28 Destroy the Dragon Empire (1/2)

Nearly a month after the Gathering of Heroes the Fiend Army, under the direct command of the Great Fiend made its move. After the stifling losses of over half of its ships and soldiers; the Great Fiend escalated his production of new ships and the training of new Fiend soldiers.

General Ag personally trained the new recruits and boosted the fighting strength of the army by having all of the already trained soldiers consume Fiend Stones. General Ha Va provided a countless number of Fiend and Harmony Stones after strategic raids against the Dragon Empire's strongholds and research installations. Even the Dragon Empire's heavily defended Shipyard and Armament facility were robbed of their Stones.

Out of all of his warriors, the Great Fiend was the fondest of General Ha Va. He even began referring to her as his daughter and General Ha Va called him Daddy. It was a weird relationship, but soon everyone realized the second in command of the Fiends wasn't General Ag. It was General Ha Va.

Currently, the Grand Fiend Army was made up of twenty-seven thousand and three hundred and forty-two soldiers. The Destroyer, the Grand Fiend's command ship, and fifteen attack ships each about the size of Kal N'Dar's attack frigate. There was a total of two thousand five hundred fighters, four hundred and fifty Walking Tanks, and five thousand Fiend Mechs.

The lowest level of cultivation for the Fiends was Void Emperor. Each of the Generals had a cultivation of Ascended Immortal. Although General Ag wasn't the second in the command he was the second strongest in the Fiend Army. Only the Great Fiend was stronger than him. General Ag reached a level called Transcendent. Anyone reaching the Transcendent level would immediately ascend to a higher spiritual realm.

Beings such as the Great Fiend and Master River were full-Transcendents but they came down to the lower plane from a higher one. These beings were called Descenders. They were under certain rules as the natural universe laws wouldn't allow them to output all of their power because it was possible their strength could destroy the lower plane. The Dragon Empire was an Empire stretching through multiple universes but these universes were on the lowest spiritual plane.

Master River ascended to the higher realm millions of years before and chose to descend to the plane to see how the Wu Di Clan was doing. He wanted to develop some promising seeds and guide them up through the higher planes. He was also worried about the Fiends invading the Wu Di Clan's newly adopted home in the Dragon Empire.

It was unfortunate, but Master River had achieved a much higher level in the upper spiritual planes than the Great Fiend, but due to this he was even more restricted than the Great Fiend. Master River explained all of this to his students and the Dragon Emperor.

The Great Fiend could exert ninety percent of the strength of a Full Ascendant level cultivator. Master River could only exert fifty percent of a Full Ascendant level cultivator. Master River couldn't defeat the Great Fiend, but the Great Fiend couldn't hurt Master River. Even though the exertion of his strength could be constrained, the natural durability of his body could not be reduced.

The Reason Master River's strength was more constrained than the Great Fiend was because of his passive-strength. If a power output of ninety percent were combined with a high-level Transcendent's body, the strength of the power output would be one hundred times greater than the Great Fiend's power output. Such strength could easily destroy the low spiritual plane Dragon Empire universe.

The Great Fiend was ready to set out for the Imperial Throneworld. General Ag commanded the forces to advance. General Ha Va sat in a smaller throne next to the Great Fiend.

”Are you ready for some killing?” The Great Fiend asked General Ha Va.

”Always, daddy.” General Ha Va smiled evilly.

”Oh, I have a present for you I picked up recently on one of my little adventures,” said General Ha Va.

”Oh? What present?” The Great Fiend asked. He knew if his daughter said she had a present it would be something good!

With a nod from General Ha Va, two of her Fiend Guards disappeared and reappeared with a sack containing something wiggling. The sack was unceremoniously dumped before the Great Fiend.

The Guards opened the sack and poured out a young gold horn dragon man.

”And who is this?” The Great Fiend asked General Ha Va.

”This, daddy is one of those annoying little Dragon Squad members. He's the twin brother of a female gold horn dragon. I believe his name is Pianzi. The interesting thing is gold horn dragons are rare, but you know what's even rarer?” asked General Ha Va fiendishly.

”What,” The Great Fiend asked, getting more and more interested in his daughter's present.

”A Gold Horn Dragon twin! It's said dragon twins have special powers. I also heard if you kill a dragon twin it will create an enormous spiritual backlash against the other twin.” said General Ha Va.

The Great Fiend smiled evilly. This was an interesting present!” Do you think I should kill him?” asked the Great Fiend.

”Only if you kill him the right way,” replied General Ha Va.

”There's a right way to kill a dragon?” asked the Great Fiend.

General Hava pulled a jade crystal from her spatial ring and handed it to the Great Fiend.

”What's this?” asked the Great Fiend.

”The right way to kill a dragon,” smiled General Ha Va.

The Great Fiend took the Jade Crystal and let the information on the crystal flow into his mind. The Great Fiend started laughing sinisterly as the information finished engraving itself upon his mind.

”A technique for transferring the powers and strength of a dragon into another cultivator. What a useful way of killing someone” laughed the Great Fiend.

”I gave you the Earth General as your underling didn't I?” asked the Great Fiend.

”Yes,” responded General Ha Va.