Dragon of Catastrophe

"Not good! The next eruption is coming soon! Everyone, quickly hide in the solar core to avoid it!"

A Fire Element noticed something amiss and shouted urgently.

Reminding his companions, they all dove into the solar core.

They felt the slight tremor of the entire core, and only emerged after a long while.

The dragon at the center seemed to have suffered some damage in the recent explosion, visible to the naked eye, as droplets of crimson blood dripped from its body, merging into the solar core.

But soon, it would heal.

"By the Elemental God! What did I just see? Blood?

This is blood, isn’t it? The blood of a flesh-and-blood creature?

It’s not a pure Elemental Life? But a life form of flesh and blood?

How on earth can it withstand such high temperatures of millions of degrees?"

The Fire Elements were dumbfounded at the scene before them.

The intense tremor of the core nearly tore their bodies apart.

Everything before their eyes far exceeded their common knowledge.

"No matter what! Let’s leave first and report everything we’ve seen to the Dorlan Star People, so we can account for it as completing the mission; let’s return quickly to the Fire Elemental Plane.

Ah! Damn it! The pressure on the solar core is too heavy, my core is about to crack!"

A Fire Element couldn’t help but exclaim.

Its entire fiery body had almost no weight.

But its soft round core at the center was slowly cracking under the terrifying pressure, making its body nearly collapse, looking quite pitiful indeed.

But actually, this was considered fortunate.

Among the Elemental Life, only such pure ones without any impurities, almost weightless, could survive in the solar core.

They were the meticulously selected explorers of the Dorlan Star People.

If the explorers this time had been other creatures like the Magma Giant, even if they could endure the external high temperatures, they would be crushed by the heavy pressure of the solar core, their divine forms obliterated.

Other Fire Elements weren’t faring much better, and upon hearing, immediately said:

"Then let’s leave quickly, I swear, when we go back, I’ll never respond to a summoning at random again.

Recently, it feels like the outside world is getting harder to negotiate; seriously, if we don’t hurry up, we might all die here."

A few Fire Elements muttered as they prepared to leave.

However, an anomaly occurred again.

From the scales of the startling Giant Dragon, one by one, dazzlingly pure white Fire Elements slowly emerged.

Filled with incredibly violent energy within, they were just like the dragon beside them.

They looked like small Q-version dragons, their eyes blazing as they stared at them.

These, are Fire Elements too?

"Woo-woo! Hey hey hey hey!"

These strange elements made peculiar sounds.

The Fire Elements could not understand.

It didn’t belong to their Elemental speech, nor was it the soulful sound with Magic Power.

They couldn’t fully comprehend it.

But they could sense a trace of hostility within it.

In the next moment.

These strange elements opened their mouths and spat.

Spitting out small, pure white spheres of light, they rushed toward the Fire Elements.

Contained within was an exaggerated amount of Flame Power.

Yet the Fire Elements didn’t pay much attention.

Instead, they continued to try to leave.

Until the spheres neared their bodies and once again bloomed with radiance, did the Fire Elements suddenly realize something was wrong.

A violent explosion thundered.

Like several nuclear bombs detonating, the intense shock instantly shredded these Fire Elements, their cores shattered, turning them to dust.

Afterward, these light-like elemental creatures slowly retreated back into the Giant Dragon’s scale armor.

As if nothing had ever happened.

Beyond the fixed star.

Originally engaged in a bitter battle with the Rainbow Dragon at the edge with the Mecha units.

Inside the auxiliary combat spacecraft.

A few Dorlan Star People were shaken dramatically.

One among them said:

"Something seems wrong! The Fire Element I contracted died!"

"Me too!"

"An unexpected situation has occurred."

"Was it killed before descending into the fixed star, or inside the fixed star?"

"News just came through, the Fire Elements were successfully sent into the fixed star, so they perished within."

"In that case, doesn’t it indicate there’s a creature surviving inside the fixed star?"

"Is it possible that the ever-bursting shining domain has surviving life inside because of this?"

"Not necessarily, perhaps a Guardian watching over a treasure?"

"Regardless, our action this time has failed; let’s leave and await the next operation."

These Dorlan Star People debated for a while and then one by one retreated from the battlefield.

The Rainbow Dragon saw the enemy retreating and also left, it was so distracted that it didn’t notice that intruders had long stepped into the solar core.

The withdrawal of the Dorlan Star People was merely temporary.

Their intense curiosity didn’t allow them to give up halfway on the pursuit of truth and the unknown.

In time, even every month, they would tentatively send Fire Elements to inspect the solar core.

But invariably.

None returned.

Until a few years later.

A few Dorlan Star People seized the opportunity while the main force was restraining the Rainbow Dragon and once again sent Fire Elements into the fixed star.

This time was different than before.

They were all brimming with spirit.

Their eyes full of confidence.

This confidence came from the status of the Fire Element they sent.

A Lord from the Fire Elemental Plane!

With a level of Epic Five.

This Fire Elemental Lord was captured after much effort and cost.

It was especially used to complete the solar core exploration task ongoing for years but unfinished.