Chapter 69: Dragon Pattern and Dragon Speech Magic (Third Watch, Nearly Ten Thousand, Requesting Monthly Passes)

"Book. Useful. No reliance."

Having rarely encountered a Heroic Soul capable of direct communication, Li En naturally had to ask about the Heroic Soul Codex.

In Kukku's eyes, the Heroic Soul Codex was indeed a quite excellent divine artifact, very suitable for the growth of the "New Li En Sudar," but that was all.

"Growth, self, more important. Subjective necessity."

Kukku was very confident; compared to the "auxiliary growth" of the Heroic Soul Codex, an Alchemy Master could obviously do much more.

This was not a difference in ability, but rather that such automated items could often only provide passive assistance; whatever material you had, it could process it to the minimum extent.

But an Alchemy Master could tailor-make something according to your situation, or even produce a material list for you to go and procure to complete it.

"Drink. Sleep."

That was a bottle of blood-red potion, the liquid inside viscous, with flames flowing faintly upon its surface.

Can this thing be drunk? It looks like it could scald the tongue off.

Li En sighed, gritted his teeth, and downed it in one gulp.

"Huh, so cold, and a little sweet."

Before he could finish speaking, he threw his head back and collapsed.

This dream seemed quite complete.

Outside, Kukku, for the first time, calmed down. Kusla seemed to have powered off; after a long while, he sighed.

"Sigh, Li En Sudar, the Dragon of a Thousand Faces."

He walked over, picked up that codex, and flipped through its contents.

Li En had tried; books that others could not open offered no resistance to Kukku.

He opened the codex entries one by one, browsing the records upon them.

"Canned goods. Sun canned goods." The first Heroic Soul was Su Er.

Even though the Heroic Soul Cards were gone, the codex still depicted the figure of that foolishly upright and just soul.

As the first Heroic Soul, he was destined to greatly influence Li En; Kukku, acting as an observer, probably saw this most clearly. The current Li En was already significantly different from the "Transmigrator Li En Sudar," and this apparently took only a short month.

A clerk whose goal was merely to muddle through the days was now a warrior adapted to this cruel world.

The youth who had obtained courage and rage from Su Er now probably dared to draw his sword against anyone.

But was this truly all a good thing?

"Sun again! Blinding! Too bright."

The second Heroic Soul, that hero who faced all powerful enemies alone, was also simply too brilliant.

Kukku quickly flipped through the pages of the codex where he resided; he had no interest in himself, and the pages behind were already blank.

"Cruel. Too hard. For him."

Putting down the codex, Kukku already knew much.

The first few Heroic Souls were destined to be the most important; they were fated to play a core role in reshaping the "Li En Sudar" personality, and personality can determine destiny.

Since destiny had guided the hero and warrior who fought against destiny to him time and again, and the first two were misfits in a desperate situation within a desperate situation, it also meant that the destiny Li En Sudar would face this time would probably be even more desperate than those two.

It seemed Kukku himself also faced too many predicaments and desperate situations.

The power of destiny was nothing to this book; one of its potential rules was to provide the user with the best and most suitable "cultivation conditions" possible. A battlefield requiring glory grenades and nuclear bombs was, by any reckoning, not a good thing.

Perhaps what awaited Li En would be a hell-level difficulty.

"Gulp... Is it worth it? Really, is it worth it?"

Kukku looked at the bright moon outside the window, both sighing and questioning.

And no one could answer him.

Only the evening wind blew through the pages, turning them over one by one, finally stopping at the last page.

【Ultimate Mission: Find Humans!】

And at this moment, in the empty room, besides the already sleeping Li En, only Kukku's whisper of "Is it worth it?" echoed.

"... Whether it is worth it or not, only future generations have the qualification to comment."

"Too tragic, too tragic."

"Help him, okay? He is a good child."

"I'm hungry, let's find something to eat later."

"Oh my god, we were duped, forgot to go to the underground cavern."

"It succeeded, my potion succeeded, we fulfilled our dream."

"To celebrate, let's go eat late-night snacks later! I'm hungry."

All along, Kukku, who seemed silent or spaced out, was actually holding a tea party internally.

This time, after Li En fell asleep, Kukku's "friends," now completely idle, happily began their night talk again.

Li En himself, of course, did not know that this Heroic Soul was displaying split personalities in his room.

Kukku's Gold-tier Soul ability was Triple Thought, possibly three personalities. The thought lines a complete Heroic Soul could possess were not limited to three, and these "personalities" would not disappear even if the ability weakened; this was part of Kukku.

Li En himself had only fallen into a long slumber; in this dream, he seemed to have returned to ancient times, to history, to his hometown.

His will fell into confusion, into the universe, and even became lost for a time.

"Whoa, the medicine was too strong! He's not breathing."

"Will lost? Soul, soul, are you there?"

"He's so weak! I already halved the potion."

"Save him quickly!"

"Mix medicine again. Mix medicine again!"

"No materials left... go out and steal some!"

Li En would never know that by the time Lord Lord Kuku realized something was wrong, he was already half dead. Entrusting one's life to a professional klutz of a kobold, and a schizophrenic one at that, could only mean Li En was truly ignorant and fearless.

And after a while, once flooded with a huge amount of potions and materials, his breathing finally stabilized.

And at the edge of the ocean of his spirit, he finally met his target, the origin of his bloodline—a colossal, boundless red dragon.

He, or it, merely looked silently at Li En, then exhaled a breath of dragon fire.

"Ahhh!"

The agony throughout his body made him convulse uncontrollably; he was instantly woken by the pain.

The next moment, he fainted from the pain again.

He convulsed constantly on the bed, his muscles swelling and tightening by turns, but this time, Lord Lord Kuku paid no attention at all.

"The blood is boiling; the dragon vein has awakened."

"Not bad. Guess how many characters he can awaken?"

"One."

"One."

"Isn't that impossible to bet on?"

"Two. I'm rooting for him. The loser makes the midnight snack!"

In the end, Li En disappointed them. Perhaps Lord Lord Kuku had dosed him too harshly; even until dawn, he was still convulsing constantly on the bed, so the bet was naturally voided.

But as a price, the "results" he produced were somewhat beyond expectations.

"Three characters?! Three Dragon Speech runes?" This clearly abnormal result made Lord Lord Kuku decide to stay silent and pretend he knew nothing of what had happened.

After all, most Dragonborn awaken only one Origin Character first.

"Hmm, but I feel I can only use the first one, ELDER (Fire); the second, SOL (Sun), I can't bring out; and the third, SKERVA (Sword), is only half there."

To awaken but be unable to use it was clearly wrong.

Lord Lord Kuku touched his metal chin and still pretended everything was normal.

"The first innate dragon mark is the Furnace Fire; it seems you are pure Fire attribute. Not bad." Lord Lord Kuku, switching back to teaching mode, gave a brief explanation of the power Li En had awakened.

Dragon Speech magic is the magic of "commanding" elements, but the premise of command is that you must recognize the element and shout its name.

And this process of "recognizing and shouting" is also a shaping of the element.

Every element is actually seemingly alike but actually different; for the same Fire dragon mark, Lord Lord Kuku knew of at least nine varieties, but their "meanings" and subtle distinctions were entirely different, so their combined results naturally varied as well.

Of course, for Li En at present, the Furnace Fire of smelting was still just "Fire."

Shout its name and summon its descent.

Lord Lord Kuku stopped Li En's attempt; he liked this room very much and did not want to move house.

"The second is SOL (Sun); a good combination, but is it Sur (Sol), the Holy Sun?"

Lord Lord Kuku sighed; he more or less knew where this dragon mark had come from.

Dragon Speech magic is plundering, is acquisition; only what you possess can be commanded and wielded.

And for Li En to obtain it, besides the guidance of fate, there was also a material source.

The main reason was that he had previously consumed the shattered dragon soul of "Roar of the Volcano," from which he acquired the concept of "Fire," allowing him to successfully originate.

Acquiring the concept of "Sun" from the Silver-grade material "Tears of the Lion King (Sun)" was the foundation for his awakening of the second dragon mark, but the ability to digest the concept of the Sun for species evolution also proved his natural affinity with the "Sun" attribute.

But in the end, it turned out to be SOL (Sur), the "Holy Sun," which was somewhat influenced by the Hero's soul.

As for the third...

"SKERVA, the concept of tearing objects; calling it a sword isn't wrong, but it carries the concepts of wounds and cutting. A good fusion rune. It should be quite effective for attack on its own; you can try it."

Lord Lord Kuku was very satisfied with the dragon mark Li En had successfully obtained.

Setting aside a few small accidents, this indeed proved Li En's potential in this regard.

"Lord Lord Kuku will teach you how to use it!"

"You can only shout single words now, but dragon marks and dragon runes are most important when fused into 'words,' the so-called Dragon Speech. Do not use it now! Unless you want to die. You absolutely cannot withstand two characters now; that is a multiplicative power amplification."

"Dragon Speech magic is actually quite simple; it is the process of constantly collecting dragon marks and combining and developing them. Even if I am gone, you can still learn it yourself."

"The dragon marks you possess now are not the end; you must constantly feed them and cultivate them. Their evolution is also your evolution."

(End of this chapter)