Chapter 157: The Grand Feat of Dragon Slaying Lies in Your Hands (4K)

Chapter 157: The Grand Feat of Dragon Slaying Lies in Your Hands (4K)



The patrol squad from This Land cautiously made their way through the forest, ensuring they made no sound.

"Be careful," the middle-aged man, their leader, whispered, signaling for everyone to halt. "We're approaching the spot where the Flame-Crying Dragon fell... Tineer, send Night-Hidden Bat ahead to check the situation."

A middle-aged woman named Tineer nodded and whispered something so softly that it was almost inaudible.

The large bat, which had been hovering noiselessly above the forest, seemed to hear the command and immediately changed course, flying forward.

As Night-Hidden Bat went to investigate, the rest of the group remained silent, waiting. Not a single person spoke.

Due to the dragon's roar earlier, all creatures in the nearby area had fled, leaving the place eerily quiet.

Not a sound could be heard in the entire forest, and the silence was unnerving.

Holding a bowl of water that had splashed out quite a bit during their rush, Renia moved slightly away from the group and walked behind a large tree. She whispered to the mirror person reflected in the water, "Little Mirror, are you and Xue Jing from another land as well? From the same place?"

The mirror person standing on Renia's shoulder frowned and said, "Don't call me Little Mirror. I'm several times your age. You should call me 'Mirror Elder' out of respect!"

He paused before continuing, "But yes, relative to you, I'm from the same place as him..."

"Then what is it that you want with him?" Renia asked, puzzled.

Mirror Elder stroked his chin, "Explaining everything from start to finish would be too troublesome. Just take me to meet him, and you'll find out."

"But you said that Xue Jing's situation is urgent and that we must see him immediately," Renia grumbled. "I took the risk of coming close to the Flame-Crying Dragon because you insisted. I should at least know what this is all about..."

Mirror Elder crossed his arms and said nonchalantly, "It's not some big secret that can't be shared. You'll find out when we meet him; just tag along."

At that moment, the soundless Night-Hidden Bat returned.

Renia picked up her bowl of water and walked back to the group.

The bat made a series of peculiar, rhythmic sounds, and after listening intently for a while, Tineer exclaimed in astonishment, "The Flame-Crying Dragon... It's dead!"

...

"This meat is a bit tricky," Xue Jing frowned.

In front of him was a bonfire, and a few branches had been arranged to form a simple barbecue rack, suspended over the flames. On the rack lay a piece of dragon meat—the bones removed, blood drained, and spices applied.

"It's been roasting for about half an hour now," Xue Jing said, poking the meat with a small twig.

Since he had started cooking it, the dragon meat hadn't shown any signs of being cooked, not even after thirty minutes.

"It's a fire-attribute dragon species, so it's hard to imagine that fire would cook its meat," he mused. "Maybe I should think of another way to prepare it."

"Maybe this is like the 'Flame Crab' that the mountain troll mentioned—something that can be eaten raw?"

Xue Jing stroked his chin thoughtfully.

He took the dragon meat off the rack and examined the reddish, tender-looking surface. Hesitating for a moment, he brought it close to his mouth, intending to take a bite.

Suddenly, his eyes flickered, and he turned his head toward a patch of forest a hundred meters away.

By now, his senses had become incredibly sharp—several dozen times more acute than an ordinary person's.

In Xue Jing's perception, the act of someone looking at him felt almost tangible, like a tangible substance brushing against his skin.

Something was amiss.

...

"That's... the Flame-Crying Dragon! It's dead, and it looks terrible!"

Hidden behind a large tree in the forest, the patrol squad from This Land stared at the battlefield ahead, their eyes wide with horror. The ground was covered in lava and charred earth.

"Who is that person? It looks like he's eating... the dragon?!"

A young squad member with tanned skin stared at Xue Jing, who was tending to the dragon meat, and stammered.

"I must be dreaming... The Dragon God's son, the Flame-Crying Dragon, has been killed and is being eaten. This can't be real."

Someone covered their head with their hands, their eyes unfocused as they muttered in a daze.

"Captain Ajaki, what should we do now?"

A female squad member swallowed hard, her face filled with fear.

The middle-aged man, Captain Ajaki, took a deep breath and was about to give the order to retreat stealthily.

The fact that someone could single-handedly slay the powerful Dragon God's son was beyond his comprehension.

Whoever this person was, whether they were from That Land or another realm, they were clearly not someone the patrol squad could handle.

"Let's retreat for now and go back to report to the Shaman..."

"Whoosh—"

A straight branch cut through the air, piercing a large tree before embedding itself into the trunk in front of Ajaki, penetrating several inches deep.

He stared at the branch, mere inches from his head, and broke into a cold sweat.

Had that branch hit his head, death would have been the only outcome.

He took two steps back and fell to the ground, shaken by his close call with death.

"We've been discovered... What do we do now?"

The patrol squad members, witnessing this scene and glancing at the boy roasting dragon meat, were thrown into a panic.

"Calm down. He didn't attack directly; this is just a warning!"

Ajaki stood up, his heart still pounding in his chest from the close call.

"I'll go talk to him..."

Before he could finish, Renia spoke up:

"I'll go, Uncle Ajaki."

"I know him..."

The squad members were taken aback by her statement.

...

Xue Jing looked at the girl who had emerged from the forest and said with a smile of realization:

"I thought it was another impolite local, but it's you, Renia."

The girl walked towards him through the battlefield, where the air was still murky and hot from the smoldering lava. She sniffed and immediately started coughing violently as her lungs were irritated by the smoke.

"Cough... Cough, Xue, Xue Jing."

Renia approached Xue Jing and glanced at the nearby Flame-Crying Dragon's corpse, her eyes widening in astonishment. "I never expected you to kill the Flame-Crying Dragon... Are all foreigners as powerful as you?"

Xue Jing took out a pair of translation earbuds from his backpack and handed them to her. He smiled and said, "We foreigners are like this. We see something, and we want to taste it to see if it's delicious. This dragon looked tasty, so I couldn't resist."

Renia was about to ask why he had fought the dragon in the first place, but upon hearing his reason, she couldn't help but twitch her mouth:

"So... that's how it is."

The son of the Dragon God... To think he was slain for such a reason. It seemed a bit of an unjust death.

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong? Am I offending your beliefs?"

Renia quickly shook her head. "No, no, not at all. It's fine as long as you're happy."

Xue Jing smiled and glanced at the bowl she was holding, curious. "Hmm? What are you doing with that bowl?"

Renia remembered the important matter at hand and quickly handed the bowl to Xue Jing.

He took the bowl and looked inside.

It contained only half a bowl of ordinary water.

Just as he was puzzled, a little man appeared in the reflection in the water, standing on his shoulder.

At the same time, the panel suddenly popped up with a prompt.

[Detecting divine substance. Absorbing divinity...]



"Hmm?"

Xue Jing's eyes narrowed.

The little man in the reflection on his shoulder slowly spoke:

"You must be Xue Jing. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the Mirror Person, or as you humans would say, a Godly Relic—GOD-1108."

...

"So that's how it is. You were sent by the BOSS to inform me about this."

Xue Jing nodded in understanding after conversing with Mirror Person, or GOD-1108.

"GOD-005: Mirror World. Not long ago, the BOSS and I were just talking about this (see the extra chapter). I didn't expect to encounter it so soon."

Xue Jing frowned.

"Reflective fusion, the merging of the Mirror World and the Borderland, has resulted in unpredictable changes..."

No wonder things had been strange since he entered the Borderland. Many places were completely different from the descriptions in the White Crow's data.

"That's the situation. Now, this Borderland has taken on the properties of the Mirror World, and you can't leave through the original method. You must find the flaw in the Mirror World, or the core of the Borderland, and break it to escape from here."

Mirror Person sat on his shoulder, swinging his legs casually as he spoke.

"I heard you're an elite among elites from the Sixth Institute. You've been here for several days now. Do you have any leads on the core of this Borderland?"

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow. "Hmm? Didn't White Crow tell you?"

Mirror Person felt a sense of foreboding upon hearing this. "What do you mean?"

Xue Jing smiled. "Looks like you've been deceived, Little Mirror."

"Even before I entered the Borderland, White Crow had already located the core of this place roughly."

"Also, I'm not some elite among elites from the Sixth Institute. I'm just an external collaborator."

"Mirror Elder, what's the core?" Xue Jing asked urgently.

"It's a core creature, a pure-blooded dragon species in its juvenile stage," Xue Jing replied.

Hearing this, Mirror Elder frantically stomped his feet on Xue Jing's shoulder, exasperated. "Damn it, I've been deceived again!"

"If I'd known it would be like this, I would never have agreed to come here, no matter what!"

"A pure-blooded dragon species... Even if it's in its juvenile stage, you have no chance of defeating it. We're doomed to be trapped in this Borderland forever!"

"I can't believe Wu Youqing, that girl with the thick eyebrows and big eyes, would deceive me too!"

"I'll never trust another hair on your humans' bodies again!"

Seeing how upset he was, Xue Jing tried to comfort him. "I know you're worried, but don't panic yet."

"It's a tricky situation, but not unsolvable."

Mirror Elder squatted down, hugging his knees in despair. "How can we solve it? The only way out is to break the core, but the core is a pure-blooded dragon species... You have no idea how terrifying they are, even in their juvenile stage. They are monsters beyond your imagination."

"There's no hope. We're finished."

Seeing that Mirror Elder had fallen into a state of self-pity, Xue Jing didn't say anything more. He simply opened the panel and took a look.

[Divinity Absorption Complete]



[Divinity Held: 851]



Hmm, not bad. It provided over 560 points of divinity.

As expected, Godly Relics are the best... Basically, I just need to touch them, and I get several hundred points with minimal effort.

Unlike dragon species, which are a pain to grind and don't provide that much divinity.

Fortunately, there are a lot of them, so the accumulation becomes quite substantial.

"I must kill that pure-blooded dragon species to leave the Borderland... This is indeed troublesome."

Xue Jing furrowed his brows in thought.

If he didn't have anything else going on, it wouldn't be a big deal. He could just stay in this Borderland and develop his strength until he was powerful enough to kill the pure-blooded dragon. Eventually, he would find a way out.

However, the problem was that he had a tournament coming up in a few days.

Although his reason for participating in the U19 tournament was to obtain the [GOD-519·Unbreakable Blade] from Okarina Suzuran, it wasn't a particularly important matter.

But it was a rare request from Wu Youqing outside of work, and he really wanted to fulfill it if he could.

So, he had to figure out a way to kill the pure-blooded dragon within the next few days...

Xue Jing folded his arms across his chest, tapping his left elbow with his right index finger.

"I definitely can't win with brute force. I need to find a way to exploit the Snake-Slayer Spear."

His gaze shifted to Renia, who was sitting quietly beside him, holding a piece of spiced Flame-Crying Dragon meat in her hand, her face scrunched up in hesitation.

As he looked at her, a thought occurred to him, and he fell into deep thought before speaking up. "Renia, what exactly do you do as a Dragon God's priestess?"

The girl paused, then replied softly, "A priestess serves the gods... So, a Dragon God's priestess serves the Dragon God."

Xue Jing stared at her for a moment, then smiled and asked, "You don't seem too enthusiastic about it. Is that so?"

Renia lowered her head, hiding her expression, and replied in a monotone, "How could that be? Serving the Dragon God is the highest honor. In this generation, I'm the only one in This Land who has received this honor."

Xue Jing thought for a moment, then said, "The situation is urgent, and I don't have much time to spare, so I can't take the time to understand your specific thoughts. Therefore, I'll just ask you directly."

"I plan to kill your 'Dragon God.' Are you willing to lend me a hand?"

Renia was stunned. "Kill... the Dragon God!?"

Xue Jing nodded. "Yes."

"I..." Renia hesitated, her face filled with uncertainty.

Seeing her expression, Xue Jing had a good idea of what she was thinking. He smiled and said, "You don't have to answer me now."

He held up two fingers. "Two days.

"In two days, I'll wait for you here.

"Let me know your answer then."

Renia calmed herself and shook her head. "It's impossible. The Dragon God cannot be killed."

"And... even if, if I agree, what help could I possibly be to you?"

Xue Jing tilted his head. "Didn't you say that your duty is to serve the Dragon God? If you're serving it, then I assume you have opportunities to get close to the Dragon God, right?"

Renia paused. "Yes, that's true, but..."

"That's enough," Xue Jing said with a smile, patting Renia's slender shoulder.

"The grand feat of dragon slaying may lie in your hands..."

Xue Jing whispered.

...

(End of Chapter)

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