One second later.
A cold, elegant voice echoed in the black dragon's mind.
"My Dragon Court subject, open your mind, do not resist. My will and power have descended."
The legendary black dragon was slightly stunned and widened its eyes.
It couldn't believe its luck—being answered, not by the Lord of Time Dragons, but by the more reclusive and mysterious Force Dragon Queen in the eyes of Dragon Court members! If this got out, the black dragon felt it could brag to other true dragons for its entire life!
"Great Dragon Queen, thank you for responding. Please take over the battle."
As it spoke, the black dragon's eyes closed and reopened, its pupils now a light purple hue belonging to Yona, whose will had taken over the body.
The mire giant was taken aback.
This giant race was rather dull-witted, unable to comprehend what had just occurred.
In the mire giant's eyes, the previously furious legendary black dragon had instantly changed its demeanor, now looking at it with a cold, superior gaze, as if viewing garbage.
"Hmph, playing tricks."
The mire giant felt uneasy and detached one of its arms, transforming it into a sharp mud spear that thrust toward the black dragon with unstoppable momentum.
The black dragon observed the mire giant with cold eyes. Simultaneously, an invisible barrier rose from the ground.
Reverse force field!
Boom!
The mud spear collided with the invisible barrier and was seemingly redirected by an unseen hand, instantly altering its trajectory and smashing the mire giant's head.
The mire giant's head reformed amidst the rolling mud, its newly formed eyes filled with dread and obvious fear as it looked back at the black dragon.
Without a word, the mire giant dove into the swampy mud, merging with the muck to flee.
The 'black dragon' remained silent, merely raising a dragon claw and aiming at the depths of the mire.
In an instant, the soft mud was compressed by force into an impenetrable wall. Gravity multiplied, exerting incredible precision, compressing the mire giant into a ball the size of a fist.
In the next second, at the microscopic level within the mire giant's body, the cohesive forces disintegrated.
The mud ball instantly disintegrated into particles too small to see.
Throughout the process, Yona, who had occupied the black dragon's will, remained silent and deadly.
During the Glorious War, the elves' impression of Yona was always like this.
Forever cold and proud, even when facing demigods stronger than herself, she disdained communication, looking at ordinary elves as if they were trash.
After dealing with the mire giant, the black dragon's body trembled, and the cold, arrogant demeanor vanished.
The black dragon, regaining its senses, looked around at the barely changed environment and the mire giant that had disappeared in less than a minute, shuddering involuntarily.
"How did the mire giant die?"
"Could it be disintegration? But what kind of disintegration spell could instantly kill a legendary mire giant?"
The legendary black dragon's consciousness had not been blocked, allowing it to watch from a third-person perspective as its body fought. It could also sense that the power descending into its body was not much, only at the legendary level, yet it easily killed the mire giant, leaving it no chance for regeneration, completely erasing it.
"As expected of the Dragon Queen, the legendary Force Dragon."
"Heh heh, other dragons will be so jealous of me."
Immediately, the black dragon left the scene, spreading its wings and flying towards where true dragons gathered, ready to boast about this experience.
In the Eternal Hall, Yona opened her eyes, still maintaining her aloof demeanor. But when she looked at Garon, her fierce, cold eyes turned gentle and normal.
"It was quite fun, but the opponent was too weak and simple."
Yona said.
Garon, who had watched Yona's battle, shook his head and said, "Since you chose to use the Dragon Court contract, the correct approach is to simultaneously descend into multiple material worlds, engaging in multi-front battles to improve efficiency."
"Moreover, during this process, you might encounter the avatars of giant gods."
Yona nodded thoughtfully, "I understand."
Then, the Force Dragon maiden eagerly said, "I'll continue then."
Closing her eyes, Yona, following Garon's advice, tried to descend her power into multiple true dragons simultaneously, participating in the war this way.
In the Eternal Hall.
Garon monitored Yona's situation, seeing that she quickly became adept at using the Dragon Court contract, then stopped paying much attention, closing his own eyes to observe the situation through the Dragon Court contract, descending into many worlds to battle.
A short time later.
Only a few months had passed since Yeenoghu was killed, and Garon noticed new giant god avatars descending.
"Yeenoghu's death has made the giant gods more vigilant."
"I should push harder and see if I can draw out the gods themselves."
Killing avatars only cost the gods some extraordinary divine power, which would soon recover. It wasn't very satisfying to Garon.
With this thought, Garon withdrew his spiritual will and descended into the material world with his true form.
Material world, Aesir planet.
The night covered the mountains stretching for tens of thousands of miles, but despite the darkness, it was as bright as day.
Endless flames swept the mountains and earth, illuminating the sky in a red glow. Mountain peaks turned into scorched earth, rocks cracked and melted by the flames. The once lush forests covering the mountains were reduced to ashes, towering trees becoming torches in the fire, collapsing and turning to dust.
In the sky.
Dragons covered in flames fell like burning meteors, their bodies charred by the fire.
Even legendary red and gold dragons, with their high fire resistance, dared not relax in the flames.
These flames were created by a towering giant intertwined with fire and divinity, posing a lethal threat to any creature.
Surrounded by endless flames, the giant's flames twisted and boiled, celebrating the arrival of a king controlling the fire.
"All red and gold dragons, all high fire-resistant true dragons, gather around me, led by me, Scopus, to slay the god's avatar!"
A high-level legendary red dragon with a creature level over 35 roared.
Hearing Scopus's call, other legendary red dragons gathered, resisting the terrifyingly high-temperature flames and actively attacking the god's avatar.
"Other true dragons, fend off the giant minions' threats and clear the way for us!"
Blue dragons, green dragons, black dragons, white dragons, silver dragons, bronze dragons, and other rare true dragons roared, engaging in fierce battle with the giants.
At the same time.
Red and gold dragons broke through the flames, closing in on the god's avatar.
However, the god's avatar wielded considerable power.
"A group of audacious reptiles, mere mortals, dare to slay a god?"
The god's avatar's expression was stern and dismissive.
With a wave of its hand, flames condensed into giant blades, burning red hot, hundreds of meters long, slashing towards the true dragons from all directions.
These flaming blades were incredibly sharp and swift.
Some true dragons couldn't dodge in time and were cleaved in two.
Even legendary true dragons were injured or killed upon contact with these divine-powered attacks.
Watching the dragon group falter in the flames, the god's avatar, holding a giant sword, moved through the air, leaving a trail of fire. No dragon could withstand its power, falling one after another.
Meanwhile.
The rolling flames, burning trees, rocks, and giants all suddenly froze as time stopped, encompassing the entire battlefield. Only the dragons could still move freely.
In the hopeful eyes of countless true dragons, a majestic silver dragon descended.
In Garon's vision, the god's avatar was a giant with a massive form and rough features, shrouded in flames. Even its eyebrows and eyes appeared as molten lava, exuding a destructive aura.
"Surtr, the Fire Giant God."
Garon's gaze swept over the dead dragons in the fire, then looked at the god's avatar, speaking slowly.
This avatar belonged to an ancient giant god, Surtr, the Fire Giant God.
Surtr's power was immense.
His godhood level was 15, at the peak of intermediate divine power.
Moreover, he held dominion over evil, destruction, fire, the sun, strength, war, dominion, summoning, and other domains excelling in combat, making him formidable.
Among all intermediate divine powers, he was arguably the strongest in the giant pantheon, second only to greater gods, making him the undisputed most powerful.
Due to incompatible attributes, he had frequent conflicts with Solum, usually ending in Solum's defeat.
"Eternal and Time Dragon, needing schemes to kill Solum, it seems your strength is only so much."
Surtr, arms crossed and flames roiling, spoke to Garon.
As he spoke, hellhounds, capable of tearing apart legends and as large as elephants, materialized from the flames. Their fur was like fire, and their skin like lava. Upon appearing, they lunged at Garon, their howls causing inner terror.
Garon's gaze sharpened, fully unleashing the time-stop domain after his true form descended.
Instantly, the hellhounds froze in mid-air.
Time split!
The hellhounds' bodies were torn apart.
Simultaneously, Garon aimed time-splitting at Surtr.
The god's avatar collapsed into ordinary flames, reforming elsewhere.
However, Garon foresaw this, attacking the reformation site the moment Surtr's avatar disintegrated.
Boom!
A partially gigantified claw, enveloped in temporal power, grasped Surtr tightly, leaving only his head exposed.
No matter how the giant god struggled, he couldn't escape Garon's grip.
For Garon, this easy victory was no surprise.
A true form against an avatar was a crushing situation.
"Surtr, bring your true form."
"An avatar alone can't stand against me."
"Come, show me the strength of your true body."
Garon's gaze swept around. In the time-stop domain, the true dragons were killing the immobilized giants, turning the tide of the battle almost instantly.
"If you don't hurry, your people will all die."
Surtr's avatar, though captured, maintained a calm expression and said, "If you want a fight, leave the material world and come to the outer planes for a godly battle!"
"Choose any outer plane you like!"
"Astral Sea, Chaos Sea, Mount Celestia, Abyss, Hell... wherever you want to go!"
Garon's true form was akin to a lesser god in power, while his divine self was a mid-level god, but he couldn't even defeat the Frost Giant God, let alone the formidable Fire Giant God.
A battle in the outer planes offered little chance of success.
With Yeenoghu having just perished in the material world, the Fire Giant God wouldn't risk bringing his true form here.
Realizing his ploy wouldn't work, Garon stopped hesitating and crushed the god's avatar.
Killing an avatar would slightly damage the Fire Giant God's extraordinary divine power.
But the silver dragon showed no sign of satisfaction.
"Avatars can be split many times and descend into different material worlds. Unless it's a quasi-deity ancient dragon, it's hard to resist."
"If giant gods don't descend in their true forms, I can ensure victory in one material world with my true form, but more material worlds will fall into disadvantage, forcing multi-front battles with avatars."
Garon furrowed his brow, analyzing the situation.
The Fire Giant God's avatar was just the beginning.
Through the Dragon Court contract, Garon already knew that while he was battling this giant avatar, more giant god avatars were descending into different material worlds to help the local giants crush the dragon armies.
Looking up, ordinary dragons couldn't sense anything unusual, only feeling a bit of pressure in the sky.
But in Garon's eyes, it seemed like countless streams of extraordinary divine power streaked across the sky, hundreds of them, falling into various material worlds.
The Stormlord.
The Hill Giant God.
The Stone Giant God.
The Cloud Giant God.
The Mountain Giant God.
The Trickster Giant God.
Among them were some giant gods previously exiled by Annan. After Annan's death and the Stormlord's rise, they had all returned to the giant pantheon, now standing against the dragon gods under the Stormlord's lead.
The large-scale descent of giant god avatars into the material world was matched by the dragon gods' avatars.
The Metallic Dragon God Bahamut.
The Immortal Dragon Queen Tiamat.
The Dragon God of Fire and Destruction Karix.
The Dragon God of Justice and Arbitration Lendys.
The Dragon God of Death and Judgment Chronepsis.
The God of Decay and Exhaustion, the Night Dragon Falazure.
The war between dragons and giants, already intense, escalated to the next level with the gods' avatars.
Both sides had been holding back, but now, the gods of both races were engaging in grand battles using their avatars, making the conflicts even fiercer.
The gods' avatars fought with such power that entire material worlds trembled. Other gods, not belonging to the dragon or giant pantheons, watched with varying degrees of caution, curiosity, wariness, and disdain.
"Such a large-scale divine descent didn't even happen during the Glorious War."
Garon pondered.
During the war with the elves, one side was furious because their chief god was attacked, and the other side was enraged because their legendary dragon species were missing, leading to an early confrontation between the gods' true forms in the outer planes.
Godly battles with true forms rarely allowed avatars to descend.
Most of the time, demigods and quasi-deity dragons commanded the battlefield.
This time was different. Both dragons and giants, recognizing each other's deep strength, faced their eternal enemies with even more caution and prudence.
So far, there had been only a brief clash between the Stormlord and the Metallic Dragon God, lasting mere seconds, hardly a real fight.
The comprehensive war between arch-enemies meant both sides had staked all their honor and future. Defeat would mean falling into the abyss without a chance of recovery.
However, after the brief clash, the Stormlord felt more confident.
Thus, he decided to escalate the war to the next level, short of a final godly battle.
This led to the large-scale descent of giant and dragon god avatars.
"The true form remains still, splitting into many."
"I can't battle world by world with my true form. In the material world, god avatars, though weaker than true forms, are no different from sweeping the battlefield to other creatures."
"With Solum and Yeenoghu dead, the giant gods are certainly more vigilant now. Forcing their true forms to descend will be extremely difficult."
After brief contemplation, Garon flapped his wings and immediately retreated into the river of time, returning to the Dragon Court dimension.
The giant god avatars were too numerous.
Garon had just destroyed one, but it seemed insignificant across all battlefields.
Back at his lair, the silver dragon closed his eyes, beginning to respond massively to the Dragon Court members' requests, dispersing his will and power into the material worlds where giant god avatars had descended, engaging in battles and fighting to the death.
"Meeting again."
"This time, we're both descending with our avatars. Heh, let's fight, and don't disappoint me."
In the scorching desert, sandstorms and flames almost obscured the sky.
Surtr, the Fire Giant God, stood in the endless flames, his gaze locked onto Garon's newly descended avatar.
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