The Red Dragon Just Wants To Do As It Pleases-Chapter 509 - 306: Declaration of War

"Saphiros?"

Seeing that David did not directly respond to her request for a private meeting later, Aria was quite heartbroken for a while. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

She also suddenly began to wonder. Why would he, a Wanderer who always preferred to be alone and had little interest in politics, suddenly take an interest in the Queen’s speech? And why, when the Queen mentioned the name of the second Red Calamity, David Uthos, did Leopold look at Saphiros with such an expression of... despair and utter devastation? Wait, Leopold hasn’t been back to Dewensen for a long time, and even I only met Saphiros in the last two years. How on earth did they know each other? And they seem so familiar!

At the same time, an inconceivable and heart-sinking thought surfaced in her mind.

But David, who had heard this historical secret from the lips of Queen Eternal herself, after a deep look at Aria—who at this moment seemed as innocent and pitiable as a small animal—turned to Leopold with a sigh.

"No wonder," he said. "No wonder you would spare no expense to rescue the Moon Goddess’s Chosen. No wonder you are so eager to capitalize on the advent of this Starshine Dragon Madness. Is it truly... related to the return of the ’Nine-Faced Dragon God’?"

Leopold, on the verge of collapse, clutched his head and muttered, "I didn’t know, I really didn’t know! I was just following orders, leading the Mage Corps in a feigned attack on Montero to assist the Gloomy Lyre squad in rescuing Aria, the Chosen of God... All these other things... I really didn’t know! I was forced into it too..."

David, upon hearing this, was noncommittal. However, the current situation brought a complex smile to his face as some of his past doubts also cleared. At the same time, I can’t help but feel that the gaze of the gods always sees farther than that of mortals, he reflected. I’m certain that the two departed Dragon Gods understood this point. It was precisely because they understood this that after the true form of the Platinum Dragon God Bahamut broke free from his seal, taking advantage of the destruction caused by his ascent to The Slaying King Star, he spared no effort in hunting other Dragon Gods to elevate his own power. And Tiamat also descended from Barto Hell with her true form at the first opportunity, just to defeat her adversary and seek the unification of the divine office. They were both trying to save their own race and civilization in their own ways. Since both Dragon Gods knew, then Mother Pafila, who inherited Tiamat’s divine office, must also have known. Yet, she alone chose not to tell me. Just like the Pafila of old, she always let me steadfastly walk the path I chose. Many years later, today, Pafila still chooses to bear the burden herself, afraid that this heavy mission would fall entirely onto my shoulders. Yes, with the Dragon Clan so diminished today, unifying the Nine-Faced Dragon God’s divine office is no longer just an Authority, but a heavy mission. The mere knowledge of its potential emergence and unification could quickly make one the Adversary of All Living, causing the Elves to scheme endlessly, even to the point of wanting to completely exterminate the great Dragons.

At the same time, another thought took root in David’s mind, chilling him to the bone: Was the simultaneous disappearance of Tiamat and Bahamut really just a coincidence? Or, similar to the root cause of the Dragonfall War of old, had the Elves been preparing such a contingency ever since Bahamut broke free? After all, Teleportation Gates, spatial manipulation, and the like have always been the Elves’ specialty. The war between the Dragon Gods took place in the Multiverse’s most desolate outer plane, the Grey Wilderness. Yet the Elves were still able to learn and confirm instantly that the two Dragon Gods had left this world. That in itself seems to reveal a great deal.

While David marveled at the Elves’ endless and unpredictable schemes, just a street away in Golden Oak Plaza, Queen Eternal Arasya similarly dreaded him and was proclaiming to her Elven compatriots the threat posed by this Red Lotus Nova.

"These past two years," Arasya began, her voice carrying across the plaza, "I’m sure you—no, including my own subjects—have been perplexed as to why I insisted on sealing the battle report from the Battle of Montero Coast two years ago."

She smiled somewhat self-mockingly. "Because I am very afraid, and very worried, that once my subjects learn the truth behind that battle, they will fall into unending panic."

As the Elven envoys pondered and the Elven Nobles exchanged puzzled glances, Queen Arasya continued, "If the unification and advent of the Nine-Faced Dragon God is merely a looming concern for the near future, then David Uthos is the greatest calamity the material plane currently faces. Yes, calamity. That’s the only word I can use to describe him. Because according to the latest intelligence I received, this Red Dragon, who possesses the potential to unify and inherit the Nine-Faced Dragon God’s divine office, had already embarked on his Legendary Destiny during that coastal battle two years ago. At that time, he was only fifty-four years old. His talent far surpasses that of the Mighty God who plunged all of Elariya into ten years of darkness. And what’s even more terrifying is that David Uthos seems to have, through an iron fortress called Tokamak which he constructed in his early years, successfully obtained its Authority. That is the Eternal Well—the ultimate concept that our Elves, during our era of prosperity, despite dedicating the entire race’s strength and paying the price of sundering the Continent, ultimately failed to achieve."