Guild Wars

Upon completing his transformation, Kuro stood majestically before his opponents. Due to his special nourishment by the environment of the Morningstar World coupled with the resources of the clan, his size was far bigger than typical dragons his age.

While he did not reach the size of adult male dragons like Clarent or Draco, he certainly resembled a young adult male dragon despite being a teen. As such, he was evenly matched in terms of size with his five opponents, if not one size smaller.

However, his size did nothing to comfort his foes who wore extremely solemn expressions. After all, Kuro's body was not as important when one felt the overpowering aura of destruction that was released from his body.

Those experienced dragons who were watching in the stands paused with shock, not understanding how a young dragon like this could have mastered such a difficult power so easily.

Kuro did not wait for his foes to strike since he had already suppressed them in terms of momentum and aura. Rather, he roared and spat out an orb of destruction, the most basic attack of a Black Dragon.

Seeing the potent orb, the earth dragon roared and smashed his feet into the ground, causing a wave of earth to stack up before the group. As expected, the orb of destruction pierced through the walls without losing much power, still hurtling toward the group menacingly.

The Ice Dragon followed up by also releasing a wall of ice that was filled with elemental power, but it was just as futile as the one that came before. In the end, the fire, water, and wind dragons had to jointly release beams of elemental energy from their mouths, forming a flame thrower, water jet, and wind stream attack that connected in the middle to form one unified tri-element beam.

This multicolored beam struck the orb and clashed with it, slowing down its movement while exhausting its destructive power using its own energy. This stalemate shockingly continued on for almost a whole minute before the orb was exhausted, causing it to dissipate.

However, the three dragons that fired the beam were already panting, their mouths leaking polluted elemental energy from overuse.

The fight had only begun and the opponent only used their most basic attack, yet five dragons were all stumped!

This refreshed the power and majesty of the Black Dragons for the other dragons. Some knew that Black Dragons and White Dragons were revered among their race but they had no idea why since the number was limited each generation.

After all, there were so many dragons at their peak, how many could meet the only 5 Black Dragon and White Dragon pair in their lifetime? Especially since Black Dragons were so violent and solitary, often dragging their White Dragon mates to live with them in the mountains.

Kuro, who had been cautious all along despite his seeming arrogance - something his father also taught him - was suddenly surprised and then filled with endless disdain once he saw the outcome of his attack.

As someone who did not have a panel yet, he did not have any skills or cooldowns like the dragons before him. All of that was pure bloodline energy plus his skill, and if we are to even describe it as anything, it was an auto-attack at best.

He had shot it out to test his foes and gauge them, but they couldn't even handle that?

If users of destruction energy heard him, they would want to discipline this lad in place of his father. Destruction Energy was not all-powerful, and like any form of energy, it came in various levels of purity.

Just like how there was red fire, purple fire, white fire, etc, along with there being blue lightning, yellow lightning, red lightning, and so on, so too did all other elements and energies have grades. The higher the grade, the better and more tyrannical the effect.

Destruction Energy did not have different colors, its purity was simply marked by percentage. To a non-Destruction Energy user, 1% Destruction Energy and 100% Destruction Energy purity were the same thing, hardly able to tell a difference.

But for Destruction Energy users, each percentage was like a gap.

Take Nightwalker for example.

He had the ability to create apocalypses and even use Destruction Force, a lesser version of Destruction Energy that was below 1% in purity. However, if he imbued his Destruction Force into any of his apocalypse, they instantly became something that even other core members had to fear.

But against a Destruction Energy user, it would probably be annihilated into nothingness with ease.

Draco usually used the Destruction Energy from his Destruction branch and hardly used his Black Dragon's Destruction Energy anymore. This was because his Bloodline Destruction Branch had a default purity of 100%, while the average Black Dragon started with a purity of 50% and could raise it through training and time.

Kuro had 75% purity at this time due to careful training by Draco as well as his limitless potential for being in possession of Draco's bloodline, though the other aspects were greatly muted at this time.

Back to the battle, Kuro was nonplussed as he raised a claw and swiped down, releasing a crescent-shaped wave of Destruction Energy. The wave was large enough to cut through a three-story building, causing the faces of the five dragons to change greatly.

With anguished roars, they crazily burned their energies as they spat out their strongest attacks. The Fire Dragon released a gout of flame thick enough to swallow an entire commercial street, the Water Dragon called upon a wave of water that could submerge a small neighborhood while the Wind Dragon released a blast of wind so strong that it could shave off the top of a medium-sized hill.

The Earth Dragon desperately erected a small mountain to encase them all within while the ice dragon cryogenically froze them in near impenetrable ice within the mountain's layers.

Looking at the three attacks and two defenses, they were each largely than Kuro's simple crescent wave by more than half, but this small crescent wave silently evaporated all the attacks that struck it with ease, not losing any power.

Fire, water, and wind were turning into illusions, disappearing as if they never existed. The crescent wave touched the mountain and caused it to turn into dust particles, revealing the five iced-up dragons.

Despite being frozen, the dragons were obviously conscious, and their faces were paled from having used all of their power at once. Seeing the Destruction Energy rushing at them, their eyes showed despair as death reached them, but were surprised to see Kuro appear before the attack and grasp it with ease.

"You have lost." He said coldly, shattering his own attack with ease like it was made of fragile glass.

The five dragons emerged from the ice and bowed with respect as well as subservience, leaving the stage almost dejectedly.

WHOOSH!

The crowd stood on their four legs and roared with excitement, releasing blast and energy waves crazily into the sky with joy. They had never in their long lives seen such a dominant battle, and even in this trial realm which was fashioned from a fragment of the old realm, very few dragon princes could show such a performance.

Kuro shifted back into his human form, which he quite liked to use for day-to-day matters, and exited the stage as well. As she did so, the world crumbled around him as an aged and crumbly voice entered his mind.

"Not bad child, you are quite exemplary. Whose son are you?"

"Draco Morningstar, the greatest Dragon King," Kuro said proudly, wearing a smile for the first time today.

The voice seemed unamused yet surprised. "Eh? Never heard of him. He must be one of those rare Dragon Kings who ascended without undergoing the trial. Hm, this means that the line of Dragon Kings has been broken and restarted yet again. How troublesome."

As Kuro's smile faded, the voice continued leisurely. "Well, that doesn't matter. You have passed the first trial and earned the right to hear my voice. I am Igneus, the First Dragon King. It was through my hands that the legacy and empire of the Dragon Race was built and it is under my spiritual purview that it continues."

Saying this, Igneus paused as if to let Kuro soak up the information and display his awe. However, the lad simply blinked coldly and asked: "When will the next trial begin? My father has more important tasks for me than talking to the dead."

Igneus choked and felt speechless.

"Forget it, how can I fight with a mere youth? Not to mention you are a Black Dragon, so the attitude makes sense. Pfft, whatever." The old voice of Igneus sounded, making sure that Kuro could hear what he was saying.

Still seeing no reaction, Igneus gave up. This generation of youth were hopeless! Always on those damn phones and unwilling to work hard to buy a house like he did during his era!

"Fine fine, get lost kid. The next test will surely stump you, brat!" Igneus muttered irritably and went silent.
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Kuro didn't have a chance to retort as he was whisked away again, taken to a realm where before him stood a large sky full of stars that seemed to go on forever. A set of platforms numbering 100 were set cascading downwards from the sky like stairs.

At the top of the stairs was, surprisingly, a full-grown adult Black Dragon who was sleeping peacefully.

When Kuro appeared, the Black Dragon was awoken and looked around blearily, as if surprised to actually have been awoken. He looked down and saw Kuro at the bottom, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"A Dragon Prince who is a Black Dragon? How many millennia has it been since we've had a Black Dragon as Dragon King? I've been sleeping for so long…" The old Black Dragon muttered.

｢System to Immortal Descendant Announcement

The objective of the second segment has been set. You must reach the 50th platform of the Rising Dragon Steps in order to pass. You cannot use any external items whatsoever, only your own innate abilities.｣

Kuro read the objective and then glanced upward once more. Immediately, he shifted back into his Dragon Form, releasing a casual roar to establish his dominance.

The eyes of the old black dragon lit up slightly, nodding his head with satisfaction. "Not bad. A clear spine with neatly aligned ridges, streamlined muscles, and a snout with clean nostrils. You aren't inbred nor deformed, which shows you have great potential."

"However, I still have to test you. Try and reach the 40th platform at the least and I will make an exception for you to pass due to how rare it is to see a fellow Black Dragon who is also royalty." The old black dragon offered one-sidedly, not even bothering to confer with Kuro.

Kuro simply sneered and flapped his wings, shooting upwards like a bullet released from a gun, aiming to reach the 100th platform and knock the old dragon down into the void!

"Oh, a feisty one huh? Reminds me of the old days…" The old dragon chuckled as he didn't even bother to rise to his feet.

With a simple exhale, the old dragon released a torrent of Destruction Energy as thick as a sea downwards from his spot, encompassing all the platforms from 99th to the 1st.

Kuro was struck with the torrent and showed shock as he felt that the purity of this energy was almost on par with his father!

In other words, this old dragon had Destruction Energy reaching 100% in purity!

Kuro hastily coated his body in his own Destruction Energy, which caused him to feel much better. With a gloomy expression, he charged upward once more, resisting the potent barrage from above to climb higher up on the various platforms.

His target: the very top!