Ashen Dragon

She plans to slaughter us all to demonstrate to the Red Dragon Emperor and vent her rage for the Five-Colored Dragon Queen."

Adrian raised his head, gazing at the raging thunderstorm in the sky, and murmured in a daze: "Is it... all ending like this? Is that Blue Dragon truly invincible?"

"Hahaha, of course, I am indeed invincible!"

Accompanied by the howling wind and thunder, a massive shadow appeared over the Allied Forces, the enormous wings casting a shadow that enveloped everyone.

"I am thunder, I am destruction! I will obliterate the weak and resurrect the brilliance of dragons upon the earth—"

Goraz Dera laughed savagely, arrogantly waving her wings, looking down at the humans, giant dragons, and Dragonborn within the Allied Forces with her narrow vertical pupils full of disdain and arrogance.

Her hair-raising laughter was accompanied by thunderous roars and crackling lightning. The entire north shore of the Rock Rift Valley was shrouded in a fearsome storm of thunder and sand.

For a moment, sand flew, stones raced, the sky darkened, and the earth shook.

Humans, elves, and dwarves were easily lifted by the gale, torn to pieces in mid-air, with thousands dying unjust deaths. The steam tanks on the ground were consumed by surging currents, exploding violently with thick black smoke.

Even the strong individuals within the Allied Forces could barely stand firm against the storm, unable to offer any effective resistance.

"Roar—"

The dust and iron sand on the ground floated in mid-air, forming massive beasts that roared and charged at the Allied soldiers, their bodies covered with electric arc-like patterns, emitting clouds of dust.

Within the storm, Adrian braced himself with a sword, his body shimmering with the weak radiance of the Sun God's power.

Looking at the Seleucid soldiers torn apart by the storm around him, he was enraged, suddenly raising his head, pointing his sharp sword at the Blue Dragon in the sky, his eyes flaring blazing fire, while magnificent flaming wings spread behind him.

He flapped his wings, soaring into the sky, his furious shout momentarily overpowering the sound of the wind: "Damn Blue Dragon, get out of this land! This is the home of the Seleucids, the territory of great Holy Fadlan!"

"A Favored of Amanata?"

Goraz Dera poked her head from the swirling clouds, gazing at Adrian with a teasing look, and said with a smile:

"Ha, this is rare, ever since that smug old fellow died, the Material Plane hasn't seen a Favored of the Sun God for a long time, and I've caught one here, how lucky I am."

She flapped her wings, carrying endless thunder as she slowly descended from the clouds, sneering: "Hahaha—Her Majesty the Dragon Queen will be pleased with such a sacrifice!"

"The great Lord of Eternal Radiance is not a filthy monster like you can mock!"

Humiliated so, Adrian's eyes widened with rage, abruptly raising his longsword, unleashing the Power of the Sun God within him.

"Die—"

Accompanied by a furious roar, a surge of searing red light at the blade released a flame light blade stretching over ten meters.

"Somewhat interesting..."

The Ancient Blue Dragon carelessly extended her claws, thousands of lightning bolts converging, thunder rolling like waves, forming a thunder claw of a hundred-meter diameter, tearing the sky and heading toward Adrian.

"Boom!"

Flames and thunder collided in mid-air, and the fire blade released by Adrian was instantly swallowed by the blinding thunder light, dissipating into thin air.

Goraz Dera's eyes flashed with lightning, expressing undisguised arrogance, looking at Adrian as prey: "A mere mortal is just a mortal, forever unable to resist the divine!"

Seeing the descending thunder claw from the sky, Dionysus shouted loudly: "Let's go together, block it! Protect Duke Adrian!"

The Ancient Gold Dragon roared, flapped his wings and soared, spewing a scorching flame breath.

Misha extended her hand, creating a heavily burning fire wall to block in front of the thunder claw. The Silver Moon Elf drew her longbow fully, sending silver arrows with moonlight brilliance soaring to the sky.

The Archmage raised his magic wand, mumbling incantations softly, and a semi-transparent shield covered with complex runes appeared above Adrian.

Everyone worked together, the radiant spell lights interwove and shone, several beams of distinct colors fired toward the thunder claw, barely holding it at bay in the sky for a moment.

"Feeble resistance!"

Goraz Dera flapped her wide dragon wings, countless thunders fell and instantly destroyed the Allied Forces' defenses, leaving the massive thunder claw descending, imprisoning Adrian within.

The cracking electricity sounded as Adrian was encircled by electric arcs, his body trembled continuously, scorched and blackened by electricity.

The Ancient Blue Dragon laughed wildly, controlling the storm from high above, descending slowly: "Stop struggling, mortals, you all will become sacrifices for Her Majesty the Dragon Queen, nourishment for Her to descend upon the mortal realm! Even that wretched Red Dragon is the same!"

"You mean—me?"

At that moment, a powerful voice came from afar, a voice so possessed of magic it overshadowed the rumbling thunder, the sounds of crackling lightning, and the roaring storm, causing every mortal within a hundred miles to tremble.

Soon after, an imposing pressure poured down, like a landslide, causing nearly all the creatures to shiver, kneel on the ground, even those Metallic Dragons and Five-Colored Dragons looked terrified and lowered their heads.

"In the name of Tiamat..."

"That is Dragon's Might!"

"What kind of pressure is this!"

"His Majesty Cassius, the great Ashen Emperor has arrived! We are saved!"

The Ancient Blue Dragon's expression changed suddenly, she hastily flapped her wings, ignoring the legendary warriors on the ground, flying high into the sky, she raised her enormous head to gaze far away, those vertical pupils that were always filled with pride and disdain finally showed a trace of solemnity.

The distant clouds were abruptly torn apart, and the terrifying sandstorm was easily dispersed, the dark sky was shredded, appearing to bear a hideous scar stretching thousands of meters—that was flame, fierce flames.

Then, the scar quickly spread and expanded, the sky seeming like the skin of a dark, severely wounded giant, sliced open with a sharp longsword, exposing bloody flesh underneath.

A shrill explosion sounded, as a substantially large Red Dragon tore through the sky, brutally ripping through the clouds and sand forming the sky, dragging endless light flames behind it, diving toward this chaotic battlefield.

In just a few breaths, the Red Dragon crossed tens of thousands of meters, its terrifying speed causing space to distort and morph, creating sonic boom clouds.

That was the Ashen Emperor, the King of the North, Tiamat's most rebellious offspring, and one of the most powerful surviving giant dragons in the Material Plane—Cassius Klaubow Noricus!

"He, he torn the sky apart!"

"God!"

"Is this, the legendary Crimson Emperor? It truly lives up to the name!"

"Long live His Majesty Cassius! Long live the Empire!" The crowd stirred, issuing noisy exclamations, the voices amidst scorching airwaves surged across the battlefield, like mountains and seas roaring.

Above the Allied Forces, closely observing the diving Red Dragon, Goraz Dera's eyes were cold, her voice mixed with thunder, almost bursting out a few words from her throat:

"Cassius, shameless traitor, you've finally arrived, I thought.....you would falter before the battle."

Cassius' massive dragon form tore through the clouds, hovering high in the air, flames trailing behind like tides rolling in, he gazed at the distant Ancient Blue Dragon, grinning coldly: "Blue Dragon, you really overestimate yourself.

Not even Tiamat, Bahamut can make me bow, you're nothing more than a lapdog wagging its tail at Her feet—how dare you be so arrogant!"