Chapter 460 – Darkgale Past

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The dragon family rules were harsh, and unlike the Vampires who raised their children in safety and taught them many things, they used to simply drop off many clutches of eggs across the planets of the Galaxy, leaving them on their own. The dragons would be thrown into dangerous environments, although they were strong since birth, the beasts they would fight would be even stronger most of the time, powerful divine beasts or creatures that could even defy logic itself, such planets were catalogued as “wild worlds” and were filled with dangers and opportunities.

Darkgale, the one dragon whose body was repurposed into the body of Chaos as a chimera was a dragon that experienced the same. Chaos had already went through dreams about being a small black dragon surviving the harshness of the wilderness within a strange and alien planet, these were the memories of Darkgale… However, instead of acting selfishly and monstrously as many of his siblings did when they survived and became adults, Darkgale was different.

He taught his young siblings after they hatched, and only dropped them off into the planets due to the customs of the family which he was enforced to do sooner or later after teaching them for five years, in these years he imparted them great knowledge about many things, and the dragons learned and were able to survive better, growing into adults more commonly.

This is why… Glacial and the other two, who were very close to Darkgale felt shocked when they learned he perished.

It was in a war, dragons against vampires once more, almost a thousand years ago, when Vampires and Dragons had yet to fully become allies and were still great foes, Darkgale was given the frontlines, he defeated many Vampires with his incredible might, but ultimately ended fighting one of the Vampires champions, a man named Daniel. It was said that Daniel was the strongest Vampire of his generation, he fought bravely against the powerful Darkgale, as the two unleashed strong attacks that shook the battlefield around them.

…Ultimately, both were too strong, and ended killing one another, their valiant fight brought an end to the last conflict between Vampires and Dragons in this Galaxy, and their death and battle has been recorded in both family’s history as one of incredible, legendary proportions.

Both died with honor, and through their death, peace between the two families was finally brought to the Galaxy. Darkgale’s younger siblings were all devastated, especially Glacial, but they knew they couldn’t simply insult their brother’s legacy and fight against the Vampires while trying to seek satisfaction in attempting to avenge him.

Like this, for hundreds of years, peace was brought to the two families, as they became strong allies instead of enemies to the death.

…But things ultimately changed once more, as a powerful Lich with the blessing of the Outer Gods stole the corpse of Daniel and Darkgale, and used them to create a chimera whom he called his son, a wicked being that had offended both families couldn’t be forgiven after all, this Lich was punished, captured, and sealed by the Supreme Deity of Brightness.

However, his bastardly child, the chimera, was still roaming space, with a body made out of the bodies of a vampire and a dragon, he sought prey and devoured anything he found, growing increasingly stronger with each prey eaten.

It was a monstrous being that many considered utterly aberrant. Especially those very close to the owners of the corpses used to make the chimera… Glacial, Blazer, and Atlas were very close to Darkgale almost a thousand years ago, and now that the chimera was on the loose, they wanted to catch it and quickly kill it to bring peace to the corpse of their older brother that had been reanimated through wicked necromancy.

“Brother Glacial, the Mindflayers are constantly attacking the Vampires behind us, shall we do something to bring them some aid? Shouldn’t we go aid our allies instead of ignoring them to seek the chimera faster?” Wondered Atlas, the slowest yet wisest of the trio.

“What are you talking about, Atlas?! Just let them be! Those Vampires are crazy strong, aren’t they? They’ll do just fine without help! We have to prioritize finding that bastard chimera and slay him for good…!” Roared Blazer, a temperamental fire dragon, which was often a trait the fire dragons had. “We’ll burn him to ashes!”

“No, that’s not the point, we cannot burn him to ashes, those are the body parts of our brother after all, Blazer.” Sighed Glacial. “We cannot take this carelessly, so you better hold on into your flames… Nonetheless, I have no interest in helping those Vampires. It seems that a day ago one of them attacked some Elder Brain and now every Mindflayer see them as foes, we have nothing to do with that. The treaty with the Mindflayers has been broken only for the Vampires after all.”

“Hm, they sought what they got.” Said Atlas. “However… Is this really okay?”

“Yes, it is! Stop being such a worrywart!” Said Blazer angrily, slapping the head of Atlas with his tail. Of course, Atlas was too big and his defenses were amazing so the hit of the blazing tail of Blazer barely hurt if anything.

“If we can find the chimera and deal with him swiftly, we might help the Vampires, I suppose…” Sighed Glacial, looking back as he saw a group of a dozen of Gods from the Supreme Deity of Brightness accompanying his own Dragon Gods troops. “However, we are already leading a big army ourselves, we cannot simply go back now that we brought them so far, we’ll use their strength to defeat the chimera and all the followers he’s rumored to have. After we are done with our primary target, we’ll begin worrying about anything else.”

“You’re right, you’re right, brother!!!” Said Blazer. “We’ll prioritize what’s REALLY IMPORTANT! Not some stupid squids and blood suckers nobody cares about! HAH!” Laughed Blazer.

Atlas, however, had a bad feeling about this… as if they were being somehow lured into a trap. But he couldn’t really speak anymore, as he felt he was only being a worrywart at the end.

“I really hope everything goes alright…” He sighed.

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