Chapter 192
The scream echoing from beyond the territory did not sound fully dragon anymore.
It sounded corrupted, twisted into something unnatural enough to send fear crashing violently through every dragon surrounding the mountain. Ariana felt the reaction instantly through the Sovereign bond while panic surged across the skies above the territory. Massive golden dragons turned sharply toward the distant northern mountains while thunder rolled endlessly through the storm-darkened clouds surrounding the territory.
Then the corrupted dragon above the council hall roared again.
Black mist exploded outward from its enormous wings while silver veins pulsed violently beneath its scales like living corruption spreading through flesh. The creature's eyes no longer resembled dragon eyes at all now. They burned silver, cold and ancient, identical to the eyes staring upward from beyond the gates beneath the world.
But beneath the corruption—
