Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 1001 - 548: Eclipse
"What a bitter taste beyond words!"
Swallowing the Dark Fruit that devours light like a deep abyss, Noah gave his first evaluation upon tasting such fruit.
The Dark Fruit is the most unique and extraordinary fruit that grows on the Golden Tree. Although this fruit also enhances Noah, honing his Divine Soul, and strengthening his mind and will.
But these are just additional effects. The true purpose of the Dark Fruit seems to be a warning to Noah, also representing a balance of rules manifested on the Golden Tree. The fruit that the tree bears serves not only the role of nourishing and strengthening.
Precisely because of the existence of such fruit, even though Noah has reached the Realm of Transcendence, viewing the world as a bonsai in his hand, he does not act recklessly. He always maintains a degree of restraint, often descending with will and power to intervene in maintaining the operation of worldly Order.
Also due to the Dark Fruit, Noah chooses to unite the many worlds under his dominion in a gentler manner, rather than employing the brutal and harsh means typical of times of war.
Although this method of fusion is extremely slow, it is stable. However, even so, many Dark Fruits quietly condense on the Golden Tree.
Fairness and Justice are forever relative, never absolute. Dissatisfaction and grievances, as well as injustices, are bound to arise; this is inevitable among the Wisdom Species.
Faced with these continuously generated Dark Fruits, even Noah, who has ascended to the status of Dragon King, can only solve it by swallowing them. He cannot let darkness spread.
On the other hand, Noah's tolerance for the Dark Fruits has strengthened considerably, and the method of consumption has also changed.
The Dark Fruit gives no second chances; touching it directly melts and integrates into Noah's body. Yet now Noah can choose to pluck them and swallow them as fruits, though the taste is indescribably bitter.
The bitter taste of the fruit is secondary; what truly torments Noah are the extreme negative emotions and resentment contained within the fruit.
Holding the position of Dragon King, even enduring the resentment and hatred of thousands or tens of thousands, is breezy. But what if it comes from a world? Moreover, the Golden Tree now gathers more than just one world.
As Noah consumes more Dark Fruits, his Dragon King form projected onto the nebula reveals pitch-black, dark veins spreading on Dragon Scales, and the splendid Dragon King's body gradually loses its luster, emanating a distinctly different aura.
Hoo!
Finally, pitch-black flames burn fiercely on Noah's dragon form, the color black bearing intense ominousness, further affecting the Material World in reality.
Solar Eclipse
The Suns suspended above the Sky Dome of the Dragon Realm all exhibited abnormalities, pitch-black ominousness spreading across the Suns, their light dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At this moment, all beings in the Dragon Realm looked up at the suddenly changing Suns overhead, feeling a strong sense of anxiety, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, plunging the world into an apocalypse.
The dimming of the Suns brought more than just the disappearance of light; it inflicted psychological pain, especially on living beings touched by the rays, experiencing an extremely strong mental impact, notably among those Wisdom Species with Dragon Blood flowing through their veins.
Not only those Wisdom Species, but even the dragon wolves wandering the wilderness let out mournful howls, the worms writhing underground in darkness also found it unbearable, emerging from beneath the earth...
The Sun, nurturing all beings, holds the strongest presence, yet is also the weakest. It is the strongest because it has always hung atop the Sky Dome, viewable by simply looking up. It is the weakest because its constant presence becomes overlooked once accustomed.
But when the Suns manipulated by Noah show slight changes, the Dragon Realm becomes turbulent, for Noah is the current source of Order in the Dragon Realm. The closer a being is to him, the more deeply they are affected.
"Ah! Father! What are you going through?"
Not just the beings of the secular world, even the Immortal Divine beings are also affected, feeling pain. But being Divine, their tolerance far exceeds the mundane, thus able to maintain clear will.
Yet all beings find it unbearable, leading to a vast number of High Rank Dragon-men intermittently fainting, Order teetering on collapse, chaos on the brink of emergence.
However, chaos did not spread. Noah immediately sensed the changes in the real world. The Dragon King, mastering the creation prowess of all beings, responded in an instant.
The current Dragon Realm does not only have one Sun, rather, it possesses a full dozen Suns, rotating in the sky, for the Dragon Realm's domain has grown, ten Suns alone no longer suffice to provide enough light and warmth for the beings below.
As all twelve Suns dimmed simultaneously, a thirteenth Sun appeared, restoring light to the earth. This Sun formed from the gathered darkness of the other Suns. It is a pitch-black Sun.
Black Sun
This was a pitch-black Sun like an abyss, seemingly able to devour everything, even light cannot escape. Yet what the eye sees contradicts perception, for this black Sun also radiates light and heat. But creatures enveloped in this glow feel an unruly impact of negative emotions.
