Ember Dragon

"A bunch of useless trash, looks like I'll have to take action myself—"

Gazing at the crimson figure shrouded in flames in the distance, Tiamat's expression became increasingly twisted and ferocious.

He never expected that this alien dragon would have so many unpredictable methods, and that it was able to escape his pursuit and break through the encirclement of thousands of five-colored dragons.

If He didn't possess the authority of the God of Evil Dragons, know the general information about each of the five-colored dragons, and have personally witnessed the rise of the Burning Emperor, Tiamat would never have believed that this alien dragon had lived for less than forty years.

Forty years is just the time it takes for an ordinary dragon to sleep, and for a dragon god of Tiamat's caliber, it's barely the time it takes to take a nap.

But in the same forty years, Kaisius grew from a dragon egg into the renowned Burning Emperor, the most powerful dragon on the continent of Feanso.

The "idle" piece that He casually placed back then has now become the greatest obstacle and threat to His establishment of His earthly kingdom.

Moreover, this red dragon possesses extremely rich combat experience and skills, and its ability to successfully escape Tiamat's pursuit far surpasses that of those ancient dragons that have lived for thousands of years.

This growth rate is beyond exaggerated; it's simply terrifying!
This bizarre growth curve made Tiamat somewhat worried and fearful. He couldn't imagine how much the red dragon would grow hundreds or thousands of years later.

Therefore, we must nip this in the bud!
This red dragon, which has broken free from the trajectory of fate and completely escaped His control, must be killed completely, preferably with its soul annihilated, leaving it no chance to rise again.

Thinking of this, Tiamat flapped its dragon wings, raised its three ferocious heads, and endless divine light emanated from its mountain-like, winding, and majestic body.

boom--

With a deafening roar, three beams of divine power shot out from Tiamat's mouth, piercing the sky and disappearing into the churning clouds, where they coalesced into a dark point of light, containing an extremely dangerous aura.

That is primordial divinity!
The usually stingy Tiamat was now willing to burn her own divinity to kill the red dragon in the distance.

Although Tiamat is still one step away from becoming a god, she must unleash a true divine punishment by burning her divinity.

The churning dark clouds spread rapidly, instantly covering the entire sky, accompanied by a rumbling sound like muffled thunder, which instilled fear and made people tremble all over.

"That is."

Kaisius looked back at the sky and saw something seemingly falling towards him from the dark clouds, containing an extremely terrifying aura.

He also sensed the fluctuations of the laws contained within and couldn't help but curse, "It's divine punishment! That damned old hag has really gone all out!"

"We must enter the imperial territory before divine punishment descends!"

Kaisius roared and exerted all his strength, sparing no effort to accelerate himself.

The dragon crystal on his chest burst forth with a shocking light, and the clusters of divine essence ignited, causing half of his body to burst into flames and gradually turn to ashes.

The intense pain caused him to growl continuously, but at the same time, Kaisius's speed reached its limit, and mortals could not even catch a trace of him with the naked eye, only seeing a blurry afterimage.

The ear-piercing sonic booms and the cracking sounds of bodies exploding echoed in Kaisius's ears. He gritted his teeth and continued to accelerate.

Five seconds.

In just five seconds, he could cross the final ten thousand meters, reach the area he controlled, and confront Tiamat head-on.

But at that moment, divine punishment descended!
Boom! A deafening roar resounded as if the sky had been cleaved by a giant axe. A five-colored divine light, hundreds of meters in diameter, pierced through the clouds, carrying a monstrous storm of divine power, and crashed down on Kaisius.

At this point, Kaisius burned up the little divine power he had left, flapped his dragon wings, and unleashed an unimaginable speed that almost tore the space in front of him apart.

Kaisius barely managed to dodge the divine light, but the ground behind him instantly cracked and was annihilated into countless tiny particles under the divine punishment.

In just an instant, a huge crater, hundreds of meters in diameter and bottomless, appeared on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the five-colored divine light followed closely, as if it had foreseen Kaisius's location, and swept across the earth at an unavoidable speed, creating a deep trench in the ground.

At the very last moment when Kaisius touched the Empire's territory, that terrible divine punishment caught up with him.

First his tail, then his hind limbs, torso, and wings; in an instant, half of his body was enveloped in five-colored divine light.

Each ray of divine light contains Tiamat's divine power, constantly creating flames, lightning, frost, poison, and acid. After a series of magical reactions, the matter struck by divine punishment is broken down into countless particles and completely dissipates from the world.

However, Kaisius's body was also filled with various divine powers, and those mixed divine powers were fighting against Tiamat's five-colored divine light, barely maintaining the form of a red dragon.

Even so, his scales were covered with dense cracks, with countless fragments peeling off, as if they were about to collapse.

With a muffled roar, half of his body disintegrated under the divine light, scales and flesh fell off one after another, and even his pale white bones turned to dust under the bombardment of divine power.

"Roar--"

With a desperate roar that echoed through the sky, Kaisius dragged his destroyed half-body, braving the all-destroying five-colored divine light, and finally stepped into the territory of the Empire with the last bit of strength in his body!

Kaisius shuddered, feeling that familiar power filling his body, as if the whole world was under his control.

At this moment, although his body was broken and he looked extremely miserable, he had a lot of confidence.

"Finally back on our own turf."

Kaisius's lips curled up, and a surge of immense energy rushed toward him, forming a powerful whirlwind within a radius of several thousand meters, frantically repairing his body.

In just a few seconds, his dragon body, which had been reduced to half its original size, became completely intact.

Immediately afterwards, the empire's melodious war song echoed from afar, reverberating in the high sky, and countless rays of faith surged from a distance—symbolizing the people of this land's reverence for their one and only, supreme emperor.

These lights of faith enveloped Caesus, shining brightly like armor forged from gold, and even a magnificent imperial crown appeared above Caesus's head.

At this moment, Kaisius is the sole ruler of this land, and the Burning Empire is his divine kingdom!
Tiamat's five-colored beams of light continued to sweep across, but were blocked by a magnificent golden wall—the power of the Imperial Domain! The golden wall was composed of countless intricate patterns, a tangible symbol of the laws of the material world.

"Damn traitor!"

Tiamat was furious. She opened her blood-red maw, and dragon breath spewed from the depths of the throats of her three heads, but it was once again blocked by the radiant barrier.

[Imperial Territory: Barrier] (End of Chapter)