Life Hunter

The dragon"s silver mane fluttered and the inhabitants who witnessed the landing were put into a trance. Arima looked around and observed the people of this planet.

"(Humans?... No)" Arima thought for a second but when he saw all the people with different skin colors like blue, green, pink, and red, he dismissed the idea.

This race had another name; the Ranians. They were even more spread and numerous than humans. They possessed around the same average intelligence as humans if not a little lower, but their physical abilities were quite different.

With each different color, there was a certain resistance or ability that came with it. Some could breathe underwater, be immune to fire and breath it naturally, be as hard as stone, and others.

"(Well, it"s not really the point here)" Arima thought. He folded his wings and walked toward one of the Ranians there. The blue-skinned guy panicked. He wanted to flee but the shadow and pressure brought by the giant dragon made him even impossible to move his head.

"Hey" Arima called and everyone listening shivered in fear. The situation for the Ranians at the moment was like prey in front of the hunter. They all thought that they were going to die. They heard that dragons were aggressive on top of being insanely strong.

"If you don"t resist, you"ll live" What Arima uttered after made the Ranian"s mind blank. Just after, the Arima pointed his finger at him. A mysterious will and energy entered his head. He felt scared but he immediately remembered the dragon"s words and didn"t move or resist.

After a few seconds, Arima retrieved his spirit and smiled "There are only Ranians on this planet then. The rest are animals, beasts, and monsters. And of course, Téra"

"Good enough. Now I have the spiritual signature of your race. I need to recover quickly so you"ll help me" Arima said in a loud voice and even the chef who had just arrived and had gray skin stopped moving.

"I"ll say it now" Arima smirked "Many will die" He said and everyone paled. Arima"s sigil glowed along with his eyes. The dragon looked up at the sky "[Judicandus] (Be judged)" He started chanting.

"[Vel poenas non morietur] (Be punished or die)"

"[Condemnetur ad iudicium] (Be condemned after the verdict)"

"[Non potes effugere oculis meis] (You can"t escape my eyes)"

"[Quamdiu vos habere vestrum] (As long as you have yours)"

"[At illa erit] (You will look at them)"

"[Fifth Black Art, Causam Finalem, Penitentia conspiciunt] (Final Case, Penance Stare)" Arima finished chanting the Art and a whirlpool of darkness appeared in the sky. That dark ma.s.s covered the whole sky soon enough.

If you looked at the planet from s.p.a.ce, you would see that it was starting to be consumed. The color of the ground and water was being overwritten and blackened.

The ranians looked up anxiously. They felt as if their hearts were being squeezed; that they were under the threat of bursting at any moment. Then, something happened that brought them absolute fear.

A giant pair of eyelids was formed in the darkness. They opened slowly and the pupils of the dragon were staring down at the ground with a red and purple hue. The Ranians couldn"t help but look at it. As if they had been ordered to do so and couldn"t go against it.

It wasn"t the only pair of eyes that appeared. A few other pairs formed for every inhabitant of the planet to see. Arima"s eyes were glowing with an ominous light as he looked at the sky too.

He didn"t say anything at all and one Ranian screamed and suddenly lost all of his life force in a second. The people around him screamed but when they saw he just had lost consciousness, they sighed in relief. But they also realized that the man had lost all of his power.

The next one in this particular town screamed like the previous Ranian. But this one not only saw all of his life force disappear; his life was also robbed. Then, the Ranians became even more agitated. Now, they didn"t even know how victims were chosen and why. And if everyone was going to go through what they saw.

The same phenomenon occurred across the entire planet. Even certain beasts and animals were knocked or killed like that while giving their life force away.

After tens of people had died on the town Arima was in, someone finally realized and exclaimed in shock. He even looked at Arima with a respect unknown to his peers.

"It"s only criminals!" When he shouted that. Everyone frowned. Even the chef looked at the corpses doubly. But when he went through all of them, his eyes widened. Among those people, there were some who had a bad historic and others who had a bad reputation.

It also seemed that those with lighter crimes were only deprived of their life force but not killed. The ones who had died were the ones who actually deserved death from Arima"s perspective.

The chef looked back at Arima with a strange look while the other inhabitants looked like they were in the presence of a G.o.d. But there were others who were upset because an outsider had suddenly killed many of theirs.

Arima glanced at them and ignored them. He didn"t want to involve himself with them. He just wanted the life force and then he would send them to another planet before s.n.a.t.c.hing the core. It was far from a good deed in his opinion so he ignored the grat.i.tude, admiration or hate.

After a small ten-minutes period, thousands of life forces, if not tens of thousands, were robbed and brought back to Arima. The latter had simply used the Fifth Black Art to scan the memories and guilt of people to then punish them accordingly.

Since the life force was useless for him, he actually just used it to refine mana and replenish his mana pool. After all, with its size, Arima would need some time to fill it without getting mana from external sources.

Arima"s entire mana capacity was bigger than all the G.o.ds he fought with reunited. To fill up something like that, you would either need the life energy of an entire planet or the mana of hundreds of thousands of people.

But with life force, Arima can speed up the process. When he finally was back to his top condition. He cracked his neck and exhaled a blue mist.

He looked around at the Ranians "I"ll send you to another planet now. I need this one" He just said and before anyone could talk back to him, the dragon snapped his fingers and everyone on the planet disappeared.

"Mm, 2% to teleport all of them, huh?" Arima muttered and then looked at the ground "Now, how do I do this?"

"{Why don"t you do it as Layla said; blast it open and take the core}" Night joked and Arima shook his head and then suddenly froze.

"{Wait, it may work}"

"{What?}" Night was definitely joking so what Arima said struck him.

"{If I freeze the core in Time then open the planet, it would work. Then I just have to put it into my soul where I"ll stop Time directly}" Arima explained and Night pondered.

"{It may work indeed…but isn"t there another solution? It also will take quite a lot of mana}"

"{Should be okay…around 10%}" Arima smirked and teleported out of the atmosphere. He looked at the planet from s.p.a.ce then gathered a lot of energy into six points of blue light around him. When the small spheres of light were completed, Arima sent them around the planet.

Two went above and below the planet and the others formed a square around the middle of the vertical axis defined by the first light b.a.l.l.s "[Compesce, Obfirmo, Prohibere, Custodi, Rigesc.u.n.t indutae] (Confine, Lock, Stop, Keep, Freeze)" Arima chanted and the six points were instantly connected by blue lines.

When the faces finally formed, a diamond-shaped barrier was confining the entire planet. Arima clapped his hands strangely and the barrier started spinning. When it stopped, everything had turned dark inside it.

Time had been stopped and unless Arima went in, he would not see anything else. The dragon flew toward the barrier and went through it easily. He ended up in a world like the one Chronos had created before but it was slightly less refined and powerful.

Arima breathed in "[Terminus Confractus, CCC]"

"{What are you going to do?}"

"{What? This the best method, if I want to economize my mana}" Arima responded "{You know, The Destroyer could destroy a planet with a single punch. I can easily do that now}" He grinned.

"{…I"m sure you know it was an exaggeration and it only meant smaller planets like the Earth. Don"t tell me you thought it was true and don"t even try to convince me}" Night retorted and Arima laughed.

He flapped his wings and reached the ground instantly along with a detonation, his momentum was bigger than the one a meteorite would have. He contracted his muscles and punched with all of his strength.

Even if Time was stopped, everything that entered in contact with the shockwave temporarily moved. The whole planet distorted into a really disturbing shape. It looked like some kind of plastic ball that deformed really badly.

Everything around Arima turned into ruins and only stone and soil remained. The water went up flying in the sky before freezing in Time again. Arima then went even closer to the center of the planet and planted both of his hands on the hard stone around the core.

The temperature was considerably high and the stone even started to become liquid. But Arima was planning to reach the core from there. He gathered mana in his arm and pulled outward. His hands were definitely moving like he was trying to tear apart something.

He had already linked the whole planet with a reinforcing link. Everything was moving together. The planet was blasted open across a perfect, linear fissure that opened the entire way around the planet. Arima roared and gave a last push.

It was the final blow and the planet broke apart to become two different pieces hovering in s.p.a.ce with flowing lava in the center.

Arima sighed and went through the lava before reaching the core. He tapped on it a few times, it was intriguing as it didn"t feel liquid or solid. It was hot but definitely nothing for his resistance as a dragon.

He covered the core with his spirit and unhesitatingly took it into his soul "{Done}" Arima affirmed and teleported away.

Just after, the diamond-shaped barrier collapsed and the planet was left there. The water congealed then turned into ice, the rocks became asteroids and the lava also turned into stone. There weren"t any explosions or flames. The core was gone and so was the planet.