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Description

Corrupted Creature

A monstrous sea serpent revealing its tower-like neck as continued to rise from the water about fifty meters long as it loomed above the Great River. Each one of its azure scales that glistened in the sunlight, is larger and thicker than the armor plates of a heavy military APC. The creature was enormous, ancient, and seemed mad. Its dorsal fin ridge flowed with curved spikes, and its eyes, once golden, were dim and cloudy, with lines of crimson pus spreading towards its long snout. The azure scales were covered by scars, some missing entirely, revealing pale, desiccated flesh. Pieces of rotten meat were stuck between its dark fangs.^[2]

Human Shadow

Main article: Daeron § Appearance

History

[There was a king who ruled over a dying land. The king was valiant and wise. Refusing to embrace despair, he thought of an audacious plan, gathered his companions, and braved the endless desert to enter the Tomb of Ariel, where the Great River flowed endlessly from the future into the past. Thus, the valiant king became a guide who guarded his people in their nightmares.

They built a city at the edge of dawn and gathered an army to vanquish that which was defiled. However, in the end, the army was destroyed, the city was lost, and the valiant king himself succumbed to madness.

Consumed by wrath and resentment, he turned into a mindless beast and roamed the Great River for countless years. Nothing could withstand his hunger and fury… until, one day, the mad king met a treacherous shadow.

"But what do you even know?" said the shadow. "Do you think you're so special? I know fury, too. I know hunger, too. I know madness, too! Oh… and I've killed plenty of creatures more powerful than me, too. Who are you to dare stare me down, beast?"

"I am Lost from Light, who was born from the shadows. I am the rightful heir of death and the bastard son of fate. Wherever I go, ruin follows. If you had any sense, you would have run away as soon as you saw me."

And, true to his word, treacherous Lost from Light battled the mad king, eventually becoming his doom.

That was how the king who had outlived his land died.]

— Memory Description of Crown of Twilight,
Chapter 1289 Crown of Twilight

Trivia

The Azure Serpent was once a human. A human who succumbed to corruption, and not just any human but a proud and mighty Sovereign, an exalted being of the Supreme Rank.^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Chapter 1279 Raging Waves
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Chapter 1239 Sea Monster
↑ Chapter 1288 King Among Beasts