Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 597 Neutron Star Fortress

The Neutron Star Armor and the Neutron Star Golem's forging method originated from the early exploration of a small to medium-sized plane by the dragons of Golgmora and the remnants of the ancient magical empire.

In the Green Forest plane, the knowledge left behind in the Knowledge Fortress by the mages of the ancient magic empire has now been fully absorbed by the Golden Empire and gradually digested over the past hundred years.

It was also because of the legacy of the ancient magical empire that this dragon kingdom grew at a rate far exceeding that of other civilizations in the world of Ekania.

For Kalon Gogmora, one of the things that remains in the Fortress of Knowledge that interests him most is the magical use of neutron star matter.

Although the neutron star golem was envisioned by the ancient magical empire as a powerful weapon of war that could be mass-produced.

However, in reality, the ancient magical empire was unable to mass-produce neutron star golems until the end of its reign and the collapse of the empire.

Because the neutron star golem not only represents power, but the source of its casting materials is also extremely demanding.

The birth of neutron star matter signifies the end of the life of stars and celestial bodies, which sublimate and condense in their final embers, leaving behind the last remaining matter on Earth.

This is the extreme compression of all life and matter in death.

This also results in the terrifying mass of neutron star matter, which can reach hundreds of millions of tons per cubic centimeter.

Of course, many beings who are not sensitive to data and information cannot personally comprehend such terrifying quality.

In other words, the sugar cubes that the nobles in the world of Ekania enjoy on a daily basis would weigh at least a billion tons if converted to neutron star matter.

Just this small amount of neutron star matter, when gently placed on the surface of the world of Ekania, could easily penetrate the entire crust of the world, reaching deep into the core, and then piercing through the entire material plane.

All matter would be torn apart before this tiny neutron star.

In some respects, the existence of neutron star matter is equivalent to a condensed form of rules, rather than a simple matter.

When Charon fought the legendary Lipnos to the death, he brought the earth and mountains to life and made them into a giant pillar supporting the sky, which was modeled after the structure of neutron star matter.

This also allowed the weapon in Charon's hand to briefly contend with the power of the peerless weapon in Lipunos's hand, which was meticulously forged over countless years by a great demon from the abyss.

One can imagine how terrifying this substance is.

But imitation is just imitation. In the face of real neutron star matter, Charon's weapons seem so insignificant.

"This place is actually a graveyard of stars, a cluster of graves. Following the aura of those alien evil gods, which star system have we ended up in?"

Mogeyes had already unleashed its full power, charging headlong through the starry sky along a massive jet of starlight that stretched for millions of miles.

The sheer force of these stellar jets alone is enough to propel any city in the world of Ekania forward effortlessly through the starry sky.

If these cities can withstand such a terrifying driving force.

Fortunately, a king like Mogeyes can easily distort the space of the world with his own will, slightly altering the trajectory of these stellar jets to protect himself from such endless impacts.

Otherwise, even Mogeyes would not have been able to withstand such power for long.

No matter how strong the multi-armed giant is, or how deep its energy reserves are, it cannot compare to stars that are already on the verge of death and have completely burned themselves out.

Even so, the omnipresent and terrifying gravitational pull was affecting Mogeyes's every move, causing the mental strain on this multi-armed giant to increase exponentially.

"This star field is actually a graveyard for stars, but this is not a normal thing,"

Kalon frowned slightly at the golden feather on his forehead and said in a somewhat serious tone, "This star field is not the original origin of this universe, which means that these stars should not have reached the end of their lives at this time."

"Otherwise, the same situation should have occurred in the other adjacent star systems as well,"

"There must have been a powerful external force that caused almost all the stars in this star field to die one after another, and even the few stars in this star field have fallen into the process of eternal silence."

Kalon's golden eyes gazed into the distance, hundreds of millions of miles away, at a terrifying meteorite the size of only one city.

Compared to a giant star that is still burning its life, this enormous meteorite is tiny. According to Karon's estimation, the meteorite is only about 20 kilometers in diameter.

But its mass is heavier than the sun hanging in the world of Ekania.

Don't ask Karon why he knows so much, because Karon has been coveting the sun above the starry sky of Aikania for who knows how long.

From the time Charon first became a teenager, he had always looked up at the stars, longing to set foot on the sun.

What surprised Caron even more was that this dead star seemed to have completely lost its gravity and radiation, and even its trajectory in the universe had completely stopped.

It looks like a tiny star that has never moved since the beginning of time, quietly floating in the dazzling torrent of countless stars.

The dazzling nebulae and countless flowing stellar materials that Charon and Mogeyes experienced when they entered this star field were clearly the products left behind after the stars were completely destroyed.

"You rest first, Mogeyes, conserve your energy. I'll handle the rest of the journey."

Sensing something was wrong, Kalon immediately stood up, landing on Mogeyes' shoulder. The ancient roc with golden eyes and jade claws instantly disintegrated, and the seven-headed, ten-crowned great red dragon reappeared in the world.

Charon extended one of his front paws and grabbed the docile, shrunken multi-armed giant in his claws. With his fangs slightly bared, he swallowed and released his Dragon Bell from his belly.

One after another, densely packed stellar gravitational waves and cosmic ray waves rippled around the Dragon Emperor Bell.

These cosmic forces and divine powers seem to have become the forging fire within this precious bell as it circulates.

Outside this enormous bell, which is as big as a house, countless rules and symbols can be vaguely seen, representing the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, wind, and fire.

Inside the bell, on the bell wall, the mountains and rivers of the Golden Empire and even the world of Ekania, as well as the myriad races and creatures of the empire, are depicted with lifelike detail, as if they are about to come to life.

Under the gravitational waves and residual influence of numerous dead stars in the starry sky, ripples began to form on the outer shell of this huge golden bell, like rings of a bell, surrounding and protecting the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, wind, and fire.

Even the earth, water, wind, and fire elements on it began to come alive, with some of them vaguely turning into blazing blue-purple flames, giving Mogeyes a strange sense of familiarity.

With the protection of the bell, Charon could confidently unleash his power without worrying about being affected.

So Kalon flapped his wings, ignoring the other small stars that were still burning, and charged straight towards the distant star that had long since transformed into a neutron star in its death. Now, when the Dragon Emperor was flying at full speed with his physical body, he could easily break the speed of light limit, which was why even those legendary mages had difficulty tracking his full-speed flight trajectory with their mental locks.

Many powerful spells couldn't even touch or affect Charon.

After entering adolescence, Charon never flew at full speed in a life-material plane like Ekania.

While it is difficult to break the speed of light limit in the material world as easily as in the starry sky, one can still come extremely close to the speed of light limit using only the physical body.

The disaster caused by flying across the sky at such speed far surpasses the invasion of many Abyss Legions.

Because Karon's flight is not solely reliant on magic and wings, but also stems from his mastery of the rules of space and time.

The expansion and redshift of the universe is another pair of wings for Charon. The principle behind the thousand-winged forepaws that Charon displayed when he fought against the colorful prince Nur also comes from this great red dragon's understanding and mastery of many rules.

But now that Charon has created the Emperor's Law, he no longer needs to display his thousand wings and claws as before to unleash all his power at once.

However, since Caron is not facing a life-or-death enemy, he does not need to fully unleash his potential.

Even so, nowadays, with a slight flap of its wings, Charon can treat a distance of tens of thousands of miles as if it were just a short distance away.

One after another, teleportation portals crisscrossed the void, multiplying Charon's speed across the starry sky.

In the blink of an eye, billions of miles had passed between the rising and falling waves.

In Mogeyes's eyes, the spacetime matter of the entire starry sky was distorted, like folds in the air, which could be easily torn apart and broken through.

The great red dragon, Karon Gogmora, traverses the void by stepping on the folds of space.

The tiny spatial folds connect to form a line, which becomes the terrifying fiery rainbow bridge spanning thousands of miles across the entire starry sky.

"Hiss, slow down, slow down, Gogmora, I suddenly realize I might be a little dizzy from dragons,"

Mogyes, nestled in Charon's grasp, grumbled in a muffled voice, "Just based on your speed alone, I think you'd be able to roam freely throughout the astral plane."

"As long as you don't fall into the traps and conspiracies of those gods, you can easily escape even if you face their true forms."

"Strategically, we can despise those gods, but tactically, we must pay them extra attention, Mogyes,"

Caron lowered his broad and long jaw slightly, the fine scales beneath it more dazzling than a rainbow in the starry sky, as if they absorbed all the colors of the entire starry sky and reflected them back into it.

"Although I once joked with Antajena that many of those gods were actually just cowardly losers, a god is still a god,"

"If a god were to set up a conspiracy and trap at the cost of an entire star field, do you think I could escape?"

Mogeyes shrank back, thought for a moment, and then said, "Unless the rules of the universe collapse, I'm afraid only a powerful god could do this, disregarding all costs."

"I don't know if I can escape, but I have a feeling that you might be able to."

Kalon bared his fangs, smiled slightly, and did not answer. He simply moved forward, bringing with him terrifying rainbow-like flames that swept across the starry sky.

Some creatures, the longer you spend time with them, the more respect you will receive from others.

Although Mogeyes still verbally expressed his dissatisfaction with the dragon emperor, deep down he clearly admired him greatly.

Even though the Dragon Emperor's speed across the stars was terrifying, it was still nothing in the vast universe.

For safety reasons, Charon did not choose to descend directly from a distance using interdimensional teleportation magic, but instead flew along the way to scout.

After flying through countless dazzling nebulae for several days, Charon finally got close to the long-silent dead star.

Fortunately, during the reconnaissance along the way, no strange things were found in this starry sky, which made Caron lower his vigilance slightly.

However, when Charon hovered above this miniature death star with the bell atop his head, he couldn't help but think of the Mind Flayer race he had encountered before.

The mind flayers who once possessed those Naga boasted that their race was once so great that, in order to prolong the mind flayers' imperial rule, they burned the energy of hundreds of billions of suns in the universe to reverse the entire empire's timeline.

The neutron star in front of them, with a diameter of only about twenty kilometers, had a slightly rough surface covered with a vast array of complex magic circles that even Karon couldn't see clearly at a glance.

Each node of this unprecedentedly massive magic circle is constructed from a series of high-level magic circles, which are interconnected and influence each other.

Its specific effectiveness is yet to be known, but the terrifying gravitational and gravitational radiation of the entire neutron star are sealed within a few hundred meters of the star's surface by this massive magic array.

Only in a few places, due to the long passage of time and the countless collisions and wear and tear the magic arrays in the starry sky, did the power of this neutron star radiate outwards, tearing the nebula in the starry sky into pieces of rags.

"Damn it, who did this? Only an extremely powerful legendary being could fully utilize such a terrifying thing."

Mogyes poked his head out from Charon's claws, staring at the terrifying Death Star with several pairs of eyes.

"What is the purpose of this magic circle, Gogmora? You're a little bit smarter than me, can you figure it out?"

Caron observed carefully for a moment, then extended his claws.

Ancient dragon runes flowed from his claws, pouring out into a node of the massive magic circle beneath him.

The power of dragon magic activated this massive magic circle that had gradually fallen silent.

Amidst a series of intense buzzing sounds, the massive magic circle, covering every part of the star's surface with a diameter of twenty kilometers, began to be activated and lit up little by little.

"Interesting. There was once an exceptionally powerful legendary being who actually wanted to transform this neutron death star into his own neutron star fortress, the neutron star mage tower!"

Kalon's seven vertical pupils shone with divine light, analyzing and summarizing each node of this enormous magic circle. The effects that each node of the entire massive magic circle was meant to achieve were ultimately combined and converged into one in Kalon's mind.

An image of a terrifying arcane fortress, a weapon of war, a mage's castle, finally took shape in Karon's mind.

"This mage has some interesting ideas!"

(End of this chapter)