บท 1414: Result of Clashing Head-on (Part 1)

"They're here..." That was the only thing the skeletal dragon said when it looked at the sky.

It seemed as if it had anticipated one such day. Humans and magic beasts were being snatched up from nearby within its bone lair and used as construction materials. The lower half of the skeletal dragon already had scales and claws. The bones were no longer seen on the outside, a result of absorbing energy from living beings in an attempt to recover their bodies when they were alive.

Though a powerful spirit, the skeletal dragon still had considerable weaknesses compared to living dragons. If it had been able to regain its flesh and blood, returning to life effectively, its combat capacity would have eclipsed that of normal dragons.

This hadn't happened in hundreds of millions of years, though, simply because it wasn't permissible in the dragon plane.