I, the anti-superman, have hacked into the chat group.

The young dragon proudly declared, "Are you truly unaware or feigning ignorance? Gods and mortals are not the same. After we use our MA energy, it will generate a feedback effect on the planet. We are the natural rulers of planets, and this is true for all life-bearing planets."

Simply put, one is sustainable development and the other is unsustainable development. This is how Karl understood it, and he also roughly understood the behavior pattern of the dragons.

The dragon race is probably searching for life-bearing planets all over the universe for energy, and then claiming them as their own. They may not necessarily rule them, but they will definitely declare sovereignty. Even on planets they basically abandoned, they left Little Black as a god. It's just that Little Black traded the planet to an evil god as a toy in order to save the world.

Long ago, they found the planet where the Demon King lived and intended to occupy it as usual. However, they discovered that humans were extracting energy from it. They wanted to attack humans, but an angel was protecting them. Unable to defeat the angel, they had no choice but to steal the energy and run away, completely disregarding the fate of the planet and the humans.

The evil god previously said they were like cockroaches, probably referring to the fact that dragons, like cockroaches, can be found in any room (planet) they move to.

“In the end, that energy didn’t belong to you. You weren’t there to help go to that planet. Instead, you caused it to be destroyed prematurely. So give the energy back,” Karl said, extending his hand.

"You're provoking the dragons' wrath!" The young dragon was no longer willing to reason. In his mind, only dragons were worthy of using MA energy. Since Karl didn't acknowledge the dragons' rights, there was nothing more to say.

“You can interpret it however you like, but you must return the energy,” Karl said firmly.

The air was thick with tension. The young dragon was already getting restless, but this time the older dragon didn't stop him. A battle was about to break out.

"Regret your actions now." The dragon conjured a spear with magic and hurled it at Karl. The attack was simple and unadorned, but it contained enormous energy, worth at least a million units if converted to the system's values.

Karl neither dodged nor evaded; when the spear was almost upon him, he slapped it to pieces with a backhand, the whole process effortless and casual.

Is this all there is to it?

"Tch, don't get cocky, I haven't even used my real skills yet."

The dragon flew towards Karl, simultaneously constructing a massive magic circle with a radius of 100 meters, from which magical spears identical to those from before continuously emerged.

Karl initially tried to block with his hands, but later ignored it completely, letting the magic be scattered by his body. He then watched the dragon charging towards him, ready to punch.

"True Dragon..." Just as the dragon closed in and was about to activate the True Dragon Barrier, Karl rushed forward and punched him hard in the face. The power that could easily move the moon was poured into the dragon's face, knocking back the words he was about to say.

At the same time, his body was sent flying, retreating at a much faster speed than when he flew over. Halfway through his flight, his body emitted a white light, and then his entire body transformed into a majestic dragon with wings on its back.

However, the dragon's lower jaw was abnormally tilted to the right by sixty degrees, and blood was seeping from its face. Its eyes were lifeless, and it had clearly lost consciousness. At this moment, it was still falling into the planet.

An older dragon quickly caught the young dragon, who had been forced back to his original form, preventing him from crashing onto the planet's surface like a meteorite.

He used his healing magic to barely pry the young dragon's jaw back into place, and then, like the other dragons, glared angrily at Karl.

This time, apart from the Dragon King, all the other dragons charged towards him.

"True Dragon Barrier!"

They cooperated to unleash a massive True Dragon Barrier, within which any magical or physical attack other than theirs would be neutralized—a technique the True Dragon race was most proud of.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Magic Immunity

In this world, the so-called gods are actually special beings whose energy is unimaginable to other creatures. Without energy, a god would not be a god.

Gods can crush ordinary beings with energy, but this won't work if the opponent is also a god. Under such circumstances, gods begin to use magic to unleash greater power from the same amount of energy.

Then everyone started studying magic, hoping to invent magic that was more powerful than that of other gods.

At this point, the dragons had a new idea: since everyone relies on magic to fight, why not develop a magic that can interfere with other people's magic?

This idea was put into practice by the dragon race. After countless arduous efforts, a super magic that could simultaneously interfere with physics and magic was born, which is the current True Dragon Barrier.

The dragon race spent countless hours developing the True Dragon Barrier, which is indeed commendable.

Karl had intended to use his thermal vision to attack, but the light began to decay rapidly once it left his eyes. By the time it hit the dragons, it had done little damage and couldn't penetrate their scales. Karl was somewhat disappointed.

However, the dragons found this phenomenon utterly incomprehensible. This was a true dragon barrier, released by the combined efforts of all the high-ranking dragons. The enemy should have been completely powerless to resist, unable even to fly.

But the current situation is that the other side is still flying in space perfectly fine, unaffected, and can even use energy to attack. Even after being weakened by such a powerful barrier, their dragon scales were almost burned through. This is absolutely unreasonable.

Seeing that his thermal vision would be weakened, Karl did not choose to continue increasing his power and fighting the barrier head-on. Instead, he charged directly towards the dragon horde. He had fully understood this True Dragon Barrier and it was indeed a wonderful magic.

Unfortunately, even if its original purpose was to interfere with the operation of magic, it is still just magic, and Karl himself did not know how high his magic resistance was.

Anyway, he's been through a lot of battles by now. He's encountered physical attacks that can hurt him, but no magical attacks have ever affected him. Fighting him with magical power would be a foolish thing to do.

Seeing Karl charging over, the dragon heads hurriedly deployed magical shields, but it was useless. These shields were practically made of paper in front of Karl, and could not play any role at all. Once he got close, Karl was like a tiger among sheep, and dragons were constantly being beaten back to their original forms.

The dragons, some distance away, glared angrily at Karl and began to construct a magic circle together. They even wanted to use a more powerful magic to attack Karl, but Karl ignored them and focused on attacking the dragons in front of him. Judging from the current situation, it was only a matter of time before the dragons were defeated.

Just then, the Dragon King spoke.

"Step back, all of you! You are no match for him!" the Dragon King commanded.

Young dragons cannot defy older dragons, and none of the dragons can defy the Dragon King. Faced with the Dragon King's command, they did not raise any questions, but simply obeyed, quickly leading their crippled companions to the Dragon King's side.

Karl did not pursue, but crossed his arms and looked at the Dragon King.

"It seems this powerful being possesses the ability to be immune to the influence of magic," the Dragon King said to Karl after his people had all retreated.

"That's right, magic tricks are just silly tricks in front of me. I've already fought you, so are you willing to return the energy you stole?"

The Dragon King smiled and said, "You are indeed very strong. I guess you weren't even serious in the battle just now. But I hadn't even made a move yet. It won't be so easy to make the dragon race submit."

After the Dragon King finished speaking, he shouted loudly, and tens of thousands of magic arrays appeared around him. These were all enhancement magics that worked on him, and now they all merged with him, the effect of the magic making his body shine brightly.

In this world where one can cultivate personal strength, the higher one's status, the stronger one is and the more energy one possesses. The Dragon King is already among the top tier, and the energy within his body is immeasurable. At this moment, all of this energy is being used to strengthen his physical body.

The Dragon King did not activate the True Dragon Barrier, but instead charged forward and threw a simple punch at Karl. The extremely simple movement brought out the maximum power. Karl also threw a punch at the same time, and their fists collided.

A burst of intense light erupted from the collision; it was the magic power that had been annihilated by the impact, and the surrounding dragons were so blinded by the light that they couldn't even open their eyes.

The Dragon King looked at his fist; the armor covering it was shattered, while his opponent remained unharmed. Clearly, he had suffered a loss in this probing attack.

"It seems I have no choice but to use all my strength."

The Dragon King harbored no illusions and prepared to unleash his full power.

His body emitted a white light, then transformed and swelled. He actually revealed his true form, transforming into a giant dragon hundreds of meters long. Karl looked like a tiny speck in front of him.

But that wasn't all. The dragon's enormous body began to change again, this time shrinking instead of growing bigger. The Dragon King compressed his muscles and energy as he shrank, thus gaining even greater power.

In the end, the Dragon King's entire dragon height shrank to only about three meters.

This size provides a size advantage in hand-to-hand combat without compromising agility, making it the most suitable.

"The king has actually been forced to this extent?" The dragons found it hard to believe. He had even used his true form, which meant that he was truly holding nothing back.

“Again,” the Dragon King said to Karl.

The two sides clashed again. This time, Karl clearly felt that the Dragon King was much stronger, and he could no longer easily gain the upper hand. However, this also meant that he could relax a bit.

Karl blocked the Dragon King's claws, then kicked the Dragon King in the chest. The Dragon King was so badly kicked that he almost vomited blood, and his body flew backward uncontrollably.

Karl continued his attacks, chasing after the Dragon King and delivering another punch. This made the Dragon King fly even faster, but it still couldn't keep up with Karl. Karl accelerated again, closing in on the Dragon King and delivering another punch, repeating this process multiple times.

The Dragon King was constantly being attacked in space. Every time he was about to adjust his posture, Karl would catch up and deliver a new blow. The rhythm of the battle was firmly controlled by the opponent, and he couldn't find a way to break the deadlock. He could only barely hold on with the healing magic he had previously cast on himself.

This situation only barely stopped when the Dragon King crashed into a giant, uninhabited planet the size of Jupiter.

The Dragon King was almost smashed into the star's core, and the entire planet was turned into a hellish place by the impact. Fortunately, there was no life on it.

The Dragon King, his entire body submerged in lava, managed to say with the help of healing magic, "Stop, stop for a moment! We're not fighting anymore!"

Chapter Twenty-Five: Cooperation

Karl had just flown into the star core when he saw the Dragon King lying in the magma, raising his hands in surrender.

"Are you stopping already? It's only just begun!" Karl flew up to him and asked. The throw was a bit too fast. He had only just started to fight with full force. Although the Dragon King was at a slight disadvantage for the time being, he must still have some tricks up his sleeve.

"I'm not fighting anymore, I'm not fighting anymore. It's obvious I can't win. My magic, which I'm best at, has no effect on you at all. Hand-to-hand combat has never been my strong suit. I've been crushed like this, what's the point of fighting?" the Dragon King said with a sullen face.

The physical strength of the gods in this world is actually just so-so. They mainly rely on magic to survive. Karl, on the other hand, is not affected by any magic effects, which is equivalent to directly crippling more than 80% of his abilities. Giving himself a bunch of buffs and then engaging in hand-to-hand combat is really a last resort.

Although it's often joked that true mages all have a melee heart, in reality, only a very small number of mages are truly proficient in melee combat.

It's really too much to ask of a dragon king that's used to fighting and has been given a bunch of buffs to face an opponent whose strength can move planets and whose instantaneous speed can easily approach the speed of light.

"Ah, alright, I didn't necessarily want to fight you. You attacked first, so now you can consider my demands, right?" Karl had already assessed the dragons' strength, so he took the opportunity to back down and start reaping the benefits.

While healing his body, which had been injured by Karl, the Dragon King said, "Actually, your request isn't too unreasonable. I can totally agree to it."

The energy of a planet is a huge sum for the dragon race, but he is a god-king, so this energy is still within an acceptable range.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Back then, it was in front of my underlings, so no matter what happened, I had to stand by my own people. Now it's just the two of us here, so it doesn't matter if we admit defeat," the Dragon King said directly.

He knew very well that although the dragon race occupied a lot of territory in the universe, they were far from being the overlords of the universe. There were not many people stronger than the dragon race, but there were definitely some, such as the supreme god D from a long time ago.

There's no benefit in fighting with such beings. Karl can't even defeat the highest god. Karl is only here for the energy of a planet. If the fight continues, the conflict could escalate and things could get complicated. The Dragon King wouldn't do something so unwise.

"It's just energy, right? I'll give it to you." The Dragon King said, opening his storage space, and a rift appeared beside him.

"That's not enough. You have to take responsibility for your actions. If it weren't for me, you would probably have already forcibly killed me." Karl said before the Dragon King could even produce his energy.

He won, so how could he possibly stop for such a small amount?

Besides, the MA energy is reserved for planets, so he doesn't need it. If you think about it that way, it's like he got nothing except for the intelligence. Wouldn't it be a loss if he didn't ask for something extra? He's not some noble and virtuous superman.

"Okay, you have a point."

Now, no matter what Karl says, the Dragon King will probably agree. As long as it doesn't cross his bottom line, the Dragon King will try his best to cooperate in order to resolve this dispute.

“A powerful being like you probably wouldn’t even look at ordinary things. I think this is the only thing in my treasure trove that might be of some help to you,” the Dragon King said sincerely.

He took out a golden disc with a giant dragon printed on it and explained, "This artifact can release a true dragon barrier, and its energy circulation is self-contained, so even people who are not dragons can use it."

Karl said, "This is good, but I'd also like some other magical items. I may not need them, but that doesn't mean others can't."

"Ah, this." The Dragon King weighed the options in his mind and decided to endure it.

In the end, the Dragon King built a spatial storage box and put all the magical items and MA energy that Karl needed into it. During the process, his complexion grew worse and worse, and more than half of his treasure trove was emptied.

“Very good, that’s settled then.” Karl said with satisfaction. He knew that although the Dragon King seemed to be in pain on the surface, the dragon race itself was not seriously injured and would definitely not cross the other party’s bottom line, so he was not polite at all.

The Dragon King closed his nearly empty treasure vault, wanting to avoid further trouble, and then said to Karl, "Strong one, before you leave, could you do me a small favor?"

Karl glanced at him, somewhat curious about what the Dragon King would ask for, and said, "Tell me, and I'll consider it if it's not too unreasonable."

The Dragon King gave a somewhat embarrassed smile and said, "Could you pretend that I won when you leave?"

"Ok?"

"Don't worry, it won't have any lasting impact on you. Just pretend that we fought for three hundred rounds and I barely won."

The Dragon King wanted to save face, after all, it was too shameful for a random person to intrude into the heart of the dragon realm and then return victorious.

Karl was speechless. Although vanity projects are important to leaders, it was truly astonishing that the Dragon King could come up with such a thing.