Pain. Pain ripped through him as the attack should have hit. And it staggered him back for a moment. then he glared up, panting. Fine. Just fine. He wasn't sure what this zeta son of a digit had done to him, how the dragon had attacked so swiftly, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. He was going to attack again.

And he staggered back from the pain again. And, as you might have guessed, still hadn't learned. Or rather... he learned the wrong lesson.

"INFINITY!" he yelled, shoving his power into as broad an AOE as possible, just trying to do DAMAGE to everything and anything. He was figuring the dragon was just moving THAT fast to dodge and attack. Well, if he brought the cave collapsing on them after setting it on fire... nowhere for the dragon to dodge to now was there?

He was willing to risk his remaining existence for his ambition. To his mind, anyone truly ambitious, should.