The Red Dragon Just Wants To Do As It Pleases-Chapter 493 - 295: Storm, Earth, Flame, Hear My Command

David was certainly not insane. On the contrary, the sudden High Elf ambush, compounded with the irritation of just waking up, made David feel more lucid than ever before. It was a tangible anger. An anger that sprang from his heart, far beyond the half-intentional, half-fatalistic Wrath he usually harbored. This blazing anger, in turn, ignited and began to burn his Authority.

In that moment, David suddenly understood, much like his father, Attilicia, who after a phase of accumulating strength, finally advanced into Legendary Destiny with a Thunder Guard spell. Back then, I had an indistinct feeling... he recalled. Through the years, as I repeatedly approached the threshold of legend via the Tokamak device, I always felt something was missing. So much so, that whenever I was about to grasp it, it would abruptly halt. But now, it has arrived! Delivered right to my doorstep by the High Elves using the Titans as their tool: all those emotions! The ones instinctively suppressed by my growing reason since I left behind that unstable environment of my adolescence, an environment that haunted me with insecurities about the dawn of each day. They hadn’t disappeared; they were merely buried deep within my heart—the heart of David, the transmigrator. The legal system and conscience instilled from another world’s era had calmed my increasingly agitated soul. However, they had also, to some extent, imprisoned and shackled my power like a cage. This continued until this very moment, when the actions of these High Elves fully unleashed it.

The irony of fate is this: something you search for tirelessly but cannot find often reappears unexpectedly when you’re facing hardship and confinement.

In that instant, David’s path ahead suddenly became clear to him. The Seven Deadly Sins are ultimately my true calling, he realized. Like gravity, they invisibly pull me, the wanderer, back to my... Throne of Power.

So, what lies at the end of it all? To hell with it! Right now, all I want is to slaughter this pack in front of me!

His rage was nearly boiling. This, coupled with the endless hatred for Giants ingrained in the Dragon legacy, prompted David to draw out the Mithril Dragon Mad Lock—a device capable of plunging ordinary dragons into immediate madness. The layering of various wild and chaotic forces made David, Authority now in hand, want to throw back his head and laugh.

Yet the smile that stretched his lips nearly to his ears looked cruel and mad in the eyes of the Frost Titans and High Elves.

"Storm, Earth, Flame, heed my command!"

In a flash, under the influence of David’s Authority—Pride, the skies began to thunder and strike with lightning. They were already overcast due to the Frost Titans’ arrival. Simultaneously, the earth of the Tokamak coast trembled violently, spewing lava and flames through its cracks. Only the Tokamak Fortress, at the storm’s epicenter, went against the tide and began to restore itself. This made the Frost Titans, engaged in a bloody battle, struggle to keep their footing.

David issued a ’secret order’ that only he and the Blue Dragons understood, prompting the dragons to regroup around the Tokamak Fortress. Meanwhile, Patrice, the Blue Dragon leader, while holding off the Titan assault, also helped his kin retreat, instructing, "Conserve power! Channel it into the Fortress Energy Core!"

David Uthos needed their strength, enhanced by legendary power. But what neither Patrice nor any of the other dragons knew was that David was not after temporary, near-legendary power this time. Instead, he aimed to use the ’opportunity’ created by the High Elves to completely shatter the legendary gate standing in his way!

Only Attilicia vaguely sensed what David intended to do. He looked at the increasingly dazzling Mithril Dragon Mad Lock upheld in David’s claw. Steeling himself, Attilicia flew behind David to activate his own creation, the Legendary Magic—Thunder Guard. However, this time, instead of radiating it outward, Attilicia pressed the wild force back in. This was the Tokamak Fortress, and it would soon be filled with dragon soldiers. If he didn’t do this, they might go mad before the rallying was complete, even before the ignition of the Fusion Flame, which had a similar, maddening effect.

What Attilicia didn’t realize was that this very act added fuel to the fire already raging in David’s heart. Madness is also a form of chaotic power, David mused.

In his wild laughter, David inexplicably thought of a line as he looked down from the sky upon the Titans on the land and the High Elves lurking in the shadows further along the coast, The flames of anger burn in my heart. Then he roared, "I will crush you all, grind you to dust!"

If David could see himself at this moment, he would definitely scoff at his own image with self-mockery. My appearance right now... it finally has some resemblance to those villainous bosses in movies and games... I am the evil amongst evils! The Dragon amongst Dragons!!!

"ROAR!!!!!"

The Dragon’s Roar echoed through the vast sky.

"Stop him! Quick! At all costs! Otherwise, I will banish you back to that icy hell immediately!" the High Elves, suddenly realizing something was terribly wrong, reacted at once.

On the other side, the Frost Titan King, who had signed a contract with the Elves to return to the Prime Material Plane, received the High Elves’ urgent order.

"Hmph!" Although the Frost Titan King couldn’t care less about those monkeys—who back in the day weren’t even worthy of being his cannon fodder—he still let out a skyward roar, whether out of hatred for the dragons or out of reason.

The Frost Giants immediately ceased their somewhat meaningless destruction of Montero Ore Town. They followed the cluster of dragons in the sky as the Tokamak Fortress retreated towards the deep desert.

Some dragons had just managed to take off when their wing bones were pierced by stones and whale harpoons thrown by the Frost Giants. They fell dispiritedly onto the desert.

Lefilia was one of them. Clenching her teeth, she watched an approaching Frost Giant take thundering steps towards her. For some reason, her originally fearful and desperate heart suddenly became surprisingly calm. Am I about to die? Perhaps, it might be for the best... The husband I chose on the Night of the Storm, ’Tanyas,’ turned out to be female, just like me. I had accepted that at first, thinking it wouldn’t be a big deal for us to raise hatchlings together in the lower nest, but ’Tanyas’ still ’fled’ back to Dragon Island. This realization had left her deeply shaken.

But as soon as she saw a blue dragon speeding towards her from a distance, she could no longer maintain her composure and urgently cried out a warning, "Don’t come over here! Run! Silvia!"

At the same time, from the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a Frost Giant with a vicious smile, aiming its throwing spear at the approaching Silvia.

Just as Lefilia felt an indescribable guilt and Despair, a somewhat familiar, crisp voice suddenly came from the sky.

"Form ranks! Deep breath! Exhale!"

Accompanied by blasts of breath like ice storms, a sturdy layer of frozen mirror formed instantly on the coastal sands. Although these icy breaths did not harm the Frost Giants much, the rapidly freezing ice greatly slowed their charge. Some slipped and fell midway. In an army’s group charge, such a fall often proved fatal. Some unfortunate Frost Giants were trampled by their own comrades, much like when her sister Tania had nearly knocked the breath out of her with a headbutt. Under their own terrifying weight, some Frost Giants were instantly gravely injured and near death.

Lefilia, whom Silvia had just pulled up from the ground, then saw Alicia flying toward them. With a clear yet firm voice, Alicia commanded her followers in battle.

For a moment, the pressure on the Blue Dragons, entangled with their pursuers, greatly lessened. But seeing that her rescuers were a group of Silver Dragons—supposedly mortal enemies—and especially the Silver Dragon Princess Alicia, whom she was reluctant to face, Lefilia’s feelings became even more complicated.

Alicia simply gave her a firm nod and then continued to engage in the battle to stop the Giants.

Just as the Titans finally managed to break through the harassing blockade of these ’clever’ Silver Dragons, they heard a series of whispering chants. Could it be that among these dragons, there are more than just one or two with a Magic Addiction? they wondered.

When they raised their heads and looked towards the Dragon Fortress, which seemed almost within reach, the city opposite them suddenly lit up.

"’Arcane Explosion Technique—FIRE!’"

As many as 3,000 Neisser Arcanists in snow-colored robes stood on the ramparts of the steel fortress. As their chant ended, their magic wands flared with a light as spectacular as a concentrated barrage from the neighboring Blue Star’s 155mm artillery batteries.

The might of the massed magical firepower, personally orchestrated by David, was officially making its debut on the Prime Material Plane.

In an instant...

The earth boiled over.