Chapter 379: The Abduction of the Abyssal Dragon Demons

"I didn't expect this Time Dragon Reversal to take place during the battle with Harlis on the Noah Continent."

"Unknowingly, I have grown from a frightened young dragon in front of the legendary lich to the master of the Dragon Court today."

Back in the Dragon Nest, Garon felt quite sentimental. He indeed hadn't followed any predetermined path of growth to become the future Garon he had once seen. Clearly, his abilities differed from those of the future Garon he had encountered before.

The future is never set in stone.

Each decision creates a completely different future.

The endless possibilities of the future signify an uncountable number of infinite timelines.

"The past Garon I saved might now belong to a past that is no longer part of my timeline," Garon thought to himself.

At the same time, he now understood why Time Dragon Reversal always seemed to respond at the last moment—it wasn't just for fun.

As a naturally powerful Time Dragon destined to become a god-like being, if he relied on Time Dragon Reversal to resolve every crisis, even if he truly became a powerful divine being, a Time Dragon that had never experienced adversity would lack any capacity to withstand risks and would be considered weak among the powerful.

"Did you just go to another timeline?" Yuna, who had crawled out from the pile of treasures, asked Garon.

Yuna could sense the fluctuations in the river of time and knew that Garon was occasionally summoned by Time Dragon Reversal to assist other timelines' versions of himself.

After seeing Garon nod, Yuna eagerly said, "Tell me about it! I'm really curious about the other timeline versions of you."

Under Yuna's expectant gaze, Garon shared, "This Time Dragon Reversal was a bit different."

He then recounted the events of this Time Dragon Reversal, including his near-death experience at the hands of the lich when he was younger.

After listening, Yuna, with a look of surprise and blinking her pale purple eyes, said enviously, "It seems like the experiences of you Time Dragons are quite interesting. When I was your age, I was just sleeping under the protection of my parents, never encountering anything fun or interesting."

Garon let out a dragon laugh, "And you're still always sleeping now, just like a young dragon, never getting enough."

Yuna, feeling a bit embarrassed but playful, pounced and started frolicking with Garon.

As they played, the two dragons entwined closely together, the atmosphere in the Dragon Nest growing subtly different, and layers of gold and silver treasures vibrated continuously.

Meanwhile, in the blood battle zone of the Wanyuan Plains, under the scorching red sun, a small demon fortress was enduring an attack from the devil's Blood War army.

These were not regular army devils but mercenaries representing Hell in the Blood War, specifically a small-scale team composed of mechanized constructs.

Led by a high-ranking mechanical unit, a hundred orderly mechanical soldiers formed small squads. Four squads harassed the demon fortress from different directions, maintaining a distance that the lower-level demons could not breach.

The mechanical squads, consisting of units with high mobility and long-range strike capabilities, could precision-kill scavenging carrion flies around the demon fortress from tens of kilometers away with high-energy lasers.

Although the demon fortress had defensive barriers, these were only activated during major battles. Activating the fortress's protective barrier against such small-scale harassment would be a waste of its defensive energy.

Without the protection of the fortress barrier and under continuous harassment by the mechanical squads, the demon guards on the fortress walls were extremely irritable. They needed to stay alert constantly, guarding against high-energy beams or physical weapons that could come from any direction. A moment's carelessness could result in injury.

The mechanical squads used hit-and-run tactics, never staying in one place for long. Controlled by the Mechanist players, they moved swiftly after launching an attack, engaging continuously with the demons sent to disrupt their operations.

While the mechanical soldiers were highly mobile and armed with long-range weapons, their direct combat capabilities were relatively weak. Once caught by demon warriors, they were quickly destroyed and turned into metal wreckage.

Despite the continuous irritation it caused the demons, harassing the demon fortress came at the cost of several mechanical squads. But one of the key features of the mechanical legions was their vast numbers.

Renewable mechanical soldiers were not a scarce resource; as long as there were enough materials, they could be produced continuously on an assembly line in the nests.

After the Mechanical Grandmaster released the rights to construct such building units to the Mechanist players, many of them formed small groups in guilds, mining the minerals of the Wanyuan Plains around their main bases, building low-level nests, and gradually upgrading these as more resources were acquired and missions completed.

Over these months, several large guilds had formed among the Mechanist players.

The

 mechanical squads currently harassing the demon fortress belonged to the Hegemony guild, a player organization named after the hegemonic true dragon and ranked among the top guilds. Its president was a player who had killed the most demons during an attack on a demon fortress in the hellish Afnas, thus earning a mission reward: control over a legendary mechanical construct.

"The reward for the mission to capture the abyssal dragon demons allows for the specified upgrading of any building unit by two levels."

"If we complete this mission and upgrade our nest, our guild will lead in the mechanical realm, becoming the number one guild."

Hegemony's president communicated with his members over the internal channel.

"This mission must not fail."

"As long as we can lure out the abyssal dragon demons to chase us, we're only a step away from success."

Gritty hot winds laden with dust blew from afar.

Time flowed calmly.

On the walls of the demon fortress, the guards watched the intermittent attacks with faces as sour as if they had swallowed flies, feeling the impulse to jump off the walls and tear the mechanical squads into metallic shreds.

But bound by military orders, the guards couldn't leave their posts at will.

Though it was a minor annoyance, it certainly disgusted them.

Meanwhile, more and more demons were dispatched to chase the mechanical squads. Due to the high mobility of the opposition, destroying each mechanical squad took considerable time and effort.

Eventually, the higher-ups in the demon fortress could no longer bear it.

To deal with these annoying guerrilla troops, the demons planned to send higher-level demons to annihilate them completely.

Soon, several high-mobility, high-ranking demons left the fortress, swiftly pursuing the different mechanical squads.

Among them were two abyssal dragon demons.

Abyssal dragon demons were not pure demons; they were the souls of true dragons that had fallen into the abyss, corrupted by abyssal forces and then transformed by a demon lord into a new type of demon.

The red dragons, due to their inherently evil and tyrannical nature, were the strongest when transformed into abyssal dragon demons.

The abyssal dragon demons had a half-dragon, half-humanoid appearance.

On their upright bodies, nearly twenty meters tall, they had dragon heads, dragon horns, a pair of large flaming dragon wings, and their bodies were covered with dark red dragon scales.

In the barren wasteland under the crimson sky, the two abyssal dragon demons bathed in dark red light. With each flap of their wings, they shredded the sky full of dust and hot wind, pulling out a fiery straight line.

They each headed straight for the locations of two mechanical squads.

The mechanical squads being pursued by the abyssal dragon demons tried to escape while inadvertently converging together.

Before long, the faster-moving abyssal dragon demons were only a kilometer away from the mechanical squads.

At the same time, the two abyssal dragon demons chasing the mechanical squads led them into the same area while fleeing.

Seeing the mechanical squads in their sights, the abyssal dragon demons roared.

They raised their arms high.

Clusters of flame-like patterns lit up on their body scales and converged, moving toward their arms.

Dark red fireballs emerged and rolled between their dragon claws, growing larger and larger.

"Be destroyed!"

The abyssal dragon demons, their eyes gleaming with bloodthirst, hurled the giant fireballs, now over thirty meters in diameter, toward the two mechanical squads.

Boom!

The fireballs exploded, blasting a terrifying crater into the barren plain, with flames rolling around and the land around the crater's edge even showing signs of high-temperature crystallization.

The two mechanical squads targeted by the fireballs were completely obliterated.

The two abyssal dragon demons exchanged a fierce glance and snorted coldly at each other before preparing to leave and return to the demon fortress.

But just at that moment.

The surrounding space suddenly rippled violently.

A silver humanoid mechanical, tearing through space with lightning speed, appeared next to the male abyssal dragon demon, its metal palm pressing on the abyssal dragon demon's forehead.

"Hmm?"

The appearance of the humanoid mechanical was swift.

The abyssal dragon demon had just reacted, lifting its head instinctively.

Sizzling. Electric arcs, like silver snakes, burst from the humanoid mechanical's palm, instantly enveloping the abyssal dragon demon's body, with countless arcs dancing across its surface.

The abyssal dragon demon convulsed violently, its body spasming uncontrollably, making it difficult to move.

Simultaneously, the silver mechanical's other arm emitted a special frequency vibration, swinging forcefully.

Space cracked open, forming a portal.

The moment the portal formed, the abyssal dragon demon was thrown backward into it.

Next, the humanoid mechanical, without any hesitation, exploded into action again, its body flickering and appearing next to the other abyssal dragon demon.

The female abyssal dragon demon, on guard, roared, and flames hot enough to melt steel burst around her body. Unfortunately, they were ineffective against the silver

 mechanical.

The metal palm broke through the flames, pressing on the abyssal dragon demon's forehead, and once again released thousands of electric lights.

Zzzzz.

This abyssal dragon demon also convulsed, then was thrown backward into the portal.

From appearing to rendering the abyssal dragon demons powerless, to transporting them away, the entire process was fluid and seamless, as if it had been rehearsed countless times.

In fact, it had been.

Although this was the first official action, the mechanical intelligence had simulated countless capture strategies beforehand, ensuring every scenario was accounted for, making all abduction actions very proficient.

The silver mechanical, who quickly abducted the two abyssal dragon demons, was the legendary-level mechanical warrior controlled by the president of the Hegemony guild, known as the Riftmaker, with powerful spatial teleportation capabilities.

After the president used Mechanist skills like engine overload and supercharged energy bursts.

The Riftmaker, already at the legendary level, naturally exhibited capabilities in the short term that the two less-than-legendary abyssal dragon demons couldn't resist.

Whoom!

At the demon fortress, a massive, tangible evil presence burst forth.

Several demons shot into the sky, leaving the fortress and heading straight for the location of the Riftmaker.

Noticing the presence of legendary-level enemies, the legendary demons within the fortress became restless.

Legendary demons were considered high-level combatants in the demon fortress. The sporadic harassment from the mechanical squads, which only targeted ordinary demons, had not been enough to garner the attention of legendary demons.

At the same time.

The Riftmaker had no intention of lingering.

After abducting the two abyssal dragon demons and achieving its objective, it stepped into the portal at the first opportunity and disappeared from the area.

When it reappeared, it had already reached the mechanical realm.

Humming sounds filled the area, where various mechanical devices operated non-stop, and the surroundings were filled with the cold metallic texture, even the air permeated with invisible metal particles.

The legendary demons did not pursue.

The Riftmaker somewhat regretfully glanced at the space gate.

If the legendary demons had been crazy enough to follow through the unknown space gate to the mechanical realm, with the defensive forces there, they could have captured them in minutes, even if half-god demons had arrived, they would still end up as experimental subjects for the mechanical realm.

The abyss is the domain of demons.

But the significantly modified mechanical realm, though located in the abyss, was a home field for the mechanics.

Unless it was a formal large-scale legion attack, sporadic demon invasions were just delivering research samples to the experimental department.

[Mission completed, two points of building unit upgrade have been distributed]

When the abyssal dragon demons were brought into the main base and handed over to the NPC mechanical soldiers, the president of the Hegemony guild received a mission completion notification and couldn't help but show a delighted expression.

At the same time.

Garon on the Dragon Court plane, his gaze flickering slightly, received a message from the Mechanical Grandmaster.

"These Mechanist players are quite efficient."

For Mechanist players, having unfinished tasks in the mission list felt like ants crawling all over them—they were always thinking about how to complete system tasks, extremely proactive and highly efficient.

"They've captured Rowell and Gresha, who became abyssal dragon demons, so quickly."

Garon was also quietly monitoring the development of the mechanical realm in the Wanyuan Plains.

Ever since he unlocked the creation rights for many building units, the Mechanist players had been unstoppable, frantically mining nearby resources and obsessing over territory construction. The areas they passed through were left barren.

They continuously expanded the mechanical realm around their main base, having nearly exhausted the surrounding mineral veins.

Expanding further would encroach on the territories of other devilish Blood War armies.

That would be impolite.

Thus, to continue developing, they would need to invade the demon camps, start conquering territories of their own, mine more resources, create more soldiers, and then with even larger army sizes, capture demon fortresses and expand their territory—this was the ideal positive development cycle.

At the same time.

Inside the Eternal Divine Realm.

God Garon, with his extraordinary divine power, formed a divine gate within the mechanical realm. The Mechanical Grandmaster controlled the abyssal dragon demons, throwing them directly into it.

Buzz.

The divine gate closed.

The two struggling abyssal dragon demons found themselves in a completely different world.

In a whirlwind of disorientation, they arrived in a grand and majestic temple.

The currents binding their bodies vanished, and the abyssal dragon demons regained their mobility.

The irritable abyssal dragon demons instinctively roared, lifting their heads and seeing the silver dragon at the highest seat in the temple, radiating sacred power and divine light.

Their roaring abruptly stopped.

Under the oppressive force of the Dragon God, their roars turned into low whimpers.

Although they were no longer bound, feeling the vast and endless divine power in the temple, the

 pinnacle existence of all sentient beings, the abyssal dragon demons dared not act rashly.

In the blinding divine light, they both bowed their heads, unable to look directly at the divine presence.

God Garon reduced the radiance of the divine light and spoke in the dragon tongue, "Lift your heads, look at me!"

Hearing this, the abyssal dragon demons instinctively lifted their heads, looking at the Dragon God.

In their fear, they oddly felt a sense of familiarity and reassurance from this Dragon God.

All abyssal dragon demons, once successfully transformed, would have their memories eroded by the abyssal forces, suppressing all memories of their true dragon heritage and soul deep down, then becoming war machines obedient to the demon lord's commands.

But instinctual feelings cannot be changed.

God Garon saw the puzzled expressions of the two abyssal dragon demons.

He gazed at the layers upon layers of old and new scars on the abyssal dragon demons and softened his expression.

"Rowell, Gresha."

"It's time for you to return to my command, to follow me again."

God Garon lifted his dragon claw, gently waving it.

Above the heads of the two abyssal dragon demons, a gap opened in the divine barrier, and two beams of solidified light from Lunia's paradise were drawn by God Garon, shining on the abyssal dragon demons.

The silver light of the heavenly realm, like pillars, enveloped the two abyssal dragon demons.

Instantly.

The sound of sizzling and the painful roars of the abyssal dragon demons rose together.

Bathed in the silver light, the abyssal dragon demons seemed as if they were doused in sulfuric acid, steaming and smoking from all over their bodies. Stimulated by intense pain, they struggled violently, trying to escape the area covered by the silver light, but under the suppression of God Garon's divine power, they were immobile and continued to roar and howl.

God Garon watched this scene with a calm demeanor, intensifying the concentration of the silver light.

As time passed, the abyssal dragon demons grew increasingly weak.

The light of Heaven's Mountain, when highly condensed, becomes the Holy Light that both demons and devils dread. The divine envoys living on Heaven's Mountain use Holy Light, benefiting from the environmental influence of Heaven's Mountain.

The Holy Light of the land of utmost goodness, to lower realm beings of evil, is like scorching fire.

Simultaneously, strands of dark purple abyssal essence were forced out of their bodies, exposed to the silver holy light, and evaporated into nothingness.

Quickly.

The fleshly bodies of the abyssal dragon demons were completely purified by the holy light, along with the abyssal forces, ceasing to exist.

Two bewildered, young dragon-sized, semi-ethereal red dragon souls appeared in their place.

Inside the grand temple, the red dragon souls looked around cautiously, unsure of their whereabouts.

When the abyssal forces were removed, their memories as abyssal dragon demons vanished along with them.

The memories of the two red dragon souls were frozen at the moment of their death.

"Is this heaven?"

"That's not right. With what I've done, I should be in hell or the abyss."

Rowell's soul murmured quietly, then exchanged a glance with Gresha's soul.

Then.

Before they could look up, they heard a familiar and majestic voice.

"Rowell, Gresha, long time no see."

The eyes of the two red dragon souls lit up, and they looked up at the radiant Dragon God.

"Lord Garon."

"Woowoo, you died too."

Rowell, still confused about the current situation, said sadly.

Gresha was a bit smarter, looking around at the surroundings, feeling the vast and holy aura emanating from God Garon, and opened her mouth wide in shock.

"What are you talking about?"

Gresha bumped Rowell and whispered, "It seems Lord Garon has become a Dragon God."

"Ah?"

Rowell paused, then looked carefully at God Garon at that moment.

Seeing the perfect, immense divine body of God Garon and the divine light enveloping him, Rowell finally realized God Garon's current status.

"Dragon God above, am I dreaming?"

Rowell's face showed a look of shock.

God Garon looked down and said, "It has been over twenty years since you two died."

Saying this, two streams of divine power under God Garon's control entered the two red dragons' soul bodies.

In an instant, recent major events, those etched into the memories of the new generation of true dragons, gradually became clear to the two red dragon souls.

The interdimensional, interworld war between dragons and elves.

The strong return of the Lord of the Dragon Court.

The fall of the gods of fate and history in the elf pantheon.

The birth of the Eternal and Time Dragon, the

 Time Dragon God.

The end of the War of Glory.

After absorbing these memories.

The two red dragons looked again at God Garon, their eyes filled with deep admiration and awe.

"Great Eternal and Time Dragon, only you could ascend to Dragon God in such a short time."

The small red dragon souls wagged their tails excitedly.

Just thinking about Garon's ascent to godhood, Rowell and Gresha were thrilled.

Their own true dragon becoming a Dragon God.

They too felt honored.

"It's just a pity that we couldn't fight alongside you in the War of Glory, serving as your minions and proclaiming your majesty."

The two red dragon souls sighed.

God Garon smiled slightly and said to the red dragon souls, "The road ahead is still long. You will become my divine envoys and continue to fight for me."

At the same time, God Garon activated his divine power.

Under the curious gaze of the red dragon souls, strands of divine power began to weave around the two red dragon souls, rapidly constructing red dragon bodies visible to the naked eye.

Quickly.

Two massive red dragon bodies, each over forty meters long, appeared in the grand temple.

"You died for me."

"Returning now, I grant you the bodies of legendary envoys."

God Garon, not stingy with his divine power, created two legendary red dragon bodies, and not just newly ascended ones.

For God Garon, as long as he was willing to expend divine power, this was not a difficult task.

After adapting for a while, the two red dragons opened their eyes, feeling the terrifying power contained within their bodies, and were ecstatic.

"Thank you, my lord, for your grace!"

God Garon said, "This is what you deserve."

Then, God Garon waved his dragon claw, and the temple doors opened wide.

"Go, experience your rebirth."

"The Eternal Divine Realm is now your home."

The overjoyed red dragons let out high-pitched dragon roars, then flapped their wings and flew out of the temple.

They soared in the sky of the Eternal Divine Realm, feeling their new fleshly bodies while admiring the scenery of the divine realm.

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