I am God LSLCCF

But Melde told Anu in a voice cold as ice. ”It is no use. We have already come this far. I have material without end to corrupt you with.”

Having said it, Melde raised her hand.

Terrible black smoke gathered in from every direction, converging on the black dragon. The Death Demon Plague erupted in full, and spread without restraint.

Radiating outward from wherever Melde and the black dragon happened to be, the plague spread rapidly through the land around them, swallowing up every living lizard person and dragon person alike.

And it was not only the dragon people who died. Countless Abyss priests died along with them.

At this very moment, Melde delivered the power of her own Abyss priests, freely and without charge, to the black dragon as well.

This was the very ”material” she had spoken of.

One could see great rolling clouds of black smoke sweeping in across the land, pouring into the black dragonʼs own body.

And though the black dragon had broken free of the altar and beat his wings up into the open sky, everything still remained firmly within Meldeʼs control.

He seemed to fly without any aim at all, and would even lash out against himself from time to time, like something driven mad.

But everywhere the black dragon passed, every city and village he flew over turned into a realm of death. The power of every ability user who died there converged upon the black dragon without end, and sank into his own body.

And through this same process, Melde steadily eroded and polluted this black dragon body, polluted the black dragonʼs own power, until little by little she began to feel his very emotions.

As more days passed, she could even hear his innermost voice. She had already come to know exactly what he was thinking.

Soon, she would be able to seize and absorb everything that was his. Every scrap of knowledge he held, every ounce of his mythical power.

Roar!

The black dragon swept across the sky, his eyes fixed on the cities and villages below, watching them fall to ruin one after another because of him.

He watched countless believers who worshipped him, Abyss cultists who hated him, every lizard person without exception, perish alike in the plague.

A roar of pure agony tore from his throat.

Deep within himself, Black Dragon Anu fought on and on against the King of Lust. It was a war between consciousness and desire, and it was the most terrible, most merciless war of all.

Whoever lost would lose everything.

His body grew stronger and stronger, drawing ever nearer to becoming a divine being. That black dragon body of his grew ever more massive as well, ever more perfect.

Even as he devoured the power of these lizard peopleʼs own Abyss priests, he gained authority over the plague itself, a power formidable beyond measure.

And yet Anu felt himself sinking deeper and deeper into despair.

Because his own mind grew weaker with every passing moment, and he kept losing his grip on control over this very body.

The black dragon cut straight across the entire Void Continent, and together they swept over kingdom after kingdom like some calamity of death given form. Months later, after wandering in circles, they found their way back to the Black Horn Province.

This place had already crumbled into ruin, not a single living soul left in sight anywhere. Everyone here had died in the pestilence the Death Demon Plague had unleashed.

Black Dragon Anuʼs shadow swept on toward the distance, making for a city.

After so many days without laying eyes on more than a handful of the living, he finally spotted a single figure here, standing atop a high tower, gazing far off at the black dragonʼs shadow.

That lizard person looked like nothing more than a soulless walking corpse, shoulders slumped, staring blankly up at the sky with lifeless eyes.

A few months before, the mortal atop that tower had watched the Black-Winged Goddess bring down her divine punishment, had watched every soul in the kingdom die one after another in the plague.

A few months later, they saw the legendary Dragon God himself, come bearing black mist and calamity in his wake. They watched that giant dragon, vast as a mountain range, come bearing black mist across the whole sky.

The mortal climbed up onto the wall in one motion, and stood there shouting down. ”The end... has come!”

This surviving mortal had gone entirely mad, and burst into laughter. ”This is what a god is!”

”This is what a god is...”

”Hahahahaha...”