Epic Of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

Chapter 2116: The Lonely Dragon In The Dunes

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"Heh, you think you can keep me down?!"

The young female dragon smiled confidently, laughing, her glowing crystal scales shone brightly, shapeshifting and growing into gigantic, long crystal spikes, growing up to fifty meters of length, they pierced the bodies of the Undead, while injecting holy light into their souls, purifying them and exorcizing them almost instantly! One by one, their souls exploded into ashes and disappeared.

"GRYYAAAEERGH!"

She slowly stood up to see a large Skeletal Sea Turtle, a powerful Rank 9 Divine Undead Monster, she prepared for the challenge, but his monstrous roar wasn’t aggressive, he instead flew away, commanding all weaker Undead to follow him, as they dug underground and escaped her...

"Wait, what?! You’re running away?! But you’re literally Undead! How can you even run away from me?! Hey, come back already!"

She used her divine aura to lift the sands and attempt to bring them back, but it was too late, as they had already escaped too deep for her to follow them easily, she would have to lift the entire desert to find them, and that was perhaps too much to ask for someone that was exhausted from all the battles she had.

"Damn cowards... I can’t believe this...! They’re Undead, how can they even be afraid of anything?"

The dragon groaned angrily, sitting over the dunes with her giant dragon body, the moonlight reflected in her iridescent golden scales, each one glowing like beautiful crystals. She grabbed the bones of the monsters she had defeated, eating them like snacks, they were dry but had a strong fishy taste she liked, and the calcium was needed for her scales and crystals, which all were strong based on that.

"I’ve been fighting millions of these damn things, and I still can’t breakthrough! What do I do, Jord?!"

As she complained, she looked at a beautiful golden jewel imbued into the palm of her left hand, glowing brightly, it manifested the ghostly divine form of a woman made of stone and crystals by her side.

"Amethyst, I’ve been telling you this entire time that mindlessly killing monsters isn’t going to suddenly help you grow strong enough to defeat that monster, he’s too strong, and he relies in the power of a Demon King Seed! You need the assistance of your brothers and sisters."

"Hmph, I won’t ask for their help! They’re all weaklings! Nobody is even close to my strength, and yet not even I can scratch that guy...! There must be a way right? Your power is great but... even the it wasn’t enough."

"It’s not just the Earth Dragons you could ask for help you know. The Dark Dragons are probably worried about that monster too, and the Dwarves. There’s a couple of them that have ascended into Gods, you could ask for their help, they have their own unique ways to fight, Divine Armament and even their Golems can be plentiful strong."

"But... That’s not the way I do things."

"Amethyst... You can’t just hope to solve things all on your own, especially when it is of this scale... I know you have a grudge against him for what he did but..."

"I swore I would avenge my mother! I don’t need anybody’s help but yours, Jord!"

"You’re too stubborn..."

"Come on, don’t you know of a way? I know you do! You’re an ancient goddess."

"..."

Jord sighed, looking at the hopeless Dragon, she indeed knew of other ways to grow stronger, ancient divine techniques, but Amethyst was still way too young and unexperienced, and she wanted to teach her a lesson on trusting others, something the girl had not done since the tragic death of her mother.

"I just... I want to avenge my mother..."

The dragon sighed, as she shed a tear, the sands wrapped around like a blanket, Jord’s doing, as she caressed the dragon and helped her fall asleep.

"I know... Just rest for now, Amethyst. We’ll think about something tomorrow."

"Really? Will you help me... grow stronger...? Jord...?"

Amethyst slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep. The girl was exhausted from fighting for so long without resting, Jord sighed, keeping watch around her and protecting her by erecting a pyramid-shaped formation around her.

"This girl can be such a handful... if only I had my other half with me, things wouldn’t be too hard for us, but that bastard has it, and he’s surely putting the power of the Sands of the End to good use..."

She silently looked at Amethyst sleeping peacefully, despite how cute she looked right now, she was a stubborn and reckless girl that didn’t like to rely on anybody but herself.

"I’ve been trying to convince this girl to trust her brothers and sisters but to no avail, she simply doesn’t... the trauma of losing her mother must be too big. Especially because that bastard used my other half to do it..."

Jord recalled the battle that had happened over ten years ago, when Amethyst and her mother were protecting a village of Dwarves and Desert Elves, an invasion of Dark Dragon Spirits attacked the village, led by the monster in question.

He wielded the same power she had, a fragment of the Goddess, and used it to push Amethyst’s mother to her limits, ultimately overwhelming her and killing her while Amethyst watched.

"Jord...! Take her away, please! Run!"

Back then Amethyst was even more inexperienced and young, she was powerless against the monster, who had continuously grown stronger these last years, sowing destruction as his tyranny expands through the continent.

"He used his demonic powers to corrupt my other half into a demonic spirit! I cannot believe it... I have been reduced to nothing but his tool, and once he gets me, I’ll be forever lost, corrupted into a monster... You’re not the only one here that’s powerless, Amethyst... Fate has truly treated us unfairly."

As she sighed, she looked at the dunes, and how they began to move... slowly, trembling.

"Hm?"

RUMBLE!

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