It's time to become an evil god.

Splash!

The sound of rushing water came from the lake, as if something was disturbing the calm water. Ripples spread outwards to the shore, washing over the rocks and dead trees.

Then Bai Ge vaguely saw a huge black shadow, like a small mountain, appear in the middle of the lake. However, the shadow only showed its head before silently diving back into the depths of the lake.

Ding dong.

The system's task notification sounded in my ears.

[Congratulations, host, for triggering the final trial mission: Dreamland Story]

[Objective: Seize the power of the Outer Gods and the Old Gods, and crush the Dream Realm]

[Hint 1: More than thirty players have entered the final Dreamland storyline.]

[Hint 2: Each player has a piece of the puzzle. Once you collect all four pieces, you can ask the Evolution Game a question about the Dreamland (please ask a question related to the value of the information; don't waste your chance)]

[Tip 3: You cannot die in the Dream Realm; you will be resurrected after death]

[Tip 4: Try to dig into the background of the Dreamland and search for information.]

"By seizing the power of the ancient gods and gaining immortality, the one who plunders the most divine power in the end will be the winner. However, this evolution game does not intend to eliminate the losing players."

Bai Ge walked towards the outline of the town in the distance. As soon as he stepped into the woods, he could feel a pervasive killing intent that warned strangers not to enter.

"Stop hiding it, come out."

This time, the system did not block the player's use of items. Several invisible fishing lines emerged from between Bai Ge's fingernails, spreading outwards. Like a spider weaving its web, it explored the depths of the forest.

Click.

He heard the sound of a dry branch breaking underfoot behind him, and Bai Ge quickly turned around to see Nidhogg standing behind him, leaning on his cane, waving at Bai Ge. "We meet again, Mr. Bai."

"It's you, you old geezer."

Bai Ge frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

“Almost all the old folks who are involved in mythology know about the existence of the Dreamland.”

Nidhogg explained, "And as the meeting place of all life, it is perfectly normal for me to be here. On the contrary, your appearance confirms my deepest suspicions."

"guess?"

Bai Ge asked curiously, "You've been playing the riddle game from the very beginning. Tell me, what exactly is this conjecture you're talking about?"

"Hey hey hey."

Nidhogg said with a sneer, "My guess is about the secret of the evolution game bug."

Chapter 562 Descendants of the Dragon

Bai Ge originally wanted to ask a silly question like whether the gods' designs could also have bugs, but considering the fate of the old god Nordens, Bai Ge felt that it was indeed because the evolution game had mastered some kind of incredible power and began to break free from the old gods' shackles.

The old man, leaning on his cane, slowly approached Bai Ge. Even high-level players would never have imagined that a seemingly harmless and ordinary old man was a powerful figure comparable to a god.

"You've probably heard before that gods can't directly invade the Earth, otherwise humanity would have perished thousands of times over. The barrier that prevents gods from invading is the Evolution Game—or rather, it wasn't initially a functioning system, but simply a barrier to prevent the invasion of outer gods, similar to the concept of 'severing the connection between heaven and earth' in Eastern mythology. However, after the Old God Nordens discovered the secret of the barrier, he persuaded the other Old Gods to transform it into a system for selecting suitable candidates. Of course, they didn't intend to support new gods, but rather to use those humans who had absorbed some of the power of the outer gods as reserve food."

"However, the Old Gods' wishful thinking failed, and the Outer Gods found a hidden loophole in the barrier and invaded the Earth's interior. This part of history is also recorded in the myths of various countries, such as Noah's Ark, Nuwa patching up the sky, and Ragnarok."

Bai Ge asked in confusion, "Wait, does that mean the World Tree wasn't destroyed in the war between the frost giants and the Norse gods?"

"That's just the Old Gods altering human memories."

Nidhogg turned his neck and said lazily, "I was a witness to the destruction of the World Tree."

"And now, the evolution game has a bigger plan."

"He has self-awareness and wants to expel, no, to destroy all the old gods and outer gods."

Bai Ge already had a guess in his heart, but when he heard the news from Nidhogg, he was still extremely shocked.

If this is the case, not only human history, but even the history of gods will be rewritten.

"How do you know all this?"

Bai Ge didn't believe the other party and said, "So what exactly are you? A legendary mythical dragon?"

"hey-hey."

A sly glint appeared in Nidhogg's eyes, but it quickly faded.

"I come from another dimension unknown to humankind, just like some demons that exist on Earth, except that it is a world that is gradually collapsing."

Bai Ge whispered, "A world that is gradually collapsing?"

"In the beginning, the whole world consisted only of dragons and death. All our differences—cold and hot, light and dark, life and death—were born from the first flame. In the end, they disappeared when the flame went out. Although countless gods tried to continue that light, it would eventually go out. Later, everything was in despair, the world became ashes, and I was just a dragon that survived the old era, barely escaping that world and clinging to life."

"The golden age of dragons has passed, and Nidhogg is now merely a witness to history."

At this point, Nidhogg slowly took off his old, worn ring and handed it to Bai Ge, saying solemnly, "The Nibelungen Ring."

Bai Ge was taken aback for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?"

"The person who wears the ring can summon the will of the dragon soul. Even if the dragon does not exist in the real world, but exists in fantasy, as long as his will is strong enough, he can still summon it."

Bai Ge carefully took the ring, and the bound item attributes were immediately displayed on it.

Name: The Ring of the Nibelung

[Quality: Unable to determine]

[Special Effect: Requires level 35 or above, Spirit Vision value 100 or above, and the user must be bound to a contract with a surviving dragon. Theoretically, as long as the user has enough spiritual power, any mythical dragon species can be summoned without limit.]

[Postscript: Theoretically speaking, even a dragon from the Guan family can be considered a dragon.]

After removing the ring, the old man began to cough violently, and fine black scales began to appear on his exposed skin, each scale bearing the mark of runes.

tear.

Then, the old man's clothes burst open at the back, revealing a pair of tattered wings. Simultaneously, his body began to change, crackling like bamboo popping in a fire. A tail covered in barbs even grew from his back. His skin began to peel away, revealing black scales and golden vertical pupils. Horns sprouted from his head, and his body continued to expand, transforming in just a few seconds from a gaunt old man into a massive, terrifying, black dragon.

The jet-black dragon let out a terrifying roar, startling the flock of birds that had been resting around the lake, which flapped their wings and flew away into the distance.

In an instant, a dense swarm of birds covered the gloomy sky.

Nidhogg, now fully transformed into a dragon, flapped its wings, seemingly startling the monster lurking at the bottom of the lake. Bai Ge saw the enormous shadow of the creature at the bottom of the lake grow larger and larger. However, it stopped only at the surface of the water, seemingly hesitant and unwilling to make a move from across the water.

"You've been hiding for so long, it's time for you to come out."

The old, slow voice echoed through the mountains and valleys, deafeningly loud.

Nidhogg's gaze was fixed on a grove of trees not far away, and he exhaled hot white breath from his nostrils.

"Don't be so nervous, it's just a dragon. I have a powerful dragon slayer hidden in my deck."

A guy with a very strange hairstyle emerged from the woods. He stared at Bai Ge in front of him, a cold smile playing on his lips.

"It's you? Aren't you from the Special Affairs Bureau?"

"It was alright before entering the dungeon."

Yuju Hoshino replied, "You should also know that this is a battle royale-style mission. The purpose is to select the strongest group of players from among us. If you still care about brotherhood, you are destined to be eliminated."

After saying that, Yuju Hoshino pulled out three puzzle pieces from his condom and waved them in front of Shiroka.

“I know you have clues to fragments of memory, so…”

Yuju Hoshino raised the Duel Disk in his hand and said, word by word, "Although I maintained a cooperative relationship with the Special Affairs Bureau before, I no longer need to worry about this relationship after the dungeon enters its later stages. Besides, I have not yet tried to challenge the God of Victory."

Bai Ge took a step back and assumed a defensive stance.

Yuju Hoshino coldly replied, "I'd like to see whether your God-Slaying Spear, Aeus, is more powerful, or my Annihilation Spear King is stronger!"

Chapter 563 This is not a duel at all

"I have a bad feeling."

Although he didn't know what the other party was going to summon, Bai Ge could clearly sense that something was wrong, and shook his head, saying, "I don't want to duel with you."

"No, I will not allow you to refuse the duel invitation."

Yuju Hoshino raised his head, looking at the other party with a serious expression, and said word by word, "I just want to prove one thing to everyone: even if you are a god or a saint, I still dare to slay a god. Along the way, I have seen powerful monsters in various dungeons, but these monsters are not powerful enough. I need even more powerful monsters to prove myself."

He reached out his hands, which were already stained with blood, and the look in his eyes gradually turned crazed.

"After arriving at this instance, the string that had been pulling my rationality like a kite in my mind finally snapped."

Yu Shisei Masa raised his head and said, "At first, I was worried about why the monsters I encountered weren't strong enough. But then I realized, why do we have to fight monsters? Aren't those gods, saints, and players better prey? As long as I'm the only one who survives the dungeon, whether it's players, ancient gods, or outer gods, I will make everyone understand that even the most powerful gods are just dungeon bosses."

Nidhogg flapped its wings, opened its blood-red maw, and a dark aura that corroded everything spewed from the depths of its mouth. Yuu Hoshino frowned; this was his battle with Hakuka, and he didn't want a third person to interfere. He closed his eyes, and the HP value on his Duel Disk instantly dropped by 2000. Unlike card draws in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yuu Hoshino's card draw came at the cost of his lifespan—a true testament to his lifespan.

In the previous dungeons, he tried his best to suppress and minimize the use of the Duel Disk's power. Except for the last dungeon where he used the power of the Astral Dragon to destroy the entire simulated Earth dungeon world when he killed the sleeping Star Familiar, he finally completed the mission.

Now, facing Nidhogg, Yuu Hoshima drew Dragon Destroyer Swordsman. He held the monster card between two fingers and slammed it onto the Duel Disk.

"Stop him, Dragon Destroyer Swordsman!"

As the projection appeared, a blue and white armored warrior wielding a dragon-scale longsword leaped up and charged toward Nidhogg with a low roar. At this moment, the decaying aura of the dead released by Nidhogg sprayed all over the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman. The black mist, which was said to be able to corrode everything, was sprayed onto the blade of the Destroyer Swordsman but simply dispersed, without even a trace of corrosion on the surface.

"How could that be?"

Nidhogg was seeing a weapon that even the deadly fog couldn't penetrate for the first time. He flapped his wings to gain altitude, preparing to attack from above. Just then, a black, wriggling tentacle suddenly emerged from beneath the fog-shrouded lake and wrapped around Nidhogg's tail.

The slender tentacles couldn't restrain Nidhogg's massive body, but they bought the Dragon Destroyer behind him a second to appear in front of Nidhogg.

Above the lake, two eyes filled with resentment were fixed on the giant dragon in the sky. It was a huge water lizard covered with tentacles. When the Dragon Destroyer appeared in front of Nidhogg, it instantly released its tentacles and sank back into the bottomless lake.

Boom!

The massive dragon, its wings severed, crashed onto the mountain peak. The dark dragon roared in pain as its broken wings fell into the lake, splashing water everywhere and drenching Bai Ge and Yu Juxingma.

The two stood still, motionless.

"That dragon looks badly injured. If we don't get there soon, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman might cut off its head."

However, Bai Ge stood still, motionless.

The Dragon Destroyer Swordsman, gripping the Dragon Slayer Sword tightly in both hands, leaped down from mid-air, ready to kill Bai Ge.

In the next instant, a spear descended from the sky and pierced the Dragon Destroyer's chest, pinning him to the lake surface.

The Dragon Destroyer Swordsman, gripping the spear with both hands, struggled a few times before collapsing to the ground, and finally the painting vanished with a shattered ray of light.

Yujusei Masaya raised his head. The huge mecha Gundam floated in the sky, its vector jet engine keeping its massive body suspended in mid-air. Meanwhile, the God Destroyer Thunder Cannon was constantly gathering power in his palm, its target being Yujusei Masaya in front of him.