Chapter 92
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 92
Chapter Title: Chapter 92
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 92
Chapter Title: Fall of the Frost Dragon
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9.
Right after the Frost Dragon's origin shattered.
The flying dragons that had filled the sky plummeted to the ground all at once. As if they had suddenly lost their wings.
Not just that.
The fallen flying dragons turned entirely to ash without exception, scattering into the wind.
And at that moment.
The Frost Dragon met the exact same end as its kin. Its massive body crumbled into ash, and all nine eyes lost their glow.
Shwaaaaa!
Fragments of the Frost Dragon pouring down like snow.
Facing the scene that painted the entire world in gray, Ullan collapsed straight backward.
"Huuu."
A low breath flowed from deep in his lungs.
Soon, an immense agony engulfed his body.
The pain of bones and flesh grinding away, his whole body torn to shreds. It was the price for wielding far more power than his natural limits allowed.
But he didn't let out a pathetic scream.
This wasn't pain he had never felt before.
Ullan had already endured the exact same torment in his previous life. During his life's final battle, his duel with Giant King Largtan.
However, one thing.
There was a difference from that time.
'...I'm alive.'
When that battle had ended back then.
Ullan had realized he was dying. His heart grew slower and slower, and the strength throughout his body vanished like smoke.
But now was different.
'I survived.'
He had reached death's doorstep but hadn't crossed the threshold. His fiercely pounding heart, his sharp consciousness, and his remaining strength were proof.
In contrast, his foe the Frost Dragon had met a definitive end. It had turned to ash and vanished without even leaving behind any parting words.
'I won.'
The moment he confirmed his victory.
Even amid the pain ravaging his body, Ullan grinned crookedly. It was a smile brimming with a sense of accomplishment.
At that moment, a familiar presence suddenly washed over him.
[Grrrr.]
It was none other than the white wolf.
The beast came right up to Ullan's face and abruptly spat out something it had been holding in its mouth.
"That's..."
The sole remnant left by the Frost Dragon.
The shattered origin.
Split in half though it was, a considerable amount of mana still lingered within the origin. The instant he sensed it, Ullan understood the white wolf's intention.
"You want me to eat it?"
[Grrrng!]
The white wolf nodded its head.
Unexpected. This guy who usually went mad for mana was actually yielding a dragon's origin?
Ullan chuckled.
"Got it. I'll eat it."
The heart of the prey belongs to the hunter.
Cold and hard like ice, but not to the point of being inedible. Already feeling peckish anyway, Ullan crunched into the origin without hesitation.
Chomp chomp! Crunch crunch!
A meal utterly devoid of any elegance.
Suddenly, Ullan furrowed his brow.
"...Disgustingly tasteless."
Among everything he'd eaten so far.
It was by far the worst.
But taste wasn't important. Far more crucial was the vast quantity of mana infused into the origin.
Gulp!
After swallowing the origin whole.
Ullan closed his eyes. To assimilate the mana now entering his body into his own.
'Abyss mana.'
True to its status as kin of the Lord of the Undying, the Frost Dragon possessed pure Abyss mana.
Mana that instilled fear and despair with mere contact. This was why mages avoided Abyss mana itself.
Ullan's thoughts were different.
'Mana is mana, all the same.'
Just absorb and digest it properly.
Fear and despair?
He who had slain an Abyss Lord had no reason to fear mere mana. Thus, Ullan digested the Abyss mana at a rapid pace.
A short while later.
Once absorption of all the mana was complete.
Ullan widened his eyes round.
"Impressive."
Simply by devouring the Frost Dragon's origin, he'd gained two completed Spirits.
Just before the battle began, he'd only had a single 1-star Spirit, but now he'd reached 3-star. The three completed Spirits he now possessed were proof.
'Already 3-star.'
In his previous life, he'd devoured the hearts of thousands upon thousands of magic beasts and their kin, and only barely forged three Spirits around his late thirties.
To think he'd reach 3-star from an origin alone.
A lord truly was a lord.
Ullan smiled in satisfaction.
It was then.
"Ullan!"
He spotted people running over from afar.
Seoric, Noa, and Dilia.
Ullan sat up in place upon seeing the three approaching. To announce the Frost Dragon's subjugation and greet them.
10.
Meanwhile, around that same time.
The moment Ullan completely destroyed the Frost Dragon's origin, causing all the flying dragons circling the skies to crash into the ground.
Noa bulged her eyes wide.
"...!"
Flying dragons disintegrating into ash.
Seoric, who had been battling them, was thrown into considerable confusion, but to Noa, it was a familiar sight.
There was only one thing she knew of that this form of death signified.
'When the lord meets its end.'
The kin were beings born by receiving power, life, and authority from their lord.
Thus, when the lord perished, all kin under its command met the same death. It was their tragedy and their fate.
'Th-that means...!'
The lord of the flying dragons was dead.
Noa's eyes shook fiercely. She gazed toward the direction Ullan had headed. Then Noa's two eyes grew even larger than before.
Shwaaaaa!
Gray ash scattering like snow.
At the same time, the mana that had been frozen solid regained its original flow. Realizing what this signified, Noa muttered with a dazed expression.
"He really... defeated it...?"
An Abyss Lord, and all by himself?
Without even the aid of a hero?
Did this even make sense? Noa felt goosebumps rising all over her body.
An utterly impossible outcome.
She shuddered at Ullan's accomplishment.
But the shocks weren't over yet.
【Hidden achievement accomplished.】
【Hidden achievement accomplished.】