Chapter 400: Fall of the Plane!

The Heart of the Plane was surrounded by a layer of law protection, much like a hard shell guarding a nut. When this protection sensed danger, it would trigger a strike of law lightning against the source of the threat. This lightning was known as the World-Warning Thunder.

The appearance of the World-Warning Thunder meant the heart of the Sincaro Titan World was in grave peril. The Power of Dark Erosion finally understood the dragons' scheme and steered his floating tower straight toward the lightning's point of impact.

Even if the destruction of this world was irreversible, he had to at least bring back the Heart of the Plane. Otherwise, the Power of Dark Erosion would be too ashamed to face the God of the Dark Titans.

After locating the Heart of the Plane, the Black King and the Breath of Extinction used magic to relay a message to the White Dragon Lord. The White Dragon Lord and the dragons had long prepared for the titans' movements, and they moved together to intercept them, blocking their path.

Led by the high-tier legendary dragons, the dragon army formed up in an array, blocking the path of the titan floating tower. The White Dragon Lord piloted the White Tower, hovering above his kin. The metamagic railgun and Moon's Protection were already fully primed. This was a formation for all-out war.

Staring down the heavily fortified dragon army, the Power of Dark Erosion felt a grave weight settle over him. He immediately relayed a message to the Mother of Lightning, then ordered his titans to prepare for battle.

No words were needed. The dragons and titans, fated enemies for millennia, stared each other down with a silent understanding, forming a massive standoff across the sky.

Gale winds howled and ocean waters surged. The elements between heaven and earth were in absolute chaos. The Black King and the Breath of Extinction had already destroyed a portion of the peripheral laws, triggering a chain reaction across the entire plane. The most immediate result was a surge of frequent natural disasters and elemental turbulence.

Roar!

As the first dragon roar pierced the clouds, the dragon army moved. The robust red dragons led the charge. In response, the titan army hurled their Spears of the Titans. Boasting might that surpassed even master-tier magic, the spears blotted out the sun like a torrential rain of arrows.

Behind the red dragon vanguard, the dragon mage legion unleashed their long-prepared spells. Flames, ice, boulders, and howling gales collided with the Spears of the Titans, sending violent explosions echoing across the sky.

The charging red dragons layered themselves in magical shields, weathering the fallout of the spells as they pressed the assault. The priests under the Matron of Venom cast divine buffs, channeling Tiamat's power to protect the vanguard.

Finally, the red dragon army slammed into the titans' front lines. Claws and dragon breath tore into the enemy, while the titans retaliated with thrusting spears and heavy fists. Every passing second saw the blood of dragons and titans spilling across the sky.

The Soul-Linking Chain connected the high-tier legendary dragons. By unspoken agreement, the White Dragon Lord and the Power of Dark Erosion piloted their floating towers higher, ascending until they could see the plane's outermost spatial barrier. This ensured that the shockwaves of their high-tier legendary-level clashes wouldn't decimate the warring armies below.

At an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, the air was extremely thin and the elemental energy was chaotic. The environment was every bit as harsh as the turbulent Star Realm.

Without a single word, the high-tier legendary dragons and the titans clashed.

The battle instantly hit a boiling point. The high-tier legendary powerhouses specializing in close quarters engaged their foes in brutal melee, while the dragons skilled in spellcasting unleashed their full firepower, bolstered by the White Tower. Under the tower's protection, the priests cast buffs and healed the wounds of their frontline comrades.

Soldiers fought soldiers, and generals fought generals. Piloting the White Tower, the White Dragon Lord squared off against the Power of Dark Erosion.

The White Dragon Lord instantly activated his Gold Finger.

"Combat mode activated."

Brilliant purple blasts from the metamagic railgun tore through the air, firing round after round at the enemy floating tower. Simultaneously, the White Dragon Lord maneuvered the White Tower to evade the incoming spear attacks, relying on the Moon's Protection to weather whatever he couldn't dodge.

Guided by the Gold Finger's formidable intelligence-gathering capabilities, the White Dragon Lord successfully suppressed his opponent, even finding time to support his allies below.

The White Tower's energy reserves not only powered the White Dragon Lord, but also constantly replenished the energy of the dragons in combat. The elemental pools drained rapidly; in just a single hour, their energy reserves plummeted by sixty percent.

"Heloise! Activate the backup energy!"

At the White Dragon Lord's command, the moon elf banshee steward directed the magical puppets to haul out crates of backup energy. Box after box of elemental crystals were dumped into the conversion furnace. The solid elemental crystals were converted into liquid elemental energy, which flowed through crystalline channels into the elemental pools, topping off their reserves. Across the battlefield, the Power of Dark Erosion similarly commanded his own puppets to refuel his floating tower.

With the dragons and titans so evenly matched, neither side could force a breakthrough in the short term. The clash steadily devolved into a war of attrition, testing the limits of both factions' trump cards.

As time wore on, the Black King and the Breath of Extinction dismantled more and more of the law protection. The plane grew increasingly unstable. The native giant inhabitants noticed daytime lightning strikes and sudden, violent gales occurring with terrifying frequency.

The natural disasters worsened. Tsunamis surged inland, drowning everything along the coasts. Tornadoes tore across the plains. Rampant earthquakes leveled homes and split mountains apart. The weather turned entirely erratic, rapidly shifting between scorching sun, torrential rain, and raging thunderstorms. The entire world was descending into chaos.

From his vantage point at the apex of the plane, the White Dragon Lord could see the outer spatial barrier growing increasingly fragile. Chaotic energy constantly bled through the cracks and seeped into the plane's interior.

The moment the spatial barrier shattered, the Sincaro Titan World would be fully exposed to the endless chaotic void. The plane's internal elements would drain away, replaced by the void's chaotic elemental turbulence scouring the earth. Life would be extinguished en masse until the entire world ultimately crumbled away, reduced to mere dust and meteorites adrift in the void.

Piloting the White Tower, the White Dragon Lord thought he heard a faint crack. Glancing up, he spotted a fracture in the spatial barrier overhead. Because the battle between the dragons and titans had unleashed such overwhelming destructive power, the barrier in this sector was the first to fracture.

The Power of Dark Erosion stared with furious, bloodshot eyes. The clash between the dragons and titans was only a secondary cause for this fracture. The primary reason was that the Black King and the Breath of Extinction had further compromised the peripheral protection of the Heart of the Plane, severely weakening the planar barrier.

Though the Power of Dark Erosion desperately wanted to rush to the Heart of the Plane and tear the thieves to pieces, the White Dragon Lord gave him no such opportunity.

Following a momentary pause, the two floating towers resumed their deadly dance. The White Dragon Lord handed control of the White Tower over to the Gold Finger, freeing himself to rapidly chant an incantation as he prepared a forbidden spell.

The law protection surrounding the Heart of the Plane shared a symbiotic link with the spatial barrier. Damaging the law protection weakened the barrier, and conversely, damaging the spatial barrier weakened the law protection.

The White Dragon Lord intended to shatter the spatial barrier with a forbidden spell, vastly accelerating the Sincaro Titan World's destruction.

The terrifying elemental shockwaves of the forbidden spell rippled outward. Immediately sensing the White Dragon Lord's intentions and feeling deeply slighted, the Power of Dark Erosion flew into an absolute rage.

But his fury was useless. Powered by its immense computational abilities, the Gold Finger operated the White Tower just as flawlessly as the White Dragon Lord, neutralizing every single one of the Power of Dark Erosion's attacks.

Thirty seconds later, a terrifying chill gathered in front of the White Tower. Slowly, a sphere formed entirely of high-purity ice elements took shape. The crystalline orb was without a single impurity, resembling a massive witch's divination crystal ball.

Forbidden Spell—Pearl in the Palm of the King of Silence!

Sensing the terrifying ice-elemental fluctuations radiating from above, the warring dragons and titans tacitly broke off their engagements, hastily casting magic shields over themselves.

The King of Silence was an ancient ancestor of the White Dragon Lord from countless generations past, and the Forbidden Spell—Pearl in the Palm of the King of Silence was its proudest magical achievement. This spell had long been preserved within the White Dragon Lord's dragon inheritance. Now, a spell that had once shone brilliantly in an ancient era reemerged into the world, and the price of its unveiling would be the destruction of a Medium Material Plane.

The massive crystal ball surged forward, rocketing toward the fracture in the spatial barrier overhead. Under the White Dragon Lord's expectant gaze, it slammed directly into the barrier.

Crack!

With a sound like shattering glass, the spatial barrier around the impact zone splintered into tiny fragments. An instant later, the massive crystal ball detonated. Highly destructive, high-purity ice elements blasted out in every direction, crumbling every inch of the spatial barrier they touched.

A gaping tear ripped open in the Sincaro Titan World's spatial barrier. Though relative to the massive barrier this breach was no larger than a pinprick on an eggshell, it was the first domino to fall.

Chaotic void energy flooded into the Sincaro Titan World, tearing the breach in the spatial barrier even wider. Scoured by the chaotic energy streams, the White Tower's energy consumption spiked drastically.

From the control room at the top of the White Tower, the White Dragon Lord stared at his opponent, who was similarly weathering the chaotic energy streams. He rapidly chanted another incantation, instantly reigniting the war between the dragons and titans.

Amidst the endless influx of void energy, the high-tier legendary dragons and the titans crashed together once more.

Down on the lower battlefields, the ordinary dragons and titans paused in their melee and looked up. A continuously spinning, pitch-black vortex had opened in the sky above them. Like a giant maw intent on devouring the world, the vortex greedily sucked up the material plane's air and elements, while simultaneously spewing out highly destructive currents of chaotic void energy that scoured the world.

Fortunately, the chaotic energy streams dispersed in all directions the moment they entered the world. Had they remained concentrated, the titans and dragons would have expended over half their strength just to remain standing. After a brief period of disarray, the warring forces resumed their clash.

Elsewhere, the charred Black King and the Breath of Extinction realized the law power surrounding the Heart of the Plane had suddenly plummeted. Overjoyed, they accelerated their extraction process.

Finally, the Breath of Extinction seized the brilliantly glowing Heart of the Plane. But before the dragon could wrench it free, a terrifying wave of backlash erupted from the core. Beneath the sheer force of the rebound, an Ancient Dragon's formidable physique was no sturdier than paper. Starting from the very claw grasping the Heart of the Plane, the Breath of Extinction's body crumbled into dust and dissipated into the air.

Simultaneously, a divine shield enveloped the Breath of Extinction's soul. The soul flew toward the endless River Styx in the sky, only to fall directly into the hands of the Dragon Queen's divine envoy standing by the river's edge.

Pushing aside the dust of the Breath of Extinction, the Black King lunged forward and grabbed the Heart of the Plane. The residual backlash was no longer lethal enough to slay a high-tier legendary Ancient Dragon, but it still cost the Black King half his life. He let out a muffled groan as his aura plummeted sharply. Gritting his teeth, boiling hot dragon blood oozed from his jagged jaws.

"Ahhh!!!"

At long last, the Heart of the Plane left its resting place. Its blinding light retracted, condensing into a dazzling, oval gemstone. Filaments of law power flowed within it, radiating a mesmerizing glow. Gripping the Heart of the Plane in one claw, the severely wounded Black King used his other to crush the scale bestowed by Tiamat. A pitch-black vortex appeared out of thin air, instantly sucking the Black King inside.

Arriving just in time to watch helplessly as the Black King was sucked into the vortex with the Heart of the Plane, the Mother of Lightning let out a desolate, heart-rending shriek.

"No!!!"

The moment the Heart of the Plane was taken by the Black King, every native inhabitant of the Sincaro Titan World seemingly heard a soul-piercing wail. A profound emptiness settled into their chests, as if they had just lost something important.

Bereft of the Heart of the Plane, the residual law power surged up from the earth. Some of it vanished into the void, while the rest surged into the native inhabitants. It was the Sincaro Titan World's final parting gift to its children. Empowered by this surge, many native titans achieved mid-battle breakthroughs.

As the sole native high-tier legend, the Mother of Lightning was closest to the site of the Heart of the Plane and received the most of this gift. Her aura swelled violently, bursting right through the absolute barrier that had stumped hundreds of millions of prodigies.

The newly advanced Abomination Rank powerhouse, Sindona, Mother of Lightning, could not yet fully control her violently soaring power. Torrents of berserk lightning plasma erupted from her body, instantly vaporizing everything in the surrounding area.

Sindona, Mother of Lightning, watched the vortex where the Black King disappeared slowly fade away. Her fists clenched and veins bulged on her forehead in extreme fury. After a momentary daze, the Mother of Lightning turned toward the dragon-titan battlefield and transformed into a streak of light as she hurried into the fray.

After the Black King extracted the Heart of the Plane, the entire realm instantly grew deathly still, as though stripped of life itself. The laws disappeared, and the collapse of the planar barrier drastically accelerated. The White Dragon Lord immediately sensed this shift.

"Everyone! Retreat!"

The high-tier legendary dragons swiftly retreated toward the White Tower. Because the Power of Dark Erosion had initiated a spatial lockdown, entering the White Tower was the high-tier legendary dragons' only avenue of escape.

On the battlefield of ordinary dragons and titans, the dragons scattered and fled. After shaking off their opponents, they tore up their magic scrolls and teleported away.

Yet, as all the dragons scattered and fled, a segment of dragons did the exact opposite, launching a suicidal counterattack against the titan army. These dragons were the Very Old Dragons.

The Very Old Dragons and those who failed to shake off their opponents perished beneath the Spears of the Titans. Their souls were collected by Tiamat's divine envoy. Within Tiamat's Divine Kingdom, they would receive compensation—though, of course, it was a compensation no dragon wanted other than the dying Very Old Dragons.

Elsewhere, the White Dragon Lord piloted the White Tower, carrying the dragons into the endless void while weathering their opponents' attacks.

Seeing the White Tower about to disappear into the endless void, the late-arriving Sindona, Mother of Lightning, gathered lightning plasma in her hands. It coalesced into a tangible Spear of Lightning, which she furiously hurled at the vanishing White Tower.

"White Dragon! I, Sindona, swear upon the Ancestor of the Titans! I will kill you!"