Chapter 311: Death

The wind thick with blistering waves of sulphur churned wildly, as the dragon’s frame tore through the air, its colossal mass causing massive spatial distortions as it moved.

Seth stood still, watching as the enemy loomed closer, the enemy’s speed nearing subsonic levels, but with Seth’s cognitive processing capacity, the beast might as well be crawling through a sea of mud.

His sparse movement and his essence churned wildly, the world bearing witness to his current might for the very first time.

Seth might have lost access to most of his gene skills as they were running in the background generating the divine loop that kept the skill chain infinite surge intact.

But even so he felt he could do anything and everything in this state, all he had to do was will it!

"Pierce!" he whispered a command as his spear stabbed forward at a jarring speed, his arms whipping forward all whilst his body stayed in place, he didn’t need to move, not when his foe was so graciously throwing itself in harm’s way.

The dragon’s silhouette appeared before Seth, wind raging, explosions going wild, and space itself distorting underneath all the commotion.

Its maws flooding with waterfalls of drool, snapping wide open in an attempt to both cook and gulp its opponent in one go...

Crimson waves charging from the depths of its throat, while its wings continued boosting it forward.

Its teeth jagged and gleaming with ferocity, its shadow casting over Seth like a blanket of the darkest of nights, eyes red relaying its endless fury and madness.

The sight was akin to a mantis daring to stand against a chariot, only this was no ordinary mantis...

Bzzzt!!!!

A hum buzzed in the atmosphere as everything slowed to a crawl, the grim bone spear charging forward through the air boosted by Seth’s chant, Force Embodiment answering in a way Seth never imagined possible.

Funneling a torrent flow of essence through the tip of the spear, his will swirling around the bony extension of the weapon as the energy manifested Seth’s command into something more... A law!

PIERCE!

Voices overlapped and echoed, not from Seth, but from the world itself, manifesting his command into law, a sharp beam of light burst out from the weapon, colourless and invisible, but making the eyes of all who might see prickle from pain.

The dragon’s frame froze, its muscles going stiff, eyes widening as a thin flow of invisible current tore right into its widened maw, slipping right into its smoldering throat, and piercing through an organ that made a dragon a dragon... its flame core.

Seth blinked, even he was shocked by the overpowering effect of his strike...

"Shit!" he hissed, bursting into a rapid retreat, sensing the rapidly escalating commotion caused by the attack.

The dragon also felt the threat but unlike Seth it couldn’t run... CRACKLE!!!

Hair-thin cracks ran through the dragon’s flame core, pulsing unstably as the brewing essence within slowly went out of order.

Would its kind really stand a chance? Would they even last till the completion of the ritual?

Ash didn’t know... The dragon whimpered, its reddish eyes dulling as the raging emotions of rage and madness calmed, fear thriving thick.

Its body twisted and writhed as blistering waves of flames slowly leaked from its core, cooking it alive from within, the dragon hissed, struggling to contain the raging flow of essence.

But in matters like this, instinct wasn’t enough... it was never enough!

The waves of crimson rippled through its throat, this time wild and uncontrolled, burning through its unprotected flesh and glands, smoke billowing from all seven of its orifices.

The dragon’s frame coiled mid-air, its scales bristling with waves of darkness reinforcing its defence, all for naught though, as the flame burned, it couldn’t reinforce in time.

Seth streaked far from the beast, as the monster’s throat slowly swelled red, the damaged core raging with an intensive uncontrollable force, the beast letting out howls of pain and despair, finding the faintest lucidity in its depths of despair.

Ash couldn’t believe it, even going berserk did not change its fate, in fact it only quickened the inevitable.

And worse, one attack! It was packed into one fucking attack! What kind of monster was this human?

As long as this guy remained alive, the flame dragons would stand no chance, the fact that Seth could defeat it with such ease made it clear the rest of its brothers would stand no chance.

"Bro...ther... a...re... you... ther...e?" the dragon cracked in despair, flames leaking from its maws, its vision slowly growing dark as the raging currents were reaching vital areas, all too late to stop.

Silence was the only reply to its calls, as Atherion was currently unable to listen or pry, even if it wanted to.

Its chest slowly ballooned as the raging currents of flames had finally begun to clash with its reservoir of darkness essence, the pain tearing through every fiber of its being unbearable and gruelling.

The dragon in pain, despair and all alone, was swallowed by the pain and lost its mind to it all, its blurry sight honing on the retreating frame of Seth in the far distance!

No it couldn’t all end like this!

It was a proud flame dragon, a descendant of the Golden Dragon King, defeating it should come at a cost!

Fueled with the overwhelming desire to see the human that put it in this state suffer, despite being unsteady and out of balance, the dragon’s wings rose, its frame still bulging from the stacking rampage within its system, burst forward, commanding a storm of explosion and raging sulphuric wind.

BOOM!

It tore through the air at a speed it had never travelled before, eyes clouded with the vindictive urge to take Seth down with it, the dragon closing the distance faster than it ever could, even in its prime state.

"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" its voice boomed across the space, maddened, crazed, but having the slightest tint of glee.

Seth practically smelt the danger of the fast approaching flying mass of a ticking bomb. His expression turned ugly, "You’ve gotta be kidding me!" he muttered beneath his breath, his scalp going numb.

His wings rose and fell even more rapidly beating against the wind, his frame catapulting even faster through the air, his hair billowing all back, the shadow of his unrelenting victim sticking close like fly on shit!

"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" The chant grew more maddened as the monster, fueled by the will to see its foe burn tore through space even faster.

"Fuck! This is ridiculous. How can something so big move so fast?" Seth felt as though this was the second time he was asking this question.

But this time it was different as the beast was even catching up to him, despite the massive boost he had undergone.

By every metric and logic Seth was meant to be faster, so how the hell was this guy keeping up?

Before he could think further his surroundings grew darker, a chill crept up Seth’s spine, the dragon had caught up.

Looking up all Seth saw in return was a gigantic face filled with glee and spite... the dragon itself fanned the flames, accelerating its own doom!

"DIEEEEEEE!" it screamed hoarsely, flames tearing through every orifice of its being, cracks riddling its frame, as waves of dangerous energy leaked...

"Well, shit!" Seth cursed...

KABOOOOOOOOOOM!

The colossal frame of the beast erupted into a furious tide of unconstrained destruction, swallowing Seth and the entire plain for thousands of miles in a blink, the entire island shuddering from the explosion.