Beneath the Red Dragon-Chapter 232 - 88: Heroic Spirit Hall
In the Endless Green Forest, the blood-colored sanctuary suspends high, like a towering pyre of endless white skulls stacked together.
The flesh and blood of the owners of these skulls are devoured by the sanctuary, their souls detained by the Holy Hall.
From its actions, this magical creation brought forth by Karon's unexpected emotions of inspiration is deemed an evil entity.
The exterior of the Blood-colored Sanctuary is entirely dyed in blood red, appearing particularly crimson when in silence.
The hall consists of only one level, yet it is sufficiently tall and broad. Sixteen white jade pillars at the entrance support the dome gradually filled with countless war murals, but now the originally jade-like white pillars are gradually inscribed with numerous souls slain in war.
These detained souls will eternally endure the exploitation and drive of the sanctuary, even the summons from the Nether River, the place of soul's final return deep in the Endless World, is obstructed.
On usual days, these souls serve as attendants to those warriors' heroic spirits who are sufficiently loyal to the Giant Dragon.
During battle, they transform into various musical instruments, beating out stirring tunes of allegiance from the loyal hands, bestowing blessings of the Giant Dragon and the empowerment of heroic spirits upon the warriors under the Giant Dragon's command.
The now silent sanctuary seems like a palace resting on the serene riverbank, belonging to an evil god residing in the mortal world.
As it continues to devour the enemy's bones and expands ever larger, the internal space is ceaselessly extended due to the spatial attributes of the Heaven-Supporting Pillar transformed from the World Tree's core and the Spatial Bag made from the stomach of the Titan Demon Python.
The interior of the sanctuary has now begun to have overlapping spaces, vast and deep.
Karon and the other Giant Dragons reside in the deepest core space of this blood-colored sanctuary, which is the area where the World Tree's core is located and the origin point of the internal space of the Blood-colored Sanctuary.
The remaining few Giant Dragons recline nearby, the slight brilliance emanating from the giant pillar transformed from the World Tree's core lights up the surroundings, making the shadows of the nearby Giant Dragons vividly clear.
The dragons in the group, due to excellent diet and growing wealth, along with the experiences of training and various resource benefits, have developed far beyond those ordinary Five-Color Dragons at this time.
This is the advantage of the Lord Dragon; in fact, those earth-eating and wandering Five-Color Dragons are often underdeveloped.
Now facing any Giant Dragon of the same age in the group would be easily overpowered in strength and size, the Dragon Power of these Young Dragons can even startle some Giant Dragons of the same age.
Black Dragon Rosani currently resembles a large black cat sleeping with its cherished toy, its long tail and limbs form a semicircle, hugging the giant pillar transformed from the World Tree's core.
However, due to the massive size of the World Tree's core, Black Dragon Rosani looks like it's clinging to the pillar, even though Rosani's body size has now grown to eleven meters, making this black dragon a formidable presence among its peers.
This black dragon, even in sleep, extends its tongue occasionally to lick the World Tree's core and uses its fangs to gnaw at the World Tree's core. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Yet, the World Tree's core is no ordinary dead thing, Rosani's unconscious actions scarcely harm it.
After being refined into a magical creature by ancient magic scholars, it possesses extremely mysterious capabilities, even Karon now cannot fathom the fundamental power of the World Tree's core.
The original fundamental soul of Natis, whom Karon rescued, has long since sunk into slumber, which was the price Karon paid to rescue Natis.
Natis needed to use a vast portion of his soul to counteract the threat posed by the body of the Desolate God Descendant, only then could Karon take action to obliterate the opponent's body and erode the opponent's soul.
It meant Natis and the Desolate God Descendant perished together, but luckily a last trace of the fundamental soul remains.
Karon's massive red body has now developed to over sixteen meters, a concept equivalent to a wild dream for a young Giant Dragon.
At this moment, Karon has only been in the youthful stage for about three years, this Young Red Dragon still has a sufficiently long growth period ahead, no one knows how this Red Dragon would look after completing a full adolescent term, not even Karon.
Karon only knows that he seems to have become a giant among the dragons. Now, the Red Dragon due to a distinctive sub-brain cluster within his body, and channels formed to provide sufficient output of magical power far exceeding that of other Giant Dragons.
His body no longer needs his will to drive it, it autonomously breeds and proliferates more bodily structures and neural organs akin to base blood vessels and magic power transmission cores, so his body is sturdier than those of ordinary Red Dragons.
The head of the Red Dragon is also becoming broader, his three pairs of robust dragon horns resemble gnarled ancient trees growing on his head, yet they bear an extraordinarily sharp distinction.
At this moment, Karon reclines beside Black Dragon Rosani, like a small red mountain, although the black dragon's flesh and blood body is becoming rounder by the day, before the muscular and sinewy Red Dragon, it still resembles a slender black loach.
Even though Karon's main consciousness has entered a resting state, a sliver of awareness remains active under the self-operating sub-brain cluster.
This awareness perceives the radiant Heart Energy within the vast body of the Red Dragon and its harmonious resonance with the World Tree's core.
Karon's Heart Energy fills the World Tree's core; precisely this miraculous energy, under the diffusion of the World Tree's core, grants the ability for those fallen heroic souls to persist.
