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

Chapter 2367: Clash Of Venerables II [3]

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"That’s impressive, Fortune. But let me show you what’s going even further beyond."

Drake’s confident smile did not disappear, his eyes glowing, as he concentrated on everything within his blade.

Within Muramasa.

All of his life, all of his experiences, all of his challenges and every victory he had.

Each one of these things were like beautiful colors intermixing together as they spun around a wheel of golden radiance and black ichor.

For a moment, Fortune could swear he heard the spirits of the world singing.

"{Immortal Soul Blade Arts}: {Eternal Pinnacle}!"

SLASH!

White.

Black.

Yellow.

Blue.

Purple.

Red.

Green.

Fortune saw all colors at once, intermixing into a spinning vortex around his own technique.

His pillar instantly exploded, shattering space and the dimension where they were.

Reality distorted, as a large piece of the entire cursed dimension born from the decayed goddess began to distort and then melt away.

And then.

"A-Ah..."

He looked at his own body, his vision divided...

His body was split into two halves.

He couldn’t understand.

"Where... did I go wrong...?"

He was completely overwhelmed by a sense of humiliation and pain.

Of agony.

Drake, the youngest Venerable in history...

He had already surpassed him.

"Why... did I walk this path to begin with...?"

For a moment, as Fortune faced his death a second time.

He saw visions, memories of his past life.

Before becoming an immortal, before ascending into a god.

When he was but a small child.

A beautiful boy with blonde hair and bright blue eyes.

Back then, when he still had his innocence.

He remembered now.

His family.

The family he had forgotten about.

His beautiful mother, who loved him so much.

His big sister, who always scolded him.

His father, who taught him how to hunt.

It was all he had...

And then, war took it all away.

He blamed the kingdoms that destroyed his own, these kings, these princes and these warlords.

As everything he ever loved was taken away from him at a young age, wrath overtook him.

He walked a path of revenge and bloodshed, he blamed everyone and everything for what they took away from him, without stopping for a second to look back.

He never looked back.

Never revisited his village, never thought once more about his family...

"I see... this was... what I choose... my path..."

He smiled lightly, closing his eyes.

His soul was split apart, as sharp fangs devoured it from the inside out.

Bright light consumed his body, beginning to consume it completely.

"Do I have regrets?"

He looked at the bright light, smiling once more.

"None... Master... I am leaving the rest to you..."

A small ring made of light was released from his dying body, teleporting somewhere else.

At the same time, Drake sheathed his blade, glaring where Fortune once were.

"What a strange man... But I won’t destroy your soul."

Drake released the soul out of his jaws, as he glared at it at the palm of his hand.

"You shouldn’t have revived this way; your long life only turned you into a madman."

"..."

He quickly purified the soul of any past life memories, letting it fly elsewhere, piercing through the boundaries beyond space and time.

To the Afterlife.

"Done."

Drake had extracted mostly all the power out of that tiny soul, he let Fortune reincarnate but without his memories, giving him a second chance.

Was he too benevolent? Maybe, but he thought that it was part of his job as the Dragon King to judge others to an extent.

FLUOSH!

He felt his Aura surge with the Light of Providence that Fortune wielded, having now become his power as well.

However, it was definitely not as strong as he imagined.

"Hah, did he had a plan even when he died? Part of his power is not there yet... Well, I’ll definitely find it."

However, within Drake’s Divine Realm, there were still plenty of wondrous materials, such as Fortune’s Divine Realm, or a part of it, a large accumulation of his Divine Power, and several pieces of his four Ascendancy Law Rings.

All of them were premium materials for his ascension and the creation of yet another set of rings for himself... perhaps the lasts he would make.

"Well done, Drake. I think that was a beautiful ending for that man. Your techniques have improved tremendously as well!" Andromeda said, appearing behind him and hugging him, as Drake’s family rushed to his side from the distance.

"I wouldn’t have been able to reach this far without you, my beloved, thank you for always supporting me," Drake said, caressing her hand, as both kissed.

"Shall we begin your ascension right now inside your Divine Realm?" Andromeda asked, as their lips separated. "You need as much power as you can get."

"Not yet," Drake said. "I want to accumulate more materials... Hahah, look at me, calling ancient Venerables I once feared as "materials", I am truly done for, huh?"

"I believe there’s nothing wrong with your mindset," Andromeda said. "They are indeed materials to be used once they die. And they aren’t your friends either."

"Hmm," Drake nodded.

"Wooow! That was amazing!" Benladra said. "Dad, you’re so strong! What the hell!"

"Hahaha! I have been exercising quite a lot," Drake laughed.

"Yeah! It was amazing daddy; you’re the best swordsman ever...!" Kate nodded, amazed by her superpowered dad. "Can I learn more about swordsmanship from you later?"

"Of course!" Drake nodded, patting his daughter’s head. "Once all of this is over, I’ll have all the time in the world, dear."

"Dada so strong, so strong!" Drakda said. "I’ll be strong too...! Just wait till I grow up!"

"Heh, that’s my boy!" Drake smiled, kissing Drakda’s cheek as the boy climbed over his shoulders.

"W-Well, I sure didn’t expect you to beat that bastard so quickly!" Benladann said. "I mean, we were rooting for you but that was way too fast!"

"I mean, we had already weakened him quite a lot, right?" Miranda asked. "But above all, Drake has just really grown..."

"Yeah, he has, he beat Susanoo after all," Yuki said. "We fought him, by the way..."

"Susanoo?!" Benladann and Miranda gasped in disbelief, synchronized.

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