Chapter 1701: Defeating Five Fire Titan Souls! Passing The Trial!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
CRAAASH!
The two Fire Titans were overwhelmed, with giant draconic claws punching them from every single area, their strength was no longer able to hold back anymore, even less when their souls had been damaged severely.
"Dammit!"
"Ugh...!"
SPLASH!
Both fell into the lava right behind them, the lava erupted into the skies, announcing my complete victory. Without my dragon powers, without most of my divinities and divine abilities, and without my demonic powers.
I still won against five Fire Titans.
I can't believe how strong my soul has become... But I guess I also owe most of it to my Soul Gear, I did good in preparing it beforehand. Without it, I would have surely croaked before even realizing what happened to me.
I saw the Five Titans slowly swim out of the lava, landing on the stone surface with faces full of anger and frustration. Their King and father, Surtr, remained in silence, looking down at me like a monolith of flames.
"So?"
I looked up to him, fearlessly.
His face full of seriousness slowly twisted into a smile, a very relaxed and even fatherly smile.
"Well done! Hahahaha!"
Well, that surprised me, I really thought he would come down and fight me or something.
"Yes, you won, Drake. King of the Dragons! I recognize your strength and your power, and also your worthiness to inherit the power of the Fire Titans!"
As he proclaimed my victory, the rest of the Fire Titans celebrated, they were just spectating things, so they didn't feel as angry or frustrated at the rest.
"Well done!"
"I guess the King of the Lizards is still a King, huh?"
"Not bad, not bad!"
"He actually beat all five of them, unbelievable!"
"I think he could have easily destroyed their souls; he went easy on them!"
"I guess he wasn't wrong, hahaha! Five against one was not fair, for us titans, that's it!"
"A Dragon with the powers of an Ice Titan, this is surely a first for me too!"
As they celebrated, I nodded, quickly walking towards the five Fire Titans that fought me.
They glared at me with anger and frustration.
"W-What do you want?!"
I waved my hand, giving them my Soul Aether and healing their Soul Wounds in exchange for my own Soul Essence.
"Huh? You're...?!"
"Why are you healing us!"
"This humiliation... to be pitied by our rival!"
"Ugh, lizards really have no concept of honor or pride!"
"Hahh... thank you."
Only one of them was being honest and thanking me, the rest were too salty to say anything else. But I suppose it couldn't be helped.
"Sorry about being too rough, I hope you'll recover, thanks for the fight, it helped me achieve an even higher level of strength," I smiled, as I walked away.
I wouldn't just argue with them over it anyways, I healed them and apologized, time to move on.
As I walked away, the Fire Titans stood up and glanced at me from the distance.
A few of them smiled slightly, crossing their arms.
"He's not at all like our tribe..."
"He plays dirty at times, but he's also humble, too humble."
"Apologizing to the opponent they just fought, and even healing them..."
"But maybe it's fine if he's different too."
"Yeah... The age of Titans is long gone, and the Dragons shall inherit the world."
I faced Surtr once more, as he looked down at me with a wide smile, suddenly patting my head and hugging me, clapping my back.
"Hahaha! That was magnificent, you're now my son, bastard!"
"Eh? Your son?!"
"What did you expect this entire thing to me? To become a Fire Titan, you must first become my kid! And I ain't got weak kids!"
"Hah..."
"Now!"
He quickly looked at me in the eyes, and then a wave of pure Blazing Divine Essence entered my soul and my body.
FLUOSH!
"Ugh?! Agh!"
It felt painful, the flames clashed against the ice of my soul, it felt like I was melting. This was perhaps the first time and Ice and Fire Titan Soul were merged into a single being.
Yet with the power of my Dragon King Divinities, which I was able to unleash due to Surtr's permission, I compressed their power, and then refined it, fully merging it together.
FLASH!
Flames and Ice surged from my soul, as my appearance as a Titan changed as well. Blue and Red Skin covered my body, although my blue skin was the majority, there was now red skin in several parts of my body, from my fists up to my elbows, ending on flame-like shapes, my foot up to my ankles too, fiery red and with flame-shapes.
And through an ice mirror, I saw my head, hair, and eyes changed as well. I had undergone a complete evolution. I noticed there was now a second pair of arms coming from behind my back, which were the reverse color of my primary arms.
Above all, my horns had become gold spiraling upwards. And I now had four eyes, two of them were blue, and the other two were fiery red, my face was divided from half, from my forehead up to my nose, it was red, and below, blue, separated by flame-like shapes.
My long silvery-white hair had remained of the same color but grew wildly up to my hips. And I had grown in size too, at least two hundred meters more.
The other Fire Titans stayed in silence, watching my transformation in awe.
The finishing touch was a single jewel, half of it blue and the other red, which materialized in my forehead, above my second pair of eyes.
"T-This form! Just what did I become?!"
I was shocked, and the Fire Titans were too, only Surtr remained calm, smiling at the result.
"He looks like a demon, right?"
"He's majestic!"
"So strong!"
"That Aura of Fire and Ice, it harmonizes the elements so perfectly..."
"This is a first for me too! I had never seen this before. A perfect fusion between Fire and Ice Titans, something that had never happened before!" he laughed. "Four arms, four eyes, and those colors... You've truly become a freak, haven't you, my son? GAHAHAHA!"