Chapter 295 - 290: Tiamat
Leon snapped back to reality, realizing he was standing amidst an endless expanse of darkness.
Thanks to the Heavenly Eye Technique granting him true sight, he could actually see that he was still inside Tiamat’s temple. Just two steps back would take him out of it, and one blast of Samadhi True Fire could burn away this entire darkness.
Indeed, this was the Material Plane. Even someone as exalted as Tiamat, the Evil Dragon Queen, could not act without restraint here. For her incarnation to fully descend, she would need a devout follower brimming with power and rage, offering up a treasure vault as opulent as those of the Ancient Dragons, to let her wrath pour into this world.
At this moment, faint rolls of black clouds were visible in the darkness. Thunder roared within the clouds, the ground began to tremble, and the air grew thick with the choking stench of sulfur and scorching heat...
Five dragon heads slowly emerged: the red dragon head wreathed in Fierce Flame, the blue dragon head crackling with Lightning, the green dragon head surrounded by poisonous mists, the black dragon head dripping with corrosive acid, and the white dragon head exhaling frost. Finally, accompanied by an earth-shaking roar, an immense five-headed dragon, as imposing as a mountain, materialized from the shadows.
Watching Tiamat stretch her wings, blotting out the sun, each flick of her tail stirring up cyclonic winds and clouds of dust as if threatening to tear the world asunder, Leon’s heart skipped a beat. But only for a moment, before it returned to normal.
Leon was far from a pushover now. In the Bottomless Abyss, he could be a Demon Lord; in the Nine Prisons, a Great Devil. While confronting Tiamat’s true form was beyond him, a mere projected illusion of her was not enough to scare him.
Projected illusions were spells that created an illusory replica of oneself anywhere within range where one had been before. While lacking physical form, such illusions looked and sounded exactly like the caster. If the illusion took any damage, it would vanish, ending the spell.
Leon instinctively licked his dry lips.
Yes, this was a projected illusion. But the entity behind the illusion was an actual deity—not frightening, yet undeniably something to be wary of.
Leon remained silent.