Ten thousand years.
That was how long something ancient had worked to prevent one single moment.
One word.
Together.
And that word had just been spoken.
The Unmaker stood four hundred meters away.
Still.
For the first time in ten thousand years.
Paused.
Not retreating.
Not afraid.
Just processing something it had never encountered before.
Kai felt it.
That stillness.
Like the moment before a storm decides which direction to move.
Then the Unmaker took one step forward.
The ground beneath its foot ceased to exist.
A perfect circle of absence spreading outward.
Three meters wide.
Silent.
Inevitable.
The dragon army reacted instantly.
The Dragon Emperor launched forward first.
Wings spread wide.
Golden fire erupting from its mouth.
A blast powerful enough to level a city.
It hit the Unmaker directly.
And disappeared.
Not deflected.
Not absorbed.
Simply ceased to exist.
Like the fire had never happened.
The Dragon Emperor pulled up sharply.
Confusion in its ancient eyes.
The Celestial Dragon came next.
Twelve wings driving it forward like a meteor.
Silver light erupting from its body.
The most powerful natural force in the dragon realm.
It struck the Unmaker.
And ceased.
Gone.
Like it had never been fired.
The Celestial Dragon veered away sharply.
For the first time in its existence looking uncertain.
Lyra's voice came fast.
"Nothing is reaching it."
"I know," Kai said.
"Every attack is being unmade before impact."
Victor was already calculating.
"If conventional attacks don't work—"
"They won't," Varek said from nearby.
The armored figure's voice was steady.
"Nothing that exists within the multiverse can touch it directly."
The Unmaker took another step.
Another circle of absence.
Six meters now.
Still moving forward.
Patient.
Unhurried.
Like it had all the time in existence.
Because it did.
Rael's two hunters fired simultaneously.
Dragon-killing runes blazing on their weapons.
The shots reached the Unmaker.
And unmade.
Rael grabbed them back immediately.
"Stop," he said quietly.
"Don't waste what you have."
The Unmaker kept walking.
Kai watched it come.
Sovereign Flame burning white around his body.
The system was running analysis.
[Attack efficiency: 0%]
[Conventional damage: Impossible]
[Recommendation: Sovereign Flame direct contact required]
Kai read it twice.
Direct contact.
That meant getting close.
Very close.
To something that unmade everything it touched.
Drakar pressed against his side.
The bonded dragon's golden eyes were tracking the Unmaker carefully.
Not with fear.
With the focused attention of a creature that had decided something.
"Not yet," Kai said quietly.
Drakar didn't move.
But acknowledged it.
The Void Emperor moved.
The massive ruler stepped forward.
Dark void energy gathered around its crown.
A concentrated attack unlike anything it had used before.
The void beam fired.
Black and absolute.
It crossed the distance in an instant.
Hit the Unmaker.
For one moment—
The Unmaker actually slowed.
One fraction of a second.
Then the void energy unmade.
Gone.
But Kai had seen it.
"It slowed," he said.
Victor was already there.
"Void energy is closer to non-existence than other energies."
"It takes longer to unmake."
Kai looked at the Void Emperor.
The massive ruler turned its head toward him.
One slight acknowledgment.
It had noticed too.
"That's the gap," Kai said.
Lyra understood immediately.
"Use the void energy as a delay."
"While the Sovereign Flame—"
"Makes contact," Kai finished.
The Unmaker was three hundred meters away now.
Still walking.
The absence spreading from each footstep growing slightly larger.
Ten meters per step now.
The ruins around it fading.
Becoming less real.
Kai looked at his team.
At the bonds burning steady in the Sovereign Resonance.
Drakar.
Lyra.
Victor.
All present.
All real.
All here.
The system flashed.
[Sovereign Resonance — Stage 2]
[Bond channel available]
[Sovereign Flame can be transmitted through active bonds]
Kai stared at the message.
Transmitted through bonds.
He looked at Drakar.
Then at Lyra.
Then at Victor.
"I need to ask something," he said.
All three looked at him.
"The Sovereign Flame."
He paused.
"I can send it through our bonds."
"Through each of you."
"It will increase the output significantly."
He looked at them directly.
"But I don't know what it will feel like."
"Carrying a fire that existed before existence."
Lyra met his eyes.
"Ask me properly."
Kai looked at her.
"Lyra."
"Will you carry the Sovereign Flame?"
She didn't hesitate.
"Yes."
Kai looked at Victor.
"Victor."
The guild captain's jaw was set.
"For my team."
"Yes."
Kai looked at Drakar.
The bonded dragon was already watching him.
Had been since the question started.
Those golden eyes carrying everything.
Every chapter.
Every battle.
Every moment of choice.
Kai placed his hand on Drakar's jaw.
"I know your answer."
Drakar pressed forward once.
Warm.
Certain.
The system updated.
[Sovereign Resonance — Bond transmission initiating]
[Sovereign Flame — Distributing through active channels]
Kai felt it immediately.
The white fire moving through him differently.
Not just around his body.
Through the bonds.
Into Drakar.
Into Lyra.
Into Victor.
Lyra gasped once.
Short.
Controlled.
Her staff erupted with white fire alongside its violet energy.
Two flames burning together.
Victor's weapon glowed white at the grip.
His expression didn't change.
But his eyes burned brighter.
Drakar roared.
The sound was different.
Not the dragon's normal roar.
Something older.
Something that resonated with the Sovereign Flame directly.
White fire erupted along the dragon's scales.
Golden and white burning together.
The Unmaker stopped.
Two hundred and fifty meters away.
It looked at Kai.
Then at Drakar burning white.
Then at Lyra.
Then at Victor.
For the second time.
It paused.
The Void Emperor moved immediately.
Taking the gap.
Another void beam fired.
Buying seconds.
The Unmaker turned toward the beam.
Began unmaking it.
Kai moved.
"Now."
Drakar launched instantly.
White fire blazing.
Lyra's platform surged forward.
Victor ran.
The three bonds converging on the Unmaker from three angles.
Simultaneously.
The Unmaker was still processing the void beam.
Drakar reached it first.
The bonded dragon drove its claw forward.
White Sovereign Flame erupting on contact.
BOOM.
The impact was different.
Not unmade.
The flame held.
For one full second.
The Unmaker recoiled.
An actual physical recoil.
Something it had not done in ten thousand years.
The absence around its feet flickered.
Stuttered.
Like a machine encountering something it wasn't designed to process.
Lyra's strike came from the left.
White fire through her staff.
Another second of contact.
Another recoil.
Victor from the right.
His weapon blazing white.
The Unmaker stumbled.
Actually stumbled.
The entire assembled army went silent.
Then the First Dragon Sovereign roared.
RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
The sound shook the multiverse.
Every dragon responded.
The Abyss King moved forward.
The Void Emperor fired again.
Rael's runes activated.
Varek's ancient armor blazed.
And Kai walked forward through the chaos.
Sovereign Flame burning absolute white.
Toward the thing that had spent ten thousand years ensuring this moment would never happen.
The Unmaker looked at him.
And for the first time in its ancient existence—
It took two steps back.
Will the Sovereign Flame finally destroy what ten thousand years could not stop? Will Drakar survive carrying a fire older than existence itself? And when Kai reaches the Unmaker — will the bonds be strong enough to end it all?
Keep reading — Dragon Sovereign System
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