Chapter 1008. Arriving at Distancia. Yasenia's Challenge.

Kaleina was walking down the back garden, looking at the sky with a nostalgic face. "I miss Mommy…" For her, Yasenia was a role model to follow. So, she always tried to be strong. However, she was not even thirty years old. For a dragon, that was a very low age. 

Naturally, Kaleina was not a child in terms of mentality in the grand majority of things. Dragons matured quickly in many regards. However, when becoming independent from their family, some dragons could even take centuries. 

As long as their dragon parents loved them, dragons would very rarely leave the nest to develop. There were many cases where some Dragons lived a lifetime with their parents, even after finding a mate. 

Kaleina kicked a rock lightly, making it bounce on the grass. 

"Big Sister!"

The dragoness switched her emotions quickly and looked back with a smile. "Dianna, how are you doing?" 

Dianna approached with bouncy and haughty steps. "Big Sister! I've had a breakthrough!"

Kaleina blinked and asked. "Really? Why do I still feel that you are in the same realm?"

Dianna shook her head. "Not a Cultivation breakthrough! I had a breakthrough in what I want as a weapon!"

Kaleina laughed. "How did you have this breakthrough? Did you watch someone and feel that they were very cool!"

Dianna's eyes glittered. "YES!" 

Kaleina walked forward, caressing the head of the horse-sized fox dragon. "Who did you see?"

Dianna spoke. "Mommy!"

Kaleina blinked twice and asked quickly. "Is she back!?"

Dianna coughed. "No, no. I meant Little Mommy." 

Kaleina's excitement disappeared. "Oh… the illusion in the Grand Cosmos Array, right?"

"Mhm! When I was fighting the twenty-one-year-old Yasenia, she suddenly changed her battle style a little bit! Her sword moved extremely easily, as if there was a flow within her movements. She was so cool that I got defeated while being dazed!"

Kaleina laughed. "That's probably the time when Mommy unlocked a hint toward her [Sword Intent]."

Confused, the fox dragon asked. "Sword Intent? Don't we unlock those at the fourth realm?"

Poking her nose, the dragoness answered. "Mommy did so in the second realm. However, it was more of a nascent form that affected her. Even then, it is very impressive, even in Aunty Mirrory's eyes." 

"Sword Intent at the second realm… Wow! Mommy is so cool!" 

Kaleina laughed and asked. "So, is that why you want to be a swordswoman?" 

Dianna nodded. "Yes. I want to combine Mama Kali's affinities with Mommy's strengths. I feel that a sword is the best type of weapon for that."

Kaleina shrugged. "Up to you, Little Sis. If you feel like it, go for it."

"Hehe, thanks!" Dianna smiled, and Kaleina looked upward again. 

"Hm…" Seeing her big sister look at the sky, she asked. "Are you waiting for Mommy?"

"Yes." Kaleina smiled. "I somehow felt that she might be back soon. So, I am here."

"Heh." Dianna sat by her side and smiled. "You said so a month ago, too!" 

"Hey. Can't I be hopeful?" Kaleina pinched Dianna's cheek, making the young beast laugh.

Kaleina looked upward and suddenly blinked. "Huh? What's that?"

Dianna looked up as well and tilted her head. "What are you looking at, Big Sis? I can't see anything."

Kaleina heard steps behind her and saw Tatyana, Cecile, and all the others walking with the children and maids. Seeing them approach, Kaleina's eyes widened. "I-Is Mommy arriving!?"

Flame approached with a smile and grabbed her hand. "Aunty Cecile says that she is here."

"Really!?" Kaleina and Dianna almost jumped up in joy, and they looked upward with the rest. It was the morning, and the Sun was barely out. However, they suddenly saw a new star appearing in the bluish sky. It was nothing but a white dot at first. However, that white dot kept becoming brighter by the second.

As the white star grew in brightness, everyone down in Distancia was silent. Waiting in anticipation. 

Time passed, one minute, five minutes, and eventually, that star was no longer brightly illuminated. Cecile smiled and said. "Well, she is back."

In the atmosphere, thousands of kilometers into the sky, a massive explosion occurred when Yasenia crossed the Heaven Layer protecting the World. Like a meteor, with a glowing red aura around her, Yasenia crossed the atmosphere boundary and extended her wings to start decelerating.

The sky rumbled with the sound of her body breaking through the air. Looking skyward, it felt like a massive meteor was approaching. Evelyn blinked and asked. "Um, did she become a bit bigger?"

Tatyana laughed, somewhat incredulous. "A bit? Haha… It is more than a bit…"

Yasenia's enormous body finally stopped a few kilometers above the sect, and not only they but everyone in the sect was looking skyward with a baffled face. 

There, hanging in the sky as if defying gravity, a massive thirty-kilometer-long dragon was blotting the sky. Her wings were like two massive night blue sheets that covered the sky and transformed it into a night sky glittering with white stars. 

Everyone was only confused for a second because the particular Sun and Moon on each wing of that dragon was well known worldwide. No one wouldn't be able to tell that the gargantuan dragon was Yasenia Dravory, the Sect Master of the Astral Sky Sect. 

The children had their jaws wide open, looking up at their mother's familiar but somewhat unfamiliar form. The enormous dragon landed on the outskirts of the mountain ring around the sect, creating an earthquake with her weight. Then, Yasenia easily moved her neck to coil around the mountain and look at her little darlings. She only needed to stretch her neck to reach the height at which her mansion was located.

Yasenia smiled, looking down, and then spoke softly, her ethereal and deep voice echoing in the surroundings. "I am back, my babies and darlings~." 

Everyone in the house was looking up at the gigantic but beautiful dragon, and they just couldn't speak. The children were just to awe-struck to say anything, while Yasenia's lovers were too confused to say anything. 

Yasenia blinked twice and asked. "What's wrong?"

As if something snapped, Evelyn blurted. "You have the gall to ask what's wrong!? That is my question! Why in Heaven's name are you bigger than the mountain we live on!?" 

Yasenia laughed softly, her facial features looking attractive even in her dragon form. "Well, I ate something quite nice, and I ended up this big~. How is it? Nice?"

"WOAAAHHH!" Skye shouted, opening her arms. "SOO BIGGGG! HOW DID MOMMY BECOME SO BIGGGG!?"

All the dragon human children had their tails wagging fast enough to create a breeze behind them while their eyes roamed their mother's powerful-looking body. 

Yasenia laughed. "Do you like Mommy being this big, babies?"

Everyone in the sect could listen to what Yasenia was saying. After all, due to her size, her voice traveled far and wide like a wave. Listening to her question, everyone felt their hearts burn with pure envy. The things people would give to have Yasenia as their parent could not be explained.

Estrella asked, her eyes glittering like the rest. "Has Mommy become stronger? You somehow feel much stronger!"

The dragoness raised her eyebrow. "Oh? My baby can tell that Mommy has become stronger! Well~, you are right. Mommy is now much stronger!"

Everyone in the sect almost spat blood. There was a rumor going around that three years ago, the Sect Master was already at the level of other world leaders. Now that she said she was much stronger, they just didn't want to imagine how powerful she was. 

Of course, there was a swell of pride together with that helplessness. Yasenia was, at the end of the day, their Sect Master.

Seeing their Sect Master literally coiled around a freaking mountain and making it look small was just mind-blowing.

Tatyana finally spoke. "Okay… How did you change so much?" She was looking at the dragon up and down with wonderment in her eyes. "And I am not speaking about your body, Yasenia. What did you eat to change your soul so drastically?"

Angel frowned. "Huh? Her soul changed?"

Tatyana smiled. "Not in the replace sense. It's more like a transformation or upgrade. Don't worry; she is as much herself as she was before she left."

Angel nodded and looked upward with an adorable smile. "That's good!"

Yasenia giggled. "Very cute~. Don't worry, I am still me. Nothing has changed." 

Andrea crossed her arms and smiled. "You are running ahead again, eh? Really, there is no catching up to you…" 

Yasenia looked at Andrea and smirked. "Don't worry, Darling. I have something for you that you will love."

As Yasenia said that, the sky suddenly started to darken. 

RUMBLE!

The dragoness frowned as the Heavenly Pressure fell on her, and she lifted her head skyward. "Why are you gathering, Heavens? I didn't do anything wrong, did I?"

Tatyana looked skyward and sighed. "As expected…" 

Yasenia separated from the mountain, taking several steps and creating a tremor with each of them. If she was going to be struck by Heaven, she didn't want to be near her children. 

Kali and the others approved above the mansion and dismounted the ship. Dianna saw Kali and jumped toward her. "Mama!"

Kali caught the horse-sized girl and laughed. "I am back, love." 

Kali looked toward Yasenia, and Dianna asked. "What is happening, Mama? Is Mommy breaking through?"

Kali shook her head. "No. She isn't… Tatyana! Mirrory! What's wrong!?"

Mirrory appeared and looked upward. "It seems that Distancia's Heaven is not too fond of your lover." 

Kali snorted. "I can see that. Why is it like that?"

Cecile and the others couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Kali's authoritative tone. 

Mirrory smirked. "It seems that it wasn't the dragon who was the only one to grow during these years." Then, she spoke seriously. "Yasenia's presence has become somewhat of a threat to the World. Therefore, Distancia is basically trying to boot her out of the World." 

Cecile frowned. "Wait. Do you mean that Yasenia's overall strength has crossed the level of destroying continents?" 

Mirrory squinted. "If the current Yasenia uses her entire strength and buffs it with Celestial Energy and the Celestial Pearl, she can probably break open a continent. Of course, not in a single blow, but it would honestly not take too long. Distancia's Heaven doesn't have enough spatial integrity to keep up with Yasenia's power. If the dragoness begins attacking left and right, she will probably end up creating a path to the [Abyss] and can involuntarily call over a few of those little buggers." 

The girls were stunned and looked at the enormous dragon looking skyward in a defiant manner with a complicated look. Her strides were too wide. Year after year, the difficulty in keeping up was increasing. 

Tatyana sighed and shouted. "Yasenia!"

The dragoness looked over and asked. "What is going on?" 

Tatyana said. "You've become too strong. You can't stay on the planet's surface anymore." 

Yasenia was baffled. "Ha? What do you mean?"

Tatyana shook her head, seeing the panic in Yasenia's eyes. "You can't be here. You need to go up to space. I have created-"

"I REFUSE!"

Yasenia's voice boomed outward, flattening several kilometers of forest around her. The dragoness spoke wrathfully, looking skyward. "YOU WANT TO KEEP ME AWAY FROM MY CHILDREN!? LET ME SEE YOUR WORST, HEAVEN!"

Answering her battle declaration, the sky shook with the loudest sound most creatures had ever heard.

RUUMBLEE!!!