NOVEL NEXT Chapter 126: Transform!
"BUZZZZ!"
The battlefield shook violently as the Chrysalis Empress spread her colossal wings, sending ripples through the scarlet sky above the Chrysalis Forest. Her violet eyes glowed with an ancient fury, locking onto the five evolvers who dared to challenge her.
Her voice reverberated like a funeral bell.
"Humans, You will drown in despair."
The air warped, and the Empress's Time Domain unfurled, bending reality itself. The trees twisted unnaturally, their leaves aging into ash before regrowing in endless cycles. Time fractured into shards around them.
Ryuzen clenched his fists, sparks of lightning arcing around him. "Stay sharp, everyone. She could use her Time Domain at any moment."
Just then—
"Whoosh!"
Without waiting for a response, the Empress lunged. Her claw, larger than a building, tore through the earth like paper.
"Scatter!" Ryuzen shouted.
The team split apart at once.
Irina, her eyes flashing silver, summoned two doppelgangers of herself. Each had a bow in hand.
"Swish, swish, swish.."
Those three archers fired in unison, arrows infused with mana slicing through the air. The shots rained on the Empress like a storm, each arrow exploding with razor-like force. Yet, her crystalline carapace barely got a few scratchs.
"Not enough power!" Irina hissed, sweat dripping down her forehead as her clones loosed another volley.
Felix stepped forward, blood swirling around his arms. His veins glowed a deep crimson as he raised both hands.
"Blood Execution: Thousand Blades!"
Blood hardened into a storm of jagged crimson blades that lashed toward the Empress, piercing her wings and forcing her back with a shriek that shook the heavens.
Venus roared, fists already glowing with jagged crystal light.
"Harvester's Punch!"
"Boom!"
She smashed her fist into the ground, releasing a crystal shockwave that surged upward.
The Empress staggered, her lower carapace fracturing under the amplified blow. Venus's fists bled, yet her aura flared brighter. Her unique skill made her stronger with each strike landed, and already her body trembled with surging energy.
Rudos raised his staff, holy light blooming around him.
"Blessing of Renewal!"
A wave of green light spread through the team, knitting torn skin and mending broken bones. His healing aura gave them a brief moment of relief, but the effort drained him fast.
The Empress roared, and suddenly the world slowed. Blades of grass froze midair. Arrows stopped mid-flight. Even the dust hung suspended. The Time Domain locked everyone in place.
Everyone… except Ryuzen.
His body shook violently as he pushed against the frozen world. Lightning erupted from his arms, his skin glowing with streaks of molten gold and icy blue.
"Not… yet!" Ryuzen growled, eyes narrowing.
The Sun Dragon's Gaze activated, his golden irises burning through the temporal stasis. The Empress turned her monstrous eyes on him, beams of violet power threatening to unravel his soul.
But Ryuzen roared, unleashing Eclipse Cataclysmic Roar. A blast of searing flame and shadow erupted from his mouth, colliding with the Empress's gaze and shattering the violet beams into shards of light.
The Empress screeched, wings folding inward.
"Your roar will not save you, human!"
She charged forward, her claws moving so fast they tore open rifts in space.
Ryuzen blurred, his Mist Phantom Steps allowing him to vanish and reappear behind her head. His palm glowed as he slammed forward.
"Solar Cryo Lance!"
A spear of burning frost pierced the back of her carapace, making her stumble. Steam and frost spread across her crystalline body.
"Now!" Ryuzen bellowed.
Irina's clones unleashed another barrage. Felix's blood blades rained down again. Venus charged, both fists blazing like molten crystal. She slammed into the Empress's thorax with another devastating Harvester's Punch, her bones cracking from the recoil but the Empress's armor splintering at last.
The battlefield was chaos. Dust and blood mixed in the air. The ground quaked with each exchange.
But the Empress's wings unfurled once again, radiating absolute power. Time fractured a second time.
Irina froze mid-draw. Felix's blood blades dissolved into dust. Venus, fists raised, was locked in place. Even Rudos's healing glow was suspended midair.
The Empress loomed above them, violet light swallowing the forest.
"All shall end within my time."
Everybody had become statue, but not Ryuzen.
He had been waiting for this moment.
"Transform!"
In the fraction of second before Time could swallow him, he initiated his transformation.
His body screamed in resistance. His veins bulged, dragonic energy boiling inside. His Ice Guardian Armour shattered. His muscles tore from the strain.
But then his chest ignited in golden fire and freezing mist. His bloodline awoke fully.
"ROARRRR!"
His roar split the skies.
Scales of radiant frost and blazing sun spread across his body, horns elongating, wings tearing free from his back. His form expanded, growing into the towering might of the Solarfrost Imperial Dragon.
His height now expanded 50 meters in his full Dragon form.
Now that his teammates had been frozen in time, they couldn't perceive what he was about to unleash.
Golden and icy-blue flames entwined, spiraling upward into the crimson heavens. Time itself shattered around him as the Empress's domain cracked and collapsed under his awakening.
But Venus and other were still frozen in time, motionless in a gray world.
Above them, the newly transformed Ryuzen glared down at the Empress, his voice like a thunderclap across the battlefield.
"This fight isn't over. I'll tear your domain apart!"
The Empress, for the first time, faltered.
The Chrysalis Empress reared back, her colossal wings beating once, and the forest itself warped like a reflection rippling across broken glass.
Her violet eyes widened, and a hiss like thunder broke from her mandibles.
"Impossible. A dragon hatchling… wielding power that rivals mine?"
The ground cracked beneath her immense body. Her Time Domain twisted, writhing as though reality itself had grown unstable under the clash of two apex authorities.
Ryuzen's draconic body surged with blazing golden fire and freezing mist. His every exhale carried waves of heat that scorched the scarred earth, while his scales glimmered like glaciers under starlight.
The Solarfrost Imperial Dragon spread his wings, each flap blasting the battlefield with cyclones of fire and frost. With one step, the soil froze, then burned, splitting apart in violent bursts.
He growled low, his voice echoing like a storm across the forest,
"You claim dominion over time… but I am the inheritor of Dragon God. Your authority means nothing before me."