My Dragon King System-Chapter 289: For The Die Is Cast

Outside their room, the rest of the guild began stirring up as well. The surge of mana pouring out from Laela and Arianna’s room was impossible to ignore, it pressed down on everyone within Ravens Grave.

It had even forced Katherine awake as she lay in Piers’s embrace within her chambers, driving both of them from their rooms and upstairs to find out what was happening.

Other guild members were already emerging from their rooms as well.

But Aeris reacted most strongly.

She reached Aiden’s room first, knowing it was where Laela and Arianna slept. The Amazon froze at the doorway, staring at them with something close to terror on her face.

She knew what gods felt like.

And in that moment, Laela and Arianna felt exactly like that.

They weren’t gods, Aeris knew that. But their presence... their aura... their magic power... It felt like it was divine.

"What is that..." Aeris whispered in a trembling voice.

Laela turned toward her, still looking down at her glowing hands with confusion written across her face.

"I don’t know," she said softly.

Arianna shook her head as well, equally lost.

"We’re not sure," she added. "But Aiden... he’s evolved again."

Katherine stepped into the room, lowering her sword as she approached them both.

"This is from him?" she asked.

Laela nodded. "Whenever Aiden grows stronger... so do we."

The room was silent for a moment as everyone absorbed those words.

———

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Outside Ravens Grave, throughout the entire kingdom of Dragonhold, mages were waking from their sleep.

They felt it too, the surge of magic power radiating outward from outside their guild. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Some of them had rushed to their windows, staring toward Ravens Grave in confusion and alarm.

Thamoryn herself stood on the balcony of her tower within the Arcane Spire as her eyes locked onto Ravens Grave in the distance.

Her expression was unreadable but she felt the overwhelming presence emanating from that building.

"Is this you again, Aiden?" she whispered to herself.

———

In Eden, precisely within Asahel’s residence, Akravos at the center of the chamber let open his stomach compartment once more.

The dark void within him rippled as the tentacles extended outward and deposited two bodies onto the floor.

Rhyos and Ashraf looked drained and barely conscious.

Samael, dressed in the regalia of a male god about to be married, approached the two fallen gods slowly, with a grin spreading across his face as he squat down beside them.

He wore white robes with gold trims that made him look elegant. A ceremonial sash crossed his chest, marked with symbols of Eden.

Samael reached out with one hand and placed it on Rhyos’s head. Then he extended his other hand toward Ashraf, resting it on her shoulder.

In that moment, white-blue light began rising from both bodies.

The fragments of transcendence.

They moved out of from Rhyos and Ashraf before being drawn toward Samael which made his eyes glow as the power settled in him.

His grin widened further as he felt the strength of the new fragments.

But then, in the middle of that absorption, his senses tingled sharply causing his expression to shift and the grin fade from his lips.

He tilted his head slightly and looked blankly into the air, as though staring at something far beyond the walls of Asahel’s residence.

He had sensed it.

A vast release of energy from somewhere in the universe.

And that power felt like a dragon.

Samael’s lips curved into a grin once more. He shook his head slowly and muttered, "you creatures are next."

Then stood up, withdrawing his hands from the gods lying at his feet. Rhyos and Ashraf were completely unconscious now that their bodies had been drained of what made them gods.

Samael turned toward Akravos and spoke in a calm voice.

"Take them back inside," he said, gesturing toward the two fallen gods.

Akravos nodded without a word, and the tentacles extended once more from his stomach compartment, wrapping around Rhyos and Ashraf before dragging them back into the dark void within him.

Samael adjusted the ceremonial sash across his chest and smoothed down the front of his robes before speaking again.

"It’s time," he said, turning toward the other demon lords who had gathered nearby. "Prepare yourselves. We step out for the grand occasion."

Morrigan inclined her head respectfully. The others followed suit, each one adjusting their clothings and ensuring they looked presentable in their godly attire.

Samael then turned away and began walking toward the grand hall where the wedding would soon take place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

——

Back on the moon, it seemed as though the tension had calmed down a bit now, and it looked like Aiden was in a brief conversation with the other dragons.

"There’s so much you still need to learn about the authorities you now embody," Syqora said. "What you can do... and the rules you must never break."

Aiden sighed hearing that.

He already knew of the rules Syqora spoke of. They were certain powers within their capabilities that they, the dragons, were restricted from using by the Oldest One.

For usage of such would bring about untold calamities.

This restriction wasn’t just an instruction. The dragons had been created by the Oldest One with those very restrictions woven into their existence.

Which made it so that even though that power was within their control, they could never use it.

Well, this information on restrictions which Syqora was repeating was what Aiden had just learned from the memories of the dragons that were now a part of him.

Aiden could tell that the dragons who originally embodied these authorities felt the effects of the restrictions on themselves.

But why was it not the same with him?

Why did it all feel possible to him?

He considered divulging this to Syqora, but decided against it. There wasn’t any more time for discussions.

Instead, he simply nodded at Syqora and said, "It’s time we put all of this to an end."

Then he turned toward the gods standing off to the side and gave them a nod as well.

"It’s time."

Without another word, Aiden stretched his hand forward causing a blue portal to open before them, one that would directly into Eden.

He took the first step through. The dragons followed suit. And the gods came next.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​