“I’ve said it before, if you wish for the stars, I will make them come to me.”

Gazing down as the meteorites plummeted into the sea, creating an apocalyptic vista of destruction, the Golden Dragon murmured softly.

Now, all the meteorites wandering through outer space had become Saga’s weapons. His use of Meteor Shock Star, with its terrifying destructive and annihilating power, was enough to shock even the high-tier legends.

A single strike could obliterate a kingdom, turning millions of kilometers into wasteland.

Legendary creatures were already immensely powerful, capable of moving mountains and parting seas with ease, but even for them, such feats were hard to imagine.

Whether it was neutron annihilation or Meteor Shock Star.

After ascending to legend, the basic force skills Saga mastered one by one exhibited effects far beyond the understanding of ordinary legends. And it was only after becoming a legend that he truly began to unleash the terrifying power of the four basic forces.

Before reaching legendary status, Saga had found it quite challenging to overcome several tiers of combat.

And the gap between each tier above legend was theoretically even greater.

But now, the tier gap seemed non-existent in front of Saga. The effects of any of his skills were not on the same level as other legendary creatures, one could say he was far ahead.

After reducing the entire Rosen Kingdom to ashes, not a speck of territory left.

The meteorites ablaze, the shattered sinking islands, the roaring tumultuous sea. These became the dominant hues of this place.

With a mighty flap of its wings, the Golden Dragon hovered amidst the flowing winds and clouds, silently gazing down at the churning sea below, like an artist admiring his masterpiece.

After a while.

The sea’s turbulence hadn’t ceased, but the Golden Dragon’s figure flashed and vanished from its place.

Below, as time passed, the surging sea gradually calmed, and the remnants of the islands were swallowed and concealed by the ocean. The entire sea was peaceful, as if nothing had ever happened.

Except, following the sea charts, one could no longer find the location of the Rosen Kingdom.

And until now.

No support from the Mechanar Empire had arrived.

In fact, the Mechanar Empire had received the last plea for help from the Rosen king, including the message sent back by the legendary Mechanist stationed in the Rosen Kingdom before his death.

But they sent no aid.

Their own Mechanist died too quickly, and given the spatial distance between the Mechanar Empire and the Rosen Kingdom, even high-tier legendary beings couldn’t arrive in time. And more powerful entities weren’t so easily mobilized.

As for the Rosen Kingdom, although it was a vassal state close to the Yarl Continent and received some attention.

But, there was something too eerie about the Rosen Kingdom.

The first time the Mechanar Empire stood up for the Rosen Kingdom, also wanting to showcase the might of the empire, it provoked the arrival of the Dragon of Eternity and Time, a case of biting off more than they could chew.

Now, only twenty years had passed.

And another being, more ferocious than the Hell Queen, the Emperor Dragon of Armageddon, had forcefully entered the Rosen Kingdom. The fate of this nation seemed destined to be destroyed under the shadow of a mighty dragon.

The Mechanar Empire, focused on their own god-making project, didn’t want to expend more energy on this matter.

In short, they had given up on the Rosen Kingdom.

It was just a vassal state after all. One less or one more didn’t really matter to the Mechanar Empire, it wasn’t a significant loss or gain.

However, although they didn’t rush to the Whirlpool Sea.

In the database of the Mechanar Empire, a dragon file codenamed Emperor Dragon now received much more attention from the intelligence agency.

Not long after.

On Thorn Isle, within a hidden cave in the belly of Yakan Volcano.

Saga had transformed into a smaller humanoid dragon form, standing upright, his body covered in shimmering golden scales and a majestic armor-like keratin structure. On his dragon head, three pairs of crown-like horns twisted majestically, his wings spread wide, and his tail was long, nearly indistinguishable from his full form.

Inside the cave, only a few meters wide and tall.

Saga stepped forward, through the winding passage to its deepest part, then paused.

The hazy purple glow reflected on Saga’s scales, intertwining gold and purple into a dreamlike hue.

Just a few meters ahead, a half-snake, half-human form of a woman coiled her long tail, her upper body pale as if milk flowed through her skin, quietly resting on her own tail, eyes closed, in a peaceful slumber like a baby.

Iyeona still looked beautiful.

But compared to her usual bright appearance, her purple scales seemed much dimmer, and they were riddled with crisscrossing wounds, hardly a single scale intact. At the position of her heart, there was a shocking tear, stark against her smooth skin, as if piercing through her entire heart, indicating the severity of her injury.

Saga could feel Iyeona’s listless and weak breath.

However, he could also sense that she was slowly recovering.

A hot and warm energy circulated within her, healing her wounds.

Apart from her serpentine identity, Iyeona was also a very rare sun caster, wielding a type of special energy known as positive energy.

Positive energy is one of the variants of pure energy, usually associated with light or order.

In healing wounds, strengthening oneself or others, positive energy performs very well.

The holy light used by followers of some orderly deities, the life energy flowing in the plane of Hero’s Domain, are actually variants of positive energy.

Correspondingly, there is negative energy, usually associated with darkness or chaos.

Death energy, dark erosion energy, and others belong to the variants of negative energy.

The special planes formed by positive and negative energies, the Positive Energy Plane and the Negative Energy Plane, are also important planes that constitute the Great Ring Multiverse, on par with the four elemental planes of earth, water, wind, and fire.

Even among all planes and worlds.

Sun casters and moon casters who can wield pure positive and negative energies are extremely rare and scarce, requiring very special talents.

The reason The Red Dragoness appointed a snake woman, whose raw strength wasn’t very formidable, as the head of her kin.

Was mainly because of Iyeona’s identity as a sun caster.

When Saga was a Hatchling Dragon, Iyeona often nourished him with positive energy.

Now, the positive energy circulating around Iyeona was healing her from wounds that would be fatal to other casters, slowly improving her condition.

Watching this scene, Saga’s tense expression relaxed.

At the same time.

As if sensing the approach of an outsider, like a startled rabbit, Iyeona’s thick eyelashes trembled slightly, her body curled up in sleep.

Saga extended his dragon claw, gently stroking Iyeona’s hair.

“It’s alright now.”

Whether it was the sound of Saga’s whisper or the familiar presence that reassured her, Iyeona’s coiled body relaxed and settled down again.

“Sleep.”

Saga whispered, quietly accompanying the snake woman in the nest for a while before walking out.

The Dragon Vein Bear waited outside the nest, asking, “Your Highness, how is Iyeona’s condition?”

“She’s improving. For the nest where she resides, assign more guards,” Saga said.

With a shimmer of golden light, the humanoid dragon form clad in armor transformed into Saga’s full appearance, his massive body making the strong and tall bear beside him seem insignificant.

Looking at the Golden Dragon before him.

Julius couldn’t help but feel moved, gesturing with his bear paw down low, saying, “More than twenty years ago, Your Highness, you were just a little one, not even reaching my knee.”

“But now.”

He raised his bear paw high until it was fully extended.

“You’ve grown beyond my reach.”

After Saga went alone to the Rosen Kingdom, the Dragon Vein Bear, which had been guarding him in secret since his Hatchling stage, was worried and thus brought a legendary giant stone golem left by the queen to support the Rosen Kingdom.

But.

When the Dragon Vein Bear arrived near the Rosen Kingdom.

The scene it witnessed was forever etched in its memory, deeply imprinted in its brain.

In the burning sky, the regal Golden Dragon stood proudly, and beneath its majestic form was the boiling sea, turned apocalyptic by the falling meteorites.

Even as a legend itself, the Dragon Vein Bear was humbled by Saga’s might.

Its initial submission to Saga was mainly due to obedience to the Hell Queen’s orders, but now, the submission was sincere.

“The queen would be overjoyed to see you as you are now,” the Dragon Vein Bear said earnestly.

Saga nodded slightly, calmly saying, “Julius, my mother left Thorn Isle to me, but I now possess the entire Near Seas and do not value Thorn Isle. I came here mainly for you all.”

“For us?”

“Yes, I need the monster clans residing on Thorn Isle to serve me, and I also want to provide you with the protection you deserve.”

“I was really looking forward to it. After the queen left, we lost our pillar and fell into darkness. Now, with Your Highness’s arrival, I see the light once more,” the bear’s face showed a smile.

Across from him, after a pause, Saga continued:

“I will construct a teleportation array on Thorn Isle that leads directly to Starfall Island in the Near Seas. The monster clans of both islands will have an encounter and integration. Julius, you must ensure that Thorn Isle’s monster clans do not betray me in secret.”

The quality of Thorn Isle’s monster clans was not low, as many had been transformed by the Red Dragoness’s Dragon Vein.

But since they had already been transformed by the Red Dragoness, even though Saga was blood-related to the Red Dragoness, they were not the Red Dragoness herself, making it difficult for these monsters to be completely obedient. Julius, who had long managed Thorn Isle, needed to manage them well.

Under the Red Dragoness, the Dragon Vein Bear’s status was akin to the Black Sharks loyal to Saga.

“I understand, Your Highness.”

“Rest assured, no clan will dare to defy your will.”

The Dragon Vein Bear pounded its chest, its actions and words full of conviction.

Soon after, a seventy-meter wingspan stirred, countless pebbles and leaves whirled in the wind behind the giant dragon, fluttering and floating.

Saga soared into the sky, then circled at high altitude before landing on the summit of Yakan Volcano.

The grand palace where the Red Dragoness once resided on the summit of Yakan Volcano had become ruins due to several attacks from the Rosen Kingdom.

Turning around, at the edge of the volcano’s summit, Saga looked around.

His gaze pierced through the sea of clouds, taking in the entire view of Thorn Isle and the surrounding seas at a glance. Just then, dawn broke, and the faint light, like thousands of shattered gold, covered the sea of clouds, vast and majestic, making Saga’s heart feel boundlessly open.

“Unknowingly, I have reached the same position as my mother.”

Saga whispered inwardly.

The Red Dragoness, before her rapid ascension by devouring a demon duke, was probably no match for him now.

“But the road ahead is still long, even as a legend, I am still but a drop in the ocean.”

“I must not be complacent; my training cannot slacken.”

Saga reminded himself not to fall into arrogance due to his current strength, to be proud of his power but not too conceited. The difference between the two sometimes was the difference between life and death.

Many creatures, upon first stepping into the realm of legend, would have their confidence inflated immensely.

There were not a few examples of legends who fell early due to this.

For someone like Saga, who could almost sweep through all beings below high-tier legends upon entering, it was even easier to become inflated.

However, having witnessed the vastness of the world during his destiny epiphany, Saga knew his own insignificance.

This allowed Saga to easily firm his resolve, not to be confused by momentary power.

Even this giant planet under his feet, in the entire Milky Way system, was like a drop in the ocean, and the Milky Way system in the vast prime material world was just as insignificant as dust, trivial.

Gazing at the sea of clouds dyed with shattered gold from the mountain peak.

Saga took a deep breath of the cold air, then engaged his Superheavy Battle Form, transforming into a black and gold dragon, and applied superheavy gravity to his already heavy self, multiplying it.

Entering a self-disciplined state, Saga began his usual physical training.

Crack, crack.

The towering mountain, thousands of zhang high, trembled slightly at its peak due to the black and gold dragon’s training, numerous cracks appearing on the mountain body.

Physical training during the day, delving into and developing basic force skills.

After expending a lot of physical and mental energy, under the bright moonlight, he would meditate at night. The effects of meditation after a day of self-discipline were often exceptional.

And so, time gradually passed.

During this period.

Saga had also constructed the teleportation array between the Near Seas and Thorn Isle, allowing easy travel between Starfall Island in the Near Seas and Thorn Isle. Meanwhile, a new palace was slowly taking shape on the summit of Yakan Volcano, crafted by artisans drawn from the Near Seas nations.

Hoo.

Under the night sky, a breeze swept over the mountain peak, brushing past the Golden Dragon, who had just coiled up, preparing to enter a meditative state in a comfortable position.

Meditation was very beneficial for Saga.

He needed a very resilient spirit to control his powerful skills, and the effect of meditation was to enhance his mental will, allowing his various skills to operate effectively under his will.

But before the Golden Dragon could settle in.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he slowly opened his eyes, a puzzled look in his dragon pupils.

His claw stroked his neck, and with a subtle spatial fluctuation, Saga took out a scale that resembled a topaz crystal.

This scale, which had always been quiet, was now trembling violently, with cracks spreading across it like spiderwebs or lightning. When it reached a certain limit, it cracked, shattered, and finally turned into fine dragon scale fragments, losing its luster.

It was a scale given to Saga by the Topaz Dragon Lord on his way to Deep Sea Dragon City, passing Moon Bay, as a symbol for Saga to protect Goldsand Isle for a while and command the kin of Goldsand Isle.

The psychic energy and magic left by the Topaz Dragon Lord on it would not naturally break unless the Topaz Dragon died.

And now, the scale shattered under Saga’s gaze.