Chapter 459: Immortal Agreement
Draconic Heaven.
This heavenly realm that was usually quite calm and peaceful on a normal day was not so quiet at the moment.
The void and sky retained its multicolored hue and an uncountable number of mini planets and floating continents littered the heaven.
*BOOM# BOOM! BOOM!... BOOM!...*
At one corner of the Draconic Heaven, thousands of explosions lit the sky with the fragments of different mini planets and continents drifting through space.
Thousands of heavenly gates were open, suspended in the void.
And what was coming out of these arkships was stunning.
Millions of shuttles, millions.
They poured into the Draconic Heaven like a swarm of flies. At least, one would think that they were a swarm of flies if observed from a far distance.
They bloated out the light of many artificial stars, bringing darkness and the glows of the magic runes on their metallic exteriors.
Coincidentally, these heavenly gates were opened not too far from Ibadon’s private continent.
In fact, it was directly above Ibadon’s continent.
As for Ibadon’s continent, it was no longer existing in one piece. Bits and pieces of it flew around, having been destroyed by the ongoing skirmish.
Even as millions of foreign shuttles poured through, countless dragon shuttles and dragon Imperial Officials stormed the place.
In the midst of all this, Ibadon could be seen, floating aimlessly in space with his pale red eyes calmly looking at all the shuttles.
He wore a look of discontent and annoyance on his face. His continent and mountain had been destroyed after all.
Apart from the many pieces of rocks, there were also the many bodies of serpentine-like dragons as well as the bodies of regular dragons.
Ibadon’s massive black wings flapped once, and all the debris and bodies were blown away.
There were so many heavenly gates open at this time that he failed to notice one among them that had not been open before. One that was slightly smaller than the rest and had no shuttles coming from it.
Ibadon by now was no longer even paying attention to the heavenly gates but to the battle happening in front of him.
One of the drifting bodies of a serpentine-like dragon slipped into this unaccounted heavenly gate right before it suddenly closed.
All this happened without Ibadon’s knowledge.
In front of the dragon-lion hybrid, a fight was currently concluding.
Imperial Guard Voldemort, the green dragon who usually attended to Ibadon, was currently battling it out with an azure dragon of the other species.
"Victoria, is it?" Ibadon asked calmly, still making sure to control himself.
Victoria had her eyes focused on Voldemort, slithering around the void as she attacked and defended against those nasty green dragon breaths.
But her mind was also focused on Ibadon. She herself could hardly believe that she was fighting so close to Ibadon and Ibadon had not yet done anything.
She hadn’t expected their plan to work so well.
"Yes, Regent," Victoria responded, talking as if her life was not on the line.
"I understand the telepathic message your Dragon Emperor sent..." Ibadon started
"...It seems that he thinks just because he has entered the immortal tier, he can act however he wants.
He doesn’t understand...even among immortals, there are entities like me... and there are ants like him."
Ibadon’s tone was unnaturally calm. It was as if he was not truly angry, or he was trying to fake his anger and was doing a bad job at it.
He was more annoyed about his continent than anything else at the moment.
Victoria’s heart beat sped up, could Ibadon disregard the agreement?
"But I understand what he’s trying to say.
If I don’t interfere, he won’t. It’s a simple agreement I am finding hard to come to terms with,"
Victoria breathed a sigh of relief but continued clawing viciously at Voldemort.
That agreement was the only thing stopping Ibadon from taking a step at the moment.
"But..." Ibadon muttered, and the world seemed to pause.
All the battles happening around him seemed to slow down to a frightening crawl.
The sound of a heartbeat could be heard at the depths of every creature’s soul.
Nothingness spread and collapsed, coming as soon as it came.
Victoria blinked, her serpentine-like body curling from discomfort. Voldemort was nowhere to be seen but something was wrong.
Victoria looked up to find that more than three million shuttles had gone missing.
Just like that.
Nearly half of the forces pouring into Draconic Heaven had disappeared as though they never existed.
"That is for the destruction of my continent," Ibadon said. Voldemort was now beside him, safe and away from Victoria.
Ibadon found the fight extremely pointless and very slow. Although, that was his justification for keeping Voldemort safe.
He had just casually wiped out more than a million shuttles from existence. He would do more than that if he actually wanted to.
"Let your Emperor of Creation know that he is making a big mistake. I won’t interfere...for now. I have things to do.
But when I’m ready for him, I’ll interfere in the continuity of his life..." Ibadon said nonchalantly.
Now that he had taken revenge for his continent, he felt a bit better. He was a creature who practically constructed his character around vengeance. It would be out of character for him if he didn’t take revenge for them destroying his continent.
"Regent Ibadon, we know that we are no match for you. We just want a place in heaven to call our own..." Victoria felt like she should speak up at this moment.
But Ibadon was already gone. Disappeared like he was never there.
Victoria sighed with determination in her eyes. The Dragon Empress was currently not in heaven, something that they had foresaw through some unwilling spies.
If she were present, with how dramatic she was known to be, perhaps this would have escalated to levels no one would have imagined.
Truly an embodiment of Destruction.
The contrast between her and the Dragon Emperor of Creation was something that Victoria constantly checked in her mind.
Thankfully, Victoria and the Dragon Emperor had been planning this for some time and had painstakingly studied all there was to know about Ibadon.
It was just as Ibadon said, an agreement between two powerful immortals. It was unclear who was stronger.
Victoria guessed that Ibadon was actually stronger but didn’t want to think too much about it, the powers of the immortals were hard to understand.
Because of the agreement, as long as Ibadon did not interfere, the Dragon Emperor would also not interfere.
It wasn’t that Ibadon was afraid of a fight, some things were just better avoided.
When immortals fought, mortals suffered.
Victoria fully believed what Ibadon said, that once he was done with whatever he was doing, he would turn around and handle them.
There was no fear in his words, just a promise of the inevitable.
Still, these Dragons of Creation had only dared to barge into Draconic Heaven once their Dragon Emperor evolved to the immortal tier.
It showed just how frightening Ibadon was in their eyes as this was the level of preparations they had to have to avoid his power.
’We just have to try,’ Victoria thought and gritted her teeth. The odds were against them.
But when she thought of the plan Ma’abu and the rest of her accomplices were cooking up, she calmed down.
Not even her dragon emperor knew of her true intentions, no one knew, for now.
No one knew the terrible things the Anti-Primordial Coalition was cooking up for everyone.
’The Primordials will fall...’
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While turmoil ensued in the Draconic Heaven, Kael was attending to his matters on Planet Kareem.
It was an unbreakable feature of nature for the strong to bully the weak. No matter how much a strong creature tries to pretend and live among the weaklings amicably, he or she will eventually run out of patience.
N’bayé’s orders to be subtle were now starting to be treated as a suggestion. Even N’bayé no longer bothered about it.
A week has passed since the attack of the three dragon commanders.
The human inhabitants of Planet Kareem, to say that they were traumatized would be an understatement.
But they were, especially those who had lived close to those cities that had been destroyed.
So many people had their loved ones die in that battle that they were not even part of, merely unrecognized casualties.
The number of people who died was staggering, and those who had relatives were also as such.
The nations didn’t even know how to respond to these things. There was nothing to nuke as the two titans had long disappeared.
Would the nukes even work?
The arkships had been moved away but videos of the time they hung above the planet still circulated on the internet.
For the past week, Planet Kareem had not been settled at all.
And the one responsible for all this, Kael, was currently overseeing an interrogation.