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Inside the golden basin, the tiny flood dragon swam faster and faster, growing larger and larger.
The Red General simply waited. His expression did not change, not even when the creature’s coiling body swelled so large that the basin could barely contain it. Only when it reached its limit did he tap the rim twice and lift a finger toward the sky. “Go!”
The flood dragon had been straining for this moment. It shot upward, bursting from the basin in a spiral of cloud and fog, soaring straight into the heavens.
Once free of the vessel, its body expanded with the wind. By the time it leveled off above the mountains, its length exceeded fifty meters from head to tail.
However, the flood dragon was not the only thing that had grown. The clouds that surged after it thickened as they were dragged upward as if by invisible threads. A half-clear sky dimmed in a heartbeat, swallowed under churning storm clouds.
The giant flood dragon writhed through the gloomy sky, and wherever its body passed, the clouds compressed downward. They darkened, tightened, then lowered until it seemed they might brush the mountaintop.
The Red General ordered everyone back another thirty-odd meters before he stretched his fingers and tapped the water in the basin once more. He tapped the water lightly, like a dragonfly touching a pond.
His taps into the water within...
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