Undying Warlord

The tiny black heart kept expanding. It was beating rapidly and looked like it was going to explode any minute.

Yet, instead of being afraid of the inevitable, Dilan observed the situation deep down in the Shiron crater with interest.

'Now that I think about it, I've never seen how a temple is constructed.' Dilan thought and he recalled that it was the exact same for Instance Dungeon.

He knew that they existed but he had never really seen them being constructed from scratch.

However, that was not exactly important. It was of much more important that the Dragon Temple was about to emerge and that he had to remain fully focused to ensure that there wouldn't be any problems even if powerful Dragons were to emerge.

"Show me something, you bitches!" Dilan screamed out, feeling ready to rumble. Even if he didn't hope that the Dragon temple was something necessarily bad, Dilan was pretty sure that they wouldn't be lucky.

He couldn't imagine that the Drakins were a good race, especially with the weird gut feeling he had!

The black heart kept expanding and its heartbeat created tiny shockwaves that crossed the entire Shiron crater. They reached Dilan, who began to smile at the sight that unfolded in front of him.

The Dragon Temple was being constructed with the help of the Soul Collector that burst open, revealing a glorious sight.

The colors of a rainbow spread through the Shiron Crater and it took only a while until the entire crater was filled with it.

When Dilan was unable to see anything through the thick miasma that was swept through by all colors of the rainbow, he tensed up. Something huge was happening behind the rainbow miasma but Dilan was not able to tell what exactly this 'something' was.

His mana was blocked by the rainbow miasma, which was enough to make him worry a bit. It was not too long ago that he had faced an intense, life-threatening situation at this exact location and Dilan wanted to do everything he could to make sure that nothing bad would happen again.

That was also why he activated both [Thunder Step], and [Second Acceleration] to make sure that his Agility was high enough to encounter all kinds of situations.

He changed his stance as, one hand curled around the hilt of the Cursed Dagger, and his other hand reached for the Orb of Mantras.

Dilan accessed the storage ring on his left hand as well to be prepared to throw out all Essence crystals if that was necessary. He squinted his eyes, circulated mana through them, and focused on the miasma in front of him.

Yet, instead of seeing a humongous monster emerging from the rainbow miasma, he witnessed an unexpected scenario.

The rainbow miasma receded and a humongous Gate appeared in Dilan's sight, exactly where the black heart, the Soul Collector, had exploded.

"So that's what the Soul Collector is doing; creating a stronger Gate to allow either more, or stronger, or maybe both more and stronger monsters and Drakins to emerge on Milarn?" Dilan mumbled, realizing that the situation was pretty interesting.

There were many creative races using unique and unpredictable ways to make their way to Milarn. By now, Dilan was fully aware that the Primordial Ascension was something numerous races considered to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

If they could awaken the supporting system of the Primordial Ascension, their strength would inevitably increase by leaps and bounds.

However, that was not the main reason for most races to give their utmost to activate the Primordial Ascension's supporting system. All races had certain boundaries, and thresholds they couldn't overcome easily.

Thankfully, by activating the supporting system of the Primordial Ascension, they were provided with the necessary means to break through these thresholds with much more ease.

If that was not good enough, the supporting system was even strong enough to give pointers to allow ordinary mortal existences to become terrifying Gods with unfathomable powers no mortal was ever supposed to attain, to begin with.

Dilan had learned all of this from Ariel Silvertale, who had somehow become quite a good friend for him to chat with. It was easy to ask her numerous questions because she answered the majority of them provided Dilan was ready to answer all questions she asked him.

His answers didn't even have to be overly explicit for Ariel Silvertale to accept them. This was pretty helpful, and it allowed both sides to gain various benefits as their knowledge increased substantially.

Dilan kept staring at the humongous Gate in the center of the Shiron crater and he imagined a huge Red Dragon, like the one his group had run from when they drove away from the Rian mountainside hospital.

However, this was nothing but his imagination and the reality was that a three-meter-tall, red-scaled lizard with tiny wings emerged from the gate.

The monster's wings were not powerful enough to allow the lizard to fly, which caused Dilan to smile lightly.

He had expected something worse to happen so seeing a Peak Tier-2 monster appear from the Gate made him chuckle.

But just when Dilan was about to lower his guard, reality struck him right in the face.

A seven-meter-tall, two-legged lizard with huge wings emerged from the Gate. It lunged out toward the Lizard with short wings and its razor-sharp maw crushed down on the monster that was ripped to shreds.

"Tier-3 Wyvern!" Dilan exclaimed, recognizing the monster that had emerged from the Gate.

It took him no effort to figure out that the monster in the center of the Shiron Crater was at Tier 3 and that it was a Wyvern. It had two legs at the end of the lizard's body, huge bat wings, a powerful neck, razor-sharp teeth and claws, the power to breathe fire, and a lengthy tail that crashed down on the remnants of the now torn apart body of the short-winged lizard.

The Tier-2 monster had died in an instant and the huge Wyvern didn't hesitate to gobble down its head to devour its Essence crystal.

The Wyvern roared out triumphantly and it shot in the air with mighty flaps of its wings.

"Taming one of these would be quite interesting, that's for sure…" Dilan couldn't help but mumble and it was merely a minute later that the head of the large Wyvern shot in his direction.

Dilan was merely in the mid of the second Tier, and the huge Wyvern was definitely at the mid of the third Tier. With [Power Appraisal] of his Headring, Dilan could clearly tell that its average stats were at 250 Units.

This was definitely not something Dilan had to be afraid of, especially with the equipment he wore.

His Agility was extremely high after [Thunder Step] and [Second Acceleration] had been activated, meaning that his Agility was at the Peak of the 3rd Tier even without the tremendous increase his agility received from the equipment.

The Cursed Dagger was fully unleashed as [Blood Sacrifice] had been activated, increasing the stat amplification by 50%!

Dilan smiled at the Wyvern and he couldn't help but feel that the opportunity in front of him was even better than expected.

"Maybe, I should just start slaughtering you guys!" Dilan exclaimed as he activated [Short distance traveling].

And just a moment later he disappeared into thin air!