novelraw Chapter 7 – Transformation: Basic Insight
Chapter 7 – Transformation: Basic Insight
At this moment, Anna's dress and lips were still stained with specks of blood, and combined with her weary face, it made her look incredibly pitiful.
If this were Earth, such a delicate little girl would surely be cherished by her parents every day.
But now, she was with him, a ferocious dragon, in a damp and dark cave, barely clinging to life.
"Sigh—"
Su Nian sighed with heartache, but what came out of his mouth was a low growl.
Instead of checking his skills immediately, he observed Anna's condition and found that her information panel showed she only had one day left to live.
"What happened? Could I have been unconscious for more than a day?"
Su Nian was bewildered.
He glanced at the few herbs on the ground.
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They were still fresh, and it was still raining outside, so it didn't seem like a day had passed.
What exactly had happened?
How did Anna suddenly become so weak?
Su Nian couldn't figure it out.
However, he still had his golden finger to rely on, so he immediately began to check his system panel and found that there were some new additions.
First was the skill Basic Devour, and then there were two thousand System Points.
Basic Devour wasn't of much use for now.
The key to saving Anna lay in those two thousand System Points, as he had no way of knowing what illness Anna had.
Perhaps there might be medicine in the System Shop to cure Anna?
With this hope, Su Nian opened the System Shop and found that it didn't have much to offer, mostly daily items for human females and some candies and sweets.
The most expensive item was an exquisite and luxurious Lolita dress, ten times more lavish than the princess dress Anna was wearing, costing a full ten thousand System Points.
Su Nian would be crazy to exchange for that.
Besides that, the shop had three types of herbs, but they weren't very useful for the current situation.
One was the Scutellaria Root he had used today, which had returned to a price of one hundred System Points, and the other two were quite straightforward: Healing Herb and Injury Balm.
Su Nian frowned, realizing this wasn't simple.
What was this?
Was this System Shop meant for him or for the unconscious Elf Girl?
He closed the System Shop and opened the Evolutionary Modification Function with a serious dragon face.
This time, the things he saw were much more normal.
The Evolutionary Modification was mainly divided into two parts: External Modification and Internal Modification.
External Modification referred to modifying Su Nian's entire body, including his scales.
The first row featured easily understandable items like Hardened Claws and Fangs, and Iron-Scaled Armor, which weren't very expensive, and he could even modify his overall appearance, priced between one hundred and ten thousand System Points.
The Internal Modification had too many options, covering everything from facial features to internal organs, muscles, and blood vessels, including even the place for excretion...
The most impressive one was modifying the energy intensity of his heart to a stellar level, requiring ten billion System Points.
Su Nian just swallowed hard, not daring to think too much about it.
He began to look for a modification direction that could help Anna.
The biggest problem now was not knowing what illness Anna had and what should be used to treat it.
He needed an ability to obtain this information.
Initially, he didn't have much hope.
After all, how could dragon modifications include anything related to medical skills?
He was a fantasy Black Dragon, not an urban Dragon King.
And as Su Nian expected, after searching for a long time, he didn't find any modifications useful for the current situation.
Just as he was about to give up and seek another solution, he suddenly noticed a modification direction.
[Ocular Modification: Solidify Basic Insight]
[Modification requires 1000 System Points, upgrading to the next level Intermediate Insight requires 5000 System Points]
[Basic Insight: Provides a rough understanding of certain objects and states]
This should be useful, though he wasn't sure if it could reveal what illness Anna had.
Su Nian pondered for a moment and finally decided to exchange for it to try.
"System, I want to exchange for Ocular Modification [Basic Insight]."
[Ding! Exchange successful, 1000 System Points deducted, modification begins immediately. Please note that discomfort may occur during the modification process, and the host is advised not to gouge out their own eyes.]
Su Nian: "……(՞•Ꙫ•՞)ﾉ????"
Before Su Nian could react, a sharp pain shot through his eyes, and he finally understood why the system warned him not to gouge out his eyes.
Because he really wanted to dig his eyes out now.
It felt like someone was poking needles into his eyeballs, a mix of soreness, pain, and a bit of itchiness.
However, this feeling came and went quickly, and if it had lasted any longer, he might not have been able to resist.
Wiping away the dragon tears from his face, Su Nian looked at the ground, and a piece of information appeared in his mind:
[Ordinary sandstone ground, stained with dragon feces]
"Ah, was this foolish dragon always this unhygienic?"
Su Nian felt a bit disgusted and quickly moved away from that spot, then looked at himself.
[A foolish Black Dragon]
Su Nian's dragon mouth twitched, thinking he might as well gouge out his eyes, as this lousy skill wasn't worth keeping.
However, he realized that the Insight Spell producing such information was probably related to his earlier thoughts, as he did indeed feel like a foolish dragon just now.
With this in mind, Su Nian turned his gaze to the unconscious Anna on the ground:
[Half-Elf, top-level talent, weak, night sweats, chills, ulcerous sores on the thigh, anemia, cough, stomach cramps, heart failure, lung inflammation, sprained ankle, minor abrasions...]
Su Nian was dumbfounded by the long list of ailments describing the Elf Girl's condition, suddenly feeling it was a miracle she was still alive.
The Basic Insight didn't tell Su Nian what illness Anna had, nor did it provide any solutions, only roughly displaying the various symptoms of the illness.
But it was enough.
To verify his thoughts, Su Nian looked at the Scutellaria Root on the ground.
[Scutellaria Root: Clears heat and detoxifies]
Indeed, the Insight Spell could roughly see the effects of herbs.
So within a day, he should have enough time to search the forest for some herbs to treat Anna's symptoms.
Although this approach was rather reckless, it was a critical moment, and he had no other choice.
With this in mind, Su Nian, who had just returned to the cave, covered Anna with bear skin and once again dashed into the rainy forest.
This time, however, aside from feeling a bit hungry, he was in pretty good shape.
A brief interlude with a mischievous Anna.
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