Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 279

People are born with a desire to migrate, and the desire for new lands is human instinct.

As a result, millions of Valyrians migrated from Essos, which had been eroded and destroyed by demons, to Sothoryos.

Led by the legionaries of the Golden Empire and the dragon lords, the millions of humans remaining in this world cut down trees, built fleets, set sail from the ruins of Valyria, and headed towards a new future.

After more than a year, with the help of the legion of spellcasters, the mixed people collectively known as the survivors of Valyria, built a large ocean-going ship capable of carrying thousands of people at the moment of communication between the end of the world and the arrival of a new future.

Huge ocean-going ships filled the waters near the Valyrian Peninsula. Huge dragons left over from the Doomsday War, led ocean-going fleets under the control of dragon riders, headed for the New World.

The Valyrians in this world no longer dare to call the dragons giants after seeing the dragons coming and the battle between the dragon king, Caron Gogmora, and the legendary demon, Thacles.

Therefore, the dragons of this world were renamed bipedal dragons by Valyria herself, in order to honor and venerate the dragons who were regarded as dragon gods.

The fleet along the way was huge, with the dragon's royal flag flying. Under the leadership of the Dragon Lord and the legion of the Golden Empire, no demon scattered around the world dared to stop this team.

So the Valyrian people followed the Summer Sea, experiencing the baptism of ocean currents and storms along the way, and arrived at Sothoryos, a continent occupied by plague and wild beasts.

Sothoryos is a vast continent covered in tropical jungle, and most of its area has not been explored by humans.

The former dragon knight, Geninara Belleris, has been flying on this continent for three years on her dragon, Terex, but she still has not explored the end of this continent. It can be seen that this continent is vast and boundless.

But the Gith once maintained outposts on the northern coast of the continent during the days of their old empire.

The city of Imenta was built at the river mouth, and the exile land of Goros was established on the Basilisk Islands in the southwest corner.

These immigrants from the Old World landed on the Lizard Islands in the southwest corner of the Sothoryos continent. When they arrived at Yimenta City, the city had been abandoned for more than two thousand years.

So these immigrants went upstream along the river, passed the ruins of Yiling, eradicated the spotted ghouls and spider monsters, and cleared out some demons that accidentally crossed the ocean and came to this continent.

Then we stopped at the vast rainforest plain where the river ends and originates.

The old civilization passed away, and a new civilization began to rise on this continent.

The Valyrian people regard the dragon as their totem and god, and it is also the supreme ruler of civilization.

On the newly opened continent, a brand new civilization began to be built - the Golden Land. It is a civilization unique to this world and also a part of the Golden Empire.

Cities sprang up here as the seat of civilization, while another land that was difficult for mortals to set foot on—the continent of Ultes—was a jungle where only giant dragons and magic dragons could travel.

The city is the dusk of civilization, the jungle is the dawn of civilization, and the sky is like a dome, covering the entire area.

The dragon riders from the Targaryen, Orion, and Bellerys families rode huge dragons across the strait to the continent of Ultes.

Some dragon knights wear armor with a badge of a red fire-breathing dragon on a black background, guarding the dragon's eye logo in the center of the badge, representing that they belong to the Targaryen family in the Golden Civilization.

The armor of these knights is made of black steel and their helmets are decorated with dragon scales, showing the characteristics of dragon civilization everywhere.

In addition to these adult knights, there were also young children sitting on the back of the huge dragon, or young men with particularly determined expressions on their faces.

In the arms or in front of these young children and teenagers, there are dragon eggs made of rocks of various colors. The beating of the dragon eggs full of vitality sounds like a heart, resonating with these young children.

The pulsation of the dragon's egg gave these children and teenagers immense courage, and the slight nervousness on their faces gradually turned into excitement and anticipation.

They couldn't help but look forward to it, and they couldn't help but be excited.

Being selected as the most talented young children of the next generation to serve as the royal guards of those powerful dragons who are as powerful as gods, and being able to enter the Kingdom of Dragons with the army of the Golden Empire is an opportunity that countless people dream of.

They are born with their own dragons, and in the future they will accompany those dragons, becoming the most loyal and powerful Royal Knights, and seeing a wider world and more vast scenery.

Even the dragon knights around them envied the opportunities of these young men.

But these adult dragon knights may have the opportunity to step through the sky gate in the future, but their current responsibilities are more important.

Led by the two most powerful dragons, Balerion and Lashix, nearly two hundred dragon knights finally crossed the strait and arrived at the vast mountains of the continent of Ultes.

A huge tree several thousand meters tall was rooted in the earth, its top submerged in the sea of clouds. Even these dragon riders could not see the crown of the tree clearly.

Countless huge and tangled roots spiral around the hundreds of meters wide tree, like a ladder winding up to heaven.

These dragon knights couldn't help but feel awe in their hearts. It was said that this tree that could reach the sky was just a taproot of the world tree that grew in the back garden of the dragon fortress.

It is hard for these people to imagine what a magical power this is. Perhaps, things related to these god-like dragons should be like myths, which is normal.

Under this majestic tree, there are a group of dragons surrounding it in silence and peace.

A group of dragons with different scale colors surrounded the World Tree and the ancestral red dragon, lying on the ground, as if they were resting with their eyes closed.

Scattered around these giant dragons are countless huge skeletons, most of which look different. Some are skeletons of humanoid monsters, some are skeletons of apes, some are skeletons of lizards, and some are skeletons of snake dragons, but they are all extremely huge.

Among them were several huge dragon bones. The flesh and blood had disappeared, and only the remaining thick skeletons were three hundred and fifty meters long.

The bones piled together looked like a pile of barren hills of bones.

The white bones contrast with the majestically lying dragons, and the divinity and the animality seem to be integrated into one.

These wild dragons were ultimately unable to escape the surveillance of the giant dragons and became food and sustenance for several giant dragons.

According to legend, in the distant sea, there once appeared a magical dragon with a body length of more than 400 meters and the ability to spit out ice. The blue dragon Akzi and the white dragon Gemot once spent dozens of days searching for the trace of this alien magical dragon, but ultimately returned empty-handed.

Two hundred dragons that were even bigger than giant dragons carefully suppressed their roars and the sound of their wings, and landed on the outskirts of the towering trees, fearing to disturb the other dragons that were resting with their eyes closed.

The two largest dragons, Balerion and Lachyx, were two hundred meters long, but when they landed on the ground, they were like sneaky cats.

These magic dragons do not have the same strength and talent as the giant dragons, and are unable to fully restrain the force of their landing.

When the landing made a huge noise, the strongest of the two dragons simultaneously stretched its head forward and pressed it to the ground, with its wings folded at both sides of its body and its butt and tail raised high.

This posture is not only convenient for the dragon rider on the back to land, but also convenient for the dragons to be awakened and open their eyes so that they can see their surrendering posture at the first sight.

Fortunately, the dragons remained quiet, causing all the dragons and knights to breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

Under the spell of enlightenment, these dragons that had made great contributions in battle and avoided becoming food have become smarter. Although due to the structure of their throats and their own talents, these dragons cannot speak yet, they are at least dozens of times stronger than the beasts they once were.

The dragon-born werewolf Saha and the commander of the Royal Guard Gilenes led the imperial legions that had fully recovered to station on the periphery to guard the dragon herd and prevent any blind wild beasts and magical creatures from coming to cause trouble and disturb the dragons.

In addition to the warriors who guarded the Legion Wall, the rest of the spellcasters and scholars were busy. Many resources collected by the Golden Empire in the old continent, such as gold, gems, and precious mineral extracts, were not only a kind of wealth currency, but also materials for spellcasters. They were collected and piled up in the camp.

There are also many untapped resources on the Ultes continent, waiting to be developed and mined by the Golden Empire. Among the resources that have been explored so far, there are already 53 types of materials suitable for building various devices in the Mage Tower and the Floating City.

There are as many as eleven types of energy cores for the floating city, alternative materials for the Miser energy core, and basic materials for building element pools.

The output of these resources and the vastness of the continent are enough to prove that this world is a suitable area for development for the Golden Empire, and is regarded by the empire as one of the resource worlds under its jurisdiction in the future.

These resource worlds are also another nest of dragons and the backup of the empire. Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, let alone these giant dragons.

Whether it is the alien gods, the magic dragon god, or the immortal queen Tiamat, they all mentioned that the world of Ekania is in unpredictable danger. Not only Ekania, but the entire universe is in turmoil.

In case anything goes wrong and the headquarters of the Ekania world also encounters irresistible danger, the Golden Empire will not be unprepared. These worlds connected by the empire are the cradle of the empire's resurgence.

"Mr. Gillianis,"

The knight of the Targaryen family, who was also the current Targaryen patriarch, saluted to Gilenes, the captain of the Royal Guards, and said, "These are the most outstanding children we have selected. They have more powerful talents than us, and they are also our hope for the future!"

Gillenis had already changed into the magic heavy armor brought by the legion soldiers on the floating island. In front of these dragon knights, he was like a giant, looking down at these children with golden, silver or silver-gold hair, and purple and light blue eyes.

Regardless of gender, these children all have pale skin and stunning beauty, just like the outstanding appearance of the Gogmora dragons among the true dragons. These children are also the most outstanding among the Valyrians.

The children's beautiful pupils were filled with anticipation. Their fingers nervously pinched the corners of their clothes and hems, looking in awe at this legion commander who was like a giant but dozens of times more flexible than an ordinary person.

"Whether they are outstanding or not depends on their own performance," Gilennes opened the visor of his dragon helmet, revealing the warrior's weathered but still resolute face.

He pointed to the ladder that looked like climbing to the top of a cloud, and said gently, "If these children can rely on their own willpower to climb to the top of the roots of the World Tree, they will be qualified to enter the Kingdom of Dragons."

"If your will is not strong enough, you will not be able to achieve anything in the Kingdom of Dragons even if you enter it. May my Lord and the dragons look after you. Go now. You still have three days to prepare."

Then, under the towering tree that even blocked out the sunlight from the sky, silence returned, with only the occasional sound of loyal warriors treading on broken leaves on the ground and the quiet, slow yet long and powerful breathing of the dragons.

The heartbeats of the dragons can also be clearly heard, as if these dragons are caught in some strange situation.

Suddenly, the Black Dragon Lord Rosani opened his eyes.

This black dragon has actually spent more time in this world. Rosani, who was the first to obtain secondary authority, has grown to 19 meters in length, which is not much smaller than the current young red dragon Caedilos.

The thick dragon horns are like black wrought iron spikes, growing towards the back of the skull. Having lived in this world for a long time, feeding on magic dragons, this black dragon also has some of the physical characteristics of magic dragons.

The sturdy and streamlined body of the real dragon, including behind the knee bones of the limbs, is covered with sharp black bone spurs, making it look particularly ferocious.

The dragon voice sighed,

"I can never be like Charon. Perhaps, we can only walk the path that dragons should walk."

The dragons' system is different from those of spellcasters and practitioners. They rely on blood to grow, and they can gain more powerful strength through repeated dormancy and transformation across age groups.

A normal red dragon, relying on this method, can gain legendary power by relying on the growth and transformation of its bloodline when it passes an extremely old age.

Among the five colored dragons, the ordinary blue dragon species with the strongest bloodline and the second strongest bloodline is slightly inferior to the red dragon. These blue dragons can only gain legendary power when they pass through the extremely old stage and become ancient blue dragons.

Although green dragons are always easily suppressed by fierce blue dragons in head-on battles, in fact, the talent of a green dragon is enough to obtain legendary power at the age of ancient dragons.

The black dragon and the white dragon, the weakest among the five colored dragons, stand out much more compared to the previous ones.

A normal black dragon, relying on its own bloodline, can only gain the power to stand shoulder to shoulder with legends after passing the ancient dragon stage and reaching the end of the ancient dragon age group.

As for the white dragons, they were only able to contend with the power of legends when they became ancient dragons and other dragon species began to cross the path to becoming demigod dragons and deified dragons.

Moreover, when these dragons grow to a stage strong enough to compete with the legendary ancient dragons and great ancient dragons, they will begin to move towards the path of becoming god-like and become powerful beings with quasi-god powers, or ascend to demigods and be promoted to deified dragons.

Strictly speaking, the path to demigod and the stage of legend are not of different levels, but more like two paths. It's just that some outstanding people can walk on both paths at the same time, just like the ancestral red dragon mentioned by the black dragon Rossani.

"You're awake too. I've actually been awake for a long time." The two heads of the white dragon Kamide opened their eyes at the same time, and their long necks curved and stretched. They came in front of the black dragon Rosani and began to whisper.

"Although we are very powerful, if we are to pursue two paths at the same time, we are only comparable to the infancy of Charon."

The white dragon Gemot also opened his eyes, bared his fangs, and laughed softly.

"Yes, I didn't realize it when I was confused before, but now that I have completely mastered the dragon blood, I feel that my mind is so clear."

The green dragon Antajiana also quietly opened her eyes. Her eyes, like emerald gemstones, flowed with pure spiritual light.

"If you don't reach a certain level, you will never be able to understand the thoughts of another level, just like when we were in the Chaos Slumber, we couldn't see clearly what Charon did, and only thought that he was just a dragon with stronger talents than us."

The Blue Dragon Lord Doss also opened his pupils at this moment, and lightning and lightning danced in his pupils.

Charon's technique of taming dragon blood had long been summarized by him into a mature secret method of controlling dragon blood with spiritual will. The giant dragons in the dragon group, when they obtain spiritual authority, are able to understand and master this secret method.

After the intake and stimulation of the spices, the several giant dragons here finally gained complete control of their own wills. They were no longer disturbed by the chaos of the evil dragon's blood and successfully transformed the poison of these bloodlines into their own driving force.

"Unfortunately, I may be able to try now to cross the bloodline of the previous generation and step into the realm of the ancestral dragon, but if I step into the realm of the ancestral dragon, I will not be able to control my dragon blood as perfectly as I do now."

"However, I think it is not appropriate to teach these skills to the dragons."

The female red dragon Clenaya also opened her eyes. Her temper was still bad, just like the fire that was always visible in her pupils, but this was her original nature and was no longer stimulated by the evil dragon's blood.

Akzi, the King of Blue Thunder, finally opened his eyes, the flashing lightning faded, and the deep and loud voice of dragon sounded.

"Haha, if the dragons in the empire could be like us, they would naturally look upon Kalon as a god!"

　Well, an elder sister who was only a few years older than me passed away on her own. In fact, birth, aging, sickness and death are things that all mortals have to go through.

　　I have experienced a lot, and my mentality is very calm, but my heart is too calm, without a single ripple.

　　In the past, I could write 4,000 words in two hours, but during the past two days, I took a leave of absence and stayed at home, sitting in front of my notebook, and only managed to write one chapter.

　　At Caron's feet, there are all kinds of mortals. I seem to be the same as him, watching the journey of mortals, but I am just a person in my own eyes.

　　I occasionally open my eyes to look at the world, and I feel sorry for myself. I groan without any illness, so let it be.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)