On the periphery of the Sacred Gold Mountain.
The furious roars of Dragons echoed out, some laced with desperation as they fought back against their own kind while defending against a terrifying entity!
Alexander, clad in the best qualities of 7 of his Followers, descended from above while throwing down golden spears of light swirling with Glacial thunder.
The Covenant of Gold seethed from his attacks as he was gradually coming to understand battling as a Ruler.
It was the imposition of one’s authority- one’s Covenant; by exchanging their Energeia, you unleash and control different volumes of said Covenant.
The more Energeia one spent to unleash the authority of their Covenant, the more potent it was.
Then came the disparity of the Covenants themselves.
If one Covenant was stronger than another and both sides used a similar amount of Energeia, the stronger Covenant would win!
And if one was preoccupied with one enemy while another sniped them from above when they couldn’t even defend…
BOOOM!
Three golden spears of light surrounded by swirling storms of glacial thunder pierced through the wings and back of the Black Dragon- its deathly roars maddened as its abundant life force allowed it to fight back even as it spiraled down!
[We are of the noble Lineage of Dragons! We do not fight against each other we-]
BOOM!
Alexander’s figure shot down like a comet as his body forced the Black Dragon to smash onto the earth below them, chains of bones forming from his hands that wrapped around it as the massive bone crown floating on his head spun powerfully.
This state of fusion still had a few minutes left, but Alexander was already rapidly achieving what he needed to do in that short span of time.
[I told you that you wouldn’t have the chance to run again.]
BOOM!
His hands were encased in sharp spiked obsidian bones that utterly mutilated the muscles and bones of the Dragon below him.
Wisps of a black Covenant exploded out like a cloud as the Black Dragon roared in pain, but a brilliant Golden light swirled around Alexander that protected him from the Covenant of Fear as he continued pounding!
BOOM!
Every strike he thundered down released tendrils of chaotic gold light into the body of the Black Dragon- these threads of gold causing its blood and muscles to begin freezing over and gain a gold sheen as its roars became weaker and weaker.
Until…
[I…yield-…!]
BOOM!
His fists thundered onto the majestic head of the Black Dragon as glimmering brain matter gushed out from a split head filled with majesty.
[…]
It was utterly brutal.
His massive body akin to the size of a building towered over the corpse of a Dragon, blinding black light gathering from its depths as its very essence was transformed into Ruler’s Gems that others could absorb!
Alexander only spared the forming obsidian crystals a glance as he looked up to the skies where two Dragons seemed to be hesitant on whether to make a run for it.
[The first one who tries running is the one I will chase alone. The first to touch the ground keeps their life.]
…!
On the ground below, three corpses of dragons already lay silently as the moment his words echoed out, a terrifying sense of trepidation spread out as the massive bodies of a Three Headed Red Dragon and the Blue Dragon had their claws touch the slightly gold earth at the same time!
Alexander felt the blood of a Ruler slide off his reinforced bony hands as he calmly sat on the body of the Black Dragon.
Behind him, the corpse of a ripped apart Wingless One-Eyed Serpent and a Crimson Dragon lay, and he now stared at the remaining two Dragons with a sense of power as a heavy silence came down over everything.
In the far back, Ryanara still watched all of this in a stupor as not once did Alexander ask for help.
And he now stared at two Dragon Rulers who looked at him with somber gazes.
The cowards of the group.
The ones who had turned against their own race the moment their lives were threatened.
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The Three Headed Red Dragon didn’t like a stern silence as its feminine voice echoed out slowly.
[I hope you can honor your word-]
[Honor?] Alexander interrupted the Ruler as his body began to pulse with the Covenant of Gold.
Honor.
What good was that?
Was Honor able to bring back the millions who died in Carthage? The millions more that died in other regions as their own world turned against them?
Honor meant shit to his eyes.
He looked at the Dragons before him as he spoke languidly.
[I said two of you would live, and that is true. I can swear by the very Covenant of Gold regarding this.]
…!
The serpentine eyes of the two dragons lit up with happiness and relief at this. Any declaration made with a Covenant were extremely heavy- with a cost having to be paid by one’s own Covenant if broken!
But before their relief could last…
[You can live, but under my banner. You follow me, and you can get the protection of my Sacred Mountain. You are in a foreign land with many dangers as just a few hours here, and you all nearly died. What will it be?]
…!
Lesser Minions that he had first bound during the War of the Walls of Carthage were released, his hands radiating two globes of golden light as he looked coldly at two Dragons.
They could live, but only through a single pathway.
Through submission!
The eyes of the two Dragons showed complex emotions as the Three Headed Red Dragon even let out a laugh of frustration.
Alexander became stern as the Covenant of Gold began to surge around him, but…
The heads of the Three Headed Red Dragon all bent down soon after in a show of shocking submission- the most cowardly Dragon here bending first as her voice rang out with unwillingness!
[You are a shrewd one, Gold Ruler.]
She felt like she had to say something at the very least to preserve the dignity of her Lineage.
But Alexander didn’t care one bit about this as the ball of golden light shot out to bind her to him, his gaze going towards the other Dragon who was heavily biting its jaws as it also bent down!
Two Land Rulers bowed their heads towards another Land Ruler in the midst of a small corner of a changing world.
It was a shocking scene that was just the beginning of something far, far larger!