Chapter 309: Chapter 193: The Sacred Dragon Nest, The Half-Dragon Man’s Plan_3
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[You make your way to the opening of the mine, where the Broken-Horned Half-Dragon ceases to crawl and stands up.]
[It picks up two wooden spears from a nearby bush and hands one to you...]
[You’ve obtained a ’Sharp Wooden Spear’ (Ruined + grade weapon).]
[The Broken-Horned Half-Dragon looks menacing. It seems to be telling both you and itself that if the plan succeeds, neither of you will ever need to mine again. If the plan fails...it’s had enough of desperation anyway.]
[May the great ’Bright Stars’ bless us!]
[You echo with the same familiar words as the memories in your shell start to stir slightly...]
[Day after day of numb labor is not only your nightmare but also the nightmare of all other enslaved miners... but luckily, in this nightmare, there is still a glimmer of hope.]
[Since childhood, the elders in your tribe have taught you that mining the "Dark Sparkling Ore" is the duty bestowed upon you by the deities. Every time you successfully mine a high-quality ore, you’re one step closer to restoring the glory of your ancestors.]
[Back then, you did not understand what glory meant. You only knew that if the elders mined high-quality ore, they would receive rewards from the nobles. That was the only hope in a life of despair.]
[The generous rewards come from the sacred place that all half-dragons long for — the Dragon Nest!]
[You didn’t understand the concept of glory, but you knew the meat you occasionally ate, and your mother whom you had never met, were all due to your father’s hard work.]
[Father died from a disease caused by overwork, leaving you only a not-so-spacious cave and a worn-out cross copper pickaxe.]
[When you received the copper pickaxe from your father’s hands, you knew that his nightmare had ended, and yours was just beginning...]
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[You find yourself gradually losing yourself in the numb routine of mining, with only the occasional gem of high-quality ore allowing you to nourish yourself for a few days.]
[You rejected the female half-dragon sent by the supervisor, demanding all the rewards be exchanged for meat. The meat you received was not enjoyed alone, but shared with other elderly and helpless mining slaves.]
[It was this action of yours that caught the attention of your former playmate, the ’Broken-horned Sharu’]
[Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Not all half-dragons are content with a numb life. ’Broken-horned Sharu’ is one who wants to resist.]
[On a dark and windy night, ’Broken-horned Sharu’ busted into your cave, revealing a shocking secret and plan.]
[The ’Mixed-Blood Half-Dragon’ is able to become a supervisor and avoid hard labour because of their superior bloodline.]
[In your understanding, bloodlines are determined at birth. The offspring of a mixed-blood half-dragon could not possibly become a mixed-blood dragon, let alone a pure-blooded dragon.]
[But ’Broken-horned Sharu’ shook its head, telling you that bloodlines can be enhanced and evolved. It’s not impossible to become a mixed-blood or even a pure-blooded dragon.]
[Then it tells you, to your great shock, that the ’Dark Sparkling Ore’ you’re endlessly mining is the secret key to enhancing bloodline purity.]
[Legend has it that with each generation, the recluse ancestors would bury their bodies deep into the ground, nourishing their descendants with their bloodline strength.]
[The reason why the noble ones in the Dragon Nest need high-quality ore is that they are not satisfied with the bloodline enhancement brought by ’nourishment’. They wish to actively extract it.]
[Each high-quality ore contains the bloodline power of the hidden ancestors. The mixed-blood supervisors would always secretly skim some off after receiving the mined ore from you.]
[Even the rewards you received from the Dragon Nest were skimped.]
[The supervisor obtained a method to enhance its bloodline from somewhere. It wants to advance and become a pure-blooded dragon so that it can enter the sacred Dragon Nest...]
[When you heard this secret, you were shocked and couldn’t come back to your senses for a long time. But when ’Broken-horned Sharu’ told you its plan, you knew what it meant to be audacious.]
[Its plan is simple and brutal: to kill the mixed-blood supervisor and take their place!]
[The mixed-blood supervisor is far stronger than the mixed-blood mining slaves. Even with both of you, it would be like using an egg to smash a stone.]
[You suggest to it whether you could ally with more slaves, overthrow the supervisor’s exploitation.]
[Broken-horned Sharu’ scoffing at you, shaking its head. It doesn’t know which slave would betray its plan for rewards. Only you, naïve as you are, look somewhat reliable.]
[It tells you the specifics of the plan. Every time the slaves mine a high-quality ore, the supervisor would always secretly skim off. Sometimes the reward is meat, sometimes it’s mating rights.]
[The plan is to strike when the supervisor skimps off the latter. At the height of the intense battle, you would strike when the supervisor least expects it!]
[Kill the supervisor, seize the method of bloodline enhancement. You and it could both become ’Mixed-Blood Half-Dragons’, and even ’Pure-blood Dragons’ that could enter the Dragon Nest. That dream is not a wild fantasy!]
[You hesitated for a long time, but finally decided.]
[Praising the ’Bright Stars’ together with ’Broken-Horned Sharu’, you agreed to carry out the plan together...]
[The fragmented memories in the shell come to a sudden end.]
