Chapter 1008: The Afterlife and Punishment
Chapter 1008: The Afterlife and Punishment
The dragon stared back at Arad's burning red eyes and roared. A silver stake emerged right from his mouth, piercing Arad's heart. Without wasting a second, the dragon immediately followed with a full-power lightning breath, putting all his remaining energy to ensure he evaporated Arad's whole body.
"Hahahahaha! That silver stake had been prepared for a hundred years to slay Akasha. I don't know how you did it, but you have her powers, which also means her weakness. Go back to Yog and regret your deeds in hell...GUH!" His face twisted as he stopped laughing. Arad's body appeared after the lightning cleared, he was standing unharmed with the stake still wedged in his heart.
Arad slowly reached up and pulled the stake out, putting it in his pocket to sell later, silver is expensive. "Sorry, but I seem to have two hearts now." He lifted his arms. Accursed black flame roared from his left arm while divine lightning thundered from his right arm.
Arad's body started growing larger and larger until he looked like a titan holding the heavens above the dragon's head, glaring down at him with a smile.
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Echidna gasped, "Those curses! When did...no, he painted my nails." Arad was using her curses and she could tell how he did it, she didn't teach him a thing. But she quickly realized that Arad's skills with curses were already high, his human body was the only thing holding him back.
"That's my weather magic!" Mesharra cried, terrified and amazed. It took her ten years of study and even more battle experience to use that magic well, and Arad had now pulled it out of nowhere.
"He was watching and learning." Echidna growled, "Now that I'm thinking about it, how could he read a book once and learn everything in it? His learning speed is abnormal."
Plum who was in the mountain had also noticed that Arad was the one who protected everyone earlier with plant magic, and he had now made himself bigger with size magic. She did use it a lot before him, but size magic is supposed to be something that only fairies can cast, Humans replicated it through spells, but those were extremely hard to learn. "Is he some kind of ancient deity?"
Mary looked up, "But..." She could see Arad towering over the clouds, his muscular body glowing with magic as if it was sculpted from marble. Yog had asked her to worship Arad, and now he was looking more and more like a god, a being far above mortals and one that they could only look up to. "He looks...so...beautiful."
Arad clenched his fists together, mixing the cursed black flame and the divine lightning into a single black-and-white crackle of magic, "Yog isn't stupid enough to curse hell with me."
Arad swung his fists down and crushed the dragon down like a bear crushing a tiny bird, splattering him all over the sea floor. The massive waves exploding back were stopped by a massive wall of trees that Arad forced to grow from the seaweed on the shore.
"I do not have the right to tell the people of this world how to live their lives...but this was for the murder of the pirates, the fish, the fishermen, the soldiers, the injured, the scared, the destroyed homes and lives..." Arad's voice boomed across the sky, everyone in the kingdom behind him could hear his words.
"Justice and righteous deeds are arbitrary, even if your actions were justified, you died today for killing my daughter Ann. How am I going to face her father now?"
Arad slowly shrunk back to his normal size and landed on the shore before Mary and the others. "Time to clean everything up. That dragon caused us enough trouble."