Elric decided to confront the entire Water Realm Cutter with his own bare body as he was fully aware of its full potential once it was released with its full glory.
Without hesitation, he hardened his dragon body as much as possible and took the power at point-blank range!
WHAAAAM!~
Aaack!
Elric bellowed in pain as the Realm Cutter nearly ripped his body apart, causing him to almost lose his life. It sent shock waves that turn everything into dust like a tornado mashing the ground.
It was indeed an attack that could have killed even a King or Queen Dragon, much less an ordinary one.
However, Aghus did not know he was fighting against a human with an Ancestral Dragon Essence inside him and not just a royal one.
He had failed to identify the power of the Ancestral Dragon in Elric because it was a secret guarded by the Great Seer Mhata. All he knew is that a human with Dragon blood would come to ask to acquire the power of the Elemental Authority and it was up to him to test him.
It was supposed to be an easy journey for Elric if the Lord of the water realm was still Lord Mahar. It was because of an unprecedented 'accident' that was set up by Aghus that everything has come into this ending.
Thanks to the divine power of the Ancestral Dragon in his blood, Elric had managed to reconnect his body parts back to its normal state.
Although it took him more than five minutes to recover back to his normal state, for an ordinary dragon, it could have taken them a thousand years.
WHOOOOM~
Just when Aghus was starting to regain his consciousness from being stunned, he was about to fight back against Elric when he realized that he was floating in the sky of the water realm. In confusion, he looked down below only to see Elric seemingly waiting for him to come back down.
Raging with humiliation and hate, he dashed straight down in retaliation only to stop in the middle of his rush.
Elric had been compressing the power of fire in his hands. Just like what Aghus did, he decided to follow the same technique of charging his attack through compression of fire. The technique is like compressing the heart and essence of fire to create an extra-ordinary fire. From orange, his spear swiftly changed to green then to blue and after reaching a certain point, Elric shot his charged spear toward's the incoming Aghus.
Seeing the incoming spear, Aghus came to a halt to safely avoid the attack when the spear suddenly split into hundreds, no- thousands of smaller blue spear of fire.
"What!?" Aghus wanted to dodge the incoming volley of spears but the sheer number that covers his entire view made any of his dodging attempts meaningless.
His eyes reflected the star-like spears as fear and regret overwhelmed his entire consciousness. Every single fire of the incoming spear reminded Aghus of the thousands of lives he chooses to sacrifice in his pursuit of power.
SHUK! SHUK! SHUK! SHUK!
AAAGH!~
Feet, arms, upper body, and even his face had been hit.
Hundreds of dagger-like spears of fire pierced Aghus's body without a single resistance. For some reason, he could see the crying faces of the victim of his massacre and each of the piercing dagger-like spear signified their unyielding revenge from the afterlife.
Aghus's hole-rattled body gushed out blue drops of blood everywhere as his body continued to fall towards Elric.
It seems that his overwhelming vitality from the stolen power allowed him to stay alive despite his countless injuries, however, it was causing him to delay a quick death he'd rather have right now.
"Ugh.. no, how come I can't stop this fire from burning!? No.. No! AGHHH!"
His body continued to burn from the wounds as the power of absolute fire started to gain its tool on him. One must know, that death by burning is one of the most painful ways of dying and as a creature of the water element, fire is the absolute enemy of every cell causing conflicting destruction inside his body which is the same as adding salt to a wide-open wound!
AAAGGGRH!!
How Aghus wish to die immediately, but his tempered body refused to give up and desperately tried to recover. Unfortunately, the fire made from the Authority of Fire is a kind of fire that does not extinguish until its target is gone or if willed by Elric himself.
"Please, Kill me! I beg you!" giving up his pride for his comfort, Aghus finally begged Elric for a quick death.
"Don't worry I know how it feels to wish of dying." Elric's eyes remained resolute and firm. He suddenly summoned the sword of fire and stared at the falling Aghus with serious eyes.
This sword of fire continued to expand to more than five meters and swelled in power as well according to its ever-changing color.
Seizing the perfect timing, Elric surged upward with the brilliant Sword of Fire leaving behind a brilliant streak of majestic fire.
Before the massive golden palace of the water realm, under the beautiful bluish sky, the eyes of the thousand remaining creatures and citizen of the watery realm and the three princesses had come to witness the dawn of the new beginning.
Elric twisted his body mid-air and swung his five-meter-burning sword mightly as he delivered the killing blow to the Lord of the Water Elemental - with a vertical slash from the head down to his torso.
"This is for the late Lord Mahar." Elric suddenly muttered those words just before the enormous Sword of fire cut Aghus into two and the latter immediately disintegrated into dust with his face still marked with agony and deep regret.
Another bright beam of light flashed across the sky of the water realm as the life of the vicious Lord of the Water Elemental - the reign of Aghus has finally ended.