Chapter 627 - 604: Call the Wind and Summon the Rain
Chapter 627: Chapter 604: Call the Wind and Summon the Rain
Inside the Cybertron Shipyard, the final spine module and the dragon’s head were perfectly aligned and installed.
The black, scale-like armor reflected a deep luster under the illumination of the Magic Lamps. The Runes densely covering it looked like a slumbering, boundless galaxy.
This pinnacle creation—costing 2.5 billion Magic Stones and flawlessly stitching together Alchemy, Golem Engineering, and the Power of Laws—was the Monarch of the Clouds. And it was ready to leave the shipyard.
Allen appeared on the highest observation deck of the dock. His deep blue eyes reflected the behemoth as he prepared for the final step.
"Awaken. Ascension."
[Command confirmed. Guard Series: Lord of the Sky Vault—Monarch of the Clouds, initiating Ascension.]
The Control Core of the Divine Dragon was already in place, and the artificial soul had been implanted.
With a wave of Allen’s hand, two Law Crystals radiating terrifying fluctuations slowly drifted down. Immediately after, his vast Spiritual Power transformed into a giant, invisible hand, pressing the Storm and Gravity Crystals into the Monarch of the Clouds’ head!
As if entirely incorporeal, the Law Crystals passed straight through the armor and submerged into it.
BOOM!
The gravity field inside the dock instantly went berserk. Countless unsecured objects levitated into the air, only to be violently swept up into a chaotic mess by a gale that spawned out of nowhere.
The 1,056-meter-long mechanical Giant Dragon levitated in the center of the dock without warning. It was as if the physical concept of gravity had completely ceased to exist around it.
Above the Giant Dragon’s faceplate, two golden Demon Eyes lit up, blazing as brilliantly as stars. A terrifying, world-engulfing pressure roared back and forth against the dock walls like a tsunami.
[Self-check complete. Chassis integrity at 100%. Dual Law Cores operating normally.]
The Divine Dragon had awakened.
Allen had been unable to suppress his anticipation throughout the long manufacturing process. For this maiden flight, he was going to take personal control.
His consciousness poured out like quicksilver. His multi-threaded mind instantly penetrated the Monarch of the Clouds’ central array, spreading smoothly and without resistance throughout the entirety of its thousand-meter steel body.
In this moment, he truly became the Giant Dragon.
Every single dragon scale could clearly measure microscopic fluctuations in the airflow, and every spine module could feel the spatial pulsations.
"Target: G-771 Plane. Coordinates: Great Red Desert."
The roof of the shipyard, along with Cybertron’s dome, slid open to both sides, revealing the densely overcast sky of the G-771 Plane.
With just a slight movement of its colossal body, the Monarch of the Clouds rose silently like a ghost.
It passed gracefully through the open dome, unfurling its immense form in the air. The winding serpentine body flickered in and out of the clouds, casting a massive shadow that blanketed several city blocks of the First Administrative Region.
A few mortals who happened to glance upward witnessed this awe-inspiring scene, their jaws dropping in shock. A Giant Dragon—a creature previously existing only in myths—had taken flight from the Steel Fortress. It soared higher and higher, patrolling the heavens, leaving behind nothing but a legend to spread across the net.
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High above in the ten-thousand-meter Sky Vault.
Fierce winds supported the thousand-meter-long steel body. It had no wings, yet it flew far more effortlessly than any bird. Air currents flowed like water between its armored scales, and the Gravity Law completely nullified the planet’s gravitational pull to absolute zero.
The Divine Dragon wound its way through the depths of the sea of clouds. Every micro-adjustment of its spine modules caused violent disturbances in the surrounding air. The dense clouds were pulverized by its body and then coalesced once more, forming ring after spectacular ring of spiraling cloud bands.
A Dragon Soaring in the Sea of Clouds naturally birthed its own celestial phenomena. The sheer mass and gravitational field of this Giant Beast of war existing within the atmosphere was enough to rewrite the local weather.
The Divine Dragon lingered in the clouds for a moment before suddenly rocketing straight upward with terrifying momentum.
Within a seamless 360-degree panoramic view, the signals of the Celestial Net System’s 1,644 Demon Eyes were scattered across his perception like stars. Further away, the continent’s outline was clearly visible, and the Far North Ice Field stretched out beneath him like an endless white canvas.
A casual flick of its tail drew a ten-kilometer-long white contrail in its wake; a soft, low thrum forcefully tore a fathomless, abyss-like rift through the vast expanse of clouds.
Fusing his mind with such immense power provided the ultimate entertainment—the supreme joy of an engineer witnessing their ultimate blueprint become a reality. Looking down from above, all living beings were nothing but ants.
He cast his gaze downward.
It was a crimson desert that stretched to the very edge of the horizon, covering an area of over 500,000 square kilometers. This was a forbidden zone for life; the air was dry and scorching, and even drought-resistant Demons kept a respectful distance.
Dry, hot winds swept up sand and dust, wreaking havoc in the low altitudes. Occasionally, a few dried-up riverbeds could be seen, looking like cracked wrinkles on the earth’s surface.
The Monarch of the Clouds slowly halted its momentum in the stratosphere directly above the desert’s core, its draconic body coiling into a massive ring. Looking up from the ground, one would only see a blurry, perpetually spinning dark silhouette in the clouds.
With a mere thought from Allen, the eight Magic Furnaces fired up simultaneously. The majestic power of the Storm Law surged high in the sky.
CALL! THE! WIND! AND! SUMMON! THE! RAIN!
Across the thousand-meter-long draconic body, countless Runes lit up sequentially from the tail to the head. The entire Giant Dragon looked like a brilliant galaxy ignited by heavenly fire.
Tangible ripples of Magic Power explosively erupted with the Monarch of the Clouds at the epicenter, sweeping out in all directions.
The order deep within the atmosphere was violently reshaped.
The wind rose.
Ten thousand meters in the air, the air currents seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand, slowly beginning to rotate with the Monarch of the Clouds’ circling position at the center.
Then, the transformation accelerated.
To the southeast, in the sky above a coastline two thousand kilometers away, massive amounts of warm, moisture-laden air were pulled by an irresistible force. Changing their original trajectory, they surged toward the deep inland.