The world-devouring dragon

"dad……"

"Noah..."

"Stop……"

Behind him, many screams sounded, but the blade held tightly in Noah's hand still slashed straight towards his neck...

However……

Immediately, Noah's hand suddenly felt empty. The cold steel solidity that was originally clenched disappeared and was replaced by nothingness. The feeling of being pressed by the blade in his neck also disappeared.

Noah looked down and saw that his hands were empty, and the sharp blade had long since disappeared.

He turned his head back, and his wife and children behind him turned pale. Only when they saw that he was still alive did their faces show joy.

It wasn't his kids that were holding him back.

The man immediately understood. He understood that there was only one being in this world who could do this...Only that being in the sky could make the blade in his hand disappear and prevent his suicide.

"God, am I not in control of my life or death?"

Although the man had already expected it in his heart, it became more and more miserable.

…

And just then...

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."

In an instant, the sky shook and the earth shook, the seawater stirred up thousands of feet of waves, and the ark also shook violently, causing them to roll into a ball in panic and screams.

The ark, which was able to remain stable even under the impact of the great flood, could no longer remain stable during this sudden shock. It could only barely remain uncaptured in this earth-shaking violent turmoil.

In an instant, white light shone, the sky and the earth suddenly turned white, and there were only countless white lights inside and outside the ship.

"Boom!"

Deafening thunder sounded from the distant sky.

Continuous thunder resounded throughout the world, and accompanying the thunder were the dark clouds that came with it. Above the originally blue sky, the sea of ​​clouds, which was thousands of miles away, quickly turned into black, and the sky covering the earth suddenly became black. The moment was shrouded in deep and oppressive darkness, and except for the thunder that sounded from time to time, nothing else could be seen.

"What..."

On the altar, faced with the sudden change, the tied little lamb made a childish cry and struggled in panic.

And inside the Ark, the panicked screams of animals were also heard one after another. Whether it was lions, tigers, cattle, sheep, pigs, or other animals, they were all roaring and roaring in fear at this moment.

"Woof woof woof..."

"Kekeke..."

"hiss……"

"Chacha..."

The barking of dogs, the squawking of chickens, the neighing of horses, the chirping of birds... All creatures in the sky, on the ground, bipedal, and winged, screamed in fear for their imminent arrival. Screaming in catastrophe.

Even when the flood hit, they were still able to remain quiet under the control of some kind of will, but now, they are all immersed in deep fear because they can feel...

Some kind of angry atmosphere.

Animals are more sensitive than humans and cannot be felt by humans, but they clearly feel the undisguised wrath of some huge and vast will. In front of this will, they can only tremble and let it deal with it.

When Noah struggled to stand up, he raised his head, only to see that the top of the ark had been cut off by some force. The ark, which was originally closed like a wooden box, was directly exposed in the sky at this moment, with dark clouds above his head. The densely covered sky can be seen directly by looking up without any cover at this moment.

"boom……"

In the oppressive and gloomy sky, among the dark clouds, there was a low thunder, as if it was the remnant anger of heaven. Only two small stars were faintly visible in the dark sky.

Under the pitch-black sky, the ocean looked as black as ink, and the ship floating on the ocean was as weak as a leaf.

Noah looked around. The entire ocean was shrouded in darkness, and the distant land was vaguely visible. And further away, at the farthest point where the sea and the sky meet, there are some inexplicable black pillars that connect the sky and the earth.

Under the darkness of night, the shape, thickness, and size of those pillars could not be clearly seen. They looked like mountains, but they were bigger than mountains.

"Father……"

Shem looked at him uneasily, and Noah could see that his eldest son seemed very uneasy about this sudden change. This strange scene was far beyond the imagination of an ordinary person.

He looked at his wife, two other children, and several daughters-in-law, and their faces showed nervousness.

"……It's fine."

He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. He could only hold his wife and sons, stroke their heads with his hands, and comfort them softly.

Noah held his wife and sons, and the sons held their wives. Noah's infant grandchildren were held by his daughters-in-law, in this dark and unknown place full of danger and uneasiness. In the world, this big family of three generations just hugs each other to comfort their helpless and restless hearts.

Immediately, endless white light suddenly bloomed in the sky, accompanied by hymns in the clouds, cutting through the darkness.

Noah raised his head and saw an archangel with wings on his back appearing in the dark sky.

It has a solemn expression, and there is no emotion in its pure white pupils. There is a holy halo behind its head, and it holds a scepter in its hand. Its body emits endless light around it, which is more dazzling than the sun, becoming the entire dark world. The only dazzling existence among them.

"Gabriel..."

Noah murmured the angel's name.

He had met this archangel before.

One hundred and twenty-one years ago today, it was this archangel who announced to him the coming of the Great Flood. At that time, he announced the destruction of the old world.

Today, one hundred and twenty-one years later, the archangel appears again, and this time, what will he announce?

Noah didn't know...

"Descendant of Adam, why would you give up the life God gave you?"

The archangel in the sky lowered his head and looked down at the tiny humans nestled together in front of him. His eyes were untouched and he just said coldly.

The angel's gaze was as hot as a sword. Just being looked at by this archangel made it hard to breathe, let alone have any thoughts to refute.

"Gabriel... I'm just a mortal, I can't guess what God means, but I can vaguely understand that human beings may have some special meaning to God, so God has retained us... So, I think Gambling my life to ask God..."

Noah breathed hard, and then looked directly at the fiery gaze of the archangel in front of him without fear. The archangel's gaze was so fiery and bright, it was thousands of times more dazzling than the sun. Just squinting to look at it, made him feel... Noah's eyes were weeping.

Holding back the too dazzling light in front of him, Noah grinned with difficulty, and then said slowly.

"It looks like... I won the bet."