The Reason to Become King of Terra

"Eh?"

Once Ian realized the Terra Dragon was communicating with him, he could not help feeling puzzled. "What does this have to do with me?"

He had indeed tacitly permitted it, but this should all have been the Farshore Islanders' grand undertaking—could merely allowing them to awaken the Terra Dragon's remains make him one of their collaborators too?

"Wait, apart from us, someone else received a response from the Terra Dragon?!"

At that moment, the Farshore Islanders beside Ian were also utterly stunned.

Just moments ago, they had broken through the interception of the Empire's two great guardians and endured untold hardships to reach the Ancient Dragon's corpse. Using a sufficient quantity of Source of Dragonblood, gathered over a long period and purchased from the Elves at enormous expense, they had awakened the faint phantom lingering within the Terra Dragon's shell.

They had plotted for decades and made countless preparations. They had even obtained part of the Terra Dragon's bloodline from a Pre-Epoch Civilization ruin before finally receiving the Terra Dragon's response and gaining the "authority" they had dreamed of.

Theoretically, this should even have been unique!

So why was there now someone else who, like them, had received a response from the Terra Dragon?!

Good question! Ian did not know either.

High in the heavens, the majestic True Dragon calmly overlooked it all. It cared nothing for the astonishment and confusion of these tiny people, merely surveying all of Terra with a certain longing.

Its gaze was distant and profound, reaching every corner of the land. The Dragon lowered its eyes and murmured, It is still prosperous enough, but it has ultimately regressed, returning to the old road of a thousand years ago.

When will you reclaim your glory?

And the many continents of the past have now been