196 Dragon? (1/2)

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If there's anything that could severely threaten any soul forms brought back by evil hands aside from Light Laws, it would definitely be Lightning Laws.

Unbeknownst to many, the Ghost Race exists. They are a terrifying bunch of beings, capable of directly attacking one's soul. Just by a mere touch, they could claim lives like it was nothing. They are inherently dangerous but their existence is solely subjugated by the Heavenly Laws - nature, per se.

And like any other races, they too are capable of strengthening themselves. They developed a unique way of cultivation that, only their race could use. There were even a time when the Ghost race was once arrogant and one to unify all under their banner.

It is a mystery as to why they failed to do so. After all, their numbers were surely staggering and they're extremely powerful. Some records shown that they offended someone they shouldn't, and this individual called upon the Lightning Tribulations to rain down on their home, causing mass destruction and even threatened to wipe them out.

There's also some versions of this story in which, this mysterious individual placed a curse on their race in exchange of his life. The curse will take effect once an individual from the Ghost Race reached a certain threshold of strength. Once the curse was activated, tribulation clouds will descend and rain down punishment to the said individual. It was said that many from the ghost race failed to transcend these tribulation, thus turning them into nothing but specks of dust scattered in the wind. Ever since then, the succeeding generations of the Ghost Race developed an existential fear of Lightning.

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Old Lee's face was cold. In his right hand, a thin and long spear made out of lightning appeared.

Raising his hand ever so slightly, he threw the lightning spear upwards. With a blinding speed, the lightning spear passed through Morel's Windwall and flew on top of the marching souls.

All eyes were glued on the lightning spear. Suddenly, Old Lee clenched his hand and the lightning stopped at the peak of its trajectory. It was then divided into several bolts of lightning that rained down upon the ranks of the marching souls.

Any soul that was hit by those lightning screamed in agony, they writhed and groaned in fury but despite their cries, the lightning did its job and erased them from this mortal plane. Some of the lightning bolts were aimed at the Devil Prince but he managed to defend himself by summoning that bone barrier out of nowhere once more.

Despite being able to defend himself, the Devil Prince wasn't so jubilant about the current situation. This is the entire reason why he wasn't able to beat Old Lee even once. It is because his Laws directly countered his.

While the Devil Prince somehow managed to be enlightened at the second stage of Death Laws, Old Lee's affinity and understand towards Lightning Laws was enough to shut down majority of his tricks. In terms of speed, he couldn't compare, in terms of lethality, he also couldn't compare. Old Lee bested him in every single possible way, which in turn made him helpless about the old man.

However, it is also clear for all of them that they've spent at least half of their energy reserves by now. Throwing out this explosive attacks consumed a decent amount of their energy, if it weren't for the fact that the Golden Knights' priority is to make sure that Alastair won't come out of this place, then this battle would've been more explosive.

That being said, Alastair is still the Devil Prince. He wanted to destroy, he wanted lay waste in this kingdom that brought nothing but pain and bitterness to him. He vowed that sooner or later, he will get what he wanted.

Gazing at the division between him and his old comrades, Alastair snorted. He clapped his hands and the thick aura of death rose once more. The whole underground district shook once more, the Golden Knights felt the intensity of the Death Energy that Alastair is emanating and braced themselves.

Suddenly, the black aura coming off of the Devil Prince took shape. White matter condensed in a visible speed forming what seems to be a huge bone. This process didn't stop there, the rumbling of the underground district intensified and the condensation of the bone became faster. Eventually, bones of varying sizes appeared, the bones arranged themselves in a manner that didn't resemble a human.

It entity it formed was a bipedal creature. It stood about 70 meters tall, it was made out of pure bones. Its skull was somewhat similar to that of an alligator but with horns, it also has a long spine, a pair of bony wings that has claws with it and wingspan that barely reached both ends of the whole underground district. On top of this, the creature was surrounded with black, pulsing flames that emanated a thick stench of death courtesy of the Devil Prince's influence.

”Is that…” Morel swallowed hard, finding it difficult to continue his words.

”Unbelievable.” Leona uttered with her face grim.

”A Dragon! But how!?” Old Lee said with difficulty.