Black Dragon-Nidhogg (2)

Having finished spewing his Dragon Breath.

The Black Dragon looked higher above that murky ball of light, at the dark clouds that had yet to disperse.

He slightly stretched his body.

Like a machine being activated.

Massive quantities of barbs immediately extended from the top of his head all the way to the tip of his tail.

Making him look ever more savage.

And as he slowly beat his pair of wings, vast enough to blot out the starry sky, countless whispers and Black Mist frantically spilled from the skeletal patterns across his body...

They were the power, unwillingness, and curses of all the mediocre, Evil Ones, inferior beings... that had died throughout the entire World Tree since creation!

In certain Eastern Mythology planes, they could be called karmic sins!

The Original Sin accumulated by countless beings from birth until death!

According to the predetermined fate.

Once this karmic sin had piled up to its limit, the World Ender would arise in response, bearing power sufficient to destroy everything.

And strike back against all existence with the Evil Fruit of world destruction!

At present, because Orsaga was an intruder who had cut in line, the karmic sins had not yet accumulated to their limit, and the time for world destruction was even farther from being ripe.

Thus, he had merely drawn upon a portion of that power.

But even so.

As the Black Dragon slowly beat his wings.

The surrounding space-time was directly thrown out of its original structure by his power.

In but an instant, that incomparably massive dragon body, large enough to occupy an entire sea of stars, crossed countless distances and arrived deep within the heavens.

At that moment.

The dark clouds he had entered.

Immediately erupted with thunder!

Hundreds of millions of bolts of lightning transformed