Oden wasn’t that lucky this time!
Boom!
The iron fist struck Oden heavily. With a terrible cry, Oden was thrown backward as blood spurted madly from his mouth!
“Lose!”
Nicolas was unforgiving upon gaining momentum. His attacks crashed down upon Oden like a hurricane. Within horrifying sounds of collision, Oden went smashing down and landed on the ground like a fallen leaf in the wind.
An uproar went through the crowd, and then the whole place instantly quietened!
The audience stared at the arena in a daze, all of them somewhat unable to recover from their astonishment.
The battle had still been equally matched in strength the previous moment!
Yet now a great change had suddenly taken place the next moment!
Oden... had lost?
Boom!
After a brief silence, Nicolas’ supporters erupted into tremendous cheers, while Oden’s supporters cursed and swore, unable to accept the outcome.
“The results are out. The Fire Dragon Person has lost!”
Meng Lei shook his head and sighed. Then, he got up and walked toward the ring. He remarked, “After suffering so many punches, probably even all the sh*t in Oden has probably been punched out of him?”
Meng Lei didn’t know whether or not Oden’s sh*t had been punched out of him, but what he did see was that in the instant when Nicolas’ punch threw out Oden, a shining blood-red light ball had dropped from him!
Oden was a Ninth-Grade Warrior. The light balls he dropped would probably be exceptional, right? Alright, he’d better hurry and pick it up!
“Ding! Assimilation successful. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Fire Dragon bloodline!”
(⊙_⊙)
“What!?”
Chapter 40: Modifying One’s Body, Transforming Into A Dragon For The First Time
I’ve οbtained the Fire Dragon bloodline?
Meng Lei looked absolutely bewildered. Previously, when he had picked up the Fire Dragon Manual, he had even found it a white elephant. After all, he couldn’t practice it, so what use was there to it, no matter how impressive it was?
Alright!
He had still been frustrated the last second, and then he immediately picked up the Fire Dragon bloodline the next second? Wasn’t this kinda ridiculous?
However! I may have picked it up, but it’s not like they can force me to assimilate it if I don’t want to, isn’t it?
With that in mind, Meng Lei was just about to communicate with the system when a bunch of crimson flames unexpectedly appeared in his body. Then, they separated into countless sections and turned into innumerable tiny fire dragons. These fire dragons instantly darted into all his limbs and bones, fusing with every single inch of his blood and flesh!
Boom!
As though a barrel of petroleum set on fire, Meng Lei felt a piercing and acute wave of pain coming from within his body and assaulting his senses madly. A muffled grunt escaped Meng Lei, and he almost let out a tragic cry.
W-what’s going on?!
Meng Lei was terribly shocked by this sudden turn of events. He forced himself to endure the severe pain in his body and ran to the nearest restroom.
A bout of crimson red flames emerged from within his body the instant he entered the restroom. It scorched his body and burned his clothes, turning him straight into a man on fire!
Under the blazing flames, his clothes didn’t even last a few seconds before they were reduced to ashes. Meng Lei’s whole body became exposed to the air at once!
Through the crimson flames, one could clearly see blue veins bulging against Meng Lei’s skin surface. His muscles were trembling, his bones were shaking, and wisps of black smoke were coming out of him!
“Ahhh!”
Meng Lei cried out in pain and agony. He felt like his whole body was about to be ripped apart. Violent spasms went through him. He had never once imagined that this was how extreme pain would feel like. It was truly utter misery, where one could neither live nor die!
While he was being assaulted by great pain, Meng Lei wasn’t aware that his body was currently undergoing a miraculous change. As the small and light flames burned his body, everything, be it his bones, meridians, skin, or blood, was going through changes that ordinary people would find hard to even imagine!
Every single cell!
Every inch of his blood and flesh!
Every single bone!
All of them were being reborn in the flames!
In his dazed state, an earth-shattering roar resounded. A hologram of a Fire Dragon covered from head to toe in fiery red scaly armor, and as though fully cast from solid metal, floated in the air behind Meng Lei. It roared into the heavens as it flapped its wings!
Splurt!
Splurt!
In the instant that the Fire Dragon hologram appeared, the sounds of blades piercing through flesh rang out, and fiery red bloodstained scales began to pop up one by one on the surface of Meng Lei’s body!
On both of his arms and both of his legs!
On his chest and his abdomen!
On his back and his buttocks!
In the blink of an eye, the fiery red scales had spread and covered every part of Meng Lei, making him look as though a monster covered in scales!
However, it wasn’t over yet!
Splurt!
Yet another soft pop rang out. Behind him, a long, thick, and muscular dragon tail grew from where his buttocks were. Fiery red scaly armor covered the tail, which was covered in blood. It looked evil and sinister and reeked of blood!
At the same time, two bamboo shoot-like objects also grew from his forehead. They were sharp-tipped and red, seeming as if they were going to pierce through the heavens!
These were a pair of dragon horns!
Fiery red dragon scales!
Fiery red dragon horns!
A fiery red dragon tail!
The changes finally came to a halt at this point. The flames enveloping Meng Lei all over slowly extinguished. The acute pain also ebbed away like the tide. Meng Lei collapsed into a heap on the ground, gasping for air and panting heavily!
Sweat and blood covered the ground. It was as though Meng Lei was lying in a pool of blood. At this moment, Meng Lei didn’t even feel like lifting a finger at all!
It hurt!
It hurt too much!
He felt as if he had gone to hell and back!
Even just thinking back to that feeling now gave him lingering fears. Meng Lei swore that he never wanted to experience it ever again!
Bam!
Someone pushed the restroom’s doors open right at this moment, and a thin and frail figure walked in. Right away, he was badly frightened by the scene in front of him and let out an ear-piercing scream!
“Ahhh!”
“Stop screaming!”
A severe jolt went through Meng Lei. His form turned into an afterimage and appeared right in front of the person that had just walked in. He clapped his hand over his mouth in one swift motion, his movements so quick that it was completely in a different class from what it was before!
“Listen! Stop screaming!”
Meng Lei didn’t want to be seen in such a pathetic state. He glared viciously at the person, signaling to him not to cause a commotion.
“L-let go of me! I won’t scream!”
The person nodded tactfully, and actually calmed down very quickly.
“You’d better behave!”
After threatening him again, Meng Lei carefully released his hold on him. True enough, the person didn’t scream anymore. Instead, he looked Meng Lei up and down before he asked in surprise, “You... Are you awakening your bloodline?”
“Awakening?”
Meng Lei was a little stunned. It was then that he realized that his body had undergone great changes. His arms, legs, abdomen... All of it was covered in a layer of fiery red scaly armor. A long dragon tail had even grown out of his buttocks behind him!
What the hell! Why have I turned into a Dragon Person!?
Meng Lei looked green around the gills. He had only just obtained the Fire Dragon bloodline the last moment, and now he had turned into a Dragon Person the next...
“B*stard system, who allowed you to assimilate it? Have you asked me for permission?!”
Meng Lei was so furious that he let loose a torrent of abuse!
However...
When he clenched his fists, explosive power filled his whole body from head to toe, as if he could destroy a mountain with just one punch!
When he jumped lightly, his body felt so light and buoyant, as if all of his weight was gone. It was as though most of gravity’s pull on him had been canceled out, as though a layer of shackles on him had been removed!
My body... It’s so strong!
Meng Lei couldn’t help himself from glancing at his personal stats interface. And then, what he saw astonished him!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline)
Wealth: 26,397 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Fifth-Grade Warrior (2,480/5,000)
Spirit: Fourth-Grade Magician (1,197/2,000)
Magic Power: Fifth-Grade Magician (2,023/5,000)
What the hell! That’s such a big change!
His Physical Body Constitution had been 800 points previously, but it was 2,400 points now, and had increased by threefold!
His Magic Power had been 1,000 points previously, but it was 2,000 points now, and had increased by twofold!
What an exaggeration! This is simply too big of an exaggeration!
Is the Fire Dragon bloodline really that much of a mutant?!
Meng Lei found himself in disbelief, and his feelings of frustration slightly lessened.
“The body will go through a qualitative change when one is awakening their Dragon bloodline!” The person gazed at Meng Lei and added calmly, “It’s absolutely normal for you to feel your power becoming stronger, and your body becoming lighter!”
“Alright!”
Meng Lei nodded. After taking in the sensations in detail, he directed his gaze at the person. It was then that he realized he actually knew the fellow in front of him.
“Abbe, how come you’re here?”
The person that had entered the restroom was Abbe, Meng Lei’s cold and distant housemate. Meng Lei’s attention had been fully directed at the changes in his body just now, so he hadn’t recognized him for a moment there, but he finally belatedly realized his identity now!
“You know me?”
Abbe was startled.
Meng Lei chuckled and replied somewhat dryly, “Hee! We see each other every day, so would you say whether I know you or not?”
“See each other every d— You’re Meng Lei?”
Abbe’s eyes widened, and he stared at Meng Lei in disbelief. “Why are you here? No, how come you could awaken the Dragon race’s bloodline? Aren’t you a human!?”
Chapter 41: Fifth-Grade Warrior, New Plans
Abbe had had his attention on Meng Lei for a very long time now!
He had already heard of Meng Lei’s great reputation before he had enrolled in the academy and knew that Meng Lei was the most gifted talent among this year’s batch of new students.
When the two of them then became housemates, everything about Meng Lei couldn’t escape Abbe’s scrutiny all the more. After three months of observation, Abbe professed to be someone that knew Meng Lei very well. However, little did he expect that Meng Lei had actually still kept such a huge secret from him!
“Aren’t you a human? How come you could awaken the Dragon bloodline?” Abbe stared hard at Meng Lei, his eyes full of perplexity. “Or have you always been a Dragon Person all along?”
“You’re asking me? Who am I supposed to ask, then?”
Meng Lei held out his hands and added, “I was watching the King of Fighters battle just now when this suddenly happened. To be honest, I’m still in utter confusion right now!”
Abbe didn’t doubt him. “Looks like you really have Dragon blood in you!”
Although a lot of Dragon People had awakened their Dragon bloodline at a young age, there was no lack of people like Meng Lei, who only awakened after maturing to a certain stage.
Meng Lei wasn’t a special case!
“Perhaps, I guess!”
Meng Lei had complicated feelings about this. He wasn’t going to tell Abbe the truth, of course. Even if he did, Abbe might not necessarily believe him, anyway. Assimilating the Dragon bloodline into his body?
Just the sound of it alone was ridiculous!
“Congrats!” said Abbe detachedly.
Then, he paid Meng Lei no further attention and went about his business in the restroom. Meng Lei walked over to the mirror and observed his current appearance.
He looked strange and was even covered from head to toe in blood. Meng Lei turned on the tap and started to clean himself.
That looks a lot more pleasant to the eye!
Except... Am I going to look like this from now on?
Meng Lei sighed. Even though the Fire Dragon bloodline brought him great power and strength, he simply couldn’t find himself in a good mood the moment he thought of how he had turned into a monster!
He preferred his previous human appearance!
Meng Lei asked, “Abbe, is it impossible for me to return to how I looked previously?”
“Why do you want to return to what you looked like previously?” Abbe’s puzzled voice drifted over from the cubicle. “In Fire Dragon Kingdom, everyone longs to have Dragon blood so that they can become an existence envied, respected, and feared by others! Additionally, what you’ve awakened is the Fire Dragon Kingdom’s royal bloodline, which is even more extraordinary! Why would you want to return to what you looked like previously?”
“I look kinda strange now. I still prefer how I looked previously!” With a shake of his head, Meng Lei asked, “Tell me, is there any way to change it back?”
“I really don’t understand what you’re thinking!” replied Abbe with a shake of his head.
Nevertheless, he went on and said, “For Dragon People that awakened their bloodline at a later stage, their Dragon blood is ultimately comparatively less concentrated, so they aren’t able to maintain a Dragon form for long. You’ll return to your previous appearance when the energy in your body is fully expended!”
“Oh, I see!”
Realization dawned upon Meng Lei.
And true enough!
After a mere five minutes, Meng Lei felt an empty and hollow feeling coming from his body. The dragon scales on his body faded away swiftly like the tide, and in the blink of an eye, they had already disappeared cleanly!
His dragon tail and dragon bones also vanished along with them!
Meng Lei became smooth and clean, with not a single thread of clothing on him!
“I’ve turned back!
“Haha, I’ve turned back!
“This current look is much more pleasing to the eye after all!”
Right at that moment, Abbe walked out of the cubicle to see Meng Lei fully naked, and his eyes widened big and round at once.
What the f*ck! He’s so big!
“Abbe, get me a set of clothes!”
...
Meng Lei returned to the Flaming Ring of Life And Death after getting dressed and exiting the restroom. The King of Fighters award ceremony was currently underway!
The King of Fighters battle had ended!
It concluded with the three-term King of Fighters, Nicolas the Giant Spiritual God, successfully defending his title. As the victor, he received the people’s cheers and idolization, and his limelight was unparalleled for a while there!
On the other hand, as the loser, Odin Flit quietly left the Flaming Ring of Life And Death. In the upcoming period of at least a year, he would have to live with the loser’s title!
No matter which world it was, people only remembered the victors, while th
e losers were destined to be forgotten and despised. Reality... was simply always this brutal!
“The victor is king, while the loser is the knave!”
Meng Lei didn’t leave in a hurry. Instead, he continued to pick up attribute light balls that had dropped. After the Fire Dragon bloodline’s accidental assimilation, both his physical body constitution and magic power reserves had reached fifth-grade!
On the contrary, his spiritual power was now lagging behind in the last place and was still at the fourth-grade level.
It was just nice that the arena was crowded, and the people there were mostly in a state of stimulation. He could pick up a few more spirit light balls during this period to compensate for the difference in his spiritual power!
...
It was already midnight by the time he returned to the academy!
After he cleaned himself up, Meng Lei didn’t meditate like what he usually did but studied the Fire Dragon Manual instead. He intended to give the top-notch Battle Aura Technique a try.
What was that saying again? “If you can’t beat them, then join them” or something?
Since he already had Dragon blood in him, then it would be too wasteful if he didn’t cultivate the Fire Dragon Manual.
More than an hour later, when he felt that he was more or less done with studying it, Meng Lei attempted to practice the technique. Upon being guided, a mysterious energy current in him began to crawl slowly in his meridians, much like a snail!
It moved at a very slow speed!
However, Meng Lei was secretly rather excited!
According to the Fire Dragon Manual, that mysterious energy current was Fire Dragon Battle Aura. The fact that the Fire Dragon Battle Aura had begun to circulate in his body meant that he had already entered the Fire Dragon Manual‘s rudimentary stage!
This was a fantastic turn of events!
As long as I can cultivate the Fire Dragon Manual, I am confident that I can cultivate this battle aura technique to a level of great mastery!
Alright, I’ll set a small goal first. For example, becoming a Ninth-Grade Warrior?
Meng Lei practiced the Fire Dragon Manual the whole night. After a night’s cultivation, his Fire Dragon Battle Aura circulation speed had become a lot faster. It was quite a few times faster than what it had been when he had first started!
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