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Chapter 829: The Plunder of Red Dragon Emperor – The Ashen Empire's Anzeta Great Wasteland Governorate, Dragonblood Mountain Forbidden Zone
This was a place utterly forbidden within the Empire’s domain—no living being dared to enter, nor even approach. Only the roaring of churning magma and scorching winds echoed through the void.
Then, a colossal fissure split the sky. The ground trembled faintly. Ash drifting in the air, molten flames swirling like living currents, suddenly surged and danced as if pulled by an invisible force.
At the perimeter of Dragonblood Mountain, the Half-Dragon soldiers and Wyverns on patrol beyond the steam clouds all felt it. Without a word, they turned toward the peak, their faces alight with frenzied awe and devout reverence.
One whispered, voice trembling: "That aura… It’s His Majesty, King Kai Xiusu! The Empire has claimed another victory in the South!"
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empire!"
"Spines! Spines!"
A storm-like roar tore through the air. The Red Dragon Emperor ripped open space itself. His colossal dragon form burst forth from the mountain’s summit, wreathed in flowing flames and thick smoke. With a thunderous flap of his wings, he descended like a falling star, landing with a quake upon the peak—the jagged silhouette of a giant dragon’s head.
At impact, the searing fire coiling around him vanished, dissipating like mist. Beneath the charred scales, the true wounds were revealed: a gash cleaving his chest nearly in two, ribs and internal organs exposed. Yet, even as the scene unfolded, new flesh sprouted visibly before the eye—renewing, regenerating.
This was no mere illusion. The body before them was the true form of the Red Dragon Emperor.
Tiamat’s Divine Punishment was devastating—its power laced with annihilation and evil, piercing Kai Xiusu’s flesh directly. Even with his Third-Generation Ancestral Dragon regeneration, it would take him weeks, perhaps months, to fully recover.
But Kai Xiusu cared little.
To mortals, such wounds were fatal. To a semi-god of immortality, they were but a scratch. Consider Gorazdra—should her physical form be reduced to ash, she would still reform after hundreds, even thousands of years, reborn like a phoenix from fire.
Thus, the ancient churches of old, after defeating semi-gods or near-gods, never sought to kill them outright. They sealed and imprisoned them instead—because death only bred endless chaos.
Only a True God, wielding Divine Punishment, could utterly erase a semi-god’s immortal essence. No one else could.
If Gorazdra had fled to some remote corner of the Stellar Realm, the bottomless abyss, or the Thunder Elemental Plane—anywhere she could hide—Kai Xiusu would have never found her traces.
She could have sought refuge in Tiamat’s Divine Realm. But the failure of “Lord of the Putrid Marsh,” Erebus, now consumed, stood as a grim warning. The ancient blue dragon, recently defeated and stripped of utility, would never consider such a path.
Yet, for all her millennia of pride, Gorazdra had been blinded by ambition. In her desperation to ascend, she returned to the Faria family’s nest, hoping to reclaim a new flesh body. And she was caught—right where Kai Xiusu had laid wait.
Kai Xiusu stared at the Primordial Dragon soul imprisoned within the enchanted Time Amber. A slow, cruel grin split his jaws. He snapped a claw—crack!
The cage split open, forming a narrow gap just wide enough for Gorazdra’s head to emerge. Her body remained locked in eternal stasis.
For a moment, she gasped, then screeched, her voice sharp as shattered glass:
"Kai Xiusu! Release me! How dare you imprison a dragon on the brink of divinity!"
Kai Xiusu tilted his head, lips curling into a mocking smirk.
"I’m surprised, even now, with your body destroyed, you still dream of ascension."
"Don’t you remember Erebus? Tiamat didn’t hesitate. She consumed him on the spot."
"That’s different!" Gorazdra snarled, eyes narrowing. "Erebus was a worthless wretch. I am Tiamat’s most trusted offspring—her chosen heir, the future subordinate deity of her pantheon!"
"How amusing," Kai Xiusu raised a brow, "to lie to yourself. Tiamat? Greedy, violent, selfish—she’d discard you the moment she learned you’ve lost your strength. From a purely selfish perspective…"
He let the silence stretch, voice dripping with mockery:
"What do you think she’d do? You know the answer better than I do. That’s why you didn’t run to her realm. Admit it."
"You—Kai Xiusu! Your end is coming! When Tiamat descends, your head will adorn her throne!"
Furious, Gorazdra had no reply. She spat curses, hurling every vile word she could think of—yet to Kai Xiusu, who had endured the baptism of the Information Age, it was nothing more than a whisper.
He grinned wider, revealing rows of jagged, needle-like fangs. Before the ancient blue dragon’s soul, he drew out the root horns—broken, jagged, still crackling with divine lightning.
The moment she saw them, her pupils dilated in madness and greed.
"Mine! That’s mine! Kai Xiusu, give it back! That is Tiamat’s divine body—only her chosen may possess it! If you use it, you’ll be consumed by her will, driven mad!"
"No," Kai Xiusu murmured, eyes glowing faint gold as they reflected the storm of electric light. He shook his head slowly. "Now… it belongs to me."
Crack!
A sound like the world splitting. The Red Dragon Emperor’s arm tensed—veins bulging, muscles knotting. With a sudden, violent wrench, he tore at the horn. Cracks split its surface, glowing white-hot. Divine power erupted like a floodgate—raw, chaotic, evil energy surging forth.
"You’ll destroy us all!" Gorazdra screamed. "That’s a True God’s body! If you break it, the divine surge will annihilate everything!"
But Kai Xiusu only smirked. He snapped his claw again.
[Empire Domain: Sealing]
A wave of divine law, like a celestial wall, slammed down from above. The raw, frenzied power was trapped within—sealed, contained.
Gorazdra froze. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
"Divine Realm…? How is this possible?"
At that moment, Kai Xiusu radiated supreme authority—absolute, unshakable. Even Tiamat’s divine power, now within his claws, bent to his will.
To Gorazdra, only one being could wield such power: a god.
The Red Dragon Emperor opened his maw—a cavern of crimson fire. Deep within his throat, chaotic crimson flames clashed with silver-white order flames, merging into a single, devouring force.
Space warped. The sky trembled. A scream echoed through the cosmos as the two met—red and white, a torrent of flame roaring from his jaws like a waterfall from the heavens.
Destruction of all things. Consumption. Return to self.
—Plunderbreath.
Gorazdra’s soul screamed in terror. He’s going to swallow Tiamat’s divine body!
She raised her head, unleashing a torrent of lightning—thousands of bolts—shrieking in despair:
"No! Stop! That’s my divine body!"
But Kai Xiusu paid no mind. He continued, the Plunderbreath consuming everything—every inch of the horn, every particle of divine essence.
The winds howled. The heavens and earth shook. Dark clouds churned like a storm-laden sea. Thunderstorms exploded across the sky. Tiamat’s divine power erupted uncontrollably—so powerful, it threatened to swallow the entire mountain.
Boom!
Another thunderclap split the sky. Lightning tore through the veil of reality. Beyond the material plane, in the endless void, a monstrous shape charged against the planar barrier—something vast, ancient, hungry.
And above, a shadow emerged—thousands of meters long, indistinct, formless. A dragon.
More shadows followed—hundreds, thousands—like sharks scenting blood. They gathered in the sky, drawn to the divine power, eager to breach the material plane and feast upon it.
But Kai Xiusu flared his wings and soared skyward, rising to ten kilometers above the peak. He held the horn high, head raised, roaring to the heavens. Thunderbolts and flames swirled around him like a storm-born god.
This was Anzeta Great Wasteland. The Ashen Empire. His domain.
No outer plane abomination would trespass here.
"Get. Back. There!"
[Empire Domain: Sealing]
A beam of light—brilliant, searing, unbearable—split the sky. It struck every foreign presence, banishing them in an instant.
Tiamat’s divine power still poured from the horn, dark clouds spreading like a plague. Lightning danced like silver serpents, weaving a forest of light across the heavens. And Kai Xiusu stood at its heart—unshaken, unyielding.
Gorazdra looked up, her voice cracked with despair.
"No… is it really happening? Can he… really consume Queen Tiamat’s body?"
Boom!
The sky split again. Rolling clouds coalesced into wings—massive, thunderous. The silver lightning forest solidified into a dragon’s form, its wings stretching across the sky.
In Kai Xiusu’s golden, vertical pupils, lightning shot forth—like spears from the heavens.
He lowered his head, grinning fiercely at the ancient blue dragon’s soul.
"Now… it’s your turn, Gorazdra."
Panic flooded her. Her voice trembled. "W-what… what are you going to do?"
No answer.
Then—Plunderbreath surged down like a waterfall of annihilation. The flames engulfed her soul, devouring her form.
She screamed—pained, desperate, broken. Her spirit shrank, eroded like stone by the sea. She begged. She offered to serve. But to the flames of total destruction, all pleas were meaningless.
In the end, every last spark of her divinity was absorbed. Within the enchanted cage, only a faint, translucent silhouette remained—a ghost of a dragon, barely visible.
Kai Xiusu did not destroy it.
No—this was a near-god’s soul, a relic of a Primordial Dragon. To the Empire’s researchers, it was priceless.
"This feeling…"
Kai Xiusu closed his maw, eyes shut. He savored the flood of divine power—lightning like silver serpents coiled around his massive body, crackling, roaring.
All the strength Gorazdra had amassed over a thousand years now belonged to the Red Dragon Emperor.
"Truly… magnificent."
> [You have consumed Horn of Tiamat and Soul of Thunder Tyrant, gaining vast primordial divinity from Dragon, Evil, Thunderbolt, and Destruction realms.]
> [You have digested part of the primordial divinity. Dragon of Divine Ascension level up to: 8]
Kai Xiusu landed upon the mountain’s peak. His four claws sank deep into the rock, sending shockwaves through the earth. The ground roared like a drum struck by a giant.
He lifted his head and bellowed—a sound that shattered clouds, echoed across the wasteland, and sent tremors through the very bones of the world.
The wind raged. Dark clouds churned like waves. Lightning tore through the sky, repeatedly rending the veil of reality. Yet, beneath his aura, even the lightning, the storm, the mountains—everything seemed small. Fragile.
Kai Xiusu had become the undisputed master of heaven and earth. Unquestionable. Unapproachable.
Outside Dragonblood Mountain, the soldiers stared upward, awestruck. The miracle in the sky left them breathless—filled only with awe.
And on Kai Xiusu’s character sheet, new information flashed.
> [You have gained semi-god abilities: Transphysical Bias, Iron Resolve, Resistance to Time, Spell Resistance]
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> [Transphysical Bias]: At level 5, the Defense rating of Dragon of Divine Ascension increases dramatically, gaining a bias bonus equal to its Charisma modifier.
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> [Iron Resolve]: At level 6, Dragon of Divine Ascension becomes immune to mind-affecting effects (charm, compulsion, phantasm, mental illusion, morale effects).
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> [Resistance to Time]: At level 7, Dragon of Divine Ascension gains resistance to time-based spells—Time Stop, Chrono Dragonbreath, and similar effects will struggle to affect you.
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> [Semi-God Resistance]: At level 8, Dragon of Divine Ascension gains +5 legendary spell resistance. Any 6th-level or lower spell will have no effect on you or your surroundings.
(End of Chapter)
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