Epic of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

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The next day, we already began distributing the rings and the elixirs to the people. I had mass produced too many and there were a lot of them left which we couldn't use to improve our souls. Though they still helped as "soul healing potions" if our souls are ever damaged, so I kept a hundred with me at all times.

As my family and the slimes I created distributed things to make my allies even stronger, alongside distributing Soul Gear to all the main fighters of our party, I decided to move on to the meat and potatoes of this entire series of events, and the reason I even went to two Dragon Realm to hunt down Soul Beasts and obtain Soul Gear out of them.

To Rank Up my damned Demon King Seed!

After finally getting my soul as strong as possible, and with Soul gear to boot, I was ready to confront Gluttony in his Rank 4 form. Unlike, perhaps any other Demon King out there, I was facing the sin and denying it the privilege of slowly taking over my body.

I already know that these Sins were most likely a creation of Pandemonium, be it intentional or unintentionally. His powers simply created this, a curse to the world of Yggdrasil, one I am planning to take advantage of.

Or well, I am already taking advantage of. Rank 3, however, is not ever enough. I need to go even further than that. I even think Rank 4 is not enough, but I think that's as far as I'll get through this rest I've had preparing myself for the Flame Venerable's Trial, which is rapidly approaching. There's only three weeks left, we better use them well.

"Now, let's begin this already." I said. "System, use the Demonic Energy to Rank Up the Demon King Seed."

[Very well. You seem more than ready. You've prepared very well, just as I suggested.]

[Even then, it might still be difficult. Don't lose your way and fight with everything you have.]

[From what I've analyzed, at Rank 4, most Demon Kings begin becoming insane as the sins devour their sanity.]

[However, once you reach this Rank, you will be the first Demon King that hasn't been consumed by their own Sin.]

[An incredible feat! Fight and do your best, my dear husband!]

"I can't let you do that." I laughed. "I've got a family to protect and love. And above all, I don't want to become a destroyed, I am a guardian. This is my purpose, Gluttony. Our purposes conflict with one another. And only through this battle we'll decide whose purpose is stronger."

"So be it." He spoke, his aura surging several dozens of times stronger than Rank 3. "My Rank 4 form is nothing like you could have imagined, Drake. Be prepared… You won't be able to easily overwhelm me anymore! Each battle from this point, will become harder and harder, until you finally realize how futile it is to go against the purpose of a Demonic Sin!"

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you ever win, Gluttony!" I roared. "You'll simply have to learn to love the taste of defeat! It'll become your favorite dish! I'll make you taste it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!"

"BASTARD!"

He roared furiously, his gigantic, over three-hundred-meter-big body rushing down towards me, slamming into the floor beneath and cracking it. His titanic body looming above mine within a split second, a dozen limbs moved, each one with giant sharp claws.

"DIE, DRAKE!"

I couldn't escape, I wasn't fast enough, so I received his attack head-on. An Armor of Phantasmal Dragon Bones and Winter Fox Fur wrapped around my body.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

He wasn't wrong when he said this was going to be hard no matter what.

His attacks were so potent even with all my defenses, my soul already started to gain cracks!

If I hadn't gotten this strong, I would have surely been devoured by him.

But right now, I had a chance to win.

"[Snow Forest Beast Echoes]!"

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