Chapter 191: For the Divine Black Dragon Empire

For the Divine Black Dragon Empire

All realms had been invited to witness the occasion.

When the Divine Emperor’s phantom appeared, its presence had reflected across countless worlds.

Those who had tried to glimpse his true visage had nearly been annihilated simply by doing so.

That was the terror of a true Divine Empire.

The Salvatore Family was indeed terrifying.

But only within the Celestial Capital Domain.

Compared to the Heavenly Flamefrost Empire—

They were nothing.

Meanwhile—

On the battlefield below, the war had reached its fiercest point.

The Divine Black Dragon Empire’s cavalry continued fighting.

Every soldier fought like ten.

Yet there were simply too many enemies.

The six-nation army continued pressing forward.

The black cavalry was pushed backward step by step.

One line fell.

Another replaced it.

Then another.

Their armor was soaked in blood.

Some had lost their weapons.

Some fought with broken blades.

Some had wounds deep enough to expose bone.

Yet none retreated.

They had held on this long through sheer killing intent.

Through bloodlust.

Through unwavering resolve.

And through the belief that their Emperor still stood at the front.

Dominic looked down from the sky.

His eyes swept across the battered army below.

He saw the blood.

The broken armor.

The exhausted horses.

The soldiers whose bodies trembled from exhaustion but whose hands still refused to release their weapons.

There was no sorrow in his eyes.

No despair.

Only an immense calm.

His voice suddenly thundered across the entire battlefield.

"Divine Black Dragon Empire cavalry! Can you still fight?!"

For a heartbeat, the battlefield seemed to freeze.

Then—

The battered soldiers lifted their heads.

Their bloodshot eyes locked onto their Emperor.

One soldier raised his broken sword.

Another lifted his spear.

Another slammed his shield against his chest.

Then the roar came.

It began with thousands.

Then hundreds of thousands.

Then the entire battlefield seemed to shake beneath it.

"FOR DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE!!!"

"FOR DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE! FOR DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE!"

The roar exploded across the battlefield.

Hundreds of thousands of voices merged into one, shaking the blood-soaked earth beneath their feet. Their throats were raw. Their armor was cracked. Blood ran down their faces and dripped from their weapons.

Yet they still shouted.

"FOR DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE! FOR DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE!"

"GREAT DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE! GREAT DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE! GREAT DIVINE BLACK DRAGON EMPIRE!!"

The soldiers roared until their voices were stained with blood.

Their eyes burned with a fierce, almost desperate fire.

They would not retreat.

They could not retreat.

Behind them stood their wives and daughters—people who had only just begun to understand what it meant to live a decent life.

They had food.

Their children could attend academies.

Their families no longer had to bow their heads before nobles and powerful cultivators simply to survive.

Behind them stood the only empire that had ever treated them as human beings.

That thought alone was enough to keep their trembling hands wrapped around their weapons.

Even if death awaited them ahead, there was nowhere else they wished to go.

Even in death...

There would be no retreat.

The Divine Black Dragon Empire had no soldiers who would fall back.

"HAHAHA!! Good!!"

Dominic Salvatore laughed.

It was a rare sound.

For all the blood surrounding him, there was something almost carefree in that laughter. His black hair whipped wildly in the wind, and his black eyes burned with a frightening determination.

Then—

Endless imperial authority erupted from his body.

The pressure spread across the battlefield like an ancient storm.

ROOOAAAR!!

A colossal black dragon suddenly materialized above the heavens.

Its enormous body coiled through the clouds.

Its scales were pitch-black, yet countless strands of golden imperial radiance flowed between them.

Its eyes opened.

The heavens seemed to tremble beneath its gaze.

The rulers of the allied empires froze.

Their expressions changed one after another.

National fortune had manifested as a dragon.

That was not an ordinary phenomenon.

It was the mark of a nation that had reached its peak.

The Divine Black Dragon Empire had become a Divine Nation today!

BOOM!!

Before the enemy rulers could recover from their shock, Dominic moved.

His figure vanished.

The next instant, his fist descended like the judgment of heaven.

A terrifying force tore through countless phenomena.

One ruler barely had time to raise his defensive treasure.

The punch landed.

His skull exploded.

Blood and fragments of bone scattered across the sky.

His soul tried to flee.

It never got the chance.

Under the Imperial Great Laws of World, even his soul was extinguished.

"What?!"

"You dare, boy?!"

The remaining rulers erupted in fury.

Their companion had died before their eyes.

The hesitation that had restrained them disappeared.

They attacked together.

Power surged through the sky.

Stars manifested behind them.

Terrifying Great Laws of World intertwined.

The surrounding space twisted beneath their combined strength.

Dominic’s figure was swallowed by their assault.

For the first time, his body was forced backward.

The rulers pressed their advantage relentlessly.

On the ground below, however, the situation was even worse.

The Divine Black Dragon Empire’s iron cavalry fought like cornered beasts.

One soldier fell.

Then another.

Then another.

Blood soaked the earth until the battlefield itself seemed to have become a river of crimson.

Yet none of them ran.

Within the borders of the empire, ordinary people knelt in prayer.

Old men.

Women.

Children.

Farmers who had never held a sword.

Workers who had spent their entire lives beneath the weight of poverty.

They all lowered their heads toward the battlefield.

They prayed for their Emperor.

They prayed for their soldiers.

They prayed for the empire that had given them a future.

Their prayers could not change the battlefield.

They knew that.

Perhaps no blessing could reach Dominic in time.

Perhaps every soldier outside their walls would die before sunset.

But still, they prayed.

Because across the vast Celestial Capital Domain, among hundreds of empires, only the Divine Black Dragon Empire had truly treated them as human beings.

Not ants.

Not livestock.

Not disposable tools.

Human beings.

For generations, these people had lived in ignorance.

Their parents had been poor.

Their grandparents had been poor.