Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 485 Secret Method
Some things, once they've passed, will be pretended by both sides as if they never happened.

Don't get me wrong, the older girl just fell asleep on her "father's" lap and drooled so much that she wet his pants. When they woke up, they both pretended nothing had happened.

As for the emotions and content of those conversations, they remained only in the lounge. As for whether anything changed, both sides tacitly pretended that nothing had happened.

But in reality, the changes have already occurred, and their impact on the future cannot be ignored.
"Destiny, King, the awakened blood of the dragonborn?"

Clearly, the immense burden that Dania had placed on the kingdom's shoulders had led her to intrude upon destiny and the monarch's authority. Her first dragon utterance, "Monarch," already confirmed everything.

And some dragons, well, the descendants of the Thousand-Faced Dragon, their only characteristic is to twist fate and turn the impossible into the possible.

It was Rean's arrival that led to her gaining access to the Dragon's Word, which also meant that her bloodline had fully awakened, the Wheel of Fate of the Thousand-Faced Dragon had awakened, and she had sensed the possibility of another timeline.

"Disaster comes not only from underground, but also from otherworldly demons."

However, these things put even more pressure on her.

In another timeline, after the fall of her kingdom, she only lingered on for three to five years. As the bearer of the legacy of the Etherin people and a great sinner, she lived a hellish life every day, but in doing so, she obtained more information about the "future".

"The ocean is not safe either."

Marine life is never simpler than terrestrial life, and those marine creatures and species will inevitably enter the fray sooner or later.

"In my dream, I saw two main types: one was 'beasts,' beasts from the ocean, and the other was a fish-man-like alien race that made all coastal areas extremely unsafe."

This secret, or rather, this prophecy, was something Dania only dared to tell Rean.

Once those outside "investors" find out, they will probably immediately stay away from the ocean city.

These kinds of ominous news about the future put a lot of pressure on Dania. She knew the ocean was a huge pitfall, but now she had to pretend not to know and even use it as a selling point to attract business.

"Moreover, as time goes by, the underground ruins will also exhibit unusual activity, and at the same time, our beast-human race will experience physical and mental mutations, which will begin to erode our souls."

Is there a way to mitigate this change?

He wasn't surprised that Rean had mentioned the snake.

"Yes, kill."

"Kill? Kill whom?"

“Killing cultists, those fanatical followers of the Beast Order will become nodes for its spiritual tendrils. Also, killing a large number of monsters in the underground ruins will drain the beast’s power and cause the underground ruins to produce more monsters.”

It's truly an unsolvable cycle: the more you kill, the more lives you have, but there seems to be no other way.

Dania's "prophetic" abilities may become a guiding asset for the future, while also making her noticeably more mature and rational.
"Higher-level prey are more valuable, especially giant beasts and dragons, as they consume more of its primal power."

This seems to have given Rean a great deal of potential.

But after thinking it over, Rean shook his head. There were three giant beasts that had been identified so far, and none of them could be dealt with easily.

The strongest one should be the queen of the colossal Shadow Spiders, but if you touch it, who knows how many offspring will emerge? Moreover, it has become the foundation of the local food chain, so the druids advise against touching it.

Moreover, the Mirror Woman is trying to tame it into a divine beast. If she really kills it, the Dark Elves might turn against her.

The other one is a Super-tier Greymon, which is incredibly strong, so strong that I don't even want to fight it.

Finally, the weakest point is that it's a black dragon spawned from a single catalytic reaction.

Although it is a true dragon, it seems that it has only been catalyzed for a few decades. Dragons take eighty years to reach adulthood and become young dragons. True dragons generally become stronger as they get older. Even if it was already a quasi-young dragon when it was first catalyzed, it was still only at the strength of an ordinary young dragon at that time.

Its intelligence, its spells, its cunning, its weapons and equipment all require time to accumulate. The strength of these black dragons should be far lower than that of the sapphire dragon that Rean encountered. You'll know once you've actually fought one. A true dragon's stats are only part of its powerful combat strength. Its tactics, cunning, trump cards, and even terrain-based attacks that match its basic abilities are what's most deadly.

If it's a completely naive young black dragon, a team of a top-tier professional could give it a try.

"Should we attack the Black Dragon?"

"The previous assessment was actually a bit off. The black dragons didn't come from one nest, but from two nests, at least seven in total. Adding those that are still hidden, the number could exceed double digits." At this moment, Rean was completely stunned.

No wonder several black dragons were kicked out of this ruin. There are just too many of these. True dragons are not something you can just pick up anywhere. Once they gather together, are they even comparable to a fighter jet or a squadron of fighter jets?
"So there aren't any suitable prey?"

Find any wrecked dragon and use it to entrap those troublesome lawbreakers.

“They’re not stupid. If you don’t put enough pressure on them, why would they give it to me for free? Maybe there’s a way.”

Dania hesitated halfway through her sentence.

After thinking for a moment, she bit her red lips so hard that her silver teeth left marks, but she still made up her mind.

"Actually, there's another underlying rule in the underground ruins: to a certain extent, it can designate the incubation of specific types of monsters."

How did you know?

Rean understood and knew why she was so hesitant.

This information comes from a dream, and it can be verified.

If you don't take a prediction seriously, you can treat it as a dream. Even if you prepare for it, you should do so with the mindset of having a response if it happens.

However, if the "secret method" in the dream is verified in reality, it undoubtedly proves that the nightmare scenes are all real, and that all the misfortunes and one's incompetent future are all real.

Rean could laugh it off and pretend he didn't know, or he could gloss over it and comfort him that it was just a nightmare.

"Don't worry, your destiny has changed."

The time for weakness is over. Dania is not a weak person; she has already faced what she needed to face.

"really."

"Changing our destiny is our innate ability, so even in dire straits, please do not give up."

The calm words were an overly cruel pronouncement, but Rean knew that Dania could understand and accept them.

"Snapped!"

But his foot was stepped on hard by a heel.

"You don't even know how to comfort me!"

But seeing the girl's face turn red with anger, Rean knew that everything should be alright.

"Okay, okay, sorry, but what exactly is the method?" Rean, pretending to be in a lot of pain, was actually quite curious about how it worked.

"This place, which should have been discovered more than six months later, is the birthplace of extremely powerful monsters and is often a gathering point for life in underground ruins."

Underground ruins often have special areas where "life force" is particularly concentrated, and based on practical experience, these are areas where powerful monsters are about to be born.

From the perspective of elemental theory, it is actually an underground seal that extracts the life force of the beast and forcibly releases it to the node of an external object.

However, this process is not immune to interference.

If discovered in advance, "special materials" can be planted within them to some extent to interfere with the type of powerful monster that is born. Many such gathering points have been discovered so far, but often, even with strong defenses, they cannot be utilized.

"Putting in a minotaur's horn might create a minotaur king. That thing has a very high life level, but it's one of the easiest monsters to deal with among monsters of the same level. Some people have experimented with it a lot and created some particularly valuable materials."

After some thought, Rean came up with a bold hypothesis.

Some monsters are almost impossible to encounter in the main plane, and the market value of their materials has long exceeded their attribute value.

"By the way, if I put in 'Dragon' and 'Crystal', will a Crystal Dragon appear?"

(End of this chapter)