Beneath the Red Dragon

Beyond the countless wall barriers of the Prime Material Plane lies not the boundless, unimaginable limits of the mighty Star Realm, even gods could not predict its confines. Instead, it is separated by the Star Realm and the excessive connections of the Vast Sky Cosmos with the many Prime Material Planes.

A unique creature with ten tails, nine wings, and five heads traverses the Vast Sky Cosmos, wandering in the Void outside the wall barriers of the Icaria World, seemingly aimless yet perhaps on a path to ascend to the Star Realm.

From the perspective of this creature, the infinitely high Vast Sky Cosmos is where layer upon layer of stars weave into the Star Realm, and below, unfathomably deep, lies tier after tier of unknowable Voids and Abysses.

Each Prime Material Plane is like a star enveloped in barriers, traveling alongside it.

No matter where there is material, there must be life existing. If you haven’t discovered them, it merely means your vision cannot perceive them.

Although in the Vast Sky Cosmos, the number of living beings is scarce, incomparable to the abundant resources giving birth to diverse races in the Prime Material Planes, there exist some unique beings, either exceptionally strong or especially weak, yet all one-of-a-kind.

This creature with ten tails, nine wings, and five heads, with each head resembling an eagle or hawk, is one of them.

Its star-traversing nature gives this being an immensely powerful physical form, with feather upon feather reflecting steel-like glints under the sparse starlight.

Asteroids and debris, moving unpredictably and slowly through the cosmos, are shattered upon collision with the hundred-meter-long nine-winged eagle, as it effortlessly traverses through countless fragmented bodies.

The might of this powerful creature rivals legends, freely roaming in the Void, unrestrained.

Yet even such a mighty being failed to notice an invisible material fluctuation stirring ripples in space, traversing from a Prime Material Plane appearing close but indeed unfathomably distant.

Pop,

Like a bubble bursting silently in a glass bottle, the invisible fluctuation travels through the Void.

It seems influenced by some force, as a segment of dragon-serpent-like roots flickers with a subtle glow, revealing traces in the present world.

But within that mere, not-even-blink-of-an-eye moment, the dragon-serpent-like root penetrated the powerful creature, its meteor-crushing body shattered into an empty mass of flesh and blood.

The roots stirred the space, darting back into the Void, extending towards a distant plane enveloped in green fluorescence along an invisible yet existent connection.

The gentle poke, like a silent touch, barely emitted any sound, and the plane world’s wall barrier seemed to have no instinct to resist or repel, allowing the roots to pierce through.

Yet within the Greenfield Forest World, violent upheaval shook the entire world.

Dragon-serpent-like roots of the World Tree, like celestial pillars, pierce through the Void, deeply embedding into the plane core of the Greenfield Forest World.

The World Origin, nourishing the world, fostering its growth and life, was intruded upon by the roots of World Tree Ovo, forcibly siphoning the plane’s origin with its vast Spiritual Power and concentrated will, expanding and strengthening itself.

Rumble,

The entire Greenfield Forest World groaned in lamentation, the ground trembling slightly, forests rustling, myriad beasts fleeing. With every growth of the World Tree Ovo’s roots, a large swath of forest withered.

The withering forests and the panicked cries of beasts spread like a plague across the world’s corners.

Far away in the Icaria World, the World Tree in the Royal Court Garden of the Giant Dragon King Court also grew rapidly.

An hour, two hours, three hours, from over forty meters, it grew to fifty meters, then a hundred meters, then three hundred meters, until it stopped at a thousand meters.

Now, the trunk of World Tree Ovo has grown broad and tall, standing like another mountain peak atop a mountain. If not for the Magic Dragon God’s Divine Power shrouding the region, the moon-cast shadows would have eclipsed the Dragon King Court.

But it seemed World Tree Ovo withheld the spare origin from contributing elsewhere, resulting in the thousand-meter giant tree retaining only its original small canopy.

It looked like a person’s head, shaven all around, leaving only a small patch of hair on the crown, appearing comical.

Even the remaining branches were the same size as before.

Yet no one in the Royal Court Garden could witness the current state of World Tree Ovo.

The Emperor of the Empire, leading the Dragon Group and his Caster Corps, stood atop the World Tree roots in the sky, overlooking the dramatically changing world.

The main root of this World Tree appeared several times thicker than the main trunk of World Tree Ovo itself, with upward-facing roots hundreds of meters wide, enough to accommodate the Dragon Group and Caster Corps’ arrival.

Karon and the Dragon Group paid no mind to the world’s changes; they are dragons, predetermined predators, and conquerors whose goal is to grow through plundering.

Using the world to nourish the Empire and the Dragon Group has always been the common goal of the Dragon Group.

Even though the Greenfield Forest World, unlike other small Elemental Planes being mined, is a world with sustainable resource extraction, it still becomes a sacrifice when the Dragon Group requires it.