Vol 4. Chapter 96: Fury

“The Asumos Church hopes that after you obtain a body, you will lend them your strength to drive out the Abyss Demons and destroy the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons...”

Vinarola-Entuze’s words were filled with excitement.

For the headmistress of Yexinlian Royal Academy, the Holy Dragon King was unquestionably her benefactor.

It was precisely because she had once received the Holy Dragon King’s blessing that she had managed to break through from the Sixth Tier to become a Seventh-Tier Magic Saint. It was also because she had received the Holy Dragon King’s recognition that she had become the headmistress of Yexinlian Royal Academy.

She had reached the pinnacle of her life.

Without the Holy Dragon King’s recognition, there would be no Vinarola-Entuze of today.

Therefore,

the Holy Dragon King had become a god within Vinarola-Entuze’s heart, the object of her faith.

Even though the Holy Dragon King of today had long since lost the majestic, awe-inspiring bearing of legend and had been reduced to nothing more than a lonely heart,

Vinarola-Entuze’s faith had not wavered in the slightest.

Abyss Demons were undoubtedly terrifying creatures. Demon King-class Abyss Demons were absurdly powerful.

But,

in her eyes,

once Lord Holy Dragon King was reborn and regained a new body, he would undoubtedly return to his former peak. Driving out the Abyss Demons would be nothing more than a casual gesture.

Even the legendary Demon King-class Abyss Demons would inevitably be defeated beneath the Holy Dragon King’s overwhelming power.

That was precisely why, after receiving this proposal from the Asumos Church, Vinarola-Entuze had rushed to the Forbidden Palace so eagerly to report the matter to Lord Holy Dragon King.

If Lord Holy Dragon King agreed to the Church’s proposal, then the complete eradication of the Abyss Demons would soon be within reach.

She firmly believed that the entire continent would be guided by Lord Holy Dragon King toward a bright and beautiful future.

“Lord Holy Dragon King, what do you think of this proposal? Shall I call the person from the Asumos Church inside?”

Vinarola-Entuze asked excitedly, eagerly anticipating an affirmative response from Lord Holy Dragon King.

As the Holy Dragon King’s devout believer, she could hardly wait to witness his powerful and majestic new form.

However,

the gentle pale-golden radiance that Vinarola-Entuze had expected as a sign of agreement did not appear around the golden sphere.

Instead, the golden sphere fell into silence.

It was as though it had heard something utterly unbelievable and had simply frozen in place.

For a time,

the forbidden hall was so silent that even the sound of a falling needle could have been heard. The atmosphere became exceedingly strange.

?!!

“Lord Holy Dragon King?”

Vinarola-Entuze asked in confusion.

She had assumed that once Lord Holy Dragon King heard this news, he would immediately radiate overwhelming joy. After all, this proposal was clearly beneficial to both sides. Not only could Lord Holy Dragon King obtain a new body and once again reign supreme beneath the heavens, but the Asumos Church would also be able to completely eradicate their greatest hidden threat and drive the Abyss Demons out of this world once and for all.

Based on Vinarola-Entuze’s understanding of the Holy Dragon King,

even if Lord Holy Dragon King did not immediately agree out of caution, he should at least have shown some interest.

So why had he instead fallen into this bizarre silence?

At that moment,

countless question marks surfaced in the headmistress’s mind.

“Lord Holy... Dragon... King... hm?!!”

However,

just as Vinarola-Entuze was about to continue asking Lord Holy Dragon King for his opinion, the golden sphere, which had remained motionless for a long while, finally began radiating waves of pale-golden light once again.

But...

unexpectedly, this light had absolutely nothing to do with the word ‘gentle’...

“Th-this is?!”

In an instant,

under Vinarola-Entuze’s horrified gaze, the vertical dragon pupil formed from condensed energy abruptly contracted, and a furious, questioning gaze suddenly locked onto her.

At the same time, the pale-golden radiance surged wildly, instantly swallowing the entire forbidden hall. An immense and boundless draconic pressure, mixed with terrifying soul power, crashed toward Vinarola-Entuze like a raging tidal wave.

Although the Holy Dragon King now possessed nothing more than a fragment of his soul, in the past, when he had stood at the Peak Eighth Tier, he had possessed one of the most powerful souls in the entire world.

Even damaged, the power contained within his soul was still not something to be underestimated.

“Boom!”

Caught completely off guard,

the headmistress was struck head-on by the tidal wave formed from draconic pressure and soul power.

It felt as though her body was about to be shaken into pieces. Under the intense pain, Vinarola-Entuze involuntarily revealed a pained expression, and her entire body was violently sent flying nearly ten meters before she barely managed to steady herself...

After regaining her footing, the headmistress hurriedly looked into the air with disbelief at the golden energy pupil now surrounded by raging golden light, its gaze filled with ferocity.

Clearly,

the proposal she had considered excellent had not received Lord Holy Dragon King’s approval.

It had even...

provoked his fury.

But,

why?

“Is... is this proposal not good? Why... why do you oppose it? Why are you angry?”

Vinarola-Entuze’s voice was filled with incomprehension.

“If we cooperate with the Asumos Church... hm?”

However, this time,

before Vinarola-Entuze could even finish speaking, overwhelming draconic pressure descended from above, directly crushing the headmistress flat against the floor.

The words she had wanted to say could only be forcibly swallowed back down.

...

The golden dragon pupil stared fixedly at Vinarola-Entuze, almost as though flames were about to erupt from it.

If he had not lost his body, and if his consciousness had not been almost completely sealed inside the Holy Dragon Heart, leaving him unable to communicate with others, then the current Holy Dragon King probably would have already unleashed a torrent of curses.

And merely suppressing the headmistress until she could no longer move did absolutely nothing to extinguish the Holy Dragon King’s fury.

The great powerhouse’s rage did not stem from the fact that Vinarola-Entuze had so easily believed the Asumos Church’s words.

It came from another part of the proposal.

Namely,

after obtaining a new body, he was supposed to help the Asumos Church drive out the Abyss Demons and destroy the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons...

With the Holy Dragon King’s understanding of the Asumos Church, he knew exactly how those charlatans operated.

They would definitely tamper extensively with his new body so that they could control him afterward.

Then, those bastards would almost certainly make him help them fight the Abyss Demon hordes and attempt to venture deep into the Great Winter Forest to destroy that Abyss Demon nest...

Go to the Great Winter Forest again?!

“Are you fucking trying to get me killeddddddddddddddddddddddddd?!!!!”

The Holy Dragon King, who had always prided himself on maintaining inner peace, began roaring hysterically inside his own mind at that moment...

Who the fuck do you think reduced me to this state in the first place?!

The last time I went to that freezing northern wasteland, all I had left afterward was this pathetic scrap of a soul!

And now you want me to go there again?!

Wouldn’t I get completely fucking erased this time?!

Do you take me for a fucking idiot or what?!

...

As wave after wave of draconic pressure and soul power erupted in cathartic bursts, the fury burning within the Holy Dragon King’s golden energy pupil only grew more intense, showing absolutely no sign of calming down.

However, as his rage continued erupting,

the memories buried deep within the Holy Dragon King’s heart were gradually dug back up through one furious inner curse after another.

And when that memory, regarded by this peerless powerhouse as an absolute nightmare, surfaced in the Holy Dragon King’s mind for the first time in eight hundred years,

an almost imperceptible trace of wariness appeared within the golden vertical dragon pupil surrounding the golden sphere.

And...

an indescribable fear.

“You want me to fight the Abyss Demons?”

“You want me to help destroy the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons?”

“No... I’m not that stupid... I... I... I never want to encounter that monster again for the rest of my life...”

As he muttered inwardly,

the beautiful figure surrounded by countless blood-red butterflies seemed to once again appear before the Holy Dragon King.

The soul of the former supreme ruler of the Dragon Race trembled uncontrollably.

Even the overwhelming draconic pressure filling the forbidden hall gradually began [N O V E L I G H T] to collapse under the Holy Dragon King’s fear...

You want to fight her?

Heh.

Kaelrode, if you people from the Asumos Church want to court death, that’s your problem.

Don’t even think about dragging me down with you...