Epic of Caterpillar
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chapter-363
The Ryujin, children of Morpheus, the Demi-God of Centaurs, and Tiamat, the Dragoness Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood glanced at a spectacle that was never told in their legends and myths.
A giant Metallic Dragon blocked the sun, killing their invaders, and just afterward, the legendary Life Dragon King of Thunderstorms appeared to confront it.
The sky and ground itself trembled over the sheer pressure of these two behemoths Auras, the tyrannical Life Dragon King of Thunderstorms roared, releasing lighting sparks and slicing winds, ordering its pawns to attack its new rival.
The Metallic Dragon suddenly began to tremble as its body engulfed the magic bubble that rested over its back. The Life Dragon King saw this as a show of weakness, thinking that the new dragon was quivering in fear and trying to protect itself.
Due to this, it decided to release a large Thunder Shock to send it flying somewhere else."GROOOOWL!"
CLASH!
However, the metallic dragon transformed into a mass of scales and metallic carapace, receiving the thunder as if nothing, and even devouring its energy to strengthen itself.
Then…
Flash!
A dark light covered the entire floor as the Chaotic and Bloodthirsty Aura of a behemoth that should have never been messed with expanded. Some Ryuujin fell unconscious over the sheer fear, while others barely resisted with their Mental Fortitude Skills to glance at the spectacle being unfolded in front of them.
"What is happening?!""The Sun was blocked!"
"The night has fallen… how can it be?!"
The bubbling mass of flesh, scales, and carapace suddenly took a massive shape, transforming into an even greater dragon, with seven long heads, sixteen wings, and ten tails, while having eight long arms ending in sharp and metallic claws.
Each head was a different and intimidating beast, from Dragons, Wyverns, Wolves, Foxes, and Demons. Each wing was covered in dark metallic coverture, and its claws wielded large weapons, each one exuding the power of a certain attribute. Its tails shapeshifted into the heads of more beasts, a terrifying sight that would make most enter in a state of Insanity.
This monster… no, this being, this existence, was Kireina. Her family was not devoured either but was being protected inside her massive body, in the fleshy chambers of her inner body, as they saw everything unfold from her very eyes.
Her family connected their powers with her, touching her inner flesh, and Kireina's gigantic body trembled with even more power, her heads roared and released lightning, fire, water, wind, chaos, all of the elements showered over the Life Dragon King, who saw the sudden transformation of its new rival with sweat dripping from its neck…
The Life Dragon King manipulated the sky, the wind, the clouds, calling upon them to generate a powerful electric force, blocking some attacks while others penetrated its defenses and left holes dripping with blood. However, when it tried to heal them back, its magic seemed mildly sealed and the wounds cursed with several status effects.
Enraged, the Life Dragon King left out a roar as it expanded its Thunderstorm Domain, fighting off Kireina's Chaotic Domain, two strong forces clashed. Kireina flew towards the Life Dragon king, raising her massive metallic claws and released countless techniques that seemed like the force of a god itself, slashing apart of the scales and flesh of the feared Boss of floor 39.
Slash!
Clash!
"GROOOOWWL!"
The Life Dragon King opened its jaws wide, using its sharp teeth and trying to bite on Kireina's necks, only to have its sharp fangs completely shattered while getting infected with a venomous coating within Kireina's armor.
The Life Dragon King then shrieked in agony.
"GRRRRYYYAAAAAAAHH!"
Moving its tail, it manipulated all of the wind and lightning that it could fathom, releasing it in a tempest of power that no mortal could even withstand head-on, the power made the dungeon itself crack several times as the Ryujin screamed in fear.
FLASH!
However, instead, o being affected at all, Kireina's massive body roared, even more, its body absorbed all of the energy, the large tempest of destruction released by the Life Dragon King, twisted her body like slime and then coiled herself around her gigantic nemesis.
"GRROOWWL?!"
The Life Dragon King twisted its body, trying to get off the abomination that could withstand its strongest attack like nothing and even grow stronger from it, it only saw death whenever it glanced at the monstrosity unshaped body filled with venomous spikes, scales, eyes, and mouths. Kireina's heads opened wide as they began to tear apart the flesh of the Life Dragon King while it was still alive, while her poisonous spikes penetrated the behemoth's body.
The once-respected Life Dragon King struggled, manipulating the entire wind and lightning that it could, and generating it all over its body while infusing it with all of its mana, a large light covered the night generated by Kireina's Aura, blinding the Ryujin that glanced at it.
"W-What is happening?!"
"I can't believe this!"
"Such strong beings, they are like two gods fighting to the death!!!"
"Changing the environment itself… Cover your eyes from the blinding light!!!"
CLASH! FLASH!
Thundering sounds filled each being ears, the Life Dragon King's pawns couldn't even fight against Kireina and only decided to run away, some stayed from a large distance, glancing over their leaders last moments.
Kireina's heads began to munch on the Life Dragon King's flesh, its scales as large as houses fell over the entire place, creating small tremors each time they clashed on the mountains. The venomous spikes that covered her entire body were constantly stabbing the Dragon, who began to lose its strong vitality, despite being a Life Attribute Monster.
On its last struggle, the Life Dragon King opened its jaws as it tried to bite on Kireina's torso, only to be greeted by her torso shapeshifting into countless tentacles covered in sharp fangs and long tongues dripping venomous substances over its mouth, the Life Dragon King began to vomit blood as its golden eyes were engulfed in darkness…
Its soul was released from its dead body, but before it could even go back to the Dungeon, it was caught by Kireina.
"You're rather the troublesome Dungeon Boss, if you come here again and threaten the life of the ones I want to protect, it will be very annoying. I won't let you have another reincarnation, Life Dragon King…" she said, as her own Soul took the shape of sharp-fanged jaws, devouring the vast Soul of the Life Dragon King of Thunderstorms until nothing remained.
The countless pieces of its body fell over the surroundings, getting impaled by the sharp peaks of the mountains, the torso and bones fell over a group of mountains and destroyed them, creating a deep spider web-shaped crater.
"It wasn't as strong as Athos…" said Kireina's heads, at the same time.
The Ryujin that somehow didn't lose consciousness after seeing the entire battle unfold were left without words… they only glanced at the giant monstrosity as it talked to itself, its voice made everything tremble as if it were a natural disaster.
"I-It has triumphed…"
"The metallic dragon…!"
"Will it spare us?"
The Ryujin began to kneel, praying to their gods and also to Kireina, asking for forgiveness and for their lives to be spared from her merciless rage.
"Oh? You guys are the Ryujin, right?" she said.
The Ryujin heard the casual demeanor of the living calamity and were dumbfounded.
"A-Ah…"
"Is it… talking to us…?"
A Ryujin, larger than the rest decided to talk, representing the rest, his body was muscular and filled with hard scales, his eyes were fearful but had a strong conviction.
"Oh, Dragon God, we thank you for defeating the Life Dragon King and its pawns, you have saved the life of many Ryujin!"
"Ah, don't worry about that… Anyways… oh, right, I'm still in this form"
Suddenly Kireina's body released a large bubble made out of flesh, which gently fell near the Ryujin settlement, it opened and revealed her entire family.
"Ooh… A-Are these the Dragon God's children?!"
"Well, I am her eldest daughter~ Ah, you must be very frightened… I apologize on mother's behalf…" said Amiphossia, patting the small Ryuji near her, while healing the others who had lost consciousness.
"I-Its nothing… really…" said an old-looking Ryujin with a large white beard, who received the healing Aura of Amiphossia.
Kireina's children appeared and introduced themselves, while her wives did the same, however openly stating the fact that they weren't Kireina's children but her plentiful group of wives. Sofarpia and Sofelaia began to talk with the big Ryujin, who seemed to be the Chief of the Village.
Meanwhile, Kireina's body began to devour itself, she expanded her Aura and Soul over her physical body and devoured herself by using her new Soul abilities, Uroboros.
Thanks to [Pain Nullification], she did not feel any pain, but it felt rather strange to eat herself like this. Nonetheless, in a few minutes, the giant mass of the monstrosity was reduced into the size of a mature woman, the appearance of a beautiful and devilish Vampire Fairy was revealed to the bystanders.
"Ah, mommy finished changing!" said Ailine, pointing towards her mother.
"C-Changing…? So that is the Dragon God human-form? How dazzlingly beautiful…"
The Ryujin glanced at Kireina's appearance with their sparkling emerald eyes, both men and women alike were instantly charmed by her beauty… Perhaps the fear that she instilled in them beforehand also helped in this regard, as they set her higher than others would have.
The healed Ryujin kneeled and began to pray to Kireina, as she slowly descended. Sofarpia and Sofelaia's appearance was nothing compared to the previous spectacle that they witnessed.
"Ah, hello everyone… I'm not a Goddess, by the way, so please, stop praying to me… really" she said, with her usual casual tone, as she hugged Ailine and Vudia, who flew towards her.
"Haha, the Dragon Goddess really has a very good sense of humor!" said an old Ryujin.
"Of course, that she is a goddess, what mortal could even accomplish such feats?"
"Your mother is a really charming and funny woman, you have been blessed, younglings," said another old Ryujin, as he kneeled and prayer to Kireina and her children.
"I knew it! Mommy is really a Goddess… hehe" said Vudia, hugging Kireina.
"Really? So, mommy Rimuru married a Goddess? How amazing!" said Ailine, praising Rimuru with sparkling eyes.
Of course, the rest of Kireina's children knew that she wasn't a goddess, neither her wives.
However, the Ryujin didn't accept any other way of addressing her, so they all gave up at the end. They were invited to the village and Kireina's Giant Slime Clones carried the meat of the Life Dragon King, grilling it into skewers and other preparations with Kireina and her wife's assistance.
Morpheus, Agatheina, and Levana, who had gathered on his Divine Realm, glanced at the spectacle unfolded. They were all quivering in fear.
"I'm glad I am in good terms with her…" they said, at the same time.
"Sigh… At this point do we even need to worry about the Greedy Queen and the Demon Gods of Thanatos?" said Levana, while drinking some tea served to her by a handsome Centaur, one of Morpheus children who had ascended into a Living Deity Species and was inhabiting his Divine Realm.
"Well… even so, we aren't sure what kind of trump cards they have down their sleeve, we can't be careless, Levana nee-san," said Morpheus.
"Morpheus is right, we can't be careless in this situation, even after witnessing of what Kireina is capable of… and even after we take into consideration that she is most probably capable of, even more, Gods have countless tricks, and that Greedy Queen has the Sin of Greed and also the Blessings of the Demon Gods, all of them… well, except that one that was exiled," said Agatheina, crossing her beautiful pale white legs, revealing a charming beauty and sexiness that couldn't be compared to anything in the Divine Realm.
"When shall we tell Kireina about that information?" asked Levana.
"Whenever she finishes the Dungeon, I assume. Right, Agatheina?" said Morpheus.
"Yes, it will be a good time then. We have bothered her a lot in the past few days, we shall let her alone for some time, she has a family and children as well, so she is always busy" Agatheina said, analyzing Kireina's current situation.
These three unlikely Gods had gathered in Morpheus's Divine Realm to have a meeting, and as hey did, they also saw Kireina's travels through a special device in Morpheus possession that revealed events occurring inside his Dungeon.
After Kireina told Morpheus about Agatheina and Levana, the two goddesses quickly called on Morpheus and held a meeting, explaining their situation and all.
Morpheus did have some grudges against the Mother of all Vampires for what she did on the Kingdom of his children, but after understanding the position in where she was, being pressured by the devilish Demon gods while also trying to earn her children a good position in Thanatos, he forgave her.
Morpheus was indeed very naïve, or perhaps, a very good-hearted person. Part of his easy forgiveness was Levana, who he had thought to had died, due to the demi-goddess never contacting her siblings…
Levana didn't even expect that her siblings were crying in happiness after getting to know about her still being alive and kicking. Morpheus embraced her in a warm hug, and most of his sibling's present did as well, she was overwhelmed by a brotherly love that she had lacked for hundred of years.
"I'm glad that she had managed to save my Dragon Children…" said Morpheus, admiring his children from within the artifact.
Agatheina let out a small sigh.
"Morpheus, you really had quite the life back then, huh? How many wives did you have? I'm beginning to think that you surpassed Kireina's harem"
Morpheus stayed silent…
"G-Grandma! Don't say that, we all had our reckless times back then… right, brother?"
Morpheus nodded while drinking tea.
"Y-Yes… I do feel like I was very reckless, although Tiamat asked me about giving her children at that time, and she never was my wife, to begin with!" protested Morpheus.
"Ah… but it's not like you couldn't refuse, right? I guess that a Dragoness charm was attractive to you. I wonder how Tiamat is in bed…" said Agatheina, with a playful smile.
"A-Agatheina, behave yourself or I will never accept you in my Divine Realm anymore!" said Morpheus, with a blushed face, red like a tomato.
"Fufufu… sorry, sorry~ Hey, are you not interested in having a new race of Vampire Centaur with me?"
"Gah…! Cough, cough…!" over Agatheina's words, Morpheus chocked himself with the tea for a few seconds.
"Grandmother!" screamed Levana, reprimanding her grandmother's mischievous nature.
"It's a joke! A joke! Fufufu, calm down… We are all friends now, right? What's wrong with a little joke here and there~" said Agatheina, as she crossed her beautiful legs once again and drank more tea while glancing at Kireina.
"After all, I must first give birth to a child from Kireina-sama seed~ Aah~ It will be a glorious day," said Agatheina, with an enamored look, as she glanced over Kireina in the special artifact.
"What a sneaky woman…" said Morpheus, letting out a sigh.
"You'll get used to it," said Levana, waving her head.
