Chapter 159: Dragon is a Rank 4 Spark
As the dark clouds drew closer, swirling with unnatural speed, Adyr’s eyes narrowed. At first, it had seemed like an oncoming storm—rushing winds, thick black clouds laced with flickers of lightning—but something felt deeply wrong. This wasn’t weather. This was something else entirely.
And then, he saw it.
Cutting through the storm like a blade of shadow, a colossal black dragon soared just beneath the clouds, its wings spanning wide enough to eclipse the sun. Wherever it passed, the sky twisted into rolling thunderclouds, crackling with deep blue lightning that reflected off its obsidian-scaled body. Its form rippled with power, each wingbeat sending shockwaves through the air. Its eyes—glowing like shards of lightning trapped in ice—searched the land below with ancient, intelligent malice.
It was unmistakably a Spark. Not just any Spark, but one on par with Colossith—perhaps even stronger. It carried the kind of pressure that weighed on the chest and made your bones feel hollow.
But that wasn’t the most alarming detail.
Seated atop the creature’s massive head, barely a silhouette against the roiling heavens, was a figure cloaked in black. Their posture was relaxed, almost casual, legs crossed and arms resting on their knees as they rode the beast like a throne. A crown of jagged crystal shimmered faintly around their head, lit by intermittent flashes of lightning. The wind whipped their cloak like a torn banner, yet they didn’t flinch.
"This is..." Vesha whispered, her voice barely audible. She didn’t finish the sentence, but she didn’t need to. No one around them did. Though the figure’s face was too far to make out, everyone seemed to feel it in their bones. The aura, the darkness, the suffocating weight of his arrival.
It had to be the Rank 4 Nether path practitioner—the one who should’ve helped during the Colossith incident but never showed.
And now, with the danger already past, he appeared.
Suspicion tightened in Adyr’s gut, but he made no move. He remained still, silently watching as the overwhelming force in the sky pressed down. The sheer power bearing down from the sky wasn’t something he could challenge, not yet.
Then, a soft chime echoed in his ear.