{Note for readers - There is gore and violence in this chapter....}
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Kale's cold green eyes remianed locked onto the Red Dragon's monstrous pupil with boundless bloodlust.
The Dragon growled, for it was unable to understand what exactly the thing was that could protect the boy so flawlessly from its flames. The Dragon judged that it needed to go down and personally butcher the cursed boy.
Unfortunately, the Red Dragon was extremely young; The one who sent it to kill the boy did not notify it that every action has its consequences. Dragons were the favored species of the heavens, but that did not mean the World Will would let them do what they pleased.
Their invincible power was always regulated by Nergal's world Will. The very reason Dragons lived in the subterranean world was to hide from the rest of the inhabitant species, ruling everything from the shadows. As such, for directly interfering with something that it was not supposed to, the young Red Dragon garnered the wrath of Nergal's dormant world will.
The Dark clouds in the night sky gathered above once more, not by a natural coalescence, but by force. The sky growled in manifestation of the World Will, but the Red Dragon remained oblivious to it, as it kept diving down towards Kale once more.
KRRRRAAAAAAAAK—THOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
At that exact instance, a divine thunder, deafening green lightning bolt descended from the heavens, striking directly at the Red Dragon.
The Dragon wailed in wretched agony at the unexpected strike of divine judgment, "GGRRRAAAAAAAAUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Its pained scream was like haunting music in Kale's ears, but his vengeful expression did not change, for there was nothing but rage in his mind. Everything else was put aside.
BANG!!!!!
Like a missile being shot in mid sky, the winged creature lost control, crashing to the ground, just 20 meters away from where Kale was standing, continuing to cry painfully, like any wounded beast at its last leg would. The ground quaked violently from the weight of the fallen Red Dragon.
Kale took a step forward, but the creature was still filled with physical might, so the heavens struck with lightning once more. Now the mighty beast was in a much worse state. It could barely move its body anymore.
Kale didn't give a damn about the lightning strike of the World Will; he remained unafraid, stepping closer and closer towards the ginormous Dragon.
The creature also looked at Kale in hatred. The accursed boy was within its arm's reach, but it could not move its body in the slightest to deliver one last strike and kill him. Groggy, weak growls came from its throat.
Kale stopped for a moment, taking in the sight of the charred and bleeding mighty Red Dragon that just killed his family right in front of his eyes, so many of its red scales were destroyed, no trace of its previous, invincible majesty remaining.
A dark shadow fell on Kale's face; only his ominous, enraged eyes could be seen. At this moment, the system chimed in…
[Host has been granted temporary access to the "Nemesis Dagger"]
[Nemesis Dagger: A supreme rank dagger of a lost world. Can kill almost anything.]
[Warning! Host currently does not meet the necessary conditions to use it; life force can be used in exchange for limited access to the Relic's deathly power.]
[Warning! The possibility of the host dying is too great.]
[Host must exercise extreme caution when using it.]
A glistening, pitch-black dagger appeared in Kale's hand. It was extremely light, but a halo of forbidden darkness oozed out of the Dagger nonstop. He barely glanced over the notifications, uncaring of the cost; all that mattered to him was that this thing could hurt the Dragon, more than that, it could kill the Dragon.
STEP, STEP, Step…..
Kale walked closer and closer and closer, until his face was a few inches away from the yellow monstrous eyes of the creature. With no warning whatsoever, Kale directly stabbed the forbidden dagger at its eyes. The sharp thing cut through its eyes like a hot knife through butter.
GRAAAAAHHHHHHAAAHH!!!!
It wailed once more, in pain, in rage….
But Kale remained relentless, ruthless to the extreme, as he moved to the other eye, understanding what was about to happen, the Dragon closed the other eye in hopes of saving it, but again, the nemesis dagger cut through its eyelids, as if it was the very bane of the Dragon's tough exterior.
Kale's green eyes shimmered once more. Using the dagger seemed to have granted him some form of knowledge about the Dragons without him even realizing it.
His eyes finally landed on the reverse scale of the Dragon, its weakest spot, the place it would feel the greatest pain, right under it was the central nervous point of the creature. Kale climbed onto the creature's back, while the Red Dragon understood what the accursed one was about to do.
The beast continued to writhe with the bare minimum of strength it could muster in its half-dead state. But that felt nothing but a gentle sway to the vengeful Kale.
Holding the Nemesis Dagger high up with both of his hands as the bright moon shone behind him, Kale growled like a vindictive spirit and stabbed down with the dagger at the reverse scale of the Dragon, which was already badly damaged by the divine thunder that struck at the weak spot twice.
Squelch….
Squelch...…
Squelch...…
The continuous sound of flesh-piercing could be heard nonstop; a fierce pain struck the Red Dragon, and its struggle became more and more apparent.
A dark smile slowly formed on Kale's lips. The more the arrogant beast struggled under him, the more satisfaction he felt within his heart. His mind raced at the sweet taste of revenge. The gleeful smile on his face only became wider and wider until Kale had lost his mind.
Endlessly stabbing the colossal creature's weak spot, the arrogant Red Dragon, which slaughtered Dagan village, was eventually killed by a 12-year-old boy, who barely awakened for a single day. Accursed by the Guardian Deity to never walk the path of Beast Taming, which he was destined to, as the favored one of Nergal's World Will.
But the price for using the Nemesis Dagger was too steep, especially when Kale did not meet the requirement to use it, not to mention killing a mighty Red Dragon of Tyrant Rank.
The system's voice rang in his head, almost cracked, in the midst of his butchering spree, his whole body covered in the blood of the dead Dragon.
[Host has successfully killed a Tyrant Rank Red Dragon.]
[The Nergal's World Will has taken notice of you.]
[You have gained its favor.]
[Warning!! The Nemesis Dagger has used up the host's complete life force in the process.]
[The host is dying…]
All the strength and fury that was driving him all of a sudden vanished; he did not even realize how the Dagger was continuously devouring his life force in huge chunks, due to the adrenaline driving him. Now his strength was all gone, and he dropped to his knees.
A familiar sense of weakness drowned his mind, his eyes closed, his heart stopped. The pain of his soul being ripped from his body was familiar; he had once experienced it before, after all.
But he didn't mind it much, for his vengeance was satiated. However, regrets remained in his heart.
[The host has died….]
[Activating the Final Failsafe protocol]
[Checking necessary conditions…]
[Using the world Will's favor]
[Deciphering the worldly laws….]
[The slumbering state of the World Dragon has been confirmed…]
[The weakened state of Nergal's world Will has been confirmed….]
[Borrowing a trace of '&%^&%^'s Divinity…]
[All conditions have been met…]
[Initiating 'Temporal Soul Regression'…]