It trailed an enormous tail that stretched across the sky.
Its light was so dazzling that it seemed about to set half the sky ablaze.
Even in broad daylight, its radiance was enough to outshine the sun, bathing all of Conqueror's Holdfast, and even the coastline as far as the eye could see, in a wavering, blood-red glow.
"The Red Comet..."
Janice stared blankly at the sight outside the cave, crimson reflected in her purple eyes as she murmured.
A tempest surged through Liu Qian's mind.
The black stone had been unsealed, the Red Comet had descended, and magic had returned.
Was this a coincidence?
No!
A bold conjecture suddenly occurred to him.
In the original story, could the Red Comet's arrival also have been caused by the unsealing of some black stone lost elsewhere in the world?
If that conjecture was right, who had unsealed the black stone in 299 AC?
And what were that enormous rust-red celestial body within the black stone, that scarlet eyeball, and that voice of a celestial body?
Countless questions arose in Liu Qian's mind.
At the very same moment the Red Comet descended.
At the other end of the cavern lay the underground space where the dragon eggs were stored.
Security here was tight. Behind the heavy obsidian door lay the secure chamber Liu Qian used to store dragon eggs.
A specially made, enormous stone platform in the center of the chamber was covered in scorching sand and gravel, with seven dragon eggs resting on it.
Among them, two identical dragon egg fossils covered in black-and-red, scale-like markings lay quietly buried in the sand, absorbing the geothermal heat.
One was the black-and-red dragon egg Liu Qian had brought out of Valyria; the other was the one that had been in Illyrio's possession.
Crack!