(Of the Dragon’s Curse and Essence: The One Who Destroys Gods with Lifeblood) Prologue: The Tarnished Heirloom The Empire of Kaze-no-Kuni did not fall to armies or plagues. It fell to a single drop of blood.
She reached into her own chest at the same time, grabbed the dragon’s essence-core, and bit it in half. Dragon Blood - Ryuu no Noroi to Seieki de Kami ...
He emerged not as a winged lizard, but as a perfect, black-haired, golden-eyed man—her mirror image, but wrong. He was the curse. He was the father of all divine hunger. (Of the Dragon’s Curse and Essence: The One