Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 895 495: Dragons Gather, the Golden Age Begins

"Holy Dragon? Noah!"
The golden-haired, blazing-eyed youth before him radiated with a sacred and immortal brilliance from every inch of his being. Just by standing there, he exuded a nobility and elegance that made him completely out of place with the surrounding ruins and even the world itself.
He seemed nothing like a being of this tainted world, more like he had descended from the heavens, a golden sun replacing the pale sun, illuminating the earth.
Looking at the youth before him, whose eyes were filled with reverence and admiration, Noah, who had replaced the sun and cast down a beam of will upon the earth, did not speak a word and instead pointed a single finger at the youth.
Ah~
Under that finger, Dante immediately felt the most extreme pain of this world. He felt as if his body was being cut open, all 206 bones extracted and crushed into dust, where the deepest-hidden power was then ground out.
As the youth bore the cost of such pain, one after another blood-red dragon scales with a metallic sheen emerged from the youth's skin.
However, even though Noah had fully awakened the dragon vein within him, the emerging dragon scales only appeared on the sides of the youth's neck and cheeks, and on his forehead, not even a complete dragon horn had grown, just two sharp bony protrusions.
This was the dragon lineage inherited through countless ages. To the unknowing, it might have been mistaken as the lineage from the Red Dragon.
But as the Dragon King, Noah instantly recognized it as the bloodline legacy left from the fallen transformation of a Golden Dragon.
As a Dragon King of the Golden Dragon lineage, seeing such a bloodline, it was impossible not to feel something. The fallen Golden Dragon was, in some ways, a tarnish on the honor of the entire Golden Dragon race.
"Ng~ Zii~"
With Noah's aid, Dante, who awakened his complete dragon vein, seemed to be completely exhausted, unable even to stand, collapsing and lying prostrate on the ground, his chest heaving as he gasped for air.
Yet within those heavy breaths, the energy he had just exhausted was rapidly restoring at a perceptible pace, filling him with a stronger sense of power than ever before.
"Are you ready?"
At this moment, thinking everything was over and the bitter had passed, Dante heard a voice void of any emotion asking him.
"Ready for what?"
Just as Dante asked, he saw a finger point towards him again. This time, Dante felt as if his flesh and bones, along with his soul, were being drawn out, then flattened and crushed before being sifted once again. He felt as if he was no longer a human, but rather something ground into pulp.
This was merely Noah's intention of returning Dante to his roots, helping him eliminate the fallen power hidden within his dragon vein, allowing the Golden Dragon bloodline within him to return to its rightful path, restoring its past glory and brilliance.
When the blood hues were completely stripped away and the golden scales reappeared, the youth was utterly drained, his body limp on the ground, empty eyes appearing lifeless, like a puppet that had lost its soul.
"Weren't you determined to cleanse the evil on the earth? I have granted you power, yet now you don't even want to stand up?"
Upon hearing the inquiry echoing in his ears, Dante's eyes finally shimmered, a faint golden glow appearing.
"I feel too weak now."
Dante struggled to get up but was too spent to move, ultimately looking up in a kneeling posture at the supreme and towering existence before him. He didn't know why this being had come, but he could confirm there was no malice toward him. If there were, he wouldn't have known how many times he would have died by now.
"I have removed some of the fallen power from your bloodline, so it's natural to feel weak.
But it's only temporary. If you're willing to become my executor and fulfill the vow you just made, you'll regain everything and gain even stronger power."
"Fulfill the vow?"
"Are you willing?"
"Willing!"
"Then, you make the pact with me. From this day, you will burn out everything for me, drive away evil, and suppress injustice, until death does you part."
Dante was not the only demon hunter on the earth to make a pact with Noah, who had become the sun. Every person who awakened power amidst the upheaval of rules caused by Noah devouring the sun would receive an invitation from Noah.
Not everyone accepted Noah's invitation, but the vast majority did, and these people would be the foundation for Noah to revive the Dusk World and rebuild its glory after establishing control over the world.
However, these were merely means to improve affinity with the World Will. The genuine restructuring of world order relied on the battle group he established with his own hands.
Otherwise, relying on merely a few hundred demon hunters to regulate the world order would take an unimaginable amount of time; Noah wasn't interested in such leisure.
Outside the void, Noah, whose aura had significantly diminished, displayed a satisfied look. Now, on the surface, he appeared more weakened by splitting away a sun, but in totality, he had grown stronger.
"It seems you've integrated well!"
Observing Noah's transformation, the Blazing Sky God Solofis saw through the seemingly weakened appearance of Noah, sensing Noah's rapid surge in power.