Axion was overe by bestial instinct due to the toxin of the caged mushroom. Aside from Dink and Lady Estra, he was the closest to the mushroom monster when it released its spores, causing his face to be torted into a snarl as he advanced on Dink.

  Dink covered his face with a er of his cloak, casting a quice around the room before fixing his attention on Axion. The surrounding onlookers appeared to be less affected by the drifting spores, obliviously cheering as the batants suddenly began their fight. Dink could see the tiny spores spreading through the room to be inhaled by the unsuspeg crowd.

  What did those spores do?I ’t let myself ihem. Axioo have lost all reason, while Lady Estra has been overe by al instinct. I feel it through the tract bond.Shit, here he es!

  Axion roared as he swung a card at Dink’s head. Dink twisted sideways as he stepped back out of the trajectory of the sudden attack. He tered with a sharp hook to the overextended lion-man’s jaw. It felt like hitting an iro. Despite pung as hard as he could, it didn’t so much as move the beastfolk’s .

  Dink’s eyes narrowed as he realized the limitations of his goblin physique. He unleashed a torrent of hooks and uppercuts into the irrational lion-man’s exposed face. Axion roared his annoyance, swinging a baded cw toward Dink’s head. Dink crouched as the wild swing passed above him where his head was a moment before. He didn’t pause in his attacks, buffeting Axion’s midse with iive punches. Dink stepped bad hesitated as he felt his sleeping mana beginning to stir.

  Fuck, I breathed in the spores. I dropped the cloak c my face amid the scuffle. I feel it affeg me already, this is going to end very badly!

  The effect was different thaicipated. Uhe wild frenzy of Axion, or the untamed lust of Lady Estra, Dink’s vision was noticeably sharpening. He became overwhelmed as a torrent of new information overwhelmed his senses. He was aware of the surrounding crowd behind him being mgressive.

  At the er of his vision, Dink saw the dejected mage who was the former owner of the Myid mushroom dive get dragged across the bar by the topless server. She aggressively mounted on top of the surprised man holding a metal fgon above her head. Suddenly, she tore open his shirt with her free hand to expose his skinny chest, befripping open his jaw. Tipping the tents of the fgon into the bewildered mage’s mouth. There was a ctter as the bar server tossed aside the empty fgon, plunging her lustful lips against the man underh her. He finally reacted to en the attractive woman’s waist, pulling her in close.

  As Dink stood motionless, abs simir sarios happening in the room all around him. Something smmed into him, sending his small frame flying through the air. He could feel a sharp pain across his chest until he was distracted by crashing into a wooden chair, redug it to splinters. He saw that it was Axion who had ambushed him.

  The mindless Axion roared as he charged toward Dink’s prone form from where he stood moments earlier. Dink’s miached from the pain when he looked down to iigate his wounds, five deep cuts were sshed across his chest. His stirring mana suddenly reacted, filling his body with power. Axion skidded to a halt, warily retreating backward. He was growling in warning as his oiled mana tattoos flickered with light in an attempt to activate.

  Di a surging majesty fill his mind. Pushing himself to his feet amid the wreckage of the wooden chair, his dragon aura radiated outward, interrupting the ses of lust and surrounding fights as those affected began to tremble in fear. Those with weaker stitutions fainted, uo endure. While those with cowardly nature began to fight toward the exits scrambling to be the first to escape.

  All eyes were locked on Dink as he puffed out his chest with pride. Mana flowed into the exposed wounds on his chest, causing them to disappear at a rate visible to the naked eye. Fmes flickered across the sshes as they melted away into bck sand which blew away before hitting the floor. His blueish-bck skin took on a metallic hue as small scales formed a natural armor on his body. His attention focused on the cautious lion-man, stepping in his dire.

  The crowd fled at Dink’s approach, only Axion stood his ground, giviament to the warrior’s ce. The mana tattoos flickered into life as Axion forced them to activate despite the magebah a roar of defiance. He overcame the dragoo charge recklessly at Dink, who was calmly advang. The tattoos tio flicker on and off, with the duration beiively longer.

  The world slowed almost to a stop as Dink’s awareness sharpened, he could hear the slowed heartbeats of every creature ihe building and an unfamiliar rumble in the background. Most of the inhabitants in other parts of the building fled or hid in fusion, but he could hear a steady heartbeat approag through the maze of passageways. It was traveling at an unnatural speed toward him. He could detect the faint st of a draic bloodline ing from their dire.

  How dare a mere bastard bloodline dare to challenge me?!

  Dink’s mind roared with affront as he shifted his attention away from the almost immobile Axion to look in the dire of the steady heartbeat. The door to the main building oher side of the gambling area, shattered into a shower of splinters which remained h in the air. Standing amid the ruins was a muscur high-elf male. He was shirtless with shoulder-length flowing white hair. Pierced through his pointed left ear were five golden rings glittering in the room's lighting.

  Axion had crossed the distance as Dink’s attention was elsewhere. The lion-man’s cw ected in a shower of sparks. They were deflected off the tightly-packed scales proteg Dink. Dink gnced in his dire, suddening realizing that the unfamiliar rumble in the background was the lion-man’s ear-shattering battle roar. Dink distractedly punched outward, keeping his attention on the new arrival. He carefully trolled his strength as he felt the impact shatter Axion’s bones despite the active mana tattoos.

  Axion was sent flying at high-speed in the almost motionless world, to nd with a crash meters away in an unscious heap at the catgirl’s feet. Dink watched her face tort in as she dropped to her knees beside the lion-man in slow motion. Axion’s mana tattoos flickered out to remain dormant.

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