Under the Red Dragon

Humans are born with a desire to migrate; the yearning for new continents is instinctive.

Thus began the migration of a million Valyrians from the demon-corrupted continent of Essos to Sothoryos.

Under the leadership of the Golden Empire's legionnaires and Dragon Lords, the world's remaining million humans felled trees, built a fleet, and set sail from the ruins of Valyria towards a new future.

Over more than a year, aided by the Spellcaster Legion, the mixed people, ultimately known as Valyrian survivors, constructed ocean-faring ships capable of carrying thousands, at the juncture between the Doom and the arrival of a new future.

The vast ocean-faring ships filled the waters near the Valyrian peninsula, as the remaining massive dragons from the Doom War, guided by Dragon Riders, led the fleet towards the new continent.

Having witnessed the descent of dragons and the battle between the Dragon King Kalon Goggmora and the legendary demon Sacreths, the Valyrians in this world no longer dared to call dragons 'dragons'.

Therefore, the dragons in this world were renamed 'Wyverns' by the Valyrians themselves, to revere the Dragon God.

The fleet sailed majestically, flying the dragon's royal banner, and under the guidance of the Dragon Lords and the Golden Empire's legions, no demon dared to hinder their progress.

Thus, the Valyrian people followed the Summer Sea, enduring currents and storms, and arrived at Sothoryos, a continent dominated by plagues and beasts.

Sothoryos was vast, covered in tropical jungles, and largely unexplored by humans.

The former Dragon Rider Jeninarra Belaerys flew her dragon, Tyraxes, over this continent for three years and still did not reach its end, demonstrating its immense size.

However, the Ghiscari had established outposts on the northern coast of this continent during their Old Empire era.

They built Yeen, a city at the mouth of a river, and Gorosh, a place of exile on the Basilisk Isles in the southwest.

These Old World immigrants landed on the Basilisk Isles in the southwest of Sothoryos and arrived at Yeen, only to find it abandoned for over two thousand years.

So, these immigrants traveled upstream along the river, passing through the ruins of Yi Ling, eliminating ghouls and spider-monsters covered in spots, and clearing out some demons that had accidentally crossed the ocean to this continent.

Then, they stopped at the vast rainforest plain at the river's end and source.

The old civilization passed away, and a new civilization began to rise on this continent.

The Valyrian people took the dragon as their totem and deity, also the highest ruler of civilization.

They began to build a new civilization on the newly explored continent—the Golden Land, a civilization unique to this world and a part of the Golden Empire.

Cities arose here as the strongholds of civilization, while another land difficult for mortals to set foot on—the Ulthos continent—was a jungle that only dragons and wyverns could traverse.

Cities are the twilight of civilization, and jungles are its dawn; the sky is like a dome, covering all directions.

Dragon Riders from House Targaryen, House Orion, and House Belaerys rode massive dragons across the strait towards the continent of Ulthos.

Some Dragon Riders wore armor adorned with the sigil of a red three-headed dragon on a black field, with a dragon's eye at the center, signifying their allegiance to House Targaryen of the Golden Civilization.

Their armor was made of black steel, with helmets decorated with dragon scales, showcasing the characteristics of the dragon civilization.

Besides these adult knights, young children or exceptionally determined teenagers sat on the backs of the massive dragons.

These children and teenagers held or had in front of them dragon eggs that looked like rocks of various colors. The vibrant dragon eggs pulsed with life, like a beating heart, resonating with the children and teenagers.

The pulsation of the dragon eggs gave these children and teenagers immense courage, gradually turning the nervousness on their faces into excitement and anticipation.

They could not help but anticipate and be excited.

As the most talented children and teenagers of the next generation, they were selected to serve as the Dragon Guard of those god-like dragons, a coveted opportunity to enter the Dragon Kingdom with the Golden Empire's legions.

They were destined to have their own dragons and would accompany them, becoming the most loyal and powerful Dragon Knights, witnessing a wider world and more magnificent scenery.

Even the Dragon Riders around them envied these young people's opportunities.

Although these adult Dragon Riders might have the chance to step through that sky gate in the future, their current responsibilities were more important.

Led by Belaerys and Rhaenys, the two most powerful dragons, nearly two hundred Dragon Riders finally crossed the strait and arrived in the vast mountains of the Ulthos continent.

A massive tree, several thousand meters tall, was rooted in the earth, its top disappearing into the sea of clouds. Even the Dragon Riders could not see the tree's crown.

Countless gnarled and enormous roots spiraled around the tree's hundreds-of-meters-wide trunk, like a ladder to the sky, winding layer upon layer.

The Dragon Riders could not help but feel a sense of awe. It was said that this Tree to Heaven was just a primary root of the World Tree growing in the Dragon Fortress's back garden.

These people could hardly imagine what kind of magical power this was. Perhaps, anything related to these god-like dragons should be as mythical as it was normal.

Beneath this Tree of Heaven, dragons rested in quiet peace.

Dragons of various colors surrounded the World Tree and the Ancestral Red Dragon, lying on the ground as if resting with their eyes closed.

Around these dragons were scattered countless giant bones, mostly different in shape, including the bones of humanoid monsters, apes, lizard-snakes, and serpent-dragons, all incredibly huge.

There were also several giant dragon bones, their flesh gone, with only the thick skeletons remaining, measuring three hundred and fifty meters long.

The bones were piled together, like hills of white bones.

The white bones contrasted with the majestic, reclining dragons, blending divinity and bestiality as if into one.

These wild dragons ultimately could not escape the dragons' scrutiny and became food and resources for several dragons.

Legend has it that in the distant seas, there were dragons that could breathe frost, with bodies over four hundred meters long. The Blue Dragon Akrz and the White Dragon Gormoth had spent dozens of days searching for traces of this variant dragon, but ultimately returned empty-handed.

Two hundred dragons, even larger than the dragons, carefully restrained their roars and the sound of their wings, landing on the periphery of the towering tree, fearing to disturb the resting dragons.

The two largest dragons, Belaerys and Rhaenys, were two hundred meters long, but when they landed, they were like cats sneaking around on tiptoe.

These dragons did not have the same power and talent as the dragons to completely restrain the power of their landing.

When the landing made a huge noise, the most powerful of the two dragons invariably stretched their heads forward and pressed them to the ground, with their wings tightly retracted to their sides and their buttocks and tails raised high.

This posture not only made it easier for the Dragon Riders on their backs to dismount but also allowed the dragons to open their eyes and see their submissive posture at the first moment if they were awakened.

Fortunately, the dragons remained quiet, allowing all the dragons and knights to exhale in unison.

Under the Enlightenment spell, these dragons, who had made meritorious contributions and were spared from becoming food, had also become smarter. Although these dragons could not speak due to their throat structure and their own talents, they were at least dozens of times stronger than the beasts they once were.

Dragon-kin werewolf Saha and Guard Commander Gillenes led the fully rested Imperial Legion to garrison on the outskirts, guarding the dragons and preventing any ignorant beasts and magical creatures from coming to make trouble and disturb the dragons.

In addition to these warriors who formed the legion's wall of defense, the remaining spellcasters and scholars were busy.

Many resources collected by the Golden Empire in the previous old continent, such as gold, gems, and precious mineral extracts, were not only a form of wealth and currency but also used as materials for spellcasters, collected and piled up in the camp.

The Ulthos continent also had many undeveloped resources waiting to be developed and mined by the Golden Empire. Among the resources that had been identified, there were as many as fifty-three kinds suitable for building mage towers and the various devices of floating cities.

There were also as many as eleven kinds of alternative materials for the energy core of the floating city, the mithril core, and the basic materials for building the elemental pool.

The output of these resources and the vastness of the continent were enough to prove that this world was a suitable development area for the Golden Empire and was regarded by the Empire as one of its future subordinate resource worlds.

These resource worlds were also another lair for the dragons and a backup for the Empire. Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, let alone these dragons.

Whether it was the Outer Gods, the Magic Dragon God, or Tiamat after immortality, they all mentioned that the Acaenia world was in an immeasurable danger, not only Acaenia but the entire universe was in turmoil.

If things were to go awry and the Acaenia world headquarters were to encounter an irresistible danger, the Golden Empire would not be unprepared, and these worlds connected by the Empire were the cradle of the Empire's resurgence.

"Lord Gillenes,"

The Targaryen family knight, who was also the current patriarch of the Targaryen family, saluted the Guard Commander Gillenes and said, "These are the most outstanding children we have selected, with greater talents than us, and they are our future hope!"

Gillenes had already replaced the magic-powered heavy armor brought by the legion warriors on the floating island. He looked like a giant in front of these dragon knights, overlooking these children with gold, silver, or silver-gold hair and purple and light blue eyes.

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Regardless of gender, these children all had pale skin and stunning beauty, just like the excellent appearance of the Goggmora dragon clan among the true dragon species. These children were also the most outstanding group among the Valyrians.

The children's beautiful pupils were filled with expectation, and their fingers nervously pinched the corners of their clothes and skirts, looking in awe at this giant-like legion commander who was dozens of times more agile than ordinary people.

"Whether they are outstanding or not depends on their own performance," Gillenes's dragon-faced helmet visor opened, revealing the warrior's weathered but still resolute face.

He pointed to the ladder that looked like it was climbing to the top of the clouds and said in a gentle tone, "If these children can rely on their own willpower to climb to the top of the World Tree's roots, then they will be qualified to enter the Dragon Kingdom."

"If their will is not outstanding enough, even if they enter the Dragon Kingdom, they will not be able to achieve anything in that kingdom. May my Lord and the dragons bless you. Go, you have three days to prepare."

So, under this towering tree that could even block the sunlight in the sky, silence returned, with only the sound of loyal warriors occasionally stepping on the fallen leaves on the ground and the dragons' quiet, slow, but long and powerful breathing.

The dragons' heartbeat was also clearly audible, as if these dragons were in some kind of wonderful realm.

Suddenly, the Black Dragon Lord Rosani opened his eyes.

This black dragon had truly spent more time in this world. Rosani, who was the first to obtain the secondary authority, had grown to nineteen meters long, no less than the current young Red Dragon Cadelos.

Thick dragon horns grew backward from the skull like black wrought iron cones. Living in this world for a long time and eating dragons had also given this black dragon some dragon's physical characteristics.

Sharp, dark bone spurs grew around the strong, streamlined body of the true dragon, including the knee bones of the limbs, making it look particularly ferocious.

A sighing dragon language sounded.

"I can never be like Calon. Perhaps, we can only embark on the path that dragons should take."

Dragons are different from those spellcasters and cultivators. They rely on bloodline growth. In each sleep and transformation that crosses age groups, they can gain more powerful power.

Normal red dragons, relying on this method, can obtain legendary power by relying on the growth and transformation of their bloodline when they pass through the extremely old age stage.

Among the five-colored dragons, the ordinary blue dragon species, which is strong in bloodline and ranked second, is slightly inferior to the red dragon. These blue dragons can only obtain legendary power when they pass through the extremely old stage and become ancient blue dragons.

Although green dragons are always easily suppressed by fierce blue dragons in frontal combat, in fact, a green dragon's talent is enough to obtain legendary power in the ancient dragon's age stage.

The weakest black and white dragons among the five-colored dragons are particularly prominent compared to the previous ones.

Normal black dragons, relying on their own bloodline, can only obtain power comparable to a legend when they pass through the ancient dragon stage and reach the end of the ancient dragon age stage.

As for the white dragons, they can compete with the power of legends when they become great ancient dragons, when other dragon species begin to cross towards the goal of demigod dragons and apotheosis dragons.

Strictly speaking, the path of a demigod and the legendary rank are not a matter of high or low, but more like two different paths. It's just that some outstanding individuals can tread both paths simultaneously, like the ancestral red dragon mentioned by the black dragon Rosani.

"You're awake too? I actually woke up a long time ago," the white dragon Camed's two heads opened their eyes simultaneously, its long necks winding and stretching as it approached the black dragon Rosani, beginning to whisper.

"Although our power is very strong, if we are to measure ourselves by the standard of pursuing both paths at the same time, we are only comparable to a young Calonne at this point,"

The white dragon Germot also opened its eyes, baring its fangs, and chuckled softly.

"Yes, we were unaware when we were in a chaotic haze, but now that we have fully mastered the dragon blood, we feel such clarity in our minds,"

The green dragon Antagena also quietly opened her eyes, a pair of emerald-like eyes flowing with pure, clear spiritual light.

"Until you reach a certain level, you can never understand the thoughts of another level. Just like when we were in a chaotic daze, we couldn't see Calonne's actions clearly, and only thought he was just a dragon with a stronger talent than us,"

The blue dragon lord Dos also opened his pupils at this moment, lightning and electric light dancing in his eyes.

Calonne's technique for taming dragon blood had already been summarized and refined by him into a mature secret method for controlling dragon blood with spiritual will. The dragons in the dragon group were able to understand and master this secret method when they obtained the spiritual authority.

Through the intake and stimulation of spices, the several dragons here finally completely controlled their will, no longer disturbed by the chaotic influence of the evil dragon's blood, and successfully transformed these bloodline toxins into power they could wield.

"Unfortunately, I might be able to try to cross the bloodline of the previous generation and step into the realm of the ancestral dragon now, but if I step into the realm of the ancestral dragon, I won't be as confident as I am now in perfectly controlling my dragon blood,"

"However, I don't think it's appropriate to pass these techniques on to those dragons,"

The female red dragon Claina also opened her eyes. Her temper was still irritable, like the firelight that constantly flickered in her pupils, but this was her original nature, no longer stimulated by the evil dragon's blood.

Akz, the King of Azure Lightning, opened his eyes last, the flashing lightning converged, and a deep, rumbling dragon language sounded.

"Hehe, if the dragons in the empire could be like us, then they would naturally regard Calonne as a god!"

Well, an older sister who was only a few years older than me left on her own. In fact, birth, aging, sickness, and death are all things that mortals need to experience.

I have experienced a lot, and my mentality is very calm, but my heart is too calm, without a trace of ripples.

I used to be able to write four thousand words in two hours, but these past two days, I've been on leave at home, sitting blankly in front of my laptop, and I've only managed to write one chapter.

At Calonne's feet, the myriad aspects of mortals. I seem to be like him, watching the journeys of mortals, but I am also a person in my own eyes.

Occasionally opening my heavenly eye to peek at the mortal world, pitifully, I am a person in the eyes of others. Groaning without illness, let it be.