At this moment, a series of perfect plans were already forming in Yamaguchi Mura Chicken's mind—pincer attacks, finding gaps to launch surprise assaults, and so on.
"Gentlemen! The monsters have retreated because our reinforcements have arrived! With reinforcements, we now have the strength to defeat these monsters, so..."
Yamaguchi Mura Chicken found a high spot and spoke eloquently to the crowd of players, his face full of pride and smugness.
After all, the reinforcements were brought by his woman.
His darling Magogoko.
"Yamaguchi-kun..."
The players' trembling voices interrupted Yamaguchi Mura Chicken's passionate speech.
"Is... is the reinforcement you're talking about that black dragon?"
"Nani?" (What?)
Before he could express his shock.
"Whoosh—"
In the sky, a massive black shadow swept past.
Yamaguchi Mura Chicken looked up, but he couldn't see any black dragon. All he could see were cyan fire clouds, getting closer and closer.
The spreading Dragon Breath ravaged like rolling mist until it covered the entire Sakura No. 1 Novice Village.
After burying the freshly respawned players of Sakura No. 1 Novice Village, Su Nian flapped his wings and flew away.
He had deliberately passed by this place.
Mainly to help his subordinate monsters finish their cleanup work, killing these players into respawn status first, preventing them from wandering around thinking about all sorts of things.
His real target was Sakura Island's No. 6 Novice Village.
The flight was somewhat silent.
Anna curled up on Su Nian's back. Now this dragon back was as wide as a bed, and what once looked like an eye-catching "seat" now seemed rather inconspicuous.
Surrounded by the protection of fierce spines, Anna looked more like a canary in a cage.
But Anna herself didn't see it that way.
This was the warmest shelter, the sanctuary of her heart.
"Brother~"
Anna gently bit her finger. She had many things she wanted to say.
But after Su Nian woke up, she felt there was no need to say anything anymore.
"Hmm? What is it?"
The deep voice came from ahead, clearly audible even in the wind.
"Nothing, just... just that Anna loves you."
Su Nian certainly knew this, as Anna's Favorability had already grown to 90, and the emotional state noted behind it had changed from [Desire to Possess] to [Deeply Engraved in Heart].
It was hard to imagine what level 100 favorability would be like.
After all, in Su Nian's view, "deeply engraved in heart" was already the most profound emotion between lovers.
He didn't know what efforts Anna had made when facing the players.
But the Cockatrice and Fireflame Rabbits fighting desperately outside the dragon's nest, along with Grey Wolf's return to assist, all indicated that Anna was not just a naive little girl.
She had a mature side too.
It was just that in front of him, she appeared more childish.
After all, girls only throw away their rational thinking without hesitation in front of someone they like.
Because all their thoughts are focused on the person they love, leaving no time to think about anything else.
"I love you too, Anna."
Su Nian responded to Anna while flying.
He didn't dislike this feeling.
"Hehe~ Brother, how much do you love Anna?"
"A little bit more than you love me, I suppose."
"Impossible! Then Anna loves you twice as much, no, a hundred times more!"
She seemed very persistent about this matter, determined to love Su Nian more, much more.
Her lifespan would certainly be far shorter than her brother's.
Anna knew this clearly.
She could only give more love to match her brother's love.
This way, if she died in the future, she could leave behind that love to accompany her brother through the long years.
The breeze didn't know the girl's intentions, but Su Nian did.
He didn't want to let this girl who deeply loved him fall into any danger again.
And the biggest danger this time was the Inheritance Advancement that would force him into slumber.
"System, is there any way to shorten or completely remove my slumber advancement trait?"
[Ding! Minor reduction in sleeping time, improving inheritance reception efficiency, requires 5,000 system points]
[Moderate reduction in sleeping time, improving inheritance reception efficiency, requires 10,000 system points]
[Major reduction in sleeping time, improving inheritance reception efficiency, requires 20,000 system points]
[Complete removal of sleeping time, no inheritance reception, requires 10,000 system points]
So he had to sleep no matter what?
Or not receive the inheritance?
Su Nian felt somewhat irritated.
Originally, he thought it didn't matter whether he received the inheritance or not, since he had the system and could take a completely different path from other dragons.
But Konnaie's appearance made him hesitate.
If he completely gave up on the inheritance, he might never meet that big shot again, which would undoubtedly be a huge loss, considering this expert could teach divine techniques with just one move.
It seemed he could only choose to modify for a major reduction in sleeping time.
Su Nian checked his system points, which were more than enough. After all, during his sleep, Grey Wolf had led the monsters to slaughter through Sakura Island's No. 1 Novice Village.
These respawnable players were perfect tools for farming system points.
[Modifying for major reduction in sleeping time, improving inheritance reception efficiency. This is a soul-level modification that will cause intense discomfort. Detecting that the host is currently flying, start the modification now?]
"No."
This wasn't urgent. He was still far from his next slumber anyway. He could go back for the modification after burying No. 6 Novice Village.
"Brother, Brother? Brother~"
Su Nian was pulled back to reality by Anna's calls. He had been focused on communicating with the system and hadn't noticed what Anna was saying.
"What is it, Anna? I was distracted just now."
"Hehe, nothing... just, just..."
Anna was stammering, her voice trembling slightly. Even without seeing her, Su Nian could imagine Anna's face blushing red, her soft hands fidgeting together in an embarrassed manner.
"Just wondering when brother can transform into human form..."
Human form?
Su Nian felt somewhat helpless. He wanted to transform, but he was only an Adolescent Dragon now and needed to go through two more stages to reach adult dragon status before he could.
The modification system could let him transform into human form early, but since he was only an adolescent dragon, he would just become a small shota boy, unable to do anything.
The key issue was that this modification was very expensive and provided no combat power improvement, making it very low in cost-effectiveness.
"Why are you so eager for me to take human form?"
Su Nian pretended to ask curiously, deliberately bringing up the awkward topic.
"..."
Anna fell silent.
She lowered her head with a blushing face, gently biting her red lips with her pearl-white teeth, hugging her knees, too embarrassed to answer.
But Su Nian still heard her inner thoughts through his Occasionally-Functional Mind-Reading Feature.
[How am I supposed to answer such a question... Oh no!]
[Brother is such a big dummy!]
[It's obvious without thinking, I... I want to have babies with brother...]
[That way, with babies, they can always keep brother company...]
After hearing Anna's thoughts, Su Nian's wings tilted, and he almost fell from the sky. """ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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