Chapter 374 - 309: Alien Planet, Giants on the Run, Ancient White Dragon, Abyss Project

Year 258 of the New Calendar.

The Master of Red Wings—Galos Ignas, who has yet to fully reveal his might and power, has entered a long and silent Dragon Sleep deep within Red Maple Valley in the Border Area.

At this moment, he is like a dark flame hidden deep within the Earth’s lava, gathering his formidable strength quietly. No one can foresee what kind of world-shaking tide he will bring to the future.

Year 259 of the New Calendar.

In the Elf Empire of Naoxir located on the Arcadia Continent, a moment worthy to be recorded in history has arrived.

The Empire’s top-tier Magic Exploration Ship, Jade Starship, created over generations by consuming endless resources, successfully captured signs of life waves from a distant alien star in the vast and cold deep space.

Soon thereafter, Naoxir’s High Council solemnly declared to the world:

The planet Bernardo is not a solitary existence in the universe.

The Elf’s pioneer diplomatic mission has already departed, attempting to establish an initial bridge of communication with another planet’s intelligent life.

In the same year, two other pillars of the Molten Iron Tribe—Iron Dragon Solrog and Red Dragon Samantha—also fell into slumber.

The upper power structure of Dragon Valley temporarily experienced a vacuum.

The tribe faithfully followed Galos’ pre-sleep instructions, continuing to adopt a steady strategy, retracting claws, and solidifying their foundations.

Year 260 of the New Calendar.

The wild Beastman Empire of Kantuom, amidst war chants and horn blasts, completely turned the last Giant fortress on Celestia Continent, Pillar of the Cloud Peak, into ruins.

They sounded the ultimate horn for conquest of the entire continent, vowing to unify all Celestia territories with iron and blood.

The Giant Race, originally inhabiting this continent in large numbers, was forced to abandon their ancestral lands for generations.

They crossed rugged mountain ranges, navigated perilous turbulent ocean currents, eventually scattering in exile to every corner of Bernardo Planet, becoming wandering lost children.

Year 263 of the New Calendar.

Within the Lothern Federation, long-accumulated conflicts and ambitions erupted like a suppressed volcano.

With the silent consent and even encouragement from the kingdom secretly overseeing them, the duchies all tore up peace treaties and officially declared war on each other.

Smoke and flames of war swept across the entire Federation almost instantaneously.

Countless iron legions fiercely clashed on vast land, destructive magical brilliance intertwined with cold weapon torrents, creating a cruel yet magnificent war painting, fully unfolding the Federation civil war.

In the same year, the Federation’s control over border areas like Sel Wilderness further weakened, with order nearing collapse.

Meanwhile, in the Molten Iron Tribe’s Dragon Valley, Blue Dragon Heryam and Red Dragon Kahill ended their long Dragon Sleep, awakening one after another, their roars echoing through the valley once more.

Year 265 of the New Calendar.

A secret message, sufficient to shake the entire Dragon Race community and cause significant unease among a few knowledgeable mortal powers, quietly spread—the majority of adult Metal Dragons returned to their birthplace in Dragon Domain.

The root of this turmoil points directly towards the Ancient Dragon, Heaven-Covering Wings.

He has been declining for a long time, and is nearing his end.

The Metal Dragons are attempting, through the gathering of their entire race’s power, to conduct a powerful ritual hoping to help this Ancient Dragon transcend the ultimate boundary between life and death, and usher into the Immortal Realm, to extend his life.

In the same year, a strong and ferocious monster, of unknown origin, attacked Ximu Town and was ultimately torn apart by the Dragon Group.

Year 268 of the New Calendar.

The Ancient Dragon Heatherfield, known as The End of the Cold Winter: The White Dragon of Ten Thousand Laws, aggressively attacked the Dragon Domain where the Metal Dragons gathered, intending to disrupt the ritual concerning Heaven-Covering Wings’ fate.

The fierce battle was witnessed in full by none.

But its aftershocks shook the world.

Remote offshore regions were utterly frozen by unimaginable cold, turning into desolate infinite icefields, later shattered by violent energy impacts, raising towering waves that inundated countless coastal areas, triggering global climate anomalies and ecological disasters.

As for the outcome of this Dragon Race civil war, it remains shrouded in mystery, with no one knowing the truth.

Year 270 of the New Calendar.

The ruler of Eternal Frost Tundra, King of Northern Barbarians, and his lifelong enemy Frost Giant King, exhausted their power in a peak duel deciding the tundra’s ultimate fate, perishing together.

Due to their battle’s impact and ecological climate changes.

Destructive cold currents swept southward, almost transforming the entire Border Area into a polar region.

In the same year, the severe environmental change triggered deep space vibrations, causing unstable expansion of Abyssal Rift.

An unprecedented scale demon army surged out through the expanded rift, inflicting significant damage on the Molten Iron Tribe, Mixed-blood Centaur Elvira, and Snake-man Sword Saint Naries led their forces in a bloody battle, stubbornly defending the front line, eventually holding until the Dragon Group and other Servant Leaders’ reinforcements arrived, jointly repelling the demon tide, and consequently harvesting vast amounts of precious demon materials.

Year 273 of the New Calendar.

Within the Lotheren Kingdom, major upheaval occurred.

The elderly king completely passed away, and the long-suppressed Second Prince launched a bloody coup with overwhelming force, personally killing his elder brother who was the first heir in front of the cold Iron Throne, paving his path to the peak of power with close kin’s blood, and seized the throne.

This ruthless act, contradicting human ethics and kingdom laws, shocked the entire nation.

The new king’s power legitimacy was severely questioned by almost all social classes.

The Ripos Kingdom, which remained silent observers, almost on the new king’s coronation day, high-profilely released a declaration of crusade—in the name of Saint King, in the name of correcting Federation order, formally declared war on the Lotheren Kingdom.

Thus, the Federation’s five kingdoms completely divided, forming three factions.

The Federation civil war fully escalated, entering a more chaotic and brutal new phase.

In the same year, due to increasing environmental degradation globally, numerous beasts in the Border Area were forced to migrate or demise en masse, vegetation withered extensively, resources became increasingly scarce, and the Molten Iron Tribe’s development in the Border Area almost reached a complete standstill.

Although Iron Dragon Solrog and Red Dragon Samantha awoke this year, they chose to continue their slumber, awaiting the right timing.

Year 274 of the New Calendar.

The dominant empire on Atlantia Continent, the Human Empire of Holden.

While the Elf Empire explored the starry sky’s upward direction and explored the Material Realm, Holden Empire’s upper echelons decided to seek breakthroughs in power in the downward direction, towards other dimensions.

Regardless of the strong opposition and stern warnings from the National Church, Dawn Court, the Emperor ultimately made the decision and passed the highly controversial Abyss Development Plan.

The Empire’s elite legions began large-scale entry, fortifying those rifts connected to the Bottomless Abyss, attempting to further expand the rifts and extract power from the Abyss Plane.

In the same year.

In the Molten Iron Tribe’s Dragon Valley, Black Dragon Seraphina and Green Dragon Ludwig officially stepped into their adolescent years of rapid power gain, adding new vitality to the tribe.