novelraw Chapter 766 - 766 755
Chapter 766 - 766 755
Chapter 766: 755 Chapter 766: 755 “Lord Elio, what is this all about?” asked the little black dragon, its limbs, wings, tail and even its head firmly restrained on the experiment table, feeling somewhat uneasy.
Surrounding him were humans clad in white robes, holding various bizarre magical instruments. Some were even brandishing machetes and pliers over his body, which looked rather terrifying.
“Kid, didn’t you say you wanted to gain power? This is the first step to obtaining that power.” Elio, who had already shrank in size and was discussing with a bald alchemist, looked back at the anxious Caesar and laughed.
“But the teachers didn’t tell me about this way of gaining power! Nor is there any description of it in the heritage memory.”
“This is a path I’ve explored. A path suitable for the Giant Dragons.” Elio recalled the words Prince Mureya had said to him privately, glanced at this newly recruited subordinate and organized his thoughts,
“In the eyes of many ignorant and inferior creatures, we, the Giant Dragons, are the most perfect beings, but in my view, we Giant Dragons have too many flaws.
Take us Black Dragons for example, a regular black dragon can only exert its full strength in areas like shallow swamps. Once they enter other areas like volcanoes or dive into the deep sea, their combat capabilities drop significantly, unable to adapt to the local environment perfectly.
In addition, there are many forces that can severely restrain us Black Dragons. Humans even use substances that can restrain our dragon species, crafting corresponding dragon-slaying weapons. What right does such a creature have to be called perfect?”
“But, Lord Elio, the issues you’re mentioning… If we can advance to Legends, or become Ancient Dragons, we can easily solve them, right?”
“Legend? Ancient Dragon?” At these words, a mocking smile crossed Elio’s face. “You make it sound so easy. Out of a thousand Black Dragons, not even one dragon can perhaps become an Ancient Dragon. You know how many years it takes to live to become an Ancient Dragon? A whole eight hundred years! Let me ask you, are you confident that you can live to eight hundred?”
“I can’t.” The little black dragon, Caesar, shook his head. Even the gods could fall in this world, so what makes a dragon think it could live to eight hundred?
“So, before we become Ancient Dragons, how do we deal with these vulnerabilities that can kill us?”
“… Train hard.”
“Bullshit! We, the Giant Dragons, are superior in our grade, being able to sweep most creatures. But as the price, our advancement speed is much slower than that of most species in the world. So, the only way to eliminate our weaknesses as fast as possible is by transforming, rationally altering our bodies through knowledge and magic technology, thus removing our weaknesses.”
Elio, having said this, showed a fanatic look. He once battled a sea beast in the vast ocean, only to find his breath was largely immune to the beast. He had to engage in close combat to finally kill it.
After that battle, he could not forget the idea that if he was able to breathe Red Dragon’s flame breath, or Blue Dragon’s thunder breath, he wouldn’t need close combat to kill the sea beast.
If he can possess the breaths of all Giant Dragons, then he can perfectly adapt to battles in any environment, without worrying that any creature can be immune to his attacks.
Although having such an astonishing idea wasn’t a big deal, Elio discovered a group of humans in Xena Pus who could make his idea a reality.
He naturally headed to Cloud Island, found them, and one old man immediately agreed to remold his body after hearing his whimsical idea. As a result, he is now who he presently is.
“So, to remove the weaknesses of the Giant Dragons, one can only do so through transformation. Not every dragon can become an Ancient Dragon, but any dragon can transform itself to reduce its own weaknesses.” Elio expressed his thought, an extension of the idea guided by Mureya.
“So, Lord Elio, what kind of transformation are you and these humans planning for me?” The little black dragon asked anxiously.
“Looking at you, you should have seen Elio’s five kinds of breath, right?” A bald middle-aged alchemist on the side chuckled and asked. His eyes were full of fascination as he looked at the small black dragon. To have a dragon willingly lie on their experimental table was an achievement that many alchemists could never accomplish in their entire lifetime. But now, here were two dragons lying on his table, and if he can successfully transform this one, more would willingly come forward.
“Do you want the power to breathe five types of Dragon Breath?” The bald alchemist tempted him with a shiny bald head.
“I do want it.” There was not much hesitation. Caesar, the little black dragon who had already experienced Elio’s breath power, hastily nodded.
“Then lie down quietly and don’t move or struggle. Since there aren’t many transformation examples, our attempts will lean on the conservative side to avoid accidents. First, we’ll extract some scales, flesh and blood from your body. Don’t worry, it won’t harm you much. The purpose of extracting these tissue samples is to cultivate organs capable of producing the remaining four different types of breath for you. After transplantation, they won’t have any rejection towards your body.”
“Next, we will also inject you with a Black Dragon Primary Bloodline Enhancement Potion that we’ve developed. It will help your body develop better and faster, without any side effects. Are you willing to accept the injection?”
The mid-aged alchemist, who had lost all his hair, lured the little black dragon into the benefits of the injection with a tempting tone. After all, he was now working under a half-dragon, wasn’t he? He could not force his dragon subordinate to do anything they didn’t want to do, or else he would be sent to his doom.
“We have just mastered a brand-new technology. We can create a perfectly fitting exoskeleton armor for you through your scales and blood. This armor can only be worn by you. Once worn, this armor can merge with your flesh and grow with you. It will give you a defense that dragons of the same age could never break through,” said the bald alchemist.
After thinking for a while, the bald alchemist made another irresistible offer to Caesar. But then he said something that shattered the young dragon’s spirit, “However, this technology consumes too much resources, so we can’t create this exoskeleton armor for free. So if you want it, you must pay a price.”
“I have no money,” Caesar said despondently.
“No need for money, just sign this contract with me,” the bald alchemist placed a contract that had been prepared in advance in front of the little dragon.
“Exoskeleton armor, when did you research this? Why didn’t you tell me?” Aleo ignored the little black dragon who was already tricked into signing the contract, he just widened his eyes, grabbed the person in charge here, showing a displeased look.
“We have just researched it recently. However, the core technology was not researched by us but was given to us by Prince Mureya. So it is not our fault.”
“Prince Mureya, where did he get this kind of technology?” Aleo was a bit puzzled. But in a blink of an eye, he put this question aside, “Cut the crap, hurry up and collect my scales and make a set for me as well to see what the effect is like?”
“According to your size, the budget for this exoskeleton armor is about 1,500 square elemental crystals. You have to pay us a 20% deposit first, then we start making it for you.”
“One thousand five hundred square, why don’t you rob instead?”
“Robbing money is not as fast as this,” said a researcher disdainfully, pushing his crystal glasses up his nose.
“You, go away,” the person in charge of the research institute glared at the nosy researcher, and then turned to the Black Dragon Aleo with a reserved smile.
“It’s not that we don’t want to do it for free, but with your current size, the armor produced would consume too much resources. If it is really made, our entire research institute will be paralyzed due to lack of sufficient funds.”
“You guys not being businessmen is such a waste,” Aleo clenched his claws. He remembered that he had voluntarily become their experimental subject, but was tricked into signing a hundred-year experimental contract. During this hundred years, he must unconditionally cooperate with them in some experiments that would absolutely not endanger his life and future.”
“Wait for me, I’ll go borrow money from the dragon,” Aleo said.
…
But while the big black dragon was having a bio-transformation with the little black dragon at the research institute on the upper level of Cloud Island, Muria was sitting motionlessly on his throne, as if he were traveling through the outer world.
In fact, Muria’s attention was not here at all. His main consciousness had been led by a spirit into a vast database that seemed like a sea.
“Cassio, have you found any useful technology for me?” Muria asked.
“Not yet, none of these technologies is applicable to your Xena Pus.”
“Are there too many files in this database?” Muria’s consciousness strolled in the virtually limitless space, surrounded by light groups of various sizes and colors.
These light groups are the crystals of wisdom civilization, collected from the Void World by the powerful Titan tribes since ancient times. Now Muria had obtained the permission to enter and view them.
“So far, we have only found an exoskeleton embedding technology,” Muria extended his hand into a light group, the knowledge it contained flooded into his consciousness.
“Crown City? A tree for a city, this technology suits the elves quite well, it’s not useful for me.”
During the process of searching for useful knowledge and technology, Muria chatted with his spirit out of boredom, getting to know some things that he should know.
“Cassio, after I enter the Legendary 4th Rank, I will be assigned a world and have the qualification to cultivate a legion. How will the tribe give me this world?”
“You need to come back and choose by yourself. The Titan tribe currently has 1,879 worlds, you will get one of them, plus nine other world coordinates.”