Wind and snow howled under the vast sky of Borderlands, imprinting the chill on every inch of the land.
After a period of painstaking attempts and careful understanding, Garos has basically understood the wonderful changes that have occurred in various parts of his body, especially the results brought by Dragon Blood Evolution.
The free transformation between Qi and blood made his overall strength significantly increase by a huge level.
In addition, the black-red high-concentration gas flame formed by the combustion of Dragon Blood can not only be recycled, but also has extremely strong corrosive and destructive effects.
In actual combat, Garos can make decisions based on different combat situations.
Choose to recycle the detached gas flame and convert it into precious blood to maintain survival and endurance; attach it to the wings and tails of the minions, or incorporate it into the breath to enhance your attack power.
"These tests are almost done, now it's your turn, Frenzied Flame."
Red Iron Dragon narrowed his eyes slightly, a trace of solemnity and expectation flashed in his eyes.
Just in case, to avoid any possible loss of control during the test from affecting Dragon Valley, he first flew high and left the valley where his family members gathered.
In a flat open space covered with thick white snow and with a wide view.
Garos landed slowly, then gathered his mind and directed his perception deep into his soul.
Frenzied Flame, it has no entity and does not depend on matter. It is essentially a strange and blazing spiritual fire that can constantly seduce and amplify the Rage emotions deep in the heart of living beings, making them go crazy and angry until they completely lose their mind.
The known information on the surface is that it originally came from an unnamed meteorite that mysteriously disappeared.
As for what it is and where its true source is... these deeper secrets are still shrouded in mystery and are still unknown.
"Be active and let me feel your presence more clearly."
Red Iron Dragon made a call deep in his heart.
At the same time, feeling the host's will and guidance, the silent Frenzied Flame began to sway slightly, the flames gradually started, and then burned more vigorously.
A nameless anger then grew and surged in Garos's heart, and continued to rise.
However, it is different from the situation before falling asleep, where once angry, it becomes increasingly difficult to control oneself.
The rising anger at this moment did not make Garos lose his calm.
There seemed to be an invisible but tough barrier between his thoughts and his rising anger, allowing him to maintain a relatively detached and calm perspective to observe and control his own anger instead of being controlled by it.
Garos understands that this is a precious characteristic that he has evolved after ten years of active adaptation to Frenzied Flame and thirty years of deep evolution.
This allowed him to Rage while preserving his sanity to the greatest extent.
"This is exactly the ideal situation I envisioned."
"Although this is inseparable from my long-term targeted training, my body can naturally evolve in this direction without any other uncontrollable changes. Does this mean that my adaptive talent is gradually evolving from passively responding to the environment to one that can be guided by subjective wishes?"
Garos was thinking in his heart.
Passively adapting to the external environment and actively guiding the body to change in a specific direction are two completely different concepts.
He felt that if his talent could one day be completely controllable and guide his evolution at will, then he would be truly powerful and able to cope with any challenge.
As for now, although his talent is not weak, giving him the capital to stand out among his peers, it cannot be said to be invincible. Garos can achieve today's achievements not only by relying on the gifts of talent, but also by putting in sweat and efforts that far exceed those of other dragons.
And, even so.
In the records of Dragon Race's inheritance, there are also a few Dragonkin who have shown a more dazzling light than him.
For example, there are three types of legendary dragon species that only exist in classics and songs.
What they naturally control is not the common elemental forces such as earth, water, wind, and fire, but abstract concepts of extremely high level such as time, force, and light.
It is said that the outstanding individuals among them are Legendary Realm beings when they first break out of their shells.
No matter how bad you are, you can still become Legendary Realm before you are young.
However, these dragons only exist in vague legends, and the records in the inheritance are very few and unclear. They may just be some rumors passed down from generation to generation.
Not to mention Material Plane where Bernardo Planet is.
Even if the scope is spread to all planes and endless worlds, it may not be possible to reach one end.
Garos has no interest in competing with these illusory dragons that only exist in legends.
The only real opponent in his eyes was his past self.
What he pursues is to constantly break through his own limits and complete life transitions and evolutions again and again until he reaches Eternal Realm and immortality in the true sense.
He firmly believed that even if those legendary dragons actually existed, at the later stages of their life levels, they might not be stronger than him who had gone through countless directed evolutions and constantly optimized himself.
As for those forces that sound abstract and powerful.
He believed that he might not be able to evolve similar or even stronger abilities in the future.
Suppressing some divergent thoughts, Garos refocused his mind on Frenzied Flame inside his body.
He did not try to control the growing anger, but instead actively opened his body and mind to cooperate with it, like adding fuel to the fire, causing the inner fire to burn fiercely, far beyond the previous test.
At the same time.
Garos's eyes.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, one after another ferocious threads of blood emerged, spreading like a fine spider web.
Red Iron Dragon slowly stood up, a huge shadow cast on the snow.
Anger surged through his body like a tsunami, hitting the dam of reason one after another.
If he had been like Rage before, he would have been controlled by his instincts in the Rage state and become a Beast who only knows how to destroy.
But now, something is different.
Although the invisible barrier between thinking and anger is constantly rippled by this huge anger, Garos's reason has not been substantially affected.
Garos carefully felt this unprecedented Rage, letting the anger burn freely in his body.
As time went by, the bloodshot eyes in his eyes became more and more dense, almost dyeing the entire whites of his eyes a terrifying bright red.
Finally, at a certain moment when the accumulation reaches its peak.
Garos's eyes turned completely as red as Blood Moon!
At the same time, without actively turning on Exhilarated State or other amplification states, the aura emanating from his body began to rise, and the whole body gradually exuded a coquettish, crazy, dangerous and extremely unstable feeling, like an active volcano that could erupt at any time.
Garos came naturally and officially set foot on Wild Path.
From now on, anger is no longer just a pure negative effect and burden for him, it has officially become one of Garos's sources of strength.
He also naturally understood Furious State.
That is the state he entered at this time.
"Huh... huh..."
Red Iron Dragon's breathing became heavy and thunderous, echoing in the empty snowfield.
He could clearly feel that his attributes were increasing as his anger increased.
"With Frenzied Flame as an almost unlimited source of anger, my Wild Path level will increase very quickly. It probably won't take too long before I can understand the more advanced Wild Form."
Garos slowly clenched his hands, feeling the power surging with anger.
Under his active guidance and cooperation, the strength and anger in his body continued to rise.
As this power increased, Garos's inner irritability also increased simultaneously, and the barrier between his thinking and Rage became more and more obvious, but it still existed tenaciously and showed no signs of collapse.
This feeling is quite strange.
It's like controlling a character whose heart is full of Rage through a solid screen.
No matter how angry the character on the screen is, it can't really affect the calm manipulator behind the screen.
Garos feels like this at this moment.
Anger swept through the body and mind like a violent wave, but deep inside, there was no wave.
A state of coexistence of Rage and calmness, which is very contradictory, but is truly reflected in him.
"The key question now is, where is the limit of this layer of Psychic Barrier?"
Garos can feel the pressure and vibration it conveys.
If it is completely destroyed by the ultimate Rage, Garos will inevitably be deeply affected by Rage.
Then, he decided to keep trying, letting his anger and power hit higher peaks.
At the same time.
High in the sky, a Polar Falcon, accustomed to soaring in the freezing cold, passed by.
Its sharp eyes noticed the terrifying giant dragon entrenched in the snow below, and its biological instinct immediately sounded the alarm, subconsciously preparing to flap its wings and stay away from the place of right and wrong.
But, suddenly.
An unprovoked, blazing anger surged and exploded in its small chest, and its eyes instantly became bloodshot.
[I'm so angry! So what about the giant dragon? Why is it so domineering? Just looking at it makes the bird angry! Even if you die, you will rush down and peck him!]
With such vague but extremely angry thoughts in his heart, Polar Falcon let out a sharp and vicious howl.
It gave up escaping and instead folded its wings, like an arrow destined for death, it dived towards Red Iron Dragon below.
Snap!
Without even raising his head, Garos just casually raised his right wing and patted it away like a mosquito or fly.
The swooping Polar Falcon exploded in the air in an instant, turning into a miserable bloody mist that dissipated in the cold wind.
"Such a weak creature dares to attack me? It's so desperate, how did it live to adulthood?... Wait, that's not right." Garos thought, "It seems to have been affected by the Rage aura that I inadvertently emitted, so that it was so blinded by anger that it completely ignored the huge difference in strength between them, and rushed over with the idea of death together."
He realized this immediately.
Unknowingly, the Rage thoughts he exuded were like the red dragon Gorsas, which could radiate and spread out, directly affecting surrounding creatures.
Moreover, the scope of this impact seems to be quite large.
"Very good, this is a simple and crude skill, but extremely effective."
Garos felt a little happy.
He has personally experienced the difficulties and difficulties of Furious Radiation.
However, I thought it was a headache at first, but now that I have mastered it, I feel so happy inside.
After that, Garos continued to increase his anger.
In an increasingly larger area centered on him, all living creatures with intelligence are inevitably drawn into the whirlpool of Rage. They lose their minds, attack each other, or launch futile charges in the direction of Garos.
As his anger continued to grow, the scope of this realm of madness gradually expanded visibly.
Soon after.
It was not until Red Iron Dragon's unrivaled strength that the dragon's body began to be unable to withstand the power that grew crazily with anger. When the scales in some areas of the body cracked slightly and oozed blood, the layer of Psychic Barrier that protected the sanity also began to shake violently, with countless invisible cracks appearing, as if it would collapse in the next second.
Garos knows that the test should end here.
He made a prompt decision, concentrated his energy, and suppressed his overwhelming anger, bit by bit, until the anger gradually subsided and returned to a safe threshold.
"It seems that the limit of my body's endurance is probably the limit of this layer of Psychic Barrier."
Garos understood clearly in his heart. "However, when it comes to pushing my anger to that level, it often means that I am in a desperate battle, have exhausted all conventional trump cards, and must push myself to the highest and most dangerous situation."
"By then, it won't matter whether you will eventually fall into Rage completely."
No matter what, he has a powerful and terrifying skill.
Even if it is temporarily difficult to open Red Lotus Form after using Dragon Jade, it doesn't matter, he has this brand new trump card.
After spending some time to more carefully test the various effects and influences of Frenzied Flame in different active states, Garos was finally satisfied, vibrated its wings, and returned to Dragon Valley.
Wings, scales, blood, Frenzied Flame.
The deep adaptation and evolution of these four aspects have brought Garos's strength to an unprecedented peak of strength.
He has no doubt that the current self can easily kill the old self who was at his peak with all his skills, without even giving him a chance to escape.
Now, the only question in his mind is how far there is between himself and the real Legendary Realm.
Unfortunately, at present, it seems that there is no suitable situation for Garos to verify his idea.
On the other side, the vast Southern Kingdoms.
After the turmoil and baptism caused by Federation Civil War, the structure of various countries has gradually stabilized, including Theo Kingdom, who is at the forefront of Northern Frontier.
It was one of the kingdoms that originally followed Rybos Kingdom and joined Anti-King Faction.
Excluding those weaker principalities, it is the human kingdom closest to the northern border among Southern Kingdoms and closest to Ser Wilderness.
Since three years ago, Saint King suddenly appeared and announced the dissolution of the alliance and the end of the war.
Theo Kingdom has been silently healing the wounds of the war and working hard to restore the national strength and vitality that were previously lost due to the war.
While order and vitality are gradually restored in all aspects, some superiors finally have a chance to turn their attention to Ser Wilderness again.
Because the geographical location is close to the wilderness, development and penetration are more convenient.
Theo Kingdom has always established a large number of strongholds in the wilderness, almost second only to the two powerful countries Ribos and Lothern. They can be said to be everywhere and scattered in major areas of the wilderness.
Then, reports and assistance requests from various bases were submitted one by one.
The shocking content described in it immediately aroused great concern from some of the kingdom's top brass.
Except for the Northeast region.
Northwest, central, southeast, southwest... the kingdom's bases, outposts and resource points located in these four regions were all attacked by varying scales. The defenders were either brutally killed or forcibly expelled.
The base area that they worked so hard to establish was also forcibly occupied by the so-called "Regional King" in the wilderness.
In the past, because the wilderness was owned by Federation, to deal with such matters, one needed to report to the Lothern Kingdom as the leader of Federation, who would then decide or coordinate actions.
But now, Federation has been disbanded, and each country is doing its own thing.
How to deal with Ser Wilderness's affairs and deal with the provocation of the local indigenous people, Theo Kingdom can now make decisions based entirely on his own interests and judgment.
Iron Crown City, Military General Staff Headquarters location, Otherworld Strategy Directorate office.
On the heavy mahogany table, spread out were several extremely detailed maps of the Ser Wilderness area.
On the map, the small Blue Dragon flags that originally represented the various strongholds of the Theo Kingdom have been removed in large numbers and scattered aside.
Instead, there are threatening areas highlighted with scarlet paint, like ugly scars, covering almost the entire map.
In the room, the atmosphere was solemn.
Two men in important positions were having a conversation.
Sitting on the main seat is an old man with gray hair, meticulously combed, serious and rigid face, wearing a dark Blue Dragon straight uniform trimmed with gold--Otherworld Strategy Directorate Director, Marcus Marquis.
His fingertips were tapping the most dazzling red mark on the map, making a dull and depressing sound.
Standing opposite him was a relatively young man, about forty years old, with a body as tall as a gun and eyes as sharp as an eagle.
He wears light armor underneath and a short cloak with the Theo Kingdom roaring mountain lion emblem on the outside.
The Unvanquished Sword, Theo Kingdom's Legendary Sword Saint, Kellos.
He was also one of the strong men who was once appointed by the kingdom to guard the wilderness border for a long time.
It is worth mentioning that when he was guarding the wilderness, Kellos was still below Legendary Realm. He was a level 20 peak warrior specializing in Sword Saint Path. He was one step away from that level and had been trapped for many years.
His Legendary Realm was finally shaped during the civil war, in the baptism of life and death, iron and fire.
Although it didn't take too long to become Legendary Realm, the name Kellos began to spread within the kingdom early.