Evil dragon has a warm heart
Chapter 479 - 479 478 High Dragon Domain Lord

Chapter 479: Chapter 478: High Dragon Domain Lord Chapter 479: Chapter 478: High Dragon Domain Lord Time trickled by, the aura in the pit weakening continuously, while Russell’s brows furrowed deeply, growing more and more concerned for Harpy Dragon Hape.

“Actually… it might be just as well if the tribulation fails!”

He even wanted to immediately dig through the earth, pull Hape out and have it abandon any further enlightenment on the mysteries of life and death.

But the faintly trembling soul bond was silently conveying Hape’s desire for evolution. As a Phantom Beast, it had a great love for roasted mouse meat, but its greatest pursuit was to ascend to a Pseudo-Dragon.

Therefore, as a contracted partner, Russell could not simply quash Hape’s hope.

“Polly, do you think Hape will succeed?” Russell asked softly through the soul bond.

“It will, Russell,” Unicorn Polly responded softly. “Hape and I are both of the Phantom Beast Pseudo-Dragon lineage, and it has an even better chance of ascending than I do. Such a strong will in a Phantom Beast is rare indeed.”

It was understandable for humans to be fiercely in pursuit of strength.

But for a Phantom Beast to do so was not common; at the end of the day, a Phantom Beast was just a wild beast that had evolved once. The yearning for strength was understandable, but it was precious for one to seek strength through a near-death experience.

“Let’s hope so!” Russell nodded.

At that moment, via the soul bond, Ouroboros’s voice transmitted, “There’s a change below ground, Russell, I can feel it, Hape is transforming… it must have comprehended the mystery of life and death!”

Russell was astonished, “Is that so!”

The next moment, he felt tremors emanating from the pit, and, propelled by a gale, the earth blew away from underneath.

“Quack!”

With a cry, Hape emerged flying out of the pit.

Without any unnecessary words, and no gap in their soul communication, it soared into the sky, flying off to the northeast.

Even though there was no soul communication, Russell could feel from the reinvigorated Prime Breath that Hape had indeed penetrated the mystery of life and death, a brand-new power coalescing within it, ready to explode at any moment.

“Hape is about to overcome the tribulation, let’s go, Uroboros!” With a gesture from Russell, Uroboros coiled around his arm.

Then, the Mark of the Thunder Lord flickered, and utilizing the Wind Walking Skill that broke the sound barrier, he chased after Hape like lightning.

But Hape hadn’t flown far.

The power burgeoning inside it was not enough to keep it flying much longer.

It had only flown about thirty-some kilometers out of Greentown Snow Forest, to a snowfield some forty kilometers due south of the Blackflame Plains.

“Russell, this is my limit!” Hape suddenly spoke up in the soul bond, “The miracle of ascension has already begun. I can’t get any closer to Thunderflame Territory, I must ascend now… Quack, I need your help, Russell!”

It still remembered Russell’s instruction to approach the Thunderflame Territory to better resonate with the Warm Enclave.

The next moment.

Hape was suspended in mid-air, its feathers falling off one by one.

“Polly, Uroboros, you guys wait for me in the distance!” Russell rushed towards Hape, teetering on the brink of collapse.

The Mark of the Thunder Lord revealed Unicorn Polly’s silhouette, taking Ouroboros with it as it quietly retreated into the distance, not to disturb the ascension of Russell and Hape.

“I’m here, Hape, fuse!” Russell lunged forward, enduring the collapsing Hape, which suddenly turned into a beam of white light and merged into Russell’s body, triggering the deepest Beast Fusion Shadow and entering the Hawk-Man form.

At this moment, Russell seemed to transform into a striking Hawk-Man.

Gusts of wind attacked from all directions, but he stood firm, bearing the onslaught of the gales and feeling the transformation of Hape’s body from a physical state to an energy form, the profound changes in each particle of energy.

He had felt this kind of change once before.

It was during Unicorn Polly’s ascension to a Pseudo-Dragon, but at that time, it was the power of thunder that surged within, while this time, it was the might of the gales that assaulted him.

“Hape, hold on!”

“I’m holding on!”

Under the assault of the fierce wind, the Hawk-Man form was undergoing even deeper changes, transforming Russell along with it from a flesh-and-blood body into an energy body, to accept the same power transition as Hape—the Pseudo-Dragon cannot ascend alone, it must do so alongside a Knight.

Because the power foundation of a Pseudo-Dragon is Prime Breath, and Prime Breath is the power that comes from the fusion of a Phantom Beast’s elemental energy and a Knight’s fighting spirit.

Therefore, to ascend a Pseudo-Dragon, a Knight’s assistance is necessary.

Or rather, it’s only when a Knight and a Phantom Beast collaborate shoulder to shoulder that they can truly break through the ceiling of Prime Breath and ascend to Pseudo-Dragon Prime Breath.

Russell had the experience.

Hape had also comprehended the tuft passed down from its ancestors.

In this moment, under the assault of the fierce wind, both the Knight and the Phantom Beast completely opened up, from their bodies to their souls. The power of the Pseudo-Dragon was slowly awakening within the blood of Hape, constantly providing power for the ascension, and that silly tuft tucked in its beak also quietly merged in.

Empowerment!

This continuous empowerment felt like it lasted an eternity, but in actuality, it was but a moment.

When the energy reached its tipping point, all the changes had already been completed. There was no pain of a shattered body reconstituting because an energy body simply couldn’t feel such physical impacts. And just like that, a man and an owl quietly completed their ascension.

Russell also fell back from the state of an energy body into his flesh-and-blood form.

But on his body, a faint blue Wind Gang enshrouded him, forming a set of armor. He raised his right hand, and the blue Wind Gang extended up it, coalescing into a three-meter-long Gangwind Greatsword that seemed inconspicuous, yet the rapidly flowing wind upon it could slice through any obstruction.

Moreover, with the help of the Gangwind Armor and the Gangwind Greatsword, he felt as if his five senses could spread infinitely far with the flow of the wind.

In all directions, omnipresent!

In this moment.

He had become the master of the wind, wherever the breeze touched, his senses could extend, and so too could his power.

“Hape!”

“Russell!”

Two voices called out simultaneously in their minds, and at that moment, there was no longer any misalignment in the thoughts between Russell and Hape.

“Congratulations, Hape, you’ve been reborn, returning to the glory of your ancestors. The you now is a Pseudo-Dragon-Harpy!”

“Thank you for your help, Russell!” Hape had already fused with Russell, entering the exclusive combat form of a Dragon Domain Lord.

Russell looked down at the Snowfield beneath his feet.

The endless wind, taking the place of their ascension as its origin, blew in all directions, directly melting the ice caps on the Snowfield that were touched by it.

A Warm Enclave was rapidly taking form!

Compared to when Polly ascended to the Master of Thunder, with her overwhelming thunderous purge, the commotion of Hape’s ascension to the Master of Wind as it carved out a Warm Enclave was much gentler. But the gentle wind was dissolving the snow and ice at no less a rate than the thunder.

In the blink of an eye, the ground beneath them had turned from a Snowfield into an ocean, the ice age had not yet ended, but the Warm Enclave was already struggling to break through the ice.

The endless wind, like a pair of giant hands, was cleaving heaven and earth.

“Hape, this is our new power, the Pseudo-Dragon Prime Breath!” Russell, holding the Gangwind Greatsword, directed his gaze into the distance.

“I like this power now, Russell, it makes me feel like I can control my fate… My strength will no longer be confined to a corner,” Hape said. After Polly’s ascension, it had always been striving hard.

The reason was to catch up to Polly and not be left behind.

It had realized that it couldn’t join the Quiet Dream family. So, ascending to Pseudo-Dragon to enhance its value and prove its existence had been its unceasing motivation.

“Yes!” Russell raised his arm, gazing at the Wind Gang Armor wrapped around him, filled with myriad emotions, “From the very start, I knew that Hape, you would never be subservient to any Phantom Beast. You are you, a Harpy that thirsts for power!”