Chapter 980: Bidding for the Scourge Dragon
"Because I was one of the mutated ones myself in my previous life, I understand how much pain they are enduring. If possible, I hope you can buy it. Call me selfish, but I want you to help it find release. For it, death might be the best outcome. In any case, it would be much better than enduring endless torment and insanity."
While Crystalline spoke to Tang San, the bidding price surpassed ten thousand amethystine coins.
Spending more than ten thousand just to buy a Scourge Dragon and bring it back for euthanasia? That seemed a bit much. Ten thousand amethystine coins was a fortune! But Tang San could sense Crystalline's sorrow. Clearly, whatever experiments she had endured must have come with unimaginable suffering.
"I promise, it won't be completely useless. I can replicate its destructive energy and help you in future battles. The attribute of its energy is very special and powerful."
"You keep saying 'destructive' this and that, but you're not exactly correct," Tang San said softly. "Its energy attribute is not just destruction but annihilation, the opposite of creation."
Crystalline was momentarily stunned. She had not expected Tang San to tell her something new about one of her own fellow dragons. "Annihilation, you say?"
"Yes. You are right that your kin is special; annihilation energy isn't something that just randomly pops up. It's something exclusive to divine realms and in principle it shouldn't even exist in a mortal plane. By all rights, it should have long since destroyed this dragon's body from the inside. Yet it endured and survived, which is truly incredible. If I could bring it back to my divine realm, it might truly regain its sanity and be able to live properly. I have to tell you this: this Scourge Dragon's will to survive might just be the strongest I've ever seen. It really doesn't want to die. Otherwise, it would have been the easiest thing in the world for it to end its own life. It's just that it can't control its annihilation power. I can bid for it and try to help it. At the very least, I could ease some of its pain. When I regain my full strength, I can consider taking it back with me."
Annihilation was one of the most fundamental forces in the cosmos, coexisting on the same level with creation. In any divine realm, creation and annihilation were always at the core of the world's growth and evolution. In spite of what seemed obvious, if a divine realm lacked this force to erase what was useless and temper growth, it could not endure for long, much less for all eternity.
In Tang San's divine realm, there existed both a God of Life seat and a God of Annihilation seat, and both the Goddess of Life and the God of Annihilation were God Kings in their own right. If this dragon that could control annihilation energy could be brought back and entrusted to the God of Annihilation for care, it would benefit the divine realm quite a bit.
As for this dragon's exact condition, Tang San had to take his time to carefully observe it and see whether he could offer any help.