Kroya moved so swiftly.
After dealing with the two dukes' armies, he consolidated his forces and followed the newly arrived Flame Mountain Lord and his companions toward the secret realm deep within the Southern Frontier.
The couple had already accepted their situation. Things had come this far, and they would have to pay the price. Otherwise, who knew whether Kroya would turn on them?
It was worth mentioning that Kroya had specifically given Sean a squad to rescue his family and friends back home, and had prepared a long-distance teleportation magic array leading to the Northern Frontier.
With such an ostentatious approach, he certainly wasn't afraid of those two dukes coming to cause trouble. Or rather... he would have loved for them to come to the Northern Frontier and pit themselves against him.
Once they were on his turf, how he handled them would be entirely a matter of personal preference.
What concerned him now was that secret realm.
After swiftly interrogating the prisoners and gathering information from the Flame Mountain Lord, the apprentices marched at full speed and quickly reached their destination.
At the crater of an unremarkable-looking extinct volcano deep within the Southern Frontier, Nora had already returned to her dragon form.
Her scales were a crystalline, lustrous red jade that gave her a gentle appearance, with none of a dragon's ferocity-before Ruby Dragons mastered shapeshifting, their dragon form was that of an ordinary Red Dragon, but afterward, they could assume their true ruby form.
The ruby dragon opened her enormous mouth, yet the voice that emerged was the soft voice of a young woman. "I'll keep the secret realm open for ten hours. Once you're inside, take as much as you can."
With that, she breathed out a stream of red dragon breath.
It plunged straight into