My travels through space and time were enlightening as with my sole focus on dragons I saw a great many things. Like I think I even saw Drake Long from All American Dragon at some point which made no sense as he wasn't a part of the DC universe as far as I was aware. Either way, I continued pushing through the infinite Fae realms going to realms touched by Hell, Heaven, Earth, and pure Fantasy.
Until I eventually found myself within a fantasy world humming with magic and three moons hanging close to this world's skyline.
"The infinite worlds within even a single DC Universe is just too damned big..." I muttered wryly as I felt the powerful magical energies filling the world and I could feel that Drakul Karfang was to the north as I could feel her immortal soul radiating from his form. Not only that but her soul was clearly spread across whatever hoard that filled out the cavern he hollowed out with both flames and its claws I could see the smooth gouges from where the stone melted, and the dragon used its claws to scrape away the softened by heat rocks.
Granted for all that this world was filled with magic I didn't sense any other soul other than Drakul Karfang but that was likely due to how the local environment was a frozen mountainous region with not a single tree in sight.
Wordlessly I entered the glorious golden glowing tunnel into the tunnel leading into the heart of Drakul Karfang's den.
Within a moment I found the first glowing golden coins on the ground that was lightning up the cave and I grimaced a bit at how the female dragon's insanity and soul had seeped into the coins and other treasures of the horde before I shrugged as whoever I traded this crap to could deal with the curse after I remind them of it.
"An intruder A rat thief! Hmm and what manner of being are you!?" A sharp hissing vaguely female voice carried over as from a bend in a tunnel a gargantuan dragon's head coated in thick bone armor and chitin twisted around the corner the cavern began shaking and groaning as Drakul Karfang got to her feet.
"What I am is no concern. I am merely here to charge you the bitch tax, now either you go lay down outside while I loot your obviously stolen treasure or I kill you, mount your head on the front gate of my castle and then take the treasure." I spoke with a confident lit to my tone as my spiritual pressure shattered the stone beneath me sending the glowing coins that lit up the cavern flying everywhere as I hovered above the air and met the sadistic eyes of the uncaring dragon queen in front of me.
In response, Drakul Karfang huffed with tendrils of blue magical flames arcing out of her mouth before she roared sending a tidal wave of blue corruptive magical flames at me.
"Cero Oscuras," I muttered pointing a finger at the deluge of flames rushing at me, and like the sea, my far more condensed Cero parted the sea of blue flames with the pillar of purple energy I sent that collided with Drakul Karfang sending her crashing into the cavern's walls as my Cero washed over her.
"Drakul Karfang, I know your weakness and I will break your heart if you don't bend the knee and surrender," I warned her as I duly stared at her.
With Astrid's reminder, I did remember a couple of stories Wonder Woman told me about this foe she had to deal with. For one it was almost a Litch with how it had its heart separated from its body and that thus was its only main physical weakness as it could magically regenerate all its other organs as her soul and consciousness were placed into its heart.
And like a candle in the dark, I could feel the exact location of Drakul Karfang's heart within the horde of treasures.
"I have no weaknesses! I am the dragon queen who laid low more than a thousand kingdoms in not even a thousand years! Begone, whelp, for I do not wish for my treasury to be destroyed in our battle, but I will devour you if I must!" She screeched making my ears pop due to her extremely loud screeching.
"Shut up!" I roared filling my voice with my hollow essence and making my voice reverberate with the typical hollow howl which attacked her very soul stunning her with a Sonido I appeared atop her massive head to bring down an axe kick shattering her skull and jaws as her head impacted the ground like a mortar cratering the hard stone ground.
"I fucking hate you assholes who screech and make my damn ears pop! Can't you people just yell at me in an indoor voice!" I roared back so loudly in return that Drakul Karfang's eardrums visibly popped as acidic molten blood spurted out her ear holes.
Drakul Karfang not expecting my heavy-handed blows could only blast me away from her rapidly regenerating form with a blast of normal flames and in return, as I was blasted away I lashed out with my now unsheathed God Killer that I took from my belt and the sword's lengthened stretching like a lashing whip and it lived up to that thought as it purposefully snapped the edge of the blade like a whip would just off the right eye of Drakul Karfang creating a sonic boom exploding that eye into a mess.
God Killer was a partially sentient weapon and although it gleefully let me control it for the most part, it would take chances to strike far more critical wounds than it should as it obviously knew what itself could do better than I ever could.
"An immortal slayer!" She hissed with actual fear in her voice as she took in the God Killer sword in my hands. Because even with her extreme regeneration that had already regenerated the bones and scrambled brain matter from my kick along with her burst eardrums.
Her eye wasn't even healing at a tenth of the same rate.
Drakul Karfang had two and a half major weaknesses. One she had her heart that held the primary chunk of her soul that controlled her body every moment and allowed her to inhabit her body so she wasn't just a soul locked into a jar that could remotely control her body. She was in her dragon's body, but the soul's subconscious was in the heart. Her second weakness was that she was a multi millennia-year-old dragon who only faced true defeat by Wonder Woman in her life she had the dragon's arrogance in spades. And lastly and not useful but she had a weakness to being drowned as that's how Wonder Woman dealt with her dragon form before she could destroy her heart the time, she defeated her.
I didn't respond other than using another Sonido to land atop the dragon's head before it could react to my blur of motion, I stabbed the God Killer into the dragon's skull and ordered it to morph into a long whisk like a blender that would continuously blend apart the dragon's brain matter while I hopped off the dragon body in another Sonido as I landed atop the pile of coins, gems, and other treasures that buried her heart.
"Wait! I can submit to a world owner like you! You can have my treasure and everything!" She attempted to bargain as she disconnected her soul from her dragon body so she could speak magically to me as her brain being scrambled didn't allow her the ability to speak.
For a moment I hesitated at the thought of having a dragon serving my realm, but I could feel the malice pouring from Drakul Karfang's soul as her soul was tainting everything around in her surroundings in her dragon madness.
That and I knew above all else that she would never allow anyone to take a piece of her treasure just like Smaug wouldn't.
"Sorry, but a venomous serpent can't be trusted," I replied softly as I reached into the pile of treasures and as she cursed me in lost tongues, I pulled out a ten-meter tall and wide glass pillar that held a large beating heart that endless pumped the thick glowing ruby red blood that filled the pillar-shaped tank.
For a moment I hesitated before I shrugged as I decided to take the Seigfried path as I quickly stripped all my clothes off as I jumped onto the pillar holding the glowing blood and I almost screamed at the feeling of the conceptually magically gifted dragon blood burning my body as it purified it and granted me the strength and durability of befitting a dragon queen.
The dragon's soul-filled blood filtered into my body through both my pores and I just swallowed the blood as I swam down towards the heart to begin the task of preventing her from ever reincarnating again.
I was going to devour her very soul and still beating heart.