Chapter 209: THE SKY BREAKS

Chapter 210 — THE SKY BREAKS

The emerald glow grew brighter.

It spread through the Jade Dragon’s throat like liquid lightning, swirling into a vortex of destructive power that distorted the air around its jaws. The pressure alone pushed the Eight backward through the sky.

Below them—

The hospital district had descended into chaos.

Doctors shouted instructions across crowded emergency tents. Nurses rushed stretchers toward the few entrances still intact in the damaged medical towers. Ambulances struggled to move through streets clogged with civilians trying to escape.

Some patients could not move.

They lay strapped to portable beds beneath temporary floodlights.

Oxygen tanks.

IV lines.

Machines keeping fragile lives balanced between minutes and eternity.

And above them—

A dragon prepared to erase everything.

The emerald vortex expanded further.

The Jade Dragon’s wings spread slowly as it aimed its jaws toward the center of the field hospital in the city park.

A single strike would wipe out thousands.

Dean Xu Canglong shouted through the comm channel.

“Stop that attack!”

The Eight surged forward.

But exhaustion dragged at every movement.

Han forced another burst of kinetic propulsion through battered muscles that screamed with protest. Phoenix flames reignited weakly around Feng Yanrui as he tried to accelerate through the sky.

Nyx folded space again.

Ibarra pulled more water from the harbor miles away.

Rao gathered solar light with shaking hands.

But they were still too far.

The Jade Dragon inhaled deeper.

The emerald vortex compressed into a single blazing core of energy.

The attack was seconds away.

Down below—

A small girl lying on a stretcher looked up at the sky.

Her hand trembled as she pointed.

“Mom…”

Her mother followed her gaze upward.

And froze.

Because the sky had changed.

At first—

It was only a faint distortion.

A ripple spreading across the clouds above the dragon.

Like heat waves rising from hot pavement.

Then the ripple widened.

The air cracked.

A jagged fracture tore across the sky itself.

For a moment nobody understood what they were seeing.

The Jade Dragon paused.

Its glowing eyes shifted upward.

The emerald vortex in its throat flickered.

Because the sky—

Was splitting apart.

A black line carved across the clouds like a blade cutting fabric.

Then the tear widened.

Darkness spilled through the fracture.

Not shadow.

Not night.

Something deeper.

The Eight slowed instinctively.

Even the dragon stopped charging its attack.

Because something was coming through the rift.

The tear in the sky exploded open.

And a figure fell from the void.

The Arrival

He did not descend slowly.

He dropped like a meteor.

Black and gold energy spiraled around his body as gravity pulled him toward the battlefield below.

Wind screamed around him.

The Jade Dragon saw him first.

The creature’s emerald eyes narrowed.

The falling figure moved faster.

The dragon’s beam began forming again.

But the man was already moving.

His arm drew back.

Void energy gathered around his fist like a collapsing star.

He spoke only one word.

“Break.”

Then his fist punched downward.

The emerald beam fired at the exact same moment.

The two forces collided.

The impact shattered the sky.

A thunderclap rolled across the entire city as the dragon’s attack slammed into the descending void strike.

For a second—

Neither force moved.

Then the emerald beam split.

The dragon’s attack exploded outward like water striking stone.

Fragments of energy scattered across the clouds.

The entire beam collapsed.

Below—

The hospital district was untouched.

The Eight stared.

The Jade Dragon stared.

And the falling man finally slowed.

Black void energy spread beneath his feet.

He landed lightly in the air between the dragon and the city.

For a moment—

No one spoke.

The wind howled through the broken skyline.

Emergency sirens continued wailing somewhere far below.

The man hovered calmly above the hospital district.

Long dark hair drifted slightly in the air currents.

A faint eclipse-shaped sigil glowed across his chest beneath his coat.

His eyes were steady.

Cold.

Focused.

The Jade Dragon spoke first.

Its voice rolled across the clouds like distant thunder.

“You.”

The man looked up.

His expression barely changed.

“Dragon.”

The Eight finally found their voices.

General Han blinked.

“Okay.”

He looked at the others.

“Did anyone else see that?”

Ibarra nodded slowly.

“Yeah.”

Rao’s eyes narrowed.

“That was not one of ours.”

Nyx studied the figure carefully.

Something about the aura surrounding him felt… wrong.

Not monstrous.

But not entirely human either.

Kovács’ drones buzzed around the battlefield as her sensors tried to analyze the newcomer.

Her voice trembled slightly.

“I’m reading a massive energy signature.”

“Unknown classification.”

Canglong’s grip tightened around his sword.

“Identify yourself!”

The man didn’t look at him.

His gaze remained locked on the dragon.

“I’m busy.”

Han snorted.

“Fair enough.”

Above them—

The Jade Dragon studied the newcomer carefully.

Its emerald eyes burned brighter.

Then it spoke again.

“Sovereign fragment.”

The words rolled across the sky like a verdict.

The man’s expression didn’t change.

But the Eight heard it clearly.

Sovereign.

Nyx glanced toward Canglong.

“You understand that?”

The dean didn’t answer.

Because at that moment—

The dragon moved.

The creature lunged forward suddenly.

Its claw cut through the air toward the lone figure.

The man didn’t move until the last second.

Then his fist rose.

Void energy condensed around his arm.

The dragon’s claw slammed down.

The punch met it head-on.

The collision detonated like a bomb.

Shockwaves blasted outward across the hospital district.

Windows shattered across several blocks.

Helicopters spun wildly in the air currents.

But the man did not move.

And neither did the dragon.

The two forces remained locked for a moment.

Then the man pushed forward slightly.

The dragon’s claw shifted.

Just a few centimeters.

But it was enough.

The Jade Dragon pulled its arm back slowly.

Its eyes glowed brighter.

“You survived.”

The man lowered his fist.

“I adapted.”

Han looked between them.

“…What the hell did we just walk into?”

The dragon spread its wings wider.

Emerald light pulsed beneath its scales.

“You return.”

The man finally looked up directly at the creature.

“Did you miss me?”

The Eight exchanged confused looks.

Because it sounded less like a first meeting—

And more like two enemies recognizing each other.

The Jade Dragon’s voice deepened.

“This world will not contain two Sovereigns.”

The man tilted his head slightly.

“Good.”

Void energy began gathering around his fists again.

“I prefer it that way.”

The Eight stared.

The dragon roared.

And the sky above the hospital district began to crack again.

The real battle had finally begun.

[Chapter ENDS]

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