"Roar——"
A long, loud dragon roar spread throughout a hundred miles, and the powerful dragon power slowly descended, making everyone feel their shoulders sinking, and they couldn't help but feel the urge to worship.
"Chi——"
There was a sound of crackling air, followed by the sound of howling wind.
I saw the more than 40-meter-long red dragon flapping its wings, setting off a scorching hurricane, and with flickering sparks, it jumped up from the top of the Isdalia Altar.
The sunlight shone on the red dragon's red scales, covering his whole body with a thin, blurry halo, like a god coming to the world.
The broad dragon wings covered the sky and cast a huge shadow, shrouding thousands of imperial people below. All the people in the shadow were not afraid, but were full of excitement and felt extremely honored.
Under the shadow of the red dragon's wings, this may be a signal of death in other areas, but in the Ember Empire, it is a symbol of glory and luck.
"Cassius on top"
"What an honor."
"Your Majesty, he is right above my head!"
People looked up at the sky, hundreds of thousands of eyes focused on the majestic and majestic dragon body, and feelings of awe and reverence arose spontaneously.
And among the crowd shrouded in shadow, there was actually a hooded half-elf disguised as an Imperial merchant—he was Richard, the double agent of the Empire and the Harpers.
At this moment, he was looking up at the giant dragon in the sky with numb eyes, his expression was extremely complicated, as if he had lost his soul.
"Cassius on top"
Since he had lived in hiding in the empire for several years, this sentence had even become his mantra, and he spoke it subconsciously.
A few years ago, during the coronation ceremony that shocked the mainland, Richard understood one thing - that giant dragon, the Burning Emperor, could not be defeated by human power.
I am afraid that I will never be able to defeat this "enemy" in my life, let alone the so-called revenge. His only goal is to rescue Abier, return to the south, and live a life without competition with the world.
However, just now, Richard saw a scene that made him feel completely desperate——
I saw a familiar figure appearing on the altar, with a tall figure, emerald green pupils, and pointed ears unique to elves.
Is it her, Abil, the elf ranger from Serenia? She is also the lover that she has longed for and appeared in her dreams countless times.
But now, she stood on the Great Altar of Istalia, looking up at the red dragon in the sky with a face full of enthusiasm, waiting to receive the emperor's gift.
Richard didn't even dare to show his loss and despair too obviously, and even showed a forced smile, otherwise he would be easily regarded as a spy by people nearby and exchanged for gold coins.
Within the empire, this even spawned a special industry, and some people made a living from it, so spies were affectionately called "fifty gold" by the people of the empire.
"No, that's impossible."
Richard was pale, and his trembling voice was drowned in the cheers of the crowd.
"Long live His Majesty Cassius!"
"Long live the Empire!"
"For the great red dragon!"
Amidst the roar of the crowd around him, Richard felt that there was silence all around him. He looked at the distant figure, and there was even a harsh buzzing in his ears.
He saw that the elf on the altar was also cheering. Her face was rosy and her eyes were wild, and she was not much different from the people of the empire around her.
According to the official announcement of the Half-Red Dragon, Abiel is a typical example of "returning from evil and converting to the empire", and is the first elf to join the empire.
She was brainwashed too!
However, the passage he had read in the Imperial Daily appeared in Richard's mind:
"The soul of the person who receives the gift will be blessed. He will always be loyal to the empire and follow the great Ember Emperor forever and ever."
"No, Abil, you cannot become the emperor's retinue."
Richard murmured to himself and couldn't help but stretched out his hand in the distance, as if to touch the elf's body, but the other party just looked up at the sky devoutly and didn't notice him at all.
He also knew that if he really tried to stop this ceremony, not only would he be imprisoned, but Abier would also not end well.
But if he stood idly by, Abier would become the emperor's soul slave and would never be freed, and they would never be able to go back to the beginning.
"Abiel, no."
Suddenly, a suffocating feeling of powerlessness surged into Richard's heart, as if an invisible hand was strangling his throat, causing him to only whisper in despair.
Once upon a time, he was so high-spirited that he signed a contract with the wild goblin, thinking he could become a legendary hero who would save the world.
But now, Richard has long realized that he is just a mortal who cannot control his destiny.
In front of such a behemoth as the Burning Ember Empire, and in front of the emperor who was like a god, he could only be regarded as an insignificant speck of dust.
Li Cha tried his best to raise his head and looked up at the giant dragon rising into the sky and the dragon wings covering the sky. There was a trace of despair in Richard's eyes.
"No"
However, at this moment, in this warm atmosphere, in this glorious and sacred moment, almost everyone was looking up at the emperor's majestic figure, and no one noticed anything strange about Richard.
The ceremony is still going on, and Emperor Burning Ember still hangs high in the sky, just like the rising and setting of the sun, unchangeable by any mortal will.
"Roar——"
The red dragon raised its head and roared again.
The dragon's roar became more majestic and powerful, sweeping across the sky and the earth, reverberating throughout the Anze Tower, making all living beings tremble, and all raised their heads to look in the direction of Isdalia City.
Cassius unfolded his broad wings with a wingspan of nearly sixty meters, and flames spurted out from the edge of the wing membrane and spread wildly to both sides.
The entire sky seemed to be torn apart by the flaming wings that stretched across the sky and spanned thousands of meters.
"Shua——"
Red Dragon Huan slowly waved his wings, and in an instant, flames flew everywhere, and the entire Istalia was enveloped in hazy firelight, filling the air with scorching heat.
"It's time"
Cassius mobilized all the blood power in his body, his scorching heart was beating, hot ancestral dragon blood flowed in the basal blood vessels, and sulfur-smelling gunpowder smoke spurted out from the stomata.
The surging light penetrated the body, gradually gathered towards the chest, and finally gathered in the dragon crystal.
At this moment, the red dragon hung high in the sky, casting thousands of rays of light, even blocking the sunlight, just like the real sun in the sky.
People were blinded by the dazzling light, but they were still extremely pious and kept praying.
"Cassius on top"
"Praise to Emperor Burning Ember!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is the sun that never sets in the empire!"
Immediately afterwards, Cassius's rumbling voice echoed across the heaven and earth, running across the vast wasteland, roaring like thunder.
"As Emperor Burning Ember, I hereby declare that anyone who is an enemy of the empire will be destroyed!"
"Whoosh——"
As soon as the words fell, a harsh explosion sounded, and meteors fell from the sky, falling into the crowded crowd in the eyes of people with horror and surprise.
Several panicked "people" were hit, and their skins burned, revealing the true face of the devil, and they were burned to death with shrill wails.
The flames burned away the demons lurking in the crowd, but did not harm anyone else.
"There is actually a demon within the empire, and it was hiding among us just now!"
"Fortunately, Your Majesty is aware of everything! He has seen through the true face of the devil!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Praise Emperor Burning Ember!"
People didn't know that these demons were deliberately put into the city by Cassius just to create momentum for the gift ceremony.
In the crowded crowd, Richard quietly wiped away his cold sweat. He thought that the omniscient emperor had seen through his rebellious thoughts and unleashed thunderous wrath. Now it seems that he was a little too nervous.
How could such a being care about a small ranger like himself?
The thunderous sound continued, and the air trembled slightly, as if the death of a dozen demons was just an insignificant episode.
"And those who are loyal to the empire - I will also grant him supreme glory and let him gain eternal power!"
Beams of light shot down from the sky, like a link connecting heaven and earth, and threw them at the people on the altar of Isdalia, shrouding them in light.
"No"
"Abiel"
Looking at the gradually blurring figure, Richard fell completely into despair. He stretched out his hand feebly into the distance, his eyes dimming.
Cassius slowly clenched his claws, and the surging ancestral blood power in his body completely burst out.
He has refined a lot of ancestral dragon blood, and the power brought by this gift is absolutely unprecedented, and can even make some of his relatives reach the level of true dragons.
【Bloodline Gift】
Suddenly, using the clusters of light beams as a link, the bodies, spirits and even souls of Emperor Burning Ember and his family members were connected.
"Ah."
Under the shroud of this power, everyone on the Istalia High Altar involuntarily knelt on the ground and even curled up.
Red scales gradually bulged under their skin, sulfur-smelling gunpowder smoke spurted out from their mouths and noses, and scale horns bulged on their foreheads. The changes in those with strong blood were even more astonishing.
The great goblin Doro was half-kneeling on the ground, with sweat all over his body and hot white smoke swirling around him. There was a huge bulge on his back, like a volcano about to erupt, and it seemed that it was about to burst his skin.
Under the pain of transformation, he clenched his teeth, the sharp fangs protruding, and gunpowder smoke spewed out from the gaps between the teeth.
"Hiss-"
Suddenly, there was a sound of skin tearing, and the hobgoblin suddenly raised its head, stretched out its arms, and let out a heart-rending roar of pain.
Immediately afterwards, the new dragon wings suddenly unfolded behind his back, soaked in blood, and sprayed countless blood drops around him.
Amid heavy breathing, the dragon-veined hobgoblin, which was nearly four meters tall, soared into the air, creating waves of scorching wind.
"Ouch——"
It was a roar like a dragon's roar.
The dragon-veined ogre standing at the top of the altar also let out a dull roar. He was also half-kneeling on the ground. Even in this position, he was more than three meters tall.
Under the light, Trump's body rose and fell with his breathing, constantly expanding, and the scales on his body became denser.
Two bulges also appeared on the ogre's back, and it seemed that something was about to be born inside them.
Suddenly, there was another sound of flesh being torn apart, and two flesh wings tore flesh and skin apart, appearing behind Trump. They flapped continuously and made a buzzing sound - but this did not make the ogre leave the ground even a little bit.
Trump is now nearly ten meters tall, and his figure is extremely fat. Just standing there is like a heavy hill.
But his wings are only over one meter long. They are more like miniature decorations than wings.
"Roar——"
The ogre felt the power of the dragon vein surging in his body, opened his bloody mouth full of fangs, and roared with pleasure.
But he soon noticed the pair of small pocket wings behind his back, and saw the hobgoblin rising into the sky not far away. The cheerful smile on its ugly face suddenly froze.
"Uh-huh."
Beside him, Tiefling Major Rush was also half-kneeling on the ground, making a suppressed voice.
He had missed an award before, and his level of dragon transformation was far lower than that of Doluo and Langpu.
After the light shrouded the tiefling, thick white smoke spewed out from his body, his red skin scales bulged, and the devil blood of the Nine Hells was being suppressed by the ancestral dragon blood.
Almost instantly, his ram-like devil horns bent backwards, gradually turning into the red dragon's sweeping horns.
The devil-like long tail also became thicker, with scales and frills growing on its surface, turning into the tail of a giant dragon.
"Ouch——"
White Dragon Tinia roared.
She didn't care about her image, curled up on the ground, flapped her wings randomly, and kept twisting her body.
Because he was worried that the bloodline gift would conflict with her ancestral white dragon bloodline, Cassius also specially removed some of the red dragon's fire qualities for her.
But even so, the sudden influx of blood power into her body still caused her great pain and she couldn't help but cry.
The ferocious and huge dragon body of the white dragon expanded several times at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its body became thicker, closer to the stronger and more powerful red dragon - rather than the weak and thin white dragon.
Its wing membrane shows a blue color similar to that of metal burning in fire, and becomes wider. The trailing edge of the wing membrane is connected to the body far behind the hind legs and far below the tail.
"Ouch!"
"For the Ember Empire!"
In the light that surged with flames and smoke, the dragon-blood nobles roared and roared one after another, growing scales and dragon horns.
Their body shapes are getting closer and closer to the supreme emperor common to the people of the empire - Cassius, the Burning Ember Dragon.
"The great red dragon"
"What a noble appearance! These dragon blood nobles have become more powerful again!"
"It is said that even the lowest-ranking dragon-blooded baron can live for more than two hundred years."
"Yes, this is your Majesty's gift. I really hope that one day I can stand on that altar."
The people below looked at the transforming dragon-blood nobles with expressions full of envy and longing.
After all, as long as you become a dragon-blood noble, you can become an absolute vested interest in the empire system and enjoy countless benefits.
But among the crowd, there was a hooded man with a desperate expression and a hoarse voice.
"No, no
Abiel, you shouldn’t be like this.”
Richard stared intently at the figure in the beam of light, witnessing with his own eyes that the figure that haunted him became more and more ferocious.
Dragon horns, scales, and sharp claws sprouted from the always proud elf. The new dragon-veined elf looked feverishly at the red dragon in the sky and shouted long live, which made Richard feel extremely strange and kept shaking his head.
But he knew he couldn't stop this.
After this gift, Richard has completely given up any hope of returning to the south and living an ordinary life with Abier.
So, he had no choice.
The only thing he can do is to continue to be a double agent of the Ember Empire, secretly protecting the other party's life, and at the same time looking for a way to lift this "curse".
"Abiel, I will get you out of here"
Thinking of this, Richard pulled down his hood, and the fists he secretly clenched began to turn white.
"As expected of the bloodline of the ancestral dragons, the blood pressure of the two dukes is almost as strong as that of the real dragons."
Hundreds of meters high in the sky, in the center of the flaming wings that stretched for thousands of meters, Cassius narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of expectation in his pale golden pupils.
He lowered his head, stared at the invisible power in his claws, and murmured in a low voice: "It's time to verify this newly acquired power."
"Crash."
He suddenly clenched his claws, and the invisible authority suddenly erupted with surging power of law, and countless crystal fragments fell down.
【Your Majesty Grants Divine Power】(End of Chapter)