Epic of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

An enormous titan made of blood and the divine souls of the Vampires defeated, including Red's very soul emerged. Absorbing within and completely merging the power of the Vampire Venerable's Soul Fragments! It wasn't a new Red or something, no, her mind and ego were already shattered into pieces once and for all… who Drake and everyone else, who were already incredibly tired as now were facing was the very owner of such fragments, the Vampire Venerable himself!

Although Drake had already talked with three Venerables so far, including the Frost Queen and the Dream Venerable, alongside Oberon with Greenwood, Black, and Red, when he faced the personification of the Vampire Venerable, he felt he was indeed different than them.

While Oberon had shattered his soul into clones who held their own egos and developed into weaker minded beings than his original self, and while the Frost Queen and the Dream Fox Venerable were friendly to him and his allies, this man… the Vampire Venerable was definitely different!

Drake, however, wasn't paralyzed. He felt the enormous power yet he confronted it. Similarly to Red's power, or even worse than hers, the very presence of the awakened Venerable made the sky and the earth turn red. This was the [Absolute Domain] of all Venerables, however, this powerful Domain was even stronger as he had unsealed himself from the stones which were the crystallization of his soul fragments.

But why did he do that to begin with? Why did he unseal himself fully knowing that the World's Will would interfere against him, that Yggdrasil wouldn't allow Venerables to revive as it would go against [Fate]?

Although Drake couldn't figure that out, as the world and everything else only responded against his presence by being completely taken over by his Blood Powers, he knew that he had figured "something" that allowed him to ignore such "rules".

And perhaps one of them, within the Dragon King's mind was that as long as he isn't fully awakened with all his powers, he cannot be easily targeted.

However, there might be even another condition too, as long as he had a "vessel"!

The reason why he wanted a vessel so badly, and the reason why Oberon's Soul Fragments are also not weakened or attacked by Yggdrasil's Will, strangely enough, might be because they had yet to fully reincarnate!

A vessel ideal for them would allow a Venerable to attain a new body that would go along [Fate], perhaps. The Venerable of Vampires had no intentions of going against [Fate] to begin with, and simply wanted a vessel, any of it!

"An incomplete vessel…" He sighed, his voice echoed across the skies and the ground below. "But a useful one for now… Ruby is safe, as long as I have her, I can attain my full power into her body, and be reborn!"

"N-No way…" Hector muttered; his eyes filled with despair.

The very presence of this titan was so impactful and overwhelming that it made those weak enough fall into despair as their hearts are wrapped into agony.

"S-Such power…!" Larzak tried to resist but was also taken over by fear.

"It can't… be… That Venerable, the one from legends… The one that almost destroyed the entire world and killed nine tens of the entire population… the one that brought the Era of Blood…" Kraxka muttered.

"But how?! We were supposed to stop this…!" Rakasha roared.

"Ah… I-Is it too late already?" Yuki sighed.

"Fuck…" Tisha said.

"The Spirits… they're trembling in fear. Not only mine, every single spirit around us…" Pekora cried.

"Now…"

The titanic Venerable spoke, his red eyes glowed like two suns atop the sky. His very presence overbearing to everyone here.

"Before doing anything else, I will exterminate all of you and suck your fresh blood. It has been eons since I had a delicious drink…" He spoke, a malicious and gigantic smile emerged across his shapeless face. "I sure can't wait to drink the blood of the Dragon King…"

His enormous hands slowly began drawing closer, and closer, and closer…!

Drake himself wasn't paralyzed by fear, but by the enormously strong power the Venerable unleashed.

Red wasn't even able to use half of the power within the jewels containing his soul fragments.

But now that he had fully awakened and used her soul and blood as his temporary vessel, he awakened at least 90% of their power, enough to become someone way above Rank 9, perhaps comparable to Rank 10!

Venerables started at Rank 11, some reached higher Ranks than those, however! The Full Power of Ancient Dragon Progenitor surpassed them all, however. Oberon was the only one that confronted them in the past and had to use several external factors to manage their defeat… Nonetheless, after that, Venerables were always superior to all life.

Even if not at full power, such superior power extended to things beyond mere physical power. It was a Divine Strength that surpassed all of that and more. Drake was constantly forcing his body to move, but it felt as if the Venerable's very domain stopped time and space, he was stuck in there, without even being able to move an inch!

"Shit… FUCK!"

Drake began groaning to himself, just when he had managed to defeat Red once and for all, just when he was about to get back Ruby, this bastard amongst all things had to just decide to be reborn!

And in a way, it was his fault. By absorbing Red's Divinity, he ended loosening the seals in the stones, and the Venerable, in desperation of having his plans ruined, decided to utilize whatever he had available as his new vessel…

"I've always liked to devour the most delicious meal first…"

The Vampire Venerable's eyes glared down at Drake, his gigantic hands quickly reaching up to his body and then grasping it! Drake's barriers, domain, auras, everything broke in an instant, he found himself hopeless, his very body, blood, energy, and soul were all being drained away!