Translator: AnubisTL
What met Eric's sight was a red dragon of such colossal proportions that his heart skipped a beat. Its scales were a deep, crimson hue, like congealed blood, crisscrossed with battle-scarred patterns—medals of honor earned through countless brutal fights where scales had shattered and healed again and again.
The red dragon's expression was one of savage, unbridled fury.
Just looking at it, Eric, a cold-based dragon, felt a suffocating pressure crush him.
"Vile reptile, run! Run with all your might!"
The red dragon's low, hoarse roar, dripping with cruel mockery, rumbled through the whistling wind and rolling clouds like a reaper's decree.
"For when I finally catch you, you will realize that all the 'suffering' you have ever known was as sweet as candied fruit!"
A chill ran down the Chromium Dragon's spine, his scales bristling.
Sensing a mortal threat, he beat his wings frantically the next second, desperate to escape. Yet, amidst bursts of manic laughter and furious roars, the pungent stench of sulfur drew closer and closer.
Soon after, deep within the Heavenly Pit Territory.
Iron Dragon Leticia snapped her eyes open.
A scent—horrifyingly familiar, yet making every scale on her body tighten—a sickening blend of blood and sulfur, was wafting into her lair on the night breeze.
"Gorsas?!"
She whispered, her voice laced with uncertainty. With a single, powerful beat of her wings, she shot out of the cave.
Under the ink-black night sky, two dragons hovered above the Heavenly Pit Territory.
The moment Leticia burst from her lair, she witnessed the heart-stopping scene.
One of the dragons, the smaller of the two, was plummeting from the sky like a severed kite.
No—
More accurately, it was being hurled toward the unyielding ground by an irresistible force, discarded like trash.
CRASH!
A dull, thunderous impact exploded across the landscape.
The Chromium Dragon's body slammed into the cold, hard earth like a broken ragdoll. Then... there was only a deathly silence.
Leticia's sharp gaze pierced through the dust, instantly locking onto the mangled dragon corpse.
Its massive, broad wings had been brutally snapped and twisted at a sickening angle. Its long neck was wrung into a hair-raising spiral. Its entire body was covered in charred, foul-smelling burn marks... Life had been utterly extinguished.
BOOM!
With a terrifying crash like a meteor striking the earth, the Deep Crimson Dragon landed beside the chromium dragon's shattered body.
"Gorsas!"
The Iron Dragon Leticia's roar erupted like a thunderclap.
Meeting the Iron Dragon's lava-hot gaze of fury, the Red Dragon Gorsas merely grinned, revealing a maw full of fangs. He laughed heartily. "My dear Leticia, my treasure, my priceless wealth."
"After decades, you are as elegant and beautiful as ever."
Leticia crouched low, her powerful tail snapping and twitching behind her like a steel whip. She snarled, "Get out, Gorsas! Get off my territory this instant!"
The Red Dragon paid no heed to the Iron Dragon's murderous roar, instead letting out a low, delighted chuckle.
He extended a massive claw covered in crimson scales, its tips still dripping with the chromium dragon's blood. With the casualness of a child playing with a broken toy, he toyed with the chromium dragon's already twisted and deformed head.
"Your little toy couldn't even withstand a few of my casual claw strikes. How pitifully fragile, little Leticia. It seems your taste has deteriorated since the old days."
Suddenly, as if discovering something amusing, he deftly coiled his thick tail and effortlessly picked up the chromium dragon's broken horn.
Then, he pressed the broken horn askew onto his own massive head—a head already adorned with imposing dragon horns and covered in vicious thorn spikes—as if it were a crown.
"Hahaha!"
Gorsas let out a deafeningly mad laugh. "Look! Behold! Don't I look even more majestic and invincible like this?! This is the kingly posture that truly befits you, Leticia!"
She could hold back no longer!
The Iron Dragon's talons shattered the rock beneath her. Her wings beat the air, whipping up a gale as her twenty-meter-long, armored body suddenly charged at the Red Dragon, Gorsas.
The mocking smile on Gorsas's face vanished instantly, as if he had changed masks, the moment the Iron Dragon launched her assault.
His crimson claw, wreathed in roaring flames, swung mercilessly at the charging Iron Dragon.
The battle between dragons erupted in an instant.
Across the Iron Dragon's territory, the powerful boss familiars, roused by the alarm, sensed their lord's struggle against a formidable foe. They burst from their lairs with furious roars, desperate to aid their lord.
Yet the Red Dragon's aura had solidified into a crushing weight. The weaker familiars collapsed instantly, their bodies trembling as they lost even the courage to stand.
Only a handful of the most valiant and fiercely loyal bosses could withstand the soul-shaking pressure. They charged forward, roaring as they threw themselves into the dragons' titanic clash.
But their fate could only be described as moths to a flame.
The Red Dragon didn't even spare them a glance. He simply unleashed his massive claws and lashed out with his thorn-spiked tail in a berserk frenzy.
The fearless bosses—including the dragon blood retainers Leticia had spent countless years cultivating—were slaughtered in an instant. Their severed limbs and blood rained down upon the earth.
The battle, so utterly one-sided, lasted barely ten minutes.
Boom!
With a dull, thunderous crash, Red Dragon Gorsas's heavily scaled claw slammed down onto Iron Dragon Leticia's chest, crushing her into the shattered earth.
The red dragon loomed over her, looking down at the iron dragon pinned beneath his foot.
"Listen, you bitch!"
"You, Leticia, will always belong to me, Gorsas! You are my most precious treasure! My property! I will not allow—I will never allow—you to have any contact with any other male dragon! Not even a single glance! Otherwise—"
The pressure from his claw intensified. Leticia's scales began to crack, and the rock beneath her groaned and splintered under the unbearable weight.
"—He will become your example!"
The red dragon's gaze swept over the mangled corpse of the chromium dragon nearby.
The iron dragon ceased her futile roars and lashed out with her tail, whipping it toward Gorsas's head.
Gorsas let out an impatient snort, blocking the tail with a single claw. The foot pinning the iron dragon's chest suddenly surged with power, kicking Leticia's massive body into the air. She soared backward, slamming violently into the steep walls of the Heavenly Pit.
The ground shook violently, and a torrent of rubble cascaded down the cliffside.
Leticia's body was driven deep into the rock face. The grinding of her hard dragon scales against the stone produced a bone-chilling screech.
Then, under her furious gaze—a fury born of agony and humiliation—the terrifyingly vicious expression on Gorsas's face vanished without a trace, as if the bloody and brutal battle had never happened.
"Leticia," Gorsas said, his voice now much gentler, even tinged with a hint of apology.
"Look at my temper. I'm truly sorry; I think I went a bit too far just now."
He spread his massive claws in a helpless gesture. "I know you have many grievances against me, and you're still harboring decades of resentment."
"But rest assured, my dear!" Gorsas's voice suddenly rose, filled with fanatical ambition and confidence. "My return to the Sierre Wilderness is no accident."
"Destiny has already decreed—I, Gorsas, will rule this vast and boundless land! All creatures that dwell here, from the lowliest vermin to the proudest of dragonkind, shall eventually grovel beneath my mighty wings! They will submit to my supreme authority!"
He straightened his body and spread his forearms, as if embracing the future of the entire wilderness.
"I will build my kingdom here! An unprecedented and powerful realm of my own! An empire worthy of your status and ambition!"
"When that time comes, my dear Leticia, I will open my arms to you once more! I will grant you supreme glory and authority! I will give you the chance... to become the one and only true Queen of my empire!"
At this point, his expression suddenly turned fierce and ruthless, and his tone shifted.
"But before that, Leticia, you are my wealth and my possession. If you dare to flee the wilderness, if you dare defy my will, I promise you will pay a grievous price."
After proclaiming his grand ambitions and asserting his ownership over the Iron Dragon, the Red Dragon burst into flames, soared into the sky, and vanished into the deep night in an instant.
"Gorsas... that goddamn bastard."
Leticia's gaze was icy as she forced herself to crawl up.
Ever since Gorsas had followed his instincts and awakened his ancestral blood, his temperament had grown increasingly chaotic and vicious. Now, he had become utterly unreasonable and impossible to communicate with.
But she had known this all along. Instead of being intimidated by the red dragon's volatile and unpredictable temper, she forced herself to calm down, pondering how to deal with him.
Gorsas's temperament is destined to put him at odds with all living beings, Leticia, the Iron Dragon, thought silently.
Even his own kin, the evil dragons, will regard him as a source of danger. The metallic dragons are a given. As for the other dragons in the Dragon Wilderness, I can try to ally with them to face Gorsas together.
(End of the Chapter)
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