In the silent expanse of space, time flowed quietly by.
Reflected in Garon's platinum dragon eyes, the brilliant light from the stars also shone on his silver-grey scales, making Garon appear as though his entire body was ascending in radiant light, so dazzling and intense as to be almost blinding.
Floating hundreds of kilometers from the star, Garon's gaze was fixed on Yuna.
At this moment, the Power Dragon girl had broken through the scorching nuclear fusion light of the star's surface and was advancing deeper into the star.
The brilliant light and the surging fire could not obscure Garon's sight; he watched as Yuna swiftly descended through the layers of the star—passing the photosphere, the corona, the radiative zone, step by step delving deeper.
Eventually, Yuna paused in the star's interior, in the resplendent and deadly radiative zone, hesitating slightly.
At the same time, a mass of dense, nearly incandescent energy appeared before Yuna, constantly bursting with the most intense nuclear fusion reactions, holding the highest temperatures and the most terrifying gravity.
Beyond the radiative zone lay the core of the star.
Garon's eyes, faintly gleaming, also beheld these scenes.
After just a few seconds of hesitation, the Power Dragon girl, her body covered with diamond-like scales, propelled herself forward with a flap of her dragon wings, bravely traversing the radiative zone to reach the core, her entire form vanishing into the blazing white stellar core.
The white flames engulfed the Power Dragon girl.
The extreme gravity, high temperature, fusion, and radiation mixed together, blurring Garon's vision slightly, though his eyes, capable of perceiving the essence of all things, still saw Yuna within the core of the star.
Amid the vast cold silence of space.
In view was the high-temperature, brilliant core.
The silhouette of a dragon was also in the core.
In the blazing white core, Yuna's wings folded, her body curled into a ball, her pale purple eyes closed.
Her condition seemed less than ideal, her body apparently enduring tremendous pressure, trembling slightly, breathing unsteadily, and her dragon scales, red-hot like a branding iron, had cracks spreading silently like branching lightning or spider webs.
Seeing this, Garon couldn't help but feel anxious.
Fortunately, under Garon's watch, as time passed, Yuna gradually adapted to the environment of the core.
Her breathing slowly stabilized, and while her scales shattered and fell away, melted by the core, they regrew at a visible rate into even more brilliant and tough red scales.
The new scales were clearly stronger.
Though cracks still extended, they did so much more slowly than before.
An invisible force field covered Yuna's body, resisting the destructive energies of the core's interior while continuously transforming and drawing power from the core, bit by bit strengthening herself.
Under the pressure of the core, Yuna's dragon scales broke and melted time and again.
Then regrew repeatedly, becoming tougher and more solid each time.
In the radiant core, the Power Dragon girl at this moment resembled a gem-like red ruby undergoing refinement, sparkling brilliantly and dazzlingly.
Though far apart.
Garon could still faintly sense that Yuna's aura was steadily increasing.
"This seems like a successful core refinement."
Seeing Yuna's condition stabilize, Garon sighed in relief internally and thought to himself.
Then, in the infinite vacuum of space, the silver dragon floated near the star, quietly guarding his partner, focusing most of his attention on the star and its surrounding cosmic environment to prevent any sudden occurrences.
The river of time still existed here.
Enveloping all things, the river of time flowed quietly. Although there were no clocks or celestial bodies for reference, Garon still had a keen sense of the passage of time.
Being unable to sense the flow of time would be a significant and unbearable surprise for Garon.
Under the illumination of the star's brilliant light, quickly, two years passed.
Yuna's aura grew significantly stronger.
Having undergone special refinement in the core for over two years, her biological level had risen to fifty-six, gradually approaching the threshold of weak divine power.
Continuing this way, becoming a being of weak divine power was only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, the originally radiant core now appeared noticeably dimmer.
As for Garon himself.
While waiting, he also absorbed the energy escaping from the star and various high-energy particle streams and rays traveling through the cosmos. Additionally, with his own growth rate, which could be considered bizarre, his biological level naturally increased, reaching sixty-four.
The higher the biological level, the more significant each increase.
In his early dragon stage, Garon's growth over a year or two could even jump more than twenty levels to reach the legendary realm, but now, it took
several years to barely increase by one level, and Garon predicted that it would only slow further in the future.
However, if other divine beings or even gods knew this, they would still show envy and jealousy.
Countless divine beings and gods might not progress for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, remaining stagnant without massive opportunities for breakthroughs.
Garon had already reached the status of weak divine power and still maintained such a rapid increase in strength.
The gods would take notice.
At this time, under the starlight, Garon closed his eyes, like a brilliant silver meteorite, silent and motionless, floating in the cosmic vacuum.
This state continued for another week.
Suddenly, the silver dragon's body trembled slightly, and he opened his platinum dragon eyes, turning his head with a cold gaze towards a distant direction.
Almost at the edge of Garon's field of vision, he spotted a small blue dot, flickering moment by moment, approaching Garon's position—or more precisely, the position of this star—at high speed like space jumping.
It seemed that Yuna, undergoing refinement in the core, had attracted this unknown creature.
Within just a few minutes, the originally small blue dot had grown into a massive creature tens of thousands of meters long, resembling a giant shark that roamed the cosmos at will, its gaping mouth swallowing cosmic energy, its saw-like teeth terrifying.
Its body was covered with a layer of dark iron meteorite-like fierce armor, with strands of blue light flickering erratically like blood vessels, clearly visible.
Garon stared at this uninvited guest.
On it, Garon sensed brutality, bloodlust, and chaos—not a creature capable of normal communication.
Garon had already extended his mental feelers, attempting to repel this space shark, but the other party seemed not to feel his mental feelers, making no response, unable to communicate.
"This must be a space creature born in this cosmic world."
Garon thought silently.
This was not the first time he had encountered such a creature, but it was not the first time he had heard of them.
In the world of the Alpha Tia Empire, similar creatures existed, though they were very rare.
These creatures were known as space beasts, naturally resistant to various harsh conditions in the cosmic vacuum, with strong physiques that allowed them to roam and live in the cosmos. When passing through planets inhabited by intelligent beings, their arrival could often cause catastrophic damage, and they were known for their immense size.
At this moment.
The space shark, attracted by the energy fluctuations emitted by Yuna in the core, hurried over.
Whoosh!
A flash of silver light, and Garon used time teleportation, arriving directly in front of the space shark, just as both found themselves in a field of meteorites.
The tens of thousands of meters long space shark did not notice Garon at that moment. Like a black cannonball, it violently smashed the meteorites in its path, which silently shattered into fragments.
Garon was unsure of the creature's purpose in approaching the star.
In this situation, he adopted the principle of better to kill wrong than to miss right.
The creature's body looked frightening, but in Garon's eyes, it was no different from other demigod creatures.
This space shark's life essence was even less than a demigod, but relying on its naturally massive body, it could indeed fight against a demigod creature in the material world.
The silver dragon raised its neck, eyes narrowing.
Under the pull of the power of time, the river of time boiled up to form an invisible vortex, and Garon's body was at the center, with continuous river water flowing into Garon's body.
Gigantification!
Garon's body size exploded.
In a blink of an eye, he transformed from a hundred-meter-long dragon into a creature over two thousand meters long, with a wingspan reaching over three thousand meters.
The effect of gigantification was related to Garon's control over the river of time.
After advancing to weak divine power and deepening his control over the river of time, the effect of gigantification had become much stronger than before.
Previously, when he went berserk in the Abyss, through gigantification and precise control over his body, Garon's dragon form had even expanded to the size of a small planet, and when he walked, even higher demons could not see the full extent of the dragon.
In the material world, if Garon went all out, his body size could grow further, enough to match the space shark.
However, doing so would require him to divert much of his attention to resist the erosion of the river of time, reducing his responsiveness and dulling his combat effectiveness.
At this moment, his current size was what Garon considered the most appropriate.
Watching the suddenly appearing silver dragon, the space shark paused slightly, then without reducing its momentum, slammed directly into Garon.
With the size difference between them, the space shark indeed could swallow Garon in one
bite, and that was exactly what it intended to do.
Whoosh!
A straight line of silver flashed by; one moment it was at the space shark's snout, but the next, it had burst out from its tail.
Crack, the dark heavy armor cracked, a flat blue line emerged from the middle of the space shark's body, then more blue energy fluid like blood spurted out, floating in the cosmic vacuum.
Along the horizontal line, the tens of thousands of meters long beast cried out, its body seemingly sliced by a blade, split into two.
Its life force was tenacious, and it did not die.
The viscous blue glowing blood seemed alive, pulling and suturing to regenerate the bisected body.
But after the injury healed, its condition also became much weaker.
At this time, Garon, unscathed and with bright scales, turned his head back to look at the space shark.
Under Garon's indifferent gaze, it finally felt the insurmountable chasm due to its size and turned to flee.
But at that moment, time stopped.
The traveling lights in space, the scattered meteorite fragments, some blood from the space shark including the space shark itself, all stopped moving, frozen in place.
Garon looked at the space shark for a moment.
Then, he used spatial compression to reduce the space around the space shark to just a few square meters, then sealed it with time amber.
Picking up the time amber, which now resembled a small glass marble, Garon admired it for a moment.
Inside, the space shark, now reduced to the size of a miniature beast, was frozen in the time amber, lifelike, resembling an insect encased in resin amber.
Due to the reduction in size, its originally ferocious appearance now seemed somewhat cute.
"This kind of space beast is even rarer than ordinary demigods."
"Not bad, my collection of exotic creatures has grown."
Garon stored the time amber with satisfaction.
If a creature were lucky enough to obtain this time amber and open it, then the originally compressed space would expand uncontrollably, and the seemingly harmless little shark inside would revert to its terrifying true form, giving the other party a big surprise.
After dealing with the space shark, Garon returned to the vicinity of the star where Yuna was.
However, what happened next made Garon feel that something was amiss.
The space shark seemed to be just the beginning.
Just a few hours after Garon had just returned to the star, more ferocious space beasts, like sharks smelling blood, rushed over.
Boom!
The breath of time shattering spanned spatial distances, killing a space beast resembling a giant wolf that could run wildly in the cosmic vacuum.
"The fifth one."
Garon furrowed his brows.
Looking at Yuna inside the core of the star, Garon felt increasingly uneasy.
Although it was true that Yuna's refinement emitted unusual energy fluctuations, which could potentially attract space beasts, space beasts were very rare and should not appear so consecutively and frequently.
After the fifth space beast was dealt with by Garon, there was a long period without any new space beast attacks.
However, during this time, other events occurred.
A giant comet with a long tail streaked through the cosmos and crashed into the star.
A sweeping, dense meteor shower, numbering in the millions.
A large-scale frigid cloud swept by.
A violent high-energy particle storm.
After more than half a year, Garon had faced countless sudden incidents targeting this star during this time. Compared to these, the ferocious space beasts had become the easiest to handle.
"Which lord is targeting us from behind?"
After resolving another sudden incident, an increasingly annoyed Garon emitted waves of mental energy containing his will into the vast cosmic space.
However, the response to Garon was a light point that suddenly rose in the distant beyond.
Because it was very far away, this light point was very small in Garon's field of vision.
But it was so bright and rapidly changing that it became increasingly bright, increasingly dazzling, and increasingly brilliant.
Until it burst!
Although there was no sound, Garon felt as if the entire galaxy trembled, his expression immediately becoming solemn.
Endless light stretched out, various radiation waves and high-energy particles solidifying as if tangible, spreading at the speed of light in a ring from the center of the light point, illuminating the entire dark galaxy world like a magnificent river of light.
Looking at this dreamlike scene, Garon's heart sank.
Because beneath the dreamlike exterior was a chillingly lethal danger.
The light point Garon saw was another star in this galaxy, the smaller star that Garon had initially wanted Yuna to choose.
Just like the star where Yuna was now, which was in its prime, it inexplicably burned through all its nuclear fusion fuel in a very short time, entering the next stage.
Then the core collapsed, helium fusion reactions occurred, the star expanded massively, collapsed again, and after
a series of rapid changes that Garon could barely keep up with, a supernova explosion that lit up this entire galaxy world was born.
The destructive light flow from the supernova explosion was unstoppable, sweeping in all directions, shattering planets in its path under horrific heat and radiation, presenting a terrifying spectacle of world destruction and the extinction of all things.
"This"
"Indeed, one shouldn't casually set flags."
Watching the sweeping supernova light flow, Garon smelled a strong scent of danger and conspiracy.
Yuna's earlier words were full of confidence, thinking that nothing would go wrong with the core refinement, but now, an unexpected accident had occurred, and it was clearly not naturally formed.
To make a star evolve into a supernova in a very short time. the information behind this made even Garon shudder.
But now, he had no time to ponder these issues, because the highly dangerous supernova light flow was approaching, and Garon was not afraid of the destructive power of the supernova light flow. However, if it impacted the star where Yuna was, it was unpredictable what violent reactions might occur.
If the star encountered problems, Yuna, who was in the core, would be in danger.
This supernova explosion was far more dangerous than all the accidents Garon had encountered before combined.
The star was too large, and the destructive light flow formed by the supernova explosion was overwhelming; it was difficult for him to guard the star from being affected.
"Yuna, it's time to leave."
Garon looked towards the core and, without hesitation, used time teleportation, planning to take Yuna and leave this material world, but what made his expression sink was that the gravity around the core was too strong, causing the river of time to become chaotic, making it impossible for him to precisely locate her.
Inside the core, Yuna, curled up, looked peaceful, seemingly completely unaware of the impending danger.
The so-called powerful ancestors of the Power Dragons. now not even a shadow was seen.
Garon turned his head, his expression solemn as he stared at the approaching supernova light flow.
After exhaling deeply, the power of time within the silver dragon plummeted.
At the same time.
Under the influence of a massive amount of the power of time, the river of time surged and formed several vortexes, and then, creatures with distinct auras and appearances began to condense from the vortexes.
Walmon, wrapped in thunder.
Anivia, as if forged from ice crystals.
The steady and tall Ornn.
Karthus, shrouded in a black robe.
The Arcane King, with eyes shining with the light of wisdom.
Two dragons covered in colorful scales.
Using a massive amount of the power of time, Garon summoned beings from different timelines who had signed a time alliance with him.
This was his first time going all out.
"Teacher, where is this?"
Karthus, already dressed as the Grim Reaper, smiled and was about to reminisce with his teacher when his expression changed slightly, turning to look at the approaching supernova light flow.
The other time allies, all possessing demi-godlike power in the material world, also noticed the imminent supernova explosion.
"Brothers, Iollem, Karl, Isaac, and Chris."
"The situation is urgent now, so I won't explain in detail."
"Please assist me in resisting the supernova explosion and prevent it from affecting the star behind us."
Seeing Garon's serious expression, these allies from different timelines said no more, glanced at each other, and dispersed, each taking positions around the star, deploying their most proficient defensive abilities.
Garon concentrated and formed a barrier of years, no longer surrounding himself but blocking like a shield between the supernova light flow and the star, trying to expand the coverage as much as possible.
Karthus wielded the scepter of death, forming a super-giant black curtain made of the power of death.
Isaac and Chris cast magic, releasing brilliant and indestructible multicolored lights.
Iollem used a viscous, tar-like strange magic, filling the space in front.
Several elemental demigods from the Valoran continent each deployed their elemental powers, forming strong elemental barriers with thunder, pristine ice, and primordial fire.
Various defensive barriers guarded the star within.
Soon, the supernova light flow arrived as expected.
Electromagnetic pulses, high temperatures, shockwaves, sturdy metals swept up by the light flow without being damaged, and various turbulent high-energy particle streams. Just as it began, Garon felt enormous pressure.
Under sufficient energy impact, the barrier of years began to dent.
The other seven allies also looked serious, clearly under great pressure.
In the material world, even with the suppression of demi-god level power, protecting oneself in a supernova explosion was easy, but guarding a star... the difficulty increased exponentially.
The pressure from all directions made Garon's power of time rapidly deplete.
At the same time, the seven allies he summoned, as
time passed and due to significant energy consumption, their bodies gradually became ethereal from solid.
However, the supernova explosion showed no signs of stopping.
Iollem was the first to run out of energy, showing Garon a helpless expression and saying, "Garon, the magic in this avatar is limited; I've done my best."
His body became ethereal and transparent, gradually submerged by the supernova light flow.
A gap appeared in the defense, and Garon's expression darkened. He overexerted himself, consuming the power of time to form a barrier of years, blocking the gap.
After some time passed.
More allies successively ran out of energy, their bodies dissipating.
"It seems I'll have to use Time Dragon Reverse Flow again."
Finally, Garon sighed.
He hadn't expected to use Time Dragon Reverse Flow one day without seeing any enemies.
With that thought.
Garon dropped his own defenses, exposing himself to the supernova light flow while deploying Time Dragon Reverse Flow, sending the power of time into different timelines, calling for other Garons.
However, at this moment.
A deep voice entered Garon's mind, saying, "Garon Aurélien, the Eternal and Time Dragon, this is our second meeting. I didn't expect that my descendant's partner would be you."
Garon's spirit shook.
This must be the Power Dragon ancestor Yuna mentioned.
But while his spirit was shaken, Garon was also puzzled.
The tone seemed off, as if he had met himself before, but this was the first time Garon had heard this voice; he was quite sure.
"Just, compared to the Eternal and Time Dragon I remember, you are far too weak."
"Even my little test was too much for you."
Hearing this, Garon first paused, then his expression darkened.
Listening to the Power Dragon ancestor, it seemed that all the events Garon had encountered recently, including the space beast attacks and the current supernova explosion, were orchestrated by him.
"Hmm... I understand now, time on you doesn't flow in sequence, interesting."
In the indifferent murmuring.
Just a short distance from Garon, a cluster of darkness deeper than black quietly formed into a vortex about a hundred meters in diameter, not very large.
But at that moment.
As if possessing terrifying gravitational pull that Garon couldn't sense, it devoured the supernova light, quickly resolving the crisis.
"This is, a black hole?"
Since he wasn't within its effect, Garon couldn't sense its terror, but from its performance, he guessed its structure.
Immediately, the hundred-meter-diameter black hole transformed, becoming a dragon.
It had fiery red scales, layered like multifaceted crystals resembling diamonds, similar in appearance to Yuna, with extremely large wings on both sides of its body, nearly twice the length of its body, clearly containing fierce power.
On its facial armor, a pair of golden eyes burned like flames.
What caught Garon's attention the most were the three pairs of horns on the dragon's head, not resembling a crown but sharper and more rugged than Garon's, extending backwards.
Beside this Power Dragon ancestor seemed to be an immense gravitational pull.
Garon looked at the river of time and saw it clearly distorted and unnatural around the ancestor.
Then looking at the Power Dragon, Garon felt as if he wasn't facing a dragon but a vast black hole celestial body, even his gaze seemed sucked in, unable to leave.
"This senior, may I ask your name?"
Garon inquired.
The similarly sized Power Dragon seemed to smile but not smile, saying, "Sagar Arthus."
"But, my descendant kin prefer to call me—Ancestor."
"You are the partner of my descendants; I allow you to use this title."
Hearing the other's words, Garon's body trembled, his expression showing shock.
Ancestor?
Could this be the legendary Power Dragon Ancestor that Yuna mentioned?
Just from the initial contact, it gave Garon a feeling as if facing an unfathomable abyss, mysterious and profound.
Most likely, it was indeed the Power Dragon Ancestor.
Garon swallowed, puzzled, "I've heard you rarely appear, why show up here?"
"Before this, I've never heard of any trace of you in the infinite planes."
Under Garon's gaze, the Power Dragon Ancestor's voice was deep, "I travel through time and space."
"Like you, time for me is not a simple straight line."
Garon pondered.
After a brief thought, Garon curiously said, "You just mentioned this is our second meeting."
"Where did we meet for the first time? I have no memory of it."
The Power Dragon Ancestor glanced at Garon a few times, raised his chin slightly, and said, "In the future."
The future?
Garon paused slightly.
"If it's the future, then this should be the first time, and seeing you again in the future would be the second
."
He said,
The Power Dragon Ancestor casually replied, "That's how it is for you, but for me, it's the opposite."
Looking at Garon, the Power Dragon Ancestor spoke with interest, "According to the rules of the river of time, we will meet again in the future, but I wonder, Garon Aurélien, whether you will recognize me then."
"The tree wants calm, but the wind keeps blowing; your current timespace is about to face a storm, improve your strength as soon as possible."
"Also, treat my descendant well, see you in the future."
After finishing, the Power Dragon Ancestor didn't wait for Garon to retain him. His body suddenly collapsed into a point and disappeared from Garon's view, no longer existing.
Arriving hastily, leaving hastily.
Looking in the direction where the other party had left, Garon flicked his dragon tail, his mind full of doubts because of the Power Dragon Ancestor's words.
"Forget it, I won't think about it anymore."
"Time will give me the answer."
Looking at the star, Garon turned to look at Yuna, curled up like a young dragon, peaceful and tranquil in the core of the star.
Then, the silver dragon silently floated in the cosmic dragon, waiting for his partner's current refinement to end.
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