Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 116: The Demon Star in Troubled Times
Behind the gate is a majestic space that seems boundless. The pure darkness in the distance obscures people's vision, making it impossible to see the edge beyond the darkness.

In the center of the hall is a black pool. Although the black water does not seem deep, it is churning and roaring. There are 10-foot-wide and 2-foot-long platforms on the four sides of the pool. In the center of the pool, 5 feet above the water, a black egg floats.

At the edge of the pool, there is a floating wooden rack, on which are placed several items emitting powerful magical fluctuations.

In addition to this, there are piles of magic gems placed around the pool!

"What is that?" Nemesis frowned, looking at the black eggs above the pool.

The smooth, ink-colored stone egg is about 2 meters high and 1 meter in circumference. There are faint scarlet veins in the black interior, which seem to be beating slowly like a heart.

With every beat, an extremely evil and powerful magical power spread out from it.

"You can call it - [Demon Star in Troubled Times]." Raphael said as he looked at the black egg in fascination.

"It was forged from the dragon soul of an ancient hellfire dragon and the divine power stolen by the former Lord of the First Layer of Hell, Zariel, from the Five-Colored Dragon Queen."

When Nemesis heard this, his pupils sank, and he couldn't help but feel horrified at the origin of the black egg in front of him.

An ancient hellfire dragon?
The Hellfire Dragon is not a purebred real dragon, but it is a pseudo-dragon that is more powerful than the red dragon.

In ancient times, there was an indigenous dragon called "Tyrannical Dragon" in Hell, but the devils in Hell wanted to prevent this dragon from snatching their status as the legitimate heirs of Hell, and also to obtain a powerful military force.

The demons transformed all the Tyrannosaurus dragons, converting them into pseudo-dragons that grew like real dragons but did not have the dragon heritage.

The Hellfire Dragon possesses various powerful spell-like abilities like the devil, can continue to grow, and has dragon breath.

But they have no inherited memories, nor the warlock bloodline of a true dragon, but they don't need it.

The breath of the Hellfire Dragon is terrifying hellfire, and it has spell-like abilities that can be used at will, with no usage limit, like a devil.

Even the red dragon, the leader of all evil dragons, would be crushed by the hellfire dragon.

An ancient hellfire dragon? Basically, except for encountering gods, it can walk sideways in the multiverse.

Unfortunately, the power of real dragons in hell is huge, because the kingdom of Tiamat, the god of evil dragons and the queen of five-colored dragons, resides in the first layer of hell.

The people of the Queen of Five-Colored Dragons extremely hate the Hellfire Dragon, a pseudo-dragon, and hunt it frantically in hell, and it is a group hunt.

This also caused the number of Hellfire Dragons to drop sharply after the five-colored dragons entered Hell, and they are almost becoming rare animals.

Several levels of Hell Lords had complained to Asmodeus about the arrogance of the Five-Colored Dragon Queen's people, but they were still unable to stop this phenomenon.

This also leads to the fact that almost no one has ever seen the existence of the ancient hellfire dragon.

Even if there really is an ancient hellfire dragon alive, it probably wouldn't dare to jump around in hell, for fear of being crushed to death by the Five-Colored Dragon Queen.

Under such circumstances, the material of this black egg becomes extremely precious. It is even rarer than the ancient red dragon. You should know that there is probably not even a single ancient red dragon to be found in the entire Faerun!
Not only that, this black egg also combines the power of the Five-Colored Dragon Queen and the power of the Lord of Hell.
No wonder it is a high-level artifact.

"Ah, Hell has stored this black egg here for 30,000 years. I've always been curious about its final destination." Raphael looked the scroll dragon up and down. "Now I understand, haha, the final destination of this artifact really needs a giant dragon as a host, which is in line with Hell's evil taste, hahahahahaha." Raphael laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

Nemesis frowned, not knowing what the other party was laughing at. He thought that he had an aversion to artifacts made from dragons.

He has a very flexible moral bottom line.

Raphael stopped smiling quickly. He said with a smile on his face, "Go ahead. Hell has opened its permissions. You don't need to spend fifteen years to synchronize it. It already belongs to you."

"And I will also get my spoils." He looked towards the shelf with fanaticism in his eyes.

Nemesis raised his hand and waved at the black egg, which quickly floated in front of him, shrinking to a few centimeters in size before being swallowed into his stomach.

Soon, the information of this high-level artifact was fed back by the magic network, and a hint of subtlety appeared in Nemesis' eyes.

"So that's it. This is the devil's real evil taste." He sighed.

The Star of Troubled Times
Grade: High-level artifact

Effect 1: The holder of the Chaos Demon Star can summon Blood Claws at will. The effects of Blood Claws are as follows.

(Blood Claw: The Blood Claw is a short staff with a red dragon claw carved on the top. If the Blood Claw touches the body of a dragon creature that dies within two minutes, it can absorb the creature's soul. The effect is like a spell to imprison the soul. The Blood Claw itself is regarded as a container.)
Effect 2: For every adult dragon/two young dragons/three adolescent dragons/four young dragons/five baby dragons absorbed, the Chaos Star will fall into a one-month gestation period, and at the end of the gestation period, give birth to an adult Hellfire Dragon that completely obeys the holder.

Effect three: For every five dragon souls of adult dragons, the age of the Hellfire Dragon being bred can be increased by one level.

Effect 4: If the holder does not absorb any dragon soul within one year, he will be cursed with a twisted will and gradually become crazy. This curse cannot be immune to any mind protection spell.

"Hmm." Nemesis was rarely silent.

The power of the "Demon Star of Troubled Times" is extremely strong. It can create adult or even more powerful Hellfire Dragons, and the materials are just low-level dragons. It can be said that the law of conservation of energy is almost completely ignored.

But every one of its effects blatantly conceals the maker's vicious plot: to kill all the dragons.

Imagine if the holder wanted to create an adult Hellfire Dragon, would he choose to hunt an adult dragon or five baby dragons?

The difficulty of the two is very different.

To dragons, baby dragons are everything to the race. Because the dragon's fertility rate is extremely low, even fewer baby dragons can survive.

In most cases, baby dragons are not worth hunting. Their dragon scales are not mature and their fighting power is not strong. The time required to cultivate them to adulthood is enough to kill two generations of humans.

Therefore, few dragon slayers would attempt to capture baby dragons for sale.

Raising dragons is just a fantasy in storybooks. The cost and time required to train a giant dragon, even just to adulthood, is enough to kill any non-royal noble.

But this high-level artifact has given people huge benefits to capture, slaughter, and exterminate young dragons in large numbers.

In return, they will get a pseudo-dragon that is more powerful than a real dragon - an adult hellfire dragon!
(End of this chapter)