Heroes' Prison

Chapter 632 - 607: A Glimmer of Hope

"King of Curses!" At this time, the Toxic Sorcerer, Liselle, looked at Huang Yi with a puzzled expression and said in a hoarse voice, "The King of Curses, as one of the Seven Archdemons, possesses strength that is difficult to estimate. Why are you asking about matters related to it?"

"Unfortunately, I’ve been cursed by it!" Huang Yi shook his head and sighed. The King of Curses was the strongest enemy he had faced head-on since arriving in the Second World. He had been utterly powerless in its presence, and now he had no way to dispel its curse.

"You’ve been cursed too?!" At this time, the biochemist, Philip, shuddered as if recalling some distant memory. He took a deep breath and said, "I was once cursed by a top-level sky domain expert. The power of that curse was terrifying. To this day, the memory makes me tremble."

"How did you eventually get rid of the curse?" Huang Yi stared at Philip, asking with concern.

"I carried that curse for more than three hundred years before I inadvertently thought of a solution!" said Philip, his tone still filled with apprehension. He looked at Huang Yi and continued, "Actually, the power of a curse is very special. It doesn’t kill its victims outright. Every curse has its conditions for removal, and though they seem to require a great sacrifice, all curses also leave a sliver of hope, allowing you to meet the curse’s removal conditions without any sacrifice. It took me over three hundred years to find that sliver of hope, and in the end, I fulfilled the conditions for removing the curse without any sacrifice."

"A sliver of hope!" Huang Yi murmured these four words to himself, lost in thought.

His Slaughter Curse had two removal conditions: one was to kill one million players, and the other was to join the ranks of the Seven Archdemons. Both methods required a heavy price. The former demanded an enormous sin value, while the latter required betraying the world.

But according to Philip’s statement, there should be a way to meet one of these two conditions without any sacrifice.

"You are a Heaven-Sent Man, different from us. You should have special methods," Philip consoled Huang Yi as he remained silent for a long time.

Huang Yi couldn’t figure out the answer right away and temporarily set the matter aside.

After pondering for a moment, he immediately summoned the Little Dragon. The Little Dragon was sleeping again, drooling in a long string. Its small wings had grown feathers, and it seemed to cover its ears with both pairs of small wings to sleep more comfortably, appearing extremely content.

Presenting the Little Dragon before those research fanatics, Huang Yi asked, "This is my contract partner. Originally it was a Golden Holy Dragon, but after absorbing an incarnation of the King of Curses, it changed into what it is now. Moreover, it has absorbed the entire dragon force of another Golden Holy Dragon, yet despite such a massive infusion of dragon force, it still hasn’t advanced from the juvenile phase to the growth phase. Do you know why this might be?"

"A Golden Holy Dragon with Black Phoenix feathers?" Seeing the Little Dragon’s current state, the research fanatics were immediately surprised. Even with their extensive knowledge, they had never encountered such a phenomenon.

"Let me take a look!" At that moment, the Plant Elf, Green Vine, extended a long vine and touched those black phoenix feathers on the Little Dragon’s body as if sensing something.

The Plant Elf, Green Vine’s appearance, was entirely that of a green climbing plant. It had once been a green vine in the rear garden of the Death God’s Temple during the Near Ancient Period and gained intelligence by devouring the soul of a Messenger from Hell. Later, when it tried to escape, it was captured and imprisoned in Heroes’ Prison.

Green Vine seemed to sense something, and a leaf on its body suddenly split open, turning into a mouth that said, "I sense the aura of the Black Phoenix in its bloodline. It should now not just be a Golden Holy Dragon but also part of the Black Phoenix clan. I once saw the Black Phoenix of the Death God’s Temple in its rear garden. When they ascended, it was often during times of war. Every Black Phoenix advanced from the juvenile phase to the growth phase amidst the baptism of war. Your contract partner must have been too comfortable. I can sense that it already possesses enough strength to ascend to the growth phase. The reason it has not taken that step is probably that it hasn’t experienced the baptism of a significant battle. You need to let it feel that fierce atmosphere of war to ignite its rage. It is only with rage that one can become a king."

"Yes! It’s like a ship. A ship is very safe in the harbor, but that’s not the purpose of building it!" Lu Ye nodded in agreement with Green Vine’s view.

"That makes sense." After hearing this advice, Huang Yi suddenly had direction. The Little Dragon truly had been too comfortable, protected by him like a greenhouse flower since birth. Its days were filled with eating, drinking, and play, without ever doing anything serious. Such an existence would never be in danger, but likewise, it would never grow.

Golden Holy Dragons are creatures that could easily grow to surpass other beings, but their greatest enemy is themselves. In the history of the Second World, there were many powerful Golden Holy Dragons, but they could often only reach the Heavenly Domain Level or the Demigod Level with just one ever reaching the Divine Enthronement. That is the gap between them. Even as powerful as Golden Holy Dragons are, to achieve greater accomplishments, one must still put forth effort.

...

Huang Yi’s incarnation gathered up the Little Dragon once again.

Meanwhile, his true body, far away in Dragon City, teleported to the Tower of Pantheons and summoned the Little Dragon out once more.

"Little Dragon, from now on, we’ll grind the Tower of Pantheons together, and you won’t sleep in my arms anymore. Join me in battle! My strength has been greatly weakened, and I can’t carry you anymore." At this moment, Huang Yi patted the Little Dragon’s head, waking it up from its deep slumber.

"Yiyaya!" The Little Dragon, with sleepy eyes, drowsily turned its head around, looking confused about what was happening.

"Sleep too much, and you’ll become stupid!" Huang Yi said as he spread out the Little Dragon’s little wings and commanded, "Quickly use Holy Dragon Descent! Make your body bigger!"

The Little Dragon obediently nodded its head and immediately used Holy Dragon Descent, enlarging its body.

"Very good!" Huang Yi praised. Then he used the Nefalem Skill of a level 120 awakening for the first time!

His level 120 awakening Nefalem Skill, called Coexistence of Demons and Gods, allowed him to summon another Contract Partner to help in battle while already having one summoned, lasting for one hour. Essentially, for an hour, Huang Yi could have two Contract Partners join him in battle at the same time.

Usually, non-Hunter players could only summon one Contract Partner to help in battle. Only Hunters could summon three Contract Partners at the same time. Even with an incarnation that acted like a second character, Huang Yi could only summon Contract Partners in separate locations, such as the main body in the Tower of Pantheons summoning the Barbarian God, and the incarnation in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range summoning the Little Dragon, which was only possible when separated. It was impossible to summon the Little Dragon and the Barbarian God together in the Tower of Pantheons.

But now, after using this Nefalem Skill, he became like half a Hunter, able to fight with two Contract Partners at the same time. This skill, however, consumed one point of the Power of the Nefalem every time it was used, and normally he was reluctant to waste that power. So until now, he had never used this skill. Currently, he was afflicted with the Slaughter Curse and had his strength greatly reduced, so he had to summon more helpers to grind monsters; otherwise, he might not be able to level grind.

This time, Huang Yi summoned the Blood God that he had just created! Instantly, a huge heart appeared in the air, walking on eight blood vessels like an octopus.

"Blood God, you fight on the ground, I’ll fight in the air," Huang Yi told the Blood God, then he immediately mounted the Little Dragon and began practicing aerial combat coordination with it, while the Blood God swept through the enemies on the ground.

Huang Yi spurred the Little Dragon to fly at low altitude, battling the small monsters below. Having become half a Dragon Knight, the Little Dragon currently had no combat power, and only he was exerting any effort, so this coordination wouldn’t have any significant effect. However, once the Little Dragon advanced to its Growth Phase, Huang Yi would then become a true Dragon Knight!

Dragon Knights are extremely formidable; a person combined with a dragon dramatically increases combat power in a geometric progression! Every knight dreams of capturing a dragon as a mount to become a Dragon Knight, but Huang Yi, a warrior, had achieved this dream even before the knights.

...

At this time, Huang Yi was cursed by the King of Curses, and his strength was in a severe decline. Meanwhile, in the Land of Dongying, Miyamoto Musashi was immersed in joy.

In Martial City, an important city of the Martial Arts Guild, Miyamoto Musashi was in a huge underground laboratory. This vast lab stretched as far as the eye could see, filled with various sophisticated instruments whose names were hard to pronounce. Intricately built, every component was tightly integrated. The entire chamber was like a complex machine, with each part interconnected. Even the most accomplished craftsman would be dazzled here; the lab was like a masterpiece that only the creator could have constructed.

This laboratory was Miyamoto Musashi’s greatest secret, discovered by chance a long time ago. It was the most potent laboratory from the peak of the Ancient Goblin civilization. Miyamoto Musashi was originally just a first-class master, but ever since he acquired this lab, he started to produce various S-Class Potions, jumping to a Super-First Master ranking, becoming as renowned in Japan as Heavenly Dao.

These days, Miyamoto Musashi spent most of his time in the underground lab, scarcely going out as he was occupied with developing new potions.

Because tomorrow, he would lead his elite troops aboard the world’s first battleship with offensive capabilities, to conquer Hero’s Continent.