Vekyrtr raised its head and roared. An intense pink flame burst out high into the sky. It went up into the clouds like a pillar of light.
Yi Fang looked up at the monstrosity. "Our worst fear has been realized...! Vekyrtr's been revived..."
Yang Po stood up. "And it's all that brat's fault!! If he hadn't stepped in, this would have never happened!!"
One of the other elders stood next to him. "I find what he did to be quite honorable actually."
Po glared at him. "Zhang Qi...!! When did you get here?!"
"I've been here this entire time. I was just in the crowd with the regular folk."
Fang balled his fists. "There is nothing honorable about putting thousands of lives at risk!"
"Well, it's our fault for putting such a burden on this generation. We should better learn how to clean up our own messes."
Fang started glowing with red soul force. "I'll deal with Yasuo later. He will be executed. All of you that are able to fight, come with me!"
-
Yasuo stood up. "Hey, Jishi."
< "Yes Yasuo?" >
"I can't get a read on Vekyrtr's rank. What is it?"
< "The dragon Vekyrtr is of the Divine Sage Profound Realm, Tier 3." >
"No way... that's just crazy! Where's Yun?!"
< "She is implanted in Vekyrtr's forehead. Take a closer look." >
Yasuo looked up at the dragon. Sure enough, Yun was there on the top of its head. She was fused with the dragon from the chest up.
Yasuo grit his teeth. "Is it possible for me to kill the dragon and get Yun out of there alive?"
< "The chances of that happening as you are now are less than 0.0000000001%." >
"What?! That low?! That's basically zero!"
Yasuo watched as Fang and the higher-ranked cultivators attempted to harm the dragon, to no avail.
Yasuo bolted into the sky. "Status: Cosmic String!!"
He waved his finger.
The gold string exploded upon contact with the dragon, but it didn't even make a scratch.
Vekyrtr took one step. The ground broke apart, putting many innocent lives in danger.
Yasuo looked over. "Oh no...! They'll be killed!" He jet over to them. "Status: Skyward Gust!"
Wind blasted upward from the crack in the ground, blowing the people high in the air.
Yasuo picked up several people at a time, taking them to safe ground.
Lee was in the crowd. "Master! We need to run!"
Yasuo shook his head. "You take them somewhere safe! I'll stay here!"
Vekyrtr looked down at him and the sea of people. It breathed in, then blew out a blast of pink fire.
Yasuo lifted an arm. The flames were absorbed into his arm, doing no damage at all.
-
Qi nudged Fang. "Look!"
Fang turned around to see Yasuo absorbing the fire. "Is he not affected by it?!"
"I have no idea, but it seems like he's protecting the civilians. That's what we should be doing right now. Making sure everyone is safe."
Fang frowned at the dragon. He looked back at the people. "Right."
-
Yasuo absorbed all of the fire.
< Activated Skill: Usurper. >
Fang landed in front of him. "I don't know what you are, but you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell at beating Vekyrtr. Even I can't put a scratch on it. Our best bet is to evacuate."
"You can go ahead then. I'm not moving. I still don't have Yun."
"Why are you so bent on saving that girl?! She was supposed to die anyway!! Don't forget that this is all your fault!!"
"I know. My selfishness got the better of me. But even knowing that, I still won't let her go. What kind of god would I be if I can't get one girl to follow behind me?"
"God? What are you on about?"
"Forget it. Just go!" Yasuo bolted off into the air. "Bring it on, dragon!!"
One of Vekyrtr's arms slashed through the air and smacked Yasuo back to the ground with a boom as it let out a shrill scream.
Yasuo got back up. He cracked his neck. "That hurt."
Vekyrtr started moving. Every step it took shook the earth below, causing upheavals of land everywhere.
It was headed for Liu.
"Oh no you don't!" Yasuo flew up and put his hands on the dragon's chest in an attempt to stop it.
Instead, one of Vekyrtr's arms came swinging at hypersonic speed.
Yasuo was blasted to the ground again by the sheer force. "Damn... Jishi! Absorb all of the elixirs I have in inventory into my body."
< "Warning. Doing this has a 40% chance of crippling your soul. Activate Soul Link?" >
Yasuo stood up. "Yes."
A chime sounded.
Yasuo screamed out in pain. His soul force burst from his body, stretching each and every way. His eyes slowly rolled into the back of his head, and he fell face first to the ground.
Yasuo couldn't move. "My heart... feels like it's gonna burst on me...! I can't do thi-"
Yasuo went silent for a moment.
"No. I can't say things like that. I came to this world with the intent of being the strongest being there is! I won't die a second time!! Now, I'm gonna move my body..."
Yasuo planted his hand on the grass.
Vekyrtr continued its wrath, blowing fire out into the distance, gradually making its way to Liu.
Yasuo lifted his head up. "Because I said so!!"
With great effort, Yasuo finally made it to his feet, however, there was another problem.
Yasuo looked at his hands. "My soul force... it's blocked! Did I really cripple myself?!" He looked up at the dragon. He saw Yun there, unconscious, hair flailing every which way.
Yasuo balled his fists. He clenched them as hard as he could. "I went this far already... so there's no turning back. The Great Spirit of Life gave me this body specifically because I was going to be born as a god. So something stupid like getting crippled won't happen to me! HWAAAHHH!!!!"
Yasuo roared. His soul force exploded from within.
< "Activate Skill: Soul Chant?" >
Yasuo's eyes were glowing a bluish-white. "Yeah."
A chime sounded.
Yasuo pounded his left fist into the palm of his other hand. "I hope you haven't counted me out just yet Vekyrtr! OH!!!"
voosh!!
Yasuo's hair and eyebrows turned completely white. He jumped up into the sky. The ground crushed inward from the force.
Yasuo propelled himself through the air at insanely high speeds.
When he got up to Vekyrtr's head, he gave it a sound punch to the cheekbone.
Yasuo's hit forced the dragon to turn its head.
-
The people back in Liu were watching this spectacle unfold from afar.
Fang's eyes widened. "He... landed a hit..."
The crowd started to cheer for Yasuo.
-
Vekyrtr was forced to stop moving toward the city.
The jolt of power woke up Xiao Yun, who was still stuck in the dragon's head.
She slowly opened her eyes as if she'd been sleeping for a hundred years. She took in what was happening, then abruptly looked down in shock, realizing where she was. "No... it's too late! Why am I still alive?!! I don't want to watch everyone die!!"
Yasuo flew up. "Everyone won't die! Not if I can help it!! Come out, Uwi!!"
Uwibami came out of the crystal. It was on Yasuo's back, its head peeking over his right shoulder, and its tail wrapped down his back to his left knee.
Uwibami let out a roar, this time much more dragon-like than the cute little noises it used to make.
Yasuo pointed at the dragon. "Uwi!! Attack!!"
Uwibami took a huge breath and blew out a blue-white flame at Vekyrtr.
Yasuo extended his arm and shot out a pink flame identical to the one he absorbed earlier.
The two flames formed a helix and smashed into Vekyrtr's chest.
The beast let out a roar, signifying that it was hurt.
< "Previous chances increased to 0.00007%.">
Vekyrtr attacked Yasuo with all eight arms simultaneously.
Yasuo flew around and weaved between them. He headed for the dragon's chest.
All of a sudden the scales on the dragon's chest slid apart, revealing a cavity of darkness. A bright violet light manifested inside.
"What's that?!" Yasuo asked.
< "Vekyrtr's chest cavity releases a blast of soul force powerful enough to destroy the planet." >
Yasuo's eyes widened. He looked back. "Uwi! Get behind me!"
Uwibami crawled so that its entire body was behind Yasuo.
Yasuo held two hands out. "Come on, dragon! I'm ready!!"
Vekyrtr let out a scream, and a massive blast came out of its chest.
The pure unbridled force of it sent Yasuo back to the ground, but he landed on his feet, not giving in to Vekyrtr's power.
Yasuo was trying to absorb it all in. "I… won't… lose!!"
-
Lee put two hands up to his head. "How is this possible...?! Didn't the Oracle already see the future?! What is going on?!"
Po was near speechless. "He's... going toe to toe with the Dragon of Disaster..."
Fang watched the battle with a stern face. He remembered something Yasuo said to him earlier— "What kind of god would I be if I can't get one girl to follow behind me?"
Fang closed his eyes. "What if... a god just happened to wander into our city and we didn't know it...?"
Qi looked at him. "Are suggesting what I think you are?"
"It's possible. Just think about it. It's impossible to fight Vekyrtr, who is Divine Sage Profound Realm of the Third Tier, when you're only a Grandmaster. It's not remotely logical."
Qi stroked his beard. "I see... so if you were a god, then those laws could be bent in quite a few ways..."
Po fell to his knees. "So you mean to tell me that… that… that little runt is the first god on the planet in millennia?!"
Fang nodded his head. "We should've never gotten involved. Who knows what he might do to this city when everything's said and done."
The people of the city started to talk amongst themselves about Oh Yasuo being a god. Most of them knew him as the stubborn reject who sat in the streets for weeks and weeks. But now they were talking about him differently. This time their words carried a sense of— admiration.
Fang opened his eyes, watching Yasuo go against Vekyrtr. "Watch closely!! We are watching a young man weave the strings of fate themselves!!" he said with ferocity.
-
Yasuo managed to absorb all of the blast energy. He caught his breath. "This is exhausting...!"
< "Previous chances increased to 14%." >
Vekyrtr sent all of its arms at Yasuo again. He blocked with his forearms for the first two, but had to start moving around to dodge the rest. The arms stretched all the way to the ground, causing violent earthquakes with each strike.
Yasuo kicked an arm out of the way. He was upside-down in mid-air right now. "Status: Blue Ember!!" He pointed his finger.
fwoosh!!
Three of the arms caught fire. The dragon pulled them back.
Yun could only watch. She never expected any of this to happen. She was supposed to marry Yang Chen, be killed, and then everything would be alright. But instead, the worst-case scenario had come to fruition, and yet, somehow, she felt something she thought she'd never feel in her lifetime— hope.
Yasuo flew up to the dragon's chest. "Status: Sunspot!!" He held out both hands.
Inside of the dragon's chest cavity appeared an irregular circular shape that was crimson orange in color. It burst, and the insides of the dragon caught fire.
Screams of pain echoed far and wide coming from Vekyrtr.
< "Previous chances increased to 63%." >
The dragon was jerking and shaking its head all over.
Yasuo looked up. "Ah! Yun's shaking around too much! I have to take her out now!"
< "Activating Skill: 4D Sight." >
Yasuo bolted up to Vekyrtr's head. He covered his hand in soul force and then focused it into a blade of energy.
Using 4D Sight, Yasuo could see the inner workings of anything composed of physical matter. This way he could make a precise cut so as not to harm Yun.
fwoosh, fwash!
Yasuo made incisions in the dragon's flesh so that Yun would slide out. Yasuo picked her up and carried her in his arms.
Yun looked at him. There was a big smile on his face. "Yasuo..."
"Don't say anything! I already told you, I'm a god! Something like fate could never stop me!"
The dragon roared again, having had part of its head split open.
< "Previous chances increased to 100%." >
Yasuo held his hand out. "Now I can go all out!! Status: Oh Ball!!"
A glowing golden sphere formed in the palm of his hand, and was shot out as a projectile.
Upon impact with the dragon, the ball ignited its body in golden flames, quickly reducing it to ash. There was an explosion of purple clouds that went up into the sky.
Yun hugged Yasuo tightly as they descended from the sky, tears running down her face.
Yasuo looked down at her, blushing. "You do realize that you're naked and covered in dragon goo right?"
Yun didn't reply.
Yasuo just sighed and looked away as they slowly fell back to the ground.
-
When Yasuo, returned to his normal self, arrived in the Great City of Liu, the gate was wide open, and a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people were yelling his name in cheer.
Yun was covered up in Yasuo's clothing, fast asleep.
Yasuo chuckled. "All of this really isn't necessary."
Everyone bowed their heads except for Emperor Fang. "The Great City of Liu officially recognizes the Oh Family, with its head and sole member being the Honorable God Yasuo." Then, he too, bowed his head.
Yasuo's eyes widened out of surprise. Then he grinned. "Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna like it around here."
- End of Volume 1 -