"Though he is honest, he fights just as fiercely as Nero!"
"That Behemoth indeed bears me no ill will, as for Nero, Your Excellency is speaking of the Red Dragon!" Denirais inquired.
"You don’t need to use any honorifics for me, Your Excellency Denirais, we will be allies on the same front, and you are my senior,"
Sesha Gogola II replied with a light laugh, "Nero, that fellow, he isn’t truly irritable, he just looks down equally on every being not belonging to the Imperial order."
"He’s quite conceited, actually, as long as you withstand his first strike, he won’t strike again, after all, you’re not yet an equal to him."
"As for Derek, he’s a generous elder brother, he bears no ill will towards any being outside the Empire, nor any goodwill, haha!"
Time Dragon Denirais suddenly asked with curiosity, "Then what about you, Sesha Gogola II, what’s your personality like?"
"Me?" Sesha Gogola II chuckled, "I don’t really have a personality; I just see what I need. The Emperor once told me not to let the outside world define me, so I’m too lazy to define myself."
"For the Empire, I can do whatever it takes, by any means; but I can also be rightful, both kingly and domineering!"
An indescribable emotion emerged in Time Dragon Denirais’s heart, and it suddenly found itself genuinely captivated by the civilization of the True Dragons.
The entire Golden Empire, the civilized realm created by the Dragons, has an orderly inheritance, much like the realms of those intelligent races, with excellent successors making the Dragon civilization as vital and enduring as any other.
But amidst this emotion, Time Dragon Denirais finally realized something amiss, its expression turned to one of horror.
No matter how powerful a being on any timeline, they can only understand situations on another timeline through their own similar counterparts.
Even the vast majority of Divine Spirits don’t possess the traits of a Time Dragon, to traverse the Stream of Time freely, witnessing the past and future, across the ages and realms.
But what did Sesha Gogola’s words just now signify?
Time Dragon Denirais’s dragon eyes almost bulged out, it could only think of two possibilities, but whatever the possibility, the Golden Empire in the streams of future time would be terrifying beyond Time Dragon’s imagination.
"Haha, have you finally awakened?" Sesha Gogola II displayed a mischievous smile, as if deducing the thoughts and fluctuations in the Time Dragon’s mind based on its inherent abilities.
He chuckled, "You’re not wrong, the Empire relies on the present while simultaneously distributed across almost every timeline of this Stream of Time,"
"On every timeline there sits the King and Commander of the Empire in the Icaria World, guarding the passages to the past and future,"
"Every Icaria World on each timeline shall come under the rule of the Empire!"
Sesha Gogola looked towards the depths of infinite time, speaking with deeper meaning, "All the branches of the Golden Empire on this main time stream are the Empire’s power."
"Haven’t you noticed, you can only traverse this Stream of Time laterally, but can’t proceed further?"
"With such power, are you aiming to change history or the future?" Denirais questioned with some trepidation.
Sesha Gogola II shook his head, "The past cannot be altered, even the mightiest suffer backlash trying to change it, even the great ’Floating Light Celestial Emperor’ never attempted to change the past."
"The future cannot be changed because it’s not fixed; the Golden Empire aims to influence the future with the present!"
Sesha Gogola II gazed at the magnificent ukiyo-e tapestry before him, then looked at Time Dragon Denirais, his face breaking into a smile.
"I once thought this painting might never be completed, but your arrival here made me realize there’s finally a chance for it to be finished."
Hearing this, Time Dragon Denirais turned its head towards the grand ukiyo-e tapestry.
It depicted the majestic Dragon King Court, sunlight filtering through the dome, casting countless speckled beams of light on the colorful murals on the court’s walls and massive pillars.
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Within this ukiyo-e, numerous powerful beings are present, and Time Dragon Denirais could even feel the overwhelming aura of these beings from the depiction.
These immensely powerful creatures surrounded the great throne at the heart of the Dragon King Court, witnessing the Emperor crown a young king kneeling on one knee before the throne.
However, the emperor’s aura in the painting remained unfathomable, even his features were shrouded in a perpetually shifting mist.
Around the Emperor, similarly obscured in face, were mighty Dragon Kings, their true countenance concealed by the divine light of authority that crowned them.
Also present were powerful kings not belonging to the Golden Empire, with indistinct faces, seemingly there to observe, to witness all that was unfolding in the Royal Court of the Empire.
Yet the Time Dragon could recognize these kings by their size and posture, identifying them as Multi-armed Giants, Frost Giants, Elves, Zor, Bottom-dwelling Demon Fishes, and other peculiar races.
And behind these kings were countless Dragons, countless Commanders, countless Beloved.
Each was unimaginably powerful to any mortal creatures, and Time Dragon Denirais even spotted Angels with flamboyant golden and white wings in the depiction.