Mist Dragon

"The true victory over a Dragon... is obtained if one possesses the power... to kill it!"

- Mist Dragon

The Mist Dragon (霧きり の 龍りゅう) is a legendary dragon and one of the strongest beings in the world. It swore allegiance to Shadow after being defeated by him, allowing Shadow Garden to establish a base in its territory.

Appearance
The Mist Dragon is a massive and ancient draconic entity; so large, in fact, that a 13-year-old Shadow was roughly the size of the length of his horned head, down to part of his neck. The scales of the Mist Dragon are a glowing silver-white, with blueish/magenta reflections on the mainsails of his wings. He has four chroma-dynamic whiskers, two on each cheek, six horns atop his cranium-- two large horns with golden points, two big horns, and two smaller horns-- with color-shifting energy emanating from the back of his head, with eyes glowing an ethereal misty blue-white. Atop his chest is a protruding rib scale armor protecting his center mass, with his arms doubling as legs with two blue jolting lines radiating down from his shoulders, the outer line leading to the first spike of his forearm and the inner line leading to the first spike of his inner arm. Descending from his torso is his abdomen leading into his tail, with two whisker fins growing out from where the pelvic bone would lay, and a tail with a frilled membrane around the tail's tip.

Personality
The Mist Dragon has an arrogant, intimidating, and serious attitude and behavior. They usually speak and interact face-to-face with individuals they deem worthy, without being easily intimidated. They may choose to kill someone after speaking with them.

Despite his cold and sinister demeanor, the Mist Dragon has a hint of humor. When chatting with Beta, a member of the Shadow Garden, the Dragon found amusement in Beta's curious questions. Additionally, when defeated by Shadow and observing Shadow's expression and remarks, the Dragon found it funny. As Shadow left, seeking knowledge and growth, the Dragon expressed strong admiration for Shadow's determination.

Beyond their hostile and dangerous nature, the Mist Dragon demonstrates profound philosophical wisdom. They reflect on how every living being seeks power to govern their lands and the importance of honor and respect for strength. The Dragon witnessed these qualities in the ruler and nobles of Rigian Alexandria, the former capital of Midgar. The Dragon respects individuals like Shadow who achieve power with honor, dignity, and fairness. Conversely, they become enraged by those who become corrupt and disregard agreements when wielding power over others.

When the descendants and people of Alexandria betrayed and altered the pact made by their ruler over time, the Mist Dragon's rage was unleashed. In a retaliatory act, the Dragon destroyed the entire capital overnight, killing its inhabitants and reducing it to a desolate territory under the Dragon's control.

Background
Approximately one millennium ago, the Mist Dragon formed a pact with the king of Alexandria, a powerful man at the time, having promised prosperity and protection for the city using his mist. In return of his obedience, his condition was that one day he will be given death by the king's heirs.

However, as time passed, the pact was forgotten and the descendants of the king became greedy with their prosperity instead of striving to grow in strength. The Mist Dragon then laid waste to the capital as a test to see if they were worthy of their power. Instead, the capital fell in one night against the Mist Dragon's force and the Mist Dragon used the fallen city as his resting place thereafter, concealing Alexandria using the Mist Dragon's deadly poison mist around the Abyss Woods.

Searching for a New Base
Years later, Shadow and the Seven Shadows, in search of a new place to stay would uncover Alexandria and face off against the dragon. Cid defeated the Mist Dragon using an underdeveloped "I Am Atomic" but could not kill him. The dragon then swore obedience to Shadow allowing his organization to use Alexandria as their headquarters, believing one day that Shadow will be able to kill him.

Powers & Abilities
The Mist Dragon It is possibly one of the strongest magical creatures currently alive, likely even stronger than Elizabeth. It is the oldest being of all, and the first to force Shadow to fight "a little serious", during their first meeting, when Shadow had barely stopped being a child.

Dragonic Prowess
As a Dragon, his body is strong and durable. His enormous body can dodge the attacks of young Zeta. The dragon’s raw power is said to be very strong, stronger than Young Delta, and he doesn't have a weak point. Most attacks cannot hurt him efficiently, even the attacks of young Alpha can only do little damage.

Like all Dragons, the dragon of the mist, has all the 5 senses and others, far superior to any race lower than that of the Dragons, being able to see in the dark, and see far away, being able to detect the living beings without any problem, and with a force so great as to destroy a large house, without any problem, and very sharp reflexes.

Deadly Magic Mist
Mist dragon can control the "Purple Mist" to cover the capital of the country. This mist has a strong poison, potent enough to kill a swordsman as strong as Rose Oriana, it can even distort people’s sense of direction, and cause certain illusions at normal level.

Magic Flight
Like all Dragons, the mist dragon has the ability to fly at very fast speeds, it is speculated that it can reach supersonic with Magic, like the other magical Dragons of the other world, if it sets its mind to it.

Physical Invulnerability Conventional
Being a magical Dragon, he has immunity to conventional weapons made by men among other races, so these weapons cannot harm him or hurt him. He has some strong resistance to strong metals like Mithril, which are strong conductors of magic, but the only way to hurt him is with a very strong magic level attack.

He intuits that like the demons, the improved weapons of the Earth do not hurt him either, both from bullets and from tanks, and non-nuclear missiles.

Immortality
Due to the magical nature that covers the world, plus the one that is impregnated in the body of the Dragons at the genetic level, both the Mist Dragon, and the rest of the dragon species, are practically immortal, so they cannot they need to eat, or drink anything. Nor can they die from hunger, old age, dryness, disease, poison, among other natural things, although if they like, they can eat or drink things if they want.

According to Mist Dragon, said immortality is a curse for them, so even if the magic power of their bodies is exhausted, or if they suffer heavy damage, be it to their head, chest, heart or others, said normal wounds will return. to normal as if nothing. This is seen when a 13-year-old Shadow threw an "I am Atomic-prototype" at Mist Dragon's head, but even with his head damaged, plus the serious injuries on his body and the exhaustion, the entire body of Mist Dragon, returned to normal as if nothing.

According to Mist Dragon, the only way to kill him is for him to be completely destroyed without a trace of his being.

Magic
Mist Dragon has strong magic power. He can use Violet-Blue magic similar to Cid Kagenou. Said dragon has magical power, dragon enough to be able to perform strong magical techniques without much effort, and can recover its magic in a few seconds, which makes its magic recerba very large, something close to almost infinite.

Mist Magic: Mist Dragon can use his own mist to hide himself, and appear out of surprise to kill his enemies if he wants.

Dragon Breath Magic
Like every dragon that it is, the mist dragon possesses the ability to charge a powerful magical attack from its mouth, which it then releases in a powerful magical burst, at very fast speeds, capable of reaching the horizon of a large city, destroying everything at the cell level.

Dragon Projectiles
The Mist Dragon can channel and charge a powerful magical attack, from his time, which is then fired in a scattered fashion, in multiple powerful, super-fast magical bursts, which can be directed at a Target, then annihilate it, with one blast. huge magical explosion, capable of destroying, from several buildings, to a huge castle. During his fight against a Shadow, and his Shadow Garden members, who were still very young, the Dragon of the Mist launched said technique, in an attempt to annihilate Shadow, but in the end, Shadow dodged the attack, and proceeded to attack defeat said Dragon.

Dragonic Blast
The Dragon of the Mist can channel and charge a powerful magical attack from his chest, which after a few seconds explodes in a great sonar as a central explosion, capable of destroying all matter and living creatures or not, at the cellular level. this being his strongest technique, capable of destroying an entire large capital, in just a few moments, reducing everything to ashes and dust.

This ability, it has only been possible to see how it is used in the game, but it is considered canonical.

Shadow
Shadow was the first human in so long to have come close to mortally wounding the Mist Dragon, let alone trying to kill them. As such, the Mist Dragon allowed Shadow reign over Alexandria in exchange for killing him one day, bathing Shadow in his mist breath to bypass the effects of the Abyss Woods.

Shadow Garden
Although Shadow was granted command of Alexadria, the Mist Dragon spoke with Alpha about their habitation. They eventually resolved a situation to for the ranks of Shadow Garden to live in the ancient capital with the Mist Dragon as their protector.

Trivia

 * Being an an ancient figure, speculated to be approximately the 10 million years, the Mist Dragon is old enough to have witnessed when magic came to the world due to the clash of other parallel worlds.
 * Having lived for millennia, it is speculated that the mist dragon was a witness to the existence and disaster of the Demon King Diablos. By the present day, said dragon and his followers did not take sides in the fight against Diabolos, likely they only remained hidden on the sidelines of everything for undisclosed reasons.
 * It is speculated that during the disasters that threatened the existence of the world, the few existing dragons, including the Mist dragon, did not take sides at all in any present calamity, such as the disappearance of the City called "Atlantis", or when it appeared by the first time the demon king Ragnarok, among other disasters.
 * The mist dragon did not involve themselves when the rampage of the vampire queen Elisabeth was unleashed more than 1000 years ago.
 * To this day, not even the Diablos cult knows of the existence of the Mist Dragon, or if any dragons are left alive.
 * Within the manga, light novels, and anime, there is only a mention of the dragon. But as such, its only appearance was in the Game; "The Eminence in Shadow: Master of garden."
 * Both the interactions and past of the Mist dragon, along with the fight against Shadow and his Shadow Garden, are revealed in the game, with their encounter only being mentioned in the light novel, the web novel, and the anime.
 * The Mist dragon does not make any appearance or has mention in the manga, while being elaborated upon in the anime, the light novel, and the web novel.
 * According to the Mist Dragon, the world where once the dragons ruled became a cursed world since the magic that stores in their bodies does not let them die at all. Therefore, they cannot be killed by each other, or commit suicide.