In truth, Su Nian's advancement inheritance hadn't concluded yet.
But in his dreamscape, he experienced an indescribable agony.
It felt as though he was about to lose something precious.
The pain was like a razor slowly carving wounds into his heart, with countless insects crawling through these gashes to gnaw at his insides, while someone simultaneously strangled him from outside.
He sensed that something was terribly wrong with his dragon's nest.
Normally, unless someone held a blade to one's throat, it was impossible to awaken before completing the inheritance.
But that only applied to ordinary dragons.
Su Nian was different. Half of his soul wasn't draconic, and after their fusion, his soul had grown considerably stronger.
So he shattered the constraints and awakened prematurely.
Although this would render his inherited magic less proficient and greatly diminish its effectiveness.
But that didn't matter now.
What greeted his eyes was Anna's tear-streaked face.
The starlight in her eyes had faded like candles flickering in the wind, leaving only sparse embers that transformed into bitter, sorrowful tears falling one after another.
Her crying broke Su Nian's heart.
Hearing that soul-stirring voice that, though not beautiful but incredibly familiar, Anna raised her head in a daze. The starlight in her eyes seemed to rekindle as if fresh fuel had been added to the still-warm embers.
"Br... Brother?"
Still seemingly in disbelief, Anna reached out with her soft little hand and carefully touched the black dragon's face.
Hard, cold scales that had tightened with the black dragon's awakening, becoming even more solid.
This was all real, not a dream.
Brother had truly awakened.
By now, Su Nian's gaze had fallen on the players behind Anna, his pale golden dragon eyes reflecting the shocked and terrified expressions of the crowd.
In his mind, system notifications kept popping up, but he had no time to pay attention to them.
Right now, he only wanted to vent his rage.
The dragon flame had fully accumulated. The enraged black dragon leaped down from the rock platform, his sharp dragon claws smashing into the ground. Instantly, more than a dozen players who couldn't dodge in time were flattened into meat patties, making the entire dragon's nest tremble slightly.
"Brother!"
Anna's soft, sweet voice sounded from behind, making Su Nian pause.
"The Bird Demon Leader and the Cockatrice leader are still over there..."
Su Nian looked around at her words and found that Ji Taimei and Chicken Brother were indeed lying dying in a corner, where the players had already scattered.
At this moment, all the feathers on both monsters had been plucked clean, and Ji Taimei even had numerous bite marks on her body. This scene made Su Nian frown, and his disgust for the Sakura Island players intensified.
He absolutely would not allow anyone to be more perverted than him.
So all these players had to die!
"Hsss-roar——"
Scorching, sickly green dragon flame spewed forth.
As Su Nian entered the adolescent dragon stage, his breath had become more ferocious, with both the volume and range of his breath enhanced.
However, with Anna's earlier gentle reminder, he still tried to control the force of his breath, avoiding the two loyal monster leaders, Ji Taimei and Chicken Brother.
"Mages, cast shields! Where are the shields?"
"Baka, can't you see I already cast one? Did that useless shield last even 0.5 seconds? Are you blind?"
"Priests, heal us! Do your job!"
"Heal your mother's ****!"
Half of the dragon's nest turned into a steamer, and the players became like ants on a hot pan. They tried to rush out of the dragon's nest but got stuck together because there were too many people.
"Don't run, no matter what, it's just one dragon. If we concentrate, we can defeat it."
Mei Magogoko was panicking.
She kept persuading the players around her, and some players calmed down and stood by her side, but those with any gaming sense ignored her completely.
What a joke!
How much health did they have in total?
Less than 10,000, and each tick of that black dragon's burning damage was three to four thousand. Touch it and you die!
Unfortunately, Su Nian wouldn't let them escape so easily.
He didn't plan to keep this dragon's nest anymore. Later, he would build his dragon's nest right in the players' novice village!
With this thought, his long tail whipped back and "crack!" knocked a large chunk of rock from the surrounding hard rock wall.
Then his tail coiled around it and threw it. With a boom, the rock not only killed a group of players but also blocked the front entrance of the dragon's nest.
The entire dragon's nest had only two entrances.
One was now blocked, which was the entrance that monsters and Anna usually used.
The other was above Su Nian's head.
A right-angled passage.
It could both prevent rain and facilitate his massive body flying in and out.
However, this passage was now too small, as his body had expanded almost more than threefold.
"Choque de heladas!"
A woman's chanting came from not far away, and a frost shock hit the black dragon, but it only formed a layer of frost on the black dragon's wings. A bright red [Miss] slowly floated up above the black dragon's head.
Mei Magogoko gritted her teeth; she couldn't accept it.
She cast another Flame Burst and Dragon Breath, but a string of [Miss] still appeared above the black dragon's head.
How could they fight this? They couldn't even break through his defense.
They could deal damage just three days ago.
Had this black dragon's resistance increased so much after one advancement?
"So you're the culprit?"
Su Nian sneered, fired another dragon breath at the scattering player crowd, and then leisurely approached Mei Magogoko, who was continuously chanting spells with a crazed expression.
During this time, some desperate players tried to attack Anna.
But Su Nian's tail seemed to have eyes, and any player who approached the platform was smashed into a bloody pulp by the hard dragon tail.
As for the mage players, they had all been wiped out after the first dragon breath.
"La pared de la llama!"
[Wall of Flame]
"Espada de dragón de fuego!"
[Fire Dragon Blade]
"Baka! Why, why are all spells showing Miss? Why!"
Mei Magogoko was on the verge of collapse. She couldn't accept it.
She had sacrificed so much, she had tried so hard.
Why!
With a final defiance, Mei Magogoko chanted "Escudo Arcano Gulpk" to cast an Arcane Shield on herself.
Su Nian looked contemptuously at the player performing tricks like a magician in front of him, then raised his dragon claw and gently pressed it against the Arcane Shield.
With a slight squeeze.
"Crack——"
The newly formed shield shattered just like that.
"I will make you wish you were dead."
"Because you touched my reverse scale!"
"ZunHaalViik!"
[Dragon Speech: Disarm]
The deep dragon roar was like muffled thunder, accompanied by obscure dragon language. The dagger that Mei Magogoko was preparing to use for suicide fell uncontrollably to the ground, making a crisp "clang" sound.
She knelt on the ground, as if mourning the dead.
Looking at the ferocious, enormous dragon before her, only fear and regret remained in Mei Magogoko's eyes.
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