Chapter 135: Chapter 135: Sudden News

By the end of the day, approximately three thousand dragons had enlisted in the Order. That included both common-blooded and noble-blooded alike.

Every recruit received five Beast Cores as their joining allowance.

It was a massive investment. However, Adonis made it anyway.

He also purchased several Time Dilation Disks to make their training considerably faster.

Queen Sapphira looked at those massive domes of pure time energy with unconcealed awe.

“This is truly a miraculous treasure, husband. Even the Time Lord himself is not capable of sustaining this Domain for this long. Once Chronach finds out, he is surely going to come for your legs just to discover its craftsmanship.”

Adonis smiled wryly. “Let him. That old man needs to awaken some passion if we are going to put him to work.”

“True,” she smiled a little.

A little distance away from them, Millia, Rai, Valentina, Claudia, and Mariana were helping with the categorizing of the new recruits to make them more useful for strategic deployment on the battlefield.

Some noble bloods already began training with their elemental powers.

Just then, a dragonoid descended onto the camp, folding its wings.

“Commander Xarkos! Why is he here?”

“Shouldn’t he be at the borders of the Sky Serpent Clans?”

Thud.

The commander landed hard on one knee before Adonis, looking wounded and distraught.

He spoke urgently:

“My King… The Sky Serpent Clan has attacked our garrison at the northern border. Without warning. No declaration, no demand. They simply hit us.”

The training camp went quiet around them.

“How many did we lose?” Adonis asked.

“Eleven confirmed. Several more wounded. They are holding the garrison, but the Spirit Iron ore mines on the mountain are already partially compromised. If we do not send backup within the hour, we lose them entirely.”

“How large is their force?”

“Estimated 300 Sky Serpents, my King. Their venom alone neutralizes most conventional dragon defenses. They chose the location deliberately. The mountain terrain limits our larger forms.”

Sapphira clenched her fists. “The Sky Serpent Clan has been testing our borders for decades. This is not random.”

“My thoughts are the same,” Adonis agreed.

He stood. “I will go and check for myself.”

Complete silence.

Then everyone spoke at once.

“Alone?” Millia said flatly.

“Absolutely not,” Mariana said simultaneously.

“Did you not hear clearly, Adonis? There are 300 Sky Serpents waiting for you,” Claudia said, in the tone she used when she wanted to make sure everyone had registered a specific number.

“I heard even Dragon Lords fear taking them head on.

“I heard the number, Claudia,” Adonis said, completely unafraid.

“My husband,” Sapphira said carefully, “I understand the impulse. However, perhaps a measured response involving more than one person would be strategically sound.”

“She is being very diplomatic about this,” Valentina said to Millia quietly.

“She means he is being an idiot,” Millia replied, not quietly.

“I can hear you, you know,” Adonis said.

“Good,” Millia said, undeterred. “Then hear this clearly, Adonis. 300 Sky Serpents with venom that neutralizes dragon defenses. You want to walk into that alone? This is suicide.”

“No. I will fly into it, to be exact,” he corrected.

“That is not the part I was questioning.”

Adonis looked around at the assembled faces, all of them wearing variations of the same expression, concern wearing different costumes depending on the person but fundamentally the same underneath.

He smiled.

It was the particular smile that preceded something unreasonable that was going to happen regardless.

“Vexa,” he said.

“Yes Master.” Vexa materialized at his shoulder in her spirit form, purple flame bright and cheerful.

“How many of those 300 would survive contact with Chaos Ultima in full dragon form?”

Vexa appeared to calculate briefly: “Mathematically? None. Realistically? Perhaps two or three if they are very fast and very lucky.”

“There,” Adonis said to the assembled worriers. “Two or three survivors. Very manageable, don’t you think?”

“That is not reassuring, hubby,” Mariana said worriedly.

“Do not worry, my love. Your husband is strong now,” he replied with a gentle smirk.

He then walked to the center of the open training ground.

“Everyone stand back.”

“How far back, your majesty?” the young commander asked.

“Far enough that you do not get pummelled.”

“How far is that exactly?”

“Further than you are currently standing.”

“???”

Everyone moved back at once.

Then Adonis let the transformation come.

Buzzz!

One moment he was standing in the center of the training ground in human form, and in the next moment the air pressure changed and the ground cracked outward in concentric rings.

Buzzz!

The sky above the training camp darkened as something very large occupied the space that a moment ago had contained something considerably smaller.

“Oh, lord!”

“Truly beautiful and dangerous!”

The crowd of dragons whispered in awe and worship.

80 meters of Primordial Chaos Dragon rose above the training camp in gold and purple.

This was Stage 4.

His whole figure buzzed with chaotic purple light, as if something ominous contained within.

His wings spread to their full enormous span, scales shone in the morning light and threw it back in prismatic cascades that painted everything below in impossibly chaotic colors.

The 3,000 newly enlisted recruits who had been training in the adjacent grounds stopped everything simultaneously and stared with their mouths agape.

There was complete silence across the entire camp.

Then from somewhere in the crowd, Raza’s voice:

“I want to be that when I grow up.”

“Same,” said Sima immediately beside him.

Old Vorath stood with his pipe and looked up at his king in full Primordial form against the morning sky and said nothing for a long moment.

“Linea’s Battlefield,” he said quietly to himself, “We did not have you then, My King.”

The commander who had delivered the news stood at what he hoped was a sufficient distance and stared upward with the expression of someone whose definition of sufficient distance was being rapidly revised.

Sapphira looked up at her husband with those fathomless sapphire eyes.

“Three hundred Sky Serpents,” she reminded again. But this time, she wasn’t worried anymore.

The great golden head tilted downward and one enormous eye regarded her with an expression that translated clearly across the considerable scale difference.

“Sapphira,” Adonis said in the deep and resonant rumble of the Primordial Dragon, “send someone to collect the survivors. Two or three at most.”

“You are insufferable,” she said with a light chuckle.

The rumble that came from his chest in response was, unmistakably, a laugh.

Flap.

Then the great wings came down once, and the shockwave from that single beat sent half the training camp stumbling backward and flattened every piece of loose equipment within a two hundred meter radius.

And Adonis rose into the sky above Dragonia and turned north.

Mariana watched him go, hand pressed to her chest.

“He is going to be fine Princess,” Claudia said beside her.

“I know Claudia. I was actually feeling sorry for the Sky Serpents.”

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