Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 217: All Things Come to Life, the Gift of the Sun

Click~

Wayne moved his leg muscles slightly, and a burst of energy was released, instantly shattering the stone that had engulfed his lower body and scattering it all over the ground.

However, this man-eating stone did not "die" because of this, it was just broken into pieces. Under the somewhat shocked gaze of the young man, those small stones that were broken on the ground actually grew sharp teeth and fangs and began to bite each other.

"What is this place?"

Seeing a group of stones gnawing at each other, Wayne had to admit that he was a little arrogant before, actually telling Lao Long that he had experienced enough
Looking back now, he really didn't have much knowledge. He had never seen such a stone before.

"What is this?"

The strange things he had never seen before aroused some curiosity and temptation in the young man's heart. He stretched out his fingers and clicked repeatedly. The small stones that were devouring each other were instantly crushed into powder under the pressure of this energy, forming a thin layer.

Wayne reached out, picked up a handful of powder, and ground it finely several times. From the visual and tactile perspective, these were rock fragments powders, but he could feel a very strong and greedy will and an indescribable power remaining in these stone powders.

Click~click~
Even though they have all turned into powder, these stone powders are still merging with each other, or devouring each other, and then turning into larger stones.

Amid the numbing sounds of chewing and breaking, Wayne frowned and threw the stone in his hand down because it started to gnaw on his fingers again.

The young man didn't say anything else. He just looked around and took a tentative step forward. Nothing unusual happened. Such unusual stones seemed to be rare here.

However, the young man paused after taking just two steps, because accompanied by a gentle breeze, snow-white fluff shaped like dandelions floated towards him. Under the golden sunlight, it was a very beautiful scene.

However, having just experienced what the young man had done, how could he dare to ignore this seemingly insignificant piece of fur? He stretched out his hand and clapped it, and a gust of wind blew away the fur.

But what shocked the young man was that this palm wind, which could temporarily force back a group of golden knights, did not actually clear away the fluff. Many smaller fluffs directly passed through the wind wall and continued to float towards him.

呱～
Wayne did not take a step back, but he did not hesitate either. He reached out and grabbed a black frog that was croaking on a vine not far away and threw it into the air. Of course, he did not make any contact with it.

However, this inconspicuous tree frog, which was not even as big as a palm, engaged in the most intense confrontation the moment it came into contact with the fluff floating in the air.

The first thing that came into contact with the black frog's floating fluff instantly pierced its skin. The bright red color spread along the contact point to the entire plant. The rest of the snow-white fluff floating in the air, like sharks that smelled blood, immediately surrounded it. A snow-white fluff ball appeared in the air and fell to the ground.

The moment it fell to the ground, the snow-white color of the ball of fluff disappeared, and turned into a bloody red. The black frog could no longer be seen, as if it had been sucked dry by the floating fluff.

Gu~Gu——

Just when Wayne thought that the tree frog he threw down was just an ordinary creature and nothing special, a loud thunder exploded out of nowhere and the ground shook.

The blood-red ball of fluff exploded, and a giant frog with dragon scales on its body jumped out of it. Bright red roots and vines were entangled around its body in pieces, but it still had tenacious vitality and was growing into its flesh and blood, trying to take root and sprout in its body.

Gu~Gu——

It is obvious that in this competition of vitality, these seeds that have taken root and sprouted have already lost. Although they are still alive, they are gradually withering.

However, this is not what Wayne should care about now, because the dragon blood toad, which has revealed its true form, is staring at him hungrily.

Obviously, the big toad knew who was the guy who caused its sudden disaster. Its originally round big eyeballs gradually turned into dragon-like vertical pupils. A faint dragon aura spread along with two sharp, short and thick horns that gradually grew out of its forehead.

"..."

Wayne now knows why the admission rate of Dragon Academy is so low. He doesn't know what the admission assessment criteria of the other two Dragon Academies are, but the admission assessment requirement of Dragon Heart Academy is to survive in such a hellhole for more than a day, which is as difficult as hell.

He hadn't even taken two steps when he encountered so many dangers. An ordinary-looking tree frog had such a terrifying appearance. He didn't think this was a danger that a group of children who had not yet reached adulthood could handle.

Gu~Gu——

Faced with the furious dragon frog, Wayne chose to retreat. After all, the frog did not offend him. Instead, he caused the frog to suffer an unprovoked disaster. It was neither reasonable nor moral for him to take action.

Although this jungle is very strange and even a flower or a grain of sand is worthy of vigilance, for the Son of Hell who is already on guard, the strangeness of this jungle only adds experience to him, allowing him to see the vastness of the world and the narrowness of his own cognition.

After all, this is just an examination site set up for students, so although there are dangers everywhere, the degree of danger is limited and not to the point where people cannot survive.

There is nothing here that can pose a threat to his life. Wayne thought so after walking around for half a day with extreme vigilance.

There are vines that can control the activities of living things by splitting into offspring, explosive trees whose fruits are like bombs and can automatically track enemies, and thorny grass that can merge with living things to form some kind of wonderful symbiotic relationship... Both the plants and animals here opened Wayne's eyes, and he marveled at the wonder of the world, with so many magical animals and dangerous carnivorous plants.

Wayne observed and examined this secret jungle with a curious mentality, and this mentality ended when the young man walked out of the jungle and entered a relatively flat plain.

Because he saw a familiar race on this plain, but this race, which was so familiar to many adventurers in the wilderness and jungle, had completely changed into another appearance in the demiplane.

If Wayne had not been knowledgeable and had not seen the higher-level evolved form of this species, he might not have dared to confirm it, because that was a tribe of ogre men.

Of course, given the appearance of the members and leaders of this tribe, calling them dog-headed people is not only impolite but also inaccurate. Such misleading is enough to kill the lives of ignorant people.

In fact, the name of dog-headed man is not accurate, because the dog-headed man in the secular world is more like a lizard walking upright, and they have a thick skin.

A few kobolds will grow some very shallow scales on their foreheads and chests, which will give them a higher status in the clan tribe.

Because the dog-headed people believe that scales are a symbol of their dragon veins. Of course, this is indeed the case. Dog-headed people are indeed dragon vein creatures, but the dragon veins contained in their blood are pitifully small.

There are only a few gnolls in ten thousand who can truly awaken their dragon veins, but as long as they can awaken, they can leap up and at least become the tribal leader or tribal priest.

Once a Dragon Vein Gnoll is born, the tribe it belongs to can expand in a very short period of time, and it will be easy for the number of members to exceed one hundred, and even one thousand.

Not many adventurers dare to provoke a Gnoll Tribe of this size. Only an adventure team famous throughout the city can go and wipe them out after making sufficient preparations.

Wayne had seen a tribe of kobolds that reached a size of one hundred thousand. This size could no longer be called a tribe, but a country of kobolds. The life form of the kobold king was completely different from that of the kobold species.

Its body is tall and strong, covered with bright red dragon scales, and its thick and long tail contains amazing power. It lies on the ground like a terrain dragon... This is the advanced form of the dog-headed man after multiple consecutive evolutions, the dragon man.

This is a very rare creature in the material world, because if a dog-headed man wants to evolve into a dragon man, it is not only related to his own efforts and will. After all, the dragon veins contained in the dog-headed man, even if they are fully stimulated, are just like that. It also needs additional help, that is, to be able to bathe in the blood of a real dragon like the heroes in the legend, not be corroded by the dragon blood, withstand the toxicity of the dragon blood, and absorb the inheritance in the dragon blood, so that it can complete the transformation.

This is a one in billions case. Even Wayne, who boasted about his rich experience in front of an old dragon, has only seen this one case.

But now, Wayne saw a tribe of dragon people, a small tribe of less than a hundred people composed of dragon people with different scale colors.

When Wayne discovered this dragon tribe, this group of dragon people also discovered Wayne. Their alertness and perception were terribly high, and they would react at the slightest sign of trouble.

"Tsk."

Wayne stopped his steps out of curiosity and observed the reactions of these dragon people. It was the first time he saw such a large number of dragon people.

"Humanity?"

A tall dragon man covered in bright golden scales walked out. Its body was obviously larger than that of other dragon men. What caught Wayne's attention even more was that it had a pair of broad dragon wings behind it, which were extremely powerful and strong even when they were folded.

A winged dragon man?
This was a form he had never seen before, it was simply incredible.

"Are you a teacher at the academy?"

The dragon people's eyes were alert, but also full of desire.

"Yes."

Wayne's expression moved. He didn't expect that this identity would come in handy here.

"Are you interested in making a deal with us? We may both gain something unexpected from it."

"What do you want?"

"Weapons, armor, healing potions, no matter how many of these you have, we want them all."

The leading golden dragon man had a deep voice that contained a kind of majesty.

"So what are you going to exchange with me?"

"Of course, it's a resource that is not available outside. Even if you don't need it, you can sell it and get at least ten times the profit."

"Then come and take a look."

Although he didn't care much, Wayne was still willing to communicate with this group of dragon people just to satisfy his curiosity. As for the weapons and armor they needed, he did collect quite a few. After all, he was also a person who had formed a knighthood.

"We won't let you down."

The golden dragonman, whose head looks no different from that of a dragon, bares his fangs. Although it looks terrifying, Wayne knows that this is the look these creatures will show when they are in a good mood.

"what is this?"

Among the trading items taken out by the dragons, Wayne locked onto a crystal at a glance. It was a fist-sized ochre-colored crystal core, and inside the crystal core, a strand of gold was particularly conspicuous, a color that was brighter than the sun's light.

“This is a gift from the sun!”

The golden dragon man replied.

"Gift of the Sun?"

Wayne couldn't understand.

"As long as the weak creatures coming in from outside eat this crystal core and survive, they will be qualified to survive here."

The Golden Dragon Man gave further explanation.

"If you don't die, you can live."

Wayne still couldn't understand, because what the golden dragon man in front of him said was beyond his understanding and cognition.

The dragon leader, whose intelligence is no less than that of humans, obviously understands this.

So he waved his hand gently, and soon the dragon people drove over a group of gnolls that even ordinary adventurers could recognize.

This group of gnolls have all awakened their dragon veins. If they were placed outside in the wilderness, they could easily become leaders ruling over thousands of gnolls.

But here, this group of Dragon Vein Gnolls were avoiding eye contact and cowering timidly, like a group of livestock waiting to be slaughtered.

This is indeed the case. This group of dragon people did not regard the ogres as their own kind at all. They drove them here just to show their wares to outsiders.

"Swallow!"

The golden dragon man grabbed the crystal core containing a strand of gold, threw it to a dog-headed man, and ordered in a cold tone.

The dog-headed man who obtained the crystal core looked at the crystal core in his hand, which was called the gift of the sun. His eyes were filled with fear of death, but also with a deep desire. Then he opened his mouth as wide as possible and swallowed the crystal core in one gulp.

Bang~
The moment after the dog-headed man swallowed the crystal core, his body, which seemed thin and pitiful compared to the dragon man's three to five meters tall, suddenly swelled to a huge size. The next moment, it exploded like a balloon, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

"You, pick it up and swallow it!"

The golden dragon man had no expression on his face, as if he was used to this scene. He just stretched out his hand and continued to point at the next dog-headed man. The selected dog-headed man walked into the wreckage of his companions with a numb expression and picked up the crystal core...

(End of this chapter)