Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 284 The Demon Star of Troubled Times Starts Again
As Nemesis watched the battle, the dance of death on the battlefield reached its climax. Alphonse suddenly disintegrated into three thousand blood-red bats, passing through the plasma grid spewed by Plaston.

As the bats regrouped on the dragon's back, the bone sword emitting frost had switched to a piercing form - this was the lance "Pale Raider" forged from the spine of an adult bone dragon.

The vampire knight's thrust accurately hit the blue dragon's third vertebral ganglion. Plaston's thunder breath instantly lost its accuracy, blasting the sandstone mountain two kilometers to the southeast into glass.

Alphonse took the opportunity to insert the handle of the gun into the gap between the dragon's scales, and negative energy flowed along the gun body into the blue dragon's circulatory system - those negative energy particles were paralyzing the transmission of electrical signals.

Nemesis adjusted the focus of the observation prism and noticed the hidden runes drawn on the sand by the tip of the blue dragon's tail. When Plaston pretended to stumble, he immediately sent a psychic warning to Alphonse: "Watch out fifteen meters underground."

The next moment, the [Lightning Beam] pierced through the void like a spear and hit the vampire's chest. Alphonse, after receiving the prompt, instinctively launched the [Shadow Jump] and narrowly avoided the attack.

Seeing that his long-planned sneak attack failed, Plaston finally began to panic. He couldn't believe that this lowly undead creature was so powerful. With the nearly 70 points of strength of a mature blue dragon, he couldn't get any advantage from the opponent.

The battlefield gradually became cruel and gorgeous. Every time the vampire's bone sword cut through the dragon scales, it would leave frost marks on the blue dragon's body - that was the necromancy sword technique that used negative energy to freeze the vitality.

Plaston's tail strike swept through three sand and gravel slopes, but Alphonse was always able to step on the fallen rubble and leap onto the dragon's back, hitting the blue dragon's wing root joint with the hilt of his sword.

When the seventeenth dragon wing attack missed, the blue dragon lord finally showed a flaw. Alphonse's bone sword suddenly disintegrated into three hundred blood thorn vines. These magical plants with barbs pierced into the blue dragon's body through the gaps between the scales. Plaston let out a deafening wail.

The negative energy mixed with ice made the already weak blue dragon even worse, and Plaston collapsed to the ground unwillingly.

"The battle lasted 19 minutes and 47 seconds, a little longer than I expected." Nemesis spread his dragon wings and landed in front of the defeated, preventing the vampire from beheading him.

Alphonse respectfully retracted the Sword of Eternal Winter and stood behind the dragon, quietly awaiting his fate.

He knew that he was only temporarily summoned to the main material plane, but wizards always had a way to turn temporary into permanent, and turn summoning into binding.

Although this necromancy spell greatly enhances the power of the summoned object, the price is that it becomes a time-limited summoning spell.

Even though this summoning spell has an absolute suppressive effect on the summoned object, it still cannot change the spell from a strategic spell of the Necromancer to a temporary combat option.

Luckily, Nemesis could feel the connection with the other party, and the next time he cast the spell again, he could choose not to summon a random object, but to choose Alphonse, whose strength he was already familiar with.

For Nemesis, the change of this spell from a permanent to a temporary summoning was not a big loss.

What ordinary [Advanced Summoning of the Undead] can produce is nothing more than a bunch of weaklings whose strength does not exceed the exemplary level. Even if it can win by relying on numbers, the proud Scroll Dragon will not do the dirty work of collecting corpses, and he does not have the patience to do it.

Compared to a bunch of trash, he preferred to choose a strong elite. It must be said that the power of the eight-ring spell enhanced by the power gem was beyond Nemesis's expectations.

Whether it is the terrible lava covering an area of ​​several kilometers, or the ability to summon and enslave level 20 warriors at will, this has already stepped on the edge of legendary magic.

Although there is still some distance to go, it has already created a huge gap between it and ordinary eight-ring spells or even nine-ring spells.

At this rate, Nemesis suspected that by the time he could cast a nine-ring spell, the power of the spell would truly reach the level of a legendary spell—of course, a legendary spell of the lowest level.

Nemesis walked in front of Plaston. The mountain-like shadow blocked the sunlight. Plaston, who was against the light, could only see the dark purple eyes under the shadow.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you." Nemesis said easily.

"You will just live in a different form."

He stretched out his left claw, and a black and red demon egg-shaped artifact appeared in his claw with an extremely evil aura. Twelve circular magic arrays bloomed from the claw tip, awakening the forbidden holy object sleeping in the cracks of the star realm - "Demon Star of Troubled Times". This dragon egg flowing with the twilight of the abyss broke through the air, and the dark red lines on its surface were like the imprisoned fire of purgatory.

"In the name of the Five-Colored Dragon Mother, witness the conversion of thunder to purgatory." The dragon language chant shattered the clouds, and seven amber vertical pupils opened on the monster star egg shell. The blue dragon Kasaren struggled violently under the restraint of the blood thorn vine. The moment his lightning breath touched the monster star, it was devoured by the blood-red tentacles extending from the egg.

Alphonse Bloodthorn's bone sword suddenly wailed, and the Vampire Knight's pale knuckles burst into blood. The pressure of the awakened ancient artifact caused the blood core of the undead creature to produce a cracking pain.

Plaston's whole body was stiff, looking at the black and red demon egg in fear. He saw countless dragon souls floating and wailing in the sulfur river in the shadow cast by the demon star.

Nemesis dipped the tip of his tail into the lava and drew a triple crown totem in the void. The demon star began to rotate in response to the ancient dragon spell, and the molten gold lines on the surface of the eggshell lit up one by one, weaving into a web of annihilation that enveloped the blue dragon. Plaston's scales peeled off like autumn leaves, turning into scattered sparks before touching the ground, revealing the creeping scarlet texture underneath.

"Stop! How dare you blaspheme the glory of the dragon!" The blue dragon roared with the last of its strength, shattering the sand and stone surface within a radius of 100 meters. But the mouth of the demon star egg had turned into a vortex of void that swallowed everything, pulling his mountain-like body inch by inch towards the core of chaos. The arc bursting from the heart of lightning stagnated in the vortex, like a worm in amber, forever frozen.

Alphonse saw the blue dragon's amber vertical pupils gradually become turbid, and the hexagram mark of the purgatory fire appeared on the iris. The sticky sound of flesh and blood reshaping came from the inside of the demon star, and a pulsating sound with a sulfur smell was expanding inside the egg. The vampire knight suddenly realized that the strange black egg was using the blue dragon's flesh and blood as paint to redraw a completely different destructive creation.

When the first drop of Nemesis' blood fell on the surface of the demon star, the eggshell suddenly became transparent as crystal - the dragon fetus curled up inside was red all over, its spines burned with eternal hellfire, and three barbed bone spurs grew at the end of the tail vertebrae.

"After thirty moonrises, the Crown of Hell will have another member." Nemesis raised the corners of his mouth and said with satisfaction.

Alphonse suddenly knelt on one knee. The dragon's methods had completely conquered this proud vampire: "Great master, Alphonse Bloodthorn is willing to be your eternally loyal servant and bathe in the glory of the true dragon from now on."

(End of this chapter)