I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 60

“Why have you awakened me——!”

Just as the Sea God had remnants, this golden-red dragon was the consciousness left by the Earth God.

However, compared to the relatively calm Sea God, the golden-red dragon was more explosive, and its hot breath made the magma of the entire volcano churn violently.

At the same time, thunderous footsteps came from all over the earth.

After the false god, the surface of the Eastern Area was peaceful, but the internal turmoil had been accumulating like the clouds overhead.

The sea races in the sea regularly patrolled to calm the restless tides, and similarly, the different species on the earth also held regular offer sacrifices.

These footsteps were the creatures who had noticed the great movement of the volcano.

Lu Mi looked at the figures rushing in the distance, retracted his gaze, and showed the blue scale in his hand.

“I came for the heart fire.”

“…”

The golden-red dragon slightly squinted its shining eyes, and after a moment, it looked up again, “…I see.”

The remnants of the three gods in one seemed to have their own way of communicating, and it seemed to understand the situation in front of it quickly.

“You are the one we have been waiting for…” This dragon suddenly grinned, making its originally majestic appearance even more ferocious, “The moment to liberate one has finally come——finally!”

The golden-red dragon did not hide its joy and delight, and it immediately said, “I can give you the heart fire, but the forging must be done by you.”

“My weapon, self-made.”

“Very good.” The golden-red dragon slightly retreated its huge body that was coiled around the volcano, and in an instant, the explosive high temperature hit.

Lu Mi immediately felt a slight sting on his skin.

“This is the fire that I used to self-immolate.” The golden-red dragon slowly said, “Your body seems to have gathered the blessings of many powers, but this is not enough——that false god can at least get close to the volcano within a hundred meters and not die, in other words, if you want to defeat it, you must reach the same level…or even surpass it!”

As everyone knew, the dragon race had the highest physical strength in the entire abyss. This point was beyond doubt.

Even though Lu Mi had mastered many powers and his mental strength had reached its peak, his physical strength had been refined less.

——This was a test, but also an opportunity.

Roar——!!

At this moment, a thunderous roar came from afar.

The dark clouds in the sky rolled like waves, and lightning constantly rolled through the clouds. Suddenly, the world changed, and there was no light from the sun or the moon.

“It seems it can’t hold back anymore.” The golden-red dragon looked straight at the source of the sound, then lowered its head to look at Lu Mi, “Your existence threatens it, which proves our choice is correct, but it also indicates that you don’t have much time left.”

The different species running on the earth had no idea what had happened.

They looked at the true god figure that appeared on the volcano and had disappeared for a thousand years, and listened to the anger from the false god falling from the sky.

“God, God is angry…!” Countless voices of confusion and panic spread with the coming storm.

“It’s devouring those stored souls…” The golden-red dragon’s flickering eyes looked at that place, sensing the constantly surging breath in the tower, “In at most half an hour, it will reach its peak state, and then——”

It will come for you.

“I will go to it.” Lu Mi interrupted the dragon’s words, his expression very calm, “The initiative is with me.”

“Hahaha!” The golden-red dragon suddenly laughed, “Newborn god, you really suit my taste. If it were a thousand years ago…” It paused regretfully here, “Forget it, don’t say it, go——your path is there!”

A path opened from the dragon’s coiled body.

Lu Mi saw the end of the path belonging to the center of the volcano, he did not hesitate and flew over without pause.

“Lu Mi!” This was Gray Crow and others who had not easily chased to a cliff near the volcano.

They looked up at the sky, but only had time to see the golden figure like a meteor, resolutely falling into the center of the volcano.

“Now, no one can approach this place——!” Sensing the people from all directions gathering, the golden-red dragon was not polite at all.

Before Lu Mi got his weapon, let alone these ordinary people, even if the false god launched a surprise attack, it would block all of them for him.

The dragon’s voice was like a hum from the rocks, majestic and vast, its long body coiled around the volcano and then spread along the ridge of the mountains, like a boundless city wall.

It was here, guarding an absolute line of defense for the silver-eyed youth with its body.

“Why would the long-gone Earth Dragon show its spirit again?”

“Why is the sky angry?”

Countless different species who still didn’t know the truth had panic on their faces, they stopped not far from the volcano, more and more people arrived here, the world under the pressing dark clouds sensed the coming of the end of the world.

“Will there be conflicts between gods…what will happen afterwards…?”

“Swish——!” A red figure suddenly rushed out of the crowd.

“Lord Kier!” Gray Crow didn’t even have time to catch him, he could only see the red figure quickly jumping down the cliff, rolling a few times in the dust, and then quickly shaking his head and standing up.

The young dragon who had not grown bigger rolled towards the volcano like a ball, running madly with his short legs.

——“Lu Mi!” The tender dragon roar was calling like this.

Right now, Lu Mi in the center of the volcano was not disturbed by the outside world at all, he was now suspended above the volcano, less than five meters away from the splashing magma below.

——This was the limit to which he could remain unscathed. He could go further down with the shield, but that wouldn’t be interesting.

After all, it was a divine fire that could burn even the body of the true dragon god in the past.

He resisted and adapted to the climbing high temperature, and the air waves in the air twisted to the point where he could clearly see the shape.

Then, Lu Mi loosened his hand and threw down the blue heart scale in his hand. At the same time, his mental power wrapped around it, guiding the shape of the scale like an invisible hand.

Almost the moment it touched the strand of flame, the heart scale quickly hummed——it felt the threat brought by the flame, but as a divine object with spirituality like it, it could understand its own mission.

“Become his spear.” A huge blue figure flashed and disappeared from the scale, and the whisper was like a deafening sound.

“…”

The blue scale vibrated violently in an instant, and then, the hardest armor in the world suddenly became softer than anything else.

It melted, changed, and elongated in the hands of the silver-eyed youth.

Feeling this scene, Lu Mi paused for a moment, and then, he suddenly fell down——without opening the shield.

The intense high temperature quickly brought a suffocating feeling, the magma splashed around, but the youth did not dodge.

He looked at his future weapon that was drowned in the magma below, and for a moment, it seemed that their hearts were connected and he heard its voice——

The pain in the purgatory-like blaze…

The desire for birth…

The torment and patience in the plasticity of changing the posture…

“Pick me up——!!” In the end, only this voice broke through the layers of whispers like a maze, echoing most clearly in his ears!

In ancient times, the most enthusiastic blacksmiths even sacrificed their bodies to the sword——!

Lu Mi was not so irrational, but this did not prevent him from being rarely unrestrained in this situation.

He leaned over and reached into the magma below.

Zi!–

At that moment, it seemed to be back to the time when he had nothing and was fighting in the Northern Area of the Abyss. Every battle was a life-threatening gamble, and every drop of blood shed was burning with madness regardless of everything.

——Just like now.

The softest flesh and blood touched the most boiling heat.

The silver-eyed youth only moved his eyebrows slightly at first, his expression was still calm, only those eyes, which were infinitely close to the magma, were ignited into a golden red glow.

Various powers in the body emerged in turn, which was an instinctive defense mechanism——

Sometimes a dark shadow appeared, sometimes a gale was set off, sometimes thunder and lightning sounded…almost a small world in the volcano was attacked by various forces in turn.

At the same time, the demon species connected in the contract rushed from different places, looking up incredulously.

“What are you doing?!!” They could vaguely feel Lu Mi’s crazy and bloody state now, and they almost went crazy in an instant.

Under the active rotation of various powers, the silver-eyed youth maintained a balance between injury and healing.

And in the process of dredging, he keenly sensed the tempering effect of this flame, “The body…seems to have become stronger?”

He took the time to look at his just healed fingertips, those jade-like white fingers, filled with power that was about to burst, and because of their flawless posture, they became perfect and unfamiliar.

“It has indeed become stronger.” The youth nodded, “Just by immersing your hand in it, you can have this effect. If you immerse your whole body in it…um, but the healing speed can’t keep up with the injury speed, will you die?”

This is indeed a problem.

But then, he remembered the moment he touched a touch of coolness in the magma just now——he almost picked it up!

So he fixed his gaze and looked down.

At the same time, outside the volcano, a young dragon who had rushed up the mountainside alone was roaring fiercely at the dragon blocking it.

“Wu——!”

This is the bravest roar that the young dragon can make now!

The golden-red dragon’s eyes lit up, it suddenly looked at the young dragon silently for a moment, and then opened its mouth.

“Roar————!!!”

The dragon exhaled a gust of wind, directly overturning the young dragon, and then rolled down the mountain.

Until the young dragon shook his head and got up again, the whole dragon even staggered a bit, as if it was stunned by the roar.

“Little guy,” the golden-red dragon squinted his eyes meaningfully, “You have the breath of fire and mountain on your body,” it said slowly, “In theory, you are considered my descendant.”

The young dragon, who was single-mindedly looking for Lu Mi, didn’t listen to the other party at all. The young dragon quickly regrouped, lowered its body, and growled with bared teeth from its throat.

The golden-red giant dragon shook its head at the sight, “Too naive! As a dragon, your power is so weak! You even dare to step forward without knowing your own strength. Has this era made life too comfortable for dragons?”

As it spoke, a sense of regret and disappointment emerged in the eyes of the golden-red giant dragon.

After it woke up, it was connected to the earth’s veins of this land, so it had already heard from the breath of the earth that the dragons might have disappeared. Even if there were any left, there wouldn’t be many.

However, all things are born and die, cycle and repeat, even it is the same. So the golden-red giant dragon could accept the decline of the dragons, but it couldn’t accept that the remaining dragons were so weak!

“I’m very sorry!” Gray Crow, who had hurried over, bowed its head, “Kier didn’t mean to provoke your defense line, it just wanted to find Lu Mi!”

“Hmm? To find that person?” The golden-red giant dragon frowned, “So it’s like that, is it under that person’s protection…”

“…Yes.” Finally, the golden-red giant dragon slightly loosened its mouth, “Since he raised you, then I won’t say much, but——” The giant dragon lowered its head full of oppressive feeling, “With your power, you can’t resist the high temperature on the mountain at all, you might be burned to ashes in the blink of an eye, even so, do you still want to go up?”

The young dragon still bared its teeth, opened its mouth without giving in at all. “Roar!”

“Hmph!” The golden-red giant dragon didn’t care about the young dragon’s disrespect, but instead laughed, “The stubborn and unyielding look, it does have a bit of the style of the dragons of the past.”

As the giant dragon opened a gap, without saying much, the young dragon rushed straight through and continued to rush towards the top of the mountain.

“What, aren’t you going up?” The giant dragon looked at Gray Crow who was still on the ground.

Gray Crow slowly shook its head, “I will become a burden, I still… don’t have the power to follow behind that person.”

“Not only the dragons, but also the white birds that used to soar in the sky have also been covered in dust…” The golden-red giant dragon shook its head on its own, and then said to him, “However, the moment of breaking the game is coming soon——”

The giant dragon looked at the burning volcano behind him, laughed, as if asking the golden youth, “So, how will you illuminate the sky with your fire?”

——Waiting.

Almost everyone was waiting, some people even didn’t know what they were waiting for, but they had a premonition that something was about to happen.

And soon.

Inside the volcano, Lu Mi, who had made up his mind, spread his arms and fell back naturally.

It was as if behind him was not a magma that could burn everything, but a warm bed that was about to embrace him.

This posture of falling backward allowed him to see the dark clouds in the sky and the flowing layers of clouds more clearly.

The next second, a touch of red suddenly appeared in the gray world.

“Kier?” Lu Mi looked in surprise at the young dragon that suddenly appeared here and was flying towards him.

The young dragon jumped down the volcano without hesitation and ran towards him.

“How did you…” Lu Mi seemed to want to say something, but when he saw the scars all over the young dragon’s body, and even the wings that were burning like paper, he suddenly stopped.

“Forget it,” finally, the silver-eyed youth gave up as if sighing.

Or rather, under such circumstances, they didn’t have time to do anything else.

So the youth held the young dragon the size of a ball tightly in his arms and said, “Let’s go and see together, the end of the firelight——”

Bang——

It was like falling into the sea, and the magma splashed like water droplets.

This was a feeling of being on the verge of death, which had been absent for a long time.

Except for the very beginning, that time when he was wandering alone in the Northern Area, Lu Mi almost forgot this feeling.

He could clearly know that his flesh and blood were rapidly bursting open and healing in the blink of an eye, constantly repeating and refining.

But his consciousness seemed to float out of this body——

He saw a huge door.

At the same time, in reality, he could feel the young dragon suddenly breaking free from his protective embrace.

“…Could it be, this is Kier’s ‘door’?”

In fact, Lu Mi had not yet “contracted” with the red dragon. The reason was simple, because the red dragon—it couldn’t write.

But now, this door that was clearly connected to the Book of Keys, yet clearly showed his connection with the dragon.

[Writing down one’s own name, not only is the most superficial meaning, the important thing is to give and recognize.]

Inexplicably, he understood this layer of meaning.

——It seems that the Book of Keys still has many abilities he doesn’t know, or perhaps, that book is evolving with him?

But now was not the time to consider these, Lu Mi did not hesitate, and directly pushed open that door.

The moment he stepped into the door, he saw a huge red dragon——

It was coiled on top of the burning mountain, its body wrapped in the breath of the earth and the mountain, and it spread its wings that covered the sky towards the sky.

Then, it let out the first roar of the beginning of the world, turned its head abruptly to look at him, as if it had been waiting for a long time.