Epic of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System-Chapter 2048: Ruby’s Last Hope

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I left my throne for a moment, as I noticed Drakda quickly using it, as he began acting like me, bossing everyone while acting cutely, producing a lot of giggles and laughter.

That little brat… He sure got a big personality, of course, that's from his mother and me, I can tell he'll be a pretty wild young man once he grows up.

We walked into a more silent area of the grasslands surrounding my frost castle.

There, Ruby alone accompanied me, she had changed a lot, and she also went through a lot.

Partially, it might've been my fault too, that I teleported her wrongly, and that she ended too far away…

"I'm sorry about what happened, Ruby… it was my fault."

I looked at her eyes with sincerity.

"I-It wasn't Drake… you saved us, you were doing your best, that explosion that happened and the dimensional energy waves that disrupted our teleportation… you couldn't have foreseen things so far."

"I know, but still… I'll make sure to amend for my mistakes, as the king I am now, I must take responsibility for every one of my subjects… or well, my family."

I patted her head gently, as she smiled lightly.

For a moment, she blushed a little bit.

"T-Thank you…"

"Now…"

I quickly decided to get to it.

"Your mother… I can feel she's indeed not dead."

"Really?!"

"Yes, she's… as they said, fused with you."

"Fused…?!"

"It happened when you tried to save her, right?"

"A-Ah… yeah… I desperately… I did it… I merged her body with mine, absorbing her, after that…"

She explained to me what happened inside of her mindscape and more, as I quickly learned her struggles, her fight against her "other self", the awakening of the true inheritance of that damned vampire venerable, and how it was her mother's soul the one that helped her.

"I understand, I think this can be solved pretty easily, what happened is something similar to Surtr, your mother acceded to your inheritance through the bloodline realm that the vampire venerable created, then channeled it into you, and she herself merged with the broken ascendancy law ring, complementing it, and almost completing it."

"S-So she sacrificed herself?"

"Not entirely, she's there, resting… And the way to bring her out is by finishing what she started. We'll quickly finish that ascendancy law ring and imbue it with an ability similar to mine with Andromeda, so you can summon your mother by your side."

"E-Eh?! That's possible?! But the amount of materials we would need would be ridiculous… oh."

However, her eyes widened, as I summoned ten thousand corpses of divine monsters of Rank 8 and above.

"Not really, your ascendancy law simply needs blood, right? So we'll extract this high-quality blood and get it done instantly."

"W-Wait, I am not ready- Uwah?!"

FLAAASH!

However, I wasn't going to let her wait any longer!

In a second, a gigantic formation activated, of my own creation, by modifying the laws and matter of my divine realm as I wished with a mere thought.

And then, with my Aura, I quickly extracted the blood of all those monsters, until they were dried entirely.

Ruby floated in midair, creating a storm of crimson clouds and crimson lightning.

"Uwaaahaha!"

She was panicking a little, but this was going to end soon.

Yeah, at this point I'm quite experienced in doing these things myself.

Andromeda was also helping me.

"Now…!"

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I waved my hand upward, a giant sea of fresh, divine monster blood reached Ruby's ring, which appeared behind her, still shattered and with a missing part.

FLUOOOSH!

And the blood rapidly began replacing the missing pieces, trying to reconnect it all.

But…

"Not enough, huh? Alright, a bit more then!"

FLASH!

I quickly summoned ten thousand more monsters, and even more blood out of them was extracted and added into Ruby's ring.

And yet, more was needed.

Then, I continued summoning ten thousand corpses over and over again.

Ultimately, once the ring was finally finished, I had used 120.000 divine monster corpses worth of their blood.

But it was finished!

Yes! Only blood was needed, hahaha!

RUMBLE!

The ground and the sky trembled, for a moment, Ruby's Aura became all-encompassing, a giant crimson moon appearing above the skies as her domain manifested for a few seconds.

And then it all disappeared, as she fell from the skies, almost unconscious.

"Got you."

I caught her in midair, as she slowly opened her red eyes.

"D-Drake? Did it work? Huh? My Aura…"

"It's not completely complete per say, it could be said you're a pseudo venerable right now… there's still something missing, but the ring is completely done yes. We can move to the next step."

"R-Really?!"

"Actually, I already finished the next step! So let's move into just summoning your mother."

"Just summoning her is fine?"

"Yes, the ability I managed to engrave into the ring, the only new one, as you inherited your ancestor's other abilities was… {Divine Vampire Progenitor Matriarch Guardian Spirit}, use it."

"…Alright!"

She nodded happily, concentrating on her powers.

Rose was also by my side; she helped me throughout the process with her powers.

"I'm so happy for you, young lady Ruby…"

She was a bit emotional too, as part of their vampire family and all.

"Mom… please… come back…!"

Ruby cried a few tears, her hands rising into the sky.

"{Divine Vampire Progenitor Matriarch Guardian Spirit}!"

FLAAASH!

She felt her Ascendancy Law Essence leaving her body, rapidly concentrating into a large crimson colored magic circle over the floor.

And from there…

FLUOSH!

The tall, slender, and voluptuous figure of a vampire matriarch emerged, with long red hair, sharp crimson eyes, pointy ears, and a dress made of blowing blood, her head adorned by a crown of red and golden metal and colorful jewels.

And yes, it was without a doubt her…

"R-Ruby? It's you…! W-What… What happened? I'm alive?"

"Mom!"

As I saw Ruby run towards her mother and hug her happily in between tears, I felt relieved.

Alright… Those are the nice happy endings I like!

I'm finally done with my first "side quest", let's move to the next one, repairing Muspelheim.

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