The end of the Dragon Lord.
“Sounds great.”
Cale gently smiled.
‘I can see a way.’
Dragon Lord Neo.
His greatest weakness was his Dragon heart which has reached, if not gone past its limits.
If they could properly land a blow on that heart, Neo should crumble.
“He is not a god yet. He has not surpassed the limits of the physical body.”
Cale nodded his head in agreement.
“However-”
There was something Cale was curious about.
When he first met the foundation of this world… This was what the foundation had said about the Dragon Lord.
‘Anyway, in addition to absorbing my aura, the Dragon Lord is abnormally strong. Maybe- maybe-’
‘It might not be wrong to see him already as the God of Time.’
Cale was able to learn from Axion that the Dragon Lord had yet to escape the confines and fate of his physical body.
But there was something else he needed to know.
“The Dragon Lord. How did that punk get so strong?”
Did the Dragon Lord get strong because he consumed the foundation of this world?
‘That doesn’t make sense.’
The cataclysmic period was used to pressure the World Tree and temporarily destroy its mind to mess up the flow of the world.
He had to be strong to be able to make such a thing happen even with the help of a god and the wanderers.
Axion had an odd look on his face as he shook his head.
“Who knows?”
Cale chuckled at that reaction.
“Your reaction tells me that the Dragon Lord did not get so strong because of the foundation of this world.”
If that was the reason, he would have told Cale.
Why? Because Cale already knew that they had consumed the foundation of this world.
“Mm.”
Axion groaned.
Cale observed Axion and continued to speak.
“The Dragon Lord got strong using some method but you don’t really know what it is.”
“…….”
Axion used silence to show his agreement.
Cale then said something else.
“Then did he get stronger once he met the wanderer?”
“……!”
Axion’s eyes opened wide.
Cale continued to speak.
“If what I am thinking is correct, I presume it was after he went and met with the patriarch of the Purple Bloods?”
“Ha!”
Axion scoffed.
He was truly amazed.
“Yes. Neo became stronger after going with the wanderer to meet the patriarch of the Purple Bloods and becoming the new patriarch.”
Axion’s eyes stared into the air.
“…When I first saw him like that, I thought that all Dragons become a flawless existence once they are able to perfectly exhibit their attribute.”
‘Hmm?’
Something caught Cale’s attention.
“Perfectly exhibit the attribute?”
“Yes. Human.”
Axion asked Cale a question.
“Why can’t Dragons become gods? And why is it that Dragons are the only ones with attributes?”
He answered the question himself.
“Dragons are mini gods.”
“Mm.”
Cale groaned.
Axion’s gaze was too serious for it to be a joke.
“Gods are worshiped. Dragons are also worshiped.”
Dragons were gods in Aipotu, but…
Dragons were worshiped even in dimensions where that was not the case.
“Gods have their special powers and Dragons have their special powers.”
Cale stopped listening and commented.
“But gods don’t perish while Dragons die.”
“That’s right. We die like you humans.”
Axion quietly laughed.
“We are quite a peculiar race.”
He laughed as if he found it to be funny before continuing.
“Neo once told me something.”
He changed the topic of conversation back.
“When a Dragon can perfectly exhibit their attribute, that alone already makes them a god.”
“But based on what you are saying, the Dragon Lord is unable to perfectly exhibit his attribute?”
“Yes. I asked Neo how to do that when he first told me. I asked him how I could become like him.”
Axion’s gaze fixated toward the shadow in the corner of the study as if he was recalling a past memory.
“But he told me that he was still far from it. He did tell me there were two ways to do it.”
It was a memory from his youth.
“I obviously asked him to teach me.”
He wanted to become stronger. That was why he asked this question.
“And?”
Cale urged him and Axion answered without any hesitation.
“The first way is to destroy the concept of their limits.”
“Concept?”
“In simple terms, he said that we need to destroy not the physical limits of our body but the mental limits of our mind. For example, if I keep destroying this thought in my mind that the size limit of earth I can handle is the size of this lair, I will eventually be able to handle the earth in this entire world.”
Cale was silent for a moment before asking.
“…What the hell?”
‘What is he talking about?
Would something like that be easy?
The mental limits of the mind is even scarier than the physical limits of the body.’
Cale looked unsettled.
‘I asked him because I thought it might be helpful for Raon.’
Cale was fine with Raon not being able to properly exhibit his attribute, but… He had asked Axion for potential clues because he felt like Raon cared about it a lot.
But what he heard was not something that would be helpful for Raon.
‘I’ll still tell all the Dragons about it.’
He planned on revealing all of this information to the Dragons on his side.
Axion agreed with Cale’s reaction.
“My thoughts exactly.”
He shrugged his shoulders, sighed, and continued.
“How do you destroy the limits of the mind, and even if you manage to do so, how do you get past the limits of your body and your innate talents? Concepts, limits… I couldn’t figure that out so I wanted to know the easy way. I asked Neo to tell me.”
“And?”
Cale looked interested again.
It was an expected reaction for someone like Cale, who had chosen to get stronger by gathering ancient powers.
Axion looked at him and chuckled.
“So, the Dragon Lord told me that he chose the second method. He only said one thing about it.”
‘Hmm?
One thing?’
Cale’s face turned unsettled again, but Axion didn’t care as he continued.
“At first, I couldn’t understand Neo’s answer. But now, I can vaguely make out that answer.”
“What did that bastard say?”
Axion stared at the curious Cale before slowly opening his mouth.
“Succession.”
Cale staggered at that moment.
Inherit and carry it forward.
Succession.
“Cale Henituse. Neo was not purple from the beginning. He was originally a silver Dragon who looked almost white.”
“Ha.”
Cale scoffed.
The Purple Bloods.
A Dragon who turned purple…
And the attribute of ‘time.’
Cale smiled as he spoke.
“I guess there was a reason the wanderers from the Five Colors Bloods went searching for the next patriarch of the Purple Bloods?”
“Yes. I believe there was a reason.”
Cale and Axion had the same thought.
Cale spoke first.
“Although we can’t be certain.”
“Yes, we can’t be certain.”
“There are no two Dragons currently with the same attribute.”
“But there may be dead Dragons with the same attribute.”
One of the Dragons that existed but died in the past had the attribute of time.
If the power of those Dragons, the power of that attribute was inherited and inherited again-
Cale commented, almost in a sigh.
“The Dragon Lord would have inherited time.”
No, the patriarch of the Purple Bloods would have succeeded time.
Cale nodded his head and leaned back against the couch.
“Then that abnormally strong power makes sense too.”
“That’s right. Of course, this too is not verified information and only a hypothesis.”
Axion’s voice trailed off.
He called it a hypothesis but he sounded quite certain.
There was a reason for that.
“That wanderer showed up again before the cataclysmic period.”
The woman that had taken the Dragon Lord to the last patriarch of the Purple Bloods…
“I do not know what she discussed with Neo. However, Neo became quite angry that day and I had to see her off on my own.”
Axion recalled that moment.
‘Do your best to help the patriarch not be so angry.’
The wanderer said that and did not hide the usual relaxed smile she always showed him.
She was extremely calm despite Neo shouting in anger in the distance.
That was the reason for it.
Axion asked this guest, someone he could not welcome, a question he would not usually ask.
‘Did something happen to him?’
‘Hoo hoo.’
She laughed a while without answering before quietly looking at Axion and saying something before she left.
‘His power gets stronger but his plate remains the same. In the end, it makes the plate crack even faster.’
Axion shared those words with Cale who nodded his head.
“I guess Neo’s body had no choice but to get weak. He had inherited an unbelievable power.”
“Yes. That is why it is highly likely that he cannot handle it properly either.”
Axion stopped for a moment before continuing.
“That is probably why Neo is preparing to go to the New World.”
“But why would that wanderer tell you something that might end up as such a hint?”
“Pfft.”
Axion chuckled before telling Cale what the wanderer said next.
“Once we get to the New World, we need someone to rule over than land. When it comes to land… Aren’t you number one?”
Cale chuckled as well.
“I guess she planned on planting you as the Dragon Lord of Aipotu once Neo died.”
‘It’s possible.”
“Haaaaa.”
Cale sighed and shook his head.
‘I really can’t understand those Hunter bastards.
Do they not know the concept of an ally?
Does it not matter if they kill each other or betray one another as long as they reach their goal?
Well, what would be the point of understanding their thought process?’
He had no need to understand them, and spending time to do so would just be wasting his time.
Cale stopped thinking and extended his hand toward Axion.
Axion shook his head.
“What are you doing?”
Cale immediately slapped it away.
“…Were you not asking for a handshake?”
“Ho.”
Cale scoffed in disbelief as he answered.
“The map.”
‘A handshake my ass.’
“Hand over the map of the Dragon Lord’s lair.”
“Ah.”
Cale didn’t care that Axion blankly gasped and calmly opened up his palm.
Hand over the map.
* * *
Cale’s steps were light as he walked to the rear garden of Axion’s estate with the map that showed the location of Dragon Lord Neo’s home.
To be more specific, he was going to the World Tree.
“Human!”
Raon welcomed Cale.
There were quite a lot of individuals by his side.
“What happened?”
Cale answered Eruhaben.
“Ah, I was going to use the World Tree to chat with the foundation of this world-”
Cale flinched.
‘Huh?’
Time was flowing slowly.
No, time suddenly became longer.
Flash.
Cale looked past Eruhaben’s shoulder to see a pillar of light shooting up in the distant sky.
He wanted to take a closer look.
He tried to move to do that, but…
‘Mm.’
He could not move.
He had to use instant.
But instant was not a power he could just use without thinking.
Cale barely managed to stop himself and he could feel the world moving normally again once the pillar of light disappeared.
“Human!”
Raon approached in shock.
“Did you see that?”
“Yeah. I saw it.”
Eruhaben was confused by their conversation and Cale explained.
“The Dragon Lord used time to cast a spell again just now. But I can’t tell what kind of spell it was.”
“…….”
Eruhaben’s face turned serious.
Cale felt sweat dripping down his back.
‘How crazy.
I know his weakness, and I can see a way to fight against him, but…
The problem is-
The enemy is moving as well.’
The Dragon Lord…
That bastard was definitely up to something as well.
He was doing so with at least a decent amount of information about Cale Henituse.
Gulp.
Cale couldn’t help but gulp.
He felt tense for the first time in a long while.
But he was not scared.
“First.”
He started talking to organize his thoughts.
“Turn the world into chaos.”
Eruhaben flinched while Raon’s face lit up.
For reference, the two Dragons were not the only ones to hear him.
Everybody close to the World Tree had heard him.
Cale didn’t care and continued his thoughts.
They would all hear the refined version later anyway.
“In order to do that, we loot the Dragon Lord’s house.”
The Elf Grand Elder standing by the World Tree flinched.
“While the Dragon Lord goes nuts about it, put him in prison.”
Wiesha’s eyes opened wide.
Everybody other than Raon flinched at what Cale said next.
“Beat him up.”
Beat up the Dragon Lord.
Cale calmly continued planning.
He then made eye contact with Eruhaben, who was looking at him, and…
A gentle smile appeared on Cale’s face.
“If we keep beating him up, there should be at least one opening, which is when we will smack his heart.”
He then asked Eruhaben.
“That sounds okay, doesn’t it, Eruhaben-nim?”
The ancient Dragon contemplated for a bit before opening his mouth.
“Amazing. Keeping it simple is always the answer.”
Pssss—
The World Tree started to shake.
Some of the leaves fell down.
The Elf Grand Elder and Wiesha slowly moved away from Cale.
The ancient Dragon and Cale continued chatting without caring.
“What kind of chaos are you thinking?”
“I think I need to chat with the foundation of this world first for that, Eruhaben-nim. I need to ask him first before I do it.”
“Then what about looting the lair? Ah, is this map the location of the lair?”
“Yes, Eruhaben-nim.”
“As expected, you are always so prepared. Then the prison?”
“Between time and space, I’m thinking of us taking control of the ‘space’ aspect. But I am a bit worried about how to create that ‘space.’”
“Mm.”
The ancient Dragon started to think while Cale continued.
“As for beating him up… That’s our specialty.”
“That is true.”
Raon slowly came over and asked.
“Human, are you going to overdo it again?”
“No.”
Cale sternly responded.
“If we follow this plan, neither you nor I have to overdo it.”
Thanks to Axion, Cale found a way to deal with the Dragon Lord without using instant.
* * *
That evening, Cale finished all of his preparations and explained the plan to the ally top executives.
There were three parts to the plan.
“Steal, flip over, and beat up!”
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Axion going for a handshake and then getting shocked when Cale slapped it away, that was so funny. Why do all the dragons start acting cute around Cale? (Except for the actual enemy ones…creepy red dragon of gluttony…)
Those wanderers sure seem quick to betray their “allies…” If any potential ones find out about that, that’d make them hard to trust and it’d be harder for them to manipulate people (maybe) but I guess truly greedy people won’t see it and just take what they can get, especially if they’re promised immense power.
I kinda figured there’d be dead ones who had the same attributes…but with the whole different world aspect couldn’t the different attributes from like the Nameless dragons be present in dragons from other worlds? Cause they all also have their own colour…but the dragon lady from Xiaolen (forgot her name) was a black dragon as well, wasn’t she? Or was that just cause of the dead mana poisoning she was subjected to…? But it’s also curious cause since Sherrit is technically “dead” and is just a soul attached to the castle…if a new dragon is born in Nameless could they also have the Protection attribute? It also sounds like Neo had the time attribute already but got the powered up version from the other dragon…I wonder how they managed to “gift” their attribute to Neo…? So many questions 😔🫣😅
Ah, yes, Cale…totally believable that you won’t overdo it…cause you 👏✨never✨👏 do that 😒 he’s gonna find a way to overdo it even with their simple ass plan like always….Mr. I have a world tree dagger to stab my heart with but I won’t actually need to use it 😒 I really wanted him to get a proper scolding for that lmao
I love how the people from Aipotu just stepped away from him while the ones from Nameless were just like, “this is normal, let’s go looting.” I love them 🥺 I wonder how the CP gang is gonna take their hero getting so excited at the prospect of stealing things and beating the crap out of people, cause didn’t he have this good person image to a lot of the orthodox faction? 🤣
Anyways, thank you for the update! I hope you’re taking care of yourself and getting good rest!
I wonder if it is the case where when he falls asleep he appears in The New World…
If so, will Cale ever get any rest or sleep???
Thank you, Translator-nim, for the chapter
I love your comment, and agree with you, Seccada. btw the dragon lady from Xiaolen was black with purple eyes, and she turned dark because of dead Mana, not because she was supposed to be black. Author might be going for a “attributes are passed down within the same world unless a Wanderer crosses over” pov.
And yeah, please take care translator-nim! thank you!
Does that mean the reason there were a set number of dragons in all worlds are because there was just that much amount of different colour that exist? Does shades of colours counts? I heard bees see the world in a different colour than humans. Do those count? (I don’t know the way it works & manifest and am too lazy to search online, lol)
You can do it cale nim~~ flip that bastard over(ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻
We are going to get the biggest mess ever before the next biggest mess😂😂😂😂
I am the only one who was smiling like a creep while Cale was explaining is plan ? When everyone (except Raon) was shock ?
We already know of one Patriarch willing to give Cale the inherited power. Anyone remember Cale’s mother? Inside the book Cale carries. Raon could inherite Neo’s power. Becoming Present and Future.
Inheritance also sounds like spirit powers as well.
Something quite consistent is this series has never been predictable.
For all I know, Cale will just shove the power into an item again.
A few things…
First, Axion is wrong about dragons’ attributes making them god-like, since we also know for a fact that humans can have attributes from Cale’s ancient powers.
Second, the two methods of achieving god-hood are both some we’ve been seeing the whole story, we just didn’t connect them with apotheosis. The White Star was trying to perfectly inherit the powers of the previous White Star, and more broadly all ancient powers follow this trend of strengthening by inheritence. Cale is also the perfect example of repeatedly destroying the concept of your limits, and the end result has been people seeing him as a god or nature or something else beyond human.
Third, I think the Dragon Lord had a plan to absorb other time related powers to stabilize himself, which was why the other dragon with a time power fled to the martial arts world.
Lastly, I think it’ll be really funny if the Dragon Lord finds out Eruhaben is over 1000 and in the best shape of his life, since the Dragon Lord has suffered so much in return for exceeding his normal lifespan by abusing his attribute.
That “breaking the concept” reminds me If raons First growth Phase….didnt He technically do exactly that?
I was thinking about that. I don’t remember the first growth phase but I was thinking that a little kid thoughts on possibilities aren’t as limited as an adult, so Raon might have it easier to do “breaking the concept”.
Dragons with the same attribute (or similar) so thats why they tried to look for the dragon whose attribute was ‘future’ and the ‘past’.
But wait succession….cant Raon loot…ahem inherit the old dragonlord’s time attribute that way? He is the ‘present’ so I believe as long as he accepts it, it will be so. That is how I understood one part of Raon attribute.
Excuse me… I’m sorry… In my opinion, Raon is already really overpowered… I mean Raon’s “present” is not just time but also space. “Right here and right now is my attribute”, Raon had explained it perfectly in book one. Please stop trying to make him inherit something dangerous. Please leave the child alone.
Hmmm sounds like Roan has likely already completed that “breaking past the limits of your mind” thing when he completed his first growth phase. Our baby is already a god??
thank you for the chapter 🫡
yes a simple plan is the best way to beat a villain
thanks for the update
We’re not going to make a small mess, no no（ノ￣ー￣）ノ ┫：・’.::
We’re going to make a big mess “ψ(｀∇´)ψ fufufu
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Why do so many people want Raon to inherit the unstable Time attribute?
He is a child! Leave him alone!
Besides, if I remember it correctly, Raon’s “present” isn’t just time but also space. As Raon himself had said to Cale, “Right here and right now is my attribute.”
He is already overpowered! If I understand it correctly Raon can break everything in the blink of an eye if he so wishes. Present is really strong by itself.
not overdoing it? yeah very believable dear
Cale basically planted an adamantium flag in cement on the sheerest cliff of the highest mountain, surrounded by raging rivers of lava and storms of lightning and then slapped a seven-layer force field around it.
That’s how unmovable the flag is.
On the flag, it says…
[Cale’s going to use Instant, and he’s going to overdo it.]
When Cale’s says it’s simple…then proceeds to add spice here and there 😂😂😂😂
Destruction!!!!
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