Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 727 The Xeno'jiiva Dragon and the Book of Sacrifice

According to the rules of soul sacrifice, sacrificing vital organs will cause permanent damage to the body, and this applies to mutated monsters as well.

As a creature that makes a living in the Miasma Canyon, the Odogaron has poor eyesight and relies mainly on its sense of smell and perception to survive. However, for some unknown reason, it chose to leap upwards after smelling the scent of the Wind Wyvern, and then "flew" out of the canyon as if a bug had been exploited, arriving at the Coral Highlands, where it saw sunlight for the first time in its life.

The sunlight was blinding, yet it also gave the Odogaron a unique warmth, which aroused its strong desire to see things. As a result, its soul responded, and a mutated back bulge with numerous eyeballs appeared.

However, precisely because this is an extra organ that has mutated, its importance to the survival of the Odogaron is not high, so its value as a sacrifice is relatively low.

The more irreplaceable and non-renewable a resource is, the stronger its power when sacrificed, and vice versa.

If a human were to sacrifice their eyeball, one eyeball could summon dozens, or even more, eye demons at once. However, this mutated Odogaron could only summon an equal number of eye demons as its own eyeballs, and its petrifying magic bullets were also relatively weak in terms of power.

With the sacrifice of these eyeballs, the Odogaron was completely blinded. Moreover, its aura perception and evasion abilities were inevitably halved.

At the same time, the demonic missiles released by its eye demon swarm, except for the first one that hit the dragon hunter, were all blocked by the protective barrier and converted into Cheng Tian's mana regeneration rate.

They achieved almost no results and instead weakened their overall strength.

However, its act of sacrifice seemed to be a signal, and a group of mutated monsters began to offer various parts of their bodies as sacrifices, starting their frenzied offering.

The mutated fire dragon, which had morphed into a second head and was hovering in the air, suddenly burst into flames like a ghost rider. Every inch of skin, from head to toe, was consumed by the fire.

Forbidden Technique! Salamander!
By sacrificing your skin, you can summon a fire spirit (demon) that burns both the enemy and yourself!
However, this male Rathalos clearly has some issues with its brain. This forbidden technique is indeed powerful, and the resulting fire damage can easily burn humans with little fire resistance to death... but your wing membranes are just as vulnerable to burning, aren't they?

When the flames burst forth from within and burned through the Rathalos's wings, the leaky wings caused it to fall directly from mid-air, crashing into the mutated Rathalos, which was also sacrificing its mutated organs.

This mutated Thunderjaw Dragon must have felt inferior about its short arms. Its mutated arms were ugly, but long and large enough. Instead, it sacrificed its finger bones, transforming them into ten enormous bone chains that coiled around the melee hunters.

Forbidden Technique! Gleipnir!

Just as the blood-and-flesh finger bone chains had restrained the three hunters, the mutated Rathalos, engulfed in flames that refused to be extinguished, came into close contact with the mutated Anjanath. The terrifying flames, indiscriminate in their attack, burned the Rathalos, causing it to howl in agony.

It seems that while mutation and sacrifice increase the strength of beasts, they also damage their brains to some extent. The abilities gained from sacrifice are not weak, but they are clearly not used properly.

However, Cheng Tian noticed that every time these monsters sacrificed a part of themselves, gray magic would flow to the Netherworld Dragon.

It seems that the source of all the soul sacrifices has already merged with the juvenile form inside the egg, and who knows what kind of monster it might mutate into.

"Everyone! No sacrificial abilities are allowed! Not even redemption or sacrifice!"

Cheng Tian's voice echoed in the minds of everyone present.

Although everyone was somewhat confused, they suppressed their thoughts and actions regarding using the offerings, since Cheng Tian hadn't made a mistake so far. The surge in combat power caused by the mutated monsters' use of sacrifice was ultimately offset by the barrier, aura, shield, and wide-area recovery. Once the effects of the sacrifice wore off, their strength inevitably decreased sharply.

The Odogaron that sacrifices its eyeballs has its evasion ability halved, while the Rathalos that sacrifices its skin has its physical defense halved and its body abnormally sensitive.

With ample milk available from humans, sacrifices ironically became an accelerator for their deaths.

In the end, only two units remained in the mutated monster horde: a mutated golden lion and a mutated dragon-slaying monster.

More accurately, it should be described as a living, mutated golden lion, holding in its hand the Dragon Slayer Spine Sword, which was transformed from the entire spine and tail of the Dragon Slayer!

The hunters were already quite experienced, but when they witnessed Rajang forcefully pull the blood-stained Dragonslayer Spine Sword out of the Dragonslayer's mouth, the incredibly saccharine scene still made many of them feel physically uncomfortable.

The mutated golden lion, carrying the Dragon Slayer Spine Sword, roared loudly. Although it had never used any weapon before, its companion's spine was unusually easy to handle.

However, before it could even demonstrate its wild swordsmanship to everyone, the egg embedded in the dragon crystal not far away emitted an extreme radiance.

Ka La~
The dragon egg crystal shattered, and a blazing blue laser beam shot out from within, striking the mutated golden lion squarely!
However, no one on the human side paid any attention to the golden lion carrying the sword, because there was more than one laser beam erupting from the dragon egg crystal!
With a deafening roar, a large number of dragon crystals began to crumble and scatter, bombarding Cheng Tian's barrier. At the same time, the ground trembled, causing even the hunters with the tremor resistance buff to shake.

A viscous sound, like mucus dripping onto the ground, appeared. A dragon's head with multiple red eyes emerged upside down from the soft dragon crystal tissue. In a seemingly slight but actually powerful struggle, its entire body landed on the ground.

He pressed the already dying dragon and the wounded golden lion under his body, squeezing out all the bodily fluids from their bodies.

When it flipped itself up from the ground with a flexibility and agility that was completely unlike that of a newborn, and spread its huge wings while shaking off the slime and blood clots it was covered in, Cheng Tian finally got a real glimpse of its full appearance.

This is the being that has already begun to display the aura of the Ancient Dragon King, the true culprit behind the Ancient Dragon Crossing, the Netherworld Dragon.

However, Cheng Tian's gaze was focused on the wide-open mouth of the Netherworld Dragon.

In a fleeting glimpse, Cheng Tian spotted a peculiar object deep within the throat of the Netherworld Lamp Dragon—

A rough and strange hardcover book with two disordered eyeballs of different sizes and a lipless mouth forming the cover.

　P.S.: I'm going to change the name of this book. If all goes well, it should be called "Infinite Evolution: Game Master? We're Saved".

　　The idea is to change the name to try and ride the wave of traffic from the "infinite flow" genre, hoping to get a chance to be recommended, while keeping everything else the same.

(End of this chapter)