Chapter 467: Chapter 357: Promotion
"Alright then, I’m overthinking it."
Long Yi habitually stroked Suolin’s head. Then, he turned his attention to the dragon egg in front of him. However, Long Yi’s action shocked Suolin. Apparently, this was a habitual gesture of Long Yi’s, whether it was Little Zi, Ai Lin, or Lingling, Long Yi often patted their heads, either to comfort or to praise them. Ai Lin had once told her that apart from Isrile who was too tall to be touched, he had patted almost everyone who was with him.
Obviously, this was a very affectionate gesture.
But Suolin was completely taken aback. She had never thought that Long Yi would do such a thing for her too.
Her mask didn’t reflect her true face; otherwise, she would have blushed by now.
"This egg belongs to an Iron Dragon?"
The dragon egg instantly created a large amount of metallic shell for self-protection after being immersed in disinfectant. Hence, it had that ugly shape on the outside. After peeling off the heavily corroded outer layer, the interior was pretty much the same as a normal dragon egg.
As he said, Long Yi broke open the dragon egg shell, exposing the primordial substance of steel color inside. A huge dragon power gushed out from the hollow.
Iron Dragons are unique to Dwarves, they are covered in very heavy steel armor and are almost impervious to any damage. Of course, the heavy armor also limited their own attack power.
Only Dwarves had Iron Dragon eggs. This one was undoubtedly stolen, there was no doubt about it.
"I think I can get you the maximum power of this dragon egg through Dragon Blood Reincarnation. Although I can assure you that you will definitely become stronger, I can’t promise you whether your current abilities will be retained or not. Do you want to give it a try?" Long Yi asked.
"Yes, I want to try!" Suolin replied without any hesitation. She had seen Yake’s power; if she had had such incredible strength then, she wouldn’t have fled. As a monster herself, what was there to worry about changes?
"Alright, follow me!"
Long Yi said hello to Ai Lin and then led Suolin to the basement. No one knew what could happen after transformation, Long Yi needed to be careful.
In the basement, Suolin took off her mask. The hard coating all over her body melted into liquid and Suolin handed them both over to Long Yi. Dragon Blood Reincarnation was a very dangerous magic, even the Black Dragon Empire that created this magic had never been able to complete it once. But surprisingly, Long Yi was already preparing for his second attempt.
Suolin stood on the ground, while Long Yi pried open the dragon egg. Inside was a silver primordial substance, which was the original color of steel. Meanwhile, Long Yi dipped his fingers into the primordial substance charged with Giant’s power and began drawing complicated runes all over Suolin’s body. Thanks to the unlocking of Giant’s knowledge, he worked much faster than when he was helping Ai Lin.
Each silver primordial substance touching Suolin’s body would be immediately infected by her internal Black Dragon’s dragon power and turn black. Thereafter, it would emit a dark gold light due to Long Yi’s Giant’s power.
At this moment, Suolin felt like her heart was about to jump out. A tall man was touching her up and down with his fingertips, accompanied by a tingling sensation like an electric current. If Suolin had not awakened her consciousness and body, she wouldn’t feel anything at all. But now, she just tried her best to tense her body and kept herself from making noise.
This sensation though, was quite marvelous.
Soon, the runes reached her chest and Long Yi couldn’t help but scratch his head. Within days, Suolin’s development had accelerated quite a bit. If she was still as skinny and small as before, Long Yi wouldn’t feel anything. But now...
"What’s wrong?" Noticing that Long Yi had stopped, Suolin asked.
"Um...nothing, just that the runes need a big adjustment, I am thinking about how to do it," replied Long Yi honestly.
The fingertips resumed their journey, gliding over.
No matter what others think, Long Yi felt guilty towards Elsa.
After increasing the thickness of his face by three times, Long Yi finally completed the engraving of all the runes.
"Let’s begin!" said Long Yi.
But Suolin didn’t react.
"Suolin?" Long Yi called out.
"Ah! Yes! Let’s start!" Suolin answered hurriedly, as if waking from a dream.
"Feel how the arrays in your body operate, and funnel as much dragon power into them as possible. Trigger the resonance of the primordial substance in the dragon egg, and let the arrays run on their own!"
Suolin nodded, bringing herself back from that indescribable world. Her heartbeat returned to normal, and all the energy flows were within her control.
Begin!
Dragon power was fully infused, and the arrays around her body immediately emitted brilliant golden light. Almost simultaneously, the dragon egg held in Long Yi’s hand also resonated. The primordial substance flowed out from the dragon egg, wrapped Suolin all around, and then slowly seeped in through the gaps between the scales!
Boom!
An unprecedented explosion of dragon power! Each of Suolin’s scales was glowing! Then those scales started to melt, merging completely!
"Ah..."
Suolin let out a vague cry.
"Are you okay?" Long Yi shouted.
Suolin shook her head to indicate she was okay, but she had already curled up in pain.
This...this was different from Ai Lin’s experience.
Just then, from Suolin’s top of the head, pieces of heavy metal plates began to stretch out on her skin, covering her entire body in a blink. But in the next moment, these plates melted again. Then they emerged once again, and melted again.
This is the result of the Iron Dragon’s primordial substance merging with the body, instinctively growing a heavy iron armor.
But, Suolin instinctively rejects it!
I don’t want these heavy, ugly armors! Get back! It’s just a mere dragon egg, it must obey my will!
The dragon egg only has the instinct of the primordial substance, strong as it may be, it can never be stronger than Suolin’s will.
Finally, the heavy armor plate does not form. Instead, it forms a thin layer of steel metal on the surface of Suolin. But, most of it has moved deep into the body, silently merging with it.
Suddenly, the dense coating, in the form of black liquid that was in Long Yi’s other hand, also flew out. This coating was specially made by Long Yi for Suolin, but now, it’s being affected by the resonance. In an instant, it enveloped Suolin’s entire body, completely merging with the newly formed metal layer to form an incredibly hard fine gold alloy layer!
The black metal carries a hint of dark gold color. For a moment, Long Yi even thought that the Fine Gold Golem had appeared again.
When Suolin straightens up again, Long Yi truly thought that the Fine Gold Golem had reappeared. Her tall and mature figure, her curves, though not as intimidating as the Fine Gold Golem, felt almost identical!
Of course, the Fine Gold Golem was made entirely of fine gold, while Suolin was metallically glossy black.
"How do you feel?"
Long Yi asked, almost calling her ’Sister Golem’.
Suolin moved her body a bit and then clinched her fists.
Boom!
She punched the rocks beside her. The rocks are directly penetrated by her fist, sinking into about half her forearm! At this moment, Suolin didn’t even use her fighting aura!
"I feel powerful!"
Suolin exclaimed excitedly.
"What about your invisibility ability?"
Long Yi asked again.
Almost at the same moment, Suolin disappeared from Long Yi’s view. Clearly, this time the invisibility was more perfect, Long Yi could only barely see a vague silhouette, and the ripples in the air were also less obvious.
Boom!
A fist-shaped hole appeared in the rock out of nowhere, then Suolin reappeared.
"Now invisibility doesn’t constrain my enhanced defenses!" Suolin was even more excited.
"Great!" Witnessing another successful dragon blood resurrection, Long Yi naturally became happier.
"Thank you! Brother Long!" Suddenly Suolin jumped into Long Yi’s arms, who in turn caught her, twirling her in the air.
Then, a suspicion suddenly flashed in Long Yi’s mind.
Soft?
Just as they spun around once, Suolin jumped down from Long Yi’s body, clearly she was too excited, even doing things that she hadn’t thought of herself. However, she felt relieved that Long Yi couldn’t see her face at that time. Otherwise, she must be blushing right now.
As he lowered Suolin, Long Yi pressed his hand on her back to check her body, but he made a surprised sound.
"Suolin, your fusion with the Iron Dragon is not complete? Now the evolution of the Iron Dragon’s primordial substance has stopped at the dragonling stage, what happened?"
Suolin paused, then said softly, "Because the iron armor...is ugly."
Long Yi couldn’t help but laugh. As expected, Suolin has the temperament of a girl! She forcibly halted the fusion process just because she found the iron armor ugly! No wonder she was in such pain!
"You’re mistaken. The Iron Dragon’s primordial substance will inevitably take your chameleon body as the main body. Once you complete the whole fusion, you can control it. If you pause halfway like this... I really don’t know when it can restart."
Long Yi seemed helpless.
But Suolin was not worried.
"It doesn’t matter, I’m already very powerful!"
"Okay, let’s go and tell Ai Lin this good news!" Long Yi said.
"Righteous!" Just as Suolin was about to leave, she noticed the mask and eggshell at the side.
"By the way, Brother Long, can you help me again?" Suolin asked hesitantly.
"Sure, just say it." Long Yi smiled. He was not afraid of others asking him for help.
Then, Suolin slowly stated her request. After hearing it, Long Yi scratched his head.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Please do it!" Suolin nodded earnestly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read it on m.qidian.com)
