After reaching a consensus, Faust and Lola set off.
The Queen of Midwinter issued orders to the court ministers for a kingdom-wide emergency evacuation, clearing all settlements and towns along the path of the dragon's eye.
As for the warlock units stationed in the royal capital, only the elites of the 【Master】 rank accompanied Lola to intercept the dragon's eye.
The act of slaying a dragon had never been something accomplished by merely stacking numbers; forget slaying a dragon—even when subjugating a slightly more powerful fiend, ordinary people lacked the courage to stand against it and could offer no help at all.
Was there ever a subjugation of a fiend that was not an epic filled with heroism?
Although this was merely the remnant of a deceased dragon, even a single claw of a dragon was comparable to a famous high-tier fiend.
Such was the sheer weight of a dragon’s reputation!
Once the affairs in the royal capital were settled and warnings were sent to the front lines where the armies were in a standoff, Lola and Faust led their people to chase the dragon's eye.
This was not a difficult task because the trajectory of the dragon's eye was far too obvious; it made no attempt to hide itself, floating and burning its way forward with utter brazenness.
"The target of the dragon's eye... is Selena."
Faust made a definitive judgment after glancing at the trail of scorched earth left by the dragon flame.
It was charging straight for the 【witch】, its intention far too obvious—as expected of a villain hastily brought into existence, it was remarkably dedicated to its role.
Lola’s gaze turned sharp the moment she heard her most important daughter was in danger, and she said coldly, "We must not let it succeed!"
Under the Queen's leadership, the court mages of the Midwinter Kingdom employed various means, attempting to halt the advance of the dragon's eye.
Unfortunately, all their efforts were like stones sinking into the ocean; the dragon's eye didn't even have the desire to strike back, essentially ignoring them.
This was only natural, as even ordinary fiends had immunity mechanics, let alone a true dragon that stood at the pinnacle of the mortal world.
Ordinary spells simply had no effect; perhaps only a high warlock like Lola could deal any effective damage.
However, Faust restrained the agitated Queen of Midwinter, saying, "There is no need to draw its attention now. Just keep following it. Once the news of the dragon disaster reaches the front lines, a ceasefire will surely follow."
"This isn't something we can solve alone. Let's regroup with Selena and the others first; we will choose the battlefield."
Lola thought for a moment and said, "...Let's go to the frost-walker base. There is a permanent spell workshop there where I can set up barriers and formations."
Not bad; there was no place more suitable than the frost-walker's territory to wage war against the dragon's eye, and it wouldn't involve others.
With the plan settled in a few words, Faust, Lola, and the others took a shortcut and arrived at the pass fortress ahead of time.
Due to the news of the dragon disaster, the two opposing armies had already ceased their hostilities and were shaking hands in a peace talk; in the face of a dragon disaster, no matter how great the conflict, it was no longer a conflict.
A dragon was a natural disaster that humanity had to unite against; anyone who dared to question this absolute moral high ground would be a sinner of history!
"Your Highness!"
"Faust! Lola!"
Viviana and Selena immediately went to meet Faust and the others upon seeing them.
They had originally thought they would have to fight all the way to the royal capital to meet, never expecting that the appearance of a dragon disaster would turn their adversarial relationship into one of the same camp in an instant.
"Viviana, you arrived just in time. I truly have you to thank for this."
Faust first praised his royal guard knight before saying seriously, "Let's leave the small talk for later. Resolving the dragon disaster is our top priority."
Selena keenly noticed that the distance between Faust and Lola seemed to have become quite intimate, her eyelids lowering slightly as she said, "Though I have many questions, in the current situation, every second counts. Well, do you have any good suggestions?"
"The dragon's eye is coming for Selena. We need to decide on a location for the final battle in advance; it will be at the frost-walker base."
Lola nodded and said to 【Zilliax】, "In the past, the Princess of Midwinter led the frost-walkers to fight dragons; now, I shall lead you against one once more."
"Resisting natural disasters... is also the duty we 【tower-builder】 must fulfill!"
The titan frost-walkers accepted the command, calmly agreeing to the decision to use their base as a battlefield.
The group immediately planned a route, evacuated the towns along the way, and returned to 【Mountain Father】. Under the lead of Lola, the high warlock, they began constructing a spell barrier.
This was not particularly difficult because 【Mountain Father】 was itself a permanent fortress left over from ancient times, a megastructure that could be called a miracle; the faint blue circuits flowing on the surface of 【Mountain Father】 were the best construction materials.
Three days and nights later, the dragon's eye finally reached the front of 【Mountain Father】.
Facing the magnificent megastructure that was now covered in layers of spells and permanent fortifications, the dragon's eye paused its advance for a rare moment.
In the basement of the 【Mountain Father】 base, Faust’s eyes lit up as he saw this scene through a scouting spell.
"It was working!"
For this dragon eye driven entirely by instinct to act this way meant it judged that this was not something it could simply roll over like a speed bump.
However, Faust soon realized he had celebrated too early, for the dragon's eye took action in the next moment.
A ball of dragon flame spat out from the rift in the sky, floating upward like a bubble.
The moment the dragon flame touched the clouds, it let out a crisp popping sound.
"Whoosh—"
The clouds seemed like some kind of flammable liquid, instantly ignited as the trail of embers spread from the rift, covering the entire sky with lightning speed.
The azure sky, where clouds had once drifted, transformed in the blink of an eye into a steaming sea of fire with surging lava.
Beneath the sea of fire, the dragon's eye let out a profound and timeless language that seemed to come from the other side of the starry sky, chanting unhurriedly.
As if the scene inside a volcano was being projected onto the heavens, after the dragon's eye's long charge and chant, the ignited sky bulged downward in bubbles.
The massive sacs expanded rapidly until they reached their limit—and burst!
What followed was fire falling from the heavens.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
The cascading rain of fire and its terrifying heat submerged the mountains in an instant.
The sea of fire falling from the sky was not just "a few meteors"; the overwhelming flames fell like a torrential downpour, the heavenly fire piercing straight through the mountain range, and the dense forests melted under the flowing flames like snowflakes.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
Dull explosions echoed from within the rock layers as the mountain range that had stood for tens of millions of years was melted and snapped like a crispy biscuit.
The heavenly fire melted steel and bricks into pus-like molten iron that splashed down continuously; nearly half of 【Mountain Father】 disintegrated in an instant, reduced to debris under the waterfall of heavenly fire.
Even the ridges outside the fortress could not avoid being swallowed; the pouring heavenly fire burned everything on the earth without distinction.
Whether it was forests, rock layers, or rivers, everything melted under the waterfall of heavenly fire that seemed intended to end the world.
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