[Black holes? 】

The Dragonlord turned his head, and he looked at Ian earnestly.

Then, the dragon laughed: "I actually knew the real point of Dragon Island at first glance..... Over the years, there have been very few people who have been able to detect this from the layers of the Aether Flow field.]

Perhaps, this is also the ability to create the Lord's legacy? Speaking of which, the Extreme Wind Dragon King became interested.

He looked up and asked curiously, "In that case, then you know..... What exactly is the black hole in Dragon Island used for? 】

"Hmm..."

Ian didn't answer immediately, he carefully observed the dragon island in front of him. Dragon Island has a dark color tone throughout, and black and gray is its base color.

Its specific shape is a perfectly circular disk, some resembling a spinning top, and some resembling a traditional UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). In the middle is a huge ball, while the main body is a uniform disc.

It is evenly divided into four regions by twelve pillars, twelve areas, and the most important sphere is shrouded in a layer of iridescent changing light and shadow....

The 'black hole' that Ian saw was located there. Is it a black hole?

Truth be told, Ian has a lot of data and theories to make this assumption.

First of all, with the sensitivity of the essentia of the earth system of the Immovable Fortified City, he sensed that there was an extremely terrifying change in gravity there.

Second, he observed that the mass of Dragon Island was unbalanced, and that the curvature of space-time was also abnormal.

Finally, the saucer-shaped shape of the dragon island reminded him of an accretion disk, and the poles in the central core of the dragon island were indeed releasing strong pulsed currents. The strength of this material has reached an unbelievable level, even the gravity of a black hole can support the material, even if it is supported by the ether, it will not affect its terror, Dragon Island is probably the strongest material structure in the world!

In short, all of this proves that the interior of the central sphere of Dragon Island is a black hole.

Ian saw that each of the four major regions of Dragon Island had an extremely strong true dragon aura and the remnants of the characteristic ether, which should be the power of the major dragon kings.

Among them, the Polar Wind Dragon King is the most active, proving that he has made many recoveries in recent times.

And His lair, a Y-shaped tower of flashing silver, was very close to the central area.

In other words, it's very close to the black hole. When he saw this, Ian was assured.

He said in an extremely determined tone, "The black hole is the way for the dragon kings to bypass the lifespan limit."

【Oh! 】

The Extreme Wind Dragon King's Thunder Dragon Eyes flickered, and he was quite surprised: [You actually know? 】

In general, a black hole is a star formed by the collapse of a supergiant star after it has died for various reasons.

It has a gravitational pull that goes beyond the limit, but as long as it is farther away, there will be no anomalies.

However, if you get close to a black hole, time will also slow down because of the distortion of space-time by supergravity.

Of course, this slower time does not mean that you can live longer. The time to slow down is relative.

For example, a person close to a black hole spends a year in his frame of reference, and he himself does not feel any slowing down.

You have to leave the black hole's sphere of influence and the distorted curvature of space-time to realize that the year you spend around the black hole may be equal to ten or even a hundred years in the outside world.

And if a person from the outside world could observe the people around the black hole, then he would see that every move of those who are close to the black hole is ten or even a hundred times slower.

The 'slowdown' of one side is the relative 'acceleration'.

In a sense, this may be a kind of one-way one-sided 'time travel device' - as long as one is willing to go around the perimeter of the black hole event horizon and come out again, the outside world may have passed a hundred years and thousands of years.

What's the difference between this and time travel?

The premise is that the being that is close to the black hole has the ability to 'come out' from the black hole's gravitational pull.

Ian stared at the Extreme Wind Dragon King in front of him.

- Can He do it? Easily break free from the gravitational pull of a black hole and the distorted curvature of space-time?

Absolutely.

Because the incarnation of magnetic field and thunder, the Polar Wind Dragon King, which is comparable to 'light', is basically equivalent to the actinization of the Sun God Bird except that the consumption may be greater.

The speed of light is enough to escape the gravitational pull of a black hole before it reaches the event horizon. Not to mention...... He can also control the ether.

The ether is a medium that transcends time and space.

"Aether hearth" is essentially a high-purity aether to form a curvature bubble to attract the surrounding essa and spiritual energy to create a semi-perpetual motion machine. The curvature engine is a high-level application of the Aether hearth: a complete Aether hearth will expand its own curvature bubble, and then envelop the human body or the hull of the ship, and then carry out possible curvature voyages or time-space jumps. And the Polar Wind Dragon King obviously possessed this kind of chrono-temporal skill.

Therefore, even in the 'slow time' of the black hole, the Polar Wind Dragon King, who has the ability to think at the speed of light and the means of transcending time and space, is enough to ensure that he can break free from the curvature of the black hole at a critical moment, respond to the call of the external acceleration state in real time, come to the normal timeline, and interfere with the outside world. 「..... Dare to ask, how long have you lived, Dragon King?"

Ian was silent for a moment, then carefully considered his words and cautiously asked, "...... in the Dragon Isle How fast can a small black hole distort space-time at a factor of speed?"

[I've spent four hundred and seventy-two years of use]

The Polar Wind Dragon King smiled and said, "The Dragon Island Black Hole has a very small mass, it is an ultra-small black hole that relies on the Aether Field, and its mass is only one-third of that of the New Moon plus a quarter of the mass of Nemiss (Terra's Eleventh Planet, a planet destroyed by the Ancestor True Dragon's Civil War).....]

[The curvature of time that we can safely use has reached three times the speed, and can be increased up to five times, but this requires extremely precise aether field control, and if we are not careful, it will cause the black hole to evaporate, or the dragon island to be destroyed]

[Of course, if you want to die, then pounce on the black hole, and the acceleration rate can be increased to nearly infinity - maybe you can see the end of the universe?] Haha, for those of us who can control the ether, it's quite difficult] Sure enough. Ian thought so.

The time of the Extreme Wind Dragon King is right...... If he had spent most of his time around Dragon Island after becoming the fifth energy level, then the time he had actually experienced in Terra should have been around 900 to 1,200 years.

It was indeed the time when the steel dragon and other third-generation true dragons were born one after another.

And the original foundation of Dragon Island should be the Nemis Star that was destroyed by the civil war of the Five Ancestors True Dragon.

After the shattering of Nemis, the remnants of the star became the laboratory of many second-generation true dragons and the birthplace of third-generation true dragons, but when the steel dragon was born, there were not many true dragons left on Nimis.

Presumably, before the birth of the Iron Dragon, the cornerstone of Dragon Island had been sent into Terra's orbit and became a planetary monitoring station.

And if the Polar Wind Dragon King hadn't lied, the true meaning of the phrase 'Dragon Island Black Hole' in his mouth has 'New Moon', that is, one-third of the mass of the Moon as far as it looks, is likely to mean that the Ancestor True Dragon used the 'Dragon Island Black Hole' as a vacuum cleaner to clean up all the lunar debris between Terra and New Moon.....

This project was probably completed during the Lost Era, when the Dragon Island Black Hole gained mass and Terra was no longer attacked by Scourge meteorites. As for the age of the Polar Wind Dragon King..... Explain that He is twenty-eight years away from the final limit of the true dragon.

Even if it is to survive with a black hole, for the humans on Terra, it will only last for another eighty-four years to more than a hundred years.

It's not long, it's not short—for the Extreme Wind Dragon King himself, I'm afraid more than twenty years will pass quickly.

For the Terra, that's three or four generations. At this moment, Ian had a lot of things in mind.

First of all, with the mass of a planet and planetary moon, it is absolutely impossible for it to naturally collapse into a black hole, and the Dragon Island Black Hole was created by the generation of the Ancestor True Dragon or the Mentor True Dragon, in order to ensure that the powerful True Dragon can exist for as long as possible for the Terra humans.

Moreover, in order to maintain its stability, it can be used

, which needs to be maintained by the dragon at all times.

The four dragon kings are probably the 'cornerstone' of maintaining Dragon Island.

It's no wonder why the other fifth-level true dragons didn't compete for the position of dragon king one by one.....

Because being a dragon king means being alone.

The other 500 years of the true dragon were spent in Terra, with the humans, with their dependents and subjects, with their companions and friends. For most of the five hundred years of the Dragon King, he spent most of his time curled up in the warped space-time curvature of a black hole, waiting, and only when something happened could he leave for arbitration.

Their whole life is spent on Dragon Island, gazing at the land of Terra.... That's not even a bird's-eye view, but an envious gaze.

In their horizon, Terra is a world that has accelerated many times over.

Time passed, the mentor was silent, and his peers returned to the tomb one by one, and even the earliest fourth-generation true dragon had an existence whose service life had reached the limit. And they, the third-generation true dragons, are still watching in the black hole.

But even then, they are coming to an end.

From Terra's point of view, in the remaining hundred years or even less than a hundred years, Dragon Island needs four new fifth-level dragon kings to succeed to the throne.

And this dragon ..... It is best to remove the life limit of the star god and have the flesh and blood true dragon with eternal life!

In other words, dragons like Theo and Anfa!

- I see, maybe from the very beginning, when the 'Dragon Island' was created, the Ancestor True Dragon and the Mentor True Dragon had already thought about all this!

- That's why Dragon Island has signed a contract with humans to find a way to get the true dragon to lift its restrictions, no matter what method is used..... And by using the port left by the Creator and the assisted research of humans, they have indeed succeeded in creating a flesh-and-blood dragon like Theo!

Even if it comes at the cost of enduring the poison of the Void Demon, it is still doable!

As for Anfa's mother, Lady Hyareta's blood-based conception is also another way, and this path is actually more sinister, after all, not every Anfa's has a second-generation true dragon echo father who is still alive.

[It seems that you don't need me to say anything, you have already figured it all out]

The Extreme Wind Dragon King sensed Ian's thoughts, even though most of the boy's thoughts were delivered to the soul, he could still rely on the induction of nerve microcurrents to read some of Ian's shallow thoughts and give affirmation: [You're right, that's it]

[We dragon kings don't have much time left...... If Dragon Island is not maintained by four fifth-level True Dragons or corresponding fifth-level sublimators, it will not be able to maintain the stability of the Etheric Flow of the Ring Black Hole.

[At that time, the real disaster will happen]

[That's why I asked you...... Ian, would you like to be a real dragon? 】

【Becoming..... Dragon King? 】

The Dragon King extended an olive branch to Ian...... For Ian today, it may be the biggest opportunity he has had since he came to the world of Terra, after meeting Teacher Hilliard and the silver chip.

However, the teenager did not accept it easily. "I have a question."

The dark gold dragon's dragon head opened slightly, and Ian stepped out of the dragon's body.

He stood in space, his eyes meeting each other's, and communicating with the dragon king with his own body and pure soul: "If I agree, then the true dragon I can become will only have a lifespan of five hundred years?" 【Yes】

The Dragon King smiled slightly: "After all, the method we have mastered is still limited by the creator..... This will naturally have a deadline.]

"But I am the heir of the Creator. I am the bearer of the Gift of the Star God."

Ian pondered, "So, Extreme Wind Dragon King, if I'm not mistaken, what you actually want to ask is not whether I want to be a true dragon at all."

"Your real question is actually whether I, as the 'successor of the Star God', can replace the Star God and unlock the 'expiration date' for you true dragons!" 【】

The Extreme Wind Dragon King was silent for a moment, he was silent at first, but he soon laughed: [That's it]

[I'm dying—take me

Twenty-eight years later, I will usher in the final end]

[Even if I am willing to stick to my mission and watch over Terra for the rest of my life, if I can, I still want to live a little longer - I am also a third-generation true dragon after all, not a teacher who has no desires, and I am not the ancestor true dragon like a saint]

This time it was Ian's turn to be silent.

Let's not talk about it for the time being, why was he suddenly asked this question when he just had the gift of a star god.....

Just think about it carefully, if the real dragon really no longer has a lifespan limit, and it is not like the first ancestor true dragon and the second and third generation true dragons, they will have more or less kindness to intelligent life, but pure, flesh and blood life with self-consciousness and desire.....

So, what a terrifying existence a real dragon is!

Unparalleled strength, extraordinary talent, and immortality..... Such a true dragon, just by its own existence, surpassed many fourth-level sublimators.

They don't even need to inherit wisdom, they only need their invincible bodies, which are enough to rival the high-level sublimators, and the powerful true dragons among them are enough to reach the fifth energy level.

If you can lift the poisonous curse of the Void Demon that you must face for reproduction, you will really be perfect.

Even the Sublimators are no different from mortals in the face of them. Near-eternal class.

"I don't know."

So he replied, "I don't even know why you think I could—just because of the gift of the stars?"

[Only? 】

The Dragon King shook his head slightly: [You underestimate the things you hold too much]

[Ian, for all that happened to the Creator, the True Dragon, and Terra...... How much do you know? 】

"The Demon of the End."

Ian replied, "I already know that the star gods have retreated from this universe, whether they die or leave, and this is the result."

[Yes, you already know so much]

With that, the Thunder Dragon turned and looked at Dragon Island.

And Ian's gaze also followed him to the Dragon Island: [So, you must be able to understand, in this black hole...... What kind of existence is imprisoned? 】

[The Creator, and the mortal enemy of all life in this universe..... extinguishing the starry sky and creating many terrible disasters, the culprit of the disaster that led to the fall from the sky]

The Dragon King roared, "Ian, the fragment of the Ultimate Demon that caused the Creator's ship to fall is imprisoned by the black hole in the center of the Dragon Island! 】

[And our true dragon and dragon king are His jailers!] Ian clenched his fists.

Be. He had already guessed - the black hole, the demon of the end, what a simple relationship..... After seeing that the core of Dragon Island was a black hole, he immediately thought of this possibility.

But when the Extreme Wind Dragon King really said this possibility, he couldn't help but clench his fists...... And felt a heartfelt fear.

Originally...... Total destruction, so close to Terra?

[You can understand this horror, right?] The end is suspended above Terra's orbit]

Saying this, the Extreme Wind Dragon King's tone became excited, and the thunder flashed all over his body: [Back then, the creator master spaceship was broken through by the fragments of the final demon, and a creator used his last strength to create a gravitational cage with the main engine of the spaceship and seal it]

[And for the first time, the Ancestor True Dragon used his full strength to maintain it..... After the Battle of Shattered Stars, the Archaeosaurus, which decided the next direction of development, used part of the mass of Nemis, part of the mass of the New Moon, and its own body to construct the black hole of the entity and the 'Dragon Island']

[We, the four dragon kings, have taken over the mission of the Ancestor and Mentor, and have been controlling the surrounding aether currents at all times, maintaining the stability of this black hole, and preventing the fragments of the Demon of the End from climbing out of the aether from the event horizon again and destroying the stars of Terra!] 】

[But even then, it's only a 'temporary seal'—when we pass away, where can we find other talismans.]

The four qualified dragon kings guard the seal? 】

Can humans do it? Can the next generation of true dragons carry the heavy load? Whether it's selfish or not, I want to live longer and continue my mission, even if it's just to stay in the curvature of the black hole and keep watch alone.

With that, the Polar Wind True Dragon led the dragon body of the Dark Gold Dragon, and Ian slowly landed towards the Dragon Island.

His tone gradually returned to normal: "I wasn't sure at first, but when I did observe you, I realized that you really had collected the 'Creator's Gift']

[Ian, think about it..... What kind of blessings would the Creator send to such a powerful civilization as they would have sent to the best pioneers in this universe, even to the best of the best whom they were pleasantly surprised? 】

「..... Themselves."

Finally understanding what kind of "blessing" the gift of the star god represented, Ian closed his eyes, he recalled the essence of the 'star radiance', the body of light, and the soul of the source, and suddenly exclaimed, "Yes. I see."

"When the sublimation of the gift of the star god is transformed into the end, a life will be elevated to the 'star god'!"

"This is the true gift of the Star Gods—an 'invitation' for all the pioneers in the entire universe who are valued by them to become one of them!" "The Star God is a pioneer civilization that is a 'pioneer' with all members!"

[No—you're thinking too narrowly, Ian. To be exact. The gift of the creator is a 'seed']

The Dragon King nodded first, then shook his head, he had some opinions about Ian's thoughts: [The creators are so powerful, and they can't forcibly elevate them without harming the soul essence and life essence of other creatures—so they give gifts, send seeds, and give the seeds of sublimation to the best of civilizations]

[Then, these best sublimators, with this seed and their own whims, will develop a variety of completely different ways of sublimation, leading the entire civilization to transcend, and eventually become a member of the Creators]

It may take an incomparably long time, but time is the least important thing for the eternal Creator at that time.

Speaking slowly, the Polar Wind Dragon King turned his head sideways and looked at the planet Terra. Together with Ian, he stood in orbit and watched the blue planet and the vast continent.

The Dragon King said in a soft tone, with curiosity and longing, "Yes, as you think, Ian..... The idea of the Creator is definitely not so narrow-minded..... They are definitely not just absorbing a few 'pioneers' and selecting the elite 'elite civilizations.']

[Completely opposite]

[It's like every civilization has its own unique 'Star Guardian Dragon' to protect it]

[All life in every civilization has the opportunity to become a unique, new 'Star God'! 】