Heaven, Earth, Me-Chapter 1207. Dragon vs Soldier.

Yasenia was terribly confused. Naturally, she had expected the Heavenly Tribulation to be dangerous. She knew and understood that she would be unable to relax during the entire process. After all, the Sixth Realm tribulation lasted for a long time, unlike normal tribulations.

Her face was serious when looking at the aftermath of their clash. Until now, her [Shattering The Heavens] had been overwhelmingly powerful. Even against Sixth Realm beings, the attack that used all four of her paths and combined the power with Celestial Energy was highly destructive.

However, the soldier was only pushed back without showing any external heavy injuries. Just a few scratches here and there on the black armor, which disappeared right away. Yasenia wasn't expecting the attack to heavily injure it or anything, but she expected something more than whatever effect it had on it.

As she looked, the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier] shot forward toward her, streaking through the void like a multicolored comet, and arrived in front of Yasenia moments later. The dragoness deployed her Grand Cosmos Martial Arts and exchanged blows with it.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Muted explosions rippled through the fabric of space as the violent strength the soldier carried rendered Yasenia unable to counterattack. Utterly on the defensive, Yasenia's mind spun with thoughts about how her current situation was possible.

'If this thing were the final trial of the Heavenly Tribulation, I wouldn't be too shocked. However, my tribulation just started! After killing this thing, will two of them appear? If so, then I don't understand where my chance of winning exists!'

Yasenia's eyes and arms moved swiftly, waving Draheart madly as she continued clashing with the powerful glowing white long sword.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

'If I had a normal weapon and not Draheart, would it have been destroyed by now?' While Yasenia thought as such, she noticed the glowing white sword crackle with multicolored electric arcs. Feeling the pressure emanating from the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier], Yasenia turned serious and she slashed against the incoming attack. "[Empyrean Celestial Collapse]!"

RUMBLE!

Yasenia grunted as her arms shrieked in pain, and her sword was pushed back through the sheer power behind the slash. When the soldier completed its attack, Yasenia shot backward, her body surrounded by harmful electrical currents. Gritting her teeth, she activated [Celestial Tyrant Astral Baptism] to cleanse those harmful currents with a surge of energy.

Yasenia recovered her stance, glaring at the charging Tribulation Soldier. 'Terrifyingly strong. I don't feel like I can beat it with normal means.'

Yasenia looked at the Heavenly Tribulation following their fight, but when she did so, she noticed a small detail. 'Huh?'

She couldn't concentrate on it for long, though. The [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier] arrived in front of her again, and Yasenia had to refocus on it once more. [Grand Cosmos Martial Art, Fourth Form: Cosmic Air]."

The soldier pierced forward, but Yasenia twisted her torso and avoided the attack. As she avoided, her tail glowed with [Draconic Sunset] and was enhanced by [Sun Soul Weapon Enhancement].

For the first time since their exchange, Yasenia managed to slip in one clean attack.

BOOM!

The powerful strike hit the body of the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier]. However, contrary to her expectations, the soldier just moved a few meters to the side before resuming its constant barrage. She quickly positioned herself and defended, Draheart blurring as she tried to keep up with its attacking speed. 'Ugh. Fast! It is faster than me, more durable than me, and stronger than me! I am completely outclassed!'

As she was cornered by it, Yasenia thought of using her Dragon Form. 'But this is just the first part of the tribulation! How can I be using my aces from the very beginning!?' Still, the anomaly in the Heavenly Tribulation clouds called for her attention. 'There aren't any...'

Yasenia gave it a side-glance once more, her face becoming even more suspicious. 'There are no Heavenly Lightning Bolts in the clouds.'

That was utterly ridiculous. A Heavenly Tribulation wouldn't stop preparing the next attack because the fight was lasting too long. It had no such considerations. At most, the Heaven was unable to send more than one wave of creatures her way. However, that didn't prohibit it from creating the next waves in the meantime to weaken the challenger.

Quite sure about her conjecture, the dragoness glanced at the imposing [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier], and her eyes squinted. 'Are you too strong, exhausting most of the energy that the Heavenly Tribulation could gather? So now, the tribulation is resting...'

If that were the case, it would explain why the soldier was so strong. Instead of fighting waves after waves of lightning bolts, Heaven spent themselves to create this monster.

Yasenia used [Pegasus Gallop] backward, appearing a few tens of kilometers back. Then, she began absorbing the cosmic energy around her. The soldier lunged into pursuit, slowly closing the distance while Yasenia fled from it.

Tai Yang snorted, his voice spreading through the void of space through energy instead of using air as a medium. "It seems that you are just a coward. A dragon should fight their battles head-on."

Yasenia ignored him, internally, though she was cursing him a thousand times over. 'You are the one speaking about frontal clashes? If you are an upfront person, there are no conmen around the entire universe!'

She didn't say it aloud, though. She had to focus on the fight ahead of her. "If it is as I think, the Heavenly Tribulation spent too much on you... I should have a long time of respite after killing you..."

Yasenia's eyes flashed, and she stopped in her tracks after she absorbed enough Cosmic Energy from the surroundings. The soldier prepared to attack from a distance, but suddenly, an incredibly majestic aura exploded from the dragoness, pushing it back several hundred kilometers.

"[Empyrean Cosmos Dragon Transformation]."

Yasenia's figure bloated and expanded in less than a second, becoming an empyrean being larger than mountain ranges.

ROAR!

The Celestial Dragoness' voice resonated through space itself as her gargantuan body, which approached 50 kilometers in length, looked at the soldier in the distance with a solemn expression. "Even now, I can feel that my aura is below yours... Truly a freaking monstrous being."

The soldier didn't grow in size. Instead, the sword did. Now that they were in the middle of space with no obstacles around, the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier]'s sword crackled, creating a phantom image comparable to Yasenia's gargantuan dragon body.

The soldier pushed against the void and became a streaking light, rushing toward Yasenia's reverse scale while wielding the enormous sword. As an answer, Yasenia's giant claw moved through the void, rippling with ridiculous amounts of energy rivaling immortals.

"[Celestial Dragon Claw]."

Beyond her majestic claw, an even bigger phantom image appeared, which could dwarf islands. The phantom image was translucent and glittered with the colors of the cosmos, as if it had galaxies and other celestial bodies glowing inside of it.

BOOM!

The gargantuan clash created a bright explosion in the middle of the void so large that it was visible from the surface of the planet. After that clash, Yasenia roared and began exchanging attacks with the relatively dust-like being.

Still, the sight of their clashes was eye-popping. Each time the sword phantom and Yasenia's claw clashed, both sides would be heavily repelled. From a distance, it looked as if Yasenia was fighting against a ridiculously fast and tricky, translucent, giant, white sword.

Exchanging blows while moving through the void, Yasenia noticed something very ridiculous. 'Even in this form, I am physically weaker than it?'

Each time the sword phantom clashed with her body, she could feel the shockwave travel through her muscles as she was forcefully repelled. This created a situation where the tiny humanoid being was seen swinging a mountain-sized phantom sword and forcefully pushing back a mountain-range-sized dragon.

"How strong are you!?" Yasenia was vexed to the extreme. She didn't believe that she was losing terrain even in her true form!

BOOM BOOM! BOOM!

The fight continued, and time went by quickly.

One hour, five hours, a full day...

When more than 24 hours had passed since Yasenia and the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier] started exchanging blows in the sky, people started feeling ridiculous. On one side, there was a being created from Heavenly Lightning that could probably lay waste to an entire world with a few sword swings. On the other side, there was a terrifyingly strong and large dragon who didn't lose out in terms of destructive powers. The occasional Dragon Breath was enough to make a few people feel like they were going to be crushed by their sheer pressure.

Yasenia's dragon body was full of cuts, scales cracked everywhere around her body, and her gargantuan wings had holes here and there. One of her golden horns was similarly chipped, and her claws had to be regrown more than once from being sliced. Her tail was not much better off. After all, she also used it to attack.

Still, Yasenia's initial anxious face had become much more placid and serious. 'I am getting accustomed to its speed. I guess it is time to use one of my hidden aces.'

Yasenia's energy surged, alerting the [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier]. However, it didn't feel any danger, confusing it. Yasenia's energy spread around, and a massive constellation appeared behind her back. "[Heavenly Constellation Steps, Fifth Sky: Aquarius' Rain]!"

The image of a woman constructed out of 38 stars tilted a vase over Yasenia. Then, from the supposedly empty vase, white rain started to fall. Each time one droplet of the rain touched Yasenia, her injuries in that area healed, and her fatigue recovered as well.

[Aquarius' Rain] was Yasenia's second strongest defensive skill, which she unlocked not long ago. The skill was a wide-area healing skill that used the mysterious Star Attribute to envelop wounds and nourish them through the concept of the Stars.

Unlike the Sun and Moon, whose roles were quite clearly displayed through their elements, Star Attribute was extremely mysterious and veiled in hidden secrets. What one could do with the Star Attribute came down to one single word. 'Meaning.'

The Star Attribute was a conceptual attribute. It could be used as a raw attacking method or to create a strengthening melody, an illusion, a healing area, and many other things. It all depended on how deeply one understood the attribute.

[Heavenly Constellation Steps] encompassed the myriad possibilities of the Star Attribute extremely well, and the [Fifth Sky], was a wide-area healing rain only affecting friendly beings.

The [World Destroying Tribulation Soldier] looked around for a second, and seeing that it wasn't hurting itself, it rushed toward Yasenia once more.

"[Star Destroying Lunar Flame]!"

At that moment, a blinding ray of pure elemental energy shot from the side, forcing the Tribulation Soldier to deviate its attack.

BOOM!

A petite woman with silver and golden hair split by a gorgeous celestial blue band stood there imposingly. Her face was cold as she spoke aloud. "If you want to hurt my contractor, there are many more obstacles than her strength, Heaven."

Yasenia's lips arched faintly. "Welcome back, Soluna."