Dragon Crossing Mountains, A region in which there are several dozen large mountains next to each other in a row or cluster. It is a place that many races save few would want to live on. However of those races that do, they are almost exclusively flying type monsters and among those are some of the most powerful creatures on the continent.

As such it got it's name fairly easily as it is a gathering spot for Dragons and where no kingdom no matter how large would dare to attack. It was a paradise for Dragons in that their own 'Kingdom' was formed thought seemingly primitive to others but highly competitive and prideful to the point that it was 'clean'.

Yes, Dragons were extremely prideful and as such they would not dare willingly attack those who were weaker than them unless provoked or enraged. They have a set hierarchy in which the type of Dragon Species you were born in more or less determined your future power and potential.

At the bottom would be the common mixed bred of numerous impure colours. At the middle would be the clean colour Dragons had hold a great amount of purity in their scales and powers. And at the top would be the pure colour Dragons. The colour of the Dragon would often determine what powers they process as well. Say a Red Dragon had dominants over flames while a deep blue dragon would the same with water. As such Dragons usually had three ranks among themselves; The low Impure Dragons, Middle Clean Dragons and High Pure Dragons.

However there were also variations amongst the pure colour Dragons. Some may have multiple colours while others lacked colours. This was simply accepted since power was everything here, the strongest no matter what colour, what purity they had at the beginning did not matter in the end as long as they come up as stronger than the others. Though few, there were Dragons that were originally considered impure on birth became something of the pure colour rank at the end.

To determine the ranks of the Dragons in this region, every 12 years, there is a tournament where Dragons fight each other to prove their power called the 'Dragon King Festival'. Whether it is one on one or hundreds on one; it did not matter since 'strength' is the most important thing. The Dragon that stood on top no matter what was deemed to be called a 'Dragon King' ruler over Dragons. Naturally with this kind of system, you would think that there would be many many Dragon Kings. But the fact remain that usually you would need to kill the previous Dragon King to gain that title in a one on one match. Because of this, there were often fewer Dragon Kings in the very long history of these Mountains.

The Red Dragon King of Destruction, The Blue Dragon King of the Sea, The Golden Dragon King of Treasures, The Rainbow Dragon King of Illusions and The Transparent Dragon King of Hollow were the only Dragon Kings to be born in these Mountains for a very long time. Most of them already died to begin with.

However recently...there was a Dragon King Festival that gave birth to two Dragon Kings at once.

The White Dragon King of Purity and The Black Chaos Dragon King of Golden Despair.

One of them currently ruled these Mountains while the other just returned....

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“Knight, how deep is the Demon King castle?” asked Eden. He did not want to go too deep in this place since bad things will happen if he did.

“We need to pass three mountains to get to it” replied the Knight.

Eden sighed in relief and said, “Good....thank God that Demon King didn't plant his castle deeper than that.”

“Yep! That Demon King would be ripped into pieces if he lived too close to the Dragon Nest~” commented Alexandra.

“Dragon Nest?” asked Sain not knowing what this term meant here.

“The place that Dragons have all their babies and such~ Never go there unless you want to be used as food~” explained Alexandra in a light hearted tune. Eden added in, “She's not kidding you know...it was a real pain to save her without harming any of the baby Dragons...that would have definitely made things difficult if I managed to screw up.”

“Hahaha didn't think that Dragons used paralyse to feed live food their young.”

“It's not Dragons but THAT particular one that you had to screw up on. Honestly your luck was horrible that day” Eden sighed thinking about it.

“Yeah....it was like our luck levels were reversed since you had good luck on that day....” Alexandra shrugged thinking about it as well.

“Anyway, I'll leave the protection of the new brats to you Alexandra. Just make sure they're not carried off as food like you” said Eden.

“Yes yes~”

The conversation was pretty much one that none of the group could interfere with since they didn't want to be rude them those two at least. If it was one of their masters, Miriel or Shadow would already commented on something in the middle of them speaking, but with these two; it was like everything revolved around them no matter what.

“Umm....what are you two talking about?” asked Serena since it seems it would affect what would happen next and Serena was polite to begin with and reminded those two of Viv so it was fine.

“Ah, just discussing what will happen after I'm dragged into an everlasting battle pretty soon” said Eden rubbing Serena's head like she was a child.

Actually Serena was a teenager barely 13 and to Eden and Alexandra, every last one of the group were children and they were treated as such. Because of this they were slightly kinder to them since they were really old by any standard.

“So you won't come with us to the Demon King Castle?” asked Lyndis.

“Unfortunately not, I have a date with someone else” replied Eden with a smile.

Alexandra snicker and added in, “And all of them are males as well.”

Whack!

Eden hit Alexandra on the head again though she dodged the first three swings until the fourth one hit her squarely on the head. Even with such a simple interaction between these two, it was at a high level battle already!

“Is this because of the Dragons that are living there?” asked Sain understanding part of the reason why Eden has to leave. It would be a disaster if everyone was attacked by Dragons at once.

“More or less...though it's more of a personal vengeance kind of thing” replied Eden once again in a light toned voice.

“ROOOOOOOOOOOAR!!!”

That sound echoed throughout the mountains and even reached the group here that was on the edge of the Dragon Crossing Mountains. It was simply how powerful that roar was. In a large radius near the mountains; numerous monsters have already escaped due to fear of the owner of the roar

Eden looked to the north where the roar came from with a 'tch' saying, “Damn looks like my welcoming party is already here.”

From the edge of the mountain came tens of large Dragons being lead by a pure white one that was only a mere 10 metres large Dragon.

Eden sighed once again and said, “Flight Magic!” producing 6 golden wings on his back and disappeared to the skies to the Dragons without fear.

“....”

The group and the knight stared in disbelief that Eden would just face them head on without considering to escape. Dragons were all extremely strong to the point that even if an entire guild fought one, it was more likely that they would die instead.

“Okay~ Let's all go to the Demon King Castle then” said Alexandra not even concern of Eden.

“Wait” Someone grabbed Alexandra to stop her. It was the knight who at this point was fearing for Eden's life, “Aren't thou going to help Eden?” the knight asked.

“He can take care of himself” replied Alexandra no longer smiling.

“But against a flock of Dragons that can rip an Kingdom apart with ease!” retorted the knight. The Knight believed Eden to be much more powerful than it but not powerful enough that he could face an army of Dragons trying to rip him apart. It was simply something that humans cannot face.

But the Knight didn't know that none of the Guildmasters of this Guild was anything normal nor human kind a long time ago. Their strength was simply too high for the Knight to measure. An ant cannot measure the power behind a Elephant's power.

But as someone who knew the level of power Eden had, Alexandra knew perfectly that something of this level cannot simply threaten him anymore.

“Like I said, he can take care of it” replied Alexandra getting a bit angry now. The ground shook a bit and it was like a giant pressure was crushing down on them. The Knight immediately shut up with those words and didn't press the issue anymore.

Bang.....Bang.....Bang....

The whole group and those two could hear the fighting from afar even though it was likely that the battle was taking part very far away.

“Humans....”

“Humans are here....”

“The Cursed Knight appeared!”

Without them knowing that much, a black fog surrounded the whole group of 8 as they were a bit distracted with the issues of Dragons raining down on them. From the black fog came to what seems to be a legion of demons.

Most of them were shapeless due to the black fog that even covered the skies in these mountains but most of them were at least sort of humanoid while others were beast shaped. None of them were in the shape of a Dragon naturally since Dragons don't like others copying their form and will seek to destroy them.

“Anyway....you said that you knew of the location of the castle right? Lead on and I'll take care of the big ones. The rest of you will group closely and try not to die. Shield of Light won't do much for a one shot kill from these guys that are mostly level 300s at this point” said Alexandra taking like a guildmaster for once since Eden was gone.

It was a funny thing how the trio determined who was in charge. Whenever another person is related to an issue, they were the one who was in charge so the others could slack off casually. Because of this, Alexandra could toy with Eden as much as she wanted until now since she's in charge of protecting the new recruits from extremely strong monsters that can easily one shot them even with the best buffs.

“Kill them!”

“Slaughter every last one of them!”

“Consume their flesh!”

The Demons materialising from the black fog gathered enough numbers, around 300 to attack the group at once. But then Alexandra immediately stopped them before the Knight could start attacking.

“Light Barrier of Extreme Blight!” she chanted raising her arm up in the air.

Light shot out of her hand and split from a point into a barrier made of countless lights in a semi-sphere shape.

“Ahhh! This Barrier is made of Holy Energy!” one Demon cried out touching the barrier with it's large hand, losing that arm in the same instance.

Seeing that one of them lost an army that easily from a barrier, a defensive spell; the Demons backed away waiting since such a powerful barrier must have a low limit of use.

“Open up you bitch!”

“Let me rip you apart!”

Ignoring the Demons that were now swearing and cursing at her, Alexandra turned to the group and said, “Right, this barrier should last for a few days if I don't deactivate it.”

“....”

Everyone and everything that hear those words were speechless. Miriel's cracked barrier was a low to mid tier barrier spell already and it could only last for a few hits due to it's high power. Barriers in the high and legendary rank could at most last for a few hours....but for this one with such a high output to last days?! The group could not believe it.

“Guildmaster....” muttered Miriel wanting to ask if she was telling a joke.

“Call me Alexandra. Guildmaster this and that is too formal. I don't know why Eden wanted you guys to call him that since he hates the formal stuff as well.”

“Right” nodded Miriel , “Can I ask at what level is this barrier and how it works?”

Alexandra thought about a bit and said, “I think it was a low rank spell originally that could only send out a beam of light that deals a bit of knock back damage but....I modified it so there are now thousands of beams and called it sort of a barrier spell since it's like one. Oh and it costs around a dozen high level spells per each while.”

“....”

Once again the group was reminded on how powerful each of the other members of the guild were especially the Guildmasters which were several levels higher in a ridiculous scale.

Next was Shadow to question Alexandra, “Alexandra....can I ask how we are going to move forward? There are even more Demons now and probably number to around 500 by now.”

Shadow looked at the mist of black fog in which Demons were gathering quickly at.

“Naturally, I'm going to deactivate the barrier so we can go forward while cutting down everything in sight” she replied.

The knight cut in there, “Might I add that Demons are not being created by the black fog but are being transported by it. If the time comes can thy enemy numbers are too much, just need to find an area with no vile Demons.”

The Knight looked as if it was itching to kill some demons but held back since it would do no good if the guild that it requested to lose some members. The whole reason why the knight came to them was because it had went through this path many times and was repelled each time. Because of this, it needed the help of either Alexandra or Eden to break through to the Demon King.

“Okay~ Let's get everything sorted out now. I'm going to cast 'Shield of Light' on you all....well the limit on this spell is six people either way and they have to be under level 100 so I usually never use this spell...”

Yes, 'Shield of Light' would be considered one of those cheat abilities that everyone would want to have. However because of this, the spell had high mana cost, a person limit and a level limit on who this spell could be casted on. Imagine if a level 500 could be blessed with this spell; you would be able to slay a Dragon single handedly with it. Because of this, only those who want to help low levelled players would want this spell plus you need to do several difficult tasks to get it so most people don't even know of this spell.

“Another thing is that 99% of the enemies will be taken out by me and Knight-san over there~” said Alexandra in a teasing voice.

“Please don't add such things to my title” commented the Knight.

“Right right, the second thing is that you guys don't need to attack those Demons but rather just survive while we get the Demons off your back” Alexandra explained it quite clearly that they needn't to attack the Demons that now literally numbered over 1000 now.

“Umm....why do we need to do this if you are capable on using barrier like spells quickly?” asked Miriel confused on this fact.

“Ah, that's because I'm not an unlimited mana generator like Eden” said Alexandra, “Also I can't really let you guys have a safe trip.”

“....”

A few minutes later the group would go through something that made their 'Super Relaxing Easy Training' seem easy...and it was easy in this narrator's honest opinion.

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Elsewhere....with Eden when he flew off from the others.

“Just a few more seconds.....”

Bang!

Eden stopped in mid air in front of this horde of Dragons of various sizes and colours. Most of them were of the pure colour rank of Dragons. However leading them was a Dragon King rank creature that coloured pure white. That one looked particularly pissed.

[Die!]

That voice was projected in Eden's head as the white Dragon charged straight at him head butting him.

Bang!

Eden in that moment grabbed the white dragon's head and pushed forward to cancel the force behind the head butt. Eden's six golden wings grew larger to increase the force that we behind him. In that end Eden was pushed back in the air several tens of metres.

With the force pushing him back cancelled out, Eden did a flip and kicked the white dragon away.

Bang!

The white dragon gathered it's balance immediately and moved away in the air in front of the other dragons that dared not to do anything right now at any rate. Two Dragon Kings fighting each other was out of their leagues.

One was their leader The White Dragon King of Purity which ruled over them boasting of the purity of it's colour and power in exchange for it's small size for a dragon (Not that any Dragon would dare mention it to it) while the other was a respected (feared) addition to their numbers from a humanoid race by an Elder Dragon; The Black Chaos Dragon King of Golden Despair.

“Honestly do you really need to attack me after so long White?” asked Eden cleaning his hands on his pants.

[YOU DARE COME BACK TO MY TERRORITY!]

Eden tried to block the noise out of instincts but since it was projected in his mind, he couldn't do anything about it.

“Hey turn into your humanoid form; that way you can talk without shouting things in my mind!” Eden's words were filled with aura energy at the end of it like a shout with a whole bunch of shockwaves with it.

{DIE!]

Lightning gathered in a ball in the white dragon's mouth as it fired it at Eden. While small, it processed one of the most powerful attacks in the game itself being one the same level as a Dragon Breath but compressed heavily.

Eden moved quickly to dodge around it. The lightning ball attack hit the mountain behind it and made a moderate size hole in it though not exploding it into pieces. However it completely went through the mountain and made a clear hole through it.

“I really rather not get hit by that....” muttered Eden seeing the great long hole that was created just then.

Eden looked at the white dragon with a why smile saying, “Hey don't you remember what happened during that Dragon King festival?”

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A long time ago...when Eden wasn't as strong as he was now.....when he was merely at level 673.

“Oh~ What a sight with so many dragons around~” said Eden looking at perhaps hundreds of different dragons each with their own characteristics flying around or crawling on the ground. Some of them were even swimming in the seas.

There were almost no other creatures besides dragons here since it was that time of year again with most of the dragons around the continent gathering in a single place for a single purpose.

The birth of a new Dragon King.

Namely, you must prove to the other dragons, hundreds of strong dragons that you were much stronger than all of them. Eden remembered fighting a Dragon King before and he literally had his ass handed to them. That was many years ago and Eden could probably put up a better fight now. The place Eden was at was on a mountain near the seas to the north.

Because it was a place where the tall mountains, long plains and endless seas met, it was used as a common meeting point for this event.

The Dragon King festival.

A competition between Dragons. Naturally the Dragon population would lower quite a bit due to this event but immediately after this was mating season for Dragons....which Eden did not want to be around any time soon.

Despite the numerous dragons around, some that were....strange, Eden was an even bigger abnormally to these Dragons. The fact was the Eden was not born into the Dragon race but was changed due to the power of an Elder Dragon. Because of this, the other Dragons avoided him due to their pride. Plus to them, it felt like Eden was quite weak so they didn't even bother with them.

Another thing that caused them to avoid Eden who couldn't care less was that he was in a humanoid form right now. Some Dragons capable of transformation could do this but often don't due to pride. Why would they, the respected and feared dragon race fall to take on another lower form?

However much to his surprise there was actually another humanoid dragon here as well. It was a 'young boy' that looked no more than 15 with a short and slender type build and was mostly white with some scales on his arms and face here and there that were a slightly lighter colour than his already light skin colour.

“Hey~” Eden called out to this boy since he was bored and had nothing else to do. Besides Eden took a small interest in this one since the other dragons were naturally avoiding him as well.

The young boy looked at Eden with surprised eyes.

[Who are you?]

Those words came into his head as if the young boy was speaking to him. Eden remembered his feeling due to llyfr but that was not the point right now.

“Hmm? This is....” muttered Eden looking around. At the time he did not suspect that the young boy was capable of talking using his mind.

[Who are you?]

Those words came into Eden's mind again. It was only then that he realised that it was this young boy that was talking using his mind. His mouth didn't move at all so Eden couldn't actually tell who was 'speaking' to him.

“Oh I'm Eden nice to meet you.”

Eden decided to go with the polite route since being like Alexandra will get him nowhere. Plus if he was rude then he could draw attention to himself to these powerful dragons around him.

[I...I...I am....]

Those words appeared in his head once again. Eden immediately realised that this young boy did not have a name at all.

“No name eh? In that case might as well call you 'White' since you look like one...at least to me that is” Eden smirked and casually gave out that name that really wasn't a name but rather a characteristic.

[I am...'White'?]

“Yep, well you choose whatever name you want later though. This is just a place holder until then.”

Eden lied down next to White and started casually talking since he didn't have anything else to do. The Dragon Festival would take place the next day and this was the time where many Dragons would come in order not to waste too much time. As such these mountains were more cramped with Dragons than normal even in the Dragon Festival.

“Anyway are you competing as well?” asked Eden.

[Yes...]

“Hmm....” Eden analysed White carefully and didn't feel the same overwhelming presence of the other Dragons in him....or could White be a girl? No....Dragons usually change shape rarely but take on a proper gender form so White is a guy and looked the part as well.

“Since you seem like you know more than me, can you explain the rules of this festival? Also want to know what happened usually as well.”

[Yes....it is a prideful dance where each attack another to show dominants. Dragon ranks will be determined through this from the lowest impure to the highest pure and even though rare a Dragon King to be born....]

“I see.”

[Usually each tribe group together to attack others. Rarely does a single lone dragon face a tribe of them. There are around 6 or 7 tribes of Dragons are group together for the festival. However most Dragons go alone though they usually group up near the beginning to avoid death from the tribes]

“How many Dragons in a tribe?”

[Around 30 or so each]

“Damn that's a lot....” muttered thinking about it. One Dragon was a hassle to take care of even now but 30 or more was almost impossible to deal with at once. However he did not know the general strength of each Dragon; all he had to go on was the fact that he faced a few Dragons in the past including a certain Dragon King as well.

“Hmm....”

Eden thought about it a bit more and then concluded what could be the best plan to get through this in one piece.

“Say White, want to group together?”

[Eh?]

White was shocked since doing such a thing so suddenly was unheard of. Only those who have known the other for a long time would even considering doing that. Of course this was also due to pride as well.

“You don't want to? I won't force you if you don't though....” Eden looked a bit sadden to which White misunderstood.

Eden was sadden that he might not have a information source in this Dragon Festival. White thought Eden was sadden on not joining with him in this Dragon Festival. Though the misunderstanding was slight, it would soon cause a giant misunderstanding later on.

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[May this Dragon Festival give our race prosperity!]

That voice echoed in the minds of every last being in the mountain region without exceptions. It was the beginning of the Dragon Festival.

“ROOOOOOOOOOOOAR!”

“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!”

“RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROAR!”

Possibly thousands of Dragons roared out at the same time. However there were two particular beings that did not take place with this. These two were Eden and his new comrade for the festival White.

Eden looked at the sight and sighed since it was possible that he might need to face all of them at once.

“Well then, should we wait until things die down or charge straight into hell?” asked Eden in a sarcastic tone.

Next to him in the air was a small white Dragon that was no more than 10 metres large. It was quite small compared to the other Dragons that on average at least triple his size.

[It doesn't matter...the tribes will attack each other while the rest will duel one one one though there are some that may gang up on a single powerful one or one may face many others at will]

White was unlike other dragons in the case that this was his full form. He was from a small breed of dragons that focused on pure power and speed. But without much stamina and defence they were in actually weaker than other Dragons if you can draw out the fight.

But before the two could decide anything, two dragons that were both double the size of White here appeared challenging them immediately.

“Prepare to die for the dragon festival!”

“Small fry should get lost!”

Both of them were quite arrogant even though they were classified as the lowest impure rank amongst dragons. They considered White who was born a pure rank but only had the strength of an impure rank lower than them. What use is talent and linage if you are not strong.

Eden looked at them and evaluated their strength instantly saying. “Only at the level 400 range eh...quite weaker than I expected. Remind me White, is there any benefits on keeping them alive?”

[Not at all. If you die then it's your fault. Naturally you don't finish off the injured since that is dishonourable but it's fine if you kill them in one shot if their in good conditions. It's their fault for facing someone that much stronger than them in the first place]

“Okay then~” Eden was quite amused since now he won't suffer if he killed to many though he wasn't allowed to attack the injured.

“What?!”

“Die small fry!”

The two Dragons that were coloured a dull mix of bronze attacked with their Dragon Breaths at the same time. Most dragons could use dragon breath and it was a form of their characteristics. It was also their pride and joy as well; the larger it was the stronger. These two Dragons were strong enough to immediately cover the area Eden and White was.

“Mana Shield.”

However Eden to his surprise blocked it quite easily. With a confused face he only confirmed that these two Dragons were indeed small fry.

“Sigh....this is a bit disappointing” muttered Eden while the two Dragons were shocked that their attacks were blocked so easily.

“Disappear, Lightning Spear!”

Eden form two Lightning Spears that were much larger than him and impaled it quickly at the heart of the two Dragons while moving too quickly for them to react.

You have killed two Impure Ranked Dragons

[….]

White shook there in the air in shock. Eden was way too powerful taking out two Dragons at once. Dragons were known for their extremely high stats which only grew higher the stronger they were but the most apparent characteristics a dragon had were a strong life force and defence against all physical and magical attacks. This was the main reasons why Dragons were so difficult to hunt.

And Eden just killed them like that even though two level 400 dragons were about a match for a bone dragon.

[What exactly are you Eden?]

That question popped up in my head.

“Well....I suppose a human turned into something then a Dragon and then Dragon mixed with something else....not really sure anymore” Eden scratched his cheeked embarrassingly. He really did not know what he was now. His body changed so much compared to when he was a mere human race character that he didn't bother to check anymore.

Bang Bang Bang!

Eden listened in and heard lots and lots of battles around him. If he were Alexandra, he would be very excited and would run in and attack everything in sight. But Eden preferred not to fight since things would end of troublesome later on.

“Let's avoid attracting too much attention right now. I rather not fight with an inch of my life anymore. You know your way around these places right? Lead us somewhere with not too much fighting around.”

[R-right!]

After that, for several days the two fought only a bit with Eden doing most of the work between the two and he was still using his humanoid form and was not using a speck of Dragon power at all.

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“You dare challenge us?! The Imperial Red Dragons?!” one overly large Dragon shouted at Eden and White at the same time backed up by over 40 other red dragons at the same time.

“I never intended to challenge you lot but seeing that you want to....Dragonic Release!”

This was the first time Eden used this skill in these mountains and the dragon festival. A force that was the power of a dragon was unleashed from Eden's body. The markings on his body glowed and the tip of his hair turned silver. The most prominent thing however was that his eyes glowed a golden red colour.

20 or so of the red dragons backed off a bit through instincts even though they outnumbered their enemies greatly. These were the weaker ones that were only of around the level 500 range. The rest were above level 600 and the leader was at level 800 at least did not even phase at this sight.

“Hmp! So you can use a bit of power. Perish with that brat!” The leader red dragon gathered power and shot out a burning red dragon breath at the two.

“Dragon Transformation!” Eden shouted turning his arms with pure black scales marked with golden light.

BANG!

Eden hit the Dragon breath head on and it exploded on him but soon enough Eden appeared only a bit injured.

“Damn didn't have enough time to defend properly....well then this is quite the situation we have here White hahaha”

[This is not a laughing matter. We have just challenged one of the tribes and the Red Dragon Tribe as well! They won't stop until they kill us all!]

White was quite frightened since he knew the power of a tribe of Dragons since he was all alone.

“It's no problem since half of them are pretty weak while the others only have a moderate amount of strength...also this time I need your help making sure they don't gang up on me” Eden had a serious tone but White didn't know what he was going to do.

“I really have no choice but to go all out once again.”

Eden leaned back and stretched his body. The prideful Red Dragons didn't attacking seeing that Eden said he could go stronger than before. They wanted to face and crush his pride into pieces.

“Well then....Dragonic Overload!”

The aura that was produced by Eden from his Dragonic Release expanded and increased several fold. All of the Dragons in the red dragon tribe...nay most of the dragons in the dragon festival felt this overwhelming power from Eden.

It was like a vortex of power just suddenly appeared.

But Eden just stood there gathering mana into his hands forming spears of mana from them.

“Taaaaaaaaaake This!”

Eden threw the spears at some of the red Dragons instantly killing them making large holes in their bodies were the vital points were. Seeing this, the Red Dragons in rage charged in to attack. There were still over 40 dragons and even Eden would fall eventually.

“White! Attack! Pick off them from the side!” ordered Eden in a loud voice with such power that White immediately acted just as he commanded.

BANG!

In an instant, White's body was covered in some power that was formed at his top speeds that was easily higher than any other dragons. Like a comet or meteor in the sky, White moved and broke through the red dragons' defence easily though couldn't kill them in one shot like Eden could despite his high power and speed.

Bang Bang Bang!

Some of the red dragons turned their attention to White as well. However Eden was still a force they could not ignore.

“Ice Nova!”

Eden smashed his hand covered in ice magic into a red dragon and made it explode into red spikes from it's insides. The two, Eden and White fought like berserkers against the red dragon tribe which numbered over 40 for several hours with each move being critical destructive. Both of them were covered in injuries.

Several hours later....

There was only Eden and the leader of the Red Dragons left. White was injured though still alive but was forced to turn back into his humanoid form to recover.

Eden lost an arm and the red dragon leader was mostly unscratched though his entire tribe died as the cost.

“Ha.....ha.....ha.....” Eden breathed heavily since his vision was blurred, he lacked blood in his body and he was generally in bad shape.

But that oppressive feeling he had still did not disappear at all. The Red Dragon Leader had no choice but to fight him in this state since Eden would not leave him alone. Dragons never deny a challenge even from the injured and weak. It was an honour to die against a much stronger foe; that was what the Red Dragon Leader was thinking Eden was doing.

But it was the exact opposite. Eden was planning to kill this Red Dragon that was over a hundred metres long in size alone.

“Perish!” the red dragon letting out his most powerful dragon breath at Eden. He did not hold anything back at all.

“Crystal Palace of Reflection!” shouted Eden creating some sort of fortress.

The red dragon continued his attack no matter what believing that such a thing will be instantly destroyed.

BANG!

The attack was perfectly blocked, something that had never happened before for the red dragon leader.

“Garden of Eden!” Eden shouted for a second time. The Crystal fortress that was produced disappeared....and in turn hundreds....no thousands of magic attack appeared around Eden all aiming at the Red Dragon just then.

“DIE!”

All of those magic attacks....all of them lethod to any normal creature were shot at the Red Dragon Leader at once.

Bang Bang Boom Bang Boom.....!

The echoes of the explosions that occurred completely drowned out everything else in the mountains.

“....”

Eden looked at the remains of the Red Dragon Leader and threw it with the rest of his tribe. He was planning to sell it to the Kingdom later on since some people...mostly cooks would love to get their hands on it.

Then he looked at his missing arm.

“Hmp!”

A new one grew out instantly as if it was there all along. Eden flew down to White who was still injured since he could not regenerate as fast as Eden who looked perfectly fine right now.

“You okay?” he asked.

White smiled and nodded.

[It looks like we had quite the audience]

Eden looked around and there were many Dragons hiding in plain sight watching the entire battle that occurred before their eyes. The entire Red Dragon Tribe were a faction that processed the most aggressive stance with the greatest power in a large range of attacks.

And two beings just slaughtered them all.

The other Dragons considered White a monster among their race as well since he was capable to fight against so many other Dragons at the same time with his unusual speed and power.

“You think they will attack us while we rest?” asked Eden.

[No....but soon the other tribes will seek us out and attack together due to today]

White looked worried.

“Hmm....that's fine as well. I still have more strength I've been hiding since the beginning” muttered Eden talking to himself mostly.

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A day passed with the two completely healed from the injuries from the last battle. However now they were once again surrounded but by several tribes at once. There were 6 of them in total and numbers to around 100. There were only the strong ones here, each at least level 600 and their leaders that are over level 800 each.

Eden looked at all of these Dragons, all from different backgrounds and gathered with one goal. To exterminate the two strong ones that managed to take out the Red Dragon Tribe.

“Honestly....ganging up on two of us just because we managed to take down a few enemies” said Eden in a mocking voice to all the Dragons around him.

“White, if things get too bad then run away.”

White looked at Eden with displeasure and replied.

[I don't intend to. I'm beginning to see how to use my powers and this will only serve to help me grow]

It seems that White from the experience from last time allowed him to gain some strength. Well all weapons depend on how they are used in the end.

“Let's go!” shouted Eden starting the battle with a burst of power.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Eden kicked down several Dragons while firing magic attacks of all kinds at the other ones. They moved quickly to dodge them but since there were too many of them in an area, they would often knock into each other and cause more chaos.

[Burst Stream!]

White covered his body with his dragon breath that was pure white as well. White had become a beam of white death to the other dragons considering his Dragon breath's power was on the high scale and it was being compressed around his body right now.

“Lightning Shower!”

Eden lifted his hand and produced lightning that dropped like rain onto the dragons around him. Most of them neutralised the attack with their high magic resistance which caused Eden to let out a 'tch'. There were still a large number of dragons left that even Eden could not know how this would end.

He would soon need to play his greatest and most dangerous card yet.

“Dragonic Release!”

Eden's speed increased several times with this release of Dragon power from his body. His speed though much slower than White was still fast in the eyes of the Dragons. With them being unable to use Dragon Breath due to too many of them crowding together to attack the two; they held a massive disadvantage.

The 6 leaders of these Dragons immediately knew this and thus ordered most of them to spread out.

“Move out of the way!” one of them would cry.

“Spread out and cover more distance!”

“Retreat and attack from long range!”

And so the hundred group of dragons spread out to cover most of the mountain area in a 100 kilometre radius.

“White! Stick with me else they might gang up on us!” Eden shouted while flying to White while attacking everything sight around him.

[Got it!]

White accelerated even more and stopped gathering lightning in his mouth for a Dragon breath. Compared to the other Dragons, his one was much smaller but processed the same amount of power as an average dragon.

Why would they fear it?

[Dragon Breath!]

White shot the lightning ball out which instantly travelled and pierced through several dragons critically injuring them at once.

Bang!

The attack also left a large cater in the ground due to the large amount of power exploding at once. While it used up an average amount of energy as a Dragon Breath, it was much smaller and compressed giving it easily 10 times more power than a Dragon Breath.

“Hahaha what a sight!”

Eden laughed at the scared Dragons that backed away a bit more seeing White's power. However he had no pity on them at all.

“Dragonic Overload! Dragon Transformation!”

Eden activated these two skills at once. Soon enough, along with the release of power; his arms and limbs and most of his body were covered in scales and he grew wings from his back and a tail as well.

Eden turned into his Humanoid Dragon form.

“Let's do this! Claw!”

Eden's right hand exploded out and produced a claw that was several times larger than normal while he gripped the head of a Dragon crushing it in one go while kicking the corpse at another Dragon to distract it to get away.

Bang Bang Bang Bang!

White was shooting through Dragons like they were flies easily now. It seems that White's potential was very high but he never got to use it with other Dragons scorning him all the time due to his small size and generally weaker power.

Some minutes passed and a large number of Dragons died, in fact around 20 of them died. However there was strangely less Dragons around them then they remembered.

Then Eden sensed very large energies gathering around them. They were about to use Dragon Breath of all once at them.

“White to me!” shouted Eden now panicking. Something of this level and range could not be dodged at all. At this rate, White would die.

“Hurry up else you will die!”

[Y-yes!]

White moved in to Eden since it was the first time he saw Eden so serious and panicking about something.

“Crystal Palace of Reflection. Multi-layer Mana Shields!”

Eden used these two very overpowered protection spells at once. In an instant, Crystal mirrors appeared layering on each other and surrounding them in a sphere shape. Then a set layer of around 20 mana shields were formed around in between the crystal mirrors as well in a diamond pattern as well.

One of spells was the ultimate reflection type barrier while the other was the ultimate overall protection type barrier.

“Disappear!!!”

A total of 80 Dragons shout their Dragon Breaths at the two at once.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Eden poured as much mana as he could into the defences but it wasn't enough. Something of this level would easily destroy part of the continent....around several mountains in the total amount. Eden's mana levels dropped down to critical with him merely having a few hundred left while critically injured as well. White was also in the same state though in a much better condition than Eden.

His scales while weak were at least thicker than Eden's which led to him taking less damage.

The Crystal Palace of Reflection and Multi-layer Mana Shields collapsed into pieces from the Dragon Breaths but the good thing was that those 80 or so Dragons used up most of their energy in that attack and would at least take a while until they have enough power to do the same with that amount of power again.

“Damn I'm really going to die at this rate” Eden let out a sad laugh since this situation was much worse than he thought.

“No choice but to use that prototype.”

Eden took out a small glowing object in which he crushed.

Mana has been refilled to max

The small glowing object was a mana shard that could contain mana. Eden poured in loads of mana in several of them that could take it just in case he was about to die. He had just used one of those precious mana shards of the highest purity.

“White get back a bit. I don't want you to get too close and die because of me.”

There was a sudden heavy pressure from Eden. The one before made it feel like something was pushing them away but this one was like something was crushing them in both mind and spirit.

Golden Aura spilled out of Eden endlessly and disappeared after going out too far. However it continued to spill more and more out like there was a flood coming out. Eden in that kind of state charged straight to the Dragons at full speed.

A strange chant came out of his mouth.

[I to awaken am the Tyrant whom stole the throne of God]

[I devour the wisdom and rip apart the Knowledge]

[I will become the Magic King that rules over all Creation]

[And I will show you true Despair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[Magic King Drive!!!!!!!!]

With this chant the horrid feeling that everyone felt increased and increased to the point that the Golden Aura exploded several tens of metres around Eden covering his entire body to the point that they could not see them.

“Dam attack attack!”

“Kill that fool now!”

With the orders of some of the dragon leaders, the other dragons snapped out of it and attacked Eden who was flying at them in anger and fear at the same time. Fear due to Eden and Anger due to them feeling fear against such a being.

[Full Dragon Transformation!]

That voice echoed around the area and was heard by everyone.

“ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!!!!”

Something came out of the golden aura.

It was pure black and larger than most dragons.

With pure black scales lined with Golden markings.

This creature gave true fear to the dragons for the first time in a long time.

“Those black scales!”

“Chaos Dragon?!”

“No way! Only the Dragon God had that colour!”

The Dragons scattered in fear of the appearance of such an opponent. All of them knew what was happening now.

It was no longer a battle.

It was simply a massacre to welcome the birth of a new Dragon King.

Scaled in Black and Gold.

Something that was beyond any of them.

“Dragon Breath!” shouted Eden gathering mana in his mouth to the point that it went critical in size and power and shot it at a group of Dragons.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Most of them escaped but those who did not...disappeared with the mountain.

Not much could be said after that. Many dragons were killed by Eden but most of them at least lived since they barely survived one hit from Eden. He followed the words of what White said and didn't kill those who were critically injured although all of the Dragon Leaders were killed without too much effort.

The mountains turned into lava and an ice age during this battle. The Dragons all knew that a Dragon King was born in this festival. They remembered the old fear of Dragon Kings now and what kind of existence they were. It was not something that normal Dragons could even match.

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Eden while in full Dragon form more or less defeated most of the Dragons with his absolute power although he still considered himself a tad weaker than a true Dragon King. Now there were only two Dragons left before the festival would end.

Apparently the Dragon King Festival would take place over a week. There were only a few more hours until sun set and the Dragon King Festival would end.

“So it's only you left....seeing that form you want to fight me don't you?” Eden who was hundred metres big now looked down on White who was only 10 metres large.

White changed his form. He was much more sharper and his speed and power were much higher than before. It was a prime example of a speed type Dragon.

Yes only him and White were left in this Dragon King Festival, all the others were either dead, injured and withdrawn from the festival.

[I will fight you who is more powerful than anyone else! Then if I win.....you and I will.....]

White didn't finish his words at the end and attacked Eden.

Bang!

White had hit part of the shoulder area and ripped off the scales there in an instant. Eden could not even see White move at all. With his size, his speed would naturally but lower which would give him a massive disadvantage against White at this point.

“Hmp!”

Eden seeing this immediately changed to the same size as White which was only a tenth of his size before.

[What?!]

White could not believe what he was seeing, Eden just took on the same form as him.

Bang!

Eden chipped part of White's wing flying at them with White dodging at the last second. Eden perfectly copied the speed and power that White had honed in an instant of just looking at it.

[Take thissssss!]

White gathered Lightning in his mouth again and fired it as a Dragon breath at Eden.

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The sun had set and the two were still fighting.

[The Dragon King Festival has ended!]

Those were appeared in the minds of everyone telling them up the end. Eden and White both stopped attacking each other by now since there was no point. There was no winner between them though Eden was holding back on power to gain more speed in the fight.

[Today is a very special day, a very special Dragon King Festival!]

Every dragon that was still alive listened in carefully. They all wanted to know what would happen next.

[Today, two Dragon Kings were born! The White Dragon King of Purity and the Black Chaos Dragon King of Golden Despair! These two proved they were above from every other dragon in this festival, proved dominants over all other save each other]

It was natural but to think that two dragons that would take on humanoid forms would be crowned as Dragon Kings. Some feared those two while other condemned them for their pride and vowed to kill them later though never stated when.

[Everyone else will know of their rank when they talk to the elder one]

The message cut there.

Both Eden and White turned back into their humanoid forms now with Eden yawning lazily. In front of him was a message from the game that he wanted for a while now.

Dragon Transformation changed to Dragon King Transformation

The whole purpose of him going to this Dragon Festival was so he could get a stronger version of his Dragon Transformation.

“Well then, I have no plans of being pampered by other Dragons into mating season....I rather not go there at all....I leave the rest to you oh White Dragon King~ ”

[You...won't stay?]

White looked at Eden quite sad.

“Hmm? What's with that look? I can easily meet you any time thanks to teleportation. Just send me a call and I'll come over. Next time I'll bring my friends with me as well~”

Eden waved goodbye and said, “Teleportation.”

With that Eden immediately left White without any words.

Several weeks later...where White refused to have children with other Dragons, Eden returned with Alexandra and Viv. Although happy to see each other again, Eden made a certain mistake that would cause him to be 'Banished' from the Dragon Crossing Mountains.

Well....that's another story.

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Elsewhere at the current time...

The group plus Alexandra and the Knight looked up onto the giant castle that was coloured pure white in massive irony.

“So this is the Demon King Castle eh?” said Alexandra chopping down the last of the enemies that attacked them. Behind the group, there was a trail of corpses which were the remains of countless demons.

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Author's Notes:

- Word Count: 9000~

- This chapter is mostly a flashback of what Eden did in the past when he was 'much weaker' than now. Plus I get to introduce more about Dragons and how one (understandable) misunderstanding caused so much grief later on.