Chapter 320: Chapter 197: Bloodline Dragon Man, Black Catastrophe Giant Dragon_2
[2. Shed your robe and use your personal skills to make it lower its guard and gain the information as a reward.]
[3. Take out the "Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace" and forcefully interrogate it to get the specifics of what’s inside the Dragon Nest.]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.
He decisively chose the third option.
[You brought out the "Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace". The huge crude weapon made the female half-dragon stare dumbstruck and tremble.]
[You pointed the weapon at her head, threatening her that if she didn’t tell the truth about the situation inside the Dragon Nest, she would suffer unimaginable torture.]
[Under your coercion, she had no choice but to reveal everything she knew...]
[In the Dragon Nest, newborn descendants like her and you are the lowest-status Dragon Clan. Above them are their parent generation, the "Bloodline Dragon Men".]
[Bloodline Leveling is a process of gradually approaching the great ancestors. The purer the bloodline, the more similar they will be to their ancestors.]
[The "Hermits descendant—Black Disaster Dragon" you saw earlier is the stage after the "Bloodline Dragon Man", and is the highest level that bloodline leveling can reach.]
[Hierarchy in the Dragon Nest is strict. Newborn descendants like her can only live near the top of the mountain. Her living area only extends from the cave to the top of the mountain, and she is not allowed to go towards the waist of the mountain, below the caves.]
[Because in the Dragon Nest, the deeper the place, the nobler the Dragon Clans that inhabit it.]
[At the foot of the mountain at the very bottom of the Abyss lies the dwelling place of the noblest Dragon Clan currently living in the Dragon Nest – ’Ancient Hermits - The Black Dragon’.]
[They are the children of the ancestors who have survived since ancient times and are immortal beings...]
[Saying this, the female half-dragon could not help but kneel and worship.]
"...This evolution chain is long!"
Lin Xun couldn’t help but comment.
He thought that becoming a "Pure-blood Half-Dragon" was akin to graduating, only to find out there were still Masters and Ph.D. levels after.
If "Bloodline Dragon Man" is comparable to a Master’s student, the "Black Disaster Dragon" is like a Ph.D. student, then what would the "Ancient Hermits — Black Dragon" be...?
According to previous information, the Hermit ancestor has been imprisoned by his descendants, that is, by the "Ancient Hermits - Black Dragon".
As a believer of "Almighty True Knowledge", Lin Xun’s hope of acquiring the Dragon Knight’s inheritance from children who have pledged allegiance to the "Bright Stars" was unrealistic.
Only the hermit ancestor who is also a member of the Omniscience faction could potentially help him complete the path of inheritance.
However, the difficulty of approaching the imprisoned Hermit ancestor under the watch of the "Black Dragon" is imaginable.
"The safest method is to gradually absorb the bloodline level and infiltrate the enemy... But time waits for no man, I have to risk it!"
After pondering for a long time, Lin Xun finally made up his mind.
[You possess the shell of the ’Fallen Ancient Theater Dancer’!]
[In the terrified gaze of the female half-dragon, you drove your sharp sleeve sword into her heart...]
[You defeated the ’Up-Looking Pureblood Half-Dragon’, experience points slightly increased.]
[You obtained ’Unyielding Slight Spirituality’*1]
[You obtained ’Small Star God Statue’ (junk)]
Just as Lin Xun was about to possess the shell in front of him, the underworld game told him that he didn’t meet the compatibility standard and thus could not possess the shell.
Looking closely, the compatibility score on the corpse shell was marked as 75% (+45%)
He opened the shell panel to check his own pure-blood little dragon shell. Its compatibility was at 83%, just meeting the pass line.
"Is it because of the gender mismatch..."
Lin Xun suddenly remembered that the 83% compatibility was from when he possessed the half-blood half-dragon shell.
When he leveled up from the half-dragon shell to the pure-blood half-dragon shell, his compatibility should have decreased. However, because his Thousand Faces and Million Forms had a hidden lock panel effect, his compatibility had always been at 83%.
With the current compatibility bonus, not to mention the ’Bloodline Dragon Man’, who is closer to the ancestors in bloodline, he couldn’t even possess the ’Pure-blood Half-Dragon’.
"The possession plan has failed..."
Scratching his head, Lin Xun suddenly felt the game’s difficulty had shifted from hell-level to underworld-level.
He had planned to gradually change into the shell of the ’Bloodline Dragon Man’ to approach the foot of the mountain, then act accordingly, but his plan fell apart.
If only he could increase his talent level by one, he might be able to complete the possession plan.
But he still lacked three epic grade divinity items to make up the nine, and the legendary grade divinity item mentioned by Li Xingyue had not yet been obtained.
"I finally understand what it’s like for ordinary apostles to play this underworld game... Now I can only hope the Dancer’s stealth skill can help."
Lin Xun, remaining invisible, exited the cave and conveniently took out a few of the half-dragon servants eavesdropping in a corner.
Descending along the winding stone steps, he randomly entered several caves. The ’Pureblood Half-Dragons’ inside were male, but their compatibility only ranged from 77 to 78.
As he proceeded downward, the ’Pureblood Half-Dragons’ were growing larger and larger, and their compatibility was becoming less and less.
Luckily, the height of the mountain where he was had not yet reached the dwelling height of the ’Black Acheron Dragon’. The circling dragons were still beneath him, fortunately not startling these massive creatures.
Soon he arrived at the cave of the ’Bloodline Dragon Men’.
The so-called ’Bloodline Dragon Men’ would be more appropriately termed dragon lizards than dragon men.
They no longer functioned in an upright, humanoid manner, but moved on all fours.
The form of the ’Bloodline Dragon Men’ was far larger than that of the ’Pureblood Dragon Men’, looking very much like a giant lizard without wings.
The Dancer’s stealth skill was quite effective after being strengthened; he wasn’t discovered by the ’Bloodline Dragon Men’. But the Dancer’s power was not able to keep up with the difficulty of the cave’s environment.
Facing the ’Bloodline Dragon Men’, not only could the Dancer not take them down in one blow, he was even at a disadvantage in the fight.
If it weren’t for Lin Xun immediately switching to the Earth Giant’s shell, the Dancer might have already died inside the cave.
In the face of the circumstances, Lin Xun could only use the Dancer’s invisibility skills to travel the path. Every time the invisibility was about to wear off, he would plunge into a cave and switch to the Earth Giant to fight.
The altitude of the mountain was unknown to him, but what he did know was that the body shell of the Dancer was already showing "You feel very tired" because of the repeated utilization of invisibility skills.
At this moment, there was still a short distance from the dwelling height of the ’Black Acheron Dragon’ halfway up the mountain.
"Two-thirds of the Dancer’s energy has been depleted. Based on this rate, the Dancer will faint suffering from exhaustion without even being able to reach the foot of the mountain."
If it weren’t for the giant dragons lurking beneath him, Lin Xun could summon the Valkyrie to fly, descending directly to the mountain foot.
Alas, with the current situation, even if he did summon the Valkyrie, she wouldn’t be enough to entertain all those dragons.
[You walk to the edge of the winding stone steps and look down, only to see the entrances of caves dug into the mountain are much larger than the ’Bloodline Dragon Men’s’ caves.]
[Looking at the large pitch-black cave and then at the circling dragons not far beneath your feet, you understand that you are about to reach the dwelling height of the ’Black Acheron Dragon’.]
[Do you want to continue downward, or do you retreat knowing the difficulty?]
Lin Xun had two choices at this point.
The first one was to continue maintaining the Dancer’s invisible state and going down the steps, praying that the circling dragons would not notice him.
The second one was to summon the Valkyrie, have the flying Valkyrie with the ’Abyss Lantern’ attract the attention of the dragons, and he himself would then quickly run down the mountain.
The first choice was not reliable; even getting this far with the Dancer’s stealth skills was beyond Lin Xun’s expectations.
To trick these strong dragons with stealth skills was a success probability too small.
Dying once would result in a 24-hour anti-addiction time, Lin Xun could not risk it.
As for the second choice... Lin Xun looked up at the kimono-clad girl, who was cleaning the living room, and felt a pang of guilt.
If the Valkyrie had to race with the dragons, just based on flight speed, the Valkyrie would probably die again.
Lin Xun didn’t know, because of his hesitation, the three-headed lion in some corner was furiously confused.
After a long while, he finally made up his mind.
"One must not play favorites. The three-headed lion and the Valkyrie are all my precious kids."
"Besides, perhaps by the time I reach the foot of the mountain, the Valkyrie may not have yet been caught by the dragons, and I can forcibly recall the Valkyrie."
He was about to click on ’Refined Copper Sand Hammer’ to summon the Valkyrie to lure the monsters.
But suddenly noticed the ’Ring of Stars’ light gathering dust in the corner.
After defeating ’Legendary Star Spirit — Thunder Beast Mammoth’, the ’Essence of Star Faith’ obtained was enough to fully charge this special equipment.
A daring idea sprouted in his mind...
"What would happen if I summon star creatures here?"
