"This is likely a divine artifact."
Garon gently stroked the keratin layer on his chin, thinking.
In the grasp of the dragon's claw was a longbow, marked with leaf-like patterns, also sealed in time amber, motionless, like a fine piece of art.
"Without this bow, the Saint of Solonol couldn't even scratch me."
After all, a saint is just an avatar, not a god.
And as a demigod, Garon, if he were to achieve godhood with his extraordinary divine power, would actually be considered a true god.
A demigod is also a true god.
An avatar facing a true god is no match.
If a true demigod from the elven pantheon were willing to risk falling to battle Garon, it would only then be considered a serious fight.
"Entrusting a divine artifact to a saint's avatar is quite bold."
Even through the time amber, Garon could feel the sharpness of the Moonlight Divine Bow.
This was a very powerful divine artifact. When he had some free time, Garon planned to thoroughly master it. If he could make it his own weapon, that would be ideal; otherwise, it would have to remain sealed in the time amber as a collectible.
"Garon, I knew you wouldn't die."
After the event, as the dragons cleaned up the smoky battlefield, the ancient silver dragon Nehemiah landed beside Garon, saying.
"Six years, and now your strength has reached a level far beyond my reach."
Nehemiah looked at the imposing silver dragon with a gaze of astonishment.
In the battlefields of Kala, the godly saints had descended for over three years. Due to the lack of beings at the same level, the dragons of Kala were constantly retreating under the saints' assaults, with their territories once spread across the planet being occupied by elves.
But just now.
The returning Lord of the Dragon Court, with unrivaled power, effortlessly captured an invincible saint on Kala and casually slaughtered a divine incarnation.
The majestic figure of the giant god Garon was deeply imprinted in the minds of every true dragon who witnessed his godly form.
Even without his giant god form, he was far superior to the ordinary legendary dragon.
Ordinary legendary dragons, about thirty meters long, seemed like harmless little beasts compared to Garon.
Garon, now over sixty meters long, was a good twenty meters longer than Nehemiah, the ancient silver dragon. In the classification of dragon sizes, over forty meters is considered super-gigantic.
There aren't any other clear size categories beyond that.
Strictly speaking, Garon should be considered a super-super-super gigantic dragon, especially when using his giant god form, which is indescribable.
"I haven't been here for a while, you've had it tough."
Garon looked at the ancient silver dragon, not flaunting his current status and strength, and said.
"Charging at demigods with the bodies of legends."
"I've seen your fearless courage."
"You are the true heroes of the dragon race."
Hearing Garon's words, a broad smile spread across the face of the ancient silver dragon.
"I heard you were caught in something more dangerous than a spatial tempest, a temporal vortex."
"What happened after that?"
"I'm not really surprised by the growth of your strength, but how did your scales turn golden?"
Nehemiah eyed Garon's golden dragon scales with a curious tone.
Garon thought for a moment and then slowly said, "I inadvertently entered a primal material world. After healing my injuries and gaining some strength, I came back."
"As for these dragon scales, they're just a piece of equipment."
Saying this, Garon took off the Imascara Holy Cloth, and his body shone with a golden liquid-like luster. After the light receded, his scales returned to their sparkling silver appearance.
Seeing Garon change from a 'golden dragon' back to a 'silver dragon,' Nehemiah laughed heartily.
"The silver scales do look better."
As a silver dragon, Nehemiah naturally preferred the Lord of the Dragon Court to look more like his own dragon kind.
"How are Yuna and Saliya doing?"
Garon looked around at the ravaged landscape, asking.
The location of the battle was within his original territory. Using the powerful memory of dragons and the remaining familiar terrain, Garon recognized this place.
To the north of his vision stood several ice mountains created by the white dragon mother and a group of winter wolves.
However, Garon did not sense the presence of the white dragon mother, the strength dragon girl was also not nearby, and Tom's little white dragons were not within Garon's sensory range either.
Garon wasn't worried about Yuna.
As a strength dragon, Yuna had the protection of a mysterious and powerful ancient strength dragon. But the white dragon mother was too weak; for example, in the just-concluded war, with the strength of an adult white dragon, she was essentially cannon fodder, and her survival would entirely depend on luck.
"Yuna is on the southern battlefield."
"The elven gods deliberately avoided her."
"As for your mother and siblings, they have been placed in the Dragon Court's demi-plane."
The relationship between the white dragon mother and Garon was never actively proclaimed, but neither was it deliberately hidden. So, most true dragons who knew Garon were aware of the blood connection between him and the white dragon mother.
After the war with the elves broke out.
The guardian dragons of the Dragon Court came to Kala and took the white dragon mother away.
"The elven gods deliberately avoided Yuna?"
"What's that about?"
Garon asked, puzzled but relieved.
Nehemiah looked reminiscent and said, "After you left, Yuna, also a legendary dragon species, became the most powerful true dragon on Kala."
"Unlike her usual seclusion."
"After you were attacked by elves and went missing, upon learning that elves were behind it and starting the war, Yuna alone slaughtered the first batch of legendary beings that the elves sent to Kala, leaving none alive."
Recalling the forceful side of the strength dragon girl when she vented her rage, even Nehemiah, an ancient silver dragon, showed a look of lingering fear.
"At first, there were two elven gods leading the assault on Kala: the god of archery, Solonol, and the god of sea elves, Cexira."
He continued, "Such a powerful true dragon caught the attention of the god of sea elves."
The god of sea elves, like Solonol, was a mid-level deity with the domain of the ocean.
"The avatar of the god of sea elves descended, trying to kill Yuna."
"However, just when Yuna seemed to be losing, the ancient strength dragon who had once defeated the avatar of the primordial sun god arrived and killed the avatar of the god of sea elves."
Pausing, Nehemiah looked at Garon and added, "Two years ago, the divine realm of the god of sea elves was attacked, and this mid-level deity was impaled through the chest by his own divine weapon, the Trident of the Deep Sea. Though he didn't die, he lost his combat effectiveness for a long period."
During the war, information between the elves and dragons was rapidly exchanged.
The change in the elven pantheon was quickly known to the
dragons.
The god of sea elves didn't reveal what creature had seriously injured him in his divine realm, but considering the mysterious and powerful legendary dragon species, many forces speculated that a strength dragon with powerful divine-like power had taken revenge.
If other elven gods hadn't provided timely support, the god of sea elves might have died in his own divine realm.
"After that, no elven god bothered Yuna anymore."
Nehemiah explained the whole story.
"I see."
Garon nodded thoughtfully, harboring a suspicion.
From the way the dragon gods treated him, he had a vague guess.
Legendary dragon species among the dragons probably didn't care much about the ordinary dragonkind, believing their lives and deaths were irrelevant to them.
Even in a war that affected almost the entire dragon race, the demigod-like strength dragons didn't show any intention to intervene.
It was only after their descendants were attacked that they showed their power and temper to the elven gods, clearly threatening them not to provoke their descendants.
Strength dragons likely had individuals with god-like powers.
Garon remembered Yuna mentioning that among the strength dragons was an elusive progenitor dragon god.
The growth rate of strength dragons, for now, didn't seem as fast as Garon's as a time dragon, but Garon knew their potential was equally unfathomable, as was probably the case with the rainbow dragon he had yet to meet.
"The southern hemisphere has many planar gates and arrays set up by the elven kingdoms."
"It's also the main battlefield on Kala."
"Magic ships covering the sky bring endless troops into Kala. Yuna is currently in the south, battling the elves."
Nehemiah said.
After hearing this, Garon's gaze sharpened, stating, "Kala is a world belonging to dragons; there's no place for elves here."
The war between elves and dragons spanned countless material worlds.
Kala was particularly significant among them.
Garon decided to first achieve victory on Kala, defeating the invading elves, then supporting other material worlds, or even fighting alongside the dragon gods in the Outer Planes.
The silver dragon closed his eyes for a moment.
Then, in the crown-like six horns on his head, the middle pair of horns shone brilliantly.
Buzz!
A wave of information spread instantaneously through the Dragon Court's pact, reaching many material worlds.
The message was simple.
Garon informed the legendary dragons of the Dragon Court that he had returned and had just captured a godly saint and killed a divine incarnation upon his arrival, celebrating his return.
Simultaneously.
In different material worlds, the Dragon Court's dragons were momentarily stunned, then their morale soared.
The news of the Dragon Court's Lord, missing for six years and now returning as a demigod, spread rapidly.
After sending the message to the Dragon Court dragons, Garon opened his eyes.
His eyes held a hint of surprise.
Because Garon had just discovered that the legendary dragons who had signed the Dragon Court's pact were distributed in nearly ten thousand material worlds.
These were all legendary beings, not cabbages.
Among dragons, legendary dragons are relatively rare, with most requiring ancient dragon status or above to become legendary.
When Garon entered the continent of Valoran, the Dragon Court had just been founded, totaling only a few hundred.
In just six years, the Dragon Court had expanded dozens of times.
This change was unexpected for Garon.
He thought that without knowing whether he was alive or dead, the development of the Dragon Court would stagnate, but he didn't expect it to grow to such a scale.
Then, Garon got the answer from Nehemiah.
This war, following the Dragonfall War, was the largest-scale war in dragon history.
The elven enemies were not weak.
But the worst part was that, compared to the elven kingdoms, the dragons were almost completely disorganized at the start of the war. Due to the proud and uncooperative nature of the true dragons, they suffered greatly.
Even the most united and loving metal dragons, due to their hidden prideful nature, often experienced defeats.
Being defeated multiple times by the elves, whom they looked down upon, many true dragons who had been living in the dream of being rulers of the multiverse were awakened.
Then, as time passed, under the intentional or unintentional guidance of the dragon gods and through the trials of blood and fire, the dragons gradually became more united in the crucible forged by war.
Fighting side by side, true friendships are easiest to form between life and death.
The Dragon Court became a high-level organization led by legendary dragons, directed by the Dragon Court's Ancient Council, coordinating dragons from different material worlds to battle the strict and orderly elven armies.
Afterward, in most material worlds, the dragons gradually gained a slight advantage.
Overall, the dragons were stronger than the elves.
It was just that Kala was at a distinct disadvantage due to special attention from elven gods and a lack of dragon gods.
"This is good."
Garon nodded, saying to Nehemiah.
The dragons currently have the advantage, but for a full-scale war initiated by two dominant powers, six years is just the beginning, and the future direction is still unknown.
If the war continues for a longer period and affects a broader range, other pantheons might not be able to remain unaffected.
"Nehemiah, stay here and continue to be in charge of this battlefield."
Garon looked into the distance, saying, "I'm going to the main battlefield in the southern hemisphere to first crush the elves' main force."
Even facing a powerful divine saint's avatar, Garon dared to battle and had the confidence to defeat the opponent. Now, what powerful divine forces of the elven pantheon had the leisure to gather a saint's avatar against him?
If mid-level divine saints resisted Garon's ferocity, they would end up like the previously defeated Saint of Solonol, defeated by his thunderous might.
In the material world, Garon was currently an invincible beast.
Magic erupted, constructing a long-distance spatial gate to the coordinates provided by Nehemiah under Garon's control.
Then, under the admiring gaze of many true dragons, the majestic silver dragon stepped into the portal.
Today, lost in the thrill of the moment, I forgot to write...
Tomorrow, I'll add more to celebrate.
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