I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 196-2: Eternal Starborn Spirit – Corrupted Leviathan, Battle of Starborn and Dragons! (2)

[Ignoring the agony in your body, you continued your desperate flight down the mountain…]

[A Black Calamity Dragon far larger than any of its kin dove down and landed halfway up the slope. In the same instant, its colossal form shrank and transformed into a solemn dragonkin clad in black robes.]

[Its gaze swept over the panicked dragonkin fleeing around you, and in a single glance, it locked onto you, the one out of place among them!]

[All the other half-dragons were mindlessly terrified, but you alone remained calm, your eyes resolute.]

[With a flash, it appeared before you. It seized you by the back of your neck and hurled you into the abyss below.]

[Layer upon layer of pitch-black dragonflame coiled around you. As you plummeted, the roaring winds could not drown out its urgent voice!]

[“Star inversion! The stars mean to exterminate our race! You must go and awaken the Hermit Lord!”]

[Falling deeper into darkness, you caught one last glimpse of that figure turning back into a dragon, then charging without hesitation toward the monstrous behemoth…]

[…]

???The sudden twist left Lin Xun utterly dumbfounded.

“I’m not about to fall to my death, am I…”

Since that Black Calamity Dragon had given him a command, to awaken the Hermit Lord, it probably meant he wouldn’t be killed outright.

The problem was… where exactly was this so-called Hermit Lord?

[…]

[You have fallen to the bottom of the abyss. The swirling black dragonflame around you absorbed the force of the tremendous impact, leaving you unharmed.]

[You realized the black dragonflame had yet to fully dissipate…]

[Your Shell – Pureblood Half-Dragon Who Gazes Upward has acquired the temporary ability Black Calamity Dragon Breath (Legendary+ Grade)!]

[This is a temporary ability. It will persist only for a short time and will vanish if the Shell dies.]

[Looking around, you saw that the Dragon Nest’s base looked eerily similar to the deep subterranean abyss where you once faced the Ancient Abyssal Demon – Blackthorn Demon!]

[The lowest floor of the Dragon Nest was blanketed in a thick layer of pitch-black sludge, constantly bubbling as clouds of poisonous black gas rose.]

[With a sizzling hiss, the black dragonflame surrounding you incinerated the poisonous vapors.]

[One after another, dragon corpses and giant rocks fell from above. Whenever they struck the sludge, the bodies dissolved almost instantly, merging into the mire.]

[A chill prickled your heart. Without the protection of dragonflame, your life here would be as fragile as a candle in the wind, ready to snuff out at any moment.]

[Even you, a pureblood half-dragon who had absorbed countless toxic ores, would be corroded by the venom, reduced to a pool of black slime.]

[All around you stretched endless darkness, broken only by the lone spire of the mountain piercing up toward the sky…]

[A feeling impossible to describe welled up from deep within your heart… You turned toward some unseen point in the blackness and began to walk.]

[That indescribable sensation felt like a silent summons from the depths of your bloodline, guiding you toward a nobler lineage.]

[With each step, the suffocating pressure of draconic might returned!]

[This pressure was even stronger than what you had felt at the outer edge of the Dragon Nest, so overwhelming it left you convinced that lurking just beyond the darkness was an Ancient Hermit – Dark Dragon!]

[If not for the dragonflame coiling around you, your lowly bloodline alone would have stopped you here, unable to advance even a single step.]

[Enduring that crushing draconic presence, you strode forward with determination…]

[Out of the darkness emerged a rock wall, studded with countless Obsidian Venom Ores. Even at a glance, you could tell every stone here was of higher quality than any you had ever seen.]

[Will you take out a copper pickaxe and mine these ores, or heed the bloodline’s summons and continue forward?]

[You were keenly aware that the dragonflame shielding you would not last much longer.]

[The endless cascade of shattered corpses and the ceaseless roars of the behemoth overhead were clear warnings: when the Dragon Nest finally collapsed, your death would follow.]

[You continued to heed the silent call from the depths of your blood, running along the rock wall…]

[Very soon, you came upon a cavern of immense proportions yawning before you…]

[The inner walls of the cavern were even more densely studded with Obsidian Venom Ores. From within the pitch-black darkness, a pressure many times stronger than before radiated outward.]

[Even shielded by dragonflame, you could not stop the instinctive terror rising in your heart, you wanted nothing more than to prostrate yourself on the ground…]

[Will you enter the cavern before you?]

[Forcing yourself to suppress the fear, you stepped forward into the cave…]

[Dense clusters of high-grade ore lined the walls of the tunnel. In that boundless fear, you felt your bloodline power subtly increasing!]

[To gain such a surge in bloodline strength without any secret rites to absorb the ore’s power, this was something you could never have imagined before.]

[If you could remain in this cavern for a long time, then even doing nothing at all, becoming a Bloodline Dragonkin, or even ascending to a Black Calamity Dragon, would no longer be an unattainable dream!]

[The cavern was not as deep as you had imagined. Very soon, you reached its end.]

[What met your eyes were over a dozen colossal, terrifying beings!]

[They were as enormous as the remains of the Ancient Hermit – Dark Dragon you had seen before. But these were no longer just bare skeletons, they were real, dreadful dragons of flesh and blood!]

[The massive forms of these Dark Dragons lay completely motionless. The pairs of fierce eyes on their monstrous heads were shut tight, they were deep in slumber.]

[You noticed that on several of the dragons’ heads were clusters of scars. Judging by their size, the wounds seemed to be where their eyes had once been.]

[In that instant, you understood: these were the descendants who had gouged out their ancestors’ eyes, the criminals who had imprisoned their progenitor, the Oathbreakers who had pledged allegiance to the Radiant Stars!]

[While the Dark Dragons slept, those scars occasionally twitched, showing faint signs of healing…]

[You have discovered the Ancient Hermit – Dark Dragon!]

[You looked toward the deepest part of the cavern. There, a colossal throne stood, an opulent seat built entirely from Obsidian Venom Stone.]

[One Dark Dragon, slightly larger than its kin, lay sprawled atop the throne. Even the tremendous crashes echoing from outside the cavern could not rouse it from its slumber.]

[You stepped closer to the throne. A stench of rotting flesh wafted from it.]

[You instinctively covered your mouth and nose, cautiously peering up at the immense creature coiled upon the seat…]

[The scales on its head were smooth and unbroken. The scars where its eyes had been gouged were long since healed and vanished. No traces of rot marked its body.]

[Will you use Black Calamity Dragon Breath to awaken the sleeping Dark Dragon?]

For a moment, Lin Xun was deeply hesitant.

He hadn’t forgotten his own identity, he was an Oathbreaker in the eyes of the stars.

Just because the Black Calamity Dragons outside hadn’t recognized him didn’t mean this traitor, who had willingly pledged allegiance to the Radiant Stars, couldn’t see through him.

If he woke the Dark Dragon, what likely awaited him was an annihilating blast of dragonfire.

The Memory of the Dark Dragon Knight in his inventory had fallen silent after opening the route into Hidden Canyon.

As for how he might obtain the inheritance, Lin Xun had no clear idea.

“If only I could find the imprisoned Hermit Ancestor… As a fellow believer of Omniscient True Knowledge, it would surely give me some guidance…”