The Golden Colossal Dragon Person was terribly sorrowful and grieving as he went on. “All the court officials, more than 1,000 Saint Domains, innumerable officials and nobles... All of them have been wiped out...”
“What did you say?!”
A massive dragon head emerged from within the cave, endless killing intent within its eyes as it ordered, “Repeat what you just said!”
“Grandmaster, a knave has attacked the palace...”
“How audacious! How dare you deceive me!” The gigantic dragon head bellowed furiously, “The awe-inspiring name of the Dragon God Empire resounds throughout the whole of Heaven’s Vault Continent. Which knave would be so bold as to commit such a treasonous and heretic act?!”
“It’s true, Grandmaster! It really is!”
The Golden Colossal Dragon Person hastily explained. Then, he even brought out a magic crystal ball.
Displayed on the surface was a horrific scene of ten Colossal Dragon carcasses lying dead on the ground, an infinite number of ice chips and fragments littered all over the floor, and princes and princesses kneeling on the ground and sobbing bitterly.
“Who was it?! Who exactly was it that dared to kill people of the Dragon race and challenge the Dragon God Empire’s authority?!”
The gigantic dragon head roared furiously. Its roar was as though rolling thunder, frightening the Magical Beasts on the island so badly that they could only prostrate on the ground and shiver like a leaf.
“Grandmaster, that knave’s name is Meng Lei!”
“Meng Lei?”
In the Dragon God Empire palace...
“Father, you died such a terrible death!”
“Father...”
The square outside the conference hall had turned into a large-scale funeral. More than a thousand princes and princesses, tens of thousands of royal consorts, and hundreds of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids all burst into loud sobbing.
Their weeping was terribly mournful and extremely sorrowful, making anyone that heard them weep and filling anyone that saw them with sorrow. Those that didn’t know would have thought that the emperor had met his demise!
At a corner of the square, the Royal Holy Knight Order stared at the whole scene in a daze, their countenances filled with disbelief.
“How did this happen? We were only gone for two days, yet a tragedy like that has taken place in the empire?”
Abbe was also among them. She had been brought back from the Lost Continent by the Royal Holy Knight Order.
She stared quietly at the 12 dragon carcasses and all the ice chips all over the ground, her expression calm and peaceful and without any trace of joy or sorrow.
“I heard that the culprit is Meng Lei?”
The Holy Knight Order’s captain, Bruno, asked, “Your Highness, is this Meng Lei the same person that saved you in the Lost Continent?”
“I don’t know, either!”
Abbe shook her head lightly. One could barely see any traces of sorrow on her countenance.
...
“Welcome, new master of the Tower of Time!”
An aged voice rang out, upon which the misty clouds in the surroundings converged to form an easily 1,000-meters-wide gigantic human visage that stood tall and towered in the air.
“The Tower of Time? New master?”
Meng Lei stared at the gigantic human visage as a puzzled look appeared on his countenance. He asked, “Isn’t this the Dragon God Tower? Since when has it become the Tower of Time?”
“Dragon God Tower? What nonsense, this tower’s name is the Tower of Time!”
The gigantic face’s mouth opened and closed as it went on. “It was forged by the great God of Time after exhausting an infinite amount of exotic treasures, the universe’s spiritual essence, Divinity Crystals, and Divinity Stones. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Dragon God!”
“The God of Time?” A great jolt went through Meng Lei. He asked, “Who’s the God of Time?”
“The God of Time is no human; he’s one of the greatest gods in the vast universe!”
The gigantic human visage’s voice boomed as it went on. “His greatness is as though the blazing sun in the sky that shines upon the lands; like a lighthouse in the bottomless abyss that guides the path of countless deities; and also like the tall and insurmountable holy mountains that live on for all time...”
“...”
Black lines filled Meng Lei’s forehead as he asked, “So, can you tell me just how great and noble is this great and noble God of Time? In what way is he great and noble? How does he compare to the Dragon God?”
“The Dragon God? The Dragon God is nothing but sh*t!”
The gigantic human visage was awfully dissatisfied with Meng Lei’s question. “The God of Time is the one and only deity in this vast universe and infinite number of existential planes that has mastered time-based laws of nature! His Divine Status is that of a higher deity with Great Perfection-level strength. His combat power doesn’t lose out in any way to a Chief God!”
“A higher deity at Great Perfection level? One that doesn’t lose out to a Chief God?”
Meng Lei was rather confused. “A Great Perfection-level higher deity is a god, right? Then what’s a Chief God?”
“Don’t you even know something as simple as that?”
A disdainful look appeared in the gigantic human visage’s eyes as it explained, “Like how mountains vary in height and trees vary in length, as higher lifeforms, deities are also classified into different levels and differentiated by their level of strength.
“Based on their level of strength and their divinity class, they are, in ascending order, classified as lesser deities, intermediate deities, higher deities, and the ones most supreme of all and who stand above all the other deities... The Chief Gods!”
“I see!”
Meng Lei understood better now. Then, he asked, “Which class of deities does the Dragon God belong to?”
“The Dragon God? He’s just an ordinary intermediate deity. There are billions
