Because I Am a Prophet! (Please Vote!)

This was very simple.

Ian had not been in Xiahui Territory recently. Scott and Elder Manyan had each been managing the Spirit-Veneration Church on the Empire side and the Mountain Folk side respectively, so naturally, differences had emerged in the development of both factions.

After all, neither of them was the Dragon God's messenger.

And for some reason, videos related to "Mahdi" and the "Dark Gold Dragon" had made their way to Xiahui Territory.

Though there were some differences, the Dark Gold Dragon did indeed bear the appearance of the Rust-Steel Dragon.

Combined with the legends that had spread among the Mountain Folk before Ian had taken control of them, this image had convinced quite a few Mountain Folk that it was a sign of the Dragon God's imminent return.

Between the returning Dragon God and the Dragon God's messenger, who was the boss?

There was the problem.

Ian had actually already guessed where this legend had come from... without a doubt, the Rust-Steel Dragon itself. Who else could it have been?

Back then, that dragon had fought a great battle with the Ice-Mist Dragon. The two had exchanged homes; the Ice-Mist Dragon remained at Great Snowcap in the Bison Mountains, while the Rust-Steel Dragon stayed in the crystal caverns beneath the Xenobiology Research Institute.

Before its death, the Rust-Steel Dragon had spoken with The Final Echo. After asking The Final Echo to use its flesh and blood to create the "Dark Gold Dragon," it had requested that it return to the Bison Mountains and announce its return and its victory.

This was probably the joke the Rust-Steel Dragon had intended to play on the Mountain Folk: I died! Hey! I came back to life!

But after stretching on for four hundred years, that joke was no longer a True