GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

She became angry that she had lost to someone of her generation and took out her anger on a sovereign she met along the way to the ancestral grounds. The sovereign defeated her and injured her. He even chased after her to kill her for her dragon heart. She couldn't take the long journey to her home plane, so she went through a planar portal nearby.

She came to this plane to wait for help, but help didn't come before she died. The best she could do was lay her eggs before she died. Because she didn't incubate the eggs and there was no dragon spirit, only one of the three of them succeeded in hatching. This dragonling was in a special situation as it was an indigene of this plane.

Legion-8 said excitedly. "Oh, this is going to be good. I can just feel it in my bones."

He doesn't have bones or any flesh, as he is an energy being of a level much higher than the soul body of a transcendent. But he can still feel excitement and anticipation for what is to come.

He is excited because the dragon was born with the talent of his mother. He was born with the control of creation mana, an energy unique to dragons with the talent for creation.

The dragonling couldn't leave the cave he was born in because he was locked in. His mother had sealed it before she died. He didn't die despite the lack of food, care, or companionship, though. He had the memories of his ancestors, so he was mature mentally. He also had the memories of his mother, so he knew how he ended up in that situation and what to do to escape.

He grew up silently by imbibing mana. It took a long time, but he finally became a transcendent. It was then that he was able to open the seal on the cave. If he didn't know the password, he would have needed to become a king of law just like his mother to break it by force.

The first thing he did after escaping the cave was to leave the plane. His bloodline and the imprints present within it were compelling him to return to the home of dragons.

He didn't unseal the planar portal and leave through it. It is because he sensed that the ancestral ground of dragons was close by. The inhabitants of the plane only saw a fleeting yellow figure break through the sky.

The young dragon found the dragon's home plane in the void. It is a large piece of land floating in the void. There is a protective barrier around it that defends and cloaks it, so only dragons can see it for what it truly is.

When combined, its hidden nature and its ability to move around the void make it nearly impossible to find. Anyone who isn't a dragon and happens to stumble upon it will be killed without knowing how they died. This is on top of the fact that the surroundings of the plane have been suppressed by a force that scrambles the mind and space. All of these make the dragon's ancestral grounds the most difficult plane to find.

He wasn't attacked as he moved closer to the ancestral grounds. Instead, he was embraced by the plane and the dragon spirit. There was even an impromptu naming ceremony for him. The dragon spirit entered his inner world and gave him a name worthy of a dragon.

The dragon was glad to finally get a name, but Legion-8 just scoffed.

"Another dragon has been enslaved without a fight. I wonder what the dragon spirit is doing with all the power it has acquired."

He is unlike other dragons who have been brainwashed by their bloodline before they were born. He has not been indoctrinated into the glory of dragons like dragonlings, and he knows enough of the world to know that the naming ceremony is a scam.

It is not a scam, since the dragon spirit is giving the dragons the benefits it claims to provide. But Legion-8 knows that the dragon spirit is also gaining a lot of benefits by anchoring itself to the inner world of dragons. After all, the dragon spirit is like the great mother. Except that it didn't die and go to the spiritual dimension to become a spiritual entity.

The dragon spirit is not as caustic as the great mother since it is not actively brainwashing dragons. Each dragon is their own being, with their own thoughts and opinions. But the moment they receive a name from the dragon spirit, they become cattle shackled to a yoke to plough a field.

Legion-8 is certain of that. He just doesn't know what field the dragon spirit is using them to plough.

In his opinion, the dragons are being used as free laborers, and they don't even know about it. So he wasn't happy when the dragon was named. He only felt disdain that another dragon accepted the shackles willingly.

Things became uneventful after that because the dragon returned to the plane where he was born. He is an adult dragon now, so he wanted a place all to himself.

He didn't rile up the plane too much after he returned. He just declared himself the overlord of the plane. There was no resistance because the inhabitants of the plane knew the power of a dragon and because there was essentially no difference in the situation for them.

They had always been aware of a dragon in their midst, and they were afraid of it. Now their fear finally has a target. Their fear is nothing new.

He banned religion in the plane, but there were no gods in the plane either. The inhabitants of the plane didn't have any belief in gods, so their lives continued like normal. If there wasn't the one-in-a-century offering of wealth to the dragon, then people wouldn't know that there was an overlord in the plane.

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A/N: Bonus chapter for Rosery again. She has given 25 golden tickets this month.