Under the Red Dragon

Chapter 246: Messiah's Light - Dune

Beyond the countless barriers of the Prime Material Plane lies not the boundless, immeasurable Astral Plane that even gods struggle to comprehend, but the intermediate Sky-Space Universe, a nexus connecting the Astral Plane and numerous Prime Material Planes.

A unique creature with ten tails, nine wings, and five heads traverses the Sky-Space Universe, roaming the void outside the boundaries of the Akani World, seemingly aimless, yet perhaps ascending towards the Astral Plane.

From this being's perspective, the immeasurably high and distant reaches of the Sky-Space Universe are the Astral Plane, woven and intertwined with layers of stars. Below, in the infinitely deep abyss, lie layers of void and abyss whose true nature is difficult to fathom.

Individual Prime Material Planes are like stars wrapped in barriers, journeying alongside it.

Wherever there is matter, there is life; if you have not yet discovered them, it simply means your vision is inadequate to perceive them.

Although the number of living beings in the Sky-Space Universe is sparse, incomparable to the multitude of races and creatures born from the abundant resources of the various Prime Material Planes, there exist unique lives, some exceptionally powerful, others exceptionally weak, but all are one-of-a-kind.

This creature with ten tails, nine wings, and five heads, each head resembling that of an eagle or vulture, is one such being.

The migratory habits of the Sky-Space traversing race have endowed this creature with an incredibly powerful physical body, its feathers shimmering with metallic reflections under the sparse starlight of the void.

Some meteorites and fragments, drifting unpredictably and slowly in the Sky-Space, are directly shattered by this hundred-meter-long nine-winged鹫 eagle, which then passes through the countless fragmented debris.

The might of this powerful creature is comparable to a legend, freely roaming the void, unconstrained.

Yet, even such a powerful being failed to detect an imperceptible wave of energy, stirring ripples in space, traveling from a Prime Material Plane that seemed close yet was infinitely distant.

Poof.

Like a bubble bursting silently in a glass bottle, the formless wave traversed the void.

Seemingly affected by something, a gnarled root, like a dragon serpent, flashed with a subtle light, revealing its presence in this reality.

But in that brief instant, not even enough for a creature to blink, the gnarled, dragon-serpent-like root pierced through this powerful being, instantly blasting its mighty body, capable of crushing meteorites, into a cloud of blood and flesh.

The root, touching the fabric of space, plunged back into the void, following an invisible yet tangible connection towards a distant plane shrouded in green luminescence.

The soft thud, akin to a silent touch, barely made any sound. The planar barrier of the Green Wilds Forest World seemed to offer no resistance or inherent rejection to this root, which pierced straight through.

But within the Green Wilds Forest World, drastic changes were taking place, shaking the entire world.

The gnarled roots of the World Tree Ouwo, like celestial pillars, emerged from the void, deeply penetrating the core of the Green Wilds Forest World.

The very source that nourished the entire world, allowing it to grow and life to flourish, was forcibly pierced by the roots of the World Tree Ouwo. Using this vast spiritual power and condensed will, it began to extract the world's planar essence, to grow and strengthen itself.

Rumble.

The entire Green Wilds Forest World cried out in anguish, the ground trembled slightly, the forests rustled, and countless beasts stampeded. For every bit the roots of the World Tree Ouwo grew, a large patch of the world's forest withered.

The withering forests and the terrified, wailing beasts began to spread throughout every corner of the world, like a spreading plague.

Far away in the Akani World, the main body of the World Tree in the Dragon King's Court Garden was also rapidly growing, soaring upwards.

One hour, two hours, three hours, growing from forty meters to fifty meters, to one hundred meters, to three hundred meters, to six hundred meters, until it reached a height of one thousand meters before stopping its growth.

At this time, the World Tree Ouwo had a thick, tall trunk, like another mountain peak standing on top of a mountain. If the power of the Magic Dragon God had not enveloped this area, the shadow cast by the moonlight would have been enough to overshadow the Dragon King's Court.

But it seemed that the World Tree Ouwo did not supply the excess origin to other places, causing this giant tree, towering a thousand meters, to still bear its original small canopy.

It looked as ridiculous as a person's head, shaved around the hair, leaving only a small patch of hair in the middle of the head.

Even the remaining branches were still the same size as before.

But in the King's Court Garden, no one could see the World Tree Ouwo's current appearance anymore.

The Emperor of the Empire, leading the dragons and his legion of spellcasters, stood on the World Tree's roots in the sky, overlooking this drastically changing world.

This main root of the World Tree looked several times thicker than the main trunk of the World Tree Ouwo's main body. The upward-facing plane of the root alone was hundreds of meters wide, enough to accommodate the arrival of the dragons and the spellcaster legion.

Karon and the dragons did not care about the changes in the entire world. They were dragons, destined predators and rulers who grew by plundering.

Nourishing the empire and the dragons with the world had long been the common goal of the dragon clan.

Although the Green Wilds Forest World was different from other small elemental planes being mined, it was a world with sustainable resources. But when the dragons needed it, this world would also become their sacrifice.

Unlike other World Trees, which are born with the world's origin, relying on each other and growing together, this time, the World Tree Ouwo forcibly extracted the world's origin to grow. This would inevitably destroy the possibility of the Green Wilds Forest's subsequent growth and plunge the world into a long period of decline.

But in Karon's plan, this was a necessary sacrifice to gain more.

The long-term decline of the world was the sacrifice, and the results brought about by those towering devices, as high as mountain peaks, were the gain.

In the eyes of the group and the mage legion, they saw floating islands in the air. These were once the homes of the bat-winged dragons, and also natural floating islands formed by the condensation of meteor dust falling from the Astral Plane into the material world.

In the scholars' research, they discovered that these islands, condensed from meteor dust, have self-adaptive magnetic fields. As long as they are in a world that does not isolate the relevant underlying rules, these islands can float in the air forever.

This was also the destined first floating city of the Golden Empire.

Naturally possessing the ability to float, these islands only needed to be equipped with driving energy sources to be driven like floating cities, soaring in the sky and overlooking the earth.

The previous experiments with the floating mage towers were preparations for these reserve floating cities.

After these floating islands were equipped with elemental pools and other power sources, they would carry mage towers, patrol the airspace of the Golden Empire, and establish an iron dome of absolute defense.

But now, on the largest floating island, there were not mage towers, but hundreds of tall buildings. Each building seemed to be hundreds of meters high, and the surfaces of these buildings were inlaid with gold and mithril rune tracks, shining with flowing light in the firelight of the night.

These were energy-absorbing towers replicated from the energy-absorbing devices in the Knowledge Fortress, extracting the world's energy and elemental power. At this time, the flowing light flashing on each energy-absorbing tower represented that its reserves had been completely filled during the long absorption of the past two months.

These hundreds of energy-absorbing towers, viewed from above, were all located on the nodes of a huge magic circle, just like the positions of the mages before.

In the very center of this floating island, there was a thick cylindrical tower, as if passing through the center of the floating island, which was several kilometers thick. But the size and length of the tower were consistent, like a hollowed-out tube, standing facing the sky.

The magic array veins at the foot of each energy-absorbing device were connected to this strange building, becoming a link in this incredibly huge magic array, which could only be seen in its entirety from a high altitude.

Next to these tall energy-absorbing towers, there were also many scholars and mages repairing these invaluable creations of knowledge.

And five regimented hundred-man teams of Imperial legion soldiers, fully armed, guarded these extremely valuable devices.

To build these energy-absorbing devices, most of the resources excavated from the Green Wilds Forest World and half of the resources mined from the small elemental planes were invested.

This was thanks to the Empire's diverse races and various talents, which allowed this huge project to be completed within the planned timeframe.

The huge gems inlaid on the top of the energy-absorbing device were the energy cores of those small elemental planes.

This achievement, which almost exhausted half of the Empire's power, made the dragons excited and excited, spreading their wings and landing on it one by one.

The mage legions even directly cast spells. Low- and mid-level mages used levitation spells to land on the island, lingering in it and reluctant to leave.

High-level mages were even more relaxed. Magic power was like a docile toy in their hands, and wind gathered at their feet, allowing the mages to fall gracefully.

Only the ancestral red dragon stood in the sky, retracted its wings, and watched the white-haired mage Lapps, who was slowly rising into the air, land beside him.

"It's unbelievable,"

Lapps' eyes could no longer maintain their former appearance. Even a three-year-old child could clearly see the shock and surprise in his pupils.

"Such a great miracle, it reminds me of the ancient magical empire era, that prosperous generation that only exists in memory,"

"Although this is not enough to compare to one ten-thousandth of the ancient magical empire's prosperity, in this era, it is already a miracle that mages can sigh and appreciate!"

The white-haired mage Lapps exclaimed, "Now only those powerful kingdoms and human empires in the Central Continent have the ability to build such a great spectacle. I never expected that it would be reproduced in your hands!"

The relationship between the white-haired old mage and the red dragon was more like a cooperative relationship, and also had a past acquaintance, so the old mage's attitude was not as respectful as others, but as always.

Karon's huge head shook slightly, and he laughed, "What kind of miracle is this? What we are going to do next is barely a miracle. However, are you sure you want to board my ship?"

For Karon, the floating island in front of him was just a huge landscape built with existing materials and knowledge. Although it was also very practical, it was not a miracle.

Only opening up a traceable path in the unknown can be considered a miracle. Such behavior is worthy of the evaluation of the word miracle.

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The old mage Lapps laughed and said, "This kind of thing is enough to make my old blood stir again. How can I refuse? I have been on the road to pursuing legends for decades. I should have discovered long ago that calm exploration cannot bring the expected opportunity."

The ancestral red dragon nodded and whispered, "Then I wish me, and you, all the best!"

"Hehe, actually I am not worried about facing those gods born in the plane, but I should focus more on the journey we are on,"

Lapps' eyes narrowed again.

Whether in the mage's knowledge system, or in the dragon's inheritance, or in the information obtained from trading with alien gods, Karon knew enough about the nature of the gods born in the plane.

What's more, he also had a rough knowledge of that world of ice and fire. Although he would not use his original knowledge as a set standard, it could also be used as an important reference.

The seven gods designated as false gods by Karon need not be considered for the time being. The Lord of Light, the god of light and heat, who once showed miracles in the world and possessed his own power, and the Cold God, who also possessed Others as minions, can be seen from their actions.

Since they were gods born in the plane, but could not truly walk in the world, their names could reflect that these two gods were born from a part of the world's origin in the world of ice and fire, like existences that occupy the origin like the plane consciousness.

The Lord of Light spread his faith, probably in order to use the function of the power of faith to accelerate the consciousness and personality he condensed, break away from the origin of the world, and grasp the authority born in the world through the origin commensurate with his name.

The magic dragon that is rumored to rampage in the world is not a naturally existing creature, but the power carrier and incarnation of this god of light. The Lord of Light, R'hllor, also has the title of Magic Dragon God because of this.

Karon therefore speculated that perhaps if this Lord of Light succeeded in the future, his incarnation in the world might be an extremely powerful magic dragon king spanning the world.

Because the power of the Lord of Light needs to be obtained by exchanging blood for fire, and the birth of the magic dragon is also the same, and the magic dragon controls the power of fire.

The Cold God's minions--Others, also have the same nature, exchanging human life for the birth of Others.

Karon also squinted his eyes slightly in front of the old mage, and said in a deep voice: "These plane gods have not really been born yet. Although they have some of the world's great power, in some aspects, they are not as powerful as a real legend. With our power, we don't need to worry too much."

"As for our journey, the method is not much different from the interplanar travel of magicians, but it is just a little farther!"

"You think it's easy," Lapps shook his head, "Even a legendary mage needs to consider the journey across the alien universe. I really don't know where you got these strange knowledge from."

Of course, the Progenitor Red Dragon would not tell the mage about his dealings with the Outer God. Although he had a relationship of trust with the mage, no matter how much you trust someone, you cannot completely reveal everything about yourself.

Mastering certain knowledge of the Outer God's conquest of the world, coupled with the World Tree Ouver's talent, was enough to give the Progenitor Red Dragon a considerable degree of certainty.

What's more, they had already conducted a 'small experiment' before.

"How can the Dragon Clan's inherited knowledge be rarer than the mage's inherited knowledge?" Caron turned his head, overlooking the floating island that had been sleepless all night, and slightly revealed his fangs.

A dragon, a person, remained silent until dawn.

When the sun shone down, the dragon and the person became active again.

"Let's go, it's time,"

The Progenitor Red Dragon spread his wings and swooped down towards the floating island, with the mage following closely behind.

On the floating island, the great dragon king flag fluttered in the wind, dragons of various scale colors stood proudly, legion soldiers stood upright and waited, and mages stood still, waiting for the Dragon Emperor's arrival.

As the Progenitor Red Dragon descended on the wind, the voice of the World Tree Ouver also sounded at this time, "Dad, I'm ready!"

So the Progenitor Red Dragon spread his wings and looked up at the sun in the sky, "Hehe, I wonder if the barrier set up by the ancient mages can block the light that we are about to unleash."

He stretched out his wide, forty-five-meter-long wings and laughed proudly, "Come on, come on, follow me, let's try,"

"Let's try whether the power of will and thought can really, with the carrier of power, cross space and time, cross the past and the present!"

Rumble,

Along with the Progenitor Red Dragon's words, the World Tree's roots, rooted deep in the world's origin, burst out of the ground, straight into the sky, directly through the round tower in the center of the floating island.

The tip of the thick root pierced through the round tower, revealing tens of meters of its old and gnarled body, curled up, as if accumulating amazing power.

Buzz, buzz, buzz,

One after another, the energy-absorbing towers on the floating island were activated at this moment, causing the entire floating island to vibrate slightly and sink, and the magic power in the surrounding air was massively extracted by the energy-absorbing towers.

Even the sunlight in the sky seemed to be absorbed by these hundreds of energy-absorbing devices, making the scattered sunlight look like distorted ripples in the air.

The mages raised their staffs, the condensed spirit stirred up storms, and the boiling magic power lit up the magic circle covering the entire island.

The huge phantom of the Three-Headed Sea Serpent reappeared, but the dragons spreading their wings were not inferior.

The Progenitor Red Dragon's chest lit up, and his immeasurable magic power and strength surged wildly. The bodies of the dragons swelled up, and that was the same boiling bloodline being released to its maximum effect in the extraction of the magic circle's nodes.

The majestic power caused the entire floating island to shake, and as the planar core gems on the top of hundreds of energy-absorbing tower devices lit up, the space around the entire island had been distorted by this unparalleled power to look like broken pieces of glass.

An extremely fiery beam of light soared into the sky, directly hitting above the nine heavens, like the light of the sun falling into the world, dazzling and sweeping thousands of miles around the world.

In a world-shaking roar, the World Tree's roots spanning the sky and the floating island disappeared without a trace.

Only the wound of fragmentation and healing under the sky remained for a long time, not dissipating, causing the creatures on the ground to not dare to approach for a long time.

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