Giant Dragon Lord: Starting from Daily Intelligence

’So, the legend... was true.’

The bright Star in the sky quietly illuminated this shattered world.

「About ten minutes later.」

When the light of the Sun reached its peak, Mage Delin slowly opened his eyes.

He raised his hand and pointed to the east.

"Found it."

"The fragment containing the World’s Spine is in that direction. It’s about ten thousand kilometers away from us."

As he finished speaking, the light of the dazzling Star in the sky began to dim rapidly.

In just a few short seconds, it reverted to a faint glimmer before vanishing completely into the dark void.

It was as if it had never been there at all.

"Delin, you old rascal. I haven’t seen you in action for decades. I didn’t realize you were hiding so much power."

Master Wendel teased.

Mage Delin smiled faintly but offered no explanation.

This was Mage Delin’s Star Magic.

His Lifebound Star was his eye in the cosmos.

Wherever the Star shone, his gaze could follow.

In this Doomsday World, where the rules were shattered and the range of Spiritual Power was severely compressed, such a tracking and reconnaissance ability was nothing short of divine!

"Lightning, let’s go."

Raylo suppressed his shock and gave the command to Lightning at his feet.

"ROAR!"

Lightning let out a low roar. It, too, seemed to feel a trace of awe for the vast Star Power from moments ago.

It lowered its body, its massive Dragon Wings slowly unfurling.

Everyone leaped back onto Lightning’s broad back.

"Lightning, head east! Full speed!"

"ROAR!"

With another roar, Lightning powerfully flapped its wings!

Violent sparks of lightning erupted around its body as its massive figure transformed into a streak of blue lightning, soaring into the sky and rocketing eastward.

The wind howled in their ears.

Along the way, they encountered several Continent fragments floating in the void.

Some fragments were immense, even larger than Raylo’s Black Stone Territory.

They bore the remnants of mountains, rivers, and forests, but all signs of life had vanished.

The mountains were desolate gray, the waters had run dry, and the trees had long since turned to charred husks.

Other fragments were only the size of a single city.

They were covered in dense, honeycomb-like buildings, indicating they were once incredibly populous metropolises.

Now, only the hollow skeletons of buildings remained, silently testifying to their former glory in the void.

Raylo saw a massive lake.

The entire lake, along with the crust beneath it, had been peeled away whole, suspended in the darkness like a giant bowl.

The water was long gone, leaving only a cracked lakebed and the skeletons of countless enormous, unknown aquatic creatures.

Everyone watched this apocalyptic scene in silence, their hearts heavy.

Lightning’s flight speed was extremely fast. After more than an hour, they had already covered several thousand kilometers.

Ahead, the outline of a massive Continent fragment was faintly visible.

It was a range of rolling black mountains, with peaks as sharp as swords pointing toward the heavens, exuding an aura of ferocity and deathly stillness.

"That should be the place,"

Mage Delin said.

Raylo nodded and was about to have Lightning slow down to approach the black mountain range.

Suddenly!

The space before them split open without any warning!

It wasn’t just a crack.

A scythe-like claw, as if tearing through a fragile piece of cloth, forcibly ripped open a kilometer-long spatial rift in front of them!

On the other side of the rift was a pure, chaotic nothingness that devoured all light.

Immediately after, from behind the massive spatial rift, a shadow so enormous it was suffocating slowly squeezed through.

It was a mantis-like Demon.

A terrifying Demon, a kilometer long, its entire body a dark purple hue, as if constructed from the purest Void Crystals!

Its head was a vicious, inverted triangle, and its two enormous compound eyes glittered with a cold and cruel light.

Simply being watched by those eyes created the illusion that one’s very soul was being torn apart.

Its forelimbs were shaped like a pair of giant scythes, hundreds of meters long, gleaming with a metallic luster.

The edges of the scythes were wreathed in a visible layer of constantly twisting Space Blades, emitting a terrifying sharpness capable of severing anything in existence.

This dying world, no longer protected by the World Barrier, left space as fragile as a sheet of paper before the Demon’s terrifying Power, easily torn asunder.

"BOOM!"

As its colossal body fully descended into this world,

a terrifying will, a mixture of destruction, slaughter, and chaos, instantly swept across the space for tens of thousands of meters like a bursting dam!

Catastrophe Level!

Without a doubt, this was a genuine Catastrophe Level Void Demon!

"Grrr..."

Lightning let out a low growl. Under the assault of that terrifying will, even the trajectory of its flight became unstable.

"Lightning, hold steady!"

Raylo shouted.

"A Void Blade Mantis."

Mage Delin said slowly, gazing at the giant Demon as it leisurely stretched its scythe-like forelimbs.

"Even in the Endless Void, it’s one of the top predators."

"I never expected to run into something like this here."

In stark contrast to the tension and gravity of the others, was Mage Wendel.

The Legendary Mage, who had seemed somewhat impatient the entire journey, saw the Void Blade Mantis, and his eyes lit up.

It was the kind of gleam... filled with excitement and desire, that a hunter gets when they spot their long-awaited prey!

"Good! Good! Good!"

Instead of being alarmed, he was overjoyed. He took a step forward from Lightning’s back, hovering in mid-air.

"Finally... a worthy opponent has finally arrived!"

"Crushing those little insects along the way was starting to make my old bones rust!"

He turned his head and grinned at Raylo and Mage Delin, a smile brimming with arrogance and confidence.

"This big guy is mine!"

"None of you are to interfere!"

Before his words had even faded, the Void Blade Mantis made the first move.

There was no roar, no extraneous movement.

It simply, slowly, raised its right scythe-like claw, hundreds of meters long.

Then, it swung lightly in Mage Wendel’s direction.

"RRRIP!"

A crescent-shaped, dark purple Space Slash formed in an instant!

The Space Slash was only a hundred meters in size at first, but the moment it left the scythe, it expanded violently, transforming in the blink of an eye into a terrifying blade of light thousands of meters long that stretched across the sky!

Wherever the blade of light passed, space curled and melted away on both sides like butter touched by a red-hot iron, leaving behind a pitch-black, bottomless spatial tear!

Faced with this world-destroying strike, Mage Wendel’s expression remained unchanged.

He didn’t even assume a defensive stance.

He merely flicked open his sleeve!

"VMMMM!"

A simple, crimson Melting Furnace, its surface engraved with countless Flame Runes, flew out of his sleeve!

When it first appeared, the Melting Furnace was only the size of a fist.

But after flying out, it grew larger and larger!

In the blink of an eye, it had already transformed into a giant, hundred-meter-tall Melting Furnace, as large as a small mountain!

The mouth of the furnace tilted sharply!

"RUMBLE!"

An endless torrent of crimson-gold flames, like a celestial river pouring down from the nine heavens, surged from the massive furnace mouth!

The torrent of Flame rushed like a flood, roared like magma!

It didn’t try to block the Space Slash.

Instead, with even greater ferocity, it swallowed the terrifying blade of light capable of cleaving mountains, along with the massive Void Blade Mantis behind it... whole!

At that moment, the entire sky was dyed crimson!

Raylo’s pupils contracted violently.

He finally understood why Master Wendel’s Legend title was "Melting Furnace."

The sparks and clouds of fire he had flicked from his sleeve in previous battles were actually embers from the Melting Furnace.