I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 209 - 178: Not the Peak but Got Stronger_1

Chapter 209: Chapter 178: Not the Peak but Got Stronger_1

"...You’ve said so much, I thought you really understood all this."

"Understand it? I still want to live a good life." The fire dragon’s mouth twitched slightly, "Knowing about forbidden spells is the limit; anything more, unless I possess the strength of a Godslayer, I definitely won’t even try to understand it."

After all, understanding that kind of knowledge is like poking at the nerves of a god. If you don’t have the power, why the hell would you try to learn it?

What do you want to do by learning that kind of knowledge??

"I would like to ask what it feels like to fight with an avatar of a god."

"There’s not much of a feeling. Like I said, the expressiveness of gods and demons in that world isn’t so exaggerated. They’re definitely strong, but if you’re powerful enough, you can put up a fight."

"Hmm, so it’s just a matter of competing in terms of strength? No wonder the gods you encountered in the Alien Phenomenon world don’t die completely." As a theoretician, the fire dragon nodded its head. If you only chop the tree and not the roots, as long as the god’s roots are alive, they can grow back into a new tree.

Thinking about this made it feel even more regrettable. Why hadn’t it encountered that? If it had, maybe... maybe without restraint, it would have paid a certain price to stay in such a world. With its knowledge, it should be able to manage uprooting in that kind of world.

"I’m so envious."

"Alright, let’s end the small talk there. Come, give me some of your blood."

"Enough already! You come to me with the threat of two fists and want me to give you my blood after class??" The fire dragon’s eyes widened as it stared at Zheng Yichen. Don’t think just because you look delicate now, with longer hair, that you can make any demand!

"Then shall we have a fight?" Zheng Yichen’s fingers lightly came together, producing a series of cracking noises.

The fire dragon involuntarily swallowed, "Well, how about you join me for a couple of games first?"

It had invited Zheng Yichen to play games before, but Zheng Yichen had never agreed, thinking he was terrible at gaming.

Before playing games, they had a real fight once. It wasn’t Zheng Yichen who wanted to fight; it was the fire dragon who, seeing that Zheng Yichen agreed without a second thought, thought it had been scammed by Zheng Yichen, and shamelessly sought a real-life PK.

As a result, it no longer needed to draw extra blood from Zheng Yichen.

While playing games, Ahn Qi even made a special call to Zheng Yichen, telling him not to aim for the fire dragon’s face next time they fought and not to leave any obvious injuries on the fire dragon’s body.

Given the fire dragon’s massive size and strong constitution, it healed much faster than a normal human, but not to an exaggerated extent. Too obvious injuries could cause delays, a fully intact fire dragon was more intimidating. If injured with visible wounds, the indigenous rabble-rousers of the Alien Phenomenon world might think they had a chance to slay the dragon.

As for Zheng Yichen’s need for Dragon Blood, Ahn Qi didn’t pay too much attention. The dragon was so large that letting a few basins’ worth of blood was trivial. Other research also used Dragon Blood frequently; as long as the nutrition was sufficient and under painless blood-drawing techniques, the fire dragon hadn’t complained about anything.

Excessive blood drawing would weaken the fire dragon, but what era was this? Facing special cases, they wouldn’t just cut pieces off without second thought, let alone create other complications; blood drawing alone could cover most of the research.

Moreover, there was a professional team monitoring the fire dragon’s body. Sometimes the fire dragon itself wouldn’t notice its health issues, but the professional team would detect them first.

"Didn’t you say you’re not at your peak condition yet??" the fire dragon, holding a gigantic game controller, complained to Zheng Yichen as he sat on the ground.

He got hammered even worse this time. In terms of physical attributes, he was at the limit of this world; to enhance his combat power, he could only improve his techniques, ponder over magic that consumes less but wields greater power, and study other close combat skills, and so on.

Train the body? No matter how much he trained, there wouldn’t be much change.

"I’m indeed not in the state of my peak condition, but I have become stronger," Zheng Yichen said, looking at the screen in front of him. The fire dragon was using a huge screen that suited his size, while Zheng Yichen had a regular-sized one in front of him.

"That’s outrageous..." the fire dragon scratched his cheek; a scale on his head had been cracked by Zheng Yichen.

Zheng Yichen’s situation was clear to it: previously, his attributes were at 100 points, his peak condition at that time. Although he was not at his peak now, his attributes had risen to 150. Even in a non-peak state with only seventy percent of his battle power, that still worked out to be 105, which was stronger than his former peak.

Playing the game, the fire dragon found that Zheng Yichen was quite good at it. Although it seemed to be his first time playing this game, his understanding and learning speed were exceptionally fast. What did this mean? This guy had played games before, and he had played a lot of them.

The beating it had hoped for did not happen; they were evenly matched. But just recalling the beating he had received before they started the game made any satisfaction from this draw disappear.

"Let’s play together again sometime," Zheng Yichen said as he left the research institute with what he wanted. The Dragon Blood he acquired wouldn’t go to waste; some would be taken back for the two witches at home, and the rest would be sent to Dusk Cathedral, where it would be mailed to Liu Hongzhao and the others through the repository.

The last time he sent them something, they had already scheduled the time for the next shipment.

Dragons, even the big lizard version with wings, were still a type of dragon, which in the Apocalypse Martial Arts World would count as a divine beast. The unexpected gains included the forbidden spell given by the fire dragon and the scale fragments he had knocked off while beating it.

The fire dragon’s scales were an excellent material, and with Dragon Blood, hopefully, a skilled artisan could craft either a high or low-grade flaming scales sword, right? The good news was that there were plenty of materials; the bad news was that there might not be any living skilled craftsmen left.

Zheng Yichen had this idea because using a giant sword like the Battle Maniac Asura was a bit stressful for them at their current age; the weapon was even taller than they were. Preparing an extra weapon for them seemed necessary.

Zheng Yichen had grown to see Liu Hongzhao and the others as his daughters. Being a transmigrator, although he had to restart and retrain after arriving in this world, the span of life he had experienced was no longer that of a regular ’young person’.

"1 merit point plus 900,000." Inside Dusk Cathedral, Prioress Tia told Zheng Yichen the price to craft a weapon.

This was not about repairing a weapon, the expenditure of merit points was necessary. However, since the minimum consumption of merit points was one, he could directly make three weapons this time around. It wasn’t that the fire dragon was too lousy, making the weapon crafting exceedingly cheap; the main reason was the materials.

The battle suit made from a gorilla consumed one entire gorilla, whereas now he was just creating from the scales knocked off from the fire dragon after a thrashing.

"Oh, and one of the swords needs to be compatible with water attributes, okay?"

Water attributes with fire attribute materials? Anywhere else, that suggestion would get ridiculed, but at Dusk Cathedral, Prioress Tia’s response was just to add another 200,000.

Then there was no problem. He would just pay and wait for the news, as so far, Zheng Yichen hadn’t really enjoyed many special treatments from Dusk Cathedral.

Yet, this time, after making his request and receiving a straightforward answer, he understood why those Dusk mercenaries were so diligent...