Before the words were out.

The Dwarf Mage suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, an intangible sense of danger made his hair stand on end.

After a brief daze.

The Dwarf Mage suddenly lifted his head.

Silently, a crimson ominous star streaked across the sky, the dark red trail tearing open the gray-blue night, like a fiery scar left behind.

The Dragon Wings that split the sky.

The ominous star that symbolizes death.

He has arrived.

The dark red trail scorched through the sky of the Sel Wilderness, and at the sight of the Red Iron Dragon appearing like a meteor, every Dwarf’s heart instantly tensed.

"The audacious Evil Dragon!"

From the center of the mine came the roar of a war hammer hitting the ground, as the beard of a Dwarf commander danced wildly in the wind.

"Let it taste Black Rock’s firepower!"

He shouted, giving the command to open fire.

At the same time, ten multi-barreled steam crossbow cannons embedded in the earth roared first.

These killing machines, three stories high, driven by refined gold gears, each steel crossbow arm wrapped in dragon lizard sinew soaked in whale oil.

Dozens of barrels rotated and fired simultaneously, weaving a lethal domain in the air with a barrage of armor-piercing crossbow arrows.

The anti-air heavy guns followed closely, and as the magic energy stone embedded in their bases shimmered brightly, energy balls were spewed from their wide barrels.

Yet the Giant Dragon descending from the sky did not even dodge.

He merely avoided attacks aimed at vital points, allowing all other assaults to fall upon him.

Crossbow arrows struck against his chestplate-like red scales, and what burst forth were not blood flowers but blinding sparks.

The Dwarf gunners watched in terror as the arrowheads twisted and snapped.

Those deadly weapons capable of piercing an Earth Dragon’s heart now seemed as fragile as ice picks against an iron plate, and the magic energy cannon’s attack landed on the Red Iron Dragon, causing his body to sway slightly, his scales cracking and shattering.

"Why does this Dragon... look so familiar?"

"It’s him, the Death Omen Star!"

"How many years has it been?! He’s become stronger and returned for revenge!"

The Dwarf Alchemist was shaken to his core, recognizing Galos.

Several small dragons, despite their pain, straightened their bodies and looked up at the sky.

Amidst the attention of all, the Red Iron Dragon folded his wings.

Offensive stance!

Open!

With a sizzling sound, dense and dazzling golden lightning emerged from the Red Iron Dragon, his already incredibly strong body expanding once again; then, before more cannon fire could come, he descended like a terrifying force piercing through the earth.

Boom!

With the cataclysmic sound, countless cracks spread like lightning across the surface.

The raging wind, shock waves, and earth and stone... combined to surge and spread, delivering a devastating blow to the steam crossbow array.

Boom boom boom!

Before the Dwarf Guards could regain their senses.

The golden and mighty Red Iron Dragon spread its wings, rising into the air.

That vicious, sky-crashing impact left him without even a second of dizziness or sluggishness.

He took a deep breath, opened the Dragon’s Kiss, with fiery flames and lightning in his mouth, and then, ball-shaped dragon breath resembling flames and thunder tore through the murky dust, shooting in all directions, precisely hitting each crossbow and magic energy cannon.

Rumble!

The ground quaked, engines roared, as the Black Rock Duchy’s war golem, the ’Son of the Mountains,’ was activated.

Three massive beings made entirely of metal and steel leapt high, propelled by flames from their backs, swinging fists like siege hammers, charging directly at the Red Iron Dragon, with vibrating runes on their fists glowing like little suns.

Bang!!!

The moment Galos’s right claw collided with the golem’s iron fist, a shock wave shattered all the glass in the mine.

The hooked Dragon Claw of the Red Iron Dragon clawed into the golem’s arm armor, muscle fibers tensed like red steel cables.

Screech—! The entire golem’s arm was ripped off!

Galos swung the heavy metal limb like a windmill, smashing it into the head of the second golem, the collision of two giants resembling a landslide, and the flying gears and parts sliced through the Dwarf heavy infantry caught off guard.

The arm of another Son of the Mountains transformed into a war hammer, aiming to smash the Red Iron Dragon’s spine from behind.

The scales on the Dragon Tail fit together like a giant blade, sweeping across the golem’s chest with lightning speed, splitting it in half.

The Son of the Mountains was just the beginning.

One golem after another charged toward the Red Iron Dragon.

The valiant Heavy Dwarf Warriors also launched their attack in coordination.

These ’Steel Fortresses,’ clad in full plate armor with only their eyes exposed, charged at the Red Iron Dragon, tower shield edges ejecting rotary saw blades, and battle axes swirling with rune lightning.

As the first row of saw blades and shields clashed against the Dragon Scales.

The expanding chest of the inhaling Red Iron Dragon crushed the front-row Dwarves into metal meat patties, and the Dragon Tail’s sweep kicked up a bloody metallic storm, slamming the flying Dwarves into the refining tower, molten iron pouring like waterfalls into the crowd.

The invisible Dragon Qi Giant Arm crushed the heads of the golems attacking from both sides.

Warriors took the opportunity to leap onto the dragon’s back, fiercely cleaving at the neck, and the battle axe smashed through the Cold Burst Scale, their bodies sluggish from the pervasive chill, and then pierced through by regurgitating spines.

With the Red Iron Dragon’s continuous rapid claw sweeps, tail strikes, and wing slashes.

He held his ground against attacks from all sides, counterattacking with unstoppable force, dismembering the golems, and crushing the Dwarf Warriors.

The entire Chromium-Iron Mine’s defenses could do nothing against the rampaging Red Iron Dragon.

After another golem was cleaved in half by a Dragon Wing slash, the morale of the Dwarf Guards completely collapsed, with the majority of Dwarves ceasing their attack on the Red Iron Dragon, scattering and fleeing like rock mice in all directions.

However, two massive Dragon Shadows descended from the sky, blocking the escape routes, sealing the mine.

The shattered remnants, the low-grade Alchemy Golems, could not breach their blockade, shredded by claws and consumed by dragon breath.

"How do you feel now, reptile?"

Elsewhere, the Black Dragon asked sinisterly.

The Dwarf Mage’s expression turned ashen, trying to manipulate chains to kill all the small dragons, or at least drag some down with him.

But just as the runes on the chains began to glow.

Boom!

With a violent tremor in the ground, the sound of something heavy hitting the ground came from behind.

He turned in shock to see the towering and vicious Red Iron Dragon coldly gazing down at him, with burning flames, scorched earth, wreckage, and ruins in the background.

Whether it was defensive machinery or those Alchemy Golems and heavy warriors.

None could stop his advance, they were all dismantled and broken.

"Over twenty years... Red Iron Dragon, finally...."

The Dwarf Mage’s expression changed, ultimately revealing a determined look, his body surging with magic energy.

But before he could finish speaking, before he could launch an attack, surrounded by the gleeful yet reverent gaze of the small dragons, he was crushed to pieces by the Red Iron Dragon’s lifted and descending claw, turned into a splatter of meat.

"It seemed he wanted to say something? It doesn’t matter, just a trivial vermin,"

Having never faced him directly, Galos had no impression of the Dwarf Mage, and like squashing a bug, his mood remained unruffled.

ps: End of the month, asking for votes