I am the Executioner Dragon, but a cute mod

Boom!

With a loud bang, the scream abruptly stopped, leaving only a huge claw mark on the spot. In an instant, the entire city of Iz became as quiet as a dead city, with only the rumble of lightning tearing through the sky and the patter of raindrops falling to the ground.

When the black dragon appeared in Iz City, how could the ape-men not know Qing's fate? They suppressed their grief and fear, hiding in the darkness, covering their mouths tightly, afraid that they would make a sound and be discovered by the black dragon.

If hiding would ensure survival, Qing wouldn't risk its life fighting the Black Dragon. Facing those ape-men hiding in the darkness, afraid to utter a sound, it didn't even need to search for them. With a sweep of its thick tail, it destroyed a large number of houses and turned the ape-men hiding among them into dust.

One of the ape-men, unable to bear the black dragon's brutality any longer, roared, "Beast! Die!" and leaped forward.

Before the fist could even land on the black dragon, the black dragon swatted it to death with a single claw, as easily as swatting an ant.

After that, another ape-man, oblivious to the danger, appeared in the black dragon's path. His wife and children were in the dragon's way, and if he did nothing, they would be torn to pieces. So, suppressing his fear, he angrily cursed the black dragon:

"You beast! If you've got the guts, come and fight me one-on-one..."

Before he could finish speaking, the black dragon slapped him to death without pausing, and continued along the same route it had just taken.

Boom, boom, boom.

The ground trembled heavily with the sound of the black dragon's footsteps. In the shadows under the eaves, a mother ape-man clutched her child tightly in her arms. The child, who should have been wailing in terror, saw his mother's fear and forced a smile.

"Mom, don't be afraid. Wang will definitely come to save us, just like before."

Upon hearing this, a tear rolled down the cheek of the ape-man mother's cheek. She said nothing, but simply hugged her child even tighter.

Chapter 164: Slaying the Dragon in the Belly

In mythological narratives, being swallowed by a giant beast is an ancient motif.

Jonah remained inside the belly of the giant fish for three days before being vomited up onto the shore, thus fulfilling his prophetic mission. Odysseus blinded the Cyclops by piercing him with a red-hot stake and escaped from under the sheep's belly.

What these stories have in common is that being swallowed is not the end, but a kind of rebirth ritual. The hero enters the belly of darkness, undergoes a transformation there, and then returns in a new form.

And what about Qing? After being swallowed by the black dragon, his sight was completely taken away. First, a foul stench rushed into his nasal cavity, followed by a fishy smell. He slid down the black dragon's esophagus into its stomach, where scalding acid continuously corroded his skin.

The burning pain stimulated every nerve in Qing's body. He did not wail. Compared to the mental pain, the physical pain was insignificant. He knew that after his defeat, the ape-men of Iz City would all perish, and the reason for all this was that he had blasphemed the gods and that he was not strong enough.

Qing sighed, unable to think of any way to break the deadlock. Although he had already entered the black dragon's body, he couldn't find a foothold when facing the soft stomach wall. When he punched it, the stomach wall just bounced and didn't suffer any damage.

Qing lay there, surrounded by stomach acid, letting it erode his body. Finally, he had a moment to calm down and thought:

Where will I go after I die? Is there really an afterlife? If there is, what is it like? And if not...?

Qing dared not continue thinking about it. He couldn't imagine that if there was no afterlife, then everyone who died would truly be dead. Although he wouldn't have to worry about how to explain it to them, that would be even worse.

The fact that good deeds done in life go unrewarded and bad deeds go unpunished seems to suggest that it doesn't matter what you did or what kind of person you were in life, because once you die, there is nothing left—no reward, no punishment, and no chance of reincarnation.

Thinking of this, Qing paused, because he suddenly felt that if there was nothing after death, it seemed not so bad. He could finally let go of all responsibilities and rest well, even if he didn't want to think about anything or do anything.

Qing closed his eyes, preparing to end his life like this, but not long after he closed his eyes, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear:

"Mom, don't be afraid, Wang will definitely come to save us, just like before..."

The voice trembled, but it carried absolute trust in Qing. Qing didn't know why he heard this voice. Inside the black dragon's stomach, he should only hear the sounds of intestinal peristalsis and food decomposition. That voice just now... was it a hallucination?

As soon as the idea came up, Qing immediately rejected it. He could hear the fear in those words. He could imagine a mother and daughter hiding in a corner, waiting for salvation. They needed him, and his people needed him.

I must leave here!

With a determined heart, Qing attacked the thick stomach wall frantically. When the attack failed, he endured the burning pain and used his only remaining left hand to search through the stomach acid, trying to find something sharp to cut through the black dragon's stomach wall.

During this time, voices came to Qing's ears one after another, including men, women, children, and the elderly. They did not believe that Qing had fallen, but firmly believed that Qing would appear and save them in the critical moment.

These voices encouraged Qing, telling him not to give up hope. Finally, Qing found a severely corroded arm in his stomach acid. It was his right arm that had been bitten off by the black dragon. The sharp edge of the broken humerus was exposed and was the key to breaking the deadlock at this moment.

puff!

Without hesitation, Qing grabbed the arm and plunged the sharp humerus bone into the black dragon's stomach wall, tearing a bloody gash with a "rip".

The next second, there was a low wail. Qing felt her feet go awry and she fell into her stomach acid. Her body was burning with pain, but a smile appeared on Qing's face.

Because he knew his turn had begun.

The blue dragon launched a frenzied attack inside the black dragon's body, and the black dragon suffered greatly. The dragon, which had been so majestic in Iz City and arbitrarily held the power of life and death over apes, was now roaring in pain, trying to alleviate its suffering by destroying and trampling on houses.

However, the pain did not lessen but instead became more and more intense. Even if Black Dragon was stupid, he would know that it was the Qing that had been swallowed that was causing the trouble.

It was all due to the instincts of its crocodile days. Because crocodiles cannot chew, they can only swallow their food whole. So, faced with the choice between tearing the green abalone apart or biting it to death, the black dragon chose to swallow it whole. This would be the most regrettable decision of its short life.

Faced with the excruciating pain in his stomach, Black Dragon could only bend over and open his mouth wide, attempting to vomit the green stuff in his stomach by gagging.

But Qing wouldn't let it have its way. In a direct confrontation, his chances of winning were far greater than the Black Dragon's. He would rather take this opportunity to defeat the Black Dragon from within.

This was terrible for Black Dragon. He rolled on the ground in pain, instinctively gagging with his mouth wide open. To the ape-men hiding in the shadows, this scene was incredibly bizarre. They could only hide in the darkness, ignoring everything and doing nothing.

After an unknown amount of time, the black dragon was too weak to move and collapsed to the ground. The black scales on its massive body had lost their metallic luster. With a thud, the ground shook, and the ape-men finally noticed the black dragon's abnormality.

They glanced at the black dragon and saw it collapse helplessly, immediately realizing what had happened.

"The king saved us!" a female ape-man exclaimed joyfully, pointing to the dying black dragon in the distance.

No one responded, and even the girl's mother quickly covered her mouth, fearing that the black dragon's weakness was an act to deceive the ape-man.

One second passed, two seconds passed... three minutes passed.

The black dragon showed no reaction, and even its breathing became weaker and weaker. At the same time, a clanging sound of hard objects colliding with each other could be heard continuously from the black dragon's chest.

A moment later, a pale spot cut open a gash in the chest through the gaps in the black dragon's scales, and a one-armed, bloodied man emerged from it. There was no cheering, no roaring, just deep breaths of fresh air.

Once his breathing calmed down, the bloodied man, fearing that the black dragon was faking death, quickly destroyed the dragon's brain from the eye area before sitting down on the ground with a sigh of relief.

Faced with this figure, the apes were speechless. In the black dragon's stomach acid, Qing's hair and skin were burned, making him look like a bloody man who had been skinned alive.

The sight of the devastating scene left the ape-men wanting to rush forward but unsure how to proceed. They could only watch Qing from afar, and as they met his gaze, tears welled up in their eyes and streamed down their faces…

Chapter 165: Demigod and Two Abilities

The black dragon is dead. Qing fought his way from the black dragon's stomach to its heart, bursting out of its chest and destroying its brain in one fell swoop. This is not a simple victory, but a rite of passage for the brave.

From this point on, the city of Iz began to be rebuilt thanks to the efforts of the ape-men. In the north, they cast a four-meter-high bronze statue of Qing standing there, holding an object in each hand.

The left hand holds the first spear made by the ape-man, representing their shift from hiding from wild beasts to actively confronting predators. The right hand holds a ball of flame, representing civilization and its continuation.

Qing thus became a god, further enriching the ape-men's understanding of gods. In the ape-men's imagination, Yan received divine revelation from a god who loved people, while the devil drove wild beasts and black dragons to slaughter the ape-men, which was a god who hated people.

The two gods are natural opposites. The gods love people, so the demons kill people. Qing, who protects the ape-man, naturally becomes an existence under the gods' camp.

However, faced with the apes' admiration, Qing kept saying:

"What kind of god am I? I've lived on this land since birth, I'm a pure ape-man, and I have absolutely nothing to do with gods."

This statement left the ape-men who wanted to deify Qing speechless. After pondering for a long time, they finally uttered a sentence:

"Although you were born of mortals, such an extraordinary person as you must have been chosen by the gods before you were born, so you are a demigod."

Qing was too lazy to refute the apes. After all, no matter how he denied it, the apes would come up with another reason to make him a god. He could only remain silent. At least the apes didn't replace his parents with some strangers.

And so, Qing's status was instantly elevated from King Iz to demigod. Not only did the ape people cheer for this, but Lilith outside the world was also quite satisfied.

Looking at Qing, who was surrounded by ape-men, Lilith sensed his presence. What she saw shocked her:

"It actually broke through the bottleneck with ease, and the total energy reached the special level. No, it's not just the ordinary special level, it's the energy level comparable to Su Nuo. I really didn't expect that evil dragon to be so useful."

Lilith was somewhat astonished. She had only created the black dragon to help Qing break through to the special level, but the psychological trauma the black dragon had caused to the apes in just half a day far exceeded her expectations.

When the ape-men erected a statue for Qing, the fear and hatred of the black dragon were absorbed into Qing's body through worship and reverence. This increased his total energy and physical strength, and surprisingly, it also granted Qing two abilities.

One of them is the [first spear in history], which has the effect of ignoring distance and hitting the target every time it is thrown.

The second is [Wildfire on a Branch], the flame temperature increases with fighting spirit, and it can cling to any object even without flammable material.

Each of these two abilities is incredibly powerful on its own, and when combined, they are unmatched. The spear, burning with flames that can incinerate everything, is sure to kill anyone who is hit, unless there are special means to do so.

This ability piqued Lilith's interest, and she couldn't resist the urge to create another creature like a dragon or a chimera to train with Qing Lianlian. However, after thinking about it, Lilith decided to abandon the idea.

What if the apes were killed by repeated disasters? That would be a huge loss. So Lilith decided to give the apes a chance to recuperate and learn their abilities.

Lilith sped up the time flow of the small world a million times, and after enduring the most boring five minutes in history, she adjusted the time flow of the small world back to a hundred times before looking at the small world.

Because time has been accelerated by 100,000 times, five minutes in the outside world are equivalent to nearly ten years in the small world.

Over the past decade, Qing, whose power has greatly increased, has stood at the pinnacle of the small world. His power has conquered beasts and specialized species, but he has not forgotten his original intention.

He diligently governed this city-state, which had suffered countless hardships, built magnificent city walls, and treated everyone in the city fairly, believing that all people were equal in his eyes.

To do better, Qing did something that no previous leader had ever done: he drafted laws that stipulated that people had absolute control over their property, while murder, adultery, and robbery would be punishable by death.

The initial version was engraved on a stone slab, and as it was gradually improved, he ordered craftsmen to engrave the law on the base of the bronze statue.

Everything was moving in a positive direction. A new generation of ape-men was born, growing up listening to Qing's stories, while those ape-men who fought alongside Qing against the beast tide gradually aged and even died.

It was only at this point that Qing realized that immortality was not a gift. He often heard news of the deaths of acquaintances, and he could only nod numbly. It wasn't that he was cold-hearted, but that he had simply become accustomed to it.

He hadn't forgotten his original aspirations, but compared to himself ten years ago, he smiled less. In the eyes of those newly born ape-men, their king, that demigod, always maintained a cold and unapproachable demeanor...

"Ten years have passed. You should have mastered all those powers by now. Let me see just how powerful you really are."

Looking at the tiny green in the small world, Lilith didn't care about his fatigue at all. Although in the plan, the small world was located in the corner of a grand drama, in order to highlight the "grandness" of the grand drama, the small world must have the fighting power to demonstrate that "grandness".

Afterwards, Lilith began to think about how to test Qing, whether to create another black dragon or to create a chimera. She pondered these options, but they were all rejected.

With Qing's current power, simple creatures pose no threat. If you want to create an evenly matched opponent, you must add the ability to deal with Qing's abilities or give it a higher value.

But this is really boring. It doesn't help to develop the small world into a corner of a larger world. It's just a clichéd story of stacking boxes and changing maps.

To enhance her prestige in the small world, Lilith sat down at her computer and, unusually, didn't open the game. Instead, she opened a search platform and began searching for all sorts of mythological stories.

Eastern theology believes that all things have spirits and that all things can give birth to gods, but this had no effect on Lilith's attempt to show off, so she simply gave up.

Western theology posits a single God, the only deity, while all other angels are creations of God, and even the most powerful among them are not deities.

Upon seeing the description of the Western gods, Lilith's eyes lit up immediately:

"The One God? That sounds perfect for showing off! Looks like I'll have to use two different personas for good and bad deeds to maintain my image as the One God..."

Lilith muttered to herself as she quickly skimmed through Western mythology, gaining a general understanding of it.

Lilith was particularly interested in the Great Flood, which she described as God sending a great flood to cleanse the world from its defilement.

"Divine punishment that only releases some monsters is too petty; a great flood would be much more interesting!"

Lilith muttered to herself, her eyes gleaming with excitement once more. She first pondered her script for the upcoming session, and once she was ready, she directly pulled the sleeping Qing into her mental space…