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Will of chaos-Chapter 1652: Cap 1650: No!
This place is the space of his Soul where his power is represented, so each part of his Soul that I saw had some meaning, with the previous one being the food conquests that marked him, which leaves only one question.
What was that landscape shown in the tapestry that I saw first of all?
I don’t have the context to understand, but it’s certainly something that marked him and represents him in some way.
"(A stolen strength... where am I so different from him...?)" (me)
Suddenly I started thinking about my ability to devour other living beings and thus obtain their Skills, Bloodlines and other things.
This ability of mine is not so different from what Arsan does in Devouring Dragons, I really am a big hypocrite, aren’t I?
This thought crossed my mind for milliseconds before being discarded, that’s because I never cared about being a hypocrite, as they say, the blame is not on the sword for killing, but on the one who wields the sword to kill.
My ability to devour doesn’t matter, it’s my criteria of who to devour, I’ve never done this with anyone innocent, it’s always been despicable people or monsters who were attacking me.
"Since you want to taste a part of me so much, why don’t I give you exactly what you asked for...?" (me)
I look at the blood, bodies and pieces of metal, this place was only missing fire along with chains to be a classic image of hell.
The Dragon made of the mass of his energy and power was still flying between the skies with the stars around him always repairing everything that was being destroyed continuously.
I raised my palm where the Eclipse mark was flashing with a bright light, then I cut my palm with my claws, letting the blood flow out and fall into the ocean of blood that surrounded me, but I smiled as I saw an Eclipse forming in the sky next to the Dragon of Power who stopped to look at the Eclipse that was constantly shaking as if it would break at any moment, this was the corruption being represented here.
The blood that I dropped into this sea of blood was not true blood since this was not my true body, it was energy that came from my Soul, energy contaminated by the power of the Apocalypse and Chaos that corrupts, transforming everything through the Curse.
In this place where not everything is Arsan’s power, where the energy, power and traces of the Soul of those he once Devoured are still stored, this place became the best point of corruption, he could protect his Soul and resist corruption, but he could not do anything with what did not belong to his Soul.
As the Eclipse in the sky became less and less illusory, its flaming light seemed to distort the space around it, the Dragon formed from the mass of power tried to collide with the Eclipse as if trying to destroy it, but all it managed to do was hurt its own Soul more and more, forming holes that were slowly being healed, making the damage accumulate, I just smiled seeing this, his fight was hurting him more than doing anything to me.
Even so, I still felt the pain from these collisions, pain in my Soul from the effect of the Ritual being connected to me.
Looking around, I noticed that some bones were gaining black veined patterns while some areas of the sea of blood seemed to move more on their own, it didn’t take long for the bones marked by the powers of black veins to move among themselves, joining together in bodies made of different bones that drag themselves into the ocean of blood that shines brightly with each one that dives.
Soon the calm sea of blood became turbulent as these Bone Dragons rose from the sea, now they were different, their bones became an external armor as if it were an exoskeleton while the inside was a liquid mass of blood forming the majority of their bodies, they were an allusion to the Anomalous Dragons themselves in their appearance, a bit ironic.
These Dragons of Bone and Blood swam in the sea of blood with effort as if the sea of blood itself was trying to resist them, so they collided or tried to bite the pieces of metal that rose everywhere in this place as if trying to break these things, with that both in the God and here corruption had already settled and when I looked at Arsan in his liquid metal form, he did not seem to writhe in pain.
"I guess you can’t pay attention to me anymore, can you?" (me)
"Where to now, Hinata?" (me)
"(Down... there...)" (Hinata)
The White Serpent on my wrist lowers its head in a slightly tilted direction, I follow its directions diving into the sea of blood I was standing in until now, then I realized the reason why Dragons of Bone and Blood have such difficulty swimming, the current always seemed to go against the direction I tried to go and the sea itself felt very heavy as if it was trying to impede my movements, it was really hard to move, the place that restricted me the most until now is even so I forced my advance without pause.
I swam in the blood for several minutes, going lower and in a direction that led to the lowest part of one of those metal structures. Behind it, I found what looked like a lake of crystal clear water reflecting a yellow sun with a ring around it. The Serpent was pointing there and so on until I dived into that place.
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This time it was different. I didn’t feel a quick movement. It was as if I was in a tunnel going through a long path. I was a little disoriented and confused while I still felt the weight on top of me growing more and more. I could feel as if there were invisible claws trying to hold me down or tear my body to pieces. The flames around me swayed more and more furiously as the Eclipse symbol on my hand flashed for the first time. It was at that moment that I felt like I had arrived somewhere, stopping my movement for the first time as I realized I was rising above a lake in the middle of a ruined city.
"Where am I?" (me)
I looked around, there was a large Dragon statue in the center of the lake where I was, this lake was in the middle of the ruins of the city, where exactly I didn’t know, but the Dragon statue was majestic, it was made of metal and extremely detailed, it was so vivid that it was as if this majestic Dragon could come to life at any moment.
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The rest of the city was in ruins as if it had been destroyed a few days ago, buildings were toppled, some with claw marks while others had holes through their structures, the smell of blood was permeating the air and just by smelling it I could identify two races, the first being the humans whose concentration of blood in the air was the highest while the second race seemed to be the Dragonewt.
It was strange to be here, that’s because a feeling took over this entire place, a feeling of weakness and an absurd desire for power, an insatiable hunger for power, but these desires and emotions were not mine, I only felt them in this place, so they were Arsan’s.
Suddenly I feel something and look at the ruins, on top of one of the buildings there was an extremely thin man whose face I couldn’t see, but from the silhouette he seemed to be Human, he was looking at the statue and his eyes were fanatical, an endless desire was in his eyes before he turned those same eyes to me, that’s when his voice seemed to travel to me directly.
"You think you can make me submit!? A mere Dragon thinks he can CONTROL me!?" (Arsan)
"What you want doesn’t matter, more than half of your Soul has already been taken by the Curse and even now it still spreads." (me)
As I spoke, my shadow stretches before a Dark Dragon rises, the Power of the Demonic Apocalypse emanating from him as his horns grow larger than mine and his eyes turn flaming red.
This Dark Dragon coiled around the statue as the cloudless sky where the Sun was was taken over by the darkness of night as if it had been stained little by little until nothing of the day remained, only a moonless starry sky was left, the stars were red and frightening.
The man who was standing on one of the ruined buildings looked enraged, drops of what looked like liquid metal floating around him gathering above him forming a Dragon’s head like before as he spoke causing this entire place to tremble.
"Do you really think you’ll get what you want?" (Arsan)
Something had changed, his fury didn’t seem to diminish, but his voice lowered its tone, his eyes became more focused as the ruined city seemed to melt with drops of liquid metal rising above it as I felt the space of this entire place vibrate.
"I have killed and devoured many Dragons!" (Arsan)
"I have traveled through many universes without hindrance, leading many hunts!" (Arsan)
"I have been alive for countless years bathing in the blood of Dragons and you think you can control me!?" (Arsan)
"..." (me)
"(Ali...)" (Hinata)
This place is already being corrupted too, I won’t stay here listening to him and waiting for whatever he’s trying to do, I look at the Serpent pointing towards the head of the metallic Dragon statue, then I see the space inside its jaw tremble.
"You are NOT going ANYWHERE else!!!" (Arsan)
"Urgh!!" (me)
I tried to fly to the mouth of the Dragon statue, but as soon as I got there I felt a barrier that pushed me back into the lake, the weight of gravity increased as space trembled and when I looked around I saw that more than half of all the ruins of this city had already melted into liquid metal that floated to form Arsan’s malformed body who looked at me with great resentment.
I tried harder to get past the blockade, but I was repelled once again and this time I could feel the bubbling will in him emerging along with his emotions, the human body that I saw in the distance was no longer there swallowed up like most of the ruins by the liquid metal.
"I SAID NO!!!!!" (Arsan)
"You still think you can go against me!!" (me)
"What would someone who never knew what strength meant understand about my WILL!!!" (me)
This time I don’t try to force my way through, I start to float towards that Dragon’s mouth, I feel the resistance of this place against me, but my Will transforms out of me like stars around me, an Eclipse forming behind me as I push myself without any thought of retreat.
I feel his blows against me and continue advancing until the opening that Hinata points to me, then arriving there I force myself to advance as my body breaks and burns, pain means nothing to me as I advance with a will that knows no impediment.
"NOOOOO!!!!" (Arsan)
"Aaaahhhh!!!!" (me)
I pass through the blockage and advance my hands deep into his Soul, this time I feel as if I have truly dove into liquid metal as his Will clashes with mine as I am immersed so deep inside him.