Chapter 88 - Chapter 90

On the always mysterious Paradise island a portal opened up and a couple of people jumped out. They were Dragon, Jugo and Gildarts with his partner, the talking tiger behind him.

"Feels good to be back!" Atlas said and stretched his body and gave a mighty roar.

"Atlas you will behave inside Lord Dragon's home or you will be punished." A black-haired woman in a maid outfit had appeared in front of the group.

"Welcome back, Lord Dragon." A familiar grey-haired old man said and went down on one knee. He had two maids behind him, and one was the black-haired woman. And the other one was a woman with long red hair.

"Thank you, Sebas. How have things been here?"

"Everything is in order. Will you be staying long this time?" He asked with a serious expression plastered on his face. Dragon had doubted that Sebas could even show other emotions.

"No! I will leave right away. And this is Jugo, my apprentice, treat him well." Dragon shoved Jugo forward.

"H...Hello!" Jugo said awkwardly and waved with even more awkwardness.

"Now I will get going, I can't delay my journey any longer." Dragon turned to Gildarts and bent down and hugged him.

"Be good, and be safe! And I know there is something that has been weighing on your mind. But let me tell you this, don't let it bother you. Live according to your morals and everything will be fine.

"And I'm so proud over you, Gildarts. Continue like you have always done and everything will be okay."

Gildarts listened with a tear in his right eye. And he wiped it away quickly and gave his father a confident smile.

"I will make you proud, Father. And I will make sure I become someone worthy of the family name." He said with all his determination shining through his eyes.

Dragon nodded and gave Gildarts another hug.

"Sebas, one of my subordinates will come and deliver a few beasts that will live here on the island. He will use this mirror to traverse the space between the worlds. So welcome them when they arrive." Dragon handed Sebas a tiny mirror that Alcuard could now use to traverse worlds where Dragon had been.

"I understand, Lord Dragon."

Dragon had arranged that Alucard and Danzo would take care of the tailed beasts. There were still more of them to collect, but Dragon honestly didn't want to deal with that any longer so he left it to the Akatsuki and Danzo.

"Okay, now is the time where I say goodbye to you all again. We will see each other when this journey of mine is over."

Dragon back off and summoned another portal and it swallowed him up.

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Inside the stream connecting all the worlds, Dragon was floating and talking to his system.

'Tell me about this system. Will there be any drawbacks from the erasing powers I possess?'

[Answer! No, the host will not be injured by that. But ones erased from you, your soul will never have the ability to possess them again. This is the only drawback when erasing an ability from your own soul.]

'I see. Then let's not delay this any further.'

Dragon closed his own eyes and entered his soul space. It looked very similar to the white space where he met two and eight tails. It was just a white space that stretched on forever.

'So these are all the abilities I have now.' Inside this white space were small purple floating energy balls. And they all represented an ability Dragon possessed.

'Let's begin the removal of my poison.' Dragon was convinced that the strange yet familiar feeling of endless hunger was the cause of his chaotic state of mind. He had an obsessive hunger for power that he had kept suppressed ever since he reincarnated.

And he was sure that this huger for power was corrupting his mind in some strange ways. So that's why he wanted to go on this journey to cleanse himself so to speak. He needed to truly understand what he was.

After a few seconds of silence he stretched out his arm, and a purple ball was drawn into his grasp.

[Erase] Dragon used his most powerful self created ability. With this, he would permanently delete abilities he had created.

These powers made him feel like a god and he hated that feeling. He wanted nothing to do with divinity so he deleted them without any regret.

'That's one. Now for the rest.' Dragon said and called for the next one.

---A few hours later---

Dragon was floating inside his white space and looking at only a handful of purple balls.

'Law Of Space, Law Of time, the ones I need to travel inside the stream." And Emperors Road had fused with his soul. So erasing that would be like committing suicide."

"I feel sort of empty without having thousands upon thousands of useless abilities.' Dragon laughed to himself.

This was the current Dragon. Now he was someone that possessed an unimaginable energy supply. But no abilities to use. He would choose a random world and walk a new path. A path to find out what he was.

'What a surprisingly freeing feeling this is. I don't feel like I'm carrying around a million tons on my shoulders anymore. I feel free, and I feel excited about what this new world will bring me.'

Dragon smiled genuinely and watched as he had now arrived at the outer reach of the current universe. Here he could take his time because of how fast time moves here in comparison to his homeworld.

'That one looks good." Dragon saw a white dot in the distance that shined brighter than most others in this place. So he guided the stream towards it and prepared for his new adventure.

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End

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As I stated in the previous author note. The ending is a little rushed. But nothing major was missed, so everything that Dragon needed to resolve got resolved.

And about removing his powers. I have this long-ass list off ALL of his abilities. And you guys saw maybe two or three of those. So if you are salty because Dragon removed his abilities, don't be. I never showed them in the first place.

So this new volume will be about getting his "own" powers that he will use for the rest of the novel. So no more random powers popping up in the future.

Hope you enjoy the new volume.