Chapter 1 The High Ground

A high-pitched dragon roar echoed across the sky, and everyone saw the silver dragon flashing like lightning from the horizon.

From a great distance, they felt a soul-shaking pressure. The mages of the Celestial God Plane immediately realized that it was a top-tier dragon.

"What's going on? Why is a giant dragon coming? Did the battle spread?"

"No, the natives deliberately lured it here!"

"Damn it, we've been tricked!"

"..."

The commanders of the three ten-thousand mage legions wore grim expressions.

The two sides were fighting fiercely, and they were about to wipe out the alchemical native team when an eighth-tier giant dragon suddenly appeared?

It didn't seem like a coincidence.

Ever since they were inexplicably discovered earlier and bombarded, these mages from the Celestial God Plane had vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Now, seeing this situation, they knew they had fallen for someone's scheme.

But they couldn't figure out why the other side could summon a giant dragon.

Moreover, listening to the angry roar, it seemed that this silver dragon had an irreconcilable hatred?

Most of the Rainbow Island people hadn't seen this silver dragon and didn't know the inside story.

Even if they knew, it wouldn't help. In the current situation, they could only fight.

The legions had already assembled; either they would crush the enemy, or be crushed by the enemy. There were only these two outcomes.

Seeing the giant dragon approaching, the commander-in-chief immediately changed his tactics and roared, "Everyone, form a defensive formation! Do not attack!"

They didn't continue to charge at the Dawn Mercenary Group, nor did they choose to attack and enrage the giant dragon. Instead, they switched to a defensive formation.

The sudden change caught them off guard, but these people from the Celestial God Plane weren't fools. They also saw that the silver dragon's arrival was clearly suspicious, most likely a tactic of using one enemy to devour another.

Arrogant dragons weren't so easily manipulated. If the other side really had the strength to control an eighth-tier giant dragon, it would mean that they must have a ninth-tier professional among them.

This was obviously impossible!

It was likely some kind of trick to lure the silver dragon over.

And the ten-thousand mage legions were too large a target and would inevitably be the giant dragon's first choice for attack. The enemy certainly hoped they would fight to the death with the giant dragon.

Even against this giant dragon, whose combat power was comparable to a ninth-tier Archmage, the three ten-thousand mage legions were absolutely not afraid.

But if they really attacked, they would fall into the trap.

Instead, they should first wipe out those alchemical natives, and then they could concentrate their forces to turn the tide!

......

In the sky, the silver dragon swooping down was furious when it saw the magical legions on the ice.

It was too familiar with this legion magic formation.

Not long ago, these despicable mages had almost killed it!

But the dragon had a superior intellect to most humans. How could it not know that it smelled the scent of a dragon corpse from such a distance? There must be a human conspiracy involved.

After all, it was an apex predator at the top of the food chain and wouldn't cower in fear when facing a group of insects.

No matter what the situation, it would be enough to kill all the humans here!

It swooped down and spat out a mouthful of Holy Light Dragon Breath.

However, the mages on the ice formed a defensive formation and didn't counterattack.

After the silver dragon spat out a mouthful of breath that burned a small group of dozens of people to death, it seemed that it couldn't do anything about it for a while. It instinctively rushed towards the large ship that was frozen in the distance.

......

On the Eternal Night, everyone on the deck looked at the silver dragon attacking, their expressions solemn.

Except for Suren, Qiantiao, and Bartolo, no one had ever seen a real eighth-tier pureblood dragon, nor had they ever witnessed such terrifying pressure.

The dragon's roar echoed in their ears. Even though they were prepared, many low-level crew members were directly stunned by the dragon's might in the sound waves.

The high-level combatants of the Dawn Mercenary Group were eager for battle.

They had just hunted a seventh-tier pureblood blue dragon in the Dragon Kingdom waters, and now an eighth-tier one had come. While the challenge was upgraded, everyone was even more excited.

Barrett's eyes were solemn: "Tsk tsk, this is an eighth-tier giant dragon."

Nineteen: "This pressure is indeed terrifying."

Wasworth's fangs were already exposed, and the smile on his lips was eerie: "If it were in its prime, it would indeed be difficult to hunt."

Qiangtiao placed her hand on the hilt of her sword, her eyes like swords, and her domineering aura faintly contended with the dragon's might. Full of fighting spirit, she turned her face and asked the old Sword God beside her, "Senior Bartolo, you've fought against that silver dragon before, how was it?"

Bartolo gave a wry smile and replied, "Very strong."

The old Sword God still couldn't believe that this group of people from the Dawn Mercenary Group wanted to hunt an eighth-tier pureblood giant dragon?

However, after staying on the ship for these days, how could he not know that this was a team that created miracles?

Although he felt that the risk was great, it was this unity of purpose that made him feel that his old bones had faintly regained the passionate and restless feeling of his youth.

.....

In just a few blinks of an eye, the silver dragon with its hundred-meter wingspan had already appeared a thousand meters away.

The moment its eyes locked on them, the flying dragon was already flying rapidly along the ice surface, opening its mouth and spitting out a Holy Light Dragon Breath towards the Eternal Night.

The scorching white light blinded people's eyes, and the scorching heat wave was mixed with the power of high-level laws of holy light, making people feel a burning sensation from a great distance.

Seeing the silver dragon attacking the Dawn Mercenary Group, Suren wasn't surprised at all.

He had seen it once before. Arrogant dragons weren't so easy to communicate with, and they weren't interested in cooperating with insects like humans.

Besides, the Dawn Mercenary Group had deliberately lured it here this time, and they didn't expect to get along peacefully.

Seeing the silver dragon rushing straight towards the Eternal Night, Suren gave a soft shout: "Do it!"

In the communicator, everyone responded in unison: "Yes!"

At the same time, a golden figure flashed forward and suddenly rushed forward.

Nineteen unfolded her golden wings and wrapped herself up, blocking the bow of the ship.

The Holy Light Dragon Breath spewed over, and the scorching white light shone directly on the golden angel wings.

Upon closer inspection, countless golden shimmering feathers reflected the dragon's breath back, turning it into countless fish-scale-like white light blades.

The light blades scattered on the ice, and the extremely high temperature touched the extremely low temperature, causing a burst of mist to explode.

Seeing that Nineteen had safely withstood the dragon's breath, Suren's eyes narrowed slightly, and the first step of the plan was considered stable.

At the same time, several main guns on the deck also spewed out flames in the direction of the silver dragon.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" several loud noises.

Alchemical shells landed on the silver dragon's scales, exploding into a few gray marks.

Although the artillery fire didn't hurt, the sound was frightening.

The silver dragon hadn't seen cannons before, and a cautious look flashed across its cunning eyes.

After being tricked by humans in Aiklunsa last time, it became more careful. After taking a few shots, it didn't dare to physically hit the Eternal Night, but cautiously pulled up and flew into the sky, preparing to come again.

Seeing this, Suren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous face-to-face encounter was over.

It would take a little time to activate the space alchemy formation on the Eternal Night, and escaping in advance wouldn't have a good effect. And the silver dragon's speed was too fast, and if it really crashed into them, the Dawn Mercenary Group would inevitably suffer some losses.

Fortunately, the giant dragon was cunning by nature and was particularly careful this time after being beaten up last time.

Suren didn't think it would fight to the death as soon as it came.

The facts were as expected.

Seeing the silver dragon flying into the sky, the space runes that had been engraved all over the Eternal Night also lit up.

Suren pinched a warlock seal, and his hands slammed into the eight-pointed star formation on the deck.

A powerful void law fluctuation emerged, and a space vortex with a strong suction force instantly condensed in his palm.

In the blink of an eye, the huge black sailing ship was sucked into the space vortex and disappeared without a trace.

On the ice, only a large pit of several hundred meters and Suren alone were left.

Suren looked at the silver dragon in the sky, and then at the mages who were looking confused, and the corners of his mouth raised a playful arc.

He pinched a warlock seal again, and space fluctuations emerged, and the whole person disappeared in place.

......

The people from the Celestial God Plane just watched a ship several hundred meters long disappear out of thin air in front of them, their expressions frozen like they had swallowed a weight.

Seeing this, they realized that this ambush plan was doomed to fail from the beginning.

"How could that native take the ship away?!"

"Miscalculated! That guy is carrying a super large space storage equipment. The natives of this alchemy plane really have good opportunities. A small seventh-tier warlock can actually possess such a treasure."

"Can you find a way to communicate with that giant dragon? The dragon race has a high intelligence, and it must know that head-on conflict with us is a lose-lose situation. And this is obviously a trap. Maybe there is a possibility of negotiation?"

"Probably not. If I'm not mistaken, this silver dragon is the one that Lord Augustus and the others were planning to ambush before. As a result, due to some special reasons, it ran away. Now that it's found us, there's absolutely no possibility of negotiation."

"Ah? Lord Augustus and the others failed in their operation?"

"Yes. It is said that the ambush plan was also destroyed by an alchemical native proficient in space displacement, resulting in heavy losses for the vanguard legion. Oh well, let's not mention those. Let's prepare for battle."

"..."

The people from the Celestial God Plane looked at each other, and then they understood why the silver dragon was so angry.

It turned out there was an old feud.

In the current situation, the arrogant dragon would definitely not give up until it had killed some people to vent its anger.

But if it was just a silver dragon, the three ten-thousand mage legions could pay a price to repel it, and there was even a good chance of killing it.

But they always felt that things weren't that simple.

Did those alchemical natives just escape like that?

Obviously not.

Everyone understood that the other side was waiting for them to fight the evil dragon to the death, and then look for a chance to stab them in the back.

Having such an enemy watching in the dark was an unpredictable threat.

However, at this time, bad news followed one after another.

The silver dragon let out a long roar, and huge monsters appeared on the distant ice.

The mages from the Celestial God Plane were shocked: "A beast tide!"

Seeing the arrival of the beast tide, they knew what it meant.

Was the silver dragon going to fight to the death?

......

The mages from the Celestial God Plane froze the sea surface within a few miles to ambush the Dawn Mercenary Group.

At this moment, giant beasts were being driven onto the ice surface.

The eighth-tier lord-level sea monster [Two-Headed Ice Emperor Sea Serpent] was a dragon descendant, and its cold scale armor looked amazing. The two snake heads spat out a ball of frost breath each, and the cold air froze the ice surface even harder.

There was also the seventh-tier golden sea monster [Titan Golden Armor Giant Crab], the seventh-tier silver beast [Ice Subdragon], the sixth-tier [Forest Flying Lizard], and the seventh-tier [Tyrant Deep Sea Giant Eye] full of tentacles...

Some were high-level, some were low-level.

Some came alone, some came in groups.

There were so many monsters.

The sea monsters in the Dragon Kingdom sea area were originally huge, and their mighty power was frightening. Most of the monsters had low intelligence, and they were only driven by the dragon's might, instinctively launching attacks on humans.

The monster group, like a tide, besieged and killed the mage groups on the ice.

In an instant, magical light exploded everywhere on the ice surface within a few kilometers.

The three ten-thousand mage legions and the beast tide were caught in a tragic melee.

......

At the same time, on a deserted island a dozen kilometers away.

Suren, Qiangtiao, Bartolo, Nineteen... and other high-level members of the Dawn Mercenary Group were watching the battle in the distance with telescopes from the highest point of the island.

"Oh, the ten-thousand mage legions are really terrifying in combat power. This time, they are fighting desperately, which is much more fierce than before..."

"Yes. The combined skills instantly killed the seventh-tier monsters. I don't want to be hit by one."

"But that silver dragon is really strong enough. It didn't seem to suffer any damage after being attacked by such a strong magic."

"Now it depends on how much the two sides can consume. At least before the magic legions' magic power is exhausted, it is probably impossible to tell the winner."

"..."

Seeing the battle fall into a stalemate, the Dawn Mercenary Group was happy to see it happen.

They wanted to carefully observe the legions' methods and abilities, so that it would be easier to pick up the spoils later.

It had to be admitted that the ten-thousand mage legions were really strong.

Even when facing a silver dragon comparable to a ninth-tier professional and such a large group of monsters, they still handled it in an orderly manner.

Once the legion formation was assembled, the legion spells hit wherever they pointed, and at least they couldn't see a trend of defeat in the short term.

However, on the other side, the monster legions were also equally fierce.

The Dawn Mercenary Group disappeared under their noses, and the angry silver dragon could only vent its anger on the mages in front of them.

Before, in the royal capital Aiklunsa, it was ambushed and had two treasures specifically targeting dragons, the [Gleipnir Entangler] and the [Cadmus Dragon Spear], so it was beaten up so badly that it almost died.

But now, it was time for revenge!

An uncontrollable eighth-tier pureblood silver dragon truly unleashed its terrifying combat power.

The giant dragon that controlled the light-based laws was too flexible. The three ten-thousand mage legions did have the output to kill the silver dragon, but without restraints, the flying dragon couldn't be locked by magic at all.

It could dodge almost 90% of the magic attacks.

Even some of the locking spells that it didn't dodge didn't hurt when they landed on its scales.

And a large group of monsters shared the firepower for it, so there was almost no threat.

On the contrary, one breath of dragon breath could kill dozens of people, no matter how much they were blocked by legion magic shields.

The battle fell into a tragic stalemate.

The ice surface became a meat grinder, and monsters and mages were dying in battle every moment.

The Dawn Mercenary Group in the distance watched, but the expressions on their faces became more and more relaxed.

The more tragic the fight, the more beneficial it would be for them.

Suren looked at the fierce battle in the distance, and he hoped that it would be even more tragic.

The most important advantage of being able to trick the three legions from the Celestial God Plane this time was the information asymmetry.

The other side didn't know that he had methods like the "Little Void Realm".

But this time it was exposed, and the same plan wouldn't work next time.

Therefore, he thought that the best result this time was to wipe out these three ten-thousand legions.

......

Mages have fatigue limits when casting spells. Long-term, high-intensity battles will consume a lot of magic power. After the magic power is over-consumed, it will be a period of weakness.

However, similarly, the number of monsters and sea monsters within a certain range is also limited.

The ambush and outbreak time before was too short, and the silver dragon only drove the nearby sea beasts over, so the number was not too large.

In the current situation, it's really hard to say which side will last until the end.

The Dawn Mercenary Group was quietly waiting for an opportunity.

It wasn't necessarily possible to wait.

But Suren already had a plan in mind.

Even if there was no opportunity, he would have to create one!

He had tricked legions several times, and he was already familiar with the way.

He knew that he must not allow one side to have an overwhelming advantage.

It had to be a stalemate battle to cause both sides to suffer.

......

Watching and watching, the two sides on the ice fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and the beast tide took the lead in falling into a disadvantage.

As golden and lord-level monsters were killed one after another, the pressure on the mages from the Celestial God Plane was also reduced a lot.

But it wasn't completely without a price. Not to mention that eight or nine thousand mages died and countless were injured, magic scrolls and magic power were also consumed by more than half. The situation was not optimistic, but they could still maintain their formation.

On the other hand, the silver dragon in the sky also showed fatigue. It had been spewing dragon breath for an hour, and it was almost dry.

If they continued to fight, it was likely that the beast tide would recede and the two sides would end in a "tie".

Seeing this, Suren knew that it was his turn to play.

A tie was not what he wanted to see.

How could he not see that the mage legion was now short of soldiers and generals, and there were loopholes everywhere in the legion battle formation?

His expression hardened, and he said to Qiangtiao and the others, "I'll go first!"

Everyone nodded.

Everyone knew that only Suren could do something about the current situation. Otherwise, if anyone else went over, it would be a situation where both sides would beat them up.

......

The surrounding scenery changed frequently, and Suren had already appeared on the ice battlefield with several teleports.

What came into view were piles of monster corpses, and a strong smell of blood floated in his breath.

The periphery was full of all kinds of monsters. Seeing the aura of humans, they rushed over ferociously.

Suren didn't pay any attention to them at all. After identifying a direction, he teleported again and directly passed through the legion magic shield and appeared in a legion magic shield.

The mages who were chanting spells around him looked at the person who appeared out of thin air. Before the shock in their eyes had time to appear on their faces, suddenly, a death god phantom that was more chilling than the dragon's might rose behind that figure.

Suren was proficient in various mage legion battle formations, so how could he not see the weak points?

If it was a complete legion, he wouldn't dare to rush in like this at all. But a thousand-person legion that had been riddled with holes by monsters had too many flaws and couldn't handle such a change at all.

The moment he teleported in, a layer of strange black light condensed on the surface of his body, and the black scythe in his hand mercilessly swung and spun, cutting back.

The death domain rapidly extracted the life fluctuations of the mages, and the black scythe also took away a piece of blood.

In just one face-to-face encounter, Suren killed twenty or thirty people around him.

The mages then reacted, and the commander shouted: "Stop him!"

But Suren didn't give these people a chance to fight back at all, and with a teleport, he had already disappeared in place.

Originally, only twenty or thirty mages had died, which wasn't a big problem, but the few people that Suren killed were very critical defensive nodes, hitting the snake seven inches.

It was after this group of people died that a piece of the legion magic formation of this battle group instantly collapsed, like a piece of cake that had been bitten off, and the flaws were instantly exposed.

The eighth-tier silver dragon above was feeling that it wasn't having fun biting the turtle shell-like magic shield, and saw this "gap", and flew over like lightning. Without hesitation, it spewed out a mouthful of dragon breath.

Holy Light Dragon Breath burned from inside the magic shield, instantly turning hundreds of people into ashes.

At the same time, the besieging monsters and sea monsters also seemed to have received orders, and took advantage of this defensive gap to swarm in.

And Suren, the culprit, had teleported away from the ice again and hid far away, not giving humans or beasts a chance to find him.

......

In this way, whenever he saw the monster legion's offensive stagnating, Suren would find an opportunity to help the monster legion open the mages' defense line.

He didn't attack too frequently.

In short, it was just to maintain the degree of consumption of both sides.

This was the situation he wanted to see.

Because of these flaws, the monster legion's offensive was also becoming smoother and smoother. After several sneak attacks, it had already brought huge casualties to the three ten-thousand legions!

In this short quarter of an hour, the number of deaths was even higher than in the previous stalemate for most of an hour!

One of the three legions had been completely destroyed, one was severely damaged, and the remaining lightly damaged one would inevitably not last long if it continued like this.

The commanders of the mage legions hated it so much that their teeth itched, but they were helpless.

The current situation was already very clear.

Whether it was the people from the Celestial God Plane or some high-intelligence monsters, they could all see that there was a third party fueling the fire.

But even if they knew, it was impossible to stop in the current situation.

The two sides could only continue to fight fiercely.

Suren's space ability gave him almost impeccable life-saving abilities. Even if he was chased by the silver dragon and locked by the legion magic, he would teleport into crowds of people and groups of monsters, and it was always others who were injured.

Finally, after the fourth teleport, Suren suddenly saw a "huge flaw".

That was the second legion, with nearly four thousand people remaining.

As long as he teleported over to solve some key formation points, he could almost completely expose this remaining legion to the attack of the monster tide.

The battle situation was changing rapidly.

Just as this flaw was exposed, the mages realized it and began to make up for it.

After a few breaths, the flaw would be filled, and the opportunity would disappear.

There was no room for much consideration at all!

Seeing this, a glint of wisdom flashed in Suren's eyes, and he teleported over without hesitation.

He used the same trick again, activated the death domain, and the black scythe harvested the lives of a group of mages again.

However, at the moment he made his move, a triumphant smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of that eighth-tier archmage in the distance: I finally caught you!

As if he had expected it, this guy took out a magic mirror, and a beam of light instantly shone over.

Suren wanted to destroy this defensive formation, so the place where he landed would inevitably be near the flaw. Therefore, the archmage predicted his landing point, and this beam of light was already unavoidable.

A bizarre scene was staged when the mirror light shone over.

The space in the area illuminated by the light seemed to freeze, becoming visibly thick.

Even the small space cracks around Suren instantly closed.

Suren clearly felt that the surrounding space had been strengthened a hundred times, but he wasn't surprised at all. He murmured in his heart: "Hehe, a high-level magic device that restricts space displacement? You're really willing to give it up. You sacrificed a nearly four-thousand-person incomplete legion just to lure me in."

Since he dared to come, how could he not have expected that the other party would specifically take out a method to target his teleport?

If he encountered such an enemy, he would definitely try to restrain him. Otherwise, if he didn't get rid of him, he would be exhausted by this kind of sneak attack tactic sooner or later.

It was a decisive move to cut off one's arm to survive.

Moreover, the mirror was indeed very advanced. Suren estimated that it could even restrict the space displacement of ninth-tier professionals.

With such a treasure, it was theoretically enough to kill anyone.

However, the people from the Celestial God Plane had miscalculated again.

No matter how advanced this mirror magic device was, it was impossible for the law level to be higher than the God King artifact [Ouroboros Time-Space Ring]!

Suren was restricted by space, but he didn't panic at all. He still killed more than a dozen people at this incomplete formation node according to the plan.

When the other party's eighth-tier arcane magic attacked, he borrowed the power of the ring to teleport away.

The figure collapsed on the spot.

The eighth-tier archmage, who was already shrouded in dragon breath, was dumbfounded and shouted in his heart: "This guy has a space artifact!"

But it was too late.

The huge defensive gap gave the evil dragon an excellent opportunity to attack.

A mouthful of divine light dragon flame spewed over, and a hundred people in the gap instantly turned into ashes. The silver dragon didn't give up the opportunity either, rushing forward and tearing the gap completely.

......

The remaining mages from the Celestial God Plane watched a four-thousand-person legion being slaughtered, filled with grief and indignation, and were all dumbfounded.

This time, they were really stunned by the methods of the natives of this alchemy plane.

They never thought that the [Sky Restricting Mirror], which contained the power of a god and could bind a ninth-tier archmage, would actually fail?

The only possibility was that the other party had a more advanced treasure!

But it was too late to understand now.

It was after this second ten-thousand legion was wiped out that the surviving mages from the Celestial God Plane completely fell into despair.

Before Suren appeared, they still felt that no matter what, the ten-thousand legions had a huge advantage, and even if they couldn't kill the silver dragon, they could win a pyrrhic victory.

But now, no one had this idea anymore.

Because they couldn't see any hope of breaking the situation.

Although there were still several eighth-tier archmages alive, not to mention that the silver dragon was ferocious, even if there was no obstruction, none of them were confident that they could kill this alchemical native who had a very high understanding of space laws.

If they couldn't kill him, everything would be meaningless.

They couldn't see any possibility of turning the tide...

Knowing that defeat was inevitable, the morale instantly plummeted.

The balance of the war began to tilt sharply at this moment.