Dragon Monarch System

Chapter 1196: Chapter 1196:- Heavenly Tribulation [VI]; Ego Vs Heaven

Before the sixth and final Heavenly Thunder strike could descend, Aditya suddenly gathered whatever strength remained within his broken body and released a deafening roar. Aditya roared as if he was roaring at Heaven and declaring his defiance to Heaven, the earth and everyone who was here to witness history today.

”ROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!!!!”

His roar spread across the devastated land as his body immediately began transforming. Crimson light erupted from him. His broken human body rapidly expanded as crimson scales replaced his burned flesh. His limbs transformed into enormous draconic claws, a massive tail extended behind him, and two gigantic wings unfolded from his back.

The entire transformation happened almost instantly. In less than a second, the badly wounded human lying at the centre of the crater disappeared. In his place appeared Aditya’s true form.

The Divine Crimson Storm Dragon!!!

A gigantic crimson Dragon several hundred meters long appeared beneath the dark heavens. Crimson scales covered his enormous body while Crimson Lightning flickered violently between them. Even in his miserable condition, his true Dragon form carried an overwhelming presence that made his previous human body appear insignificant in comparison.

His fully transformed Dragon body looked even more gruesome than his human self. He rose from the ground high enough that everyone could fully his his miserable state. The women he loved shed tears seeing his miserable state.

First was the painful absorption process; now this was this. And he was shouldering everything alone without any help. Aditya had always been like this. He always shoulders everything alone. Till this very moment, he stayed true to his character of burdening himself rather than burdening his loved ones.

But the heavens did not give him even a second to adjust. The moment Aditya completed his transformation,

FLASH!!!!!!!!

Golden light swallowed the heavens. The sixth Heavenly Thunder strike descended. It was the final and the most strongest strike of all.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

The golden Heavenly Thunder struck Aditya’s enormous Dragon body.

Unlike the previous five strikes, the sixth Heavenly Thunder did not merely appear to strike a single point on his body. The terrifying golden lightning spread across his gigantic form almost instantly, engulfing hundreds of meters of his Divine Crimson Storm Dragon body within a sea of violent golden lightning.

This time, Aditya had nothing protecting him. The black sword that he had just repaired had already been broken once again. His full-body armour had been destroyed beyond any possibility of continuing to protect him.

There were no defensive formations. There were no barriers. There were no artefacts left between him and the heavens. There was only his body. The instant the sixth Heavenly Thunder struck him, Aditya felt his consciousness rapidly slipping away.

The pain was beyond anything he had experienced from the previous five strikes. His thoughts became increasingly distant as his senses began shutting down one after another.

For a brief moment, countless memories flashed before his eyes as his consciousness continued to fade. Aditya saw the faces of the people he loved, the women who were waiting for him to return, his family, his friends, his subordinates, and the countless people who had placed their trust in him and were now preparing to follow him into this war.

Memories from different stages of his life appeared and disappeared one after another, moving so quickly that Aditya could barely understand what he was seeing. It almost felt as though he had already reached death’s doorstep, and his mind was forcing him to relive fragments of his life one final time before everything came to an end.

But Aditya refused.

’No.’ His consciousness continued slipping.

’Not yet.’

His enormous Dragon claws dug into the destroyed earth. ’I am not dying here.’

Instead of surrendering to the overwhelming Heavenly Thunder, Aditya forced every remaining fragment of his concentration toward the one method that had worked before.

Redirect it.

He no longer had his black sword to act as a conductor, but his true Dragon body was now directly touching the ground. Aditya desperately used his understanding of Crimson Lightning to influence the flow of the golden Heavenly Thunder rampaging throughout his body.