Lu Mingfei felt his vision go dark.
No way. There's another big shot coming? Are you screwing with me—
Just moments ago, he had been mocking these Dragon Kings for their utterly unimpressive entrances, worse than even a game boss's cutscene. Now, this grand spectacle of heaven and earth changing color gave him a solid blow to the head.
Thick storm clouds swallowed the last trace of moonlight, plunging the entire world into an inky darkness where one could not see one's hand before one's face. Only the ghastly white flashes of lightning that occasionally tore through the night could briefly illuminate this world ruled by torrential rain.
Chief engineer Kumagai Kinao instinctively switched on his high-powered flashlight, but Professor Manstein snatched it away and quickly turned it off.
"Don't expose our position!" Manstein's voice was unusually tense amid the thunderstorm. In this absolute darkness, any source of light would stand out conspicuously. He had no desire to draw even the slightest attention from the being that was descending.
That terrifying pressure permeated every inch of air and every drop of rain, pressing down on everyone's hearts almost tangibly and making it hard to breathe.
It undoubtedly heralded the arrival of another Dragon Raja Monarch. Judging from the earth-shaking scale of this phenomenon, this one was likely even more terrifying than Norton, who had just died—
"Can the difference in strength between Dragon Kings really be that obvious?" Kumagai Kinao's voice trembled uncontrollably.
"I don't know." Manstein stared intently out the pitch-black window as rain lashed wildly against the porthole. "The gap between the Four Great Kings themselves might not be that great. Otherwise, the thrones would have changed hands long ago... But the power they can wield is closely tied to their condition. Norton had only just awakened and