CHAPTER 557: CHAPTER 326: THE ADVENT OF THE AGE OF HELL (PART 2)

"Do you still intend to strike at us? We are Metal Ancient Dragons, your elders."

Another Ancient Red Copper Dragon exclaimed harshly.

"Elders? Besides being hundreds or thousands of years older than me, what else do you have to boast about in front of me?"

Noah snorted disdainfully, lowering his head to survey the seven Ancient Dragons who had quickly revealed their true forms before him,

"We are all part of the Metallic Dragon Race, so I won’t do anything unnecessary to you. I will only reclaim the portion of rewards that you shouldn’t have received."

"You are too arrogant, Noah!"

"You possess the ancestral bloodline, and none of us dragons acknowledge ourselves as your equal, but why do you oppress us when we gather together?"

"Enough talk with him, let this young one witness the power of us old beings."

"You should learn to respect your elders."

"To the sky dome then, I am eager to experience the majesty of an Ancestor Dragon."

Facing Noah’s aggressive and unyielding stance, the Ancient Dragons were incited by Noah, and one of them even voluntarily spread its dragon wings, ascending to the greater heights of the sky, challenging the Ancestral Golden Dragon.

"The restructuring of Dragon Academy’s bad learning atmosphere starts with you dragons!"

Noah unfolded his dragon wings like cloud drapery, soaring upwards, gilded flames igniting on his scales, soon swelling in the wind and enveloping Noah’s entire dragon form.

The divine, majestic, vast Dragon Power of the Ancestor Dragon swept across the sky dome like a tide, creating a second sun in the sky.

This was a blazing Golden Sun, and under its radiance, the seven ascending Ancient Dragons appeared so small, seemingly fragile.

However, to survive for a thousand years and become Ancient Dragons of the Dragon Clan, none of them was simple. Even the most aloof Ancient Dragon had fought thousands of battles, and facing the seemingly invincible Ancestral Dragon Clan, they did not despair. Rather, they quickly reached a consensus in a very short span of time.

The strongest among the seven Ancient Dragons was an Ancient Silver Dragon, who proactively confronted Noah, opening its mouth to unleash a bone-chilling icy frost river, akin to a death river flowing through the sky, surging toward the hovering golden sun.

As this icy river was vaporized and obliterated by the solar power, the other three Ancient Dragons also harnessed elements, raising an Elemental Torrent, attempting to flood the sun alongside the frost river.

While the four Ancient Dragons battled the Ancestral Golden Dragon in the elemental domain, two Ancient Brass Dragons and one Bronze Ancient Dragon collaborated, quietly maneuvering behind Noah, extending their pillar-like dragon claws, seemingly intending to tear apart this arrogant Gold Dragon’s dragon wings.

"Commendable courage!"

Perceptive of the battlefield situation, Noah praised inwardly, letting out a long, thunderous cry as if from ancient times, causing the sky dome to tremble.

The three Ancient Dragons, who were already very close, paused upon hearing the dragon’s roar, and the next moment, Noah turned, spinning with wings like a storm of Sun’s Wrath, sweeping across the sky dome, engulfing the silver dragon’s frost river and the raging Elemental Torrent entirely.

At the same time, a layer of brilliant golden light, almost tangible, emanated from Noah, colliding with the Bronze Ancient Dragon’s claw. A loud boom, like a massive bell tolling, erupted as sparks shot from the contact point between claw and light.

Yet, as the sparks exploded, several drops of crimson dragon blood and shattered bronze dragon scales accompanied them, with the Bronze Ancient Dragon’s claw bending unnaturally for a moment, though it swiftly recovered after retrieving, but every dragon noticed this scene.

"So strong?"

This scene caused all the Ancient Dragons’ hearts to tremble uncontrollably, especially the Bronze Ancient Dragon face to face with Noah, who felt a chill welling up inside, though he had no chance to regret, as Noah reached out to him with a claw.

Crack~

In a flash, there seemed to be only the crisp sound of bones cracking, and then the already distorted Ancient Dragon, unable to maintain dragonoid form, lost the ability to fly and hover, transforming into a meteor, plummeting towards the earth below.

"So fast!"

The Ancient Dragons’ vision was sharp, and the remaining six saw clearly the state of the Bronze Ancient Dragon among them, certainly not the weakest in face-to-face combat. His neck, tail, and dragon wings, even his spine were broken, coiling the entire dragon into a ball, more thrown than fallen.

Crash——

The coiled dragon meteor did resemble a shooting star, crashing with screech and roar into a primal mountain range, causing the mountains to crumble and the earth to quake.

Yet, after this silence, the mountains and the earth fell into silence; the fallen Bronze Ancient Dragon remained motionless in the sky, seemingly stunned by the impact.

However, the tranquility of the forest didn’t last long. In the next instant, two more dragon balls, trailing long tail flames, plummeted from the sky.

Bang! Bang!

Several mountains cracked in the first shockwave, collapsing entirely, with two mushroom-shaped dust clouds rising from the devastated forest.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before the forest could regain its calm, meteors continued to fall in succession, continuously shaking the earth.

But the sky gradually regained peace, with only a Golden Sun hung high, radiating endless light and heat to all living creatures.

"As the Headmaster, I declare that from this day forth, all your positions within the academy are nullified, and in the future, you will never be rehired!"

The sun descended from the sky, its glow warm yet not scorching to any living beings, landing in the forest swept into plains by the quake and impact, delivering a will before departing without further glance.

"How embarrassing!"

Long after the sun faded, a blood-stained Bronze Dragon emerged from the gravel.

"The seven of us old ones teamed up, yet got beaten by a young one like this; it would be laughable to mention."

"There’s no helping it when he is an Ancestral Dragon after all."

Two more heads popped up from the mountains; their injuries seemed severe but not fundamentally damaging. If they wished, the fight could resume for some time, but no Ancient Dragon wanted to continue due to the disgrace.

"It’s not just because he’s an Ancestral Dragon. The fighting skills of this Noah Headmaster are the best I’ve ever seen in my life."

"Alas!"

"I feel we’ve made a wrong choice."

"Perhaps, but regretting now is useless."

After a battle unknown to many dragons in the sky dome, Noah wholly took control of Dragon Academy, leaving no second opinion in the entire institution, not even among the remaining Ancient Dragons.

Because Noah dismissed over half of the Ancient Dragon teachers, he then rehired numerous teachers. Yes, numerous, for this time, Noah did not confine the hiring group to only Ancient Dragons; any adult dragon species or even non-dragon entities with expertise could participate in recruitment.

As the saying goes, the accomplished can teach. Noah believed any being possessing beneficial knowledge for Dragon Clan’s growth was entitled to become a teacher for non-juvenile dragons.

Thus, in a very short time, Dragon Academy’s teaching staff rapidly expanded, allowing Noah’s curriculum to be officially implemented.

The hatchlings of Dragon Academy welcomed a brand new academic life; the leisurely schedule of attending class only ten days a month was gone, replaced by a five-day class, two-day rest schedule, with higher grades having six-day classes and one-day rest, along with added morning meditation classes and evening self-study classes.

The new curriculum’s implementation was dubbed by the young dragons as the dawn of the hell era.