Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

The cracks grew larger and larger, and finally, a huge creature emerged from them.

The deep black scales, the huge folded wings, and every move bring a sense of oppression that cannot be ignored.

There is no doubt that this is a huge black dragon.The height of more than 30 meters is covered with a large number of dense scars, the most obvious of which is the huge crack on the chest that covers the entire chest. The crack appears from the middle of the chest and extends to all sides.

And among the scars all over the body and the cracks on the chest, there seems to be a mysterious light emitting, as if it contains some kind of violent energy.

The black dragon raised its head, revealing its asymmetrical horns. Compared with the complete and huge horn on one side, the other part is shorter. Although the cross section has recovered over time, there are still traces of it being forcibly broken by a strong force. Mark of.

It opened its eyes, revealing its vertical pupils emitting red light - that was not an illusion or a metaphor reflecting lava, its body really emitted light.

"call--"

Mercer raised his head and looked up at the sky.

A trace of confusion first flashed through his eyes, and then his eyes became calm.

He remembered that when he was knocked down by that ridiculously powerful dragon, Red Phoenix interrupted the guy's behavior, and then took him away from the desert volcano and came here.

During that period, his body seemed to have entered [Pupation] due to excessive injuries and began to repair his body.

A long time passed like this. Mercer made a vague calculation and found that it seemed to be three times the length of his first hibernation (three years).

However, judging from his current state, he has really recovered from his loneliness.

The physical injuries were always there, and not only that, they seemed to be much more serious.

Mercer spread his wings and looked at his own wings.

There were large and small holes in the wing membrane covered with hard scales, and the intact wings were now extremely damaged.

Not only that, his whole body also became thinner, even more sickly than his gray old father.

He tried to move his body, but the next moment, he opened his eyes with a surprised expression.

——Just like the ability to control the contraction of throat muscles when acquiring [Fire Breath], after acquiring [Idealism], Mercer also had a deeper understanding of the conditions inside the body, allowing him to Just like the inner vision in martial arts novels, "seeing" the changes in your own body makes it easier to control the stimulation of hormones to different people.

However, this time, he discovered strange changes in his body.

There is something contained in his body that is constantly destroying everything in his body, but Mercer's own super repair ability balances this damage, causing Mercer's body to continuously cycle through the process of destruction and repair.

Mercer guessed that it might be from the energy that flowed into his body when he bit open the floating island's energy source.

After the outpouring at that time, not only was the energy not exhausted, but it was still lodged in his body.

Doing this didn't seem to do him any good. Mercer couldn't expel them, and at the same time, the restless energy was always destroying his body.

In order to repair the damage caused by energy, Mercer's body continued to extract nutrients, which resulted in his body being so thin.

However, even though he had been asleep for so long, the expected feeling of hunger still did not come to him. Not only the feeling of hunger, but also the pain caused by the destruction of energy in his body could not be felt at all.

——If Mercer guessed correctly, his body was numb from the continuous tearing and healing, and it was difficult to feel the stimulation of the outside world. Now, even if his feet touch the ground, he can't feel anything.

Therefore, I seem to be able to move freely now, but in reality I am afraid that I am on the verge of starving to death.

The most urgent task now is to find food.

Mercer opened his wings and tried to wave them, but the damaged wing membrane could no longer give him the power to fly, so Mercer could only climb up the mountain wall and came outside into the ice and snow, scanning the surroundings with hungry eyes.

His feet stepped on the snow, and the red heat from his body melted the snowflakes around his body, leaving a footprint.

Chapter 128: Make up for hunger

"—Too little."

Mercer swallowed the wild boar in front of him and chewed up the trees nearby and swallowed them all.

In the ice and snow, there are very few creatures that satisfy Mercer's appetite. It's not like there is a lot of food in the desert, and there are no Likas around to help hunt.

Moreover, because of the aura on Mercer's body, many creatures fled far away. Although they could catch them quickly based on their physical fitness, this would intensify the consumption of their bodies.

If we could find a group of powerful and orderly races to make them surrender... But there is no such thing as such a good thing.

After spending a long time living in forests and deserts, Mercer understood that it was extremely rare to find a race as obedient as a wolfdog in this world.

"Can I only hunt by myself now..."

He is now in the worst situation, having wings but unable to fly, but no matter what, he can only adapt to it.

...Fortunately, after a period of persistent searching, he found a herd of elephants.

They have thick ivory tusks and are covered with long brown hair. They are slowly eating the surrounding grass. Their bodies are not long but very wide and thick.

If it were other creatures, he would probably have to take into account their gregarious habits and sharp tusks, but Mercer didn't care about that. He swooped up and raised his hand to pat an elephant.

With a dull loud noise, the elephant was slapped to the ground by Mercer, but the force was not reduced at all. It stirred up a circle of snow waves in the snow under the elephant, and directly slapped the elephant's head into pieces. Got minced meat.

The price for doing this was that Mercer's arm directly overflowed with blood from the cracks under this blow and dripped on the ground.

After glancing at his arm, Mercer knew in his mind that since he couldn't feel the feedback from the outside world, he would not be able to control the force when he moved his hand, even if the feedback from the blow would hurt his body.

Mercer roughly understood the condition of his body, so facing the elephants running around, Mercer opened his mouth and spit out flames, letting the flames ignite their hair.

After that, it’s time to enjoy the hard-earned nutrients in big gulps.

Mercer didn't waste any time on this elephant group. Even the tusks and hairs were swallowed into his belly. He also ate the corpses that burned into black coals.

Even in the process, he opened his mouth too wide and swallowed too many pieces of meat, causing him to cause many wounds to himself while eating.

After the pieces of meat entered the stomach, they began to be quickly digested by the strong acid. The body that had been starved for three years greedily devoured any nutrients.

In the past, Mercer would definitely not have been able to eat so much food, but it was an undeniable fact that his skinny body expanded rapidly.

Plop, plop...

The rapid beating sound of his own heart sounded in Mercer's ears. The heart pumped the blood, and the blood carried nutrients to all parts of the body to replenish the sluggish muscles.

In a short period of time, Mercer's body was no longer skinny, and his muscles began to bulge, but the level before falling asleep was still not enough.

But it was enough for Mercer's next actions.

Mercer calmed down and listened to the voice in his heart:

[If He is a god, then you who are hostile to Him are the devil; the evil dragon who controls the fire of hell, the immortal black dragon, the growler of the abyss... these exaggerated names all belong to you, and do you have it? Exaggerated capital? ——Acquire three extraction functions. 】

"Extract."

Ignoring the system's voice, Mercer replied solemnly.

[Extraction in progress...extraction failed...extraction successful, acquired skills: Resonance, Super Absorption. 】

Three chances were drawn and two were won.

It was impossible to expect the system to tell him the changes in his abilities, and the names and abilities were not completely consistent.So Mercer could only try it himself.

The pain did not come, which made Mercer feel a little uncomfortable, but now he can feel the changes in that part of the body with the ability brought by [Idealism].

First, his accessory scales were connected to the nerves, and his brain also changed. After a while, obvious changes occurred in the stomach, blood and other parts of the body. Mercer did not know the specific extent of the changes, but the transmission speed of nutrients throughout the body became More quickly.

When the changes in his body disappeared, Mercer opened his eyes, dug up the snow, and gnawed down the tree roots along with the wet soil.

Feeling the changes as the food entered his stomach, Mercer's expression softened.

The so-called [super absorption] is an ability similar to [super digestion], but the latter speeds up digestion, while the former should greatly improve the body's utilization of nutrients.

As far as the changes Mercer had just roughly felt, having this skill could ease his consumption of food and make it easier for him to survive in the snow.

As for [resonance]...

Now that this ability has changed the scale powder, Mercer closed his eyes and tried to release a layer of scale powder from his scarred body.

He didn't pay attention to the ability of this kind of scale powder before, because their survival conditions were too harsh, and because he lived in a volcano, he had always regarded this ability as another layer of scale defense.

Only this time, Mercer made a new discovery.

——The scales and powders hovered among each other, transmitting all the information they felt to Mercer: temperature, wind direction, vibration, smell...

The messy information was transmitted to his brain, but was sorted out by instinct. At that moment, Mercer seemed to have a new pair of facial features, conveying to him a world that was extremely strange to him.

Mercer suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the thin black mist around him in surprise.

After calming down, he closed his eyes again and sensed everything around him, including himself, through his scale powder.

Not long after, when the scale powder in his body grew again, he understood the power of this skill.

——The scale powder can release a chemical signal between each other. After being transmitted to each other and packaged, it is then transmitted to Mercer for combing.

As long as the distance between the scales and powder is close enough, Mercer can clearly feel even things in the distance.

However, there is a small price to pay for this.

Mercer opened his eyes, with a trace of malaise in his eyes.

After all, what they released was just scale powder, not a nanocomputer. They only knew how to transmit the collected information to Mercer's mind at all times, and the sorting out could only be done by Mercer himself.

This caused him to look like he hadn't slept in several days.

Shaking his head weakly, Mercer did not intend to return to the volcano, but continued to explore in the snow.

Chapter 129: Current Situation

——The snow started to snow quickly. Mercer, who had been wandering in the snow for several days, hid in a narrow cave and looked at the scattered snowflakes outside.

He needs to sort out the situation.

First of all, there are only two goals at the moment: find a stable and strong food source, and find a way to solve the energy problem in your body.

At the same time, after these few days, Mercer also learned a few things about this place: the environment of this snowfield is harsh, and the snow rarely stops in the past few days; there is no population here that can be subdued as a subordinate, even if there is, it is useless , because the creatures in this snowfield are too rare compared to the previous deserts and forests; the two sides of the snowfield are oceans and forests respectively. If you want to find food, you can go there to try your luck; Mercer saw in this snowfield There are traces of humans, and villages-like houses abandoned by humans were also found.

Similarly, it is unbelievable that a volcano would appear in this snowfield, so Mercer suspected that the small volcano was caused by Hong Huang. As for Hong Huang, who disappeared after leaving him here. Where it went, Mercer guessed that it might be regaining its strength deep in the lava.

Then the next thing to do is very clear: the first purpose is to go to the forest or the seaside to find food, and then recharge your batteries - it is best to surrender a group of flying creatures, otherwise Mercer will be too unable to fly now. Much inconvenience.

After deciding on his goal, he took a look at the outside world and decided to go to the forest.

He is more familiar with the forest than the sea, and it is still unknown whether he is good at water.

So after taking a short rest, he left here.

......

——The Violent Dragon crawled in the ice field. It turned its head sharply to look around, and at the same time, it did not forget to raise its head and smell the smell in the air.

In the distance, a hunter lying in the snow saw it and climbed back quietly.

The Violent Dragon is still looking for food around it. Hungry is the norm in this snowfield, but it does not mean that all creatures can adapt to this kind of hunger.

But fortunately, it smelled a smell of blood, which also contained a delicious smell of sheep, which aroused its appetite in an instant.

It roared low and ran towards the direction where the smell of blood was flowing, leaving a straight trace in the snow.

Soon, it saw a group of fat sheep tied up, their down was wet with blood. After seeing its arrival, it became a mess, but it could not break free from the shackles of the rope.

The Violent Dragon didn't think much, and pounced directly on it, holding a Discocorn in its arms and started to eat it. Under its huge size, it swallowed a Discocorn whole in three or five mouthfuls.

The blood on the Discocorn didn't seem to come from them, but it wasn't disgusting. The Violent Dragon noted the taste and continued to enjoy the feast.

At the same time, the people buried in the snowdrifts stood up and approached it with weapons.

The Violent Dragon suddenly became alert. It put down the food in its hands, looked at the people around it, and roared threateningly.

"Back off! Don't scare it!"

Upon seeing this, the goddess shouted in a suppressed voice, and everyone retreated uneasily into the distance, but still did not put down their weapons.

Seeing everyone's concession, the Violent Dragon's tense muscles relaxed for a while. It stared at everyone, but hunger finally took over, and it roared while biting into the food.

So, the goddess stood in the distance, rang the bell, and muttered something:

"Each Disk-horned Beast represents a family, and the members of each family have wiped their blood on the Disk-horned Beast. You must remember this smell. These Disk-horned Beasts can eliminate disasters for us. If you are hungry, don’t come to us..."

...After a while, the Violent Dragon ate up all the disk-horned beasts. After it was full, it was no longer so aggressive. After weighing the weapons on the hunters, it cautiously He chose to avoid its sharp edge, took a few steps back, and left this place.

Seeing the violent dragon go away, the other hunters heaved a sigh of relief, while the goddess showed an excited smile: "It's the gods! The gods heard my prayers!"

——At the same time, on the other side, Shia was sitting on Xuefeng, followed by several hunters from the same village.

“It’s right in front, you’ll see it when you reach the top of the mountain.”

She said, but then a hunter objected: "Are you sure it is really there? I have been here before, and there was not even a shadow of a volcano at that time."

Shia turned her head, looked at the old hunter, and asked, "When did you come here?"

"More than 30 years ago." The old hunter paused and continued: "But no matter what, it is impossible for a volcano to grow here in more than 30 years. You must be wrong."