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

Chapter 2257: We Finally Met Again, Brother

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"Charlotte, full speed!" Drake commanded.

"On it, captain!" Charlotte nodded, rushing down with Fuyu.

RUMBLE!

However, as the gigantic vessel descended, a powerful shockwave of chaotic, demonic, and blood energy erupted from beneath, as a massive mass of pure power surged like an endless nebula.

"Woah!" Charlotte panicked. "What the hell is going on now?!"

As everyone saw the gigantic mass of energies rapidly wrap around Fuyu, trying to suppress her, a silhouette manifested amidst it, gigantic in size and overflowing with immense power.

A pair of glowing red eyes shone brightly within this domain-like power.

"You shouldn’t be here, my dear brother..."

A voice, very familiar to Drake, echoed from within.

His eyes widened. He didn’t expect to meet him so soon after entering the Singularity Vortex.

But here he was.

"Sangre!"

Drake’s older brother, and Nifl’s lost son, whose egg was stolen by the Vampire Venerable thousands of years ago and used as an experiment to create a Vampire Dragon.

Now, after their first encounter, and after having talked about him and thought about Sangre for so many years, Drake was finally meeting him at the end of the world.

Everyone froze as they felt his overwhelming presence. He was perhaps, by far, the strongest Demon King they had faced.

His power and aura were simply overwhelming, and not even Umbral compared to his presence alone.

"T-This is... Sangre...?! Master’s elder brother?!" Surtr gritted his teeth, feeling his power.

"He has the same level of power as a Venerable?!" Emerald asked. "B-But he isn’t one...!"

"The first Vampire Dragon..." Amethyst muttered.

"..." Triton was speechless.

"Sangre, my ancestor’s creation..." Ruby sighed, looking at the dragon, merely a victim of her ancestor’s madness.

"It seems you were expecting me... Did you come to fight me? Well, what took you so long? Now the world is ending, and everyone wants a piece of whatever will remain of it."

"What?!"

Drake was left speechless as he suddenly felt not only Sangre’s presence. Down there, through the gigantic Singularity Vortex, several other powerful figures were waiting.

They were all overwhelmingly strong, overflowing with ancient and primordial energies.

However, they were so far away that he could only see them as bright stars within the endless spiraling darkness of this distorted realm.

But from what Drake could discern, there were several figures of immense power, likely Venerables and a few other invaders from different worlds, alongside Oberon at the deepest part.

Were they fighting against him to stop him? Were they fighting against one another? Or were they here to help him?

It was a chaotic battle, but it seemed that it was, somehow, all three at once.

Some came to help Oberon, others to stop him, and others to kill everyone there and seize whatever Oberon was trying to obtain.

Everyone there knew that this was a decisive moment. The world was in peril, and worlds were colliding, all while Oberon, the first and strongest Venerable in this world, was reviving and aiming to destroy it all.

If they played their cards well, they could seize everything he had built for themselves.

And so, Sangre’s goal here...

"The vortex emerged just a day ago. I was in the middle of drinking the blood of all living beings of this continent when it happened. When I learned what was really happening... well, I simply couldn’t miss it."

"That’s... so you’ve come just to fight?"

"To wait for an opportunity to strike. I’ve been mostly watching... If you’ve come here to seize the same thing as I have, then I’ll kill you right now, Drake."

Sangre’s gigantic Domain enveloped everyone within its dimensional membranes, as Drake and everyone else saw gigantic crimson eyes emerging everywhere, alongside deep darkness followed by draconic jaws and claws made of shadows and blood.

This was Sangre’s power, his evolved Domain, his own Dominion. And within its composition, Drake could feel the power of his Demonic Energy, of his Divine Blood Energy, and also of the power of Chaos.

"Wait...! Sangre! I have come here to speak with you! There’s no need to do this! There is little point in us fighting! I know that you’ve suffered, and I know that you’ve gone through a lot! But there’s still a chance for you to stop this... What makes you believe we can’t begin again together?!"

"I already offered you once the chance to join me, but you rejected my only act of kindness. There are no second chances, Drake. There are never second chances in this world... whatever I do, it always remains within my mind and my heart. Everything I went through. These things made me who I am, and I cannot change that."

"What...?!"

Drake’s eyes twitched in disbelief over Sangre’s stubbornness, as his gigantic draconic body emerged amidst his Dominion.

"I no longer desire bonds or family. I only know of one thing that has always remained true and pure, power. I desire power to dominate everything. You and your family have matured wonderfully. You’ll be a great source of power to me!"

"Sangre, don’t do this!"

Drake roared, as he saw Sangre rushing toward them, opening his jaws to reveal his sharp vampiric fangs while hissing ferociously. His Dominion began to attack with massive spectral jaws and claws against Fuyu and everyone else.

"Everyone! Fight! Andromeda, Fuyu, protect the young ones!"

Drake erected a barrier, while Fuyu and Andromeda merged their power into it, strengthening it further. Sangre’s Dominion attacked the barrier relentlessly, spreading black and red blood-like miasma that tried to corrupt and destroy the barrier constantly.

"BECOME MY NOURISHMENT, MY DEAR LITTLE BROTHER!"

Sangre roared, clashing against Drake and suddenly punching him down with immense force, before grabbing him with his gigantic body and biting his neck, tearing apart his flesh and blood, drinking it.

"Nnngh?! SANGREEEEE!"

Drake roared back. He quickly knew there was no chance this bastard would listen to him the normal and nice way. He was going to fight him now.

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