After resolving the troubles originating from the Shark Empire and the Mermaid Empire, and thanks to his soaring reputation, Saga had effectively eliminated any hidden dangers in the Near Seas.

Not long after, Saga left the Near Seas, traveling through a long-distance teleportation array directly to the Emerald Gorge.

“You’re going to the Deep Sea Dragon City?”

Yar Continent, Emerald Gorge.

Upon learning that Saga was heading to the Deep Sea Dragon City to join the battle, both Tixil the Amethyst Dragon and Charlotte the Gemstone Dragon were momentarily taken aback.

“Yes, I’ve decided to go to the Deep Sea Dragon City to help my father defend Dragon City and to witness the prisoners from the Castelli Exile Abyss. I want to see if they are as ferocious as the legends say,” Saga nodded earnestly.

“Deep Sea Dragon City.”

After a moment of silence, Tixil and Charlotte spoke in unison, “We’ll go with you. The situation in Deep Sea Dragon City is probably grim, and it’s time for us to return.”

They were both aware of the dangers of the Deep Sea Dragon City.

But upon hearing Saga’s decision to go there, they didn’t think to stop or persuade him. Instead, they wanted to accompany him and fight alongside Saga.

Looking at his two companions, Saga shook his head and said:

“Neither of you are legends yet, and you won’t have much impact on the battle.”

“Rather than thinking about going to the Deep Sea Dragon City to fight now, it’s better to train yourselves, step into legend as soon as possible, and then go to the Deep Sea Dragon City if the war is still ongoing. That way, you can play a more significant role.”

A war that even the vast Deep Sea Dragon City was struggling to extricate itself from was surely led by legends.

Amethyst Dragons and Gemstone Dragons who were not yet legends would likely only add to the casualties if they went.

Hearing Saga’s words, Tixil and Charlotte thought carefully, then nodded gently and whispered, “You’re right, we’re still too weak to make a difference in the war at Deep Sea Dragon City.”

In the midst of their conversation, the two Little Dragonesses felt an urgent desire to become stronger.

Unconsciously, Saga was growing further away from them.

When they had faced the Tyrant Fiend, they could fight shoulder to shoulder with Saga and had played a key role that could not be ignored.

But now.

The wars Saga could participate in were already too high-level for them.

If they didn’t hurry to catch up, it wouldn’t just be difficult to fight alongside him; even following in his shadow would become extremely challenging.

“Regardless, we can’t fall too far behind Saga. At the very least, we must be able to follow his shadow.”

The two Little Dragonesses made a silent vow to redouble their efforts, to grow stronger, and to try their best to catch up with Saga.

But before that, before Saga went to the Deep Sea Dragon City.

Let’s indulge for a moment.

Looking at the increasingly majestic Golden Dragon, the tails of the two Little Dragonesses gently stretched and curled, then they stepped forward, irresistibly drawn closer.

In the depths of the Dragon’s Nest, a fierce battle commenced.

Afterward, Saga stayed in the Emerald Gorge for a while. After a not too long nor too short period, with a strong will resisting the influence of heart-stealing demons, he reluctantly left.

On one side was the gentle homeland.

On the other side was the war-torn region fraught with danger. If not for Saga’s extremely resilient and iron-like will, it would have been difficult to leave the gentle homeland.

After leaving the Emerald Gorge, Saga returned to the Near Seas, then set off from there, flying toward the center of the Stormy Ocean.

That was also the location of the Deep Sea Dragon City—the Golden Sea.

During the war, to prevent the abyssal prisoners from escaping, the Golden Sea was essentially sealed off, cutting off contact with the outside world. Lacking the necessary spatial coordinates, it was impossible to reach via common spatial methods. Saga had no choice but to soar through the skies.

Saiga Planet was not small, with its oceans vast and boundless.

The distance between the Near Seas, located on the edge of the Stormy Ocean, and the Golden Sea, at the center of the Stormy Ocean, was quite far. The journey from the Near Seas to the Golden Sea was a long one, a significant challenge, and even with Saga’s current speed, it was not something that could be reached in just a few days.

The Golden Dragon soared in the sky, its wings that blotted out the sun tearing through the clouds and fierce winds along the way.

Surrounding him was an endless expanse of ocean, with the occasional isolated island dotting the vast sea.

The scenery in his field of vision rapidly receded.

As Saga pondered the information about the Castelli Exile Abyss, he continued to speed toward the Golden Sea.

The dragon’s heritage detailed that Castelli was a prison plane within the multiverse. Known as the Sin Abyss or the Forbidden Prison in some places, it was a dark and despairing plane, where hatred flowed like a deep and slowly moving river. It housed vicious prisoners from across the multiverse, ranging from a common town murderer to a mighty evil god, all imprisoned in a realm filled with betrayal, lies, and destruction.

Since they were not there by choice but were exiled and imprisoned, the creatures of Castelli were always plotting to leave and return to their homelands, resorting to any means necessary, even at the cost of their lives, rather than drowning in despair within Castelli.

“Castelli, Castelli,”

“This is an outer plane, not the prime material world, filled with countless terrifying beings.”

“Exiled evil gods, ancient wild gods, extremely vicious demon-like beings, and kings bent on world destruction. Even the gods are reluctant to appear in Castelli.”

“The rift between the Deep Sea Dragon City and Castelli connects to a relatively small sphere cage. Otherwise, even the Deep Sea Dragon City, without the assistance of descending deities, would have been destroyed by the prisoners of Castelli long ago.”

Saga mused silently.

The so-called sphere cages, homophonic with prison cages, aptly described the structure of the Castelli plane.

The Castelli plane was divided into six layers, also known as the Six Realms.

Each layer was like countless adjacent spheres, these spherical spaces known as sphere cages, a series of variously sized sphere cages extending infinitely in opposite directions.

Just like the prime material world.

The sphere cages of Castelli varied in size.

The smaller cages were like grains of dust, sealing away terrifying and dangerous microscopic life forms.

The larger ones were comparable to a complete universe-level prime material world, likely housing beings as powerful as deities.

Legend has it.

During the ancient wars between gods and demons, a demon prince who even the higher deities feared, Wolf Spider Miska, was sealed in Castelli because he could not be killed.

“The sphere cage connected to the Deep Sea Dragon City, I wonder if it contains god-like beings.”

“Although deities or god-like beings are suppressed in the material world, only able to exert half-god strength, half-gods differ from one another. The stronger ones could fight ten or even a hundred with their authority or special powers.”

Saga shook his head, not too optimistic in his thoughts.

Rank was often just a reference.

Take Saga himself, for example. Any enemy who treated him as an ordinary newly-legendary dragon would not fare well, and as time passed, the gap between beings of the same rank would only grow due to different powers and understandings of the universe’s essence.

Suddenly.

Saga’s gaze shifted slightly, as a call from deep within interrupted his thoughts about Castelli.

In a distant land inhabited by undead creatures, Skeleton Ulg, one of Saga’s Psychic Guards, was requesting assistance from his main body, seemingly in quite a bit of trouble.

“Hmm? Since joining the Great Tomb, it’s almost been free from other undead threats, and its situation should be quite good.”

“Let’s see what trouble you’ve encountered.”

While flying, Saga sent a wisp of his consciousness through the connection between the Mind Warlock and the Psychic Guard, arriving at Blackland Continent and attaching to Skeleton Ulg.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The cold and dark wind, accompanied by the painful wails of ghosts, swept under the gray-black sky.

On the pale and barren land, devoid of any vegetation, bones were scattered everywhere, with the presence of undead creatures and thick negative energy filling every inch of space, so much so that it seemed out of place in the prime material world.

At this moment.

The little skeleton was floating in the air.

Standing three meters tall, the skeletal body was slender and powerful, each bone perfectly arranged and distributed, shining with a lustrous jade-like gleam. Behind it were three pairs of bone wings, layered like blades.

Clutching a blood-jade-like bone spear, its wings fluttered gently, and its posture was upright and resolute as it hovered mid-air, looking unlike any undead creature, despite the many burns and fractures on its body. It still possessed a strange and sacred beauty, distinct from the typical skeletal undead.

At this point, the little skeleton could hardly be described as little.

Of course.

Compared to Saga’s enormous dragon body, it was still just a little skeleton.

At this moment, opposite the little skeleton, was a knight riding a wild giant lion.

Clad in fine steel armor, tall and burly, with a fierce yet solemn lion’s visage, the half-man, half-lion knight rode a several meters long flame lion, its body covered in crimson patterns, its mane thick and fiery.

Around them were the remains of countless undead creatures, all subordinates of the skeleton in this land.

The knight and its mount both exuded the aura of about a third-tier legend, just a step away from mid-tier legend.

To penetrate the realm of the undead and threaten a legendary undead lord, these two were certainly not weak.

After attaching his will, Saga’s gaze shifted to the emblem on the chest of the lion-man knight’s armor.

Interwoven with gold filigree was the image of a calm lion and tiger facing each other.

“This is a lion-man knight from the Beasthaven Empire.”

The emblem on the knight’s chest was the national emblem of the Beasthaven Empire.

The Beasthaven Empire, also located on the Yar Continent, to the north of the continent and near the Klay Continent, spanned the northern part of Yar and the eastern part of Klay. It was one of the five higher empires, with its overall national strength second only to the three great empires of Cloudrealm, Mechaneer, and Pantheon.

In the Beasthaven Empire, many half-beastmen lived.

Among them, the Lion Emperor and the Tiger Emperor were the joint leaders of the Beasthaven Empire, and the tribes originating from them were the two most powerful.

“How did a lion-man knight from the Beasthaven Empire end up on the Undead Continent?”

“Oh, right, the five higher nations seem to have sent elites to the Undead Continent to periodically hunt down undead lords, curbing the growth of these undead creatures to prevent a potential undead catastrophe.”

The Undead Empire, like the Ratmen Empire, posed a significant threat to the entire Saiga Planet.

The difference was that the Ratmen Empire only threatened Yar Continent, while the Undead Empire had, under the leadership of the Great Tomb, repeatedly sparked undead catastrophes that swept across the entire planet. Therefore, the five higher empires established a pact to send elite warriors from within their borders to assassinate emerging undead lords and curb the development of the undead.

This third-tier legendary lion-man knight was probably one of the elites sent to kill undead lords.

Otherwise, except for Necromancers and the like, what living creature would willingly venture into the realm of the undead?

At that moment.

Looking at the skeleton lord, whose aura had suddenly become deeper and more unfathomable, the lion-man knight frowned slightly, sensing something unusual about the opponent.

However, since he had been steadily dominating the previous battle, he didn’t take it too seriously, merely thinking that the skeleton lord might be preparing to use some trump card, so he became more cautious and vigilant.

Realizing this.

The offensive-oriented lion-man knight didn’t hesitate and immediately launched an attack on the skeleton lord.

Roar!

The flame lion beneath him roared, and with a crackling sound, flame wings sprouted from its sides. Its four legs sprinted furiously, wings flapping, and the mane around its neck ignited like flames.

At the same time, the lion-man knight’s muscular arm swung, and a slender fire blade, tens of meters long, began to condense.

Holding the fire blade at an angle, the high temperature distorted the surrounding air and dispelled the cold of the negative energy environment. Together with the flame lion, he charged ferociously at the skeleton lord.

Opposite.

The skeleton lord in the lion-man knight’s eyes.

That is, Skeleton Ulg, now inhabited by Saga’s will, suddenly lifted its head, its skull’s eye sockets revealing deep and indifferent eyes, locking gaze with the lion-man knight.

Boom!

It was as if a thunderclap suddenly exploded inside the heads of the lion-man knight and the flame lion, causing them to stagger in their steps.

Mind Blast!

Immediately after, the six bone wings behind Skeleton Saga fully unfurled, each tens of meters long. Due to their crystalline white bone material, they appeared eerily thrilling and strangely beautiful.

Buzz!

Suddenly, Skeleton Saga flapped its six wings, brandishing the blood-red bone spear and taking the initiative to attack the knight, who was superior in both rank and number. At the same time, an extremely heavy sensation enveloped Skeleton Saga, causing the surrounding light to twist and form a dark outline over the pure white skeleton, interweaving black and white.

Through the Psychic Guard, Saga could exhibit a certain amount of his own power.

The higher the rank of the Psychic Guard, the stronger the power Saga could exert.

Opposite, because it was not the full effect of the Mind Blast, and the lion-man knight’s spirit was firmly connected to his mount, he quickly regained his senses.

The abnormal state of the skeleton lord caught his eye, and given the distance between them and the speed of a legend, they were almost within striking distance.

Without hesitation.

The lion-man knight let out a fierce roar, his lion’s roar turning into tangible sound waves that rushed towards the skeleton lord, but the latter’s body remained immovable, passing through without any sway.

At the same time, the lion-man knight swept his fire blade towards the oncoming skeleton lord.

The soul fire within Skeleton Saga burned quietly, and the surface of the blood-jade-like bone spear was also tinged with a heavy dark luster. The black blood bone spear swung out, colliding with the lion-man knight’s fire blade.

Bang!

In an instant, the lion-man knight’s palm shook violently, nearly losing grip on his weapon under the immense force, and accompanied by a crisp shattering sound, his weapon was swept away by the spear.

Although only part of the effect could be exerted, the super-heavy augmented bone spear was already as heavy as a mountain.