Chapter 284: It fell down again

The night was like ink, and the firelight reflected the fragmented silhouette of Assam City.

And right above this burning scorched earth, the Dragon God Temple, towering like a mountain, suddenly trembled violently, and then, in full view of everyone, slowly rose into the air.

There was no support whatsoever.

Nor were there any traces of magic.

That massive pyramid was as if lifted by an invisible giant hand, rising upward inch by inch.

The thick, solid granite base radiated a sacred and irresistible majesty, towering high above the entire Assam City, like the slowly lifting sole of a giant, causing every pair of pupils watching it to reveal expressions of horror, wavering in fear.

Large chunks of stone fell from the sky, causing the Ankylosaurus lizardmen below to scurry about, fleeing in all directions.

"Hahahaha!"

Watching the firelight growing more distant and the faces of shock and terror within it, the Holy King Izi, standing at the pinnacle of the temple, let out a wild and arrogant laugh, as if the entire Assam City had been trampled beneath his feet.

"Ugly bugs! Shameless traitors! Do you know fear now!"

This was the final resort bestowed upon him by his ancestors—

When a nation-ending disaster occurred in the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom and everything was beyond saving, one only needed to sprinkle the blood of the Parr family onto the seal at the temple's peak, letting his noble and pure "blood of the Dragon God's descendant" fill the engravings on the altar, to lift the ancient seal placed upon the temple, awakening the terrifying power infused by the Dragon God into the Parr family's bloodline, thereby bringing down divine punishment upon the enemies of the Parr family!

The firelight illuminated the crazed smile on Izi's face. Watching his enemies and those obsequious clansmen about to meet their destruction, his heart felt incomparably gratified.

Although the tragic state of Assam City pained him, a mere bit of loss was nothing.

The entire Assam City was his palace; those walking here were merely servants serving him and sacrifices offered to the Dragon God, and beyond that Shenghu, there were endless servants and sacrifices to be used!

As long as he could drive away these demons who had set foot on the Gana Continent, let alone one palace, even ten, one hundred... or even one thousand!

He could rebuild them all!

At most, it would just take some time.

Izi proudly admired the firelight rising into the sky, and the temple ascending into the sky flew higher and higher, to the point where the edge of the granite stone steps beneath his feet almost overlapped with the silhouette of the entire Assam City.

As the saying goes, it is lonely at the top. Even though he was full of hot blood and surging anger at this moment, being blown by the increasingly cold night wind, he still couldn't help but shiver.

Izi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cast his gaze into the distance, suddenly discovering that his altitude was already level with the peaks of the Sun Staircase Mountains!

And now, not only Assam City, but even the silhouette of the Shenghu was gradually disappearing at the edge of the granite stone steps, to the point where the sea level on the other side of the high mountains entered his view... and the Assam City beneath his feet was even more minuscule, almost shrinking into a point the size of a palm on the tranquil lake surface; from his position, it was no longer even visible.

Izi felt a bit panicked in his heart.

Perhaps he shouldn't have flown into the sky with this temple, but that bit of time didn't seem enough for him to run down from the pyramid's peak.

He cleared his throat, spread his arms to face the whistling night wind, and spoke in a vigorous tone.

"Dragon God above... since you have responded to my prayer, please bring down punishment upon those demons and sinners! This altitude, I think, is enough to manifest your majesty!"

Stop flying!

The Dragon God did not respond.

It just kept raising the temple dedicated to Him.

Could the incantation be wrong?

Izi wrinkled his scales, changed his phrasing, and said the same thing again.

However, the Dragon God acted as if He hadn't heard, with not a single change, and he even vaguely felt that the speed at which this temple was flying was becoming faster and faster!

The surrounding temperature was getting colder, the flames on the candlesticks had long since extinguished, and a thin layer of frost had even condensed on the bronze vessels and stone steps.

Feeling the increasingly bone-chilling cold and the increasingly biting wind, the smile hanging at the corner of Izi's mouth finally froze. And his originally arrogant slit pupils were gradually filled with a trace of hesitation, and even a panic of not knowing what to do.

And then?

The engravings on the altar had been activated, but the Parr family's ancestral teachings hadn't told him what to do next, nor had they told him how to harness this divine power capable of moving mountains and filling seas.

Just when Izi was at a loss, a strong wind suddenly struck.

That sudden airflow instantly blew Izi over, rolling him down the steep granite stone steps, knocking out two of his front teeth, and almost knocking him unconscious.

He hurriedly reached out, and after several bumps and collisions, finally grabbed the fangs beneath the Dragon God statue in a panic, only then barely managing not to fall from this temple that had taken to the sky.

"No—damn it!"

Looking at the night sky hanging beyond his feet, Izi's heart was filled with terror, and his heart was almost about to jump out of his throat.

At this moment, he had no time to care about the people on the ground, his mouth emitting incoherent screams and curses, his voice even bordering on begging for mercy.

"Respected Dragon God, you, you have already flown high enough!"

"I beg you—quickly, quickly stop!"

On the other side, ten thousand fathoms below!

The towering Dragon God Temple taking to the sky exceeded everyone's expectations, and what was even more unexpected was that after the palace flew up, there was no "then," just like a kite with a broken string, flying further and further toward the pitch-black night sky, disappearing into the clouds in just a few minutes, with not even a shadow to be seen.

That sky seemed to have no end...

On the streets and alleys of Assam City, the remaining Ankylosaurus lizardmen all stared blankly upward at the direction where the pyramid had disappeared, their bodies stiff, tails taut, forgetting even to breathe for a moment.

"What... was that?"

"Could it be that the Dragon God responded to our prayers?!"

"But... why did He take the temple away?!"

No one could answer.

Even the Holy Blood Warriors who had previously forced the Demon King's army into the role of saviors, even the most eloquent priest in this city, for a moment didn't know how to explain this bizarre situation.

That aggressive appearance...

It seemed as if it were just to give the Demon King's army a scare.

But looking at the calm expression of the Demon King riding on the back of the spider, it seemed that even this sole purpose had to be questioned.

Standing under a collapsed tree, an Ankylosaurus soldier couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and said timidly.

"... Did His Majesty forget how to come down?"

The Ankylosaurus soldier beside him heard this and hurriedly pulled him back.

"Shh! Don't talk nonsense, perhaps... there's still a backup plan!"

As for what the backup plan was, he didn't know either.

At present, only the lonely night wind could save face for them.

Some clever lizardmen had already begun to waver in their hearts, and the courage that had just barely risen was pressed down again by this inexplicable operation.

Is this really a miracle?

Or perhaps—

Is the great Dragon God really on the side of the Holy King?

No one knew.

On the street next to the "former site" of the Dragon God Temple, Ze'er stood amidst the dust and rubble, his aged face having long since lost its former majesty and composure.

A few minutes ago, he had almost rolled, jumping off the stone steps in a panic, only then not being taken to the sky together with the rising Dragon God Temple.

He didn't know why he had done that either.

Logically speaking, he, being incomparably devout, should have regarded this as a gift, but he still instinctively made the move to jump off.

Looking at the Dragon God Temple that had almost disappeared into a point in the sky, his lips trembled, his throat tightened, and he was almost unable to even breathe.

"Holy King... what exactly are you doing?"

He could roughly guess that His Majesty must have used the Holy Blood to activate the engravings on the altar, but the final result being the entire Dragon God Temple flying away was something he never expected.

Why would the Parr family treat this as their final trump card?

Does doing this have any meaning at all?

All the Ankylosaurus lizardmen couldn't understand.

Whether it was the nobles and priests in the core power circle, or the cannon fodder and slaves excluded from the power core.

And unlike these bewildered lizardmen, the players standing in Assam City were quite excited.

Especially those guys who, a second ago, were still cursing the "dog planner" for playing "tease" again and letting the NPCs steal all the MVPs; they were now shouting "666!" and "Awesome!"

"Damn, this budget is going to explode!"

"What budget, isn't this just the dog planner adjusting the values in the background!"

"Is this something that can be done by adjusting values?!"

"Awesome! This CG is badass!"

"Hey, good thing I recorded the screen, I'll edit it into a PV to show off when I get back!"

"Is it time for a boss fight?!"

"Hurry up!!!"

The players were in a constant state of noise, some discussing the direction of the plot, others eager to prepare for the boss fight.

Perhaps because their reactions were too relaxed, some lizardmen, after seeing their reactions, even began to suspect whether this was the work of the Demon King's army, and subsequently cast their awe-filled gazes toward the Demon King standing behind them.

Especially Thea and Nema.

Coming from the Sand Ridge tribe, they also participated in this military operation of revenge and had been following closely near the Demon King's main force.

Looking at the expressionless Demon King sitting on the back of the cave spider, a trace of brilliance couldn't help but appear in Thea's eyes, and Nema's expression was even more admiring, as if looking at a god, wishing she could kowtow and worship.

A miracle had descended before them once again!

Thea was incomparably grateful for the Queen's wisdom at this moment, letting them stand in the most correct position from the very beginning, instead of joining forces with the bugs of the Ankylosaurus tribe.

Otherwise—

The fate of the Sand Ridge tribe would probably only be more miserable than that of the Ankylosaurus tribe; after all, they didn't have endless cannon fodder to waste.

At this very moment, Luo Yan didn't know that the lizardmen of the various tribes standing behind him had directly attributed the pyramid taking off on the spot to him.

Honestly, he was also very confused, the surprise in his heart no less than when he was at the Black Wind Fortress's lord's mansion, watching the arrogant Elder Zakro die under his Silver-tier spell.

However, as an experienced Demon King, he ultimately didn't write the expression of surprise on his face, just calmly watching the temple disappear into the night sky.

Come to think of it...

The world divided by the "Great Barrier" should theoretically be a place similar to a subspace, and the walls isolating it from the world shouldn't just be on the sides; they should be in the sky as well.

So this guy keeps flying upward, will he eventually fly into outer space, or will he hit an invisible wall...

Luo Yan couldn't help but fall into thought.

Standing beside Luo Yan, Thanos slowly swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked with a trembling voice.

"Your Majesty, is this... arranged by you?"

Previously, he had suggested avoiding the sharp edge, but the Demon King didn't pay him any mind, and then he watched the towering temple fly higher and higher, until it flew into the clouds and disappeared.

Looking at the calm expression on Luo Yan's face, although he felt it was absurd, there was only one explanation left in his heart—

In order to establish authority among the surrendered Ankylosaurus tribe, the Demon King had directly unleashed his unfathomable divine power, erasing the Ankylosaurus tribe's spiritual totem from the ground!

Such a thing was not impossible.

After all, in this world, besides extraordinary power, there was power beyond the extraordinary!

Not only "Shadow Demon General" Thanos, but "Thorn Demon General" Blanshia was the same, looking at the temple disappearing into the night sky, her beautiful eyes filled with shock and astonishment.

She had never seen any extraordinary being who could, by relying solely on the power of magic, lift a palace as towering as a mountain into the clouds!

That was a wonder completed by tens of thousands of lizardman slaves over countless days and nights... just that move alone, let alone Elder Zakro, I'm afraid even the mysterious blood clan who intercepted and killed Zakro at Black Wind Fortress back then couldn't do it!

As for how she knew it was Luo Yan's doing, the reason was also very simple.

Not just because of a woman's sixth sense, but also because of the calm and breezy expression on Luo Yan's face; she was simply too familiar with it.

Back when Elder Zakro had exhausted all his strength and still couldn't win, eventually ending up as a corpse under the Black Wind Fortress manor, the expression on that Demon King's face was also like this...

Hearing Thanos's question, Luo Yan glanced at him and said lightly.

"No."

Thanos's expression froze, but he didn't say anything, just lowered his head again, his demeanor even more respectful than before.

As expected of the Demon King—

Truly unfathomable!

"..." Looking at the expression on Thanos's face, Luo Yan knew that this guy had probably misunderstood something, but explaining it again would only make it seem like he was trying to cover it up, so he couldn't be bothered to say more.

Anyway, it wasn't an important matter.

He now wanted to know more about what was going on with that pyramid that had flown into the sky.

Time passed minute by minute, and there was no sound at all in the sky, and the pressure that had invisibly shrouded the entire Assam City seemed to have disappeared into thin air just like that.

The crowd of lizardmen looking up at the sky had their necks sore, and they didn't see any new changes in the night sky.

High Priest Ze'er moved his head, sighed, and was about to give up, when suddenly a grain of fine sand fell onto his nose.

His brow twitched, his gaze slightly fixed.

This is...?

A low rumble came faintly from the air, like thunder rolling across the night sky.

Ze'er suddenly looked up at the sky, his expression changing abruptly!

Only to see a meteor abruptly appear in the sky, instantly piercing through the thick clouds and galloping toward the ground!

That was exactly the Dragon God Temple that had previously risen into the sky!

Although its structure had completely disintegrated, the high-speed airflow and pressure difference squeezed those huge granite bricks together.

Because the speed was too fast, the grease on the surface of the bricks ignited, dragging out tens of thousands of intertwined tail flames in the night sky; looking from afar, it was like a falling scorching sun!

The granite pyramid that the Ankylosaurus tribe had piled up day after day for thousands of years was now returning like lightning. It was like a javelin thrown in anger by the Dragon God Himself, tearing through everything with rage and thunder, smashing fiercely into the heart of Assam City!

"Demon King, watch out!"

Arakdo exclaimed, his forelimbs quickly touching the ground, attempting to dig a shelter on the spot.

Sarah stepped forward to block in front of Luo Yan, but just as she raised her dagger, she was pulled back into Luo Yan's arms by her collar and sat down.

"Rock Wall!"

A thick rock wall rose from the ground, Luo Yan's expression unchanged, his magic wand pointing continuously, like a conductor leading a symphony.

"Steel Skin!"

"Swift Wind!"

"Frost Armor!"

"..."

As an honor student at the Demon King Academy, he was proficient in dozens of different status magic spells, and he basically cast all the buffs he could on himself.

And just as he recited the fifth incantation, that huge palace, like an asteroid falling from a high orbit, smashed heavily into the center of Assam City!

"Boom—!"

The deafening roar was like the angry roar of tens of thousands of giant dragons, instantly depriving everyone present of their hearing. Immediately following was a shockwave far more terrifying than dragon breath, sweeping across the entire street in an instant!

Houses were destroyed!

City walls were knocked down!

That was a disaster of natural-disaster level!

The baptism of three thousand rockets was a mere trifle compared to this—whether in terms of lethality or destruction, it couldn't compare to a single hair of this "asteroid" crashing into the ground!

The boiling smoke and air waves were like a tsunami rolling on the ground, swallowing the entire Assam City in just a few breaths, the unvented power even condensing upward into the shape of a mushroom cloud!

A sweeping boulder hit the rock wall summoned by Luo Yan, both shattered, turning into fragments and being swept away by the violent airflow.

Luo Yan pressed Sarah, who was frozen, with one hand, and his right hand holding the wand quickly cast a spell again, only then blocking the terrifying aftermath!

The earth shook for a full ten seconds, then fell into an indescribable dead silence.

When the dust settled, Luo Yan released Sarah, who was frozen due to shock, and looked around, only to see that the fire burning in the city had already been extinguished.

However, in contrast, the entire Assam was almost razed to the ground, and not even a single intact building remained nearby...

A skull rolled to Luo Yan's feet, the soul fire in the cranium not yet extinguished, the stuttering skeleton jaw still cursing.

"Damn... I knew it... the dog planner didn't have... good intentions..."

Luo Yan: "..."

Not far away, there was another movement in the rubble, only to see Thanos standing up, pushing away the ruins in a disheveled state.

Looking at his down-and-out appearance, Luo Yan couldn't guess for a moment whether this guy was really caught off guard or if he was acting on the spot.

"Demon King! Are you alright!"

"I am fine."

Looking at the concerned Thanos, Luo Yan replied indifferently, and then cast his gaze toward Blanshia, who was steadying herself while supporting herself with pitch-black vines.

She had just used vines to reinforce the rock wall for herself, and it was unknown if she was therefore negligent in her own defense, but she took a hit to the chest, a large piece of her pitch-black dress torn open to reveal snow-white skin, though it was sewn up by small thorns not long after.

"Your Majesty... next time you unleash such divine power, can you tell me in advance, at least let me have some preparation." Blanshia looked at Luo Yan with a resentful expression and bowed elegantly.

"I said it wasn't me."

Regardless of whether these two idiots believed it or not, Luo Yan dropped this sentence, then instructed them to do their best to treat the survivors of the explosion's aftermath, and then urged Arakdo, who was already stiff, to walk toward the center of Assam City.

The lizardmen had decent constitution attributes, and the Ankylosaurus tribe was particularly prominent in defense, so there were unexpectedly quite a few survivors.

Many guys who were thrown more than ten meters away and hit the wall heavily could still move after shaking, whereas if it were humans, they would definitely be stone-cold dead.

However, the further Luo Yan walked toward the center of the city, the fewer the surviving lizardmen were; when he walked near the center of the explosion, there was only one unconscious lizard lying on the messy street, and the surroundings were all bloody corpses mixed with rubble and broken tiles.

Probably because he had some protective magic item on him, that guy clutching a bone staff still had one breath left.

Because he had things to ask later, Luo Yan casually cast a healing spell, pulling him back from the edge of death.

Looking at the Demon King riding on the back of the spider, High Priest Ze'er Tua opened his mouth, unable to say a word, and a moment later knelt on the ground trembling.

"Greetings... True Dragon Majesty."

"Call me Demon King."

Glancing contemptuously at this spineless guy, Luo Yan patted Arakdo's head, stopping this stupid spider that couldn't control its mouth when it saw bugs, and signaled it to continue forward.

The center of the explosion had been shaved into a sunken pit, like the vent of a dead volcano.

Passing through the heavy fog and rugged rocks, Luo Yan finally arrived at the very center where the palace had fallen, but everything that entered his eyes left him stunned on the spot.

Only to see that in the very center of the impact crater, a silver-white long shuttle-shaped structure about ten meters long was quietly embedded in the messy granite pile.

Its outer shell was made of some unknown metal, the surface reflecting an eerie silver light in the firelight, neither like bronze, nor like steel... and even less like any material that should be possessed in this era.

And what was even more eerie was that after such a violent impact, there wasn't a single scratch left on its outer shell!

What was especially incredible to him—

He couldn't feel a single trace of magical element fluctuation on it!

"... This doesn't look like the heritage of the Parr family."

Luo Yan muttered to himself, flipped off Arakdo's back, stepped into the slowly burning firelight, and came before that silver-white structure that was out of place with the surroundings.

That minimalist structure was out of place with the surrounding broken stone pillars and fractured dragon-pattern reliefs; this thing was definitely not something the Holy Ankylosaurus Kingdom, which was still playing with bronze and stones, could have built!

Sarah followed closely behind Luo Yan, her eyes looking at the silver structure with wariness, her right hand clutching the dagger tightly, ready to draw it at any time.

However, unlike Sarah, there wasn't much wariness in Luo Yan's eyes, only shock and excitement that couldn't be described in words.

He reached out his right hand and gently touched the silver-white metal, actually feeling a coolness that was completely different from the surroundings.

"What on earth... is this thing?"

Just as his words fell, a low Dragon language came from in front of him—

"Identity scanning... verification failed..."

Luo Yan: "..."

Verification failed, that's fine.

Luo Yan didn't know for a moment whether he should be shocked by the Dragon language echoing in his ears, or surprised by the highly impactful fact in front of him.

Although he didn't know what functions this thing had, all signs seemed to indicate—

The legendary Dragon God was actually a visitor from beyond the sky?!

And suspected to be from a civilization with a very high level of technology!

The huge amount of information made it difficult for him to digest for a moment, but thinking of Lin Te Isaac's identity as a transmigrator, an alien suddenly popping up didn't seem so hard to accept.

Just as Luo Yan was thinking about how to open the giant egg in front of him, a trembling voice suddenly came from behind.

Only to see the lizardman old man he had previously saved walking toward him, limping, and handing over the bone staff in his hand.

"Maj, Majesty..."

"You try this."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 285 =====