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Just like the dizziness I felt the first time I experienced the "world transfer" from the main god, despite the racial buff, I still went through it all again...
After casually casting two healing spells, Lin Yi turned his attention back to the "nest" in front of him.
Calling it a lair is just a fancy name. At least Lin Yi couldn't see any resemblance to the legendary "dragon's lair" filled with gold and gems from novels. Instead, it was mostly damaged and destroyed. Considering that this dragon had been constantly hunted by humans from the Order faction, it wasn't surprising that it would be in such a state.
However, this is where the problem arises.
Are you sure there are people of your kind in a place like this?
Sensing the lingering traces of activity in the air, Lin Yi remained quite skeptical of Thor's earlier statement.
Thor, who had barely regained some energy thanks to the healing spell, spoke weakly: "My kin occasionally pass through here."
"Occasionally?"
"Maybe tomorrow, maybe next year."
A moment of silence.
"...It's a miracle you're still alive."
Having said that, Lin Yi had no intention of abandoning the dragon and leaving. Anyway, he wasn't in a hurry to do anything, and having a half-dead dragon as a "research subject" was perfect. Why should he rush to leave?
For the next few days, Lin Yi "stayed" in this place. While experimenting with various magic and potions with Thor, he also learned a lot from it, such as that in addition to Thor, there were many powerful dragons in the Chaos forces, but they were in a very difficult situation due to the counterattack of the Order forces, and so on...
"Since it's a counterattack, does that mean you were in the dominant position before?"
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Thor's indifferent attitude did not embarrass Lin Yi. After all, as long as a dialogue could be established and information could be exchanged, that was enough; each other's attitudes were irrelevant.
"Since humans can get the gods to help them, why can't you dragons?"
Thor, with his eyes closed, didn't want to answer, but feeling the gaze on him, he had no choice but to speak: "It used to be."
Simply put, it's not available right now.
"why?"
"They were wiped out."
Whipping its tail, Thor clearly didn't want to delve into the matter, but the questioner showed no regard for its own feelings.
"It's not just the dragons, but also the demons and other chaotic factions."
Realizing that the continuation of this topic was beyond his control, Thor gave up and could only repeat these "memories" that were not pleasant to him.
In short, the chaotic faction, which initially held the advantage, suffered heavy losses due to the emergence of traitors within its ranks. Furthermore, it lost contact with its rear base—Hell—under a sudden attack from the realm of gods. Most of the weaker races were wiped out, while a small number of the more powerful ones, like Thor, were barely surviving.
Nodding as if he understood, Lin Yi suddenly asked a question: "Were those traitors human?"
Opening his closed eyes, Lin Yi clearly found the answer in Thor's gaze and smiled slightly: "It seems I guessed right."
"I hate you!"
Perhaps it was from the moment of the pursuit, or perhaps it was when he was "betrayed" that there were signs, but now that he has suffered a major blow to both his mind and body, and is even uncertain whether he will live to see tomorrow, the anger and hatred that have been suppressed for a long time finally erupted all at once.
Ignoring the wound that was being torn open again on its back, the dragon struggled to its feet: "Vicious, base, cunning—even the most despicable demon is a hundred times better than you!"
The dragon, now standing upright, was already over five meters tall. Lin Yi, squinting, looked up at the chaotic dragon that was venting its negative emotions, completely oblivious to the mouth that Lin Yi might bite off and swallow at any moment.
……
Half an hour later, the dragon's "roar" finally came to an end.
The dragon, having lost too much blood and forced to lie down again, gasped for breath, still glaring resentfully at the tiny human before it: "Why didn't you attack me?"
Why did they attack you?
"...Then I can eat you up."
"But you didn't eat any, did you?"
Meeting that gaze, the dragon closed its eyes resentfully: "You saved me, so I won't attack you first."
Once again, Lin Yi was surprised that this giant dragon could survive in such a "dangerous" world, but he wouldn't bring it up himself.
For example, if it had just shown any signs of aggression, the twenty-seven spatial nodes projected onto its body would have divided it into 28 pieces within 0.01 seconds, and so on...
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Although they are completely different in terms of physiological structure, the same intelligent race will still show some similarities in certain aspects.
After venting its emotions, Thor no longer maintained the initial hostile attitude of wanting to kill the human who "rescued" it. It began to actively cooperate with Lin Yi in those "bizarre" experiments, which could be seen as acknowledging his existence. Judging from the dragon's simple and crude logic, it probably wanted to repay the "life-saving grace" in this way.
While finding it amusing, Lin Yi was also quite pleased with himself—the goal was the same, and the process was irrelevant.
And so, Lin Yi's life as a "man" with dragons proceeded steadily under the constant progress of the main god's progress bar. After spending some time scanning the area around Thor's lair, Lin Yi gave up the idea of using it to find more dragons.
According to his original plan, he should have obtained enough data from Thor and left quickly, regardless of whether he found the Order faction or the Chaos faction. However, he did not expect that just when the progress bar was about to be full, the "comrades" that Thor mentioned had not yet appeared, but the people from the opposing Order faction came to his door.
Crossing the Line of Faith: A Paragraph from Chapter 364
According to the general concept of "fantasy" worlds, if the symbolic creature of the Chaos faction is the demon, then the symbolic creature of the Order faction is the angel, and this is no exception in this highly active world.
In order to deal with the dragons, the most powerful creatures in the world, the Order faction could not simply send a bunch of soldiers to their deaths. So, on this day, nearly half a month after Thor returned to the lair, the iconic fantasy species of the Order faction appeared in the sky above the lair.
"These are the angels?"
With halos above their heads and wings on their backs, they are no different from humans in appearance except for these features. However, in terms of the perception and control of life, Lin Yi is confident enough to believe that these humanoid creatures are completely different species from humans. After all, no human body has more than half of its tissues composed of pure energy.
Thor gave a rare direct answer to Lin Yi's question: "The Winged Species created by the gods, although only the most basic, are not at a level that you humans can fight against."
As it spoke, the dragon stood up, swishing its tail.
Although the treatment over the past two weeks has not been able to remove the "Sword of God" from its back, it has at least given this chaotic dragon basic mobility. However, it is still a pipe dream to think that it can escape from the encirclement of a bunch of higher species. Its current behavior is probably an instinctive act driven by the will to survive.
Just as Lin Yi made this judgment, a voice suddenly rang in his mind—not the voice of the Supreme God.
"Human, I'll lure these Skywings away in a moment. Use this time to escape."
The dragon's condescending tone revealed its anxiety, but what intrigued Lin Yi even more was its attitude.
"You want to help me?"
"...You saved me once, and I will save you once, then we'll be even."
Thor grinned as if to make a threat, but it didn't sound convincing at all.
[I'll definitely eat you up next time we meet!]
Lin Yi couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this, and under the dragon's annoyed gaze, he glanced at the progress bar on his retina, which had already reached 99.98%.
The plan has been slightly modified.
"...Hmm, do you know what I hate most?"
Thor was taken aback upon hearing this unrelated topic. Just as it was about to angrily try to use magic to send some message, a pale hand slapped its scaly body: "'The thing' was downloading to the very end when it suddenly told me there were no more 'resources'."
There was no intense flashing of magical light, nor any mysterious magic circle. The dragon, dozens of times its own size, simply vanished without a trace in an instant, as if it had never existed in this space at all. If it weren't for the remaining traces of its crushing on the ground, one might have doubted whether what they had just seen was an illusion.
"A deviation rate of 0.2% is acceptable."
Muttering to himself, Lin Yi turned his attention back to the Skywing races above him, who seemed somewhat bewildered by the sudden turn of events. With a smile, he raised his hands—
Facing those wary gazes, and with the help of her "language proficiency," she uttered three words with perfect clarity: "I surrender."
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Thor hates humans as much as she hates the endless war itself.
As a member of the Chaos Dragons, she was marked with an indelible mark from the moment she was born.
Just as even if she did not deliberately pursue power, the bloodline of the dragon would make her grow stronger over time, Thor, who was marked with the marks of "chaos" and "dragon", was destined to be unable to escape this war between "chaos" and "order".
Like every young dragon, she once attempted to use her powerful physique and magic to win victory for her race against chaos, employing simple and brutal methods—slaughter, destruction, and annihilation. And she succeeded in all of this. But strangely, the dragon who accomplished all of this found that she had not achieved any victory at all. No matter how many enemies she killed, how many cities she destroyed, or how many races she wiped out, the war between "order" and "chaos" never changed in the slightest.
Thor was puzzled, so she asked the other dragons.
When will the war end?
The dragon being questioned behaved rather strangely, as if surprised that she, as a dragon, would ask such a foolish question, but in the end she still gave an answer.
"The war will not end."
From that moment on, her surging passion cooled completely. The more fervent she had been about this war, the more weary she became of it afterward.
The dragon longed to escape this endless war, yet she was destined to be unable to flee. Her own kind would not allow her to escape, nor would her enemies. Weary of this situation, the dragon struggled to reflect on her past, her present, and her future amidst this never-ending conflict…
Her future was already decided.
When the humans found her hidden lair, the dragon did not choose to flee, but instead pretended not to know and continued to linger near the lair. As expected, the weak humans summoned a powerful god, bringing her a doomed death.
For the dragon race, the sacrifice of a giant dragon is certainly regrettable, but that's about it.
For the Chaos faction, the fall of a single piece is of little consequence.
On the contrary, Thor's death will bring about a greater change for the humans who participated in killing her, since not everyone is qualified to have the title of "Dragon Slayer".
Compared to their own kind, their enemies cared more about their lives.
In this immense irony, Thor did not resist the attack from the gods; she was killed by the enemy just like those enemies killed by dragons.
This is a war, and her future was already predetermined.
...If everything goes as usual.
A dragon's high-pitched roar echoed from the desolate forest, followed by a massive shadow that surged forth from the woods and chased after something in the distance.
Three days later, when the dragon, having exhausted its magic, returned to its lair, it caught a faint sense of familiarity above the ruins where intense magical energy still lingered.
"roar--------!!!"
P.S.: Updates have resumed normally... (The last line appears to be a fragment and doesn't translate directly.)
Crossing the Line of Faith: Chapter 365 Resetting the Account
I am dead.
Lin Yi was surprised that she had such a perception, since such a perception was impossible from the most basic premise.
Those who are alive are alive, and those who are dead are dead.
Only the living can think about the dead. If someone is dead, then all is over. It is impossible for a living person to know that they are dead, because at the moment of death, thinking itself ceases along with life.
However, this is indeed how Lin Yi perceives things at this moment.
"I am dead."
After failing to surrender to the group of Skywings, he was vaporized along with hundreds of tons of matter by a chain of large-scale magic, and died without any trace of the information.
"...But I'm not dead yet."
Raise your hand, clench it, and then release it.
The subtle warmth of the feeling clearly conveyed a reality to me: the individual named "Lin Yi" was not dead, which is why he was able to appear here and indulge in the luxury of questioning the belief that "I am dead."
The doubt did not last long.
[Information signal lost]
Like waking from a deep nightmare, Lin Yi regained his rationality, which had been briefly lost due to the shocking realization that "I am dead." The cold aura cooled his feverish consciousness, and Lin Yi issued a command to the main god.
"Statistical revenue".
[Dragon bloodline data extraction progress 100%, world rule resolution 1.81%, intelligence gathering completeness 1.55%...]
Along with the mechanical voice in my mind, a large amount of data appeared on my retina, all of which were obtained at the cost of sacrificing that information body.
Considering the energy and effort required to create that information entity, this intelligence was quite costly... However, Lin Yi was more concerned about something else.
"God, what just happened?"
The information body and the host's main body information have a high degree of overlap; all information that the information body comes into contact with will be fed back to the host's main body in real time.
"So when the information entity dies, I will also 'die' once?"
[This is an incorrect assessment. When the information signal is lost, the host body will only suffer an impact of the same amount of information; the host's own information will not undergo significant changes.]
Rubbing his temples, Lin Yi realized that the long time they had spent together was enough for him to figure out most of the "main god's" tricks. Naturally, he couldn't be as naive as before and just believe its one-sided statements: "The premise that it won't change is that I can withstand the impact of this information, right?"
Lin Yi had no doubt that if he had taken the information he received when the information body "died" as his own experience, he might have actually "died" in that way.
[...a correct judgment.]
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