I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 403-1: The Six Progenitors, the World Inside the Painting (1)

[After the servant leaves, all the slave girls turn their heads away, not daring to look at you, as if afraid you’ll suddenly turn into a beast and ‘inspect’ their bodies.]

[Only that emerald-skinned half-dragon glares at you viciously, baring her teeth with a ferocious expression, full of provocation.]

“These slave girls are in the way. Having random bystanders watching while I handle serious business is just… awkward…”

Lin Xun summoned Nurarihyon, plunging the girls into an illusion, so he wouldn’t have to ‘deal with’ them after he was done with his actual target.

[You walk up to the cage. Just as you open the iron gate with the key, the Hybrid Half-Dragon bares her fangs and lunges at you with a roar!]

[Heavy, solid shackles bind her hands and feet, but she can still attack you with her sharp teeth!]

Lin Xun smiled faintly and decisively switched to the little dragonman Shell.

They were both dragonkind, practically the same race. There was a good chance it’d be a ‘fellow villager meets fellow villager, eyes full of tears’ kind of scene.

[You possess the Shell of Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit.]

[On purpose, you do not invoke Flesh Authority, nor do you use Shapechange. You face the Emerald Half-Dragon in the most primitive draconic form of your dragonman body.][She freezes for a moment when she realizes you’re the same kind, but when she sees your pitch-black skin and recognizes you as a descendant of the Hermit, she roars one curse of ‘damned traitor’ and throws herself at you even more viciously…]

[Carrying a trace of pure bloodline from the Hermit Progenitor, your power far surpasses that of this Hybrid Half-Dragon in front of you. You easily avoid all her attacks.]

[However, your evasions only make her more berserk. She repeatedly pounces at you!]

[You have no choice but to smack a claw down on her forehead. While she’s woozy, you use the chain-blade in your hand to bind her tightly so she cannot move.]

[When the Emerald Half-Dragon comes to, she’s just about to start cursing again when you glare at her and unleash a deafening dragon roar!]

[An overwhelming high-born dragon might pours out, bearing down on her so hard that her face twists in terror and she trembles uncontrollably, instinctively prostrating on the ground.]

[Even Nurarihyon at the side almost fails to react in time, the illusion covering the human slave girls shudders faintly, nearly leaking your dragon roar and terrifying might into the outside world.]

[Crushed beneath dragon might and unable to rise, the Emerald Half-Dragon feels both humiliated and furious. She simply turns her head aside, closes her eyes, stretches out her hands and legs in a big ‘X’ and squeezes out a line from between her teeth…]

[Damned traitor, if you’re going to do it, then hurry up. Get it over with and get lost!]

Lin Xun’s mouth twitched, his face dark.

“Big sis, have you looked in a mirror? If it was the slave girls next to you, I might actually think about it.”

“Uh… though maybe from a dragon’s aesthetic, the little dragonman might actually think you look good?”

[You know that aside from the Hermit Progenitor, the entire Hermit clan abandoned Omniscient True Knowledge and became followers of the Radiant Stars. That’s why the descendants of the Saint look at you with such contempt and hatred.]

[To clear up the misunderstanding, you praise the greatness of Omniscient True Knowledge right in front of the Emerald Half-Dragon and spit on the baseness of the Radiant Stars…]

[…]

[After a series of self-proofs, once she finally recognizes that you are a devout follower of Omniscient True Knowledge, she can’t help feeling ashamed of what she just did. Faced with your questions, she holds nothing back…]

[After the end of the Divine War, each of the dragon progenitors followed their covenant with the True Lord Omniscient True Knowledge: they sealed most of their own power and took all their descendants into seclusion in the mountains and forests, severing all contact with the human world.]

[The Saints lineage lived and multiplied in a far-off jungle, passing countless ages in peace…]

[They thought the peace and tranquility brought by victory in the Divine War would last until the end of time. No one expected that before the light of the stars had fully dimmed, an endless mist called the Veil of Knowledge would descend upon the world, cutting off not only the chaotic, unchecked thirst for knowledge but also the starry sky above people’s heads…]

[The un-dispel-able fog was full of terrifying Disorder, throwing the Saints into great panic. The Saint Progenitor – Ancient Emerald Dragon, prayed devoutly to the True Lord, yet never received a reply…]

[The Crimson King, the Golden Lawgiver, the Emerald Saint, the Indigo Spirit, the Pale Sage, the Dark Hermit, six progenitors gathered together, seeking to jointly call out to the True Lord…]

[But not only did the True Lord fail to answer, even the True Lord’s dwelling, the supremely sacred Hall of Knowledge, had its doors tightly shut and could no longer be entered…]

[From then on, the six progenitors were divided. Some believed the True Lord had abandoned them. Some believed the True Lord had met with an accident and temporarily could not respond to His children. Some believed the True Lord had gone mad, or had died…]

[No matter what the other five clans thought, the Saint Progenitor firmly stood on the True Lord’s side. The Saints were the most devout and steadfast children, unlike you people of the Hermit clan.]

[The Saint Progenitor returned to the jungle, praying devoutly every day, waiting in hope that the True Lord would one day respond, that He would disperse the endless mist…]

[Even if the True Lord did not strike personally, as long as He unlocked the seals on the ancestral power of each clan so they could once more gallop across the battlefield in His name, they could…]

[The dragon descendants would never cling to life in disgrace. Even if the entire clan had to be sacrificed, they would sweep away all enemies for the True Lord and shoot down those stars on the verge of flaring back to life…]

[…]

[This is a legendary story every member of the clan knows and a faith everyone holds firmly. It is no secret.]

[You cannot help but ask in puzzlement: since the Saints have always been in seclusion in mountains and jungles, how did she get captured and brought here? And the Polar Star Society seems to have captured quite a few pure-blooded descendants of the Saints.]

[At your words, the Emerald Half-Dragon’s gaze fills with bone-deep hatred. Through gritted teeth she tells you that it is not only the Hermit clan that betrayed the True Lord and took refuge in the starry evil gods, the Lawgivers as well are traitors. They sold out the coordinates of each clan’s territory to the starry evil gods in exchange for rewards.]

[Now, the Saint Progenitor’s life and death are unknown. The entire Saints Jungle was obliterated in the great battle. It wasn’t just the Saints. Aside from the traitors who sided with the stars, none of the clans escaped disaster…]

[Those of high dragon bloodline were imprisoned inside paintings and subjected to a fate worse than death.]

[The bloodline of the Saints descendants carries the innate gift of healing magic. Human heretics extract that bloodline and try to fuse it into themselves.]

[Because of this, the Polar Star Society has produced quite a number of beings similar to Starlight Priests, and the Starlight Priests are merely those heretics into whom the least bloodline power has been fused.]

[As for her, she became a Hybrid Half-Dragon because they excessively extracted her bloodline, degrading her from a pure-blood Saint descendant into what she is now.]

[Having lost all use, she was reduced to a slave, traded and sold like livestock.]