Chapter 25: The End of the Dragon of Apocalypse
After saying his goodbyes to Erza, Yumesaki set out.
First, he used his Magic Cards to perform a brief divination regarding the black dragon's whereabouts, then cast Clairvoyance Magic, searching based on the position revealed by the prophecy.
Although the black dragon Acnologia was immune to magic, it didn't mean that the effects of magic could not exert any influence on him. Yumesaki could still use divination magic to search for his location.
Very quickly, Yumesaki found the black dragon's coordinates. Through his Clairvoyance Magic, he discovered that the creature was currently sleeping soundly inside a mountain peak.
After locking onto the black dragon, Yumesaki raised his hand and pushed, opening an air door. In the next second, he stepped through the door and arrived right in front of the black dragon Acnologia.
Previously, when observing the black dragon with Clairvoyance Magic, he had already discovered that his opponent was massive. But now, when Yumesaki actually stood before the black dragon, he realized the target was far larger than imagined.
Looking upward, the black dragon's massive body resembled a small mountain, its armored scales emitting a dark luster under the thin sunlight. Every single breath he exhaled carried destructive waves of magical power, causing the surrounding air to vibrate, and even space itself trembled slightly.
It was no wonder this creature had lived for several hundred years without anyone ever successfully hunting him down. He was simply too strong.
Because the Door-Door Fruit did not count as magic, Yumesaki didn't emit any waves of magical power when he used its ability to arrive before Acnologia. Naturally, it did not startle the sleeping black dragon.
Right now, Yumesaki only needed to activate the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit to erase the black dragon's soul. But Yumesaki didn't do that. Since he had already come all this way, he naturally wanted to see just how ridiculous this black dragon's strength actually was.
Thus, Yumesaki slowly raised his right hand, and a thin layer of light appeared over his fist. This was part of Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
"Eat dirt, Acnologia!"
Yumesaki roared, swinging a punch into midair as if striking an invisible sheet of glass.
With his fist as the center, the atmosphere suddenly cracked. Countless cobweb-like fissures spread rapidly in all directions, and wherever the cracks passed, space itself let out a groaning wail under the heavy burden. The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit exploded with a roar, instantly striking the black dragon's massive body and shattering the entire ground within a radius of several hundred meters.
Amidst the massive rumbling sound, the entire mountain peak shook violently, and rock fragments flew everywhere. The black dragon's huge body was pushed back dozens of meters by the force, plowing a deep trench into the earth.
At the same time, it completely awakened the sleeping giant dragon.
Yumesaki looked at the black dragon with a face full of surprise. He had initially thought that after this single punch landed, he would at least send the black dragon flying. As it turned out, his opponent hadn't left the ground at all. He had merely skidded back dozens of meters along the surface.
This defensive power was truly absurd.
On the other side, the black dragon, who had been sleeping so comfortably, suddenly felt someone land a heavy punch on him—and the force of this punch wasn't low either. Although it didn't wound him, the terrifying force still made him unable to hold back a roar.
Because that punch actually hurt.
But more than that, it was the sheer fury of being angered.
The instantly awakened black dragon locked his gaze onto Yumesaki, opening his bloody, massive maw. A blast of destructive magical power condensed in a flash, and a beam of black light carrying an aura of absolute annihilation slammed toward Yumesaki.
It was a destructive force sufficient to erase a city. Wherever the blast passed, the air disintegrated, light was swallowed, and even thin cracks appeared in space itself.
Seeing the situation, Yumesaki's body suddenly flared with a piercing, golden light.
Glint-Glint Fruit.
In a thousandth of a second, his form turned into a beam of flowing light, directly dodging the range of the black blast and appearing right above the black dragon's head.
"Hey, have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?"
Yumesaki looked down at the black dragon Acnologia.
His right leg was raised high, golden light condensing at the tip of his foot into a sharp blade of light. A light-speed kick—no, it should be called a light-speed slash.
He slashed down with one leg. The golden light split the sky, hacking fiercely against the black dragon's neck. Armored scales shattered apart, and jet-black dragon blood spurted out.
Acnologia instantly let out a sky-shaking roar of rage. Ever since he ended the age of dragons, this was the first time he had been wounded by someone. His anger resembled an exploding volcano.
A dragon tail resembling a mountain peak swept over. Its speed was so fast it surpassed logic, and the air pushed by the tail formed a destructive storm.
"Now that's more like it."
Yumesaki laughed out loud. Both of his fists simultaneously lit up with white light. Two forces of vibration stacked together, directly blocking the sweeping dragon tail head-on.
An ear-splitting explosion resounded. Space shattered inch by inch, and the armored scales on the dragon's tail were blasted apart across a wide area. The black dragon's massive body was actually knocked sideways by the rebounding vibration force, crashing heavily onto the mountain peak and causing the entire summit to sink down by several meters.
However, Yumesaki wasn't in perfect shape either. The bones in both of his arms let out faint cracking sounds, the skin between his thumbs and index fingers tore open, and fresh blood dripped along his fingers.
But it was no problem.
Yumesaki activated the Reverse Curse Technique, healing himself in the blink of an eye.
The black dragon flipped his body and stood up, genuine killing intent appearing in his vertical pupils for the first time. He opened his giant mouth, and magical power condensed wildly in his throat. This time, the blast was more than ten times stronger than before.
The black magical power formed a massive vortex, swallowing all the magic power within a radius of several thousand meters and converting it into pure destructive energy.
Dragon's Roar of the Black Dragon!!
The blue-white energy poured out, its range so massive this time that there was no way to evade. It was as if he wanted to destroy Yumesaki along with the mountain peak itself.
Yumesaki smiled slightly, switching his Devil Fruit ability once again.
Dark-Dark Fruit: Black Star!
In the blink of an eye, darkness spread outward with his body as the center, forming a pure black hole in front of him.
The black dragon's destructive roar slammed into this darkness, vanishing like a stone dropped into the ocean, swallowed completely without a sound or trace. The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit could absorb any attack, reducing everything to nothingness—it was an absolute gravitational pull that even the power of a dragon could not escape.
A straight-line attack like the Dragon's Roar was the least lethal type of move against Yumesaki.
After swallowing the attack, he stomped his feet against the ground, turning into a beam of light that dashed right in front of the black dragon in an instant.
In the next second, Yumesaki grew unbelievably massive. This was Makarov's Giant Magic.
Yumesaki became phenomenally large, nearly matching the size of the black dragon Acnologia. At the same time, his strength increased exponentially.
The ultimate greatness of Giant Magic lay in its ability to alter physical size and strength parameters; the increase in body size shared a perfectly positive correlation with the growth of physical power. In the original timeline, Makarov had used Giant Magic to clash directly with Acnologia.
Naturally, Yumesaki could do it too.
Except Yumesaki didn't activate this magic to trade physical blows with the dragon. Rather... it was to unleash the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
When a giant several hundred meters tall possessing incredible raw power unleashed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, just how ridiculous would it be? Put simply, it was earth-shattering.
With a crash, space shattered completely under Yumesaki's fist. With the point of impact as the epicenter, a black void a hundred meters in diameter suddenly materialized.
The armored scales on the black dragon's chest exploded into pieces, the sound of breaking dragon bones echoed clearly, and black dragon blood poured out like a waterfall.
Acnologia unleashed his most agonizing roar of pain to date.
Yumesaki laughed out loud, throwing several more punches in succession. Every single strike detonated the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Even the legendary Dragon of Apocalypse was beaten senseless, his hard scales shattering under Yumesaki's fists as fresh blood sprayed like a fountain.
"You bastard, how dare you..."
Right at that moment, the black dragon finally spoke. This creature who had lived for hundreds of years had always been too lazy to communicate with humans, but after being pummeled into a daze by Yumesaki, he finally spoke.
However, Yumesaki simply hammered him with two more resounding punches. He had absolutely no intention of holding a conversation.
"Shut your mouth."
After beating the so-called Dragon of Apocalypse until his head spun, Yumesaki decisively called upon the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit. He planned to end this battle.
It wasn't that he minded continuing the beatdown, but Giant Magic consumed an incredible amount of magical power. The larger the body, the more shocking the consumption rate. If it weren't for the Golden Gate inside Yumesaki's body drawing magical power from the atmosphere, he wouldn't have been able to sustain it for this long.
Therefore, now was the time to finish it.
In the blink of an eye, Yumesaki gripped the black dragon's neck, pulling with all his might.
"Get out here!"
With Yumesaki's angry roar, he suddenly yanked backward. A dark, phantom human shape was forcibly pulled out from the black dragon's body.
That was Acnologia's soul.
Acnologia, just like Irene, had never originally been a giant dragon. He was a human.
More than 400 years ago, Acnologia had been a doctor in a hidden sanctuary. Even though the dragon race ruled the world back then and human lives carried no guarantees—susceptible to being eaten as food at any time or place—the humans in that sanctuary lived in perfect harmony with dragons, and a dragon served as their guardian deity.
But after his hometown was destroyed by dragons, he taught himself Dragon Slayer Magic for the sake of revenge, choosing the name of his enemy, Acnologia, as his own. Eventually, because he slaughtered a massive number of dragons, his skin grew scales, his teeth became fangs, and his body gradually transformed into the black dragon he was today.
The moment his soul separated from his body, the massive black dragon collapsed to the earth with a thunderous crash, the pair of dark golden vertical pupils quickly losing their luster. It completely turned into an empty shell, a body devoid of a soul.
As for his human soul, it was swallowed by Yumesaki. Without even a chance to utter any last words, Yumesaki cast it to the Shinigami to be slowly digested.
With that, the man who had once ended the age of dragons met his own end at the hands of Yumesaki.
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