Chapter 697

―At last, I am complete.

Krasias lowered his head and looked down at his three-kilometer-long body.

Ten wings, four legs, and glistening scales entered his field of vision.

It was exactly the same appearance he had possessed before his disappearance due to the backlash from the terraforming a hundred years ago.

Just before disappearing due to an unforeseen backlash, Krasias had taken a gamble.

If he disappeared like this, he could not even dream of resurrection, so he finely divided and scattered throughout the world the countless powers and selves he had accumulated since the beginning of time.

Thus, crystals containing Krasias’s powers and thoughts were scattered throughout the world, and monsters, dragons, elves, and others absorbed them.

Krasias’s thought-forms contained a longing to become one. Because of that, like magnets, they recognized and attracted one another even from far away.

And so, over the course of more than a hundred years, Krasias’s thoughts gradually merged one by one and grew in size.

And today, at last, even the final fragment merged, completing him.

Krasias had been resurrected.

Raikas resisted Krasias with all his might, but it was useless.

Krasias’s mind was simply on a level that someone like Raikas could never handle.

Even taking Raikas’s mind as nourishment, Krasias had completely resurrected.

Although it had taken more than a hundred years for him to fully resurrect, it was of no concern.

For an immortal being like Krasias, a hundred years was merely an instant.

―Kuwaaaaa!

Krasias roared once again.

He was proclaiming to Earth that a god had been resurrected.

Then Krasias’s gaze turned toward the ground.

It was because he sensed a powerful hostility and an unfamiliar energy coming from below.

The first thing his gaze settled upon was Gaia.

Gaia was the first spirit life-form born on Earth.

―A child born from the will of Earth?

Krasias’s purple eyes rapidly scanned Gaia’s entire body.

Even Gaia’s gigantic body, well over a hundred meters long, was less than one-tenth the size of the fully resurrected Krasias. But the pure power Gaia possessed was by no means something to be taken lightly.

A planet possessed a will.

The longer a planet had embraced and nurtured life, like Earth, the stronger its will became.

That was why it had resisted Krasias’s terraforming, and the backlash had turned the entire Earth into a desert.

Earth wanted to return its desertified world to how it had been before.

And so, it gave birth to Gaia.

Because of that, Gaia possessed tremendous power and limitless potential.

―How fortunate. If I absorb you, I will become even more complete.

A greedy light appeared in Krasias’s purple eyes.

He could not see Brielle, Levin, and Damho with Gaia.

To him, they were smaller and more insignificant than ants.

Krasias extended his foreleg toward Gaia.

Overwhelmed by Krasias’s presence, Gaia could not even dare to resist or attempt to flee.

That was when it happened.

“Get out of the way!”

Boom!

Along with someone’s shout, flames exploded against Krasias’s foreleg.

The impact pushed Krasias’s foreleg back slightly.

―Hell Fire?

Krasias recognized the flames that had struck his foreleg.

It was Hell Fire, said to be at the pinnacle of fire magic.

It possessed greater power than a volcano, and once it caught fire, it could never be extinguished—it was literally the flame of hell.

But even Hell Fire, possessing such absolute power, had done nothing more than leave a slight scorch mark on Krasias’s foreleg.

Krasias’s gaze turned toward the tiny being that had fired the Hell Fire.

The one who had fired it was Tesserina.

Tesserina, who had flown here late, had fired Hell Fire to save Gaia.

She shouted, veins bulging in her neck.

“What are you doing? Hurry up and run!”

―Pii!

Only then did Gaia come to her senses and fly backward with Brielle, Levin, and Damho riding on her.

But Krasias did not even spare Gaia a glance.

He was confident that he could catch Gaia whenever he wanted.

Krasias’s eyes remained fixed on Tesserina.

―Why do you smell like a dragon? And what is that crude body? A dragon’s mind inside a body made from a chimera?

Krasias immediately understood Tesserina’s physical condition.

The moment his gaze fell upon her, Tesserina lost all strength in her body and could not take any action.

Even a dragon’s mental strength could barely withstand Krasias’s gaze.

She had heard much about Krasias, but this was the first time she had seen him directly.

She had never even had the opportunity to see him before.

The presence of Krasias before her far exceeded Tesserina’s vague imagination.

‘What in the world is this?’

She could not even bring herself to resist.

It felt like facing a true god.

She felt as though her mind would collapse if she exchanged even a few more words with him.

She hurriedly moved away from Krasias. But no matter how fast she flew, she could not shake him off.

Krasias had ten wings, each one as long as his body.

With a single light flap of his wings, he could travel dozens of kilometers. Fleeing before Krasias was meaningless.

Krasias overtook Tesserina in an instant and lightly swung his foreleg.

Clang!

“Guh!”

Tesserina struck an invisible wall and was thrown back.

Krasias had already spread an invisible barrier, blocking her path of movement.

It was not only Tesserina.

Gaia was also blocked by the invisible barrier and could no longer flee.

Everyone was trapped inside the invisible barrier, like fish trapped in an aquarium.

It was impossible to escape the barrier until Krasias released it.

“Ahh!”

Brielle unconsciously let out a despairing cry.

Levin was the same.

They could see no way to escape.

But neither did they dare fight a monster whose body alone was more than three kilometers long.

Brielle and Levin were crushed beneath an immeasurable, overwhelming despair.

But Damho was different.

“Everyone, pull yourselves together.”

He let out a lion’s roar that drove away all evil energies.

The lion’s roar restored the minds of Brielle and Levin, which had been beginning to collapse.

Damho had crossed five worlds.

His hands were stained with the blood of countless life-forms.

Although Krasias was larger and stronger than any life-form he had ever killed, Damho had no intention of simply sitting back and taking it.

Damho burned with fighting spirit as he looked up at Krasias.

―You are no ordinary being either.

Krasias recognized Damho’s uniqueness.

An enormous force was contained within that tiny body.

It was as though he carried an active volcano inside himself.

But even an erupting volcano could have no effect on him. Likewise, Damho’s murderous intent and violent energy were ineffective against him.

Whoosh!

Krasias swung his enormous tail toward Damho.

At that moment, Damho kicked off Gaia and flew into the air.

The impact sent Gaia down dozens of meters, while Damho rose hundreds of meters in the opposite direction.

At that instant, Krasias’s tail swept through the space between Gaia and Damho by a hair’s breadth.

Damho performed a somersault in midair and landed on Krasias’s tail. Then he ran along Krasias’s tail and spine.

Tat-tat-tat!

Damho ran without hesitation as though he were running across flat ground.

In an instant, Damho reached the middle of Krasias’s back.

Whoosh!

At that moment, a cutting wind rushed toward Damho.

Krasias had used magic.

Wind Cutter.

It was one of the most basic spells, but the Wind Cutter cast by Krasias was on an entirely different level.

It possessed enough power to slice even an enormous monster like Gaia in half if it were caught by it.

Damho noticed this as well, but he did not bother to dodge.

He threw three punches in succession into the air.

Bang! Boom! Kaboom!

The Wind Cutters shattered with explosive sounds.

He had smashed the intangible wind apart with his fists.

Krasias looked intrigued by Damho’s unexpected method.

He realized that Damho’s mana manipulation was completely different from anything he knew.

Whoooosh!

A tremendous current of air was swirling around Damho.

Krasias cast another spell.

This time, a rain of lightning poured down over his back.

It was impossible to avoid all the lightning raining down over such a wide area.

At that moment, Damho chose to attack.

“Chaaat!”

Boom!

His fist struck Krasias’s scales.

But Damho could not smile.

The moment he broke through a single scale, lightning struck him.

Damho’s body was blasted into the air after being struck by an enormous bolt of lightning.

Countless more bolts struck his falling body one after another.

Kaboom! Kaboom! KABOOM!

Battered by lightning, Damho helplessly fell toward the ground.

Krasias looked at his own back with an incredulous expression.

His gaze was fixed on the scale that Damho’s fist had struck.

Each of Krasias’s scales was dozens of meters across and several meters thick.

Needless to say, their hardness was beyond comparison.

The scales forged by Krasias’s Indestructibility Authority could not be destroyed by anything.

And yet, such a scale had been brutally shattered by a single punch from Damho.

A gaping hole had been punched through the center of the scale, with cracks spreading out like a spiderweb.

The power was truly terrifying.

―How can a mere human possess such power…

Krasias looked at Damho as he fell.

Damho was about to crash into the ground after falling more than several thousand meters.

Whoosh!

That was when it happened.

Suddenly, the sand on the ground rose all at once like a cloud.

The cloud of sand gently caught Damho as he fell.

“Phew!”

Damho lay on the cloud of sand, breathing heavily.

White smoke was rising from his entire body.

The impact of being struck by lightning dozens of times was by no means insignificant.

Even though he had activated the Explosive Demon Realm just before being struck and dispersed the impact, his entire body hurt as though it were about to come apart.

But this level of pain could neither kill him nor stop him.

Damho raised his body and said,

“Thanks!”

“You’re welcome.”

A familiar voice came from within the cloud of sand.

The owner of the voice was none other than Zeon.

Zeon, who had been hit directly by Raikas’s breath, had regained consciousness and caught Damho as he fell.

Srrrk!

Zeon slowly emerged through the thick cloud of sand.

And within Zeon’s field of vision was Krasias, filling the sky.

“So you were resurrected after all.”

When the situation he had feared so much became reality, he instead became calm.

“You are the Sand Mage.”

Krasias muttered as he watched Zeon rise atop the cloud of sand.

Today was the first time he had seen Zeon.

Even so, Zeon did not feel unfamiliar to him because of the memories contained within the fragmented thoughts.

The thought-forms absorbed by Dantal, Nigel, Raikas, and others remembered Zeon.

The memories buried beneath the surface were vividly revived the moment they saw Zeon.

That was how he knew.

How troublesome an opponent Zeon was.

And how bizarre his abilities were.

That was when it happened.

Whoooosh!

A being radiating an enormous energy flew toward them at terrifying speed from far away.

The gigantic life-form flying while writhing like a snake was none other than Arisedon.

Arisedon had heard the World Tree’s warning and was flying to help Zeon.

At that moment, Zeon extended his fist toward Krasias.

Rumble!

The cloud of sand explosively increased and engulfed Krasias.