Eternal Emerald Dragon

Chapter 1184 - 1183 - New Race Grows

The clouds slowly dispersed but the gray coverer seemed to surge to cut off the sunlight once more. Any last member of the banished dragons were scorched ash. At the heart of it, where a mountain range had once stood, were 3 individuals.

There were humanoids.

The term was used because all 3 had scales, although one was pale and heavily hurt. The injured one was barely breathing but he lived with his blood matted emerald hair splayed out around his upper torso.

The 2 people around him were easily 3 to 4 meters tall but did not look poorly due to it. Power flowed off of them in waves.

One was only at the World Realm but he felt like he was easily a peak Sky Realm! His counterpart was the same. She was only Sky Realm but could put a Moon Tier to shame!

Both of them had mixed hair colors.

Amares now had emerald and charcoal with his skin nearly sparkling like diamond. His eyes were a mix of emerald and gold. He flexed his now human hands in stunned surprise.

He looked up and Serat stunned him in more ways than one.

Her hair was down to her waist but it was emerald and sapphire in color. Her eyes were a ruby and emerald mix as well. The more shocking thing, however, was he felt she was kin!

Not a sister but as close as one.

He looked at the True Lord and was stunned to feel it. A connection of blood of a superior to an inferior. The True Lord was his direct ancestor now!

Amares looked within and was shocked to find a golden flame burning at the heart of his beast core. His fonts were fusing it to the rumbling iron core at the heart of it. The process completed smoothly and new ideas flowed into his mind.

"Amares, what has happened to us?" He looked up at Serat to find her in as much awe as he was.

"Did a strange flame fuse with your beast core?" She nodded and he felt calmed.

"It was the color of a ruby but now it is like I always knew about it. Also my Sky Shards have grown to 6." Amares looked shocked before glancing at his own beast core. He found 6 fonts!

All 6 natural Qi fonts were happily forging his Iron Tier foundation!

Both suddenly felt concern as they swiveled to see the True Lord was in pain! Neither had any pills or artifacts but they saw his ring. If possible, they could try to see if something is inside it!

Serat moved first and her lithe figure was stunningly quick even to the standards Amares had. Dragons were naturally physically superior even in human form but he found her movements even beyond even what he knew they could do.

He went to move and the ground beneath his feet shattered even more! He could not control it! Serat seemed to have the same issue as him!

They did not dare touch the heavily injured True Lord. A flare came from the black ring on his right hand and a jade vial appeared. Amares used air Qi carefully and the stopper was sent flying into the sky!

He concentrated and the golden iron flared as he suddenly grasped a way to regulate the fluid inside to the True Lord. The vibrantly azure elixir flowed into his mouth and a change happened quickly.

The visible wounds began to close up and color returned to the True Lord's face. His breathing eased and the feeling of concern faded.

Both stood guard as they practiced using their new bodies. Their instincts were not enough as they seemed to be contradictory to their new situation.

"It is like I recall how I should move but this body is far superior!" Serat summed it up perfectly. Amares was about to speak when a new voice added to their conversation.

"It is because you are not supposed to be human but the impressions you share with me are because I was originally human. It took me a long time to get used to my dragon body." The True Lord was weakly sitting up but he seemed to be downing a few more elixirs before guiding the energy more efficiently.

"Ancestor!" Amares knelt with Serat at his side. The True Lord looked at them and understanding crossed his emerald eyes. He then looked up at the Heavens in consternation.

"Worried, were you? Bit of a cheap trick to make sure not all hope was lost but I can't really complain." Confusion filled Amares but he waited patiently before heaving coughing drew his eye.

The True Lord coughed up blood and black sludge but looked far better afterward.

"Yuck, I hope that is most of it but I doubt it will be the last of it." He then assumed a lotus position and both of them felt a profound wave of Qi flow into him. It was only at that moment Amares realized the air around them had changed.

It had always been free from the tainted Qi unlike what the people that were killed said about the rest of the 2nd layer.

Yet, the Qi around the mountain had always felt dead to him. It was as if it barely existed. Now, however, it was like it found new life!

The gray clouds were there as always but they seemed thinner. Amares wondered how it was possible but simply looked on as the True Lord became whole again.

He then stood up and looked around with a frown.

"Seems like I made a right mess of this place. Chu would scold me for leaving her out of it." A ghost of a smile crossed his features at those words.

His hands lit up and both Amares and Serat were shocked as profound sigils were engraved on the very air. Laws and elements danced at his whim before a rumbling echoed across the land.

Amares turned and saw something truly shocking. Immortals could cause havoc when they fought but that power was not the only one they had. He had heard legends and seen things in the race memory that he could access but with his own eyes, he had never believed to see it one day.

The very ground surged and moved at the whim of the True Lord! Structures began to rise and a road as broad as 3 carriages extended outward.

"My enemy knows where I am, so being subtle is no longer useful. Time to make some people very happy." A glow of emerald flashed over his eyes and Amares felt the sky rumble.

[All dragon clans hear my call. I am ordering you to where Blood Talon Peak once stood. Come to my new citadel. This cannot be disobeyed.] Amares and Serat felt it instantly. The need to obey!

It was a command from their True Lord! The race memory stirred and it was like specific figures. Mighty dragons with 2 to 6 wings or sinuous forms with horns that had incredible size and power.

The True Lords! They were seeing the True Lords in the race memory!

[All clans shall answer the call of the Emerald True Lord! The time of vengeance has finally come!]

Many voices boomed and the command was made even stronger!

Amares knew what that meant. Every dragon in all corners of the 2nd layer had heard the command from the race memory itself!

"All right. I don't have the materials for a gateway here but that should not be too difficult of a problem." A small mountain of materials appeared as the weaving seemed to continue unabated with building!

Amares watched as massive towers and even a castle rose up around them! It was all made of stone but the design was robust. It had no walls however. He found that odd until he realized what was coming.

Dragons did not need walls.

A sudden disturbance in space made him turn around only to be confused. What was he making?

Even he knew that tearing through space was not possible. Immortals at the mountain suddenly lost that gift over a million years ago. Dragons could still fly but it was harder the farther from the mountain they got.

Amares wanted to transform to fly himself but then he shot up into the sky! It was so easy!

The True Lord looked up at him amused.

[Careful. Thought leads to actions. Just fly. Let the wind carry you.] Amares found it humiliating to be taught how to fly when he should just know! He cleared his mind and the out of control flight slowed.

He carefully came back to the ground but found a strange circular object. The True Lord was engraving into the metal and a pedestal was set up not far away.

"What is that?" He had never seen anything like it.

"I borrowed the idea from somewhere else but it was just hell getting it to work the first time. Thankfully, my new gateways are compatible." As the True Lord spoke he completed his work. He then infused Qi into the construct.

The inner circle began to spin as Space Laws began to bend. The interior warped until he could sense many connections becoming one!

The True Lord closed his eyes and a single command came forth.

[The way is open.]