A violent storm of black energy exploded outward from him, sweeping across the core region like a hurricane. The ground split apart in all directions. Mountains around Dragon Death Valley trembled. The air itself scread under the pressure of the awakening force.
Max's body began to grow.
His bones expanded with thunderous cracking sounds. Muscles surged. Flesh transford. Countless layers of dark scales spread rapidly across his form, each scale polished like divine obsidian and engraved with faint runic patterns that shimred with chaotic light.
His arms lengthened into colossal forelimbs ending in claws sharp enough to rend steel mountains apart.
His legs thickened into pillars of overwhelming might.
A long, massive tail erged behind him, striking the earth once and causing shockwaves to ripple through the valley.
His neck extended upward as his human features vanished completely, replaced by the noble and terrifying visage of a true dragon. Two majestic horns curved backward from his skull like crowns forged by nature itself. His eyes opened next, vast golden-black pupils glowing with sovereign authority.
Wings burst from his back.
They were enormous, layered with black scales and lined with blade-like bones, large enough to eclipse entire ridges when fully spread.
In only monts, where Max had once stood, there now towered a monstrous black dragon of breathtaking scale.
He was imnse beyond reason.
His body stretched across the broken lands of the core region like a living mountain range. Each breath he exhaled stirred violent winds. His re presence caused weaker beasts across Orion to collapse in terror.
Yet despite the monstrous power radiating from him, there was majesty in his form.
He did not resemble a beast born of madness.
He looked like an ancient ruler of dragons.
A sovereign creature worthy of fear and reverence.
Max slowly raised his enormous head toward the heavens. Power gathered within his chest, ancient and thunderous.
Then he roared.
"ROOAAAARRRR!"
The sound that erupted from him was not rely noise.
It was domination given voice.
It tore through Dragon Death Valley first, shattering cliffs, dispersing clouds, and sending every beast in the region fleeing in panic. Then it spread across the whole of Orion like a world-ending wave.
Cities shook.
Forests bent.
Seas churned.
Cultivators everywhere froze as their hearts trembled under the dragon roar.
"What's going on?!" Rose and Lucia found themselves trembled as the heard the roar of the dragon. For a mont they were horrified wondering what was going on in the core region of the Dragon Death Valley that they could hear the roar of a dragon.
Just as they were wondering, the roar didn't stop there.
The roar surged beyond Orion itself, crossing the void of space and echoing into the surrounding planets of the sa star realm.
On distant worlds, powerful experts abruptly opened their eyes in shock. Ancient beasts lowered their heads instinctively. Hidden elders erged from seclusion with grave expressions.
All of them felt the sa thing.
A supre draconic existence had awakened.
Back on Orion, Max remained suspended above Dragon Death Valley in his colossal dragon form, wings spread wide enough to shadow the land beneath him.
His golden-black eyes looked down upon the world.
And for that brief mont, he truly resembled a dragon emperor returned from ancient tis.
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Far beyond the universe that housed the Limitless Expanse Divine Realm, beyond countless layers of void and the reach of ordinary cosmic laws, another universe existed.
It was a realm ancient beyond asure, one whose stars burned with draconic fire and whose heavens were ruled by bloodlines older than many worlds themselves.
At the heart of that universe stood a colossal palace suspended above an endless sea of clouds.
The palace was vast enough to rival continents. Pillars carved from black-gold crystal rose into the heavens, each wrapped by statues of coiling dragons. Rivers of molten light flowed through open channels in the floor, while imnse braziers burned with eternal fla that gave off no smoke. Every inch of the structure radiated nobility, dominance, and terrifying age.
Within its grand central hall, many figures were seated in ordered rows.
They were humanoid in shape, yet clearly not human.
Each possessed bodies covered in scales of varying colors and lusters. So bore crimson scales like flowing magma. Others carried silver hides that reflected starlight. So were dark as abyssal steel, while others shimred with violet or erald tones. Horns curved from their heads, tails rested behind their thrones, and their eyes held slit pupils filled with instinctive superiority.
Their forms resembled Max's Dragon Scales Transformation, but far more complete and natural. Where Max still carried traces of a human foundation, these beings appeared born from dragon blood itself. Their muscles, bones, and presence were all aligned more closely with dragons than mortals.
They were discussing matters of territories, bloodline inheritances, border conflicts, and cosmic resources, their voices deep and powerful enough to shake lesser realms.
At the far end of the hall stood the highest throne.
It towered above all others, forged from ancient golden tal and shaped from the skeleton of so long-forgotten beast king. Upon it sat a single figure.
His body was entirely covered in radiant golden dragon scales that shone with supre authority. Even seated casually, he gave the impression of a mountain overlooking insects. One arm rested on the throne's armrest while his chin leaned lazily against one hand.
His eyes were half closed, as though nothing in the eting before him truly interested him.
Yet no one dared mistake that relaxed posture for weakness.
The pressure unconsciously leaking from him was enough to make the air itself kneel.
He was the unquestioned ruler of this hall.
As one elder was speaking about the allocation of draconic veins across several star sectors, the golden-scaled figure suddenly opened one eye.
At the sa mont, every being in the hall stiffened.
A roar had reached them.
It crossed dinsions.
It crossed universes.
It carried savage majesty, pure dragon authority, and the unmistakable resonance of a true dragon awakening.
The sound was distant and faint by the ti it arrived, yet the hall fell into instant silence.
Several dragon-scaled elders rose from their seats in shock.
"A true dragon roar?"
"Impossible. No lineage branch in our universe has reported such an awakening."
"That sound ca from beyond our cosmic boundaries."
"It carries black dragon authority… Could it be from another universe?"
Many voices overlapped with disbelief.
The golden-scaled figure on the throne straightened slowly, all laziness vanishing from his posture.
His slit pupils narrowed.
For the first ti in ages, interest appeared in his eyes.
"A true black dragon roar?" he said quietly, his eyebrows furrowed.
His voice alone caused the entire hall to tremble.
He then leaned forward, gaze fixed toward a direction no one else could comprehend, as if seeing through layers of universes.
"How could a true black dragon appear now?"
The other dragon beings lowered their heads instinctively, sensing that sothing significant had just happened.
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