I am God LSLCCF

”No, stay away! What in the world is this thing?” Someone tried to rush in and help, but the moment their hand made contact, they found that black substance crawling straight onto them, spreading the infection into their own body.

Once Melde had brought down her ”divine punishment” upon the Black Horn Province, she flew straight off toward the far side of the Void Continent. Over the thousands of years that followed, working through the lizard people, she had thoroughly corrupted every dragon person now living.

At the same time, through this repeated corruption, she pinpointed the very place where Anuʼs true body lay hidden, as well as the ritual altar he kept within the mortal world.

Melde flew to the northern reaches of the Void Continent, to a great mountain that drew no particular notice upon that vast land. At its foot stood a city, a small and nameless kingdom of the lizard people.

Meldeʼs gaze pierced straight through the mountain, down into the scene hidden deep within the earth.

These mountains converged to form one vast ritual array, and deep within the earth stood a metal altar. Upon that altar lay coiled a colossal black dragon.

Melde spoke his name aloud. ”Anu!”

The colossal black dragon upon the altar sensed, just then, that something was wrong. A tremendous power was pouring in from every direction, converging on him in an endless stream.

It was nothing ordinary, and slowly it roused him from his deep slumber. Rumble!

The entire mountain shattered apart as the black dragon came to his feet. In his daze, a voice of confusion rose up from within his heart. ”What is going on?”

”Who is waking me, the totem pillarʼs spirit?” ”Have I not yet become myth?”

Indeed, Anu still had some distance left to close before he reached myth. But Melde had no intention of waiting any longer. Black Dragon Anu burst up out of the earth, and the ground shuddered for dozens of miles in every direction.

He raised his head, and there, standing at the very edge of the clouds, was Melde. Anuʼs eyes changed at once. ”It is you...”

And at that very moment, in the city far below at the mountainʼs foot, crowds of people were likewise craning their heads back, staring up at the black dragon at the mountainʼs heart.

”Hey, do you see that?” People pointed off into the distance, each of them seized with panic.

”Itʼs a giant dragon. It really is the Dragon God, heʼs real...” For generation after generation they had lived here for thousands of years, and only now, for the first time, did they learn that a black dragon like this had lain sleeping right beside them all along.

”Get up, get up!” Someone came to their senses, and rushed home in a hurry, calling out to family and friends, fleeing together toward the edge of the city.

Everyone sensed that something was terribly wrong, a feeling that disaster was about to fall upon them. The people of the city tried to flee, but it was already too late.

The Death Demon Plague erupted from within their very bodies, spreading through the whole city, and countless people fell writhing in agony, dying in despair.

And as some of the dragon people among them died, their power flowed on in an endless stream, converging upon Anu.

Anu, only just woken, watched this whole scene unfold, and at last understood exactly where that power rushing so quickly toward him had come from.

Because at this very moment, plague was spreading across the entire world, and dragon people were dying in droves. Once they died, their power naturally returned to Anu.

The black dragon looked up at the ”Black-Winged Goddess” in the sky, and demanded of her in a voice sharp with fury. ”What are you doing?”

At the same time, Black Dragon Anu searched for the cause himself. ”The ritual!”

”Something has gone wrong with the ritual?”

Anu broke off the ritual at once, trying to refuse the power still surging endlessly into his own body. Power was a fine thing to have, but power gained this way was tainted.

But Anu had no way of knowing that the ritual had already gone wrong thousands of years before, and that the ritual was not the only thing that had.

Melde floated there in the open sky, looking down at the black dragon within the mountain below, and spoke. ”Anu!”

”It is time to become myth.”

Melde dropped from the sky, and hurtled straight toward Anu.

”You creature, what exactly are you doing?” Black Dragon Anu was utterly bewildered. He could not tell whether the creature before him meant to help him, or to destroy him.