A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6273

The two of them shot through the thick lake water like arrows loosed from a bow, racing straight for that white light.

The crack rushed closer and closer, and the white light grew more and more blinding.

Jared could feel it. Inside that white light, there was a force that made the blood in his body surge.

That force resonated with the chaotic force inside him.

Every inch of flesh on his body seemed to quake under it, as if all of it had suddenly come alive at once.

Then the two of them plunged straight into the white light.

The white glare filled his vision for about three breaths.

Then it vanished all at once.

When Jared could see again, he found himself standing on a stretch of unfamiliar land.

The ground beneath his feet was made of deep gray stone.

It was hard as forged steel, and its surface was packed with crack after crack.

Those cracks hadn't formed naturally. They were scars left behind after some utterly monstrous force had shattered the stone and fused it back together.

He could feel it clearly. Inside every crack, there still lingered a trace of something so faint it was almost gone, yet so ancient it made his chest tighten, and so powerful it left nothing but a dead end in front of it.

He lifted his head and looked around.

The instant he did, his breathing stopped.

This was the Ancient Battlefield.

An Ancient Battlefield so vast there was no edge in sight.

Three moons hung in the sky.

One was blood-red. One was black as ink. The last had already been shattered in half, with only a broken half-moon hanging there by itself, spilling a ghastly pale light over everything.

The moonlight from all three colors poured down at once, dyeing the entire Ancient Battlefield in a strange dark purple.

Countless enormous skeletons lay scattered across the ground.

Jared had never seen creatures this massive in his life.

Some of those skeletons stretched for hundreds of yards, like the spines of mountain ranges.

Others rose straight into the sky, like stone pillars holding up heaven itself.

When they were alive, their masters must have held power strong enough to ruin heaven and earth. Now all that remained were cold white bones, lying under the moonlight and speaking of their former glory without a sound.

"These are..." Jared's voice came out rough.

"The remains of the Elder Kin."

Gwendolyn stood beside him, her gaze passing over those enormous bones. "The celestials' progenitors, the demon race's progenitors, the sovereigns of the Draconians... and some races even I can't recognize. They all fell here."

She pointed at the tallest skeleton in the distance.

It stood planted in the earth, 1,000 yards high. Even with nothing left but its frame, it still gave off a pressure that made the air seem too thin to breathe.

Its shape was faintly humanoid, and behind it spread a pair of enormous bone wings, hundreds of yards across.

"That's one of my celestial race's progenitors, the progenitor of the Frost Deity Branch. His name was Aldric. He was the first being between heaven and earth to grasp the law of frost. The stories say he could freeze time, seal space in ice, and with a single thought throw an entire firmament into an endless winter."

Then she pointed to the other side.

A larger skeleton lay there, longer than 1,000 yards, its body winding across the ground like a mountain range.

Two massive horns still jutted from its skull. Even after who knew how many tens of thousands of years, faint arcs of lightning still flickered over them.

"That's the sovereign of the Draconians, the Void Emperor. The stories say he was the ancestor of all dragonkind. His bloodline later split into the Golden Dragon, Silver Dragon, Shadow Dragon, Crimson Dragon, and the other major dragon branches. His strength was enough to tear open the void. One claw strike could shatter a star."

Jared stared blankly at the Dragon Emperor's skeleton. Then the Golden Dragon Bloodline inside him started boiling on its own, completely out of his control.

It was a resonance rising from the deepest part of his bloodline. The blood in his body was telling him the skeleton in front of him belonged to an ancestor.

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