Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 134 Absorbing Divine Fragments Again

The stranger asked in horror, "You...you're not just pretending?! What have you done to me?!"

Agrede replied with a hint of sarcasm, "I'm just fulfilling a promise we made to each other."

Before he finished speaking, the stranger began to feel excruciating pain all over his body. His skin was aging, shrinking, and rotting. He felt as if he were being burned. The boundless pain made him writhe his body in agony and rage like a dying worm.

The stranger was no longer the arrogant and domineering man he had been moments before. All he did was scream and beg Agreed for mercy, trying to get him to let him go.

But Agreed, watching this cruel scene, simply smiled and asked, "Where's your system? Why isn't it coming to your rescue?"

Before he finished speaking, a subtle energy fluctuation appeared. Agreed swiftly and decisively sealed the barely perceptible unidentified object and then firmly grasped it in his hand.

Agreed opened his palm and saw that the fragment of divinity residing in the stranger's body was lying peacefully in his palm.

Agreed toyed with the fragment of divine power in his hand and chuckled softly, "Little thing, you still want to run away? You're quite selfish, but it's a good thing, otherwise it would have taken me a lot more effort to deal with the two of you." With that, Agreed exerted force on his hand, and the fragment of divine power immediately shattered into the purest divine power, which Agreed absorbed.

Including the time with the Balrog, this is the second time Agred has absorbed the power of a godhood fragment. Absorbing divine power will indeed give Agred some unexpected boosts, but it is far from enough to make Agred ascend to godhood. A godhood fragment can shatter into at least a dozen or more fragments, and some can even split into thousands. Therefore, the difficulty of ascending by absorbing godhood fragments is no different from the difficulty of becoming a billionaire by constantly robbing lottery winners.

However, absorbing the fragments of divinity can give Agred a stronger foundation, and may even allow him to become a king at the demigod level. To be honest, apart from the gods of nature, other gods are not particularly free, and the demigod level is actually the top level of the pyramid.

Agreed then went to the half-dead stranger, placed his hand on his head, and activated the soul-searching magic. Agreed read all of the stranger's memories and recorded the useful information.

After a while, Agreed released his grip and sneered, "As expected, you found everything except the Silver Dragon Clan's Dragon Graveyard. You really didn't fall short of my expectations. Alright, now that I've got what I wanted, I won't torture you anymore. The Gold Dragon Clan is coming soon, so to prevent exposure, it's best to send you on your way as soon as possible."

Then, amidst the stranger's grateful gaze, Agreed stomped on the stranger's head, crushing it. At the same time, Agreed stored the largest and most energy-rich golden dragon skeleton in his private space. Afterward, Agreed vanished into the shadow world and quietly left. As for the other golden dragon skeletons, he would have to deal with them another time. After all, reality is a game with no room for error. Since he had already made a huge profit, he shouldn't be greedy anymore. Knowing when to quit while he's ahead is the only way to develop further.

Some people might not understand why Argrede, a forbidden spellcaster, would be afraid of dragons. Let me explain.

Dragons are born with unparalleled talents from birth. Even newborn dragons, after experiencing a three-year period of weakness, grow into young dragons with strength greater than a brown bear and dragon breath comparable to fourth-tier magic. At the same time, young dragons' scales have extremely high magic resistance and blunt weapon resistance. Apart from top-tier weapons with advanced armor-piercing enchantments, few things can break through their defenses.

What's most terrifying about the dragon race is their bloodline inheritance. Every young dragon can inherit the wisdom and knowledge of its ancestors through its bloodline. So basically, young dragons can learn and use the dragon language magic unique to their respective dragon species from birth. Moreover, they can freely use dragon language magic below the sixth rank from birth.

What does this mean? A baby born in just three years can easily defeat 99% of the creatures in nature. They are already a combination of a sixth-tier mage and a high-level warrior in their infancy. And what Agreed is about to face are the adult forms of these damned things! And there's a whole group of them!! No matter how confident he is in himself, there's no need to fight these monsters.

Although there are many heroic stories of warriors slaying dragons in human tales, Argreed always treated these stories as jokes. Most of the so-called 'dragons' that died in these stories were either mentally challenged infants who were abandoned by the dragons while receiving the dragon's inheritance and had their brains burned out, or they were subspecies with some dragon blood, such as wyverns.

So, just treat those stories that glorify humanity as jokes. If you take them seriously, you might become the next joke.

Shortly after Agred left, a colossal golden dragon, its size defying all physics, slowly descended to the ground. Looking down at the graveyard, it roared, "Filthy, wretched reptile! How dare you desecrate the remains of my Golden Dragon Clan's first Golden Dragon King, Kalista'dan!! My Golden Dragon Clan will never forgive you!!!"

A moment later, a golden dragon slightly smaller than him landed beside him and asked, "Falklin, do you know who did it?"

Looking at the dead stranger at his feet, Falklin judged, "Burqin, look, there are remnants of shadow magic here, and there's also a human corpse that was killed by a curse on the ground. There are also traces of spells and formations around it. Such a complex power system and profound magical skill, all these phenomena can only be attributed to one guy, the undead scourge that suddenly appeared on Middle-earth not long ago, according to news we received."

The dragon known as Burqin examined the clues on the ground and then acknowledged, "It should be. Only a necromancer could have done all this. So what do we do? Should we chase after them and retrieve the remains?"

After thinking for a moment, Falklin shouted to his kin, "Summon all the adult golden dragons we can muster, and send a message to the Empire of Light, saying that we agree to join them in the war against the Undead Empire."

At this moment, Burqin asked in surprise, "Do we really have to do this? As you know, the Golden Dragon Clan currently has less than a hundred members. If we remove the necessary personnel to guard the dragon's nest, even if we include you, we only have about twenty adult warriors. If all else fails, we can simply intimidate him to get the things back."

Falklin said solemnly, “If he were afraid of us, he wouldn’t have dared to provoke us like this. You’re right, we can’t attack them rashly because the Golden Dragon Clan can’t afford to lose now. So we need to form an alliance with the Light Empire, which just asked us for help, and offer a higher price so they don’t give us away. The dignity of the dragon clan must never be trampled on. This is something I, as the current Golden Dragon King, must do.”