"F*ck! This thing just won't give me a damn break!". Muku cursed while looking at the familiar flame structure surrounding him.

And unlike last time he couldn't escape into the ground, the damned creature was somehow using the elements of a domain armour in its domain.

While it wasn't able to make the whole domain as intense as a domain armour charged spell. It was able to do so to the Execution Ground.

This time there was no loophole in the structure. Muku was pushed to the edge of his capabilities in less than a minute. He could barely breathe. His vision was getting blurry. His skin had long dried up.

Despite that, his mind was still steady. He couldn't help but wonder if combining a domain and domain armour was the next step.

It actually was one of the things needed to do before stepping into R5. It was actually the first time the Earth Dragon had been able to do it.

Interestingly enough, it only managed to do it after getting killed, resurrected, its strength reduced and losing a leg.

It was actually a lucky moment for it. It was only able to do it due to the shot to the soul by Muku.

Maybe the close encounter with death again when Muku almost killed it was the push it needed. Well, whatever the reason. It has come out of the experience stronger...

As for the leg, there must be a way to fix it somewhere. Maybe kidnap a good healer after getting out of the current situation.

"Goodbye human... EXECUTION"....

BOOOO... Whoooo....

The familiar spear appeared in the sky and fell on top of Muku. This time it was a lot quicker probably because of the domain's presence.

Within a second an explosion went off when the spear made contact. The Earth Dragon was looking at Muku intently from start to finish unlike last time when it stopped paying attention when the explosion rang out thinking that it was over.

This time it had to make sure that he was hit. And he was hit, he didn't, or couldn't escape into the ground like last time.

Safe to say, he was done for. The Earth Dragon had won. Now it just had to look on as Muku resisted for maybe a second before he was ended.

He had served the purpose it had for him. It was the reason it hadn't been bombarding him nonstop from the get-go since he entered the domain. Which would have slowly but surely killed him off.

It wanted a live target to express its newly enlightened super spell on. Not to mention that Muku had wounded its pride a lot from the moment he escaped the Execution Ground to the two deadly shots he took at it. It wanted to end him with the very move which started everything.

And from the look of things, it had succeeded! That's when something weird happened. It was something which made its eyes open wide in surprise.

Before the explosion could reach its peak. It was sucked in by something. Instead of exploding out, it was getting smaller and smaller until it was completely gone.

In its place, a soccer-sized red orb appeared. Rather, it was created.

This was because it was spinning around on top of Muku's open palm. And as the Earth Dragon looked closer, there seemed to be a weird, tyrannical and transparent energy swirling around the orb.

It could barely sense the energy but it got a very intense sense of danger from it.

"...."

Its mind went black for a moment then...

Whooshl Whoosh!...

It spammed attacks on Muku again. From all directions. This time it wasn't holding back. It used everything it had left. The domain turned redder and hotter due to all the attacks. No matter where Muku looked, whether up, down, left right, flame attacks came from everywhere.

However, he didn't panic. He even smiled. After all, he had finally gathered enough.... That's right. Your boy had been gathering force.

It was a lot harder to do with his weakened body which he pretty much had to retrain. But he made it work. He had to otherwise he would have had to give up.

Anyway, the first wave of attacks reached him.... Well, they reached the area five metres away from him and they... Vanished?!

But shouldn't that be impossible in a domain completely under the ED's control?!

The beast didn't lose hope yet. It had one more move to try out. It was going to show Muku its special domain ability it had been keeping hidden thinking it was unnecessary...

With that thought...

BOOOM!

The beast's body suddenly exploded in intense flames. Muku was surprised thinking that it had killed itself. That's when something surprising happened.

A Flame Elemental Dragon rose from the flames! Not an Earth Dragon. No! But a legit Western Dragon! Only that it was made out of fire.

"To think it could turn into a dragon...". Muku spoke softly.

BOOOM!

The dragon's flame wings opened wide and it took off into the sky as Muku's words fell.

Crazily enough, the missing leg was present in its Elemental Dragon form.

BOOM! Bang!

The dragon in the distance sped in front of Muku with a boom. The next thing he saw was a giant fire hand swiping at him. It scared the hell out of him!

But the hand didn't reach him as it bounced off after reaching a certain point. It was then he remembered that he had a Force forcefield. Which was quite an interesting thing to have.

"Huh, it seems that form gives you bullshit speed which you don't have in your normal force. Fortunately for everyone, you can only use it in your domain... Well, whatever, I've let you show off enough. It's my turn now. This farce has gone on long enough. And you might have just made this whole thing even easier for me" Muku spoke calmly in a low voice. But he was certain that the Beast which had retreated a bit could hear him.

As for why it has retreated, it was because it felt its claw getting shredded a bit when it hit the force barrier around Muku.

And as an intelligent beast, it didn't randomly start hitting the barrier over and over again hoping that it would work out. It chose to step back and think of a way to get through. That's how it has been living up to that point. And that's how it was going to win that battle... At the very least, it was sure that it was going to be the eventual winner despite all the twists and turns.

After all, there was nothing Muku had done which had made it feel too threatened. Even the new energy he was using didn't seem overly threatening.

It actually looked down on him for having so much energy and attack methods. After all, as they say, a jack of all trades is a king of none.

While it only had the fire element, it still felt that it was so strong with it due to focusing solely on it. Not that it was strong from the start.

Anyway, Muku finally made his move.

BOOOM!

Just like the beast did to him before. He disappeared from where he was with a boom and an explosion in front of it.

The speed was beyond anything he had displayed before. So the beast was taken off guard. Before it could react, the red orb in his hand was thrown its way.

A smirk appeared on its face as it saw this. After all, the fire was still its own in its domain. There was no way it was going to get hurt by the fire under such a situation.

That's when a surprised then horrified look after on its face. It seemed Muku had had mixed something into the fire which cut it off from the original owner.

And that meant only one thing. It was screwed! After all, it was a concentrated fire attack powered by both a domain and a domain armour in its creation.

Even the king of fire wouldn't dare take such a thing lightly at the same level.

Unfortunately, it didn't have time to get away. It had wasted that with its stupid arrogance...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKOOOOOOOM!

A practically world-ending explosion rang out. Muku had long run to the very edge of the domain and pocket dimension. He wasn't sure his defence could take the hit. Even if it could, he wasn't dumb enough to test his luck.

Unlike the Earth Dragon, he doesn't let his confidence get in the way. As a human, he is well acquainted with irony after all. And he refused to be part of an ironic situation where he killed both himself and the enemy with a mixture of their abilities....

It took a little time for everything to clear up but when it did there was nothing left of the ground. Well, there was, but that was only a layer at least two kilometres deep into the ground.

That's right, all the ten kilometres had been cleared of the top layer of soil. And quite a few other layers too it seemed.

Muku's moving away hadn't changed much in the small area. While the intensity of the attack was a little less on him as he was ten kilometres away from ground zero.

He was still beaten up badly by it as it hadn't lost much energy in such a short distance.

His Mithril armour was completely stripped off. He was only left with his force barrier. His domain armour was also long gone.

Without Force, he would have fallen into the hole below. The situation looked pretty dire for him.

Then there was the Earth Dragon...