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

Chapter 2165: Against Umbral

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"Damn you!"

Umbral used his axe, clashing against all heads and rapidly beginning to push them back, beheading a couple of them already.

"Umbral, tell me something!"

Drake clashed against him, swinging Celestia as he released shockwaves of holy light from her blade, pushing Umbral back. His power over the Curses intensified as a response to all the damage he was suffering, and yet, despite how this should have already cursed Drake to death, he remained unscathed by his Curse Aura of Chaos.

"Tell you something?! What don you even want to know, you damned piece of shit?!"

"Why?!"

Drake kicked his lower jaw, before punching it with his right hand, and then punching it again from the left, before giving Umbral a deadly headbutt, almost shattering his skull,

"Ngaaaahhh!"

As the dragon screamed angrily, Drake confronted him once more.

"Why would you go this far?! Why are you doing the things you’re doing?! You are a divine dragon! You were born in our family; you were raised by us! What made you go so mad?! Our family is the warmest there is!"

"Warmest?! Don’t make me laugh... Hahahah...! They’re all a bunch of old, weak lizards... None of them could ever comprehend my goals. I wanted them to raise once more, to become this world’s apex!"

"What?!"

"You heard me, Dragon King!"

Umbral roared, clashing against Drake with his sharp claws, tearing through his armor and scales, as he tried to curse his bloodstream, but failing to do so, as from Drake’s blood, giant draconic beasts surged, roaring ferociously and firing beams of void and divine energy at him, pushing him back.

"So you want us dragons to return as apex of this world?" Drake asked. "What sort of stupid plan is that?"

"See?! You are like them! Mortals... they’re disgusting beings! They only sin and do horrible things for power, there’s nothing filthier than me in this world! I wanted to wipe them out, I wanted them all gone! After I saw them desecrating the dead bodies of our kind to craft weapons and armor, after I saw them stealing from our ancient ruins, as I saw them destroying and humiliating our legacy... do you truly believe I would ever think they deserve to be alive?! To live in happiness in this world blessed for our existences alone?!"

"...?!"

Drake raised one of his white eyebrows, taken aback by the words Umbral was talking about...

"You can’t possibly be serious! Is that it?! Not all mortals are the same, there’s always bad apples, but there’s also a lot of great people that genuinely care, Umbral! How can you be so blind?! And this stupid reason is what drove you to betray your own family?! Do you know what’s coming for you?! You’ll end up dead, and your life will be for nothing! Is this what you want?!" Drake asked angrily, furious.

"Hahaha! You’re too confident..." Umbral laughed, mocking Drake. "You probably would think like me if you had seen with your eyes how these filthy mortals tore apart the body of your own mother! How they mocked her death and ate her flesh! How they feast on their dragon heart and use her scales for armor! Damned mortals! How dare they?! I hate them! I HATE THEM! I HATE THEM ALL! I’M GOING TO WIPE THEM ALL OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!"

"Umbral..."

"I WAS A MERE PUP; I COULDN’T DO A SINGLE THING! MY MOTHER...! THEY TORE HER PIECE BY PIECE! A MERE ITEM TO THEM, A MERE OBJECT! I CANNOT FORGIVE THEM AT ALL, DRAGON KING! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!"

"What?! Why didn’t you spoke to the other Dragons?!"

"Hah?! You think I didn’t?! You know what they said?! THEY SAID THAT I HAD TO FORGIVE THEM, AS MORTALS TEND TO COMMIT MISTAKES, BUT WE ARE ABOVE THEM... THEREFORE, WE MUST FORGIVE THEM! YOU HEARD?! FUCKING MORONS, WHY WOULD I EVER DO THAT?!"

"What happened to them?! Tell me! I can...!"

"No need... I took care of them long ago, they’re all dead. I awakened this heart here thanks to their deaths. I devoured them, every single one of them! I enjoyed torturing them piece by piece! I ate them happily! And now, my mother lives within me!"

Umbral spread his arms, shadows emerging, resembling a giant female dark dragon, with sorrowful red eyes, embracing her son.

"And she thinks the same as I do! My mother wants mortals dead! WE’LL DESTROY ALL MORTALS AND LEAVE THIS WORLD FOR US, DRAGONS! WHY AREN’T YOU HAPPY?! YOU’RE OUR KING! SHOULDN’T YOU HELP ME?!"

"No... this is wrong, Umbral! This is not the way! Not all mortals are bad, there’s plenty of great people out there! All those at my side are the living proof of that!"

"Fool... You’re a complete fool! FOOL!"

RUMBLE!

"You killed Amethyst’s mother, you’ve become the same monster as those that did that to your mother, Umbral!" Drake roared. "You even used her own body to make your equipment, isn’t it the same, you damned hypocrite?!"

"She dared to get in my way, she tried to put an end to my grand plan... she had to go," Umbral smiled viciously. "All those that dare to get in the way of my grand plan must die by my hands! Don’t worry, I will use every bit of your body and make it my own power and armor! I won’t waste anything, dragon king!"

"You sick motherfucker!" Drake roared, as both clashed once more.

BOOOM!

An explosion of bright light and shadows erupted, Umbral unleashed deadly powers and magic, as curses manifested through his "mother" as she attacked Drake from above, her immense claws rushing down, shadows trying to enter his body and possess him or curse him.

"Hmph!"

However, Drake released a shockwave of white energy, cleansing all the shadows and curses instantly, before swinging Celestia, releasing a cleaving horizontal attack, a wave of bright celestial light impacting Umbral’s "mother" as her body burned into ashes.

"Mother...!"

He grew furious, glaring back at Drake with glowing red eyes, before roaring and transforming, demonic and cursed energies coursing through his body, as he became larger, with four more arms, two more wings, and two more heads.

"RAAAAHHH!"

His horns became deep red, growing over his three heads. Umbral had fully transformed into his Demon King form out of anger and desperation, reaching Drake once more.

"Face the power of the Sin of Envy!"

His claws rushed towards Drake, and then extended into a spectral hand, grasping Drake and trying to do something for him!

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