They all call me an Outer God.

"Are you angry now because you can't take a joke? Because I made you feel that I blasphemed your monarch?"

[Shut up, you lowly creature. Since you refuse to trade with me, I can simply grant you death.]

Anyway, you can't escape this cage, can you?

"You're in a hurry again."

Another blazing inferno swept towards them, the intense heat engulfing everything and even capable of melting the earth. Blay tried to fight it with his few supernatural abilities, but how could he, with his amnesia, possibly be a match for this supernatural creature that had lived for at least a thousand years?

Unless the Faceless God himself appears, Blake probably won't be able to leave here alive.

"It's infuriating. In the face of absolute power, schemes are indeed useless."

Blair sighed, realizing he could no longer escape the scorching heat before him.

It arrived swiftly and was determined to reduce Bly to ashes, repeating the tragedy of the complete annihilation of Cadanion.

"Am I going to die too?"

It is tragic that Bly discovered that no memories came to mind as he lay dying, because it proved that there was nothing left for him to cherish.

However, in that moment when he was on the verge of death, a dark shadow suddenly flashed through his mind, and Blay couldn't help but blurt out a name he had never heard before—

“Swarth…”

The blinding flames completely engulfed him.

However, at this moment, Blair opened his eyes in surprise. He felt no pain, and there was no light in front of him.

He looked up, and at that moment, the young man's pupils contracted sharply.

The dark figure above him protected him tightly with its sharp claws, and at that moment the figure exhaled slightly, and a flash of golden light appeared in its pupils and on its scales.

"Wa ...

Like ancient thunder echoing through the valley, deep and awe-inspiring. The dark figure opened its enormous mouth, from which an invisible force surged, seemingly capable of easily tearing space apart.

At first, the call sounds like a deep drumbeat, gradually becoming high-pitched and sharp, as if a sharp knife pierces the sky, carrying endless majesty.

The hissing sound reverberated through the air, creating invisible ripples that caused the surrounding air to vibrate slightly.

It seemed to pierce straight into the soul, giving people a direct sense of fear and awe. Everything around trembled in the sound, instinctively feeling the pressure from this superior being. The trees swayed in the sound, prostrating themselves in its majesty, and the clouds in the sky were also shaken apart at this moment, making way for a path to the horizon.

The dragon, a creature at the very top of the evolutionary chain, filled the Sphinx with immense killing intent the moment it saw it.

Blay was even more surprised, as he had faced this enormous black dragon more directly than anyone else and was best able to understand just how powerful it was.

But how could a creature like a dragon appear here at this time?

In other words, why is there a dragon here?
The town is protected by a barrier erected by Pan's subordinates, preventing humans from leaving, but other creatures are allowed to enter.

Perhaps it was summoned by something that brought it here.

Bry suddenly remembered the name he had called out before.

"You're Swarth?"

"..." Schwarz lowered his head, his golden vertical pupils staring straight at Blaise, his eyes dead and sinister.

For some reason, Blay suddenly felt a resentment coming from it, but he couldn't explain where the resentment came from. The tentacles that had been on his side suddenly grew dozens of eyes and wrapped around him. Blay was thus forcibly dragged into the dragon's body.

Having confirmed that the split entity had returned, Schwarz turned his attention back to the Sphinx. The Sphinx tried to escape, but when it could not, it gathered crimson flames in its mouth and attacked the black dragon.

The black dragon opened its mouth, and a beam of silver light stole all the light around it. In the blink of an eye, with a loud "boom," the Sphinx's figure was completely swallowed by the enormous energy and disappeared without a trace.

Just one strike, just one instant.

There is no doubt about its power.

Only then did Schwarz refocus his attention on Blay.

As parasites, Ria and Shwarth's bodies share the same origin. Just as Ria chose to self-destruct, some of his body debris that failed to dissipate was left behind, becoming extraordinary creatures that wreaked havoc in the area.

But at a certain moment, these extraordinary creatures gathered in one direction, converging at one place and reviving all the dead there. At the same time as those souls were revived, all the people on that land who were revived also acquired some of Lia's characteristics.

Bryn, on the other hand, was born from the largest piece of his body fragment. It was as if a force was binding them, keeping them all in the rebuilt town of Cadanion until they made a deal with the Sphinx and were completely reduced to mindless yet controllable and powerful creations.

When Swarth arrived here, he sensed a familiar presence, but when he saw that the person he was looking for was not there, Swarth became extremely frustrated.

Bly is Bly, and Ria is Ria; they are completely different.

If it were to answer the question Ria once posed to herself—"Who am I?"—Swald would answer:

You are the most precious soul to me, the most important family member.

Who Ria is is completely unimportant to it; all it needs is that he is Ria.

No matter how many times Ria disappears, Schwarz will find him. It once traveled trillions of light-years to find him, and it can do the same now.

“Swarth.” Blay looked up at the imposing mythical creature, which lowered its head and stared at him silently.

“A thought within me tells me that we should declare war on the War Knights, on the Apocalypse, but humanity is no match for Him.”

Would you... lend us a hand?

"..." The black dragon stood silently, motionless, as if it had turned into a priceless stone statue. After a long while, it slightly opened its mouth, and silvery breath overflowed from the corner of its mouth.

"boom!!!!!!"

It raised its head and exhaled its breath into the sky, and at that moment, the land around the world trembled violently.

Whether it's mountains, forests, deserts, or ice fields, the former masters of the world are awakening from their long slumber.

At this moment, no matter where people are, they can look up and see their "awakened" figures.

The giant beasts struggled to break free from their restraints and face the sky. Their enormous bone wings stretched out, and scales of various materials quickly attached themselves to them. Finally, as these creatures flapped their giant wings, a golden light shone into their pupils.

Dragons, the giants at the pinnacle of life's evolution, have been resurrected as former overlords. With their kingly call, these creatures roam the skies, surging from all directions toward the location of the War Knights.

Their presence blots out the sky.

(End of this chapter)