Under the Red Dragon

"The Emperor is already engaged with the demons. Accelerate the advance and seal the demonic plane's passage as quickly as possible! Block the source of the Great Demon's power!"

Archmage Lapers of the Holy Domain, his white hair fluttering, could feel the immense power fluctuations from the other end of the continent. It was enough for Lapers to understand that the battle between the Progenitor Red Dragon and the Legendary Demon had begun.

"The sooner we seal the demonic plane's passage, the more likely the Dragon Emperor will achieve victory!"

Although Lapers addressed the Progenitor Red Dragon by its name in private, in public, Lapers, proud of his Progenitor Red Dragon, spared no effort in upholding the orthodox authority of this rare disciple.

Amplified by magic, the old mage's aged voice echoed across the entire battlefield beneath the floating islands.

The royal flag of the Golden Empire suddenly rose amidst the tide of earth, as warriors forged from steel and iron gathered beneath the dragon banner.

Following the warrior who carried the royal flag of refined steel in one hand and a heavy beheading blade in the other, they began their great stride forward.

"Advance swiftly, crush all who stand in our way! Those who dare obstruct the Empire's advance are rebellious souls destined for death!"

The warrior carrying the dragon banner roared, his erupting aura causing all the warriors to roar in response. The demons were momentarily stunned by the sudden surge of the Empire's army's momentum.

All the heavily armored warriors responded with a resounding boom, the clashing of steel merging into a single, sonorous sound.

"Death to all who stand in our way!"

The Empire's steel torrent directly cleaved into the demon army, countless flashes of cold light instantly reaping the souls of countless demons.

Every warrior who followed the Progenitor Red Dragon to conquer planes had their bloodlines enhanced.

The front-line legionnaires simultaneously slashed upwards with hundreds of slender, sharp blades, creating hundreds of long, cold arcs in the sky filled with dust and abyssal death energy.

Visible ripples burst forth from the blades, spreading through space, advancing forward, and transforming into cone-shaped waves of cutting force.

The cone-shaped waves of cutting force lifted the earth, cut through the abyssal death energy, and tore apart the magical power on the demons' bodies. The demons who met them head-on raised their claws and weapons to block, but they were countless times too slow.

The cutting force had already pierced through their bodies and natural armor before the demons could even block. The demons' chests and waists were completely split open in that instant.

Like water balloons sliced open by a sharp knife, foul-smelling blood erupted, and the force of the impact sent the demons' remains tumbling forward.

The spellcaster legion also began to unleash their magical power without reservation, stirring up elemental storms that converged, and countless dazzling rainbow-like spells rained down from the sky, clearing the path to the abyssal passage for the ground troops.

The effects of the spells stirred up the entire dim sky, lighting it up.

The ground was covered with charred remains of demons blasted to death by spells and the Golden Lion Legion, layer upon layer of demonic corpses covering the earth, forming a thick layer of demonic soil.

"Get out of the way, you scum!"

The moment Lapers' voice rang out, the White Dragon Camide roared and plunged from the sky, charging towards the cliff below.

The true dragon dove down from mid-air, its deafening roar exploding in the demons' ears, causing their legs to weaken. Its fierce aura was the terrifying dragon might.

"Die!"

Two streams of icy breath, almost frozen into solid snow particles, rubbed against each other, transforming into cold prisms, and spewed forth from the White Dragon Camide's twin heads.

The angry White Dragon Camide never used its brain in battle, but the dragon skills and hunting techniques inherited from its white dragon bloodline were as skilled as instinct.

A four-armed bat demon with black skin, bat wings, four arms, and a slender tail held crystalline black flame daggers in each hand.

Its fanged face bore deep malice, and lifeless white eyes shot out a gaze of necromantic theft, swooping down above the White Dragon Camide, its four arms wielding four black flame daggers, slashing down at the White Dragon's slender neck.

But the dragon was the king of the sky. The White Dragon Camide's wings rotated like fans, and its huge body suddenly flipped over, even more agile than the four-armed bat demon.

Dragon claws covered in frost struck and sliced like ear-splitting thunder towards the four-armed bat demon, and a tidal wave of frost breath briefly froze the ambushing four-armed bat demon. The dragon claws, sharper than the sharpest steel, had already cut this high-level bat demon into more than a dozen pieces.

The White Dragon, which had endured the four-armed bat demon's gaze of necromantic theft, let out a deafening roar, landed on the ground, swept its steel tail, and joined the Dragon Legion's advance.

"Those who block me shall die!"

Two blue dragons roared in the dragon language, and the undying wild lightning streaked across the sky, rumbling as the two huge blue dragons charged towards the earth.

Countless huge, tree-like lightning bolts spread across the sky, piercing through the bodies of demons one after another, then splashing out, like a bundle of bright and dazzling lines, continuously piercing through more than a dozen demons before finally dissipating this terrifying power.

The dragons' claws and tails had become their powerful weapons for clearing out demons. Even their wings, strengthened by age, had been transformed into wide blades for cutting down demons, with claws as their edges.

Bloody winds and rain, and undying wild lightning, accompanied the blue dragons.

To create more favorable conditions for Calon, the blue dragon lords Doss and Akxz had entered a state of frenzy. The dragon's slaughtering techniques were reappearing on them.

A huge, beast-like slaughter demon, stitched together from different creatures, roared and stood up, towering at twelve meters tall.

It had a tail like a spiked chain, but its wings were like the segmented limbs of an insect.

The undying wild lightning that the blue dragon lord struck on the ground only splashed out countless electric lights and sparks on the surface of this huge slaughter demon's body.

The power of lightning was nullified by this powerful slaughter demon's innate talent, and only the pure striking force of the lightning pierced some small wounds in the slaughter demon's body.

Faced with the pounce of two furious blue dragons, this powerful slaughter demon did not give way at all. Its long, spiked chain-like tail pierced out, and its evil-powered claws clashed head-on with the dragon's strikes.

Boom.

The slaughter demon's powerful strength allowed it to not be at a disadvantage against the two juvenile blue dragons. It shook the two juvenile blue dragons back.

Its huge body only took a few steps back, cracking the ground that had been trampled by countless demons to be even harder than stone slabs.

The tail covered in iron thorns and chains pierced through the blue dragon Akxz's steel claws, bringing out a series of dragon blood splatters.

"You dare block our way? Die!"

The female red dragon Kleineria's violent voice roared, the red dragon's fury was different from the blue dragon's. The blue dragon's fury was just their blue dragon's personality.

And the red dragon's fury came from the power of their bloodline. The stronger their anger, the more ferocious their dragon flames spewed out.

The raging dragon fire instantly ignited all the surrounding demons, and the red dragon Kleineria swooped down from the sky.

While the slaughter demon was still retreating backwards, two front claws embedded themselves in the slaughter demon's arms, two hind claws clamped onto the demon's thick thighs, and its mouth opened, its fangs like curved swords flashing coldly, and bit down on the slaughter demon's head.

The entire head of this high-level slaughter demon, powerful enough to fight a young dragon alone and possessing the strength to kill a young dragon, was directly bitten off by the furious female dragon Kleineria.

Raging dragon fire burst out from Kleineria's throat, instantly incinerating the demon's head, and she roared to the sky.

One dragon after another pounced on the earth, the Golden Lion Legion driving interstellar spacecraft, firing at full power, ion cannons and laser cannons crisscrossing the space, blasting away hordes of demons, and the demons' corpses began to pile up like mountains.

The demons were strong enough, and there were enough of them.

But the dragons and the Empire's legions were even stronger, because they were united and disciplined under the leadership of the same will.

Above the sky, dragons danced wildly, and the lords targeted those high-level demon commanders with tacit cooperation, killing them one by one.

On the earth, the Empire's steel warriors advanced steadily, and no demon legion could stop the army's advance. The army's will was as indestructible as steel, and for their Emperor, those who opposed them would die.

Layer upon layer of demonic remains raised the center of the entire battlefield by several meters.

The Empire's legions trampled on the demons' flesh and blood and bones, crushing these alien creatures, and were invincible.

"It's truly magnificent," Lapers exclaimed. He patted the Progenitor Gold Dragon guarding him and smiled, "Go, crush these demons. I no longer need you to guard me."

One ball after another of magical and elemental storms gathered and swirled above this Holy Domain Archmage's head, beginning to occupy most of his energy.

And the Progenitor Gold Dragon let out a thunderous roar and swooped down from the island in the sky. The gold dragon's electricity and fire began to shine on the battlefield.

...

Calon's huge wings spread open, sweeping across the sky, and with each breath, massive amounts of flames spewed out.

Thunderous dragon roars accompanied the power of witch-like laws. Each utterance, along with the terrifying dragon might of the Progenitor Red Dragon, oppressed the spirit of the Legendary Demon Sacreus.

The membrane wings covered in ash marks, steel marks, and burning veins only flapped lightly, and a sudden gust of wind lifted its huge body.

Pale flames and howling winds flowed around the Progenitor Red Dragon, passing through the gaps in the red dragon's flowing scales, and the steel scales emitted the zinging sound of swords.

Every strike between the Progenitor Dragon and the Legendary Demon was accompanied by raging hurricanes and explosive shocks.

But even though the Legendary Demon Sacreus possessed talent spells such as Greater Teleportation, its speed in the air could not compare to the Progenitor Red Dragon's agile figure.

Calon traversed the sky like a blazing lightning bolt piercing the sky, and even Greater Teleportation could not keep up with the red dragon's battle rhythm for long.

Because with continuous use of Greater Teleportation, even a legendary demon would feel mentally exhausted.

If it didn't use Greater Teleportation and relied solely on the wings behind the legendary demon to fly, it would be difficult to even touch the edges of the Progenitor Red Dragon.

So even though several places on the Progenitor Red Dragon's scales were broken and there were damaged gaps in the dragon claws, the situation was still that the Legendary Demon Lord was being suppressed by Calon, who had seized the initiative.

The Legendary Demon Lord was stronger than Calon in terms of strength. The Godscourge Sword inlaid with countless evil eyes was even harder than the Progenitor Red Dragon's claws, and was already a weapon beyond the legendary level.

It was forged by the Legendary Demon in the evil fire of the abyss, and all the demon lords defeated by the Legendary Demon Sacreus would have their power extracted by this demon sword, which had been nurtured for thousands of years.

The power surrounding the blade was the deepest evil and chaos of the abyss, and even the Progenitor Red Dragon's scales, which were as strong as a heavy shield, could not block it.

But the Progenitor Red Dragon had a combat intuition that was more sensitive than the Legendary Demon's intuition honed through bloody battles, because the Progenitor Red Dragon not only had a natural combat intuition, but also had an unparalleled brain to assist him, seeing through the demon's every attack trajectory and the key points of power strikes.

The Progenitor Red Dragon's laughter in the sky suppressed the Legendary Demon's roar.

"Damn it, you're a dragon, don't use these disgusting and weak spells, come and fight me head-on."

The Legendary Demon Sacreus stood on the ground, enraged, using the Evil Eye Godscourge Sword to block the huge dragon claw descending from the sky.

The blade of the Godscourge Sword was shaken by the Progenitor Red Dragon's dragon claw strike, and the power from the Progenitor Red Dragon's claws, accompanied by the resonance of magic, was searching for the sword's material vibration frequency.

But the power to shake the sword was transferred by the Legendary Demon into the ground under his feet, and cracks spread out under the Legendary Demon Lord's feet.

Rumble.

Calon's figure flickered like lightning, whistling and turning away, the magical runes flowing on the surface of its body were like light bands, possessing their own will, fluctuating with the constant luster of the red dragon's body.

Countless magics instantly formed a model, and sun-like rays and a storm of flames descended around the Legendary Demon, sweeping around and scorching slight scorch marks on the demon's body.

The power caused by spells below the high level, in this magic wasteland, even if cast by the Progenitor Red Dragon, could not cause much damage to this Great Demon.

But the reason for the Legendary Demon's rage was a low-level spell.

This low-level spell did not have any substantial power. It was just an occasional adaptation and creation by Calon during the study of spell models out of a bit of malicious fun. The only effect was to make a male creature's reproductive organs form a flower ring under the effect of the spell.

Logically speaking, this kind of low-level spell could not affect creatures of the Legendary Demon level at all, but this time, it just happened to work.

This made the Legendary Demon's anger unable to be contained.

"You're courting death, you cowardly reptile," sinister evil fire rose, Sacreus inserted the huge Godscourge Sword into the ground in front of him, and issued the deepest whispers of the demons in the abyss.

The ancient abyss seemed to descend into this world, and the whispers from chaos were heavily layered, intertwined and changing.

The hundreds of eyes on the Godscourge Sword and the evil eyes on the Legendary Demon Sacreus's wings blinked simultaneously, and thousands of evil eye lights intertwined and crisscrossed, and the demon's whispers gradually sank in the evil light.

One demon after another that was still alive had their souls pulled from their bodies by this fiery intertwined evil light and demonic words.

All demons of the same race as the evil eyes of the demon lords on the Godscourge Sword had their bodies torn apart in an instant.

Their power also turned into deep abyssal death energy, which was attracted by this invisible force, and countless demon souls surrounded Sacreus, wailing and flying.

Suddenly, everyone felt a chill from the depths of their hearts, as if in the darkness, a pair of enormous abyssal eyes, not existing in reality but within everyone's minds, slowly opened.

A tangible yet formless field was born around the legendary demon, suppressing all power not belonging to demons and enhancing all evil power that did.

This field was so powerful that even the slightest traces of magic in the air were completely rejected and suppressed, unable to flow as usual, and the wind in the sky was stilled, forbidden from flowing within this field.

Boom!

The legendary demon drew the God-bane Sword, soared into the sky, and, carrying its demonic domain that suppressed all power not its own, slashed down at the ancestral red dragon.

A tangible sword-shaped aura blade, tearing through the sky, was hundreds of meters long, its remaining edge already ripping apart the earth as it descended upon Kalon's head.

Under this terrifying suppression, even the ability to elementalize could not be activated. Kalon felt the space around him almost solidified, and his unparalleled speed was rendered useless.

However, the ancestral red dragon, with its ability to see through reality with its dark-gold pupils, perceived every line of power flow within the domain formed by the legendary demon's own power and the summoning of the Evil Eye.

Every trace of soul and spirituality that formed the rudimentary demonic domain was detected by the ancestral red dragon.

Thus, the ancestral red dragon roared and soared into the sky, the authority derived from spirituality unleashing its due power at this moment.

"Where the Empire stands, there lies the power. I am the Emperor of the Empire, I am the power of the Empire!"

The Dragon Emperor's words echoed in the hearts of every surviving Imperial citizen in the Valerian city. They heard the words of the Imperial Emperor and spontaneously gave their response.

"Emperor's decree, the Empire answers!"

Layer upon layer of echoes resonated within the spiritual domain, causing a tide of spirituality, venerating their Emperor.

Boundless, vast power descended upon the ancestral red dragon, the tide of spirituality invoked by the worship of the Imperial citizens transforming into layers of phantoms.

Intertwining and becoming a projection of the Empire cast from mid-air, surrounding the ancestral red dragon's body as if a scroll were instantly unfurled.

Within the illusion, the church bells of the Empire echoed, resounding, boom!