Inside the forbidden area...
A small barrier weakly emerges amidst ominous clouds, with various cracks releasing a faint smoke. Remnants of scrap metal from what seemed to be four machine guns lay scattered.
"I told you nothing would go wrong, didn't I Sniff," Draco immediately turns, giving a thumbs up to Gold and says it with his best dragon smile.
"AT LEAST STOP SHAKING, WIPE YOUR SNOT AND TEARS TO CONVINCE ME!" Gold shouts back angrily, his rooster crest also wet with tears.
"At least tell me it's over." Gold speaks and sinks into the pile of golden eggs formed around his seat.
Draconius wipes his face with claws and quickly stores all the eggs.
"There wasn't much information in that old man's memories about all those monsters or this place. In fact, he didn't even know my race. What a useless guy!" Draco complains, squeezing the controller with his claws.
'I feel sorry for this guy, even after death, he's cursed. Rest in peace,' Gold folds his wings in a light prayer.
"But from what I can see, the scenery here matches the book." Draconius observes the landscape more closely.
The infinite void displayed several crimson cracks, coloring the environment with hostility. Various universes faintly glow, their shapes distorted.
"This gives me a creepy feeling." Gold shivers down his spine seeing the desolation of this place compared to the diversity outside.
"The environment is filled with a chaotic aura of destruction. If it weren't so aggressive, I'd start absorbing all of this now. But this will be where we start our empire!" Draconius observes everything with symbols replacing his pupils.
The rooster looks at the dragon with a look of total doubt.
Noticing this, he commands the barrier to move forward, slowly regenerating.
"I chose this place, firstly because all the universes are connected when they were covered by the chaotic cloud we crossed. I'm sure it unified the entire region as one universe." Finishing, he looks at Gold with a suggestive look.
"Oh!" The chicken opens its beak with an understanding look.
"So-"
"I didn't understand."
"Then don't make that face!" Draco looks annoyed at the rooster.
"What I mean is, this place has a timeline that involves everything because it's a matter of time until no universe survives here, and this region becomes just a sea of chaotic energy. My goal is to jump to the end of this place's timeline to reach my adult state. The potential increases the stronger the universe I matured in. Imagine an entire region?!" The dragon speaks with evident greed in his eyes.
"But isn't it very dangerous? I mean, isn't there a chance of something living there, like one of those strange creatures or something?" The rooster starts trembling at the thought of various scary possibilities.
"It's a possibility, but it's very low. Very few creatures have the ability to reach there, and even fewer to survive. After all, there are many types of divine energy there that are lethal even to gods," Draconius speaks indifferently while navigating as if looking for something in the void.
'sigh This doesn't make me feel at ease.' Hearing this statement, Gold sighs, remembering a certain dragon who said nothing would go wrong before being chased by a horde of bizarre monsters.
Time passes quickly for the duo, and a day has passed for them, navigating in the destroyed void.
"Hey Draco, have we arrived yet?"
Gold was bored as he looked at the landscape, testing the pilot's patience.
"Do you think it's easy at my current power level to reach the place? Especially with this completely shattered space and this messed up timeline!" Draconius speaks irritated with the rooster who has asked the same thing more than 10 times.
"Indeed, for a dragon, you are pathetically weak!" The chicken doesn't miss the opportunity to send a disdainful look while checking the dragon's stats.
[STATUS]
[NAME: Draconius Celestrion]
[RACE: Primordial Dragon (Cosmic God)]
[POWER LEVEL]: Mortal Stage 3
[CURRENT MISSION]: Build your first bank!
Note: The weakest cosmic dragon entity ever!
"Hahaha! This is so hilarious!" Gold laughs loudly, looking at the screen.
"Do you doubt that I can get chicken meat in this scary void?" Draco's gaze becomes dark, and his claws seem to grow larger.
"I'll stop..." The rooster speaks low and thin.
"How does this idiotic ranking work?" Draconius puts aside his anger and asks with dismay seeing on the screen that he was classified as a mortal at stage 3.
"There are 10 stages for mortal, immortal, and divine. It's a general classification of the system since you're not currently following any path other than accumulating more energy." Gold explains while sitting bored.
"The old man I killed had a lot of information about cultivation and magic in his mind. He was ambitious and wanted to unite at least 3 paths to become stronger than the norm. I'll try to finish what he started." After saying this, the dragon waves his hand on the status screen as if shooing away an annoying fly.
"Are you going to abandon the path of your lineage? I think that's a bad idea." Gold is shocked to hear this.
The path of the lineage, the most popular among monsters, beasts, and demons. The descendant must train and purify the blood to unlock ancestral abilities until reaching the peak. Abandoning such a noble lineage as Draconius is sacrilege.
"Are you crazy? It's impossible even if I wanted to. I'm forced to provide energy to unlock my lineage abilities the stronger I become." Draco shakes his head, denying this assertion.
"In fact, I wouldn't do this normally if I had been born like any other dragon. After all, I would already be at the divine level, but as I'm so weak now, my possibilities can be expanded, and I can become more powerful! Whenever you lose in something, you gain in another." He continues while attentively observing the void.
"It makes sense." The rooster nods in agreement.
"Finally found it, now get ready, Gold!" Suddenly, Draconius shouts in excitement and accelerates the barrier.
Gold, frightened, immediately gets up and runs to the seat, stumbling a few times.
*Click*
Fastening the seat belts, the rooster finally looks at where they are going, and his soul almost leaves through the beak.
"You're crazy, this is a black hole! AAAAH!" Gold screams in despair as he sees universes being dragged to the place they are going, making him look like a machine gun of golden eggs.
"HAHAHA! We're finally arriving!" Laughing like a madman, Draconius accelerates towards a hole darker than the void itself.
In seconds, the duo entered the event horizon and began to be sucked in, but instead of resisting, the barrier only accelerated more.
"Prepare for impact!" After shouting this, Draconius spits out a liter of the golden liquid he stored at birth.
Gold, for a long time, had his eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth.
"Eternal Mode: Cosmic Walk!" The lines embellishing Draconius's appearance become a mixture of neon blue and deep silver, absorbing the liquid instantly.
'I hope this ability takes me where I want to go' Draco thinks as he crosses his claws
The barrier changes color to blue, and sparks begin to crackle. Despite the massive increase in gravity, the barrier remained untouched.
*BAM*
Upon colliding, a sound of impact occurs along with a flash that forced Draconius to close his eyes.
....
Minutes pass, and realizing that the light disappeared, the dragon opens his eyes again.
"It worked! From the aura and my instincts, this is the river of time, but it doesn't look like a river." A smile opens on his face as he sees the new scenery, but he scratches his head in doubt.
The barrier travels down a cylindrical tube that seems to be 100 meters in diameter with various colors blending, resembling a kaleidoscope. If Draconius focused his vision on the edges, he could see random moments of random people from birth to old age.
Focusing his vision beyond, he could see infinite giant tubes similar to the one they were in, all pointing downwards in the same direction.
"It's probably a region totally connected and endless." Looking at this, he becomes pensive but soon puts it aside.
"It will take a while, so it's nap time! Yawn" Getting out of the chair, he lies down, but not forgetting to point one of his claws at Gold.
"Sleep!" His eyes glowed for a moment and then closed immediately, unconcerned with anything.
*Snore*
The unhappy rooster was still sitting with blank eyes and an open beak, but now the sound of snoring came from the beak.