Chapter 328: Extinction (Part2)

The moment Atherion’s voice roared through the island, the already unstable super volcano went out of control.

The entire island beginning to tremble, as at that very same instant something even more terrifying followed.

The dragons had barely reacted to Atherion’s panicked roar when...

BOOOOOM!

The great dragon who had faced Brandon, Ember felt the sudden brunt of a terrifying explosion tucked right under its ass.

The dragons didn’t even get the chance to let out a whimper, as a horrifying burst of explosion tore out of its frame.

The dragons fresh from transformation of becoming gold dragons still hadn’t moved.

And that was a mistake, especially from Ember, and the poor beast didn’t have the chance to enjoy basking in its newfound strength for long.

All across the island, explosions ripping into and out of the super volcano provoking the already unstable calamity even further.

The dragons stood zero chance, as within seconds all dragons on the surface were wrecked by the explosion.

Once basking in glory now whining in pain and horror.

Inferno, on the other hand, was too mighty for these inferior explosions to do him any harm.

But he was still trapped, it didn’t dare leave the confines of the genesis nest, Earth wasn’t able to support its existence, leaving him trapped on the island watching its kin burn alive from the very tide of flames they were forged from.

"Atherion! What is happening?!" it growled to the void.

...

Down below, Atherion sought to use its influence over space to initiate a speedy retreat out of the genesis island.

But it was too late... far too late...

A piercing burst of light and heat detonated, the raging force destabilising the frequency of space as the poor dragon knew it!

The dragon’s heart sank, as its hold over space evaporated straight into nothing.

The dragon froze, in that split second myriad emotions flashing in the depths of its gaze.

Hope, fear, fury and finally hopelessness...

After all this time, after thousands of years, the flame dragons had been restored to their former glory under its reign.

They had finally tasted the true majesty of what they were always meant to be.

At the cost of what? Their fathers, their mothers, their ancestors, all flame dragons of older generations sacrificed themselves.

His brother Ash sacrificed himself for this... all this sacrifice, all this death, all to give them a few seconds of power.

"DAMN YOU HUMANS!!!" Atherion screamed in despair, the force of eruption swallowing its frame whole.

This blast not only carried nuclear radioactive force that destroyed all organic matter, it ripped with the force of a dying star.

This wasn’t something even a great gold dragon could tank... even Seth in his divine beast form would be annihilated.

There was no suspense, there was no hope, fueled by the thick flourishing force of flame essence concentrated at the core, Atherion stood no chance.

Within seconds his consciousness was snuffed into nothing, the blast traveling faster than the others could even initiate a retreat.

Swallowing tides of dragons. Blaze and Ignis could only watch and whimper in horror.

As they realized that even after becoming gold dragons they could still experience fear.

They couldn’t fight it, they couldn’t outrun it. Even Ignis, whose specialty was speed fuelled by flames, understood her speed would take her nowhere in the face of this calamity.

Before the two could glance at one another one last time, the force swept past, tearing through all matter in its wake.

The dragons felt true despair, facing a force they couldn’t resist. They cowered, every nanosecond feeling like years of despair.

The force swallowed them all, discriminating against none.

Within a few beats the underground plain had been properly reduced to nothing.

The blast continued to rage, tearing through the super volcano from the inside while others raged from the surface.

The commotion was so catastrophic, the behemoth of a caldera couldn’t remain dormant anymore even if it tried.

The volcano groaned, as lava fueled by raging tides of blast ripped out of the vent, the skies above the island suddenly becoming stormy.

The commotion was so grand and catastrophic it would affect the whole world if left unimpeded.

The ashen cloud spat out toxic and thick, threatening to cloud Earth’s atmosphere for hundreds of years.

Raging shockwaves of the blasts tearing outward far into the ocean, pulling waves standing several thousand feet high.

The force of the imploding caldera so destructive the world’s consciousness itself had to intervene.

Earth as a whole halted, the very rotation of the planet grinding to a stop, waves raged as the presence of the world came upon the genesis island.

The consciousness searched for a link that tethered this foreign dimension to its body.

Why was such a plain here, where did this commotion come from?

The earth’s consciousness moved across the island looking but found nothing.

The only connections to this dimension, ancient lifeforms of Earth, were long dead and no links remained.

Without hesitation or emotion, the planet chose the best option in mind of the life it embodied, it severed all ties to the pocket dimension.

A gaping fissure tore into reality, winds raging wild, and lightning striking chaotically.

Wind formed a spiral suction into the gaping fissure as the super volcano and its commotion were swallowed into the vast emptiness of the void.

The remnant echoes of the commotion still raging but the source long gone.

The Earth’s consciousness began to recede after the dimensional detachment.

Like that, the entire flame dragon species, or as they now went by, the gold dragons, had been exterminated!

The commotion of the ascent was louder than their extinction.

...

Back on the super continent Pangea...

Across the land at that exact moment all human overlords caught sight of a system notification flickering into view at once.

[Congratulations! Humanity Has Completed a Hidden Quest: Slay the Flame Dragons to extinction...]

[Error! Error! Error!]

[Correction! Flame Dragons had evolved to superior species Gold Dragons...]

[Congratulations! Humanity Has Completed a Hidden Quest: Slay the Gold Dragons to extinction...]

[Calculating Rewards...]

A smile broke across President Cain’s lips, "Atta boy..."