Chapter thirty-one - Who would be born must first destroy a world

Rudra floated through the skies slowly with his hands behind his body, his impeccable golden cloak swayed and emitted small electrical charges that represented his fury, the wound on his face healed slowly, a little blood marked his cheek.

"Damn worm, what a strange mana he has... how long has it been since I was injured? Thousand? two thousand years?" Rudra wondered, he remembered the times when he was called by another name, right after breaking his egg, abandoned by his mother in a hole, only having his brothers as company and allies, he and his little brothers against all the threats in the world, little babies who refused to die, he was always the biggest and strongest among his brothers, and that is why he was the leader among his own.

His anger started to bubble, he hated remembering the times when he was weak, when he was a little Imoogi who crawled across the land, eating dirt and small insects to survive, his inate constitution of thunder was the only thing that differentiated him from the others, they had to fight many beasts in his small world, rising slowly in the food chain, with his brothers he proclaimed his dominion over his small forest, and he became lord among all the beasts.

However, he wanted more, he wanted to become a sky dragon, break free from the earth and ascend to the sky, like a true king, but the same constitution that gave him an advantage became his brake, making it difficult to rise, he needed to dedicate twice as much effort to achieve the same result to his brothers, and his brothers were getting closer and closer to overtaking him.

The straw that broke the camel's back was his younger brother, the smallest and the most fragile among them, a sweet and gentle little snake, became the first to rise before him.

He could not endure humiliation, he called his little brother for a personal encounter, in secret from the others, and taking advantage of his unique powers and his brother's trust and love he killed and devoured him.

His strength that rose with difficulties took a leap in that moment, and he obtained the equivalent of years of effort in a single moment, in that moment he realized, his brothers, his beloved brothers, were born to be his steps to grow.

After that he rose to the cost of devouring those with whom he shared the same blood, becoming the only true lord of his small world, an all-powerful sky dragon.

Little did he know that his power was tiny and useless in the face of the bigger picture, one day a demon invaded and destroyed his entire world alone, his power can do little to the creature and he was forced to escape while his world was devoured.

That day he learned to fear and admire the demons.

For the Luck or for the mischance, while his wounded body wandered between the edges of the world, slowly withering away a deity found him, realizing his natural affinity with lightning, the deity took him as one of his pets, that deity was the real Rudra.

For years the little sky dragon served as a mascot for his master, being fed by his hands, nourished by his power and growing without any difficulty, becoming the greatest among his master's pet beasts, he did not even remember the brothers who sacrificed.

It was around this time that the little dragon began to envy and desire his lord's divinity, whenever he saw his lord's power, strength and kingdom he was most envious, he wanted it all for himself, he wanted to become a god, but he knew it was impossible for him to rise up against his master and steal his divinity, his master was not like his brothers, he did not have enough strength to even soil his master's robes.

It was when his master Rudra went to war against demons, accompanied by other gods that he saw a chance to act, taking advantage of the absence of his lord, the sky dragon, who was no longer so small, attacked and devoured the other pets of his lord and the servants of his castle, feeding on his powers he became stronger, but he realized that he was still far from his lord.

Terrified of the possible consequences of his actions, he plundered his lord's coffers, ready to flee into the small worlds. During the sack he found a great treasure kept by his master, a fragment of a demon lord, The fragment of the Demon Lord of gluttony, Beeelzebub.

The sky dragon was ecstatic, this was the path to divinity, if he could not become a god, he would become a demon.

He stole his master's treasures and ran away, escaping through the worlds as far as possible, trying to avoid leaving a trail, his worries proved useless, his master disappeared in the middle of the war, and his original kingdom was shattered.

The Sky Dragon rejoiced, he found a world where he set up a kingdom for himslef, a pathetic imitation of his lord's kingdom, he nurtured children with the beings of that world and he grew up, he prospered at the expense of the blood of his slaves and his own children until he transcended.

Although he was still far from divinity, due to his pride, he took his lord's name for himself, he called himself Rudra the god of lightning and storms and he became the god of his small world.

But he wanted more, he wanted to become a true god, he began to research the fragment of the demon king, inserting it in the most diverse beings, every time the result was a failure that goes out of control, at last he found a species of a weak and insignificant insect, but compatible with sin, he left one of his servants, one of the many children he had had in his reign, responsible for nourishing this queen of the insects, with the aim of devouring her in the future, when he thought his own strength had grown enough that he will not be consumed by the fragment.

When he discovered that his servant had lost his sin he almost went mad with fury, he was ready to torture the useless to death when they both felt the familiar sensation of the enraged demon king fragment.

His servant hurriedly promised to recover the sin, he remains seated on his throne, even though his servant recovered the fragment he would still kill him, Rudra did not need useless ones in his palace.

When the servant died he was appalled, he ordered all the dead one brothers to go to the small world and recover the fragment soon, or he would end the entire Raijū tribe, when he began to feel the death of his servants he gathered his magicians and sealed the world from the outside, jumping alone and ready to face whatever hunted his servants.

Meeting a human with dragon's blood was a surprise, Rudra had many servants and human servants, but he treated them like cattle, his strength was so diminute that they were barely suitable for physical work, and the few with magical talent ones did not have enough mana to become an good elixir.

Rudra became very interested in the human with dragon blood, the human should not have the strength to face his servants but he defeated them alone, the lineage he had seemed to be quite powerful, stronger than the Rudra lineage, although human blood has heavly mixed with it, Rudra considered nurturing this human until it was ready to be consumed, would become a great elixir.

One thing irritated Rudra, while when he practiced one of the things he liked best, breaking others at his will, making them beg, full of fear. It was Rudra's tradition to make others submit, and he loved hte fearful eyes, the human's eyes never showed fear, even when he tortured him, the human remains unwavering. Rudra pushed the human to his limit, killing his small partner, and the human went into a rage.

Rudra found the human's fury cute, even in this new form he offered no danger to Rudra, until the human managed to hurt him. The wound was small, insignificant, and far from causing him any trouble or discomfort, but Rudra felt strange.

Firstly, it should be impossible for the human to pass through Rudra's defenses, even a small wound like this should be impossible, secondly, that small wound was taking too long to heal.

He hit the human with one of his most powerful attacks, launching him against the horizon, he could feel the human's life weakening, and he was ready to chain that human and make him his slave.

While floating slowly, one of his favorite way to scare his victims, Rudra started to smile.

"Let's see if you will submit now!"

When Rudra was approaching the human, something changed.

The human's mana exploded, a pillar of black light rises to the heavens, and Rudra could feel that the human was changing.

With that, Rudra was getting excited, he could feel the dragon's blood in the human activating and his strength increasing, it looks like he would get a great elixir after all, he stopped in the sky, watching the human, ready to harvest when the even if it was ready, patiently. What Rudra did not notice was a small feeling, there, on the back of his neck a drop of cold sweat trickled down, a little reminiscent of a feeling that Rudra had forgotten since when he take his master's name.

Primordial fear.

***

Locke's idea was a really bad idea, even working in the end.

He knew it would work however, he felt in his instincts that is one of the way's he could absorb the dragon pearl, but his instincts also told him that doing it this way would hurt like hell.

And it hurt, it f*cking hurt.

It is difficult to describe the sensation that Locke felt, imagine swallowing a taser, but a taser with 9000000 volts of power. Imagine that this taser is turned on and enraged, and is attacking your internal organs, fissured solely on killing you.

The sensation Locke had was to be electrocuted from the inside out, his black mana fought against the pearl eletric mana, and the lightning are refusing to be absorbed easily, the energy ripped through Locke, electrocuting his insides and escaping his body.

But Locke did not stop, he began to pull the spheres from each body, swallowing them repeatedly. His body ached and burned, threatening to tear, but Locke did not stop, he forcibly bit and swallowed more and more pieces of raw Raijū meat in an inhuman way.

'Locke, stop, you're going to kill yourself!' Tia screamed inside Locke.

"No, I'm not going!" Locke managed to squeeze those words out of his lips, "I'm not going to die here! I'm going to kill this motherf*cker!"

Locke could feel it, half through the pain, he could feel a powerful force growing in his body, he could feel his blood burning and rising, he felt he was ready.

When Rudra was almost approaching he felt that the time had come.

[The user has reached the requirements! The evolution will begin!]

Locke roared, his mana was enraged, black mana surrounded his body, his muscles began to break, his skin began to tear, his bones broke, everything that consists his existence was being consumed by the mana and remaking itself, the black mana enveloped him in a sphere, a black sphere in the shape of an egg.

There was an egg, a black egg.

A black egg made of black, dark mana.

A dragon egg.

Locke was inside the egg, trapped there, inside the egg was safe, comfortable, the egg was Locke's world, the egg was Locke's humanity, the egg was Locke from birth to this day.

But Locke knew it was time to hatch, it was time to become more, no longer a human with dragon blood, it was time to become a dragon.

It was not easy however, it was painful, uncomfortable and difficult, it was much easier to stay there.

But Locke knew, he knew he would never be able to protect anyone if he stayed in the egg, so he broke it.

Locke fights his way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.

The mana sphere broke, black mana went up to the sky like a pillar of black light, the sky was painted black.

Rudra watched everything with a smile, even though he felt Locke's mana growing absurdly he was still far from his level, Locke was becoming strong but he was not yet a transcendent. So Rudra waited patiently, he was getting more and more excited, the concentration of dragon blood from the human was going up, he started making plans wondering where all that blood would take him, perhaps it was enough to make him strong enough to absorb the fragment of the demon king, it was not time to ruin the cake by eating half-baked.

The black mana pillar began to calm down, condensing into a humanoid form, a humanoid form with wings, black wings.