Chapter 336: Please Do Not Destroy Me
Chapter 336: Chapter 324: Please Do Not Destroy Me
Luh Yao didn’t think there was anything wrong with Pasha’s behavior.
‘Young people, right? What’s the point of being young if you aren’t a little wild?’
The important thing was that Pasha was still clear-headed. A loss was a loss, a win was a win. He knew to admit when he was outmatched.
The Sub-Dragon was crushed by the new Furnace Dragon in terms of raw power. This wasn’t just a loss for the Dragon Nest against White Castle; it was a defeat of traditional Sub-Dragon cultivation methods at the hands of the Yao Race’s Fire Steam Era’s Extraordinary Technology.
Luh Yao looked down at the new Furnace Dragon in the center of White Castle.
In terms of appearance, it resembled the front of a super-heavy-duty truck, retaining the basic structure of a Dragon’s horns and snout.
For the sake of practicality, the Scholars had made many improvements to the original design.
For example, its lizard-like snout was significantly shortened, its Dragon Horns and Dragon Claws could be retracted into its body, its wings were removed, and the biological Dragon Bone was completely transformed into a thick, uniform iron plate from front to back.
The Furnace Dragon’s data panel had also been updated.
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[Brass Furnace Dragon Lv3]: A Magic Device created by the Yao Race. It uses Artificial Dragon Blood as fuel and its Brass Skeleton as a Casting coordinate to deploy magical effects through its Casting positions.
Life Value: 2018/2133
Mana Value: 452/877
Damage: 44
Defense: 16
Speed: 6
[Spirit Communication Curse]
[Endurance Curse]
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The Furnace Dragon had been upgraded from Lv2 to Lv3. Its Life Value doubled, its Defense increased by 6, its speed increased by 2, and its Mana Limit went from 506 to 877.
Mana represented its reserves of Dragon Blood and Fire Steam Furnace fuel, and this increase improved the Furnace Dragon’s sustained Casting ability.
The most astonishing part was the damage, which had shot up from 0 to 44.
Luh Yao had watched the performance comparison between the Furnace Dragon and the Sub-Dragon and had also checked the backend History description. He found that the Furnace Dragon’s damage represented the destructive force of a direct ramming attack under its own power.
To go from nothing to something was truly amazing.
This was a massive device created by many Yao Clan People, improved through the successive efforts of many, and one that was continuously evolving and transforming.
From a macro perspective, the Furnace Dragon was the crown jewel of the Yao Race’s Extraordinary Technology, an integration of numerous fields including casting and Refining, Magic Potions, engineering, new material development, mathematics, Dragon Language Magic, Theology, and more.
All one could say was that the Sub-Dragon’s loss was well-deserved.
There was one other thing Luh Yao was happy about.
With mathematics officially taking the stage among the Yao Race, the discipline was beginning to exert its influence in many fields.
‘Even though I’m bad at math, I still hope the Yao Race can produce more Mathematicians.’
‘The *Advanced Mathematics* text in the museum is open to everyone. As long as you can master this secret manual, your futures will be limitless.’
Meanwhile, Pasha’s confident challenge had ended in a crushing defeat, but this didn’t make him lose heart. Instead, he found a new direction.
A cloud of thought floated above the Dark Sun Dragon’s head.
“The advantage of Dragon Descendants and Sub-Dragons lies in their diversity. The Furnace Dragon is a replica of the Dragon Race created around a Fire Steam Furnace core, its power constantly being enhanced. But Dragon Descendants and Sub-Dragons can use all kinds of creatures as blueprints. Diversity is the Sub-Dragon’s advantage.”
“Perhaps I should go out and take a look, try to find new candidates for Dragon Descendants.”
Pasha made a request, wanting to go to Sand City to gain experience and cultivate himself.
Sand City regularly held a Martial Arts Tournament, and many Extraordinary Beings participated in the grand event, making it an excellent opportunity to select Dragon Descendants. In fact, one needed immense physical strength to withstand the [Dragon Descendant’s Blessing], and the Extraordinary Beings there were very suitable.
The Dragon Nest, meanwhile, would be managed by Snowman Jimmy. A Sub-Dragon would use the [Dragon Painting with Combined Talisman] ability to take on the appearance of the Dark Sun Dragon and continue to stand guard, unrecognizable to ordinary Extraordinary Beings.
Luh Yao agreed.
And so, on this day, the Dark Sun Dragon crossed the world border and arrived in Yunzhong Temple’s Sand City.
The story of the Dragon began to spread across the desert.
Just as Luh Yao had resolved Pasha’s issue, before he could even take a sip of hot water, a series of notifications popped up on the simulator one after another.
[Senlu has invented: Eyeglasses]
[Shang Meng has invented: Telescope]
This was the first time in the Yao Race’s History of invention and creation that a husband-and-wife team had appeared.
Luh Yao continued reading.
[Dragon Residence Passage discovered: Sun Casting Bay.]
[Positioning complete.]
‘The second Tunnel World has been found!’
Luh Yao immediately switched to the grand map of the World-Dimension Space, looking at the coordinates and the real-time situation.
Unlike Continent Island, Sun Casting Bay had no concealment measures whatsoever.
It was astonishingly large.
Sun Casting Bay was close to the size of the Yao Race World. This was already the volume of a Fragment World, a rare behemoth for a Divine Kingdom in the Crawling Area.
In terms of shape, Sun Casting Bay resembled a giant nautilus.
A large, flocculent mass drifted above the shell’s opening, like some kind of lingering atmosphere enveloping the Screw-Shaped World.
Luh Yao clicked on the nautilus.
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[Sun Casting Bay]
[Divine Format]: Present.
[Divinity]: Humble as an Ant (733,566).
[Divine Body]: Gods Tier (120,157).
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This world’s God still existed.
A key question popped into Luh Yao’s mind.
‘Should I pick up this seashell?’
‘Well, since I’m already here…’
‘I’ll absorb it into the Ring Realm Group first and figure out the rest later.’
Luh Yao controlled the Vortex World to charge directly toward Sun Casting Bay.
Unlike the previous Divine Kingdoms, Sun Casting Bay reacted quickly. Almost at the same instant Yunzhong Temple accelerated, it shot off into the distance.
Thus, it turned into a high-speed chase in the Crawling Area, like a big truck chasing a small car.
The two sides chased each other, both continuously burning their Fire of Faith, appearing utterly out of place and stylistically different from the surrounding, slowly crawling Gravel Worlds.
But Luh Yao felt excited.
‘I’ve been wanting to go all-out like this for a long time!’
‘It’s a shame the previous Divine Kingdoms all liked to just give up, crawling after just a few steps.’
This time was different. Sun Casting Bay’s will to escape was incredibly tenacious.
It was constantly weaving and making high-speed turns, darting between the Gravel Worlds in an attempt to use these smaller worlds to block the barreling Vortex World behind it.
But Luh Yao simply kept accelerating, and all the Gravel Worlds along the way were sucked into Yunzhong Temple’s Ring Realm Group.
One large and one small, the two worlds sped forward at high speed.
In fact, after ten seconds of acceleration, both had reached a speed limit, which seemed to be the speed threshold of the Crawling Area. A red [10] symbol appeared in the upper right corner, indicating that further acceleration was impossible.
The chase between the Vortex World and Sun Casting Bay continued. Because a world’s sailing speed would gradually decrease under the pull of rules, intermittent acceleration was still necessary.
This time, the competition shifted from speed to Endurance.
Luh Yao didn’t care about any of that; he just accelerated all the way.
Before long, Sun Casting Bay stopped as if resigning itself to its fate, seemingly giving up the resistance.
But just as the Vortex World was about to touch it, the Screw-Shaped World suddenly ejected a large cloud of black substance from its rear. The substance, like inky smoke, actually had a strange effect on the Vortex World.
Sun Casting Bay executed an agile, sharp turn and once again bolted away at high speed.
Luh Yao discovered that the Vortex World’s ability to Sail had experienced Stagnation. It was as if that black fog had affected the Rule Power of Sailing itself, causing a delay in the acceleration command.
In just that short moment, the Screw-Shaped World had disappeared off the screen.
Luh Yao praised it in his heart. ‘As expected of a Divine Kingdom the Dragon Race would take a fancy to. It’s got some tricks up its sleeve.’
‘But I’ve got its location locked.’
The Vortex World’s delayed reaction quickly ended, and Luh Yao once again gave chase.
This time, faced with its aggressive pursuer, Sun Casting Bay didn’t move. It just floated quietly in the Void.
Luh Yao didn’t approach immediately, instead observing from a distance.
He soon understood why.
It wasn’t that it didn’t want to run; this Divine Kingdom’s Faith had been completely exhausted.
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[Divinity]: Humble as an Ant (32,451).
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In the chase just now, Luh Yao had consumed 500,000 Faith, while Sun Casting Bay had consumed 700,000. It seemed that the black fog ability had a massive Faith cost.
Above Sun Casting Bay, a white, spherical lamp slowly floated out.
A jumble of garbled code appeared on the lamp.
As the lamp slowly approached and was drawn into the Ring Realm Group, the garbled code on it gradually transformed into clear text.
“I surrender to you. Please do not destroy me.”
‘That’s a bit much,’ Luh Yao thought.
Thanks to this other party, he’d had a great time racing today. He really wanted to say thank you.
What surprised Luh Yao was that there was actually a small pixel figure hanging beneath the lamp.
He pulled it into the Vortex World along with the lamp, quickly absorbing it into Yunzhong Temple’s Sand City.
Luh Yao then clicked to anchor [Sun Casting Bay], spending 120,000 Faith to incorporate it into the Vortex World.
Then, he turned his gaze to the small figure under the lamp.