[Tomorrowland: Home of the Light Dragon Lord, Aether.]

[Toontown: Home of the Dark Dragon Lord, Erebus.]

[Fantasyland: Home of the Air Dragon Lord, Aeolus.]

[Critter Country: Home of the Earth Dragon Lord, Terra.]

[Westernland: Home of the Fire Dragon Lord, Vulcan.]

[Adventureland: Home of the Water Dragon Lord, Neptune.]

Izuku wasn't sure if there was meant to be a correlation between the section of the park and the attribute, but when Toontown was called the Home of the Dark Dragon Lord, he was pretty certain they were chosen at random.

"Six different areas, six different Bosses." Izuku put his hand to his chin, "It'll be quickest if I split my army up to take a few areas on at once. Now's as good a time as any to see what this guy can do." He called forth Twice, and pointed at Igris, "Duplicate him."

[Error. Skill: Double can only be used to duplicate Shadows that are weaker than or equal to the user in strength.]

Izuku groaned, Twice was still a Level 1 Captain, meaning he couldn't duplicate any of the other Captains. "Fine… just… make some copies of Smokey then."

Twice walked over and pressed his hands against the side of the massive Shadow Bear.

[Twice is using Skill: Double.]

Two clones popped out of Smokey, but that was it.

"Hey, can you um… keep going?"

[Error. Skill: Double can only create two duplicates at a time.]

"What?! But there were like a hundred of you at the school!"

[Skill: Double can only create more then two duplicates if the user duplicates himself.]

"Okay, then do that!"

The two Shadow Bear clones fell away to nothingness as Twice began making copies of himself, up until there were about ten of him. Two of the clones then laid hands on Smokey, creating the two doubles again.

"W-Why are you stopping?!"

[Skill: Double can only duplicate the user to the Shadow Save Limit. Two duplicates other than the user is the limit.]

"Jesus this thing has so many technicalities!" Izuku shook his head in disbelief as he contemplated the rules. Twice could only duplicate himself up to the Shadow Save Limit, could only create two other Shadow clones that weren't himself, and what's more, Izuku was pretty certain that the clones he created couldn't even regenerate.

"Maybe he's not as useful as I thought he would be," Izuku said out loud, causing all of the Twices' heads to dip down in shame. Izuku didn't feel too bad about that, after all, this guy was a pretty nasty Villain that attacked his sister, so if anything, he was getting off easy.

"Well, I can still split up the army into two groups. That way we can cover more ground and hopefully, if it's just cutting it in half, nothing should be able to overpower them." Before Izuku could begin dividing them up however, another System message popped up.

[Please choose a path.]

Izuku's eyes narrowed, "Don't tell me…"

[Only one path may be traversed at a time.]

Izuku sighed, realizing that this Dungeon wasn't going to let him get anything done with ease from this point onwards.

Igris, Ifrit, Pektra, Tusk, Hyo, and Tank stood before him now, organized in a line. Each of them led their own squad and each could be considered a general of the army, except for Tank, who was in reality just a replacement for Beru while they were here.

"If only one is to be taken on at a time, then which one should we target first?" Izuku was under the impression that the reason he was forced to do one at a time was because as they cleared the Domains one-by-one, the others would increase in strength to offset the power he was gaining with the clearing of each Domain.

Pektra was the one to answer first, showing immediately that he was worthy of his commanding position over the Dragon Knights and Wyverns. Karkinos, who had once been under Igris's command, was also moved to his squad as the Knight took in the new human Shadows. "Light and Dark elementals tend to have the most rapid increase in strength, my Liege. Perhaps eliminating them first will allow us an easier time further down the line."

Izuku nodded, "Then we'll fight them last."

"An excellent stratagem, my Liege," Igris said, instantly understanding his reasoning.

Ifrit and the other leaders said nothing, but Izuku offered up an explanation anyways, "The goal of this Raid is to get as many strong Soldiers as possible. If the Light and Dark Dragons are going to be the strongest by the end, then they'll be even more ideal for our army."

"Then where do you wish to start my Liege?"

Izuku looked down the path of Critter Country, "Let's start by scorching the Earth."


[Critter Country: Home of the Earth Dragon Lord, Terra.]

Up until passing by the Critter Country sign, with plenty of claw marks nearly obscuring the words and characters altogether, Izuku, nor his army, were beset by any kind of creature. Had there not been any fires or torn up shops, Izuku would've felt like he was taking a normal stroll through the park. But as soon as they passed the threshold into the section of the park, a wall of energy, not all that dissimilar to the bubble Izuku had used to shield himself from the civilians at the entrance to the park, crashed down behind them and presumably all around the Critter Country, cutting them off from the other parts of the park.

Only when they were locked inside for certain, did the Dragons begin their assault. Well, Izuku thought of them as Dragons, but in reality, the first Villains to attack them were Amphipteres, essentially long snakes with wings attached to either side. In folklore, these creatures were not all the different from real snakes when it came to size, but here, they were massive. They were a fraction smaller than the Wyverns Izuku had just recruited, which were a tad larger than a horse, and quicker than most of his army could track with their eyes, making for a dangerous first opponent. But only dangerous for some of the Shadow Soldiers.

Izuku himself could track them with ease and thanks to their frailer bodies, one bash with one of his maces was all he needed to kill them.

Deciding that his army could handle themselves and that he had plenty of Mana to spare if they needed to regenerate, Izuku headed off on his own, dancing through the park paths with abandon as Quicksilver carried him through the air, dispatching the Amphipteres with ease. Each burst of Infinite Strength was enough to dispatch three of the lesser Dragons if they were close enough together. The wind force was strong enough to give them whiplash and snap their necks.

At the same time, Igris and the other commanders were busy directing their troops. Like the World Bazaar, long range and AOE magic was the prevailing force here, so many of the physical attackers had to hang back and allow their brethren to handle this first challenge.

Hawks and Jeanist did exceptionally well as support, using their feathers and fibers respectively to slow down or hold the fliers in place, allowing the magicians to get some good shots off.

The elemental type of this area was Earth, so once again, fire magic was at a slight disadvantage unless it was strong enough to overpower that resistance, like Tusk's boosted magic.

The most dangerous aspect of the creature was certainly it's speed. With a razor sharp tail, barbed with natural poison, it could make a quick pass, jab an enemy and wait for their untimely death. Of course, this strategy didn't work on the unconventional army of the dead, or even on Izuku whose Skill allowed him to resist all poison. Their greatest asset had been basically turned to nothing and because of that, they had next to no killing potential.

Izuku noticed that while he and his army were killing droves of the creatures, he was barely making any progress into the next Level. It was a bit of a disappointment, but expected, as these Dragons just didn't provide the same challenge as some of the other Villains from the Bazaar, but he expected that to change soon.

After clearing a sizable area for himself and certain that no more Amphipteres would be nearing him for some time, he directed his attention to the nearest corpse, "Arise."

[Amphiptere Lv. 10 Knight Grade has evolved into Amphitian Lv. 5 Elite-Knight Grade.]

The snake-like creature filled out with its evolution, becoming thicker and more durable, while its wings grew longer and sharp to the point where they were more like blades. Izuku also took note of the increased strength of their poison and decided to grab another nine of them to make an even ten. This way, he could have some poison effects ready if need be, but they weren't useful enough to fill up the rest of his Shadow Save spots.

[You have obtained Ingredient Item: Amphiptere Skin.]

"Hmm, I guess this is another part of the Dragon God Armor." Izuku stuck the items into his Inventory, right next to the fangs he had gotten from the Drakes, and the bone protrusions he took from the Dragonewt corpses. "I wonder if the materials I collected off of Iruit's Frost Dragon will be part of the armor or if they're for something else…"

Izuku didn't have much time to contemplate that however, as another batch of the creatures were beginning to descend on him. "Back to work."

As Izuku and his army fought their way closer to Splash Mountain, they began encountering another species of Dragons. Amphisbaena, or two-headed dragons, were the closest they had gotten to seeing classic Eastern Dragons since arriving in this Dungeon. Their skin was craggy and cracking as if they were made of stone. Izuku very much doubted that the two wings on their back were capable of doing much more than gliding or slowing a descent.

From their mouths, they spit what were essentially pebbles that slowly built up in size as they traveled through the air, eventually becoming devastating boulders that could tear through his Shadows. Their rocky external made it hard for magic-type Shadows to get any good hits in and granting the physical attackers their chance to rush in, using their blades to find gaps in the armor.

Izuku merely watched as his army brought him further and further along the path, taking around twenty of the two-headed dragons as he went by.

[20 Amphisbaena Elite-Knight Grade have evolved into 20 Hydra Captain Grade.]

The two-headed Dragons evolved into five heads, with their bodies still rough and tough with the boulder-like armor. It seemed that the Extracted Shadows would keep their attribute if they had one.

So far, even though these Dragons had been able to do some damage to some of his army, there wasn't much they could do to actually slow their approaching deaths. And within the next thirty minutes, Izuku had reached the base of Splash mountain.

He paused, looking around for some indication of what he was supposed to do next. He was about to start climbing the mountainous facade, but before he could climb onto Karkinos, a roar that seemed to Shadow the very fabric of reality blasted out from the summit of the red rock.

[Earth Dragon Lord, Terra.]


For the past two days, Bakugo had stomped around his house, quiet as a mouse whilst nursing his wounds. His cheekbone was still fractured, but thanks to his Awakened status, he was healing faster than most would. Thanks to his mastery over his Quirk, he was Ranked at S, but his true Awakening status was A-Rank, so he also wasn't healing as fast as possible, but he didn't much mind. The pain provided enough of a distraction from the thoughts swirling around in his head.

For the past few days, his parents had been giving him his space, even his typically obnoxious and "doesn't take no for an answer mother" allowed him to sulk in private.

"Why?" Was the question playing on repeat in his mind. "Why did this time affect him more than the other time?" Bakugo had lost to Izuku once before, but that did virtually nothing to his mental state, so then why did this loss affect him on such a deeper level?

Was it because now he had to work for that shitty nerd and actually call him by his real name? Was it because the beating followed Izuku rescuing him from opponents he could not defeat himself? Was it that churning feeling in his stomach that told him he owed Izuku something after he had apparently used something of great personal cost to wake him from an endless coma? Or was it just because this time around, Bakugo hadn't gotten the chance to get even one hit in on the boy or his Summon?

In the past few days of the churning in his stomach, Kirishima visited a few times, doing his very best to drag him out of the house and get him to join some of the first Raids of the Thanatos Agency. Bakugo had his parents forcefully turn him away each time.

Up until today, Bakugo had been avoiding the news like the plague. The only thing they were talking about was Korea and if they were talking about Korea, they were talking about Izuku. To Bakugo, every mention of Izuku's name felt like another punch to the gut, reminding him of what he thought to be his failures. In his mind, because Izuku had reached this level of strength and fame before him, he thought he was a failure.

He was supposed to be the next big Hero, wasn't he? But now, even those extras like Kaminari, or even worse, that half and half bastard, were getting far more attention than he ever thought he could. The formation of the Thanatos Agency has attracted dozens of reporters to camp outside the place. Typically Miruko would scare them off, but every now and then, after a successful Raid, she would let one of the reporters sneak by to give her employees a bit of the limelight.

Seeing their success and his lack thereof, Bakugo would've quit his dream to be a Hero altogether had he been a slightly less stubborn person. Instead, he simply kept bashing his head against a brick wall, metaphorically of course, as he continued to ask himself questions. None of those questions quelled the dark pit swirling in his stomach.

So, he let his body take over. His instincts had never been wrong before. If there was something he truly needed to do, deep down, his body would know how to do it and would carry him to crush that task beneath his foot.

Picking himself up from his bed and grabbing his coat, he made his way downstairs and almost to the door before his mom spoke up, "It's about damn time," She said, sipping on some coffee. "I was wondering when you'd get over this bullshit sulking phase of yours." She smirked as he glared back at her, "So, where you going?"

"None of your business you old hag!"

"Well regardless, please be careful," His dad threw in, almost as an afterthought.

Bakugo ignored him, grumbling as he stepped out the door, into the brisk and windy weather, curious as to where his feet would take him.


[Earth Dragon Lord, Terra.]

"My Liege," Igris began, trailing off as the Dragon's intense pressure assaulted him.

"Yeah," Izuku said, "I feel it too. He might be stronger than even Beru."

The Dragon was the definition of a classic Eastern Dragon. A long neck stretching out from his main body, with four legs and two wings folded up against its back. Like the two-headed Dragon and the Hydra its skin was covered in a thick layer of cracked and flexing rock. It looked like a mountain that had come to life, terrifying, but also somewhat beautiful.

Terra growled down at them threateningly, but refused to move from its post at the top of Splash Mountain. It was definitely waiting for them. Unfortunately, as much as Izuku would like to avoid fighting on its terms, he was certain he had little choice in the matter. However, just in case he did have a choice, he nodded to Tusk, "Do your best to bring him down from there."

[Tusk is using Gravity Magic: Weight of the Sky.]

Enough force to flatten an entire building crashed down on top of the Dragon, but it didn't budge.

[Terra's Passive Skill: Gaia's Blessing protects the user from Gravitational Magic.]

"Figures." Izuku wanted to bring the Dragon down to the level of the rest of the Shadow Army, where they could tear it apart, piece by piece like they had done with Iruit's Frost Dragon.

"All ranged Shadows, hit it with everything you've got!" Izuku lurched forwards, "All Commander Grade Shadows, with me!"

Izuku leapt onto the overhang of the Splash Mountain queue line, catapulting himself up the mountain jump by jump. And despite not having wings like the other two Commander Grade Shadows, Igris had no trouble keeping up.

As they swiftly approached the Dragon, a hail of magical and physical projectiles flew past them, with Ifrit and Igris even throwing out their own attacks as they ascended.

[Dragon Lord, Terra is using Skill: Tectonic Protection.]

The gaps in Terra's scales quickly shrunk to nothing as the flexible skin hardened into an impenetrable armor. The projectiles pinged harmlessly off of it just as the three Commanders and Izuku reached the summit.

[Skill: Infinite Strength has activated.]

Izuku brought down his two maces, Igris swung the Genesis Blade with all his might, Ifrit shapeshifted his hands into massive wrecking balls, and Pektra gathered as much Mana as he could into his right fist. All of the attacks were capable of bringing down some of the world's strongest and the energy swirling within each one could be compared to the energy condensed within a MOAB. And yet, these attacks slammed harmlessly against the Dragon's impenetrable skin.

As the four of them reeled back from the equal reaction of their assault, cracks once more formed on the Dragon and his skin became flexible. His deep brown eyes looking up at them as his maw opened wide.

Izuku didn't see any energy or magical power gathering in his mouth like with Karkinos's attacks, but he didn't need any convincing to tell him that when a Dragon opened its mouth, you ran. "Ifrit!" The Shadow Soldier shot over to Izuku, a jet of fire spewing from its back as he tackled his Liege midair to get him out of range of whatever the attack was going to be.

Pektra attempted to do the same thing with Igris, but the two of them were too slow and a veritable sandstorm erupted from Terra's mouth. To some, it might not have looked deadly at all, just like a very uncomfortable sandstorm, but Izuku saw it for what it truly was, the world's most powerful sandblaster.

Igris and Pektra were immediately turned into nothing by the stream of sand. The force sanded them down to their last particle. It would take some time for them to even reform.

Meanwhile, Terra turned his attention to the Army below him, his breath attack heading straight for them. Tusk put up his shield, but Izuku was surprised to find that it wasn't even necessary. Very quickly, over even a relatively short distance, the sand breath lost a lot of its power. The attack simply wasn't made for long range.

[Skills: Tectonic Protection and Sandstorm are on cooldown.]

Izuku smirked as Ifrit set them on a nearby outcropping just below the Dragon. "Hmm, let's see just how strong you are without those Skills to protect you."


Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed! Two quick things. One, homework is gonna keep me pretty busy for the next few days so chapter posting might be spotty until sometime next week when I can get it back to more consistent updates. Two, I somehow managed to mess up the count for Izuku's Shadow Army. I thought it was 1027, it's actually 1067. If you want any updates or have any questions for me, make sure to join my discord! discord . gg/DeFqz5F (Sorry about the spaces, Fanfiction doesn't really like links!)