Cecilia was obviously startled by Gauss’s sudden ’transformation’.

Gauss’s winged flight speed was even slightly faster than that of the Red Dragon Dragon Beast Hephaestus, although this was a burst sprint speed for a short period.

When the time is slightly extended, Hephaestus, as a Dragon Beast, still has a natural advantage.

"Are you really not afraid of death, you crazy?"

Cecilia muttered to herself.

Through Gauss’s eyes, which seemed to be burning with flames, she sensed a kind of determination to face death.

Yet, she indeed couldn’t bring herself to kill the man before her.

Compared to corpses and undead creatures, obviously living bodies present greater research advantages. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Really a lunatic!"

Cecilia could only control the bone dragon to evade their attack.

The skeletal giant dragon let out a long cry. The massive body turned with difficulty, raising its dragon head to flee into the sky.

"Fireball Technique!"

Gauss, who was long prepared, raised the magic staff.

In front of the path of the ascending skeletal giant dragon, a blazing white little ball rapidly expanded.

In an extremely short time, the Fireball Technique swelled into a small sun hanging in the sky, instantly unleashing massive light and heat.

"Roar!!!!"

The bone dragon charging straight up had no time to dodge.

Collided head-on with that ’scorching sun’.

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the dazzling red-white flames almost simultaneously engulfed half of the skeletal giant dragon’s body.

Especially its raised head and neck, where the terrifying heat and shockwave of the Fireball Technique ravaged instantly, with the scent of sulfur and burning bone ash permeating the air.

Cecilia was also directly hit by the shockwave of the Fireball Technique, blasted off from the dragon’s back.

As the dust settled, she hovered in midair, but her red robe was already in tatters, and her face was covered with burns that were scorched red.

"Cough cough!"

She coughed out some black smoke from her mouth.

The shockwave of the Fireball Technique forced her usually elegant self into a somewhat disordered state.

Her gaze towards Gauss completely changed.

A touch of beast-like ferocity flickered in the depths of her eyes.

Hephaestus joined the skeletal giant dragon, which was struggling to stabilize its form in the air.

Meanwhile, Gauss and Cecilia locked eyes across the distance.

"You forced me to do this."

Under Cecilia’s tattered robe, dragon patterns on her shriveled skin seemed to have come alive, quickly moving across her body.

An invisible force enveloped her.

Dim blue cold fire entwined her entire body, causing the air to suddenly drop a few degrees, frost spreading wide.

A magic missile shot over, only to be blocked by cold fire she threw.

Cold fire swiftly devoured the magic missile and continued to attack towards Gauss’s location.

Gauss used the Flying Skill to evade.

With his exquisite body control, he deftly dodged this attack.

However, just when he focused his attention on Cecilia, the cold fire behind him suddenly and unreasonably changed direction to attack him.

"Boom!"

Cold fire hit his back, sticking to his energy scale armor, penetrating into the robe.

"So cold..."

He felt as though his bones, blood, and organ tissues were about to freeze.

Gauss looked around, only to realize the temperature of the space around them was drastically dropping.

A cold domain force field seemed to emerge around Cecilia.

As she raised her arm, she could affect the surrounding storm and frost.

"This is definitely not a power a Master Level Professional can wield."

Gauss swallowed.

He initially estimated Cecilia’s strength to be among the top-tier fighters in the Master Level, the pinnacle of the pyramid.

But after witnessing her display of power to manipulate weather in such terrifying ways, he realized he had underestimated her strength.

Although he hadn’t personally witnessed an extraordinary level fight, he instantly recognized the power before him as extraordinary power.

In the wind and snow, Gauss felt himself becoming incredibly small.

He attempted to fly out of the wind and snow.

But Cecilia followed closely, and the pervasive wind and snow continued to envelop them both.

His previously swift flying abilities were drastically curtailed by the blizzard, making it difficult to escape her.

He couldn’t even discern the direction.

In the vast snow, visibility was extremely low.

"Fireball Technique!"

He swallowed a few magic crystal stones, once again releasing the Fireball Technique with full force, trying to use the repelling power of flames to disperse the wind and snow.

But when the Fireball Technique exploded, its power was far less than before.

Omnipresent icy energy continued to devour the flames it released.

Under Gauss’s gaze, the Fireball Technique seemed to be strangled by invisible cold hands.

He took a deep breath.

His body’s energy continued to be rapidly consumed as he tightly gripped the water sword condensed by the Holy Water in his hand.

The gift from the Lake God was certainly not simple. Even though the temperature around had dropped below freezing point, the water sword had not been affected in the slightest.

He must find the hidden Dragon Priestess in the snowstorm.

He thought to himself.

The body needs to resist the deadly cold energy erosion from the surroundings, making this already rapid energy-consuming state further intensified.

"Crackling!"

Countless tiny ice blades slashed across his body everywhere, the protective shield shattered yet quickly regenerated.

Where are you, Dragon Priestess?

His golden dragon eyes sparkled.

It seemed to respond to his call.

He felt there was a change deep within his pupils.