Unknowingly, time came to New Calendar 275.
Between Ser Wilderness and Permafrost Tundra--Borderlands.
This land that was once dotted with sparse greenery has now been reshaped by the cold snap caused by the final battle between the two Legendary Realm kings and the ecological changes brought about by the dragon war.
The howling cold wind carries the never-ending goose feather snow, like billions of invisible ice knives, constantly cutting exposed rock formations and frozen soil.
As far as the field of vision can be seen, there is only a chaotic paleness between the sky and the earth, and the thick snow greedily swallows up all the undulations and edges of the surface, almost assimilating the entire Borderlands into a cold extension of Permafrost Tundra.
Phew! Phew! Phew!
The roar of the wind and snow is the only background sound of the Eternal Realm here.
On the land covered with snow, Red Maple Valley seems to be isolated from the world.
No matter how the wind and snow roared outside, it was covered with ice for thousands of miles.
In the valley, the warmth and vitality of late spring and early summer flow.
The tall maple trees are dyed in layers, with red, golden, orange and brown... countless burning colors intertwined into a gorgeous dome. The gurgling stream reflects the burning maple shadows all over the sky, breaking into sparkling and flowing stars all over the river.
In this quiet valley flowing with warm colors and full of vitality.
A slender and swift figure, just like a stream Light Elf traveling through the forest.
It is Red-Silver Dragon Deborah who has been able to skillfully use [Shapeshifting Spell] to transform into a human form after finishing Dragon Sleep and entering Young Adult Stage.
She has the appearance of a human girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a graceful and slender figure, slender and slim yet healthy.
Her waist-length hair is not pure copper or silver, but is made of molten liquid red gold and flowing Mithril mercury mixed and splashed with the most exquisite brushstrokes. With every light jump and deft turn she makes, a dazzling stream of light is splashed in the flowing light and shadow.
Her skin is incredibly delicate, with a soft and radiant luster like the finest mother-of-pearl, and the deeper layers reveal the warmest and warmest jade texture.
The most unforgettable thing is her eyes.
The pupils are pure and bright, as if containing stardust Mithril starlight, while the areas around the pupils and to the edge of the eyelids are smudged with a deep, warm background color like top-grade amber beeswax.
Looking at it as a whole, those eyes seem to be embedded in a late autumn lake studded with stars, deep and agile, reflecting the brilliance of the entire world.
At this moment.
This beautiful Red-Silver Dragon girl, with her flawless bare feet, is stepping lightly on the moist and smooth bluestone by the stream, constantly jumping and running.
Her target is a magic butterfly with a rainbow-like halo on its wings.
"Caught it!"
Deborah let out a string of clear and melodious laughter, jumped up suddenly, and reached for the butterfly shadows flying in the air with her slender hands.
The magic butterfly seemed to have expected it, and its wings flapped rapidly.
Buzz!
In an instant, light and shadow flowed, and illusions arose - hundreds or thousands of magic butterflies that were exactly the same as their real bodies appeared out of thin air, like exploding colorful fireworks, flying away in all directions without any rules.
However.
Deborah's gaze did not waver or distract at all.
Her eyes were firmly fixed on one of the phantoms in the sky, and then she stretched out her hand without any hesitation, passing through the false lights and shadows as fast as lightning, and tightened her fingers.
Snap!
Steadyly and accurately, he held the real magic butterfly in his palm.
"Yeah!"
With a short exclamation and a flickering magical light.
The magic butterfly in Deborah's hand disappeared.
Instead, there was a Fairy Dragon--Vera held in her hand, flapping its wings dissatisfiedly and drooping its tail.
In order to pass the boring time in Red Maple Valley waiting for Garos to wake up.
Deborah specially brought this weird little guy back from the tribe to keep him company to relieve his boredom.
Vera swung his tail angrily, his eyes full of confusion and frustration. "Why! Why do you catch me every time?! My illusion is so perfect! It's lifelike!"
Deborah raised his chin slightly proudly, curved the corners of his mouth in a cunning and beautiful arc, and his silver-honey eyes shone with narrow light.
"Secret!"
She wouldn't tell Fairy Dragon--she had cheated a long time ago!
Before the game started, she quietly left an extremely secret and difficult-to-detect magic mark on Vera. No matter how Vera's illusions changed and it was difficult to distinguish between true and false, that mark always guided Deborah to locate her true body.
After a chase and illusion battle.
The dragon and the fairy, who were still unfinished, came to a bay with gentle water downstream of the stream and started a fishing competition.
Vera obviously still remembers the painful experience of trying to use his body as bait when he was fishing for the first time, only to be swallowed up by a fierce big fish.
This time she learned the lesson and carefully rolled a slender branch around with her flexible tail to serve as a fishing rod, while she concentrated on the buoy on the water.
Deborah simply restored her Red-Silver Dragon body.
The elegant and huge dragon body stretched lazily by the stream, and the slender dragon tail dipped comfortably into the cool stream water.
Instead of using a fishing rod, she directly used the tip of her tail to gently sway on the bottom of the water, imitating the posture of aquatic plants or insect bait, and fished in a familiar way.
It didn't take long.
Wow!
Water splashes everywhere!
Deborah The slender dragon tail covered with red and silver scales suddenly swung upwards.
A big, plump fish whose scales shone silvery in the sun was thrown onto the grass on the shore, still jumping and struggling energetically.
"Another one!"
Deborah's tone is relaxed and cheerful.
She was about to dip her tail into the depths of the stream again, looking for the next unlucky target.
Suddenly!
Buzz...!
The originally calm, mirror-like surface of the water suddenly appeared in circles of violently spreading ripples without any warning, and the solid earth beneath our feet also trembled clearly and perceptibly, like a giant beast turning over underground!
"Wow!!!"
Fairy Dragon Vera's eyes suddenly widened, and excitement burst out from inside.
"My fishing rod is shaking! Oh my God! Master Vera is about to catch an unprecedented super fish, maybe even bigger than a dragon! Deborah Get ready and hold it down for me! Don't let it run away!!"
As if to confirm the exaggerated words of Fairy Dragon.
Boom!
A dull roar suddenly exploded from the bottom of the stream.
The next moment! It was like countless explosives stuffed deep in the river bed were detonated at the same time!
The crystal clear water was torn and lifted up by the violent force, turning into billions of Shatter diamonds flying everywhere. The solid river bank was cracked like fragile biscuits, and bowl-sized gravel and frozen mud were shot in all directions like cannonballs.
The sky is filled with mist and smoke.
A huge and suffocating shadow, covered with dark scales, carried an overwhelming momentum, tore through the water curtain and smoke, and rose into the sky.
"I caught it! I caught it! Hahaha, a fish as big as a dragon!"
"Vera is the well-deserved god of fishing, Deborah hurry up! Help me subdue..."
Vera was screaming incoherently with excitement while avoiding the overwhelming water drops and flying rocks.
"Stupid guy, that's not a fish, it's Garos."
"I caught Garos?! Aha! Then am I even more powerful? Dragon fisher Vera, this title is great."
Fairy Dragon danced excitedly in the smoke and mist.
"I think he just happened to wake up."
Deborah looks to the sky.
At the same time
The figure tearing apart the stream and the earth, rising into the sky with endless water vapor, appeared in the high sky.
The cold wind hunted like a knife, blowing on his steel-like scales, unable to shake them at all. The flying snow in the sky danced wildly with him, almost turning into a blizzard tornado with him as the center that connected the sky and the earth.
And at the moment when the snowspout is about to take shape.
The huge wings that covered the sky and the sun stretched out, the dragon shredded the wind and snow, and then suddenly hovered high in the sky.
The edges are as sharp as the wings of a guillotine, and the dragon scales can be combined to form giant blades and the tails of spears. The huge figure with black scales and silver edges finally appeared unobstructed between the vast world. It was none other than the young man Red Iron Dragon.
"Huh..."
A deep and deep dragon's roar, as if it had a metal trembling echo, was slowly spit out from Garos's mouth full of sharp teeth.
He moved his huge, slightly stiff body, making clanging sounds in his joints and scales.
"This time... I slept until my bones were almost rusty."
After hovering for a moment, let the cold wind completely awaken the dormant body and perception.
Garos began to carefully examine his changes.
The first is Life Level--Level 17!
This is a number that would frighten most adult dragons.
You know... the Life Level of an ordinary adult red dragon is generally around level 15. Among Primary-Class Dragon, the strongest Gold Dragon of the same age, the adult Qidian is only level 16.
And Garos has just stepped into Young Adult Stage.
"Level 17. Daily exercise, eating a lot of precious metals, magic gems, and swallowing Black Oil Crystal before going to bed played a key role, otherwise I should be level 16."
Garos thought in his heart.
Immediately, he began to observe the changes in his body.
The first is the body shape. From the tip of the nose at the front of the head to the end of the ferocious blade spine at the tail, the total length reaches an astonishing more than twenty meters.
This is not the shape Young Dragon should have.
Even among the adult red dragons and even the adult Gold Dragon group, which are known for their large size, this size is definitely at the upper-middle level. If White Dragon is used as a reference, even White Dragon, who has entered his prime, is difficult to compare with the current Garos in terms of pure size.
But, the strange thing is.
His muscles, which should have been filled with explosive power, were now in an abnormally shriveled and atrophied state.
The huge skeleton covered with thick metal scales is still majestic, strong, and full of strength, but outside the skeleton, the muscles that should be full and knotted and bulging like lava Mountain Range now seem to have been drained of their essence by invisible forces, becoming thin and loose.
The huge dragon body, which is more than 20 meters long, actually gives people a strange sense of contradiction at this moment.
Still powerful, but extremely empty.
It seems that only the hard and thick bones and tough dragon skin scales are left supporting this steel body, but the active Life Energy filling has been lost inside.
This change is unusual.
Garos remember clearly.
Before falling into deep sleep, he not only devoured a large number of magic gems and precious metal ingots, but also devoured all the Black Oil Crystal he had accumulated.
With the resources and life strength he had accumulated at that time, even if Dragon Sleep would consume part of his energy for transformation, his state after waking up might not be as sinewy and ferocious as he was at his peak before falling asleep... but it should never look like the skinny and bone-like skeleton dragon in front of him, as if he had been starved for a hundred years.
And.
His Life Energy, his Magic Energy, and his Dragon Qi all showed a cliff-like plummet at this moment, as if something had drained most of his energy reserves during his sleep and transformation.
With the inspection of Garos, this thing also surfaced.
Heart!
Garos Take a deep breath, and you can clearly feel the beating of your heart, as well as the energy contained in it, as strong as a furnace.
More importantly.
He felt very clearly that his heart seemed to have become two?
The special energy tissue structure that evolved during his last deep sleep and was located on the right side of his chest, originally storing heat energy, was now transformed into another heart that was beating vigorously and emitting astonishing energy fluctuations deep in his right chest.
To be more precise, it is not a hyperplasia of heart tissue at the physical level.
Instead, the exuberant Life Energy, the vast Magic Energy, the condensed Dragon Qi in his body... These energies that were originally scattered and stored throughout the dragon's body were compressed, condensed, and qualitatively changed, and finally formed an energy core organ composed purely of high-density energy! A unique Energy Heart.
Obviously.
Garos All the lost energy was condensed into this heart.