Before the birth of the universe, there was nothingness and chaos, an eternal silence and a place of soundlessness.
It was not until the moment heaven and earth were created that the world began to have sound.
That was the first explosion that shattered chaos and nothingness, reverberating through all worlds, bringing both destruction and creation.
The Ancestral Red Dragon's strike, carrying that domineering and peerless wild flame across a million miles, brought all Demons and their kin a similar feeling.
At this moment, it was as if heaven and earth, up and down, four directions, left and right, encompassing space and time, all stood still at the same instant.
The figures of the Dragon and Demon clashing also seemed to be frozen instantly, stripping everything around them from space, silencing the exclamations of countless Demons and Dragon kin.
Time did not slow down, but the figures of the Ancestral Red Dragon and the Legendary Devil seemed to be images transmitted by light from an infinite distance into this world, then covering the hearts and vision of all living beings.
Boom!
The next second,
When the first explosion came from a distant time, the living beings on the earth instantly came alive. But what followed was complete destruction.
The earth trembled like a heartbeat, and the reverberating thunderous echoes were as soul-stirring as the scythe of death. Unrivaled flames and dust surged into the sky, visible hundreds of miles away as they soared into the clouds.
The lingering destruction and terrifying momentum were indescribable; only the Demons and Dragon kin fortunate enough to witness this earth-shattering strike could comprehend what true despair was.
The irresistibly powerful destructive aftershocks, like ripples smoothing out all wrinkles, spread out in all directions from the center point of the Ancestral Red Dragon and the Legendary Demon Sacreth, pulverizing hills and leveling the earth wherever they went.
The Demons, like a tide, covered the earth, intending to destroy the entire world with their claws, fangs, and the power bestowed by the Abyss. But these Devils could no longer complete this mission.
Their bodies were so fragile before these destructive aftershocks; the Demons within a few miles of the Ancient Dragon and the Legendary Demon had already turned into dust in the first wail emitted by the world.
Their proud bodies were shattered, and their souls were completely torn apart in the destructive aftershocks, never to return to the embrace of the Abyssal Chaotic Will.
This rolling shockwave swept across the entire battlefield, passing through layers of Devil bodies, being blocked and weakened, but even when it reached the city of Valyria on the other side of the strait, it still stirred up a fierce gale.
Countless Devils jumped into the sea, while the bloody cloaks of the Dragon kin warriors fluttered fiercely in the strong wind.
Leggins raised his heavy hammer, Dragonborn Werewolf wielded his greatsword, and hundreds of battle-hardened legionnaires roared in unison: "The Emperor has arrived, our Lord has finally come! Repent, today is the time for your atonement!"
Two Titanoboas hissed and roared, the Golem Legion pounded their chests and grunted, and the warriors, tall as mountains, had tears in their eyes as they shouted in unison, "The Dragon Emperor has finally descended!"
The city began to boil, everyone cheered, and the false Dragons and Wyverns soared through the sky, roaring with their heads held high.
But the cheers of the masses were drowned out by the earth-shattering roar and the sound of falling stars striking the ground.
The surging dust billowed and dispersed, the Ancestral Red Dragon was bounced high into the sky by the unparalleled impact, but the roaring sound of the Legendary Devil Lord Sakretes came from deep underground.
The Ancestral Red Dragon's space-crossing strike directly drove this Legendary Devil, who had not anticipated a Dragon being a powerful spellcaster, into the ground, piercing dozens of kilometers through the underground soil in an instant.
The hill where the Legendary Demon Sakretes had stood was now a massive crater several miles in diameter. Thick cracks, like a spiderweb, spread across the earth, each hundreds of meters deep.
The Demons who had escaped the fate of destruction in the first wave of impact howled and ran and jumped across the earth, trying to escape this battlefield that devoured all living beings.
But Kalon had already spread his wings and hovered in the air. The Crown of Stars, formed by stellar projections above his head, began to collapse and fall.
The stellar projections, condensed from a Seven-Ring High-Level Spell, although not possessing the boundless power of true stars, still caused meteorite-like devastation under the Ancestral Red Dragon's immense magical output.
Like meteorites peeled from stars, they crashed down from high in the sky, whistling as they slammed into the deep crater in the earth, causing the roaring shouts of the Legendary Demon Sacreth to become intermittent, the muffled roars growing fainter and more distant with each passing moment.
Thus, the waves of destruction began to sweep across the earth anew.
Until the fourteenth stellar meteorite from the Crown of Stars, formed by the stellar projections in the sky, fell and dissipated, the voice of the Legendary Demon Sakretes was almost inaudible.
In this land where magic was barren and elements gradually became dormant, the magical might displayed by the Ancestral Red Dragon was still extremely terrifying.
But Kalon stood in the air on four claws, his massive wings spread wide, his wild and beautiful body seeming to tread on flat ground, looking down at the dark depths of the deep pit that had pierced the fragile crust of this world, without any hint of triumphant joy.
Legendary creatures can no longer be regarded as ordinary beings. Creatures that ascend to Legendary status, whether by innate bloodline or acquired effort, will have a transcendent essence to their lives.
What's more, he was facing a High-Level Demon who had ascended beyond Legendary.
Such a Demon Lord, even if their heart were gouged out, their head crushed, or their body destroyed, might not necessarily be killed.
Only by completely annihilating the core of such an existence's power, making them lose their reliance in this world, can they be truly killed.
And the damage Kalon inflicted on that Legendary Demon with two Seven-Ring Spells and two Nine-Ring Spells, combined with his own power, although considerable, did not achieve the desired result.
Kalon could sense that the Legendary Demons aura had not truly diminished; instead, it was unprecedentedly strong. Although in the eyes of others, the Legendary Devil's aura had dropped to freezing point, as if severely wounded by the Ancestral Red Dragon's strike.
But the opponent's crude concealment technique could not escape this Ancestral Red Dragon, whose magical ability far exceeded its own level.
What kind of terrifying creatures are Ancient Dragons? And a Dragon Mage who can tame an Ancient Dragon, overcome the toxins and instincts in their bloodline, and use the Ancient Dragon's talents to specialize in magical knowledge, is a species that has never been born in this world.
Even those Dragons known for their magic-addiction cannot compare to the Ancestral Red Dragon, whose brain and sub-brain are simultaneously evolving after ingesting spice.
Within that vast magic library, there is not only all the conventional magical knowledge, including treasures from spells to Nine-Ring Spells, that Saint Realm Great Mage Lapers taught Kalon.
This is also why Kalon maintains due respect for Saint Realm Great Mage Lapers to this day; although Lapers and he are in a cooperative relationship, the other party has never held back anything, and can be considered half of this Ancestral Red Dragon's teacher.
In addition, there is the vast, smoke-like knowledge treasure trove of Dragon inheritance available for Kalon to ponder and absorb day and night.
But most importantly, from the Knowledge Fortress, the mad Mages of the Ancient Magic Empire left behind lost Super-Tier Magical Knowledge beyond the Nine-Ring.
Many Ten-Ring and Eleven-Ring spells exist among them, and there is even a Twelve-Ring spell that the Ancestral Red Dragon still cannot comprehend.
Under such vast knowledge accumulation, Kalon's horizons and insights have been expanded to a degree few living beings can match, and the knowledge Kalon has learned has also transformed into this Ancestral Red Dragon's foundation and accumulation, making him stronger day by day.
Compared to Kalon, this Legendary Demon, although powerful enough, was even much stronger than the current Ancestral Red Dragon.
But some of its techniques for using bloodline power and concealing its aura were full of flaws in Kalon's eyes, like fishing with a bare hook, waiting for the Ancestral Red Dragon to take the bait.
This is also why Kalon did not press the attack. That Legendary Demon might be waiting in that deep underground abyss for a weakness in the Ancestral Red Dragon, to deliver a fatal blow to the Red Dragon.
Most importantly, Kalon's Nine-Ring Spell, lauded by Mages as the 'Invincible Barrier,' enveloped every corner of the Ancestral Red Dragon's body, like a natural energy armor but a much stronger barrier shield.
It was now cracking inch by inch, then tearing into pieces, pulverizing into nothingness, transforming back into energy, and instantly dissipating into the air of the magic-barren land.
This barrier, said to be unbreakable, was also shattered in this earth-shattering strike, reaching the upper limit of its capacity.
But in the Ancestral Red Dragon's dark golden pupils, the information from the instant clash flashed: a colossal Devil shadow, holding a Godbane Sword, an illusion of it striking towards the Ancestral Red Dragon's head and horns.
Even with unparalleled speed and the sudden arrival of the Plane Gate, this powerful LegendaryDevil still managed to capture the trajectory of the attack.
This Nine-Ring Spell barrier, said to be unbreakable, was precisely cleaved open by a crack from that Godbane Sword, and only then was it completely shattered under immense power.
Indeed, after Kalon abandoned the idea of pursuing, the aura of the Legendary Demon in the boundless underground abyssal passage, which had been weak, began to rise again, instantly reaching an unprecedented peak.
An aura, like surging blood, almost solidified, emanating from a hundred-kilometer deep pit in the ground, accompanied by an endless rumble.
Legendary Demon Sakretes soared from the depths of the earth, his violent and cruel aura still rising steadily, forming a gigantic shadow of a demon god behind him, as if he were a Demon King ruling a plane, his dark, hollow eyes carrying the unique corrosive power of the Abyss.
Kalon's gaze merely brushed against his deep eye sockets, and he could feel the influence of the chaotic and insane will from beneath the chaos.
Like the abilities possessed by most powerful Legendaries, mortal beings, before the will of a Legendary, have no up or down, no left or right; their thoughts are manipulated and stagnated, gradually overwhelming their cognition.
"Mind Barrier,"
Magic light flowed from Kalon's claw tips, and his accompanying domain clung to him like a natural armor, layer by layer, augmented by a Mind Barrier protection spell added to the psionic defense, completely isolating the influence of that chaotic and insane will.
"How many years has it been? Hundreds? Or thousands? It's been a long time since I've been so severely injured,"
The gigantic Legendary Demon's goat-like face revealed a cruel and ferocious smile, even the curved horns on his head were covered in Evil Fire, and his mouth full of conical fangs was exposed.
His thirty-eight-meter tall body burned with the purple Evil Fire of the inferno, and the body, which had been reduced to pulp by an Ancestral Red Dragon's strike and regenerated, was rapidly becoming powerful and resilient under the forging of the purple Evil Fire.
Hundreds, even thousands, of eyes on his spread wings blinked simultaneously, eerily chilling.
A goat-horned longsword with evil eyes growing on it was held in the hand of this Legendary Demon; the sword's body was densely covered with evil eyes, each imbued with the aura of a different Demon Lord.
Unlike the eyes growing on this Legendary Demon's wings, the eyes embedded in this Evil Eye Sword were the gouged-out evil eyes of different Demon Lords, and they also shifted as the eyes on the wings blinked.
"Red Dragon, you have successfully ignited my wrath, awakening my long-dormant battle fury," the Legendary Demon's eyes shot out vicious gazes, as cruel and violent as the hundreds of thousands of evil eyes on his wings and sword.
"I will kill you and embed your Dragon Eyes into this Godbane Sword," a malevolent laugh simultaneously rang out, and the Legendary Devil sneered, "This is your honor; your body will be transformed by me into an Abyssal Demon Dragon, becoming my mount for conquering worlds, a hound loyal only to me!"
Kalon stood tall, his claws and fangs bared, his internal magic furnace drawing in the faint elemental power still present in this magic desert to replenish his consumption.
Even the scattered energy from deceased demons was absorbed by Kalon's furnace; the Dragonfire from an Ancestral Dragon completely incinerated the Abyssal aura mixed within, restoring it to pure energy, accumulating within the magic furnace.
His dark golden pupils scanned the world's information; after this Legendary Devil's power intersected with the world, he could no longer hide or isolate himself as before, and quantifiable information was directly collected by Kalon.
Lord born from the greatest sin in the inferno, Challenge Level: Twenty-two.
It is difficult to precisely measure the specific levels and values of power; even among mages, from apprentice, low-level, mid-level, high-level, and Legendary, to the Challenge Level displayed by Kalon's detection magic in his preferred information format, it is impossible to measure the absolute strength or weakness of a life form.
However, it is undeniable that this Legendary Demon was the most powerful enemy Kalon had encountered so far.
But this also caused the Evil Dragon Blood within this normally low-key Ancestral Red Dragonto gradually become excited, making pale flames begin to flicker in the Ancestral Red Dragon's calm pupils, and causing pale fire to burn between the Ancestral Red Dragon's scales.
"You have many ideas, but I hope your strength is harder than your mouth!"
The deep, powerful Dragon Language sounded, neither high-pitched nor boisterous, but calm, yet enough to enrage this Legendary Devil.
Legendary Demon Sakretes's small, narrow pupils revealed a furious expression; his huge wings flapped open, and thousands of Abyssal Evil Lights shot out from the dense evil eyes, each many times more powerful than the soul-devouring demonic light of a Barlog Lord.
"I will crush you, you damned lizard, you arrogant, flying insect!"
A furious roar lingered in place, and the Legendary Demon Lord had already appeared behind the Ancestral Red Dragon; that high-level teleportation spell was almost an innate ability in the Legendary Devil's hands, silent, with even spatial fluctuations being weak, almost nonexistent.
The evil eyes on the gigantic Godbane Sword blinked, shooting out corrosive and soul-devouring Abyssal death energy and evil light. The biting cold edge carried the evil and chaos that could break all order, and raging purple Evil Fire steamed above the blade, slashing down towards the Ancestral Red Dragon's back.
The space itself seemed to fear this Godbane Sword; countless air currents materialized, torn into a crack in the air by the chilling blade.
"Roar!"
Even the slightest spatial fluctuation would be easily detected by the Ancestral Red Dragon, so Kalon flipped in the sky, wings spread, four claws facing upwards, head raised, directly confronting the Legendary Demon.
The Ancestral Red Dragon's roar carried not only draconic majesty, but its muffled growl was like a true word of command, echoing with layers of ancient, sorcerous sounds.
This power, like a true word of command, gave the Ancestral Red Dragon's roar destructive impact; sound waves surged, colliding with the thousands of scattered evil eye lights, and mutually annihilating.
But the power of the evil eye lights came not only from the Legendary Demon but also from the bloodlines of the various Demon Lords on the Godbane Sword; even the Ancestral Red Dragon's command word could not completely annihilate these evil lights.
Thus, from within his bloodline, the ancient True Blood of an Ancestral Evil Dragon naturally erupted. The power, inherently mastered by an excellent descendant of the Chromatic Dragon Goddess Tiamat after immortality, instantly activated.
"Roar, roar!"
Two roaring growls sounded simultaneously, as two more heads grew from either side of the Ancestral Red Dragon's head and neck.
The heads born from Tiamat's descendant bloodline were mostly similar to the Ancestral Red Dragon's head, but one head had steel-gray dragon horns, and the other had dragon horns like the ashes of the earth.
The head with steel-gray dragon horns exhaled a fierce breath like intensely rubbing metallic particles; individual metal particles surged with sparks and tiny lightning during the friction, and dozens of evil lights were instantly annihilated by this powerful breath.
The head with dragon horns like the ashes of the earth, on the other hand, exhaled a stagnant breath of earth; the heavy breath compressed and squeezed the scattered evil eye lights, compressing and enveloping these almost insubstantial evil lights, then counter-charging upwards and rolling away.
And Kalon's original head, amidst the roaring sound waves, exhaled Dragonfire so intense it was almost pale, nearly merging with the air.
The incomparable high temperature made the air in the entire space crackle, directly incinerating and melting the evil eye lights shooting towards him; the scorching high temperature counter-charged upwards, sweeping towards the descending Godbane Sword and the Legendary Demon.
Three powerful breaths of the Ancestral Red Dragon collided head-on with Legendary Demon Sakretes's surging Evil Fire power.
Boom! Four energy streams, after colliding, erupted in intense, scorching light. Amidst the shocking, roaring explosion, even the space of this world seemed to be shaken by this scorching light.
Ripples spread through the air, like wrinkles squeezed out of space.
Without stable and strict rule pillars, it cannot compare to the stability of the Prime Material Plane.
The very first moment the Ancestral Red Dragon and the Legendary Demon clashed, they were already nearing the upper limit of what this world's space could bear.
Clang!
Amidst this intense, scorching light, Kalon's upward-striking Iron Dragon Claw instantly collided with the Godbane Sword, which had cut through the dragon breath. The clang of steel resounded through the sky, like two divine weapons clashing, trying to sever their opponent.
But the Legendary Demon's physical strength was far superior to that of a juvenile Red Dragon, so amidst the crashing, clanging roar of the collision, the Legendary Devil tumbled towards the sky.
The Ancestor Red Dragon plummeted towards the earth.
Rumble...
The already ravaged earth was again ploughed open by the Ancestral Dragon's falling iron body, creating a massive fissure extending several miles.
Drip.
A drop of scorching dragon blood fell. Kalon looked at the Evil Eye Sword, which had cut through three layers of his close-fitting domain and also carved a small notch in his dragon claw, and curled his fangs.
"Now this is getting interesting!" Kalon raised his head, stomped with his four limbs, and soared into the sky once more.