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"What?!"
"What happened?!"
"Was that an earthquake?!"
Students in the four dormitories standing in different parts of the academy opened their windows one after another, staring outside with panicked expressions.
Not only the students, but the academy's staff, teachers, and other personnel also leaned out from the windows of their residences. Then, when they saw the scene outside, everyone was stunned...
"Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud..."
Dull sounds and trembling ground gradually swept through the entire academy. The thunderous noise was like some enormous beast running across the earth, kicking up a sky-shrouding cloud of dust in the open area before the academy.
Before long, the dust dispersed...
What emerged from behind it was a terrifying force.
They were dragons with grotesque appearances, jet-black bodies covered in beast-like eyes, wolfish ferocity gleaming in their own eyes, and drool hanging from their mouths. They looked utterly disgusting!
Judging by their appearance, probably no citizen of the Knight Kingdom would acknowledge such monsters as dragons.
Yet based solely on their forms, they truly were dragons—dragon hordes organized into troop-like formations!
Flocks of Wyverns with exposed bodies and Wyvern-like appearances spread their wings and soared through the night sky...
Herds of Earth Dragons with exposed bodies and Earth Dragon-like appearances charged across the open ground...
Schools of Water Dragons with exposed bodies and Water Dragon-like appearances swam upstream through the great river...
Black abominations resembling Wyverns, Earth Dragons, and Water Dragons, yet possessing entirely exposed bodies wreathed in evil auras, charged toward the academy beneath the cover of night!
These ugly, black, exposed abominations resembling Wyverns, Earth Dragons, and Water Dragons were none other than Corpse Ash Dragons!
There had to be at least seven or