Chapter 266 The Necromancer and The Dragon
writer:Sometimesitalk      update:2022-08-15 14:42
  *ROAAAAAAAAAR!*

  A deafening dragon's roar reverberated through

  the entire planet, causing the millions of poisonous beasts to run in

  panic, or cower in fear. That roar was followed by an earthquake which

  formed massive cracks in the entire building, and threatened to turn it

  into a massive pile of rubble.

  Deep surprise appeared on Tirah's

  face, which despite it, was pretty excited about finally being able to

  see a dragon in the flesh. That was due to the fact that she was not

  much older than Daniel, as she was only a few hundred years of age…… and

  when she had managed to take control over her host's body, virtually

  every dragon in the known universe had already been enslaved by The

  Tamer, which she had never met before.

  The powerful roar

  disappeared as fast as it started, replaced by the noise of a massive

  claw that dug into the side of the building, right into the floor where

  Daniel, Aeron, and the Necromancer were…… It then started to move around

  the building, destroying the very external wall, and leaving the weight

  of the upper part of the building to be held solely by the many pillars

  in it.

  Just as the building was about to collapse, five claws

  grabbe the part of the building that was about to collapse on Daniel's

  head, and ripped it off…… The ceiling that was so close only moments

  earlier, quickly became smaller, and soon after, was thrown in the

  distance without the slightest bit of effort.

  The moment the

  building was thrown away, a massive dragon entered the view of Daniel

  and the rest, which looked at it with deep surprise. While Tirah and

  Aeron had heard about dragons during the hundreds of years she had spent

  roaming the universe, neither of them had actually seen one before.

  Ironically

  speaking, Daniel was the only one amongst them who had seen a dragon

  before, but compared to this one, the one he had awakened while in his

  planet of origin, looked more like a small lizard.

  The sheer size

  of the dragon's massive black and scaly body, was mind boggling…… So

  much so, that it order to have enough space to stand, he was forced to

  stand above numerous buildings, which were now underneath him in rubles.

  His black leathery wings were so large, that they bloated the sun,

  causing the entire center of the city to be in their shade, while his

  tail was so long that it reached halfway towards the edge of the city.

  The back of the dragon's body had a spiky ridge which started at the

  base of his neck, and ended near the tip of his tail.

  The mouth

  of the dragon seemed to be big enough to swallow an entire building, and

  its enormous teeth gave the impression that nothing of what entered his

  dragon's mouth, would go through in one piece. Right above the dragon's

  mouth, was a pair of large nostrils from which two columns of smoke

  came out…… While in the depths of these mostris, two green colored

  lights could be seen shine like hidden gems.

  The dragon looked

  down at the three of them with his two large and yellow eyes, and with a

  voice capable of killing, he said "You've really done it…… Ha! You

  really did……" he then turned to look at Tirah, which was calmly looking

  back at him, and said "What do we have here……"

  Tirah was not at

  all scared by the size of the dragon, and instead, looked at it with a

  faint grin on her face which was impossible to see due to the large and

  baggy hood that covered it. "You are not one of my sister's pets……" She

  said with an elated tone. She had just found out that this dragon was

  not actually one of the tamer's, and therefore, she didn't have to worry

  about her sister being here.

  "I am not…… I am the one who she

  missed, and the one who will kill her." Responded the dragon with a

  deafening tone. Then, without waiting for the girl to act, the spaces in

  between his scales started to glow of a green color and his chest swell

  up to double the size. The two columns of smoke which were being

  constantly emitted from his massive nostrils, were also being inhaled

  right back.

  Daniel rapidly grabbed Aeron, and teleported out of

  the way, and above one of the buildings in the distance, as the entire

  city had been covered by a barrier which only the dragon and the

  necromancer could go through.

  At the same time, a faint white

  mist came out of the ground, along with millions of white hands which

  destroyed the oddly hard material of which the streets were made of. The

  bodies of the entire population of the city were also getting back up,

  and stood quietly like mannequins.

  These corpses and ghosts

  quickly dashed towards the necromancer at the fastest speed that their

  living self were capable of, only to crash against one another into a

  massive pile of white glow and bodies that covered Tirah completely.

  At

  first, Daniel thought that all that the necromancer was doing was to

  create a barrier against the incoming spit of fire that was going to

  turn the city into a flaming green hell, but that was not the case. The

  moving corpse kept jumping one against the other, forming a mountain

  around the necromancer which shone with a faint white light, and was

  covered in dim mist.

  The dragon did not wait for her to act, and

  instead, looked down at the large pile of corpse with his immense size,

  and exhaled a jet of flammable liquid of which his lungs were filled.

  The

  enormous green column of liquid flames crashed against the mountain of

  corpses like a bucket of hot water over a small mound of sand, engulfing

  it completely, and spreading through the city in every direction.

  All

  of the buildings that at this point were still up, had quickly started

  to melt, as the heath emanated by the flames of the dragon was so high,

  that Daniel and Aeron felt like they were in the proximity of a star.

  The exhalation kept going until the last of the buildings fell on the ground, and melted.

  The

  flames were now fifty meters tall, and covered the dragon's body up to

  his elbows and knees, giving the impression of an overgrown lizard that

  was peacefully walking around in the tall grass.

  Unfortunately,

  for as devastating the attack was, the dragon kept looking at the spot

  where his original target was a moment ago. There, unlike the concrete

  building with steel supports which had been melted into a layer of

  minerals and metal, was the undamaged pile of corpses, which was slowly

  increasing in size.

  While the green flames had burned everything

  in the city, the corpses and the ghosts were still intact. The reason

  for that was not because they were too resistant, or because the

  necromancer was stronger…… But due to one of the effects that was part

  of the necromancer's system.

  Once the last of the ghosts and the

  last of the bodies joined the hill-sized pile of death, they started to

  move. For the next few moments, the bodies began to melt and change

  shape, while the ghosts also started to unite into a single one, forming

  a clump of molten flesh and bones, and a horrifying clump of screaming

  ghosts.

  What was a mountain of bodies just a minute ago, quickly

  took a humanoid shape…… then hardened into a massive human. Once formed,

  the large clump of ghosts merged with the empty cadaver, just like a

  spirit would merge with a person's body during the cultivation.

  Once whole, the giant opened his empty white eyes, and began to move.

  One

  of the powers which the necromancy system had granted by Iewah's gift,

  was the ability to merge the various corpses, and the ghosts present

  around her into a massive human. This massive human would then be under

  her complete control, as well as possess the memories of each and every

  body and ghost of which it was made of.

  The moment of the merging

  was protected by the system, and not at all different than the whole

  concept of Daniel's second chance, and karma x luck. Both of these

  effects did not operate on something physical, like sheer time essence,

  but were unstoppable abstract effects which would possibly change the

  outcome of a battle.

  The same was for the merging of the bodies

  around her, which due to the fact that was required to succeed by the

  system, caused them to become invulnerable until they managed to

  successfully merge.

  Another thing that merged, was the power of

  the corpses, which had now turned into a horrific looking humanoid being

  which moved thanks to the orders of its owner, and the millions of

  voices in its head.

  The giant corpse that had been formed by the

  merging of ghosts and bodies, was a hundred meters tall. It didn't have a

  nose, but only two holes, his mouth was devoid of lips, and only his

  two rows of teeth could be seen, his head was completely bald, and his

  eyes were devoid of pupil, and iris.

  The dragon did not give the

  girl the time to give any order to the giant corpse, and immediately

  waved his massive hand into a slashing motion, which cut the giant's

  head right off.

  The head fell on the ground with a loud noise,

  and into the green flames, but then, it changed shape once again, and

  after turning into a small two legged monster, it ran back towards the

  headless giant, jumped right where the giant corpse's neck was, and

  merge back with it.

  This time, it was the necromancer that didn't

  give the dragon the time to make a plan, and sent the large corpse to

  dash straight towards the dragon's body. From Daniel's prospective, it

  looked like the giant wanted to approach the dragon as much as possible,

  and wrestle with it.

  His massive two arms tried to grab the

  dragon's neck, but they were, once again, sliced off by the dragon's

  quick reaction, which quietly took a step back, and after waving his

  massive wings and flying up in the air, prepared to let out another, yet

  much more powerful, column of fire.

  Unfortunately for the

  dragon, the giant corpse was just as agile as a normal human, and jumped

  right towards him the very moment that the dragon took off for the sky.

  It then grabbed one of his limbs, and climbed up until it reached the

  area in between his wings.

  Once there, he moves his long arms around the dragon's neck, and tried to choke him.

  The

  dragon quickly dived on the still flaming ground, and tried to get the

  giant corpse off of his back, but only managed to reduce its size by

  making it grind against the ground.

  To Daniel, one thing was

  clear…… This fight was way above his level. Luckily, he was a chosen of

  Iewah…… And as one, he had the power to skip levels of power through his

  supernatural gift.

  "Any second now……" he muttered as he observed

  the shocking back and forth between the giant corpse, and the dragon,

  which seemed to hold the advantage, but could never really manage to

  finish the former off.

  The fight went on for about two more minutes.

  The

  dragon had a few injuries which were quickly healing, while the

  necromancer, which was currently inside the giant corpse, was now

  extremely serious. It was clear to her that her power was not above the

  dragon's.

  For a minute, the two looked at each other in search of

  a plan to come on top of the other…… But then, they immediately turned

  towards an empty part of space a few thousand kilometers out of the

  planet's atmosphere.

  "Finally……" muttered Daniel with a low tone.

  In

  the empty part of space that the necromancer and the dragon were

  observing, a five meter crack had appeared, and right in the middle of

  it, a two meters sized hole had formed.

  What made the hole in

  space came down towards the planet like a comet, and in a matter of

  seconds, it crashed right in between the dragon, and the giant corpse.