A resounding dragon roar rang out across heaven and earth, and the snow and wind filling the sky scattered with it. Under the gazes of everyone present, terrified past all endurance, Adam rose into the sky, his dragon wings spreading until they blotted out the heavens and the sun.
The snow tornado and the blizzard both lasted only a short while. They were nothing more than energy spillover caused by Adam's imperfect control of his body right after his advancement; once he found that the Source gave no reaction at all and his body showed no abnormality, they quickly faded away.
But it had already been enough to fill the merchants and adventurers of Free City with dread. Countless times they had wondered how a dragonkin could have raised a city on the ice field and weathered numberless trials and blows, open and hidden alike. Today they felt they finally knew the reason: behind Free City stood an adult dragon.