Steel steam and flame

Cassia lay down on his back, and Monikoloa noticed his departure the next moment - the human body still maintained its vigorous activity and vitality, but it lacked the most crucial thing, which was something like a program that drove a machine.

Having gotten used to it, Monikoloa sighed as usual that this was a very useful ability, and then his half-suspended body regained full mobility. He flapped his wings several times to get him to a higher altitude, closer to the artificial land red star. Bathed in the light of the red star that burned the scales, he let his body completely float, and his folded wings fully unfolded.

Fortunately, it was pitch black, and Monikoloa did not reflect any light. On the contrary, under its spread wings and black-scaled body, a powerful active substance was wriggling under its tough and highly defensive skin.

The suspended Monikoloa closed his eyes and used all his energy to prepare for the battle, which he had not used for a long time. Ten minutes passed quickly, and the movement under his skin disappeared, replaced by cracks on his skin, like cracked land.

In these cracks, blood-red tree buds are growing rapidly, producing more blood-red leaves.

They also did not reflect any light, but instead greedily absorbed the light of the red star, striving to accumulate energy.

About half an hour later, Cassia woke up on his back and found that his body was not only covered with keratin for fixation, but also with a layer of blood-red plant vines as thick as an adult's thumb.

The huge dragon body of Monikoloa became a living biological culture base, allowing the vines covering most of its body to grow. This is only what can be seen on the surface. Although the skin, vines, scales and induction field defense layer have the effect of interfering with perception, with the help of the bone communication machine, Cassia can still detect the huge changes in its body.

"After becoming a sixth-stage life form, none of them will be simple, and none of them will be a normal life form." Cassia quickly withdrew her perception. It would be very impolite to continue exploring. "Is this an evolutionary route? Or an ability? There are no organs anymore, and the heart has been replaced by fragments of the ancient historical world tree. Many structures have become completely woody, like the trunk of a tree.

Compared with a normal adult dragon, your skeleton is less than half similar. It can be said that everyone has always regarded you as a sixth-stage dragon. But in fact, you only have the appearance of a dragon, and your inner life form has nothing to do with dragons. "

Monikoloa opened his closed eyes, and the bright red cross pupil disappeared. Its new pupil was light green, very similar to some snakes in the second category, but not in a vertical line, but in a round shape.

"This is evolution, Cassia," he replied. "The current state is both a change brought about by the evolutionary path and an adaptive evolutionary ability."

"'Burning Mode', that's the name I gave it." Monikoloa continued, "As for why the evolutionary path and abilities are like this... it all started a long, long time ago. At that time, I was just an adult and barely reached the fifth stage. By chance, I saw the ancient historical world tree collapse under the flames."

"The illusion in the fragments?" Cassia immediately understood why he wanted to tell the story.

"In my opinion, the breath of dragons is very simple and can easily reach its limit. This also applies to the giant whales. They just rely on their huge body size to take a different route. So in order not to be restricted by the limit of their breath, the burning of the ancient world tree became my research object..." Monikoloa said with nostalgia for the past, "Thinking from the perspective of today, the object of imitation is not the burning of the world tree, but the imitation of the star-eating bacteria and the imitation of the red star."

Cassia made a change in her thinking, "Indeed, the burning of the World Tree is the burning of the flesh and blood of the gods by the Star-Eating Bacteria."

"Then, the bacteroids can definitely help you in the combustion process, right?" Cassia asked with a smile.

Monikoloa nodded. "This is an information gap that the enemy could never have predicted. The changes caused by the bacteroids are enough to surprise them. I really want to keep it and not use it."

“Good things should be shared!”

"Good things should usually be enjoyed alone!" Monikoloa had a completely different point of view, and said in a disapproving tone, "I don't have the virtue of sharing. Enjoying things alone is the most comfortable thing."

Fortunately, the argument did not continue. After a tacit pause, Cassia changed the topic and briefly explained the results of the contact within half an hour.

"…So, to sum up the above, the conclusion we draw is that the result we want to achieve is either to kill a pope, or to seriously injure at least four popes, from injuries that they cannot fully recover from within half a year."

"You mean to say that as long as we achieve our goal, any of these results will make the popes of all generations become restrained and will no longer confront us head-on."

"At least in the Polar Sea Vortex, during the period of mutual restraint, if the Third General does not provide considerable help, they will not take active countermeasures. They will only passively wait for the time to come, that's all."

Monikoloa shook his head and looked at the huge red star on the land. "Killing a pope from past dynasties is not an easy task, even if they were resurrected in this era. Hmm... What about Miss Letitia and Miss Eleanor? Do they have any suggestions? Or, do they have any words for me?"

"No." Cassia said, "But it can also be called yes. However, in order to ensure the successful implementation of the combat plan, I cannot give a detailed explanation for the time being."

"In order to make the plan a success..." Monikoloa repeated. After a brief thought, he spoke, "Is it to avoid any signs of coordination between us? Only when everyone is unaware of each other can we completely deceive the successive popes below and make them think that this is just a routine attrition attack?"

"The intuition of the sixth stage is extremely terrifying, especially the perception of evolutionary routes." Cassia said worriedly.

"Don't worry. I think as long as we have the red star on the land above us and the uranium-gold bomb in the center, there is nothing to worry about. Even though I'm not human, I know this." He comforted, "Under the Great God's Declaration, it is not only a sure-hit attack, but an absolutely equal attack!"