg in front of him!

“You have to be fucking with me…”

…

[Baby Fire Dragon (Tier 5): Defense Position (Super Blazing Egg Form)]

[LIFE POINTS: 35.000] (+30.000)

[ATTACK POINTS: 35.000] (+30.000)

[SPECIAL EFFECT: BLAZING EGGSHELL]

…

“The result? A stronger monster than the original Volcanic Dragon, with no drawbacks!”

Blazing Eggshell, the ability of the Baby Fire Dragon.

While fairly weak for a Tier 5 monster by itself, the ability allowed the baby dragon to absorb fire elemental attacks and create an eggshell that increases their stats.

The bigger the eggshell, the stronger they become… But there’s an easy way to just circumvent this ability: kill the baby dragon with just any other attack.

Nobody in their right mind would ever aim at the baby fire dragon with fire after all!

Indeed, so Bing Xue had already thought about that ahead of time.

And naturally, because she read all the books in the library, Bing Xue learned a lot about the bestiary and the mighty dragons that inhabit hell.

And one of the reasons why their children were so hardy was this ability!

Honestly, it was still a gamble, but it ended up working.

Bing Xue smiled viciously, her eyebrows furrowing as she glanced at Belphegor’s flabbergasted expression through his golden mask.

“WHAT SORT OF BULLSHIT IS THIS?! YOU HAVE TO BE CHEATING, YOU DAMN BITCH!!!”

Belphegor lost his mind!

As he screamed in disbelief, the egg started rolling forward…

“Now, my cute baby dragon, attack!”

“Gryyaaaooohhh!”

“W-Wait…! Wait a fucking second!”

Belphegor tried to stop Bing Xue.

But it was too late; a massive, blazing egg crashed into his entire field.

BOOOMMM!!!

Flames spread everywhere; the gigantic egg, with an attack power far superior to the Golden Phoenix and the Meatball monster, quickly burned them to ashes!

“GRYYAAAAH!”

“CRAAAHHH!”

Both monsters were destroyed instantly, exploding into particles of light! Belphegor’s face was filled with despair.

The Undying Hydra as well charged towards the egg and…

“SHYAAAGGH!”

“S-Stop! Don’t…!”

It died too, burned to ashes.

The damage of 35.000 was far superior to the 20.000 Health Points of the Hydra!

Three one-shot kills in quick succession!

However…

FLASH! FLASH!

The cards he had left waiting to be activated did activate one after another!

“H-HAHAHA! I got you! These trap cards… Ah?!”

As both cards revealed to be another mirror and a pit, the egg clashed against them and…

Crack, crack…!

CRASH!

“Your trap cards won’t work on him; his health points and attack points go above what your cards can contain and retaliate. The mirror would’ve dealt some nasty damage, but its limit is twenty thousand, right? The Abyss Pit is too small; Giant-type Creatures cannot fall into it and die instantly.”

“F-FUCK!!!”

Belphegor screamed in horror, realizing Bing Xue was playing with him.

“Now, my baby dragon… Attack Belphegor’s life points directly!”

“Gryyaaaoooohhh!”

The egg came rolling; Belphegor tried to hide behind his chair, but…

BOOOMMM!!!

Flames engulfed him, and they hurt like hell too.

“UUAAAGGGH…!”

He fell to the ground, burning.

He screamed in agony.

This pain was all real because he had set the game this way.

He wanted to see her suffer, and yet even when she took so much damage, she didn’t even let out a single scream of pain.

This entire time, Belphegor had not taken damage once. He wanted to humiliate her by not losing a single point, but right now, his entire strategy crumbled into pieces.

[LIFE POINTS: 50.000 -> 15.000]

“T-This can’t be real… My Life Points are lower than hers now?!”

“I am not done yet with my turn, Belphegor,” Bing Xue said, grabbing her last card and showing it. “I use Spiritual Hand and grab one random Monster from your Graveyard.”

“HAH?!”

To worsen the humiliation, Bing Xue took a random monster card from his graveyard.

And the random monster card was…

“SHAAAAHH!”

The Undying Hydra.

Bing Xue closed her eyes, smiling.

“I end my turn.”

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