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#167 - Slay the dragon!

“Awoo ~ ~ ! ! ! ”

Only after Liang Yue ran out, and another half a second or so had passed, did Smaug react, and he staggered unconsciously.

The intense stinging sensation coming from its dragon eyes instantly felt like it had been struck hard, causing it to retreat repeatedly, stirring up several layers of giant waves in the sea of gold coins!

It howled and screamed ~

The burning, stinging pain almost instantly robbed it of all judgment.

A pair of giant claws, like those of a bat, growing on the joints of its wing bones, unconsciously scratched at its face, but couldn't reach anything at all!

The eyelids and membranes that faithfully guarded its pair of dragon eyes were now constantly brushing, ceaselessly wiping the eyeballs left, right, up, and down.

However, this subconscious action only served to accelerate the diffusion of capsaicin in its eyeballs, causing the stinging sensation to rapidly extend inward and deeper ~

In just one or two breaths, it could be seen from its occasionally raised eyelids that countless blood streaks had appeared on the surface of Smaug's eyeballs!

Around its eye sockets, beneath the thick dragon skin, veins began to bulge, and even the dragon scales were stretched open.

Smaug, at this moment, desperately wanted to expel this liquid that was causing it pain from its eyeballs ~

However, to the dragon's despair, this attack was not magic, nor was it any kind of evil toxin; it was merely a pure, physical irritant.

Smaug's eyes couldn't breathe fire, so it couldn't evaporate or incinerate it ~

But it still made many efforts to do so, such as ~ trying to make itself cry… …

However, this was still futile!

The pain on Smaug's body did not lessen by half.

The excruciating burning sensation had now spread rapidly along the muscles and nerves behind its eyeballs into its dragon brain.

As a result, Smaug went berserk!

“Roar ~ ! ! ! ”

Short, frenzied roars burst from its ferocious mouth, filled with intense rage and mania.

It churned and plunged into the sea of gold coins below, but quickly burst out of the gold again.

In the process, countless gold coins were scattered in all directions, clashing against the walls in a flurry.

Countless gold artifacts and gemstones flew out like raindrops, overlapping in the air, creating a series of clanging sounds.

Amidst the chaos, its wide wings flapped, and Smaug howled as it flew into the air, but quickly plunged down again… …

“Haa ~ ! ! ! ”

The shrill roar echoed throughout the treasure vault, and as the evil dragon crashed and thrashed, even the entire Lonely Mountain began to tremble slightly.

Liang Yue was now squatting in a recess in a stone wall, and to avoid being accidentally injured by the crazed Smaug, he had also laid a layer of thick metal cubes in front of him as a shield.

He gripped the metal wall with both hands, revealing only a pair of long rabbit ears, and a pair of eyes shielded behind goggles.

He just quietly watched it fly into the sky and dive into the ground, watched it churn and rage, watched it lose itself, roar wildly, brandish its sharp claws, and even spin around and spray dragon fire in all directions.

Damn ~?

Smaug can even do a Thomas spin!

… ..

Soon, five or six minutes passed.

After a moment of fermentation and adaptation, Smaug's spirit finally entered a period of decline.

In a headstand posture, it plunged directly from the air into the thick pile of gold coins, its ferocious dragon mouth still roaring, but in this roar, there was also a burst of painful wailing.

Then, it hugged its dragon head with a pair of wing claws and rolled around on the gold coins.

Where was there any trace of its previous arrogance and nonchalant attitude?

At this moment, it had even completely forgotten the starting point of all this, and forgot that there seemed to be a person hidden in this treasure vault, just venting and wailing on its own.

Therefore, Liang Yue was now very patient and calm, just quietly watching the other party.

Until a certain moment, after the frenzy and wailing, Smaug finally began to slowly calm down, just like a dragon baby more than a hundred meters long.

Silently hugging its head, squatting in a corner of the sea of gold coins ~

Breathing heavily, the surging heat and firelight in the gaps of the dragon scales on its chest were gradually cooling down.

Then, on its huge chest, a missing piece of scales appeared in Liang Yue's line of sight.

“It's time ~”

Staring at the slightly blackened opening, Liang Yue narrowed his eyes slightly at this moment, and then walked out from behind the metal wall.

With a flip of his sleeve, the One Ring was immediately taken out by him and put on his left index finger.

In this instant, Liang Yue entered a state of invisibility, and the world in his vision turned into a hazy appearance that seemed to be but wasn't, the evil dragon at this moment was like a huge light source, its soul power was very strong.

But it was firmly bound within the body ~

Completely unlike the souls of other races, which dissipated like clouds.

This may be a special form of soul, Liang Yue didn't understand it, but what he knew was that according to the script, the other party definitely couldn't see himself in the hidden state of the One Ring.

Otherwise, the little hobbit in the original plot would have died many times!

Afterwards, this fellow quietly circled towards Smaug's back along the circular stone platform surrounding the sea of gold coins.

Not fast, not slow, but always maintaining vigilance.

Finally, after a moment, Liang Yue came to the back of this giant dragon, but according to his own understanding, it would be more appropriate to call Smaug, who had no independent forearms or claws, a bat dragon.

Of course, none of this matters ~!

Looking at Smaug, who was quietly squatting there in front of him, Liang Yue could vaguely feel a kind of pressure from the other party.

Under the background of that heavy breathing, this dragon's spirit was gradually recovering its clarity.

Liang Yue could vaguely feel that although Smaug was still troubled by the pain in its eyes, it was very cautious, its ears perked up high.

Buried beneath the tense dragon skin and scales were large chunks of strong muscles that could burst out at any time, any slight disturbance would inevitably be met with its thunderous offensive!

Thinking of this, Liang Yue grinned silently at this moment ~

With a thought, a gold coin under his feet was collected into his storage space, and then with a flip of his sleeve, he took the gold coin in his hand again.

Gently tossing it, the gold coin immediately drew a high parabola in the air as it spun, and finally fell into the sea of gold coins seventy or eighty meters away!

“Clatter ~” a crisp sound.

In the originally quiet treasure room, it immediately caused a chain reaction.

The gold coin that fell from a high place directly involved the surrounding gold coins to flow downward, and Smaug, who originally seemed to be in a daze, immediately raised its ferocious dragon head at this moment.

“Die to me ~! ”

Accompanied by a roar full of hatred, the dragon's mouth opened, and a violent pillar of dragon flame spurted out.

Liang Yue, at this moment, would naturally not let go of this good opportunity, and with a stomp of his feet, the whole person immediately climbed onto Smaug's body nimbly.

Taking advantage of the evil dragon's release of pressure and lack of time to take care of it, in a few quick moves, he pried open the rough scales and came to the other party's chest.

With a sweep of his eyes, he almost immediately locked onto the position of the missing scales.

Immediately, he stomped hard, and the whole person leaped high ~

With a flip of his sleeve, the spiral-shaped sharp black arrow instantly appeared in his hand.

Liang Yue firmly grasped the arrow shaft with both hands at this moment, and following the angle and force of his body falling, he stabbed hard at the fiery opening below!

“Whoosh ~! ”

The slender black arrow pierced deeply into Smaug's chest, causing its body, which was originally spewing out a fierce pillar of fire, to stagnate immediately, and an involuntary groan escaped its mouth.

It must be said that when the River Valley King Girion shot Smaug, the position he chose was indeed very particular, the gap in the chest scales itself was not far from the evil dragon's heart.

At this moment, Liang Yue, who was close at hand, could clearly hear the irregular giant trembling sound from the dragon's heart inside the chest cavity!

The sharp spiral arrowhead had pierced the muscle skin of the heart!

However, Liang Yue was not satisfied with this, he gently flicked the still exposed shaft of the black arrow, and with a twist of his waist, the whole person instantly hung upside down.

Then, with a strong swing of his legs, he delivered a fierce inverted hook kick to the tail of the black arrow!

With a muffled sound of “poof ~”!

The long black arrow was finally completely submerged!