The dragons flew over Castle Black Square, and a group of one hundred Red Devil Eagle Knights came to greet them.
"Welcome back, Your Highnesses. Please take a bath in the Dragon Pond first. Our great lord will be calling upon you shortly."
The captain of the Red Devil Eagle Knights, who had a strong aura and had reached the 15th Order, rode a top-level Red Devil Eagle with a wingspan of more than 20 meters to the front of Gonzalo and the other dragons, and spoke respectfully.
Except for a very small number of true dragons, all the dragon beasts in the dragon group are addressed as 'Your Highness' in the Black Wing Lair, and their status is ranked at the third level within the Black Wing Lair.
The first level is naturally the Black Dragon Lord, which is undisputed.
The second level is the core dependents, the leader of each tribe under black wing represented by Skye. They possess powerful authority and rights, executing orders on behalf of the Black Dragon Lord.
As long as the Black Dragon Lords do not appear, they are the ones who hold the power to speak within the territory.
The third level consists of the dragon beast legion whose intelligence has been awakened by the power of the void. Additionally, the core dragonborn maids of Castle Black also belong to this level.
Below the third level are the fourth and fifth levels.
The fourth level includes the Red Devil Eagle Knights, a bodyguard group formed by the most elite dragonborn guards. There is also a similar bodyguard group formed by the eldest brother, Blin. The Breen Warriors Legion, the violent legion formed by Trolls, the bloody legion formed by Harpies, the black scale legion formed by Lizardman, The black bear legion formed by Beargoblins and Hobgoblins, and the mighty legion formed by half dragon, dragonborn, the sky war legion formed by Wyverns and the Silver Legion composed of elites from each clan—all wear silver base armor.
There are a total of eight guard corps formed, and the minimum strength threshold for each guard has reached the advanced order and level. Among them, the strongest in overall strength is undoubtedly the Silver Legion.
The high-grade silver base armor, when worn by a senior warrior, grants power equivalent to an ordinary 15th-order and at least 10th-level profession.
As for the top-level silver base armor, ordinary master-level professionals can attain top-level master-level strength after wearing it. If they already belong to top-level master-level strength, then after wearing it, they can completely reach the threshold of pseudo-legendary strength.
Therefore, the Silver Legion, composed of a thousand high-level Black Wing warriors wearing high-grade Silver Base War Armor, along with three master-level Black Wing warriors wearing top-grade Silver Base War Armor, is rightfully considered the strongest army of the Black Wing Nest.
The fifth level consists of the secondary lesions. The strength of the secondary corps is slightly weaker than the above five major bodyguard corps, but their strength should not be underestimated.
For example, the Warg Knights of the Wild Clan Jackals are all elite and intermediate members, generally possessing strength above level seven, with many at advanced and master-level strength.
Another example is the Kobold Dragon Vein Warlock Legion, which should be divided into two types.
One is the combat warlock corps that specializes in fighting. The warlocks in this group learn spells and research bloodline magic, all geared toward combat and killing.
The other is the auxiliary warlock legion. They have studied various types of support spells, including territory construction, healing, strength enhancement for warriors, writing, language proficiency, framing, fishing and more.
The Dragonborn humans also formed the Blood Blade Warrior Legion and the Blood Knight Legion.
The bugbears formed a roaring army, and the tengu people formed assassin squads. The Gray Eagle monsters formed the Gray Eagle Archers, and so on.
In the previous two wars with the Barbarian Court, the Black Wing Lair side did not send any real elites at all. Except for a few secondary legions, such as the Warg Knights and the Gray Eagle Archer Legion, the others were composed of ordinary Black Wing warriors.
If any one of the eight elite legions had been deployed, the defeat rate of the barbarian army would have increased dramatically. This, in turn, would have affected the duel between the Black Dragon Lord and the Barbarian King.
This was intentional.
However, it is slightly regrettable that even with such restraint, the situation still led to the Barbarian King Victor fighting the Black Dragon Lord alone. In the end, the Black Dragon Lord still failed to defeat his opponent.
The dragons, led by the Red Devil Eagle Knights, lined up to bathe in the Dragon Pond.
The Dragon Pond is enormous, with an area comparable to a vast lake.
The place where the Black Dragon Lord lives and sleeps is located at the center of the upper reaches of the Dragon Pond.
The group of dragons moved toward the lower reaches of the Dragon Pond.
The so-called "bathing" is due to the Black Dragon Lord having stayed in the upper reaches of the Dragon Pond for many years. His breath, blood, and shed dragon scales have gradually infused the entire pond.
The so-called "bathing" = absorbing the void breath floating in the Dragon Pond.
Generally, the only groups who can enjoy this privilege are the maid group and the dragon group.
The only difference is that the maid group, tasked with serving the Black Dragon Lord, can absorb the power of the void from close range upstream, while most dragons can only enjoy the diluted void energy downstream.
The Black Dragon Lord, who was studying spells and psychic powers at the center of the upper Dragon Pond, suddenly sensed the returning aura of the dragons.
"Are they all back?" The Black Dragon Lord followed the power of the void and sensed the dragons returning one after another.
What pleased him was that after several years of training, not a single dragon had died.
One reason is that true dragons imbued with the power of the void have strong bloodlines and resilient bodies, making them hard to kill. Another is the protection provided by the Red Devil Eagle Knights, the sahuagin leader, Fizz and my own Son of Death the No. 6,7, and 8.
In addition, it was merely training and not a dangerous mission, so fortunately, not a single dragon perished.
Although the Black Dragon Lord feels little affection for most of the dragons in the group, these "little dragon cubs" still call him father—and since he named them himself, he naturally shows more concern for them.
"The number of dragons that have reached 15th order is thirty-six. I remember there were only six before," the Black Dragon Lord thought.
The original six master dragons—Gold Dragon Gonzalo, Isis, Miligas, the female Silver Dragon Parvati, the Blue Dragon Azrik, and the female Copper Dragon Asterina—have all reached at least low 16th order strength, and the strongest, Gold Dragon Gonzalo, has reached low 17th order.
The mutated Gold Dragon Beast, combined with the power of the void Overeat, allowed Gonzalo to possess top master-order strength at 17th. After a few more years of accumulation, it is not impossible for his strength to reach the threshold of pseudo-legendary level.
In addition to the thirty-six dragons above 15th order, there are more than 200 and nearly 300 other dragons. Except for a few true dragons still struggling below 10th order, the rest have basically reached 10th order or higher.
The return of the dragons also reminded the Black Dragon Lord of Eirlys, who had been away from the dragon nest for several years.
This little female dragon and two other high-level young female dragons are still wandering outside.
He calmed his mind and used his own source of void to trace the bearers of void power scattered across the world.
There are so many bearers of the power of the void scattered throughout the Tal Plane, but among them, one has the strongest aura.
"Huh."
He suddenly made a sound of surprise.
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In the northern waters of Tal, on an island ruled by the Silver Dragon Lord Sandy, a tall and majestic figure was practicing axe techniques on a square.
This towering figure had thick black hair covering its body. Its build was humanoid, with arms and legs, but it had a massive bear's head atop its neck.
Werebears are a dying and nearly extinct race on the Tal Plane.
Ordinary bear-men are only around three meters tall, or even less. However, this bear-man, practicing axe skills on the square, had reached an astonishing five meters in height.
Not only was his size remarkable, but the power he demonstrated and the aura he emitted clearly showed his formidable strength.
His name is Volibear, and he was once the leader of a bear-man tribe. He was later discovered by the Silver Dragon Lord and invited to the territorial island.
In the past few years, Volibear learned that Lady Morgan, under the great Lady, had developed a precious potion that could break the upper limit of race and increase potential.
Without hesitation, Volibear, who longed for strength and wanted to strengthen the bear clan once again, directly applied for the right to use the potion.
Then, without exception, he, who was already powerful, not only obtained the right to use the medicine but was also the experimental subject that used the most potion in that batch.
According to Lady Morgan, this potion was theoretically enough to transform his potential into a being comparable in strength to the dragon race.
Volibear was still skeptical about this at the time, but time proved it.
Swiss!
The terrifying strong wind carried by the giant axe directly tore a small but extremely deep crack in the square, and the crack spread all the way to a kilometer away.
Just when Volibear was genuinely excited about his increased strength, his soul and blood suddenly trembled.
Faintly, a pair of huge crimson vertical pupils appeared in the mind of the bear leader, Volibear.
Under this majestic and indifferent gaze, Volibear, who had pseudo-legendary strength, struggled and finally fell to his knees heavily on the ground, his soul and blood trembling.
A natural reverence arose in Volibear's mind, heart, and soul.
After an unknown amount of time, that sight quietly retired.
Volibear, the leader of the bear people, sweating profusely, sat on the ground and breathed heavily, with a flash of horror in his eyes.
"What kind of existence is that?!"
Could it be a god?!
For a long time, Volibear still couldn't recover from the shock just now.
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Dragon Pond.
I slowly opened my dragon eyes, and a trace of surprise flashed in my huge eyes.
I was not surprised that the powerful bear-man had obtained the power of the void—he had obtained quite a lot of it.
Well, although this was worthy of my surprise, compared to the wonderful feeling just now, whether the bear-man obtained the power of the void was irrelevant.
"This feeling of coming is somewhat similar to the ability to possess a dependent brought by a dependent contract or the twisted seed," I pondered.
However, if the dependent contract possesses the dependent, it can only gain the perspective of the dependent and cannot affect the dependent—let alone remotely intervene in the dependent's battles or other matters.
While twisted seed can do all this and even give my skill to a dependent temporarily.
However, just now, when my thoughts followed the power of the void and landed on the strong bear-man, a feeling surged into my heart—it seemed that I could plunder the power of the void from the bear-man, and it seemed that it was not only in this way.
Although that feeling was very tempting to me, I still endured it when I thought of the bearers of the power of the void who were being born one after another on Silver Dragon Island.
Although it was unclear when the female silver dragon studied and derived the power of the void, now that it had been developed, I also wanted to see what would happen if it continued like this.
I didn't want to alert the enemy.
"My thoughts have landed on the body of a bearer of the power of the void before, but why didn't I feel this way at that time?"
My thoughts returned to this aspect.
The sudden change in the power of the void is the most important thing now. The sudden increase in the number of void dependents is not worth mentioning.
"Is it because the strength was too weak before?" I guessed.
After pondering for a moment, I summoned an intermediate dragonborn guard from Castle Black.
"Master." The two-meter-five centimeters-tall human dragonborn guard knelt respectfully on one knee, waiting excitedly for the Black Dragon Lord's order.
I did not speak, but with a thought, I followed the trace of the power of the void and landed in the body of the dragonborn guard in front of me.
Sure enough, that feeling came back again.
However, the temptation given to me was not strong. Compared with the temptation and desire brought by the bear-man, the intermediate dragonborn guard in front of me, whose strength was only at the 7th order, was less than one-hundredth of the former.
"Try it." I didn't hesitate, and followed the feeling as soon as I thought of it.
Hoho~
The dragonborn guard kneeling in front of the huge black dragon suddenly had his eyes bulge out, and then, in confusion and astonishment, his body turned into a puddle of ashes.
The ashes were soaked in water mist, quickly merged into one, and disappeared.
At this moment, I was pleasantly surprised.
After the dragonborn guard died, an energy that was extremely weak to me—but quite pure—returned to my dragon body along with the power of the void and was swallowed by me.
No—rather than swallowed, it is better to say that it fused into one.
That power originally emanated from my body and increased by consumption.
Now it was just a return to the source.
"The power of the void, flesh, blood, and soul," I said to myself.
Everything about the dragonborn bodyguard was forced to be dedicated to me, becoming a part of my heritage and strength.
Horrible.
Quite scary.
"If I unite the powers of all the current bearers of the power of the void and merge them with me, what level should my strength reach?"
This thought couldn't stop appearing in my mind.
Nowadays, there are tens of millions of creatures ruled by Black Wing Lair, but the number of beings who have gained the power of the void is only a few tenths—less than two million.
As for the Void Familiars on Silver Dragon Island, they are not many in number—only a few hundred or thousands. Of course, the quality is quite high.
And this is just the number of Void Familiars in the Tal Plane.
Many years ago, I spread the power of the void across the lava wasteland of the 9896th layer of the Abyss, hoping to use this to obtain the plane coordinates when the demon who had obtained the power of the void was summoned into the material plane.
Over the years, through this method of casting a wide net, I actually obtained a plane coordinate—the Ghost Plane.
I calmed down and felt a bit for the Void Familiars in the Abyss.
Because the distance is too far, this kind of perception is far less clear than that of the Void Familiars on the Tal Plane.
Not even I could descend upon those demons.
But a rough estimate shows that the number of demons carrying the power of the void is still acceptable.
"About three million," I quickly estimated the number.
The number of demonic void followers even exceeds the number of Black Wing void followers.
After all, in order to cast a wide net, I often threw blood directly into the magma rivers.
The dragon's blood would be slowly evaporated by the terrifying high temperature of the magma, but the power of the void would not be evaporated by the magma. Instead, it would naturally lurk in the magma river, then be swallowed or fused by demon creatures nearby at a certain moment.
More than two million plus more than three million—the total number of Void Familiars is almost six million.
If all the power of these more than six million Void Familiars were merged and unified by me, then...
"The strength of the third level is certain." I was very convinced.
After all, my current strength is at the top of the second level.
If it weren't for the huge gap in strength between each level of the Legend, and the fact that most of the nearly six million Void Familiars are at the mid-level, with quite a few only at the low level, and their quality being uneven...
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