By the time Muria turned twenty-one, almost all the fledglings had gone through dormancy and entered the juvenile stage. The surge of power gained during dormancy made many dragons restless, eager to challenge the rules set by Muria.

Subsequently, Muria dealt with these rebellious fledglings one by one, reinforcing the punishment matrix he had modified, forcing them to remember the fear they felt when they were fledglings, under his control.

Managing ninety-five fledglings and managing ninety-five juveniles were completely different levels of difficulty, but even with this surge in management difficulty, Muria managed to handle it.

Inside the Dragon Castle, there were hundreds of golden-level cloud giants, and hundreds of storm giants were on standby. These juvenile dragons were only at the bronze and silver levels. It would be a hundred years too early for them to rebel against him.

As Muria approached his twenty-first birthday and entered his twenty-second year, the six red dragons that had been dormant for nearly two years awakened and entered adolescence. Their strength had grown to the third tier of silver, and their bodies had grown to fifteen meters in length.

After waking up from dormancy, they first replenished their bodies, which had become extremely depleted during dormancy, through a large amount of eating, and then they gathered together.

"Let's challenge Muria together!" Just as they did when they were fledglings, the adolescent dragon Austen suggested.

"I refuse!" This time, Lenata decisively rejected the proposal. She had been studying spells since her fledgling stage and had the most spells mastered among the six red dragons, making her the strongest spellcaster. Now she had the confidence to refuse her older brother.

"I refuse too!" Cynthia followed suit, also expressing her attitude. She was not willing to challenge Muria either.

"Why?" Austen looked at his two sisters with disbelief. He felt that with their current strength, they could definitely defeat Muria together, but why were they refusing?

"It's a meaningless challenge." Cynthia bluntly rebuked her brother. "Do you not see how many giants obey Muria's orders? He can easily defeat us with just one cloud giant. What's the point of challenging Muria?"

"Austen, I also think challenging Muria is meaningless. If we really defeat him together and make him angry, we might be in big trouble. I don't want to challenge him." Albert, another adolescent dragon, also spoke up.

"If you want to go, go by yourself. Don't drag us with you to our deaths!" Austen's sister Jessica said sarcastically.

"..." Austen fell silent. Challenging Muria was just a proposal, and there was no chance of it becoming a reality. Dragons were not fools. They had no relation with stupidity. Those dragons who seemed brainless were only blinded by their power. When their power was surpassed, even the most arrogant red dragon would think carefully.

After the evil dragons in the castle ended their dormancy, their lives continued as usual, eating and sleeping on time every day, studying and memorizing spell models in their spare time, and practicing the spells they had mastered.

The only difference was that as the juvenile dragons' strength increased, their intelligence and magical talents further strengthened. Therefore, on the first day of every month, Muria would take a group of dragons to the White Jade Shrine for discussions.

The juvenile dragons taken to the White Jade Shrine not only witnessed Muria's wealth but also saw the gigantic city built around the White Jade Shrine, which was surrounded by a majestic and dragon-scale city.

The juvenile dragons accompanying Muria also witnessed the power Muria wielded. Countless giants and sea tribe leaders all bowed and worshiped him. This scene filled the juvenile dragons with awe. This power also made them both eager and fearful.

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The more they knew, the more they feared Muria. This was the mentality change of the juvenile dragons living in the Five-Colored Dragon Castle.

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"When will I enter dormancy?" Muria, who was almost twenty-four years old, sat in his room, rubbing his hair in distress.

Although his strength had been continuously increasing and had never stopped, there was no sign of him breaking through to the golden level. Therefore, Muria was eager to enter dormancy and then break through his strength through dormancy. However, his fledgling stage unexpectedly lasted long.

"Do I really have to wait until I'm almost thirty years old to enter dormancy?" Muria pondered with some irritation. He had asked his golden dragon mother Atelis about dormancy when he visited the Crystal Castle.

"It's normal. I am a generational golden dragon, and my life essence is stronger than that of ordinary golden dragons. You are my son. Although from your first dormancy, it seems like your bloodline has been weakened, you are still much stronger than ordinary golden dragons."

Listening to Muria's doubts, Atelis, the golden dragon mother at the time, explained indifferently. She thought it was better for her son's dormancy to come later.

"By the way, be prepared during this time. I've already contacted... um, your grandfather. He should be coming soon. He'll help you solve this problem when he arrives."

"My grandfather!" Muria recalled what the golden dragon mother had said not long ago, rubbing his face.

His grandfather was Dimos Elonsath. When Muria was just born, he had read his grandfather's autobiography. According to the description in the autobiography, his grandfather was an extremely powerful ancient golden dragon who had never been defeated since birth. He had dominated various powerful creatures in Elasia throughout his life.

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More than a year passed unnoticed by Muria. When Muria turned twenty-five, he began to feel drowsy and his daily sleep time began to increase. At the same time, his appetite increased, and the amount of food he consumed at each meal was several times more than usual.

These signs indicated to Muria that his dormancy was approaching. To prevent any problems during his dormancy, Muria began to issue multiple orders.

At the White Jade Shrine, Muria summoned the leaders of the cloud giants, the chief of the mist giants, representatives of various giant tribes, and many sea tribe leaders. He ordered them to maintain the status quo during his dormancy and not to take any large-scale actions without his permission.

In the Five-Colored Dragon Castle, he divided his guard force, which had grown to three hundred and twenty-six storm giants, into two. Half were sent to the Giant City with law enforcement authority to suppress any unrest.

The other half of the storm giants remained in the dragon castle, where they were tasked with watching over the many juvenile dragons and preventing any dragon from leaving the Five-Colored Dragon Castle.

Moreover, to prevent the juvenile dragons in the castle from causing trouble without his suppression, Muria began to appoint a group of dragons with the best spell-learning achievements as managers.

For the other four types of evil dragons, Muria appointed two to three dragons each as temporary managers, while for the white dragons, Muria directly gave the honor student dragon Cloidya the authority to lead all the white dragons. He hoped she would lead these weak white dragons to study magic diligently.

Just as Muria had arranged everything and was preparing to face his upcoming dormancy, sitting in his room feeling drowsy, Muria suddenly felt his blood boiling and began to agitate.

"What is this?" Muria looked at his hands. His hands were originally fair, with even a bit of baby fat, but now, as his blood started to boil, golden scales began to grow on his hands.

"What's happening?" Muria's face changed slightly. He released his mental power and began to observe the changes in his body from a third-person perspective. Golden scales started to grow in patches all over his body.

"Dragonization," Muria frowned. He knew what was happening now, and he also guessed who the presence he sensed approaching him was.

His grandfather, the ancient golden dragon, Dimos Elonsath.

"Your Highness! The sky outside..." At this moment, Muria's personal maid, the well-proportioned Mia, rushed in with a panicked face, gesturing frantically to him.

"What's the rush? Slow down and tell me." Muria frowned, looking at the panicked golden-haired girl. He had never seen Mia so out of sorts. After all, his personal maid was not one to be easily scared. What kind of thing could scare her like this?

"I don't know how to describe it. It's better for you to go to the castle platform and see for yourself." Mia calmed down a bit after hearing Muria's words, and then she looked at the increasingly obvious dragonization phenomenon on Muria's body with amazement.

"Your Highness, what's happening to you?"

"It's nothing serious." Muria said calmly. Although he was panicking inside, he couldn't show it. He was a ruler, how could he panic easily?

Muria quite liked his current half-human, half-dragon appearance, but now it seemed that his golden dragon bloodline had been fully activated. He might become a humanoid monster covered in golden scales.

"Let's go! Let's go out and see what's making my maid so scared." Suppressing his inner panic, Muria walked out of the room, leading the way towards the castle door.

After walking out of the room, Muria realized that it wasn't just him who sensed it; all the intelligent life in the castle had sensed it too. There was a monumental presence about to descend.

Inside the castle, some juvenile dragons and some underage cloud giants were crawling on the ground, trembling. Even adult cloud giants were trembling on their knees.

Muria furrowed his brows as he walked through the castle corridor. He found that most of the giants and dragons in the castle had lost their ability to move; they were all being overwhelmed. Only some storm giants, upon seeing Muria, managed to suppress the fear and follow Muria.

"What's going on?" With a hint of anxiety and curiosity, Muria walked onto the platform of the Five-Colored Dragon Castle, looked up at the sky, and then he saw the sky above Taiji Island at this moment.

"... " The scene before his eyes made Muria's mouth hang open, speechless. He finally understood why his maid was so scared.

Because, above Taiji Island, the sky, which was full of white clouds, was torn apart like a rag by a presence emitting endless golden brilliance, just like the sun...

Countless black cracks covered the sky in front of Muria, forming a black net that enveloped the entire Taiji Island, no, the entire Titan Archipelago.

"The sky is torn apart..." After a long time, Muria murmured to himself. At this moment, he ignored the increasingly obvious dragonization phenomenon on his body because the scene before him was too shocking. It was as if the sky was collapsing, as if the end of the world was coming.