“Today, I will teach you about the World Tree.”0

At times, Antares, the King of Dragons, would sit Suho down and tell him stories from a time long past. It felt almost like watching a grandfather share ancient tales with his grandson, though each story was also a piece of forward-looking advice for the long war Suho would eventually have to fight.1

It was also, in a way, for Antares himself—who had returned to life through a bit of trickery by Sung Jinwoo. Of course, he no longer possessed the primordial darkness and was no longer a Monarch, but that hardly mattered. Losing the title didn’t mean he couldn’t fight. He was the flame born of darkness, the eternal warrior, the first Monarch and the strongest, the symbol of terror and destruction, and the King of Dragons. Dragons lived for ages, and he would grow stronger with time. It didn’t matter that Ragna’s body, in which he was reborn, was young and fragile. Time would take care of that. It was already established as fact that one day, he would become the strongest being in existence.0

In this new life, he had set a new goal—to battle Jinwoo with all his might when the time came, defeating the human who had given him the taste of defeat in the past. He would...0