Ashen Dragon-Chapter 1232 - 369: Sacrifice and Battle

The Allied Forces’ bombings continued, with shells constantly falling near the altar, exploding in a blaze of fire that engulfed countless Dragon Worshipers.

"Gregory!"

Accompanied by an angry shout, Karl’s figure transformed into a blurred afterimage, rushing towards the elder with a speed enhanced by Dragon Vein energy far beyond human capabilities.

In Gregory’s murky eyes, the confusion was thoroughly consumed by boundless fear the moment Felipe charged towards him.

He seemed to want to scream, to retreat, to draw a weapon to resist—but it was all too late.

The Calamity Staff in Karl’s hand, with a scorpion sting-like venomous needle at the tail, pierced through the elder’s chest with perfect precision and ruthless coldness, tearing through the air!

"Ugh—!"

A short, almost tuneless scream squeezed out from the elder’s throat.

His body convulsed violently.

Immediately following, a terrifying scene unfolded.

The red scale armor on his body seemed to instantly become a living thing, like countless hungry tiny worms, frantically piercing back into his flesh, greedily sucking!

His skin turned ashen and shriveled at a visibly rapid pace, as though dehydrating in an instant.

Gregory’s eyes widened, the last image in his pupils reflecting Felipe’s inhuman eyes, glowing with insane red light beneath the shadow.

Then, there was light!

A glaring, pure red light!

Not shining from outside, but erupting from within the elder’s rapidly withering body!

Gregory’s flesh, bones, and even the last echoes of his soul were thoroughly decomposed and devoured by that red light!

In the blink of an eye, only a set of empty red scale armor remained, clattering to the ground.

And the extremely condensed, destruction and ferocity-filled crimson pillar of light burst from the altar’s top, directly piercing into the five-headed dragon shadow in the sky!

"Praise Tiamat! Calamity descends!"

Karl spread his arms, raising the Calamity Staff high, as pillars of light ascended once more from the altar beneath.

White pillars arose with soul-freezing chill; black pillars exuded corrosive miasma; green pillars churned with deadly toxins; blue pillars leaped with air-rending electric arcs!

Five pillars, symbolizing the complete deprivation and transformation of sacrifices into pure filth and evil energy, converged before Tiamat’s five-headed shadow!

"Roar—"

The five-headed dragon shadow in the sky let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth!

The entire Anvil City shook violently as if struck by a giant hammer! The five pillars representing different destructive forces bent downward and intertwined with a sudden surge amidst the dragon shadow’s roar!

They did not attack the city; instead, under the watchful eyes of the Allied Forces, they weaved and merged madly above the city!

White frost, black acid, green poison, blue electricity, red flame—five vastly different, mutually repulsive destructive energies, forcibly fused under Tiamat’s will, forming a huge, inverted bowl-like barrier!

This barrier, descending from the high-altitude five-colored dragon shadow, was expansive, enveloping the entire city within.

This is the "Five-Colored Calamity Barrier"! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Damn evil god!"

"Concentrate firepower!"

"Since they insist on resisting to the end, then bombard this city into ruins, flatten it—at any cost!"

From the direction of the Allied Forces came the intensified whistling of the breaking air, thousands of shells soaring skyward, like a gale forged of steel, tearing the air as they shot from all directions toward the freshly formed barrier.

The moment the shells collided with the barrier, they first froze into ice, then were dissolved by strong acid and poisonous mist, subsequently struck by violent lightning, exploding into scattered iron debris, ultimately being vaporized completely in the flames, disappearing without a trace.

The dense, rain-like impacts merged into a teeth-grating hissing sound, a mournful requiem as the steel of the Material Plane futilely vanished before the divine might.

Not a single shell could leave even a ripple on that barrier imbued with five-colored dragon breath.

"Praise the great Mother of Ten Thousand Dragons! Five-Colored Dragon Queen!"

"This is a miracle!"

The Dragon Worship Sect members looked at the sky enveloped in five-colored brilliance, expressions fervent and devout, shouting and chanting with excitement and battle cries.

"How is this possible?"

Even the Allied Forces commander stood dumbfounded, exclaiming in disbelief.

All attempts by the Allied Forces were swallowed by the Five-Colored Calamity Barrier, unable to stir even the slightest ripple.

"Damn evil god!"

"Don’t stop, keep bombing! I refuse to believe that their divine power can protect them forever!"

Meanwhile, the scene within the barrier was equally horrifying. The red daylight filtered through the distorted barrier, casting the entire city under a bizarre, fluctuating halo.

The surviving citizens in the square felt strange stabs and itching on their skin, as if countless small scales were growing beneath the surface.

The air was thick with an overwhelming dragon stench, each breath like swallowing scorching sand.

Even more terrifying, innumerable low, malicious and greedy whispers in Draconic, like billions of venomous snakes, bored directly into everyone’s minds, gnawing at their sanity!

The weak-willed started to lose focus, nervously scratching their skin with their fingers, eyes flashing with eerie glimmers, uttering senseless mutterings, spreading madness like a plague among the crowd.

"This is... Her Majesty the Dragon Queen’s blessing!"

"Hahaha, I’ve become a Dragonborn too, scales are growing on me, I will become a noble giant dragon!"