Ember Dragon

In the distance, the jet-black doomsday dragon looked down at Kaisius, its dark golden vertical pupils gleaming with a blinding light, its eyes filled with undisguised mockery and ridicule.

He tilted his massive head and said coldly, "You think you can stand against me like this? Kaisius, you are far too arrogant."

Kazul's voice grew louder and louder, eventually turning into an angry roar: "With just these—you dare to defy the gods who bring about the end of the world?!"

Amidst this earth-shattering roar, a jet-black torrent, a hundred meters in diameter, gushed forth from the mouth of the ancient red dragon, surging mightily towards Kaisius.

At this moment, everything seemed to fall into dead silence, with only the deafening roar of the black light destroying everything remaining—the breath that could bring about the end of the world.

"boom--"

Kaisius roared and flapped his dragon wings, soaring into the air with a scorching wind. He raised his right claw high, and a torrent of lightning gathered in his palm, condensing into a silver-white spear a thousand meters long.

At this moment, the Burning Emperor was surrounded by storms and dark clouds, with thunder roaring and lightning flashing. He seemed to be the master of the storm, and he hurled the spear made of energy.

Lightning Spear!

Silvery lightning streaked across the sky, tearing through the ash-covered heavens, clashing head-on with the black torrent.

It should be noted that Kazul's Doomsday Breath is a product of divine power. Even if it is only a weak and incomplete divine power, it is on a completely different level from the elemental magic of mortals. Moreover, it is filled with the most destructive and powerful destructive divine power.

However, the lightning spear unleashed by Kaisius was not to be underestimated either. It was not ordinary elemental lightning, nor was it the magic of the storm giants. Instead, it was the Destruction God's Lightning that Kaisius had obtained from Gorazdra.

As one of the three gods recognized by the Church of the Dragon, Gorazdra, known as the Thunder Tyrant, also has the mission of destroying the world. His lightning breath is even the most powerful among the three chosen ones, and even Kazul dares not ignore it.

"boom!"

The explosion was deafening, echoing through the sky. Flames and lightning collided, triggering hundreds of storms within a radius of hundreds of miles and unleashing tremendous aftershocks.

The lightning spear pierced through the black light in an instant, accompanied by the roar of thunder, and rapidly struck down towards where Kazul was, with tremendous force.

"This is... the power of Gorazdela?"

"how is this possible?"

Kazul's expression changed drastically, his brows furrowed, filled with shock and anger. He never expected that in just a few days, this Emperor of Burning Flames would plunder and completely assimilate the power of his old rival.

But there was no time to think. Kazul's sky-covering wings suddenly closed, forming a huge curtain in front of his body, and he withstood the blow.

"boom!"

With a thunderous roar, Kazul's dragon wing was blasted open, creating a massive hole nearly a hundred meters in diameter. Endless black mist surged in, filling the wound and dispelling the bolts of lightning that clung to its edges.

"I never imagined that this traitor could grow to this level in such a short time. It seems we must eliminate him completely!"

Kazul gazed at the dragon surrounded by storms in the distance, his eyes filled with a terrifying gloom. The surrounding space seemed to sense his anger and began to tremble slightly.

It is important to know that the strength of the "three gods" of the Church of the Dragons has always maintained a delicate balance. Although Kazul looks down on Erebus and Gorazdra, the blue and green ancient dragons can also contend with the red dragon when they join forces, which eventually forms a three-way balance of power.

After awakening this time, Kazul's strength has greatly increased, and his power is now infinitely close to that of a true god. He is preparing to take this opportunity to devour the remaining two demigod dragons in one fell swoop and welcome Tiamat's arrival.

But the arrival of Kaisius completely changed everything, ruining His plans and overturning the script He had prepared.

This Red Dragon Emperor resolutely opposed the five-colored Dragon Queens, defeating Erebus and Gorazdra one after another, seizing their divine bodies, and even destroying the Green Dragon and Blue Dragon factions.

Even Kazul cannot be careless in the face of Kesius, who possesses two divine bodies.

Thinking of this, Kazul raised his dragon claw, and countless huge rocks floated in mid-air, assimilated by the embers of the apocalypse, turning into countless black meteorites that crashed down toward Kesius.

Kaisius dared not be negligent. He raised his head and stared directly at the black meteorites. Thousands of beams of light burst forth from his narrow, golden vertical pupils, shattering the meteorites in mid-air one by one.

After seizing Erebus's "Eye of Tiamat", Cassius's eyes were greatly enhanced, and the [Heavenly Tribulation Dragon Eye] evolved into the [Ancient Eye].

Not only can it transcend time and space and see through the essence of all things in the world, but it can also release beams of light comparable to dragon's breath, creating illusions that are so realistic that they can be mistaken for reality.

Most of the meteorites were blocked by the light emanating from Kaisius's pupils, but a few still fell rapidly.

Kaisius stretched out his dragon claws, trying to block them with force field magic, but found that the meteorites pierced through the force field wall directly. It wasn't until he breathed out a dragon's breath containing divine power that he destroyed the meteorites in mid-air.

However, he kept one of them, hoping to use this opportunity to explore the true nature of Kazur's power.

But the moment the dragon claw touched the meteorite, a jet-black light burst forth from it, emanating an aura of utter despair that quickly covered the surface of Kaisius's scales and spread outwards, even disintegrating his claw into ashes.

Kaisius quickly threw down the meteorite, destroyed it with a beam of light emitted from his pupils, and used his divine power to fill the wound, causing his flesh to recover rapidly.

"This is the power of destruction, the power Kazul used to destroy the world."

Kaisius was extremely surprised. The black light released by Kazul could corrode almost all matter in the prime material plane. Even the scales on the Red Dragon Emperor, which were harder than diamonds, would be turned to ashes in an instant.

This is no longer a matter of material erosion, but a corruption at the level of the law's origin and principles!

In other words, the fact that "being touched by the black light will lead to destruction" has become the underlying code of the material plane, which is irreversible and difficult to change. Only things of the same divine power level can stop its spread.

What a terrifying ability this is!

As if struck by a sudden thought, Kaisius abruptly turned his head and looked down at the earth.

Countless fragments of rock, shattered by his explosion and carrying a dark light, fell to the ground, creating pitch-black craters. These craters continued to expand, like black holes in the universe, greedily devouring all surrounding matter and turning it into the embers of the apocalypse.

With such a terrifying rate of spread, in just a short time, most of the battlefield had been completely overrun, turning into a doomsday forbidden zone filled with ash, smoke, and flames.

Long live the new era!

"Praise be to Your Highness Kazul!"

The followers of the dragon knelt on the ground, their expressions fanatical, praying loudly as the black light engulfed them.

After all, in their view, those who die in the apocalypse will ascend to the divine realm of Tiamat, be reborn as noble dragonborn, and become the rulers of the new world after Tiamat's descent.

As for the truth, and whether the five-colored dragon queen was willing to restore the soul devoured by divine power, that remains unknown. "Do you see that, Caesus?"

"Give up the resistance! The end of the world is inevitable, and even you cannot stop it!"

Kazul's roar swept across the entire battlefield, causing tens of thousands of people to faint in extreme terror and panic. Some who were closer and had weaker minds had their souls torn apart and collapsed on the spot, turning into empty shells.

"Roar--"

Kazul was met with a thunderous roar. Kaisius flapped his dragon wings, and endless lightning coiled around his body, transforming into a pale white armor that extinguished the oncoming black light.

Kaisius took a deep breath, almost sucking the air out of his lungs. The immense elemental energy surged into his lungs, was transformed into lightning by the power of the [Storm Monarch's Authority], and gathered at the horns on the top of his head. Finally, it burst forth, transforming into a bolt of lightning that illuminated the sky.

This is Gorazdela's most prized and destructive ability.

Lightning Breath!

"boom--"

A deafening roar echoed through the sky as a beam of pale white lightning, like a raging river, swept across the heavens, tearing through the dark fabric and hurtling toward Kazul's doomed form.

"Ah, that blue-skinned madman's breath—it brings back some memories!"

Kazul grinned menacingly, his sky-covering black wings flapping to stir up a fierce black wind, the "Heart of Tiamat" in his chest pounding wildly, emitting a muffled sound like a war drum, and he slowly opened his deep, blood-red maw.

Dark, somber ashes and crimson flames erupted from the depths of his throat, leaving a bleeding wound in the sky—the fire that would destroy the world.

"boom!"

The two breaths merged, instantly unleashing a terrifying aftershock. A storm of lightning, flames, and ash rapidly spread, enveloping an area spanning dozens of miles.

"Be careful--"

"Super-alpha level energy fluctuation detected!"

"It's too late! Quick! Activate the highest level defensive force field immediately!"

"By Tiamat, what mighty power this is! Praise be to Kazul, the Dragon of Destruction!"

Whether they were allied soldiers or followers of the Dragon Cult, anyone caught in the storm would be split, scorched, and torn apart within seconds, becoming part of the ashes.

At the eye of the storm, the stark white lightning and crimson firelight intertwined, waxing and waning, locked in a struggle for supremacy. The two breaths continued to strike relentlessly.

Under this terrifying breath, two scorched marks, each over a thousand meters long and several meters deep, were left on the earth, resembling straight riverbeds carved out by human hands.

While maintaining an output that consumed terrifying amounts of energy, Kazur gritted his teeth and roared, "Kazur, do you really think Tiamat would allow an unrestrained god to appear under His command?"

Kazul maintained his doomsday breath and coldly replied, "I am Her Majesty the Dragon Queen's most trusted favorite. She promised me that she would make me the god of the Seleucids!"

"promise?"

Kaisius opened his claws and, using a miniature, blazing sun he conjured, hurled it at Kazul, sneering, "You actually believed the promises of that five-colored dragon queen? Abandon those laughable, unrealistic fantasies, Kazul."

"If you win, you will indeed become a god, but only as an incarnation of Tiamat, a puppet carrying the Dragon Queen's will!"

"nonsense!"

Kazul roared, and the surging ash coalesced into a massive, black claw hundreds of meters long, which grasped the blazing flames within it.

The power of the sun god suddenly erupted, and hundreds of beams of light broke through the ashes and burst out from the black dragon claw, as if trying to break free of their restraints.

But Kazul simply clenched his dragon claws, and the black light surrounding him surged forth, engulfing all the beams of light and extinguishing the miniature sun that Kasius had thrown—a sun powerful enough to destroy a city.

Kaisius simply observed this with indifference, showing little surprise.

After all, the opponent was "Crimson Ember" Kazul, and such an attack was only a test for beings who were beyond demigods.

Kaisius flapped his dragon wings, soared into the air, broke through the clouds replaced by ash, and looked down at Kazul from ten thousand meters above the ground, saying coldly, "Ha, Kazul, you are just deceiving yourself with the dream of becoming a god."

Kazul also raised its sky-covering dragon wings, stirring up a raging black wind that swept across the land, and suddenly soared up, roaring towards the sky: "I have been a chosen one of the gods for thousands of years, and I know the nature of that emperor better than you! Your life is as short as an ant, how can you understand the greatness of the Mother of Dragons?"

"Besides -"

Kazul paused, a hint of something unknown in his voice: "Do you think you're any different from me—a vessel chosen by the Nothingness?"

"What did you say?"

Kaishuston was immediately startled, his pupils dilating in shock.

Lord of Flames, the One of Nothingness, the Purifier of the World—these are all the names of Karix, the mad dragon god. How could this ancient red dragon know about his relationship with Karix?

Could it be that Tiamat revealed the information to Him?
But before Kaisius could even think, Kazul's dragon wings, thousands of meters wide, lashed out, carrying billowing embers of the apocalypse, creating a terrifying hurricane high in the sky that caused the space to tremble violently.

Kaisius's left wing was swept by the black wind and burned by the deep red flames, seemingly turning into ashes.

If this attack were to hit him squarely, Kaisius's physical body would likely be destroyed by the destructive power in an instant, becoming nourishment for the apocalypse.

"Roar--"

Seeing this, Kaisius turned his head and roared. He took a deep breath, almost sucking out all the air within a radius of several hundred meters and compressing it into his lungs.

The dragon crystal in his chest was undergoing a rapid magical fusion reaction, combining the essence of various flames such as the Sun God's Fire, the Flame of Order, and the Hellfire into his respiratory organs, compressing it to its limit.

The Breath of Eternity!

The next moment, Kaisius opened his blood-red maw. First, a blinding point of light appeared, followed by a burst of brilliant dragonfire erupting from the depths of his throat, sweeping down and instantly piercing the dark sky like a sharp blade, tearing off half of Kazul's wing. (End of Chapter)