As Danyla sank into deep meditation, she slipped straight into a dragon dream.
Within the Dragon Dream Realm, she was still sitting cross-legged on Myracis's back, but Myracis was now a pinkish-purple Great Dragon over a hundred meters long.
Myracis's exquisite scales shimmered in the sunlight with the splendor of a sunset. Her lower body, however, had completely transformed into an enormous purplish-red tree, through which an endless supply of vitality and magical energy coursed swiftly into her body.
Through the telepathic bond she shared with Myracis, Danyla seemed to glimpse a history unimaginably distant.
Through Myracis's eyes, Danyla saw bands of Giants riding Mammoths across the land; Children of the Forest riding Shadowcats and wielding dazzling magical powers; Lions as large as Giant Elephants, Giant Eagles with wingspans of dozens of meters; White Stags with colorful antlers, and powerful Giant Bears capable of lifting boulders weighing a thousand jin.
All these wondrous creatures had united, for an utterly evil and dark power had descended upon their world.
At the world's major river mouths, palaces of black oily stone rose from the ground, inhabited by hordes of monsters with human bodies and fish tails.
Their appearances varied wildly, with the smallest only a few feet long and the largest stretching a hundred meters. But whether hideous or alluring, every one of them had a pair of profoundly evil eyes.
Holding staffs fashioned from all manner of bones, they ceaselessly unleashed cold, pitch-black water magic, seeking to devour the entire land with their dark magic.
As the cold, dark water magic poured from the oceans onto the land, its lush green vitality withered and vanished, and darkness steadily consumed the earth.
This naturally angered the creatures who had been living at ease upon this fertile land. They reacted swiftly, spontaneously banding