November's best news was not that Gourd Great Elf Keli had graduated from beside Royal Blue Sapphire Dragon Ryze and begun the final sprint toward becoming a Dragon Elf.
The immense power of destiny surrounded Keli, ensuring that not the slightest accident would occur during its evolution.
The greatest news was that Rio had completed his cultivation in the Cataclysm Volcano Range. After absorbing enough volcanic supermagic, his body had finally grown to one hundred meters in length and one hundred meters in wingspan, becoming a true adult fire dragon.
"Oh ho!"
His roar carried even greater majesty and an intense sense of oppression.
The scales on his body had changed from black-red to black-brown, with only wisps of deep-red flame flowing through the deepest cracks. The horns on his head had become ever more savage, while the narrow vertical pupils in his dragon eyes brimmed with a vivid, sinister strangeness. The aura radiating from his entire being was sheer, awe-inspiring evil.
"Rio, congratulations on reaching adulthood. In just seven years, you passed through your juvenile stage and became an adult dragon." Standing atop Invisible Dragon Bard's head, Liszt looked at the incomparably majestic fire dragon before him and praised him.
Rio nodded slightly in a humanlike manner.
In the next instant, his entire body blurred into a mass of flame and crashed into Liszt's chest with a bang, transforming into the familiar fire dragon totem.
Liszt patted his chest and sat back down upon Bard's Dragon Tooth Platform.
At once, man and dragon tore through the boundary of matter and returned to the world beyond matter. They found the natural node of Sun-Moon Valley and crossed back in a single stride.
"For the time ahead, Rio and I will be alone together, touching the Bulwark!"
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