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- MWM Chapter 471
“Time Shout, that’s really a powerful Dragon Shout.”
The moment Leo sensed the changes in the surrounding time laws, he quickly donned his Golden Saint Cloth, and his Cosmos energy exploded to its limit, opening all Eight Gates in his body.
Though he couldn’t control time, Leo had done some research on time laws, so he could sense the shifts happening around him.
Even with Alduin’s Slow Time shout active, Leo could still manage to counter it as long as his body was fast enough.
“Lightning Speed Fist!”
Catching Alduin’s dragon claw with his left hand, Leo unleashed the full extent of his Cosmos energy, using his right hand to deliver an incredibly swift and powerful attack.
“How is this possible?!”
Alduin’s dragon eyes widened in disbelief.
He knew that his Slow Time shout could slow down everything within the area by a hundred times, meaning normal reactions, movements, punches—everything—would take a hundred times longer to perform.
A move that could be completed in one second would now take a hundred seconds.
Under such an effect, for Leo to catch his claw and then launch such a rapid counterattack, his body must have been unimaginably strong.
What Alduin didn’t realize was that even with time slowed down a hundredfold, Leo’s punch speed could still approach nine hundred times the speed of sound.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Countless golden fists rained down on Alduin, forcing a painful roar from the dragon as he was blasted to the ground, breaking the effect of the Slow Time shout.
While Slow Time could reduce Leo’s punch speed, it couldn’t diminish the power behind his blows.
So each punch that Leo landed on Alduin carried the terrifying strength of both the Eight Gates and the Golden Saint’s full power combined.
To Leo’s surprise, Alduin climbed out of the crater in the ground not long after, completely unharmed except for looking a little disheveled.
But this time, Alduin no longer had the arrogance he showed before. Gasping for breath, he yelled at Leo:
“Dovahkiin, I admit your power is great, but I am Alduin, the firstborn of Akatosh, the End of Time, a divine being! I cannot be killed by mere mortals, not even by you.
Once I devour enough souls and regain my strength, I will fight you again.
You cannot defeat me; I will be the one who lives to see the end!”
With that, Alduin flapped his wings and turned away, trying to escape in the opposite direction of Leo.
It was clear that after their brief exchange, Alduin knew that in his current state, he was no match for this insane Dragonborn and decided to flee, intending to recover all his power before coming back to kill Leo.
“Can’t be killed in the mortal realm, huh?”
Leo frowned.
None of the attacks—energy-based, soul-based, or physical—could harm Alduin. It really seemed like what Alduin claimed: he was a god who couldn’t be killed in the mortal world.
Leo thought back to the world’s creation myth.
If Alduin was indeed the other half of the Time Dragon God Akatosh, then he also represented the time aspect of this world’s laws.
Killing Alduin would be equivalent to erasing time itself, which would cause the world to collapse.
So, to kill Alduin, one would need a power capable of destroying the entire world.
But even the Aedra and Daedra gods didn’t possess the power to obliterate the whole world.
Then how could the Dragonborn, said to carry the mission given by Akatosh to end Alduin, fulfill that destiny? Could it be false?
And how did the three Nordic heroes kill Alduin back in the day, and why did Alduin revive thousands of years later?
“You think you can escape? No way!”
Seeing Alduin trying to flee, Leo immediately made his move:
“Buddha in the Palm!”
A colossal Buddha figure emerged behind Leo. Alduin, who was trying to escape, found himself in the Buddha’s hand. No matter how he flew, he couldn’t get out of the Buddha’s grasp and was dragged back to face Leo.
“Demon Conquest!”
Alduin was once again smacked down.
Although Leo hadn’t figured out how to kill Alduin, he couldn’t just let the dragon leave.
After all, Alduin himself had said he would restore his strength and come back to seek revenge.
“You can’t kill me! Even if you try a hundred times, it’s useless!”
Alduin once more crawled out of the ground, then roared a shout: Phantasmal Translucence. His body transformed into an ethereal shadow, attempting to flee again.
Leo was not about to let him escape so easily. Even if he couldn’t kill Alduin, he could at least trap him.
“Three Heads and Six Arms!”
For the first time in this world, an eight-hundred-meter-tall avatar with three heads and six arms appeared. A golden rope was flung out, crossing space to bind Alduin tightly, even in his ghostly form.
“Gotcha!”
Phantasmal Translucence allowed Alduin’s body to become intangible, making him immune to energy, physical, and soul attacks. However, the golden rope of Leo’s three-headed, six-armed avatar carried a sealing law.
Theoretically, not even an intangible form could escape this law’s binding.
With a forceful tug, Alduin was pulled back against his will.
This time, Leo didn’t attack Alduin further, knowing it was pointless.
The giant hand of the avatar held the bound Alduin and brought him before Leo’s forehead.
“Alduin, tell me, how many dragons have you revived, and how many remain unrevived? And how did you die all those years ago?”
“I didn’t expect a mere mortal to become this powerful. But even so, you cannot kill me, and how long can you keep up this form? Once it fades, I will escape.”
Facing Leo’s towering three-headed, six-armed avatar, Alduin’s heart was shaken.
He could sense that this version of Leo’s power was on par with some Daedric Princes who had no realm of their own.
Yet, relying on his own immortality, Alduin wasn’t afraid of Leo.
“True, I can’t kill you. But from what I observed, when your body is attacked, you still feel pain, right?”
Leo’s lips curled into a sly grin as he manipulated the avatar’s golden spear, aiming it at a sensitive spot under Alduin’s tail.
Immediately, Alduin tucked his tail tightly against his belly, protecting his vital area.
“Wait, wait, we can talk! Let’s talk this through.”
For the first time, the ever-proud Alduin spoke in a softened tone.
Truthfully, even if the spear pierced him from tail to head, it wouldn’t kill him.
But, as Leo had guessed, Alduin would still feel pain.
If the spear hit anywhere else, Alduin could endure it, but not there. It wasn’t about pain; it was about dignity.
He was the king of all dragons, the World Devourer Alduin. To be skewered back and forth like that… just thinking about it was…
(End of chapter)