Chapter 964: The rest are mine

“Do you know the cruelty of war?”

A voice, cold and authoritative, boomed across Dragonflame Island. “Have you ever truly hated the enemies who brought ruin to your kind? This war… is not over.”

Deputy Commander Edward’s challenge immediately drew four demigod phantoms from the deepest sanctums of the Dragon Nest.

“Who is it?”

“Who dares trespass on the territory of the dragons!”

“Enemy attack!”

“AOOO…”

A piercing, draconic roar echoed, serving as both a warning to their kin and a weapon in itself, as a terrifying wave of draconic pressure surged skyward toward the intruders hidden in the clouds.

BOOM!

The wave of pressure slammed into an invisible barrier high above and dissipated. A colossal six-pointed star materialized in the sky, its lines etched with glowing, densely packed runes.

It was a forbidden magical formation.

At its center stood Deputy Commander Edward, holding a shimmering golden gemstone. At each of the formation’s six points stood a figure of immense power: Arthas, Alexander, Pollard, and two of the commander’s own Aegis Guard, his elite sword-sworn sentinels.

Six demigods had descended upon them. The four dragon demigods, who had just charged from their nest, stopped dead in their tracks.

“It’s that faction from the Dusk Continent!”

“Six demigods? They had reinforcements?!”

“Damn that Great Dragon King of Light! He set us up!”

“This is no time for accusations! Send word back! Get the other two elders here now!”

But as the dragon demigods scrambled to form a plan, the magical formation above began to descend like a collapsing sky. If they didn’t resist, Dragonflame Island would be shattered and sunk in moments.

“We can’t wait! We have to go up and hold them back!”

“Damn that old lizard, I knew he was up to no good!”

“We face a great enemy! We go together! Do not separate!”

“Elder Mikalus, the formation’s aura is terrifying! We need the relics!”

With a unified roar of grim resolve, the four demigod phantoms rallied behind a lance carved from a single dragon’s fang and charged into the descending hexagram. The relic, combined with their own demigod power, visibly slowed the formation’s descent.

Just then, two more demigod phantoms shot out of the Dragon Nest, joining the desperate defense without hesitation. The dragons’ reaction time was incredible; they clearly had a way to transmit information back to the Uynting Realm and receive reinforcements almost instantly.

“Now that everyone has arrived,” Deputy Commander Edward said coolly, watching the six dragon demigods enter his trap, “seal the formation.”

At his command, Arthas, Alexander, and the others at the five outer points activated the runes at their positions. The Hexagram stopped its descent and pulsed with a torrent of void energy.

The six dragon demigods who had charged inside were violently torn apart from one another, each sealed within one of the six pocket dimensions of the forbidden formation. It was a trap designed not only to contain, but to divide and conquer.

“I will remind you all one more time,” Edward’s voice echoed through the formation. “If you cannot kill your opponent, use any means necessary to simply hold them here.”

His warning was for all of them, but it was aimed squarely at the demigod Pollard. Of everyone in the formation, only Pollard was not one of their own. And given his half-assed performance on the battlefield before, Edward was making the stakes clear.

“Rest assured, Your Excellency,” Pollard replied, his voice smooth. “I won’t let you down.”

As a demigod, he understood the unspoken threat perfectly. This faction, which had just summoned two more unknown demigods out of thin air, was beyond merely powerful. Pollard was now certain they were backed by a massive, inter-dimensional power.

As the demigod battle began within the misty confines of the formation, the war between the dragons and the Champions Alliance erupted once more across the Kasenna Sea.

It was a sudden, targeted assault. Even with the dragons’ impressive intelligence network, the Champions Alliance had thrown their entire weight into the attack so quickly that the dragons couldn’t get reinforcements in place in time.

Orion, mounted on the ancient giant-horned whale, Kori, led the charge. Flanked by Kraken and Sever, he commanded all the Sea Race units, ready to steamroll the enemy forces.

High above, the Deputy Commander’s storm avatar rode Arthas’s bone dragon, a looming threat to the dragons who held dominion over the skies.

“Kraken, there’s an arch lord sea beast up ahead. It’s yours. Any problems?” Orion called out.

The dragons’ reaction speed and sheer depth of forces were impressive. The moment their army had entered the battlefield, the enemy arch lords had moved to intercept them. And now, he could sense two more arch lord dragons approaching at high speed from Dragonflame Island.

Worst of all, his initial estimate of five enemy arch lords was wrong. There were seven. The dragons had held two in reserve.

“It’s just a big shark. I can handle it,” Kraken replied, his voice booming with newfound confidence. “But what about the other dragons?”

As he spoke, he transformed into his massive octopus true form, his mountain-sized body creating an oppressive aura as it spread across the ocean’s surface.

“Don’t worry. The rest are mine.”

After a moment’s hesitation, Kraken nodded and submerged, swimming toward the colossal shark in the distance.

“You, go up,” Orion said, turning to Sever. In the sky, three arch lord dragons were ganging up on the bone dragon and the storm avatar.

Sever drew the executioner’s sword from his hip, locked onto his targets, and shot upwards like a blade of light.

“Kori,” Orion commanded his mount, “lock onto that dragon beast. Devour it.”

He had spotted his own target, a massive creature with the body of a dragon but no wings. Such a powerful dragon beast had to be a rare asset.

The ancient giant-horned whale whipped its massive tail, charging forward with immense force as it activated its Gigantic Form. Even before it reached its target, Kori let out a piercing cry, unleashing two powerful control skills: Sonar Prison and Sonic Shockwave Chain.

Full power from the very start. That was Orion’s order. He had to eliminate an enemy before those two dragon reinforcements arrived.

“Kill!”

Orion activated Instant Impact. Standing on the whale’s back, he was now moving with a secondary burst of acceleration, his speed so great it was indistinguishable from teleportation.