Chapter 2117: Chapter 54: From Today On, I Will Be the Dragon King Who Fights in the Ashes
Hidden in the deepest part of the Imperial Capital, the God of Sparks, suppressed by the ancient Sethariel forebears, has now become a part of the capital’s defense facility. The "Lifeladder Tree" has finally found its destined master, starting to sprout and entering an active state.
Thought about it many times before, this kind of inheritance of the Unyielding Fortress must be the type for piloting super armor suits and ’Aether Armaments.’ It is just because the basic qualities are absurdly high that it gives people an illusion of extreme advantages and disadvantages of an Earth Series defense True Form.
But what if those disadvantages were meant to complement some kind of giant construct from the start?
Years later, once again stepping in the Imperial Capital, ’Ian’ can now unreservedly activate his powers belonging to the Unyielding Fortress, resonating with the capital.
At the ends of the sky, two suns hang atop the firmament. Carlos and Alegria, the Imperial Emperor and Empress, gaze from afar, silently watching the capital tremble, shrink, expand, and transform — a form even unknown to them.
They see beneath Ian’s feet, the entire Solitary Mountain, the entire capital, and the entire Iron Mountain Range start to rise amid the roaring sound. The long-buried Behemoths in the crust, that God of Sparks and the artificial fortress are like a seed, ready to sprout, root, and grow...
Then bloom.
All residential areas are protected inside the rapidly spreading roots, and then... in the original Upper City District.
A flower. A flower made of iron, biomass, and light, with its bud still closed, towers tens of thousands of meters straight into the atmosphere. This Iron Flower grows out from the planetary shield beam emission port of the capital, then hangs in mid-air, overlooking the entire continent.
The tightly closed bud, resembling a temporarily sealed muzzle, leaves no doubt that when it blooms, the "Planetary Shield Beam," originally aimed only at the firmament, will become the most terrifying firepower in this world, destroying any foe daring to defy it on this land.
— Is this the ’Ultimate Defense Mechanism’ my grandfather designed back then?!
Even Carlos and Alegria, these two Sunbirds, feel an extreme sense of crisis when the Iron Flower gazes upon them. This power, if struck solidly, is enough to severely injure them, at least to knock them into orbit around the Tara Moon!
This is because they are Sunbirds; if it were other Fifth Energy Level Bloodline True Forms, the damage might be even more severe... possibly fatal!
At this moment, having arrived at the vines of the Iron Flower, the previously deep entrance has been occupied by the Iron Flower but it still leaves a spiral path that leads bit by bit into the core of the capital.
’Ian’ steps within.
He is feeling — feeling this exquisite design.
The capital’s entity is the "Planetary Shield Generator" of the Lost Epoch civilization. This planetary giant construct houses a complete set of internal circulation ecosystems and a gigantic shelter capable of accommodating millions.
Even if the planet collapses, explodes, or turns into fragments, relying on the capital’s power, it itself will suffer no damage, and its internal shelter will permanently exist, even in space.
And the planetary shield beam, at that time, can turn into an ’interstellar propulsion,’ allowing the capital to gradually move in the universe, casually landing on a chosen planet, regardless of its habitability.
But even such a powerful capital was partly destroyed in the Lost Epoch after the Calamity of Heavenly Fall.
To combat multiple Gods of Sparks, the capital, then not controlled by the Sethariel people but by the remnants of the Lost Epoch, became one of the largest and most solid shelters of that time. It frequently fought against multiple gods at once, eradicating many powerful foes, yet ultimately fell into ruin, its people scattered, becoming the source of many tribes on the Tella Continent.
Several centuries later, a group of returnee descendants, now the main body of The Empire, the Sethariel people, followed the teachings and injunctions left by their ancestors, clearing the Magical Beast Aliens along the way, arrived once again at the capital.
At that time, the capital had become a relic encased by plants. It was precisely the power of the last external spirit that the capital once opposed, the "Lifeladder Tree," a fiercely strong plant deity. The two sides fought until intertwined, even after the ancestors strived to destroy its core, suppressing it in the mantle, the capital remained covered by its branches.
The Sethariel people defeated all competitors, gained control of the capital, and using the power of the Sunbirds, reignited the long-extinguished core reactor of the capital. They ingeniously integrated the now ’dead’ Lifeladder Tree into the capital, using this external power to repair the damaged capital, transforming it into a self-repairing, sturdier city compared to the Lost Epoch civilization.
After that, each generation of Sethariel Emperors would continue to modify the capital — the capital of later generations gradually shaped through these successive modifications.
Until the most dazzling name in the royal house appeared, Inega II, and his close friend Hiliard.
Inega II and Hiliard joined forces to alter the essence of the capital. They believed that in terms of defense, the capital had reached the peak, and next, they aimed to enhance the capital’s destructive power.
