A New Scope On What It Means To Be Evil
Something above a Law Beast… She couldn't even imagine it. What could possibly be above the Laws? Even the 3 Limitless Beings that her galaxy had been lucky enough to learn about had powers that were based on the Laws.
Limitless Soul the Almighty, the most high profile one of them all, was famous for the Soul Laws that he pioneered.
Endless Darkness the Friend; also known as 'The Darkest One' and 'The Friend of the Abyss', a mysterious but still universally renowned being, was most famous for his Darkness Laws and his abnormal connection to the Abyss.
And finally, Eternal Light the Sovereign (or Sovereign Eternal Light), obviously known for taking the Laws of Light to its highest possible stage.
Of course, these beings naturally had other Laws and Intents that they specialised in, some that they probably fused with their main laws, but they were still just that. Laws and Intents or an amalgamation of them. That… still did not surpass the Laws.
But perhaps she was wrong. No, she was definitely wrong. It was completely impossible that Aeshma, an insignificant Beast in the grand scheme of things, would chance upon a power that was allegedly above the Laws, when the 10th Realm Beings did not have it.
It was either that they had it, or perhaps something even greater than that, and she had just discovered something unbelievably precious that would give her insight onto the path to becoming a Limitless Being, or nobody had it and what the System was telling her was its own misunderstanding brought by cluelessness.
Gaia's heart rate was disturbed as she thought about these things, her eyes sparkling with wonder. But soon, her attention was dragged back to the main attraction.
CHAAAA!
All at once, the cocoon surrounding Aeshma's body shattered apart with a loud sound that was soon followed by a whooshing sound as the 2-toned red smoke was fully released into the atmosphere. All other sounds had been silenced, and it sent the hearts of the viewing Dragons into their throats.
Even the lesser Dragons far below, the 3 Legendary Birds gazing from a distance on a lonely hill, the ignorant Beasts that crawled the Forest and the weakest of all Humans that shambled as they did their duties, were swallowed by silence as fear that they did not know the origin of clutched their hearts.
All sounds apart from the whooshing smoke far above (which they definitely should not have been able to hear from their distance), had been devoured, and even colour seemed to dull.
The humans shivered and fell to the ground with some even passing out, the Beasts in the Forest prostrated themselves with quaking bones, the Legendary Birds on the hill wore grim and pale faces, and the Lesser Dragons in their caves all looked up at the source with shock, feeling an unnatural connection to the pandemonium above.
But one of those Lesser Dragons, one with ordinary grey scales that spoke of a lack of specific affinity, yet unnatural neon green eyes that even slightly lit up his cave, felt a little more than just shock and fear.
He seemed to be feeling… Hostility? He didn't quite know himself, but something about the thing above made him feel tight. He clawed the ground a little to give relief to the growing violent feelings in his heart but it barely worked.
He had only felt this a few times before, and each of those times was when he encountered one of those strange creatures that had a strange black marking on their head. The gluttonous pricks that only knew how to eat until they died. But how could one of those fiends be at the most sacred place of their Dragon Mountain? It just wasn't possible, especially with the presence of their goddess.
'Just what-' Theodore began to think, but he was swiftly interrupted.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!"
A world-shaking roar tore through the silence with the impact of a collapsing star, sending waves of shockwaves that instantly knocked out everyone below the 4th Realm, including the Realm 3 Phoenix Aliana, neither 9 Flame Queen of Phoenix King able to help her.
Up above, the Elder Dragons weren't faring well either. Only the Supreme Dragons along with their King and goddess were able to cope without suffering, but all of them apart from their goddess felt complete and utter terror.
And that was because with the roar that summoned wild winds and shook the entire Forest, the smoke had dispersed enough to allow his body to be seen. And what a terrifying body it was.
Glossy scales that were a mixture of dark and light red that shimmered as he moved, neon red runes that ravaged the senses patterning his body, 6 eyes of the same neon red with no other colour to be found, 4 pitch black horns swirling with 2-toned red lights, 6 legs, 4 wings, and spikes that were similar to his horns trailing down his neck to the tip of his tail.
And then there was the size. A terrifying, heart-palpitating height of 700 metres and a length of over 1000.
What?
What?
What?
…What the heck was this existence?
The aura Aeshma released put a new scope on what it meant to be evil. The desire for destruction and the end of all things was so palpable that the Crystal Dragon King felt like if he stuck his tongue out, he would experience how it felt to taste an emotion for the first time.
This… This!
'He needs to die!' A single thought occurred simultaneously in the minds of many of the Dragons, the thought feeling nigh rebellious because of the urge to submit that Aeshma's all-out peak Dragon Aura caused them, but their instinctual reaction to eliminate a threat was much stronger, especially when those 6 terrifying eyes gained a semblance of intelligence and locked onto them.
Without pause, as soon as Aeshma detected them, he opened his mighty jaws that looked like they could split them apart with a single bite, and began to send energy into his mouth, causing a ball of red light to emerge that got brighter the more energy was sent into it.
Clearly, it was a breath attack.
The Crystal Dragon King felt his throat constrict with fear.
"RU-" He wanted to tell everyone to run, but before could even complete the word