CHAPTER XXI

The sun sets.

The black and gold dragon lies on the gray-white stone cliff, quietly looking out at the huge fortress nestled between the mountains and rivers in the distance.

Half of the dragon's body shone like a white sun, and half of it was as deep as a midnight in the depths of the sky, and it could be seen that the golden body was stronger than the black body on the left, and the dragon horns erected on one side alone pointed straight into the sky like a spear, as strong as a golden stone.

Purple-black scales drifted off its gently waved wings, a mixture of snow dust and gray sand that turned into a chaotic mist that followed the wind toward the forest below, and then submerged into the dark shadows.

In the shadows, there were countless silent figures, their eyes flashing with a purple-blue light, and chaos enchanted the eyes of these beasts, corrupting their minds like poison. Now that the beasts have lost the ability to think, they are so immersed in bloodthirsty madness that they can no longer see anything but their enemies and the 'king'.

Only in this black-purple fog can they be appeased and kept to a minimum of calm.

“…… Hiss. ”

The average Black Eclipse Dragon is not intelligent, but a beast that acts obediently to its instincts, but it is different.

With a wave of its wings, sweeping the snow off its body, the dragon slowly stood up and stood on the stone cliff, scanning the army that belonged to it, his eyes flashing with an inexplicable light, as if he was thinking.

Purebred Black Eclipse Dragons are descendants of plague-spreading ancient dragons, born from the carcasses of deeply infected beasts, and multiply like spore fungi. In the depths of the Black Forest in the center of the continent, there are hundreds of black eclipse dragons breeding and living, but only one of them can break through its limits and awaken into a white-gold 'true god'.

The contemplative dragon was one of them, and it succeeded, but it also failed.

In the lair of the deep mountains, it broke through its own limits and began to completely transform in the pain of the bones, but when it was halfway converted, on the other side of the mountains, another of the same kind awakened faster than it, and under the inexplicable induction, the overwhelming killing intent passed through the forests and hills, locking the black-gold dragon firmly, in order to survive, the dragon could only abandon its lair, interrupt the awakening of only one time in this life, and flee in the wilderness.

It cut through the black forests, broke through the clouds, and crossed the realm of humans and elves in a single night to reach the South China Seas where no other of its kind had ever come, only to escape the nascent golden dragon that had been chasing after it...... At that time, it was not yet wise, and it was extremely weak, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then instinctively chose an uninhabited island to land.

On the island, it found a hidden cave with many human bones, many strange patterns on the cave walls, and the extremely evil totems and altars exuded an ominous smell, but how could the exhausted black dragon understand these things? It quickly entered it, and then fell into a deep sleep.

But even in its near-comatose slumber, the endless pain caused by the interruption of the metamorphosis still tormented it, it was a pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, like an ant's bite, and it was a torture that the dragon could not endure, and even the black dragon without wisdom could not help but have doubts.

Perhaps, it should not interrupt its metamorphosis, but try it with all its might, and see if it can awaken successfully before the other party arrives.

Perhaps, even if it interrupts the awakening, it should not flee in such a mess, but fight hard, and even if it loses its life, it will make the enemy pay the price of blood.

But so what? The past is gone, it is alive now, and it only wants to live.

Endless pain and deep despair invaded the dragon's heart, causing it to continue to fall.

And at this moment, as if sensing this sinking aura, the evil runes on the cave wall gradually lit up, and a light also appeared on the altar, and soon after, a strange voice sounded in the sleeping black dragon's heart.

It was an obscure dragon language, a complex language that the most learned scholar would not dare to claim to be proficient in, but it understood it clearly, and in an instant gained the wisdom to think and respond to the voice.

"Giving, getting."

"Chaos above, ignorant dragon, make your choice."

……

The memories ended, and the black-gold dragon slowly closed its one-eye.

What it gave and what it received, even it can't remember clearly.

But in any case, the black dragon, which already possessed wisdom, knew that it was no longer the black eclipse dragon that failed to awaken in the past, and the chaotic power was bred and transformed in the body, and through its scales and viruses to spread infection, it was wiser and more powerful than in the past.

Between the real chaos, there is also order, pure chaos means eternal silence, life and soul are the most orderly chaos, or the most chaotic order......

The mission given to it by the mysterious voice is to kill as many intelligent beings as possible, use their souls and flesh as sacrifices, and open several seals located in the extreme north of heaven and earth, the more sacrifices, the faster the seals will be opened, and the longer the power and lifespan it will get, and it is even possible to carry out a second awakening, completely removing the eternal pain caused by the failure of awakening.

The sun set completely, and the light of the twin moons gradually brightened, covering the earth with a silvery white light.

"Shhh

With the roar of the Chaos Dragon, the originally silent Black Forest boiled in an instant, and with the sound of footsteps as loud as the ground shaking, countless chaotic beasts rushed out of the Hess, roaring and screaming through the sky.

Their target is a fortress in the distance.

The war began again.

- Fortress

The double moon rises.

The violet-haired woman with a gray ironwood staff stood on the snow-covered walls, silently gazing at the white mountains and black forests in the distance, and the rushing tide of beasts, before letting out a slight sigh.

Verdani Scarlet, a gold-level mage, although her face looks very young due to the reshaping of her gold-level advanced transcendent body, but since she took over the title of earl from her father and became the lord of Moldova, it has been more than ten years, and at the age of thirty-three, she is already a mother of two children, and she has also fought off more than a dozen black tides over the years, which can be called experienced.

But even so, the mage, who had seen countless storms and waves, couldn't help but feel at a loss for the scene in front of him.

The blizzard slanted down from the black-gray sky, and between the cold wind and howling, countless demonic beasts rushed out from the black jungle in the distance, endless, boundless, like a black angry wave, among them, there were tens of thousands of winter wolves, and there were also huge ice mammoths, violent white bears and low-level dragon beasts mixed together to form an array, and the giant bats and flying dragons hovering in mid-air were as dense as black clouds.

"200,000 ......"

The points covered the plain like a tide, and the wild beasts that came in at a rapid pace, Verdani smiled bitterly, and she didn't know what to say, she could only repeat softly: "Two hundred thousand demonic beasts, this is almost the entire Black Forest has poured out." ”

The purple-haired mage's estimate was not wrong, and it was true, the entire vicinity of the Great Ajax Mountains was gathered together by a being who controlled them to storm the crumbling fortress back and forth.

I can't hold out a few times.

Verdani looked at the herd of beasts that didn't seem to have diminished compared to a few days ago, and then at the walls under her feet, which were already full of broken pits and cracks, and thought with some despair.