Chapter 281
When it comes to strength, the ancient dragons, renowned for their individual might, are undoubtedly the pinnacle of the Divine Realm continent. Not to mention Ottofis, who has ascended to the status of Dragon King. Even during the era of the former rulers, the Lich King Lori, when facing a fully unleashed dragon, could only retreat from its brilliance.
However, Ottofis was still burdened by the insidious ‘Great Annihilation’ that weakened his power. After Lori lifted the curse, his strength surged once more, no longer hindered by the environment. The scales of victory had begun to tip.
“No one can stop me, dragon! I personally brought down the City of the Sky back in the day, and today, you will fall by my hand as well!”
Lori extended his hand to the side, beginning to pry open the surrounding laws of light that filled the space, summoning the radiant artifact, the Sword of the Hanging Peak, intending to strike Ottofis head-on with a thunderous blow.
The weak demigod who had entered the treasure vault, the trickle of cursed power that flowed into the vault, and the suddenly jubilant dragon all made Lori uneasy. He needed to rush into the vault to uncover what was happening. If Na’ao succeeded in resurrecting today, he would have to fight to the death.
“Roar!” Ottofis let out a pained cry.
Before the Sword of the Hanging Peak could fully materialize in Lori’s hand, the pure white power of the laws began to penetrate the layers of spatial folds, pressing toward Ottofis’s dragon form. Of course, at this moment, the greatest damage still came from those black cracks.
The dragon’s skin, which boasted high resistance to both physical and magical attacks, cracked helplessly in the face of these fissures, droplets of golden-red blood falling, only to be quickly dissolved by the surrounding laws of light.
Ottofis continued to struggle valiantly, but everyone knew he was now powerless to resist. If Lori’s Sword of the Hanging Peak struck him again, he would surely perish here.
Even as Lori remained tense about the changes within the vault, even though he had once personally brought down the dragon’s lair, the City of the Sky, he couldn’t help but feel a surge of pride and satisfaction.
‘I am about to conquer the ancient dragon!’
This thought took shape in Lori’s mind as the Sword of the Hanging Peak slowly coalesced.
However, in the next moment, a familiar figure appeared above the dragon’s head in a way that Lori couldn’t perceive, as if through spatial teleportation, yet without any magical fluctuations.
Especially since this area was filled with the power of the laws of light, which had a connection to Lori, he didn’t sense the power fluctuations brought by the other’s arrival at all.
[Do you wish to bind the mount ‘Space Dragon’ Ottofis Lierde Lorn?]
[Yes]
“Roar…”
At the moment Ye Bai confirmed her choice, a triumphant roar erupted from Ottofis. At the same time, the black cracks of annihilation that had been slowly spreading upward suddenly halted, then simply faded away, vanishing without a trace.
If it weren’t for the wounds on the dragon’s body slowly healing, one might doubt that it had ever existed.
“Success.” Ye Bai breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
The state of the donkey that had once become Ye Bai’s mount was merely a part of Ottofis. Essentially, it was data that had been ‘compressed’ by Na’ao’s curse. When the true information of the Dragon King unfolded, it would immediately trigger the data auto-clearance program.
Once the data clearance program began running, even Ye Bai couldn’t stop it through the console.
So, Ye Bai used another new method to solve this problem—after she regained her identity as the God King and game administrator, she re-bound her relationship with Ottofis.
The top priority of the game is always player data.
Thus, the clearance program recognized Ottofis as important data and immediately removed him from the clearance list.
When Ye Bai entered the Divine Realm, perhaps due to the game not being in open beta, even as an administrator, she couldn’t use the relationship binding system. Kraken and Ottofis had a substantial relationship, but it wasn’t displayed in the game system.
Back then, when Ye Bai found Kraken, she even attempted to temporarily write a pet system in the console. However, due to the limited capabilities, what she created was the ‘rough and crude’ pet system she later encountered.
However, the pet system she wrote back then couldn’t be used; instead, it was realized in Ye Bai’s form thousands of years later, and the mount system was the same.
“How is this possible?! How could it be you?!”
This sudden change caught Lori off guard. Ye Bai’s appearance not only made the ‘Annihilation’ fade away but also allowed the suddenly liberated Ottofis to break free from the surrounding laws of light.
Then, Lori stared intently at Ye Bai, who stood atop Ottofis, as the Sword of the Hanging Peak he was gathering came to a halt: “You, how could you… Na’ao?!”
Clearly, the curse had been lifted, so why did the one emerging from the vault not be the Na’ao he expected to resurrect?
Lori keenly sensed that, despite Ye Bai appearing unchanged, something unusual had occurred. Compared to before, she now exuded an indescribable aura of authority and pressure…
In the next moment, in the void beside Ye Bai, a line was drawn out of nowhere, and then a slender hand reached out from the line, as if lifting a veil of reality.
A figure clad in a long robe, with silver hair and black eyes, the strongest curse master appeared in the standard manner of the Spirit Race, standing a step in front of Ye Bai in the void, his posture skilled and natural, as if this position had always belonged to him.
Of course, Na’ao’s feet were suspended in the air, maintaining a distance from the dragon’s head.
Even though Ottofis was lively and easygoing among ancient dragons, having often used spatial power to grab snacks from Ye Bai’s backpack, a dragon is still a dragon. In this world, aside from the true God King, no one could make a proud dragon into a mount.
“Lori, you’re truly fortunate to be the first in this era to meet the God King,” Na’ao said, addressing Lori, who had harbored hatred for him for countless years.
What?!
Lori’s eyes widened. His gaze passed over Na’ao, landing on the figure behind him. The content of the allegorical scroll began to clash violently in his mind, as the giant figure in the scroll started to overlap with Ye Bai, who stood atop the dragon…
“No! Impossible!”
In the next moment, Lori’s eyes turned crimson as he suddenly tore apart the allegorical scroll that had emerged in his mind. Consumed by boundless rage and unwillingness, he unleashed his strongest power at that moment.
“I have been the protagonist of this era since the sealing age! I am the strongest born of the human race! I have annihilated the dragon race, living for ten thousand years until now, wielding the sacred brilliance… I should be the God King!”
With each word he spoke, Lori’s momentum and power grew stronger. The trajectory of his life flashed through his mind, and his state of mind reached its peak. He knew he was about to unleash the strongest strike of his life.
His target: the figure atop the dragon!
“Sword of the Hanging Peak!”
Lori opened his right hand, welcoming the arrival of the Sword of the Hanging Peak.
Among the top races in the Divine Realm, humans appeared to be the most comprehensive, or perhaps the least distinctive. In terms of knowledge, they fell short of the Spirits; in artistic achievement, they were outdone by the Elves; in reproductive capability, they lagged behind the Abyss; in recovery ability, they were inferior to the Deep Sea. Even in terms of individual strength among the Light Awakeners, they were not as strong as dragons.
The only point that set them apart from other top races was their unique ‘Hero’ attribute. In the collective consciousness of humanity, the most anticipated Light Awakener possessed the strongest explosive power among all races, often capable of achieving miracles by overcoming the odds.
Thus, ordinary human bloodline awakeners were not as powerful as the strong from other races. However, when they became the kings that humanity aspired to, their strength would rapidly expand.
Back in the day, Lori was the most promising Light Awakener among humans during the ‘Sealing Era’ initiated by Na’ao, one of the legendary figures of that time, just a step away from truly becoming the king of humanity. He was already able to summon the Sword of the Hanging Peak, though he couldn’t unleash its full power.
Na’ao had traveled among the races and found Lori when he came to the human realm, proposing that he disperse the gradually accumulating light blood within him to ensure the continuation of humanity and other races. However, this request was naturally seen by Lori as an excuse to block his path to ultimate strength.
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