Under the Red Dragon

The sky was gray and the clouds were dark, with damp, cold air enveloping the zenith of No-Dividing City, yet it did not affect the diverse races and ordinary humans mixed with countless monsters who actively resided there.

Occasionally, glimpses of enormous creatures could be seen in the clouds above, imperial magic dragons with a high degree of similarity to the giant dragons of the Golden Empire, patrolling the city's edge.

These massive bodies cast mountain-like shadows over No-Dividing City, but did not cause any disturbance in this newly built city, as its residents were already accustomed to it.

At least for the past decade or so, such scenes had become commonplace.

This city, which originally belonged to the capital of the Koria Kingdom, was rebuilt after being completely destroyed by the many Dragon Kings of the Golden Empire, becoming the joint base of the Kings' Alliance in the southern part of the Northern Territory.

A tall crow person with steel wings like giant dragon scales walked through the military camp outside No-Dividing City.

Many mixed monster warriors of various colors sincerely paid their respects to this magnificent crow person, who was a full two meters and eighty centimeters tall.

Lord Rodenis, the King of Dark Crows, was the descendant of the crow people tamed by Antagina, the Green Dragon Crown of the Golden Empire, in her infancy.

Those former crow people, after integrating into the Empire and undergoing generations of bloodline changes, grew to be more powerful than ordinary crow people.

The crow people, who were skilled at controlling and communicating with the birds of the sky, were the true behind-the-scenes controllers of the Golden Empire's secret intelligence organization—the Dark Crow's Eye.

Those crow people's predecessors were granted the noble Dragon Blood by the Empire's Dragon Kings for their merits, and they leaped to become the most noble Dragon Blood nobles in the Ikaniya Northern Continent.

Lord Rodenis, the King of Dark Crows, was the most outstanding fifth-generation descendant of those crow people, who had undergone the tempering of Dragon Blood and bloodline changes.

Under the reorganization of this crow person, the former Dark Crow's Eye was also reformed and established, not only as an intelligence organization with secret investigation capabilities, but also as a Crow Guard Legion with strong combat capabilities.

The summary of alchemical biological technology in the knowledge exchanged between Saros, the Lord of the Dark Nest, and the Golden Empire was used by the Dark Crow's Eye as a compulsory course for the Crow Guard Legion.

Almost all the citizens of the Empire knew that when a raven appeared in the sky, it meant that you were not only being watched by a pair of eyes.

Lord Rodenis, the King of Dark Crows, based on the alchemical technology exchanged by Saros, the Lord of the Dark Nest, and the knowledge of the Empire's Magic Research Department on bloodline research, tailored a transformation plan for the guards of the Dark Crow's Eye.

This not only allowed each guard of the Dark Crow's Eye to obtain power that was compatible with their own attributes, but also allowed Rodenis to stand out, possessing an extremely high status and powerful strength.

The effect of True Dragon Blood on this King of Dark Crows far exceeded that of ordinary Dragon Blood creatures, allowing Rodenis to gradually rise in the past decade or so.

Under the leadership of Rodenis, the King of Dark Crows, the Dark Crow Guards possessed absolute will.

"If the white dove cannot symbolize peace, the black raven will lead us to victory!"

This was the slogan of the Dark Crow Legion, and also the law of will they adhered to.

In the mortal rumors of the Empire, Rodenis, the King of Dark Crows, surpassed many of the earlier generation Empire powerhouses, and Rodenis, along with several powerful legion commanders such as Gilenis, Dragonborn werewolf Saha, and barbarian commander Jibu, were known as—the Nine Pillars of the Golden Empire!

Natis, the first half-elf and half-human hybrid born in the Golden Empire, also gradually rose in the decade or so of war, and also joined the ranks of the Empire's Nine Pillars.

The title of the Empire's Nine Pillars did not come from nowhere.

Several years after the Dragon Emperor of the Empire, Caron Gogmora, and the Northern Kings stepped into the cosmic starry sky from the mortal world of Ikaniya, Gabriel, the Dragonborn Angel who had received the Dragon King's decree from the Empire, returned from the conquest of another dimension.

This Holy Blood Angel with the Dragon Blood of the Empire's Emperor once said, "The Empire's True Dragons are the sky that blocks everything, then we should be the pillars that support the sky."

Thus, those commanders and rising powerhouses who performed the most excellently in the Empire were listed as the Empire's Nine Pillars.

Rodenis's tall figure stopped in front of a large tent, and the legion warriors guarding both sides were also Dragon Blood creatures transformed by the influence of giant dragons.

"Is His Highness Sesar still busy?"

Rodenis asked the two Dragon Blood monsters.

"Lord Rodenis, His Highness Sesar said that if you arrive, you can go directly in to find him!"

The two Dragon Blood trolls also maintained respect for the King of Dark Crows in front of them, not only because of order, but also because of strength and merit.

Rodenis nodded, his huge, dark iron beak flashing with a cold black light.

When Rodenis stepped into the tent, he saw one of the four most shining of the Empire's newborn stars in Dragonborn form.

Although the five-colored dragons all took pride in their true dragon bodies and naturally disliked the seemingly weak Dragonborn form, and had absolute pride in their true bodies.

But the Dragons in the Golden Empire, those superficial arrogance had gradually settled into indomitable pride, and for the True Dragons of the Empire, no form could change the essence of their belonging.

These True Dragons used Dragonborn forms only for daily convenience and to establish a psychological sense of belonging to the people close to the Empire's rule.

However, among the Dragons of the Golden Empire, whether they were chromatic dragons, metallic dragons, gem dragons, or other sub-dragons, when they transformed into humanoid forms, they had unique images compared to other dragons.

The silver and gold dragons among those metallic dragons liked to transform into beautiful elves and more common human images when they transformed.

But no matter what kind of humanoid form the True Dragons of the Golden Empire transformed into, the pair of dragon horns representing the essence of the giant dragon would always remain on the heads of these giant dragons.

The young blue dragon Sesar was also like this, with azure dragon horns growing on his skull like the crown of a storm, looking much nobler than the princes of those human kingdoms.

Sesar the Conqueror was now covering a thick book with his claws, facing away from him and praying towards the Empire's emblem hanging high in the center of the tent.

Rodenis knew the book in the young blue dragon Sesar's claws was the "Koria War Chronicles" written by this young blue dragon himself based on his experiences and insights on war over the past decade, representing a summary of some of this young blue dragon's thoughts.

The majestic head of the Empire's Emperor looked down on all living beings in this huge emblem, with dragons circling his wings.

The dragon's intonation was like a declaration, giving Rodenis an extraordinary sense of solemnity even when reciting softly.

So Rodenis stood quietly behind, slightly lowered his head, and also silently paid tribute to the Empire's emblem in the royal tent.

"Listen to my king, Gogmora, the Dragon Emperor,"

"You rule everything, the monarch of kings, the king of kings,"

Sesar the Conqueror's voice echoed, like a solemn hymn in a church.

"My king Gogmora, grant scales and claws, blessed by the Dragon Kings, the crown of the Holy Empire, Sesar the Conqueror, the defender of the Empire..."

It was not until the young blue dragon Sesar finished his prayer that Rodenis looked at the young True Dragon who turned to look at him and said solemnly: "Your Highness Sesar, the Faen Empire is about to seize power, and the team of Kane Modella, the future king who will ascend the throne, has arrived at the southernmost Rose City,"

"King Kane Modella hopes to meet with the Dragon Kings of the Empire in front of the Rose City in the south. His Majesty Obiras, the Dragon King who is currently in charge of the Empire's central government, has conveyed an edict, hoping that you can personally go to discuss the actual ownership of the last city in the south with the future King of the Faen Empire!"

The young blue dragon Sesar laughed, showing his fangs and said: "Oh, has His Majesty Obiras returned to the Empire? Is it now the Golden Dragon King's turn to take charge of the Empire?"

Rodenis nodded, then shook his head.

Then the King of Dark Crows laughed, "When His Majesty Obiras and Her Majesty Naroa were looking for the whereabouts of the God Emperor Gogmora, they accidentally entered another universe world through a space crack,"

"In a plane in that universe, His Majesty Obiras met another ancient gold dragon."

"His Majesty Obiras originally wanted to use the power of his clan to investigate the news in that universe, but he found that the other ancient gold dragon was both stupid and arrogant, and even tried to establish a hypocritical kingdom."

"Although this was the case, His Majesty Obiras was not angry enough, but that gold dragon actually despised the existence of the Empire, and even wanted to use that weak and ridiculous power to conquer His Majesty Obiras and Her Majesty Naroa."

"So His Majesty Obiras and Her Majesty Naroa fought with the gold dragon who claimed to be able to fight against the gods in the mortal world. The gold dragon's weak will could not defeat His Majesty Obiras with its more powerful power, so he summoned his elders and injured His Majesty Obiras and Her Majesty Naroa."

The King of Dark Crows couldn't help laughing, "So after His Majesty Obiras and Her Majesty Naroa returned to the Empire, the Black King Rosani found an opportunity to transfer the power of governance to His Majesty Obiras, who was recuperating."

"His Majesty Rosani has run out of the world of Ikaniya, and does not know where he has gone now. Even the prediction spells of those mages in the Empire's Ministry of Magic cannot find His Majesty Rosani's whereabouts."

Since more than ten years ago, the Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire and the Northern Kings stepped into the starry sky and never returned to the world of Ikaniya.

Later, the Empire's mages and the legendary mages of the Faen Empire in the Central Continent followed the traces left by the kings in the world to explore the cosmic starry sky.

The scenes detected by those Empire mages and legendary casters who used astral spirits were shocking.

The traces of battle in the cosmic starry sky were the aftermath of the Kings' War, but they were still not something that ordinary legendary mages could approach.

These mages explored along the traces of destruction of the battle from a distance, and found that the Kings' War had been fought deep into the starry sky, traversing many star fields, leaving nearly indelible energy aftermath in the vacuum.

According to the estimates of the Faen Empire's legendary mage groups, the enemy faced by the Kings' War, the ancestral Seraph of the Koria Kingdom, was at least a legendary destiny-level existence, or possessed a higher essence.

But even such a powerful existence disappeared along with the Northern Kings after that day.

The power of the Seraph that remained in the mortal world of Ikaniya also fell silent.

Some say that the Northern Kings also fell in the cosmic vacuum due to the excessive consumption of their origins after killing the Seraph, and some say that the battle between the Northern Kings and the Seraph is still continuing.

The battle between such super creatures does not end with the annihilation of flesh and blood like creatures in the mortal world. They fight against will, against spirit, until one side's will is completely wiped out.

But the Golden Empire never felt that its emperor would fall in such a battle. Although the heroic spirits in the Dragon Temple were silent, they did not return to death.

The power of the Dragon Blood was still dormant in the body of the Holy Blood Angel Gabriel, and that angel's return was for this purpose.

In the years after the disappearance of the kings, the Northern Kings' Alliance also temporarily stopped its conquest of the Southern nobles due to internal unrest.

The remaining kingdoms that had lost their powerful leaders could no longer reach the Golden Empire, which had many Dragon Kings.

But the Golden Empire still maintained the Kings' Alliance, and in the turbulent years, the Empire's many Dragon Kings forcibly suppressed those forces that dared to rebel against the alliance.

In particular, the King of the Elven Kingdom came in person to fulfill the Kings' Alliance and crushed all the rebellious and independent forces with the Dragon Kings of the Golden Empire.

The ancestral gold dragon Obiras gradually gained the trust of other Dragon Kings in these years of the King's War and joined the ranks of the Empire's Dragon Kings.

In the end, Princess Leah Sesar, the Minister of Political Affairs of the Hobbes Empire, and the prince of the Beastman King Posel Lion, were supported by the Elves and the Golden Empire to become the regents of their respective kingdoms, holding the power of the kingdom and regaining their foothold in the Kings' Alliance.

Thus, the Empire's many Dragon Kings divided all the conquered Southern noble territories according to the division of the alliance agreement and gave them to the kingdoms.

It took several years to sort out the complicated affairs. Only No-Dividing City, which was rebuilt after the destruction of the Koria Kingdom, became the joint control of the Golden Empire and the Kings, the main base stationed in the south.

After stabilizing everything within the Kings' Alliance, the remaining Southern noble kingdoms that lingered on were slowly cleared one by one by the Kings.

The Empire's True Dragons, who awakened from their slumber and transformed into young dragons, began to appear on the stage of the Ikaniya Northern Continent.

It was also in these years of continuous conquest and trials that the young blue dragon Sesar, like the other Dragon Kings of the Empire, began to show his talents in his youth and had his own title.

The young blue dragon Sesar knew that the big dragons of the Golden Empire were working towards the same goal. They did not want the True Dragon King to see that his country was a mess after returning to the world of Ikaniya.

So the young blue dragon Sesar also tried to lead the other young dragons in these years to make insignificant contributions to the stability of the Empire.

So Sesar nodded, did not ask any more questions, but said: "In that case, let's set off now and go to the Rose City in the south to meet King Kane."

Rodenis nodded, "Shall we wait for His Highness Nero? His Highness Nero should have received the news and is on his way here."

As soon as the super crow person's voice fell, a thunderous dragon language sounded in the royal tent.

A dragonkin youth with two crimson dragon horns atop his head strode into the tent, “I've arrived. I was originally planning to eavesdrop on your conversation.”

This tall dragonkin youth had a stern and untamed face, with a glint of intelligence in his pupils.

“But judging from what you, Rodenis, said, Obilas's experiences can prove that the Ministry of Magic's theory, based on His Majesty the Emperor's proposition of a multiverse attracting, approaching, merging, and colliding in a world convergence, is correct and well-founded.”

The blue dragon, Caesar, narrowed his draconic eyes slightly. He only realized it when Nero's words fell, “And the conflict in the Elven Kingdom,” Caesar said.

Rodenis nodded, paying respect to the young red dragon who was called "The Slaughterer" by the citizens of the southern noble kingdoms.

“This matter is still being discussed in the Imperial Ministry of Magic, but World Tree, Lord Owo, once said that it indeed has such a feeling!”