Chapter 118: Tribulation of the Nine Dragons
"You’re right. You’re no fool. No fool could have reduced me to such a miserable state. But that’s fine... this farce is about to come to an end."
After hearing those words, Ourabos turned and looked at the giant who had begun his transformation with razor-sharp eyes before saying in a voice filled with bloodlust, "I’ll kill him."
"Hahahaha, kill him? And how exactly are you going to kill him, O great Planet Spirit, when you can’t harm your own inhabitants without the explicit permission of the master who governs you, or unless certain conditions are met that would result in your own destruction? And the tribulation won’t be able to kill him either. He’ll be far too powerful by then. Even if you deliberately strengthen the tribulation, I can simply sacrifice part of myself and weaken it." The black phantom laughed mockingly before waving his hand. "And don’t tell me the giants alone will bring about your destruction. The laws still don’t recognize them as a genuine threat to you. So what exactly are you going to do? Send them a gentle breeze and politely ask them to leave? Hahahahaha!"
Ourabos narrowed her eyes at the black phantom’s ridicule, but a second later, her eyes suddenly widened as she stared at him in shock and fury.
"You! You!... You didn’t just interfere here—you interfered with the others as well!" Ourabos pointed at him angrily, looking as though calamities had struck her from every direction. "By doing this, you’ve violated every agreement we made. Have you completely stopped caring about the oaths between us?"
Faced with Ourabos’ accusations, the black phantom’s mocking smile disappeared as he looked at her coldly.
"Don’t lecture me about breaking agreements when you’re the one who violates them the most... And yes, I no longer care about those old oaths. The time has come for you to submit, whether you want to or not."
Hearing those words, Ourabos smiled bitterly with irritation before shifting her gaze toward the Giant Kings.
"Good! Good!... If this is how things are going to be, then let’s see who remains standing in the end."
....
Inside the Cave of the Giant Kings.
The gray giant continued devouring Giant cores without pause, and his aura steadily rose...
Core after core, the gray giant devoured hundreds of Giant cores.
Had one of the six kings consumed that many cores, their body would have exploded long ago.
Yet nothing happened to him except that his body began to transform. Bone scales emerged, covering his body and forming a brand-new suit of armor, while his claws grew sharper and far more savage. Then, from his back, four additional arms began to grow!
The transformation did not stop there. The rest of his exposed skin gradually turned brown, and his body continued growing until it finally reached forty meters in height... the peak of the Fourth Level!
Rumble!
"Do you hear that?"
While the Giant Kings were still astonished by the brutality of the new Titan’s transformation, Nimrok suddenly heard a sound and immediately alerted the others.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
"What is that? Is that the rumbling of lightning?" The others also noticed the growing sound, and Grimar’s eyes suddenly widened as he shouted, "Get out of the cave immediately!"
Without waiting for anyone else, he was the first to rush outside, and the others quickly followed—including the Titan.
The moment they stepped out of the cave, they looked up at the sky, and their eyes widened to the limit.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Lightning Dragons covered hundreds of kilometers of the sky. The roar of thunder deafened their ears, while black clouds completely sealed away the sunlight.
"She’s truly furious this time. If one of those four who survived the tribulation a hundred thousand years ago had to face this one now, they’d probably come out of it breathing their last," Bragun muttered nervously, his body trembling as he imagined facing such a tribulation.
No!
Even if all six Giant Kings joined forces, they still wouldn’t survive it.
Only beings like the Immortal Tree of Cradle, the Ancestor of Dragons, the Ancestor of Golden Lions, and the Ancestor of the Falcon would barely have a chance of surviving such a catastrophe.
"Hahahahaha! Are these little tricks supposed to frighten me?"
The Titan stepped forward from behind the others and accelerated into a sprint before leaping into the sky. He spread all six of his arms and laughed madly.
"Come! Show me the true extent of your wrath!"
The moment the Titan provoked them, it was as if the Lightning Dragons in the sky had gone completely berserk!
The Lightning Dragons began colliding with one another frantically, eventually forming nine enormous clusters of intertwined dragons that slowly started to merge.
Once the Lightning Dragons had fused into nine gigantic masses, the atmosphere finally grew calm.
But the nine spheres of Lightning Dragons showed no signs of tranquility. Instead, they became even more violent and ferocious as crimson flames erupted within each of them.
When the crimson flames completely consumed the spheres of lightning, nine colossal Flame Dragons emerged and charged straight at the Titan!
"Wait a second... Why is every one of those dragons at the peak of the Fourth Level? This isn’t supposed to happen. Has that bitch really started violating the agreements already?!"
When Rodak sensed the terrifying aura of the nine Flame Dragons attacking the Titan, he turned toward Grimar in disbelief and shouted furiously.
"The agreements between Ourabos and the Lord have already been nullified. However, because the Lord forcibly manipulated this planet’s laws using the Primordial Law of Order—especially the laws governing this continent more than anywhere else—many of the rules established through the Primordial Law of Order still haven’t disappeared. They’re already partially fused with this planet’s laws and natural order... and they won’t completely vanish until enough time has passed."
Ragnar broke into a cold sweat at the sight of the nine Flame Dragons. Gritting his teeth, he cursed,
"This wasn’t possible before, but that damned spirit took advantage of the fact that the agreements with the Lord have been voided. She exploited those loopholes and deliberately raised the tribulation’s power beyond the limit that had originally been established."
Then, with a hint of relief, he added,
"But fortunately, the Lord’s Primordial Law of Order hasn’t completely faded away yet. Otherwise... this catastrophe would have been hundreds of times more terrifying!"