Ember Dragon

Chapter 825 The Beginning of Destruction

Without the support of a divine body, Gorazdra's thunderous form began to crumble and disintegrate, and torrents of lightning spread out like a tide, surging across the sky and continuously expanding outwards.

After the thunder subsided, her miserable true form was revealed. A hideous and horrifying wound pierced her chest, exposing her stark white bones and leaving her flesh mangled and charred, resembling a skeletal dragon that had died in flames.

She flapped her wings with all her might, her body swaying and twisting as if she were about to fall to the ground, only managing to stay suspended high in the air by electromagnetic force.

Gorazdra stared intently at the broken horn in Kaisius's claws, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, and arcs of electricity crackling in his narrow, vertical pupils, revealing an intense thirst.

"That's mine! Alien Dragon, give it back to me! Give it back to me!!"

At this moment, the Primordial Blue Dragon was like a thirsty traveler in the desert, almost frantically craving her source of power—the Horn of Tiamat.

After acquiring this horn, she became like a god who wields thunder, able to freely manipulate lightning and unleash divine thunder that destroys everything.

But after losing this divine body, she felt incredibly weak and powerless, and even felt fear and trembled in front of the Red Dragon Emperor.

Give it back to me—

Finally, Gorazdra could no longer bear the enormous difference in power and completely lost his mind. He roared and pounced on the Red Dragon Emperor, spewing out lightning breath again, but this time it was far less powerful than before.

"interesting."

Kaisius's lips curled up, revealing bloodstained teeth, a ferocious yet mocking smile.

"Looking at yourself right now—you dare to confront me head-on? Have you lost your mind?"

The Red Dragon Emperor extended its massive and sharp claws, grabbed the Primordial Blue Dragon by the neck, and lifted it up forcefully.

Before the hundreds-of-meters-long dragon body formed from flames, the Primordial Blue Dragon was like a severely wounded young dragon, utterly powerless to resist, and was flung away by Kaisius.

"boom!"

Gorazdra slammed heavily into the ground, causing the mountains to crumble and the earth to groan. Debris flew everywhere, and the already battered body became even more wretched, with bones shattered and flesh mangled.

She struggled desperately, trying to get up from the ground, when the enormous crimson figure crashed down on Gorazdra, rendering her immobile.

Cassius pressed down on the ancient blue dragon's neck and said with a sneer, "I told you long ago, you're just a loyal dog of Tiamat, and you're not worthy of being compared to me!"

Gorazdra strained to open his mouth, speaking haltingly, "Alien Dragon, you will regret this. You will be banished by Her Majesty the Dragon Queen to a dark and hopeless prison, to suffer eternal torment."

Kaisius said coldly, "Is this your last words? In my opinion, your Dragon Queen has long since abandoned you!"

"boom!"

Its forelimbs suddenly exerted force, muscles and veins bulging, pressing down heavily on the throat of the ancient blue dragon. The earth suddenly caved in under this enormous force, and Gorazdra was directly pressed deep into the ground.

She gushed out a mouthful of blood, letting out a agonizing scream from her throat, as dazzling lightning erupted from her body.

The intense pain drove Gorazdra to madness, leaving her delirious and only basic consciousness remaining. She looked up to the sky and howled in agony, praying fervently:
"Your Majesty Tiamat, please save me! You promised me that you would make me a new god!"

"Boom!"

Lightning tore the sky apart, and a blurry five-headed phantom appeared on the horizon, its eyes cold and menacing, letting out a furious curse.

"waste--"

Before the words were finished, a five-colored beam of light burst forth, descending from the torn sky and crashing down on the Red Dragon Emperor's mountain-like body with terrifying force.

Flames, thunder, frost, poison, acid—every color of the beam of light in this breath exudes an extremely evil divine power, containing the power to destroy everything and disrupt the material plane.

This is the divine punishment that Tiamat unleashed when she broke through the dimensional barrier and was willing to expend her divine power!
"boom!"

In an instant, scalding hot dragon blood sprayed into the sky, and Kaisius's fiery body was brutally cleaved in two by the five-colored beam of light. His back was almost torn in two, revealing his white bones and throbbing internal organs, and even his torso was about to be pierced through by the beam of light.

"Tiamat! You are utterly shameless!"

Despite the intense pain, Kaisius raised his head and let out a deafening roar, confronting the five-headed dragon phantom in the sky, releasing surging dragon flames from his body.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Gorazdra escaped from beneath the Red Dragon Emperor. Dragging her battered body, she flew into the air and laughed hoarsely, "Alien Dragon, your retribution has come! I told you long ago, Her Majesty Tiamat would not abandon me!"

Kaisius's body regenerated at a visible speed. He clenched the broken horn in his claws, raised his head, opened his blood-red maw, and spewed a dazzling pillar of fire from his throat, which collided with Tiamat's divine punishment in mid-air and canceled each other out.

"I never expected that Your Majesty Tiamat, a high and mighty deity, would resort to such methods to ambush a mortal."

Tiamat's gaze was exceptionally gloomy and filled with murderous intent, traversing endless time and space, casting its gaze upon the Red Dragon Emperor from the divine realm of Aphrodite, bringing an extremely powerful sense of oppression.

For a deity, breaking through the dimensional barrier to unleash divine punishment is a dangerous thing.

Now it is the Third Age, and the barrier between the material world and the outer planes is indestructible. To break through it would require a massive amount of divine power, and hostile gods could take advantage of the situation at any time to attack their divine kingdoms.

But now, Tiamat can't care about all that anymore. Two of the three anchor points for her descent into the material world—that is, the three immortal divine bodies—have already been seized by Caesus.

If this continues, His millennia-long plan to descend will be in vain.

The Five-Colored Dragon Queen could never have imagined that this alien dragon, less than a hundred years old, would not only fail to become her help, but would also become the biggest obstacle to her breaking free from her constraints and descending to the mortal world, becoming the most powerful and stubborn enemy of the Five-Colored Dragon Clan.

"Kaishus, you have now become the greatest obstacle to the revival of the five-colored dragons! In the name of the Mother of Dragons—I will punish you with divine might and shatter you to pieces!!"

"boom!"

The five-colored beam of light, symbolizing Tiamat's divine power, tore through the sky once more and descended with astonishing force, causing the world to tremble and shudder, erupting with sharp howls and cries.

"Divine punishment? Then let it come!"

Without hesitation, Kaisius gathered all the energy from his hundreds-of-meters-long fiery body, condensing it deep in his throat to form a dragon-flame breath that shot straight into the sky.

He knew that Tiamat had many enemies, and that in a short time, the gods who were hostile to her would take advantage of this precious opportunity to attack Tiamat's kingdom, indirectly relieving him of his predicament.

He just needs to hold on until this moment, and he will win!
"boom!"

The two forces collided, creating an explosion thousands of meters in diameter. In the instant of contact, Kaisius's dragon breath was completely suppressed by the divine punishment, and a five-colored beam of light blasted toward his head at an extremely fast speed. "Give it back to me!" In mid-air, Gorazdra also spat out a linear bolt of lightning, eagerly pouncing toward the Red Dragon Emperor—or more accurately, toward the broken horn in its claws.

Kaisius had no intention of getting entangled with this crazed ancient blue dragon. He swung his thick tail violently, slamming it into Gorazdra like a battering ram, sending it flying hundreds of meters away.

"Quickly, stop that blue dragon!" Ancient golden dragon Dionysius roared.

A dozen or so gold, silver, and brass dragons took to the air and blocked the way for the Primordial Blue Dragon. But even though it was severely injured and had lost its divine body, Gorazdra, as a quasi-god, was far beyond the capabilities of these metal dragons.

"Bastards—die!"

With an extremely angry roar, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky. The ancient blue dragon, dragging its broken body, spewed out a torrent of lightning. The metal dragons were successively thrown from mid-air, their bodies charred black and emitting wisps of blue smoke.

"Go and help Lord Gorazdra! Assist Her Majesty the Dragon Queen!" The evil dragon priests shouted in unison, and countless descendants of evil dragons and cultists rushed forward one after another to fight them.

At this moment, the situation on the battlefield was extremely chaotic. Allied soldiers were once again fighting with the believers of the Church of the Dragon. At the very center of the battlefield, Cassius was desperately resisting Tiamat's divine punishment.

The five-colored beam of light frantically devoured the dragon flames, approaching Kaisius's body. The torrent of divine power pierced through the world, turning everything in its path into dust, causing thousands of tiny spatial cracks to appear in mid-air.

Under this terrifying divine punishment, even the material plane itself is shaking and cracking, let alone the living beings existing in the material world.

A brass dragon that inadvertently entered the vicinity of the five-colored light pillar within a hundred meters was unfortunately swept into the gale generated by divine power. Its body was annihilated and dissolved in the torrent of energy, turning into countless tiny microscopic particles, leaving not even a broken limb behind.

Tiamat—

Faced with such divine punishment, the Heart of Karexus pounded wildly, and the dragon crystal burst forth with a dazzling light like the sun, with even the gaps in the scales spewing out plumes of scorching steam.

From his gaping maw, dazzling dragon flames poured out, so intense they made one's soul tremble. The extreme heat incinerated everything around him, turning it to ashes.

In the sky, an incredibly dazzling and brilliant light burst forth, like a supernova explosion. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, hundreds of dragons and millions of soldiers etched this scene deeply into their minds.

"God."

This force was so powerful and majestic that it gave them a profound and soul-stirring experience.

Tiamat's divine punishment ultimately prevailed. A five-colored pillar of light engulfed the flames and, accompanied by the collapse of space, blasted towards Caesus. His body gradually disintegrated under the radiance of divine power.

But just then, across endless time and space, a roar filled with rage came from afar.

“Bahamut—”

Tiamat's five-colored divine light came to an abrupt halt, and a blue-green divine light appeared in the sky. A cold north wind howled, biting and piercing.

A blurry, platinum dragon phantom appeared high in the sky, its metallic wings blotting out the sun, and its voice clear and loud.

"Tiamat, it's time to end this farce. You should know very well that gods should not interfere in the affairs of the material world! I never expected that you would risk your divine status to kill this red dragon. It's utterly ridiculous!"

Tiamat roared, "Bahamut, it is because of outdated people like you that the dragons' rule has declined!"

"No matter what, she should never have been born into this world in this way!"

"Then let's see who's the real deal, you damned crawler!"

"boom--"

Two incredibly powerful divine forces clashed in the sky, causing the material plane to become unstable. In the end, all the divine light dissipated under the repulsion of the plane's laws.

If it weren't for the jagged spatial rifts in the distant sky and the devastation on the ground, the divine punishment would seem as if it had never existed.

"The divine punishment is over!"

“That looks like His Majesty Bahamut, the Lord of the North Wind! It was He who stopped the Five-Colored Dragon Queen!”

"Excellent! Divine protection! This war should end!"

For a moment, people looked up and saw only the majestic figure of the Red Dragon Emperor in the sky. As for Gorazdra?

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, the ancient blue dragon dragged the lightning bolt along, hissing softly, and fled in panic toward the southwest of the battlefield.

High in the sky, the Red Dragon Emperor was covered in wounds, blood gushing from his body, and even his exposed bones were visible. He grinned, revealing bloodstained teeth, and laughed in an extremely ferocious manner: "You actually dared to try to escape—who was it that regarded me as prey in the first place?"

The next moment, disregarding his injuries, Kaisius suddenly flapped his dragon wings, instantly creating a scorching gust of wind. He dragged the flames behind him, transforming into a crimson afterimage that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

"Gorazdra—"

In the distant, endless yellow sand, the ancient blue dragon, which was frantically fleeing, couldn't help but turn its head, and its scalp tingled and its scales trembled.

"Damn alien dragon, how did he recover so quickly!" Gorazdra's voice trembled, filled with terror.

A sharp, booming sound echoed through the sky as the Red Dragon Emperor streaked across the heavens like a meteor, brutally tearing apart the gloomy sky and leaving a long, narrow trail of smoke in the high sky.

The crimson figure grew larger and clearer in her eyes, and finally pounced down towards the Primordial Blue Dragon at an extremely terrifying speed.

"boom!"

Yellow sand billowed into the sky, and the powerful impact caused dust to sweep across the land, creating huge craters in the desert.

The Red Dragon Emperor swooped down with tremendous force, crashing into the desert and pinning the wounded Primordial Blue Dragon to the ground.

Kaisius's narrow, golden vertical pupils flashed with murderous intent, and his gaping maw suddenly opened, flames surging once more from the depths of his throat: "Gorazdra, it's time to pay the price for your arrogance!"

"No, stop! I am a future god—"

The ancient blue dragon flapped its tattered wings and let out a terrified cry.

But soon, with a loud boom, dazzling flames filled everything before her eyes, and the surging dragon flames burned her flesh and bones to ashes.

However, Cassius did not notice that a tiny bolt of lightning was released from the Ancient Blue Dragon's body, flying into the distance with a crackling sound of the air exploding.
(End of this chapter)