Now every second counted.

Bello, Sarah and all the others including the elves were asked to follow a Kobold drago.

"The base is no longer safe... Tyrant and his henchmen will react and bomb the area... And the whole place will be filled with lava...

On the giant screen, all that could be seen was celestial fire and the flaming remains of thousands of shattered ships.

Tyrant pulled himself together, his plans frustrated...

And he ordered his generals: Bomb that cannon before it reloads.

But the cannon had already folded and was sinking deep into its abyssal housing... certainly to be absorbed by the darkness.

Quickly, the Tigris, a destroyer relatively spared by the explosion, moved into attack position.

Nobody had yet spotted the DOOM, well hidden in the darkness.

But the most serious thing was the artifact! Although it had resisted the explosion.... It was deorbiting and ... it was starting to fall.

Tyrant shouted: "Save the sacred stone...!"

Then he went into a trance, to use his divine powers.... "Enka... you will pay for this..."

He knew well that as long as the stone was intact with its magic Enka could not materialize in the world. Well... this world!

The Tigris sent a squadron of shuttle bombers and support fighters just in case.

Then, he fired torpedoes on the wrecks and debris to disperse them and finally, technical cables

The Tigris was using all his power to stop the precious stone from re-entering the atmosphere. If it fell, it would do damage because of its mass, but it had no kinetic energy yet.

The black fairy was in connection with me as I headed down a hallway to an old warehouse... as old as the runic cannon.

"Tyrant, your reign will end!"

Minos, having miraculously survived the horrific explosion was aboard the Tigris now. A shuttle? an ejection pod? a piece spared??? No one knew. But he was on board and taking command.

"This is a disaster!!!! What a powerful shot..... one or two shots like that and it would be the end of Proxima...or Venus...."

Then he took his com.

"Majesty... my sense of danger .... You need to get to safety..."

On the video, Tyrant.. "General...does this sound like a retreat?"

"No... an ambush and with the areas pacified... we have not equipped our spaceships for combat and our defenses are pulverized... The gun is protected and is invisible again ... it must reload.... And it shoots quickly, its deployment exceeding all understanding... And the technology...too advanced on that of humans...It is hypergeometry... The dragon...it's a mad scientist who masters dimensions.... We need to gather our forces...."

Tyrant thought... "I am currently under attack on the astral plane and the dream dimension... The cursed Darkia...."

"Shave the dwarves, no... shave everything!, including the city...."

Minos: "And the elves? they remained faithful to you!!!"

Tyrant: "I sense a decline in their faith... nearly a thousand of them have turned to darkness..."

Minos: "Majesty... the Tigris lacks power... The artifact is pulling us out of orbit... We need help..."

Tyrant: "I know..."

But as the artifact dropped in altitude, his power to keep the Destroyer at bay diminished.

He considered whether to connect his ship to the Tigris and flee to Venus, activate a teleportation portal, and find Proxima, the system where the Ummites came from.

The humans saw the shockwave coming from space and the mass of elves started to panic...

The gnomes understood the message too late and so did some fairies.

They all rushed to the hydra temple... the subway station... the darkness.

Vespalians had arrived at the entrance.

They were 4 meters high and accompanied by 2 drago Kobolds...

The mantises had unfolded their scythes and "Clawed" by lacerating with the chain the mass of creatures coming to rush in the tunnel of darkness. Their blood offering binding them to the goddess Enka. Some of them were biting the veins in their arms to gain a few seconds, but the ground was shaking, and the exterminating breath could already be heard.

A few hundred were lucky enough to benefit from the Hydra's mercy.

The Vespalians rushed into the hole, followed by the dragons... The next second, it was a tornado of stones and glass... And the structures were torn from the ground...

Thousands of creatures died or were seriously injured... then it was after a long groan... more than 40,000 injured and killed... The lucky ones were those who reached the tunnels and shelters... but they were all full... It was a disaster.

The lucky ones were able to raise their heads and look at the sky... between the clouds of dust...

The whole sky was on fire... and thousands of shooting stars indicated the re-entry of celestial bodies into the atmosphere...

And the most to be feared... a huge glowing rock...

Kate was not far... She was in her cave then she escaped from the 2 Kobolds fighters and ran towards the base.

"I was wrong about everything... My dragon really did it...what a destruction..."

I was in a huge room, and the trains were pouring in with Dwarf, Kobold and Vespalian soldiers...

Then I saw in the crowd Monty and Raven...

I was in my black dragon form...

"What are you doing here?"

Then I saw in the hangar.. the quadri.. their ship, equipped with a transport cabin...

"Children... This is a journey of perhaps no return..."

Raven: "We need humans who can fly the crane!!!"

But I knew it was Enka who sent them to me...

"And sarah???? Bello??"

"We are here with you!..."

And I turned around.

They were here with two combat shuttles...

Then I saw Waspy.. in an emerald dragon...

"Lord Carnage... it's time.... we must help The Black Fairy..."

I saw hundreds of kobolds, vespalians and dwarves... all on one knee on the ground, hand over heart...

"We will follow you everywhere, Lord... God Carnage!"

I felt the power of faith come over me... my nature was changing... something in me was awakening...

I had the support of a whole people...

"My friends, my family... my people... You have more than served our goddess. You have fought for your home, your land, your world... our world..."

I looked at Darkia at my side... and Waspy on the other... then ... I heard a clicking sound that I recognized immediately..

"Hans... I ask you one last time to forgive me... I want to go where you are going. I want to go TOGETHER to get our children... I am a dragoness... I am ready to die..."

I also saw cuts on her paw... she had finally gotten the courage to meet Enka... She was a dragoness.

I opened my wings and so did Darkia and... Kate ran to me and we hugged...

We hugged very tightly and everyone clapped...

Then... Ruin, the AI warned of an imminent attack on the base.

"Let's not waste time... everyone to your stations... you know what you have to do!"

The shuttles began to bomb but still missed their target...

But...there was a but...

The spider fighters with Vespalians in the back arrived en masse and the fights were brief.

Magic always has the upper hand over technique...

The fighters were faster and launched directional thunderbolts.

The bombers were wiped out...

the support fighters were no match for them... The Ummites did not expect such a level of resistance, power and... simply, they paraded around with extravagant ships made to subdue and scare, but at the battle level, it was mediocre.

Moreover, the ummites did not train, did not have clear notions of attack, of predation.

It was a hive built around Tyrant, again and again but I had revealed the giant's feet of clay...

I, no.. we shook it off.. Now all that was left was to bring him down.

The Doom appeared, and... hundreds of Vespalians, riding a space motorcycle of their own size, charged at the Tigris...

Minos looked on...

"We are lost!

All the energy on the reactors to stop the fall and stabilize the rock had negated the resources needed to protect the space cruiser.

It had no shields and the machine guns were disabled

"ACTIVATE THE SHIE...(lds)"... But a dull sound was heard.

And scythes cut the bulkheads... The Vespalians rushed in and tore the Ummites apart.

Doors and walls were cut like tinfoil...

He took his disintegrating gun and fired...a vespalian was disintegrated, then a second one jumped on him...but the mass made the difference... Like a tick jumping. but the size of an elephant...

And he didn't see the other vespalian coming at his back, decapitating him with his powerful jaws and the scythe going from his back through his body.

"NOOONNN ARRRGH... TyrantNN to Me!!!"

But the Daimakan, Tyran's ship turned around. And switched on its full power reactors.

"Tyrant: Faster!!!"

As soon as the vespalians finished, the Tigris was lost.

The doom then fired a salvo causing a major explosion that pushed the artifact towards its fall...

As Tyran ran... He made his way to the trophy room... and faced the trapped dragonets...

"DADDY will eat you!!!!" they all shouted together.

Then a sword appeared in his hands...

"You will never see your father again..." and he swung the sword to kill one of the dragonets half frozen in the eternal ice.

But he received a terrible bite, severing his hand, the sword falling to the ground...

"Darkia!!!"

The nightmare had materialized.

Tyrant fled to a brightly lit place...

Then he cast a spell of divine light and the whole ship lit up.

Darkia had just enough time to retreat into the darkness but shouted "Hold on little ones... We're coming!"

And as the artifact melted into the atmosphere, all its runes began to fade and its magic dispersed...

It crashed into the desert... Forming a huge crater... and a mushroom that went with it... a fire mushroom...

But as it had no kinetic energy, it was not an exterminating explosion...

Just a few volcanoes... spitting out the energy of the impact.

While everything was collapsing

the powerful engines of the Repressior started up and the ramming machine, a giant drill, started up...

It was monstrous, just like its designer: Carnage! and built with the rage of a dragon!... no... of dragon people!

Rocks were pulverized and rubble exploded...

Then the powerful retrorockets of several tens of meters pushed the infernal mass upwards, defying gravity. But the extremely armored ship could only be classified as a battleship/destroyer.

It was with magic that gravity was finally able to release the huge ship from its embrace... The Repressor. Even its name represented all the rage and despair of a single being facing extinction.

But only a madman could counter a madman's situation.

Everyone shook hands, paws and even the Vespalians shook hands with the dwarves and the others, becoming one, one team.

The Doom had already left in pursuit of Tyrant.

But shuttles were waiting for the Repressior this time.

I pushed the engines to the limit, to gain speed... And I had the support of the Destroyer... I could feel its power growing in me every second, amplified by my dragon rage...

Then an armada of shuttles was waiting for us... And then I decided to enter the pile...

Each shuttle was about ten meters long, like a good and maneuverable combat ship.

We received the first impacts, but the heavy, magical armor held.

The Ummites were not prepared... I was!

But after some rockets... with mana crystals...

The ummites fell like mosquitoes in the fire.

Then... a race against time was started...