Chapter 60
"Why did you wake me up——!"
Just as the sea god left behind remnants, this golden-red dragon is the consciousness left behind by the earth god.
But compared to the relatively calm Sea God, the golden-red dragon was more explosive, and its hot breath made the magma of the entire volcano surge violently bit by bit.
At the same time, thunder-like footsteps suddenly came from all over the earth.
Since the false god, the entire Eastern Region has been peaceful on the surface, but the accumulated unrest within has been increasing like the dark clouds overhead.
The sea creatures in the sea patrol regularly to calm the restless tides. Similarly, the alien species on the earth also hold regular sacrifices.
These footsteps were made by creatures that had sensed the huge movement of the volcano.
Lu Mi glanced at the figures running in the distance, retracted his gaze, and showed the blue scales in his hand.
"I came here to temper the fire of my heart."
“…”
The golden-red dragon narrowed its dazzling eyes slightly. After a moment, it raised its eyes again, "...I see."
The remnant of the three gods of the Trinity obviously had its own way of communicating, and it seemed to quickly understand the situation.
"You are the one we have been waiting for..." The dragon suddenly grinned, making its already majestic appearance even more ferocious. "The time to liberate everything has finally arrived - finally!"
The golden-red dragon made no effort to conceal its joy and happiness. It then said, "I can give you the Heart Fire, but you have to forge it yourself."
"My weapon, naturally."
"Very good." The golden-red dragon slightly retreated its huge body from the volcano, and in an instant, the explosive high temperature hit its face.
Lu Mi immediately felt a slight tingling on his skin.
"This is the fire I used to burn myself," the golden-red dragon said slowly. "You seem to be blessed by the combined power of multiple forces, but this isn't enough—that false god can at least reach a hundred meters into the volcano and survive. In other words, to defeat it, you must reach the same level... or even surpass it!"
It was widely known that the dragon race was the strongest race in the entire abyss. This was beyond doubt.
Even though Lu Mi now possesses many powers and has reached the pinnacle of mental strength, his physical strength has been less tempered.
——This is a test, but also an opportunity.
"roar--!!"
At this moment, a deafening roar suddenly came from a distance.
The dark clouds in the sky rolled over like waves, and lightning flashed continuously from the clouds. In an instant, the sky and the earth changed drastically, and the sun and the moon lost their light.
"It seems it can't bear it anymore." The golden-red dragon looked straight at the source, then lowered its head to look at Lu Mi. "Your presence makes it feel threatened. This proves that our choice is right, but it also means that you don't have much time left."
The alien species running on the road had no idea what was happening.
They looked at the figure of the true god who had disappeared for thousands of years appearing on the volcano, and listened to the wrath of the false god descending from the sky.
"God, God is angry...!" Countless confused and panicked voices spread with the coming wind and rain.
"It's devouring those stored souls..." The golden-red dragon's flickering eyes looked over there, sensing the ever-increasing aura within the tower. "In half an hour at most, it will reach its peak state, and then—"
It will come to you.
"I'll go find it." Lu Mi interrupted the dragon, his expression very calm, "The initiative is in my hands."
"Hahahaha!" The golden-red dragon suddenly laughed. "God of New Life, you're really just my cup of tea. If it were a thousand years ago..." It paused regretfully at this point. "Never mind. No more talking. Go—your path is right there!"
A path opened up through the dragon's coiled body.
Lu Mi saw the eruption from the center of the volcano at the end. He flew over without stopping and without hesitation.
"Lu Mi!" This is the Gray Crow and others who finally chased to a high cliff near the volcano.
They looked up at the sky, but they only had time to see the golden figure falling towards the center of the volcano like a meteorite.
"Now, no one can get close to this place--!" Sensing the troops gathering from all directions, the golden-red dragon didn't care.
Before Lu Mi obtained his weapon, let alone these ordinary people, even if the false god attacked in advance, it would block all the attacks from the other party.
The dragon's voice was like a humming sound coming from the rocks, majestic and mighty. Its long body circled the volcano and spread all the way to the ridges of the mountains, like outlining an endless city wall.
It was here, using its body to guard an absolute line of defense for the silver-eyed young man so that he would not be disturbed.
"Why did the deceased Earth Dragon reappear?"
"Why is the sky angry?"
Countless alien species who still didn't know the truth looked panicked. They stopped not far from the volcano. More and more people arrived here, and they had a premonition of the end of the world as dark clouds pressed down.
"Will there be conflicts between gods... Then, what will happen...?"
"Swish!" A red figure suddenly rushed out from the crowd.
"Lord Cerberus!" The Gray Crow didn't even have time to catch the other party. He could only see the red color quickly jumping over the cliff, rolling a few times, and then quickly standing up with his head shaking.
The young dragon, which had not grown any bigger, rolled like a ball all the way to the volcano, running madly with its short legs without slowing down at all.
——"Lu Mi!" The young dragon roared.
Lu Mi, who was in the center of the volcano, was not disturbed by the outside world at all. He was now suspended above the crater, less than five meters away from the lava splashing below.
——This is the limit of how he can remain unscathed at the moment. It would be fine if he kept the shield open, but that would be meaningless.
After all, it is a divine fire that can even burn the body of a former true god, the dragon.
As he resisted and adapted to the ever-increasing heat, the air waves in the air were distorted to the point where their shapes could be clearly seen.
Lu Mi then released his grip and dropped the blue Heart Protector Scale. Simultaneously, his spiritual power enveloped it, shaping and guiding the scales like an invisible hand.
Almost at the moment it touched the flame, the Heart Guarding Lin began to hum rapidly - it felt the threat posed by the flame, but a spiritual creature like it could understand its own mission.
"Become his spear." A huge blue figure flashed from the scales, and the whisper was deafening.
“…”
The blue scales suddenly trembled violently, and then, the hardest armor in the world suddenly became softer than anything else.
It continued to melt, transform, and stretch in the hands of the silver-eyed young man.
Lu Mi couldn't help but pause when he saw this scene. Then, he suddenly landed - without deploying the protective shield.
The scorching heat soon brought a suffocating feeling, and magma splashed all around, but the young man did not dodge.
He looked down at his future weapon drowning in the molten lava. For a moment, as if their minds were connected, he could hear its voice—
The agony of the infernal flames...
The desire to be born...
The torment of changing one's posture during plasticity...
"Pick me up--!!" In the end, only this voice broke through the layers of maze-like whispers and echoed in his ears most clearly!
In ancient times, the most fanatical blacksmiths even sacrificed their own bodies to the sword -!
Lu Mi would not lose his mind like that, but that did not prevent him from being unrestrained in this situation.
He leaned over and reached out his hand into the molten lava below.
“Squeak!”
At that moment, it was as if he had returned to the time when he had nothing and was venturing into the northern region of the abyss. Every battle was a gamble with his life, and every drop of blood that fell burned with desperate madness.
——Just like now.
The softest flesh meets the hottest heat.
The silver-eyed young man only frowned slightly at first, his expression remained calm, except for his pupils, which were ignited into a dazzling golden red by the molten lava that was infinitely closer.
The various powers within the body surged up one after another, that was an instinctive defense mechanism—
Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared, a strong wind blew, and a flash of lightning appeared... The crater, which was almost a small world in itself, was attacked by forces from all sides.
At the same time, the demonic species connected in the contract all looked up in disbelief from different places.
"What are you doing?!!" They could vaguely sense Lu Mi's current crazy and bloody state, and they were all going crazy in an instant.
With the successive activation of various forces, the silver-eyed young man successfully maintained a balance between injury and self-healing.
And while he was salvaging, he keenly sensed that the flames did have a tempering effect. "My body... seems to have become stronger?"
He took the time to look at his fingertips that had just healed. The five fingers, as white as jade, were filled with power that was about to explode, and their flawless posture made them perfect yet unfamiliar.
"It's definitely gotten stronger." The young man nodded. "Just dipping my hand into it has such an effect. If I were to immerse myself completely in it... well, the healing speed won't keep up with the injury speed. Will I die?"
That's a problem.
But then, he recalled the instantaneous touch of coolness in the molten lava just now—he was almost able to pick it up!
His eyes suddenly fixed and he looked down.
At the same time, outside the volcano, the young dragon that rushed up the mountainside alone was roaring fiercely at the giant dragon that tried to stop it.
“Woo——!”
This is the bravest cry the young dragon can make now!
The golden-red dragon's eyes lit up. It suddenly fell silent and looked at the young dragon for a moment, then opened its mouth.
"roar----!!!"
The strong wind exhaled by the dragon directly knocked the young dragon to the ground, and it rolled down the mountain for a distance.
Until the young dragon climbed up again, shaking its head, the whole dragon even staggered, as if it was stunned by the roar.
"Little one," the golden-red dragon narrowed its eyes meaningfully, "you carry the aura of fire and mountain," it said slowly, "by rights, you are my descendant."
But the young dragon, who was determined to find Lu Mi, didn't listen to what the other party said at all. The young dragon quickly regrouped, lowered his body, and growled in his throat, baring his teeth.
Seeing that, the golden-red dragon shook its head. "How immature! As a dragon, yet so weak! And yet they're still overestimating their own abilities and marching forward? Is this era making dragons live too comfortably?"
As he said this, irrepressible emotion and disappointment appeared in the eyes of the golden-red dragon.
After waking up, it was connected to the land's veins, so it had already heard from the breath of the earth that the dragon race was probably gone. Even if there were still some, there wouldn't be many left.
However, all things are born and die in a cycle, even itself. Therefore, the Golden Red Dragon could accept the decline of the dragon race, but could not accept that the remaining dragons were so weak!
"I'm so sorry!" The gray crow that came hurriedly bowed its head. "Ker'er didn't mean to challenge your defenses. He just wanted to find Lu Mi!"
"Hmm? Go find that person?" The golden-red dragon frowned. "So that's how it is. Is it that person's protection..."
"...Alright." Finally, the golden-red dragon relaxed a little. "Since he's the one teaching you, I won't say anything more. It's just—" The dragon lowered its head, feeling oppressive. "Your strength is simply no match for the mountain's intense heat. I'm afraid you'll be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. Even so, do you still want to go up?"
The young dragon still bared its teeth and opened its mouth without giving in: "Roar!"
"Humph!" The golden-red dragon ignored the young dragon's disrespect and instead laughed. "Your stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat are a bit like the dragons of yesteryear."
As the giant dragon made way for a gap, the young dragon rushed through without saying anything and continued to rush towards the top of the mountain.
"What? Aren't you going to follow?" The dragon looked at the gray crow that stayed where it was.
The gray-winged youth slowly shook his head. "I'll be a burden. I don't yet... have the strength to follow that person."
"It's not just the dragons. The white birds that once soared across the sky are also covered in dust..." The golden-red dragon shook its head and said to him, "However, the moment of breakthrough will soon come—"
The dragon looked at the blazing volcano behind him and laughed, as if asking the golden youth, "So, what kind of fire will you use to illuminate the sky?"
--wait.
Almost everyone is waiting. Some people don’t even know what they are waiting for, but they have a premonition that something is about to happen.
And, very quickly.
In the volcano, Lu Mi made up his mind, opened his arms, and fell backwards naturally.
It was as if behind him, there was not molten lava that could burn everything, but a cradle that was about to embrace him.
This supine posture allowed him to see more clearly the dense dark clouds and surging clouds in the sky.
The next second, a hint of red suddenly appeared in the gray world.
"Ker'er?" Lu Mi looked in surprise at the young dragon that suddenly appeared here and pounced towards him.
The young dragon leaped down the volcano without hesitation and ran towards him.
"What are you doing..." Lu Mi seemed to want to say something, but when he saw the young dragon's body covered with scars and even its wings that were burning like paper, he suddenly stopped.
"Forget it," the silver-eyed young man finally sighed as if giving up.
In other words, in this situation, there is no time for them to do anything else.
So the young man held the ball-sized dragon in his arms and said, "Let's go and see the end of the fire together—"
"Bang--"
It was like falling into the sea, and the molten lava splashed like water droplets.
This is a long-lost, near-death feeling.
Except for the time when it all started and he wandered alone in the Northern Territory, Lu Mi almost forgot this feeling.
He could clearly know that his flesh and blood were rapidly blooming and healing in the blink of an eye, repeating this cycle over and over again.
But consciousness seemed to have drifted out of this body——
He saw a huge door.
At the same time, in reality, he could feel the young dragon suddenly break free from the protection of his arms.
"...Could this be Ker's 'door'?"
In fact, Lu Mi had never "contracted" with a red dragon. The reason was simple: the red dragon could not write.
But now, this door that is clearly connected to the Book of Keys clearly shows the connection between him and the dragon.
[Writing your own name is not just the most superficial meaning, what is important is the delivery and recognition]
Inexplicably, he understood the meaning.
——It seems that the Book of Keys has many functions that he doesn’t know about, or perhaps, the book is constantly evolving with him?
But now is not the time to think about these things. Lu Mi did not hesitate and pushed open the door.
The moment he stepped through the door, he saw a huge red dragon——
It perched on a flaming mountain, wrapped in the breath of the earth and mountains, and spread its wings that covered the sky.
Then, it let out its first roar since the creation of the world, and suddenly turned its head to look at him, as if it had been waiting for a long time.
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