Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 138 Unyielding to the Death

Despite the excruciating pain in his hand, Silver, an extremely old dragon, showed no intention of letting go. He didn't reply, but his resolute gaze spoke volumes about his choice.

Seeing this, Agreed no longer held back. The raging green flames instantly engulfed Silver's massive body. Silver also mobilized all his magic power to resist. Two minutes later, having had a large amount of his life essence drained, Silver no longer had the strength to control Agreed and collapsed weakly to the ground. At this moment, his body had withered and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

Then Agred slowly stood up. He knew he couldn't find the whereabouts of the golden dragons anymore, so he wasn't in a hurry. Agred walked up to Silver and praised him, "You are a respectable warrior. The golden dragon race is fortunate to have you. I urgently needed a large number of dragon bones for cultivation, but... I admire you. I'm giving you a chance to live. You should know my abilities. As an extremely old dragon who cannot ascend to godhood, you are already an old fellow nearing the end of your life. However, I can transform you into a dragon lich, at which point you will have eternal life and the possibility of further advancement, as long as you submit to me. What do you say?"

Silver coughed twice. Even the slightest movement of his body caused excruciating pain. This extremely old golden dragon, nearing the end of his life, used his last bit of strength to shout, "I... will not betray the Golden Dragon Clan! You will not succeed!" With that, Silver instantly self-destructed. Agreed rushed forward and used witchcraft to stop Silver's self-destruction, but to his utter surprise, Silver directly detonated his own soul. The golden dragon's massive head shattered into pieces under the impact of the soul's self-destruction.

Agreed looked at the holy blood on his body, which was highly corrosive to the undead, withdrew his hand, and stared at Silver's mangled body. He said with some regret, "He was a rare talent. It's a pity he can't be used by me. But it's good that way. Guys like you are my greatest enemies. Whether you live or die, it's good for me."

As he spoke, Agreed looked at his head and continued, "That's quite audacious. To prevent me from finding the Golden Dragon Clan's residence, you directly destroyed your own soul. This is no joke. The excruciating pain at the soul level cannot be relieved by any means. The pain suffered from being torn to pieces is child's play compared to this method of suicide. If the Golden Dragon Clan had a few more extremely old dragons like you, I might really have to back down."

But for now... please be the nourishment that makes me stronger.

After saying this, Agred inserted his bone hand into Silver's skin-and-bones body. In a very short time, Agred absorbed all the bone and essence within Silver's body. Agred felt his body become more solid, stretched his bones comfortably, and said easily, "My realm has stabilized now, but it's still far from perfect. The Golden Dragon Clan has suffered heavy losses, it's time to visit their graveyard again."

With that in mind, Agred used telepathy to instruct Lester to consolidate and develop the territory according to his plan during his absence. Then, Agred took to the air and disappeared from the horizon at an incredible speed.

Having advanced to the Divine Bone Realm, Agred's body could now withstand speeds sufficient to traverse the star realm. Thus, Agred arrived at the Golden Dragon Clan's cemetery in less than a few minutes.

Nothing here has changed, not even the damage caused by Agreed's last visit. Agreed knelt before the graves of the Golden Dragons, then stood up and said to the skeletons, "I'm sorry, I need power, so the last trace you left in this world will soon disappear. This is the rule of this world: the strong prey on the weak, and the fittest survive. Please become my power. As compensation, I swear I will never completely annihilate the Golden Dragons."

Agreed then went inside and began to devour the dragon skeletons.

One month later

Agred absorbed all the bones, but his Divine Bone Realm was still far from perfect. He shook his head helplessly, then exited his cultivation state, stood up, and murmured, "As expected, even the Golden Dragon Clan with its funerary traditions cannot provide enough dragon bones for me to reach perfection. It seems it's time to follow that stranger's memories to find the places where other dragon species fell. Only by advancing to the Divine Bone Realm can I meet the basic requirements for completing my revenge plan."

So Agreed embarked on a journey to find the remains of dragons on various continents. In the days that followed, Agreed descended into abysses, went to trenches, walked through deserts, crossed rainforests, dug in frigid lands, and explored lava fields. Finally, after six months of hardship, Agreed, through his own hard work, raised his Divine Bone Realm to the point where he was only half a step away from perfection.

At this moment, Agreed had arrived at the last stop of his journey, a small island of active volcanoes formed by the eruption of magma from the seabed, following the map in his mind. Agreed stared at the boiling and smoking crater and said wearily, "Is this journey finally coming to an end?"

Then, Agred floated up like a feather and carefully landed on the scorched crater. He then gathered his clothes and belongings and put them all into his personal space. After doing all this, Agred swooped down and burrowed into the lava. After killing the Balrog and absorbing his fire god fragments, Agred had developed a strong resistance to fire and high temperatures. This made him immune to fire magic, which was very effective against the undead, and also made volcanoes no longer a forbidden zone for Agred's travel.

Argreed quickly traversed the scorching underground magma and swam down to a natural crevice or underground cave isolated from the magma. From the stranger's memories, Argreed learned that in this active volcano, there was a space containing the remains of a dragon of at least extremely old age. Based on the location of death and the dragon scales around the body that had fallen off but were not completely destroyed, Argreed deduced that it was a red dragon that came here to die before passing away.

Agreed swam in from the lava, but upon seeing his target, he exclaimed with some surprise, "In the stranger's memory, there was only one skeleton, but here... there are clearly two!" Looking ahead, he saw the skeletons of two giant dragons lying side by side on the ground, but the smaller one was obviously still very fresh, with its scales not yet completely fallen off.

Agred surveyed the new dragon corpse, analyzing, "A young red dragon, female, but... why did she die here? A young dragon is already powerful enough to easily defeat legendary human warriors, yet she died in the red dragons' home volcano? And the most valuable parts of the dragon—its heart, scales, teeth, and crystal—were not taken. Could it be an internal dragon war? But that doesn't make sense; although there were some old wounds, they've begun to heal, indicating that it wasn't caused by external injuries. What happened..."