Chapter 8

## Chapter Chronology

**Wings of Time** (時の翼, *Toki no tsubasa*?) is the 8th chapter of the Ragna Crimson manga series.

## Characters

* Ultimatia
* Femud Lese
* Borgius
* Nebulim
* Woltekamui
* Ragna
* Crimson

## Summary

The monarch of the winged bloodline, Ultimatia, presents herself to the king while the world's time is stopped. The king is deeply shocked by her introduction and doesn't understand how she can be inside the capitol barrier, solar shield a defense system created by the sun cult which during the day it absorbs sunlight to be released in the night, is up. Ultimatia assures the king the barrier is still up and she's just putting up with the heat she's feeling. Ultimatia explains to the king that she decided to stop the time to meet him because if the citizens saw her chaos would explode in the capitol. The king then asks to the dragon monarch why she has come and she states she's here to apologize for the Donapierru attack and presents the culprit piked head explaining that she never intended the attack on the city but the culprit acted so fast she couldn't intervene fast enough to stop him. The king is unbelievable of her words, a dragon monarch apologizing to a human is something he had never imagined before but he knows that going to war against the winged bloodline would only mean the fall of his kingdom thus he accepts the apology. Ultimatia shows appreciation towards the King forgiveness but still admits that she never wanted to make humans feel pain and terror but just to kill them without them noticing their own death. The king becomes extremely confused as she just said she didn't want to attack Donapierru but still wants to kill all humans and she admits it's true what he saying, she regrets the attack on Donapierru but the kingdom must be destroyed regardless because it's the Dragon God's decree. Even though she has to destroy a kingdom she knows there are good and bad ways of doing it and she was preparing in secret to grant to all humans in the kingdom a peaceful death but now her plans have been ruined by her reckless subordinate and now the humans are fleeing the kingdom amidst the chaos thus she ordered her other subordinates to attack all the cities along the border to allow no one to leave. The kind desperately tries to convince her to call of the attack the Ultimatia refuses, the king enraged asks her if she wants to go to war against his kingdom but she corrects him that no war will happen as it will be only a one sided massacre then the king tries as last attempt to negotiate with her but she refuses again. She instead makes a proposal but before she ends to explain it the king, left with no choice, uses his ace card. The king has the authority to focus the solar aura contained in the capitol defense in one single point and to direct it against a target. While the attack is charging Ultimatia commands his subordinate disguised as the king's advisor to stop him and does so by attacking the king and leaving him on the brink of death meanwhile another subordinate, Nebulim, positioned himself to protect the dragon monarch. Ultimatia thanks Nebulim for his intervention and the king's advisor, Borgius, ask if there's any praise for him too but Ultimatia reprimands him as she never said to kill the king but Borgius assures her that he was accurate and left him just alive enough. She reminds to Borgius how she despises cruelty and uses her time magic to revert the king body's state, while doing so all the guards in the room previously freezen in time are able to move again and seeing the situation they try to intervene but are knocked out quickly by Nebulim. The king, whole again, is confused and breaks down after he realizes he just died a few seconds before, Ultimatia assures him she fixed him and asks to the terrorized king if he's frightened by her to which the king ask if she's the Dragon God but she corrects him as she's nothing more than a servant of the Dragon God. The winged monarch proposes to the king a deal, there's no change to the fall of the kingdom but he and with his help as many people possible can escape the fear and pain of death, the King then accepts the deal.

Nine days later, March 8th, the king is warned that the flux of refugees is reaching the maximum capacity for the capital but the king assures them there's nothing to worry and soon all will be well. At the top of the castle a piked scorched head is discussing with itself on the mysteries of death when Ultimatia shows up asking why it isn't still burned up. The head greets the monarch and reminds her it has been for 9 whole days under the sunlight, it still has stamina but it is extremely boring. Ultimatia shuts the scorched head as she didn't come to discuss, she explains her plain is in full motion and in 10 days all humans in the capitol will be dealt with but a problem has arisen: Dornea the ninth seat was killed by second princess of the country, Starlia Lese. The head recognizes that the only ones capable to fight dragons in the kingdom of Lese are the silver princess and her silver corps but still didn't expect them to defeat the ninth seat then the head ask if it should hunt down the princess but Ultimatia says no as she already ordered to Taratectra and Olto Zora, respectively fifth seat and sixth seat, to hunt her down. Something bigger happened: the third, eighth, tenth and the thirteenth seat have all vanished near the southern border. The head admits that these are a lot of missing seats and the Ultimatia adds that the culprit is unknown but the only ones capable of doing so would be the sun cult. The head states the culprit could also be from another bloodline but then it asks to Ultimatia what is Borgius opinion and she reveals that it might be neither of them but an entirely unknown threat. The head exclaims now it understands why she's here and this unknown threat excites it but she lights up the head reminding it that the situation they're in it's its fault. The head apologizes and ask her to give back its hearth which she does. Ultimatia orders Woltekamui, the second seat, to deal with this unknown threat. Woltekamui accepts but tries to convince her if he succeeds if he can get kiss reward but her only reply is a punch in his face. He exclaims he knew the outcome and loves to be beaten by her. The monarch orders him to move on but Woltekamui reassures her he can waste time as he moves fast and shortly after in a lightning he moves towards south. Ultimatia remembers when she met the Dragon Go last time and how it after asking what is the kingdom of Lese fate it didn't known any kingdom called like that thus to Ultimatia anything in the world not in the Dragon God mind must be erased and everything not existing in the world but in its mind must be created as they're the Dragon God's limb carrying out its will. Lastly Ultimatia shreds tears to the missing dragons not being able to carry out their God's will and hopes the downfall of the kingdom can be considered an offering in their memory.

Shortly after, Ragna and a disguised Crimson arrive to the capitol ready to fold their plan.

## Timeline

* February 27th: Femud Lese psychologically destroyed allied with Ultimatia the winged monarch.
* March 8th: Ultimatia released Woltekamui the 2nd seat to investigate the disappearance of all the superior dragons in the southern border, Ragna and Crimson arrived at the capitol.