The ground shattered beneath his body.
Arther's eyes widened for a split second just enough time to realize what was happening before Shinseiryu's cwed hand smmed into his face, driving him mercilessly into the dirt. Blood spttered across the cracked earth. The Divine Holy Dragon didn't stop there. He grabbed Arther's hair, yanked him up, and delivered a brutal kick to his gut. A sickening crack echoed, and Arther vomited blood mid air before his body was hurled into a stone pilr.
The force of impact split the stone. Arther colpsed to the ground, groaning. Thoughts blurred.
"Shit... he's too strong. The only reason I'm even conscious is because of the Dark God's armor..."
He tried to push himself up, only to be smmed back down, face-first, under Shinseiryu’s cwed foot.
"Just stay down, you piece of shit," the dragon-man sneered, his voice a mockery of amusement.
Agony fred as Arther's leg twisted unnaturally snapped cleanly by Shinseiryu’s telekinesis. Arther screamed.
The Divine Holy Dragon crouched down, lips curling into a wicked smile. "Oo..I have great Idea you didn't see that Fenrir girl well as she eaten by me....you can't see her dying face how about you look Yamikage dying face...and also the Fenrir Girl say that her daddy will kill me, fool child don't know her pce so I eat her...." Shinseiryu look at arther with evil smile. "Her flesh tasted very good....don't woory you both will join her soon..."
Those words those words froze time for arther.
Yuki is dead.
The words echoed again and again.
Yuki is dead... Yuki is dead...
Arther's breath caught. His eyes widened in horror as Shinseiryu grabbed Yamikage by her blood matted hair, lifting her limp, unconscious body.
The message window blinked before him:
[Quest Received]
1. Save the Bck Dragon
2. Take Revenge Reward: Skill Card Estimated Victory Rate: 0.01%
But Arther didn’t even register it.
Only one thought remained.
Yuki is dead.
"Wind Magic: Shinku Zanshin!"
Arther moved like lightning. A blur of motion and steel. In an instant, he severed Shinseiryu’s arm and snatched Yamikage from his grasp. Blood sprayed as the dragon reeled back.
"Oh? That was unexpected," Shinseiryu chuckled, his severed limb already beginning to regenerate.
[Objective Completed: Save the Bck Dragon] [Title Ability Unlocked: Dragon Chamber Accessed] [Yamikage Transferred to Dragon Chamber. Healing & Curse Removal Initiated.]
Dark mist enveloped Yamikage’s body, whisking her away. Arther’s eyes didn’t move from Shinseiryu.
"So, the Dark God even granted you that," the dragon muttered, voice ced with annoyance. "You're full of surprises."
But Arther said nothing. He lunged.
"How rude! I was talking!" Shinseiryu shouted.
He blocked Arther’s kick mid air. Then his expression faltered.
Arther's eyes... bnk. Mindless. Broken.
"Tch. So you’ve gone feral, huh? Fine. Let’s py."
Arther’s hands fred with swirling bck mana. He thrust them forward.
"Abyss Devourer!"
A spear of dark matter erupted from his palm, piercing through Shinseiryu’s torso. The dragon howled, stumbling.
Blood dripped. But the wound didn’t close.
"Dark mana... that's why it's not healing!"
[Skill Registered: Abyss Devourer - Grade: AA+]
Arther's body trembled, yet he stood. Bones broken. Eye half shattered. His right leg twisted unnaturally.
Shinseiryu's smile vanished. "Time to end this."
He transformed. His body expanded, coated in silver white scales. Horns burst from his head, cws lengthened, a reptilian tail unfurled. The ground quaked beneath him.
"Lumen Judgement."
A beam of divine light surged forth.
Arther had no time to move. The explosion engulfed him.
When the smoke cleared, the sight was horrifying.
Arther’s left leg: gone. One arm: missing. A hole gaped through his chest. Half his face burned away.
He fell.
I lost... he thought. I wasn’t strong enough.
Then, in that void of pain... her smile.
Yuki.
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In the pce between death and reality, the obsidian door returned.
Fmes flickered.
Kurojin his formless figure of burning darkness stood silently. He extended his hand.
Arther, barely conscious in thought and soul, reached out.
His body ignited in bck fmes.
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In the real world, Shinseiryu paused, sensing a shift. The mana had changed.
"What...?"
The air grew heavy.
[Skill Activated: Dark Berserker - Grade E+]
Fmes erupted from Arther's corpse.
He rose, his limbs reforming from searing dark mana. His missing arm and leg returned formed of fme. The hole in his chest closed. His eyes now glowing white shed bck blood like tears.
Shinseiryu took a step back. For the first time, he looked afraid.
"No... That form... It can't be. That presence... You're not Arther... Shikokuen. You bastard. You should’ve died with the Dark God!"
The reborn Arther spoke with a deep, dual toned voice.
"The Dark God entrusted this child to me. He’s resting. While he sleeps... I will kill you."
He reached into the void, pulling forth a single bck ring.
[Equipped: Dark God Mana Morphing Weapon - Ring Form]
The ring shifted.
In his hand formed a sword of condensed oblivion.
He swung it once the earth behind him split apart.
Pointing it at Shinseiryu, he decred:
"On behalf of the boy prepare to die."
To Be Continued........
