Chương 221: Reborn as the Dragon — Chapter 221 - Without a Single Mistake

Su Nian thought he was truly a kind-hearted Black Dragon. Other Black Dragons killed at the slightest disagreement. He, on the other hand, always found a proper reason before taking a life. At the very least, he would let this Storm Worm King die understanding what happened, so it could go in peace. Faced with a Black Dragon radiating killing intent, the Storm Worm King naturally wasn't going to sit still and wait for death. The moment the Black Dragon appeared, it already knew it might die here.

But all worms must die. Some die as lightly as a feather. Some die with thunderous grandeur. It decided to die with thunderous grandeur. It was going to lure this Black Dragon over to the humans! So it burned through what little life force it had left, gave all its strength, whipped around its tail, and turned back the way it came at extreme speed. From the players' point of view, the Storm Worm King BOSS marker on the map looked even stranger.

The red worm icon had been moving forward, then suddenly stopped for a moment, then made a sharp turn and started rushing back at even greater speed. It was like it had seen a ghost.

"What's going on? Is the Worm King not running anymore and coming back to fight us head-on?" The players looked at one another, confused. But since the Worm King was coming back, that was definitely a good thing. Honestly, it was really hard to catch up to the Worm King. If not for the map constantly showing its position, it would have escaped long ago.

"Get ready, guys! Our little sweetheart is coming back to greet us." McCree was the happiest of them all right now. The kill right on this World BOSS was in his hands. If the Worm King escaped to a place where they couldn't even touch it, wouldn't that drive him insane? The players waited eagerly, already in position. The spiteful Seomida players had already built stone platforms in the shallow water nearby. The other mage players were also holding various offensive spells at the ready.

As soon as the Storm Worm King dared show its head, they would immediately dump everything they had on it. The warrior players had also taken out their grappling hooks in advance. They hadn't had time to hook the Worm King before. That tsunami had risen too suddenly. Otherwise, with so many people using grappling hooks on the BOSS at once, the Worm King would have had a very hard time getting away. But something felt off. All they could hear was not just the roar of the waves.

There was also the whistling sound of wings beating. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.

"What is that!" A player stiffened and shouted. Where the sea and sky met, a V-shaped silhouette gradually rose and merged with the sun. Beneath that silhouette, the seawater split to the left and right. Faintly, they could see a long, narrow creature surging forward through the waves. From the map, it was undoubtedly the Storm Worm King. But what was following above the Storm Worm King?! It was getting closer and closer. The players all stared in stunned disbelief. [Warning! Hidden BOSS detected, Tier 4 Legendary Creature, Mutant Black Dragon!] [Warning! Hidden BOSS detected, Tier 4 Legendary Creature, Mutant Black Dragon!] Blinding system alerts lit up before their eyes. The players had no time to care, because as the two giant beasts drew closer and closer, they could already make out their enormous, ferocious bodies. Or more specifically, their attention was mainly focused on the Black Dragon. Because this Black Dragon was simply too massive, too imposing.

Even hovering dozens of meters away in the sky, it still seemed to blot out the heavens. It felt like standing at an airport and staring up at the nose of a large passenger plane. No, even bigger than that.

"So many bugs! Heh heh heh..." The Black Dragon in the sky split its terrifying jaws and let out a thunderous roar. Faintly, glowing magma could be seen churning inside. Black smoke carrying a sulfur stench seeped from the corners of its mouth, drifting through the air and coiling around its head. Its crimson-gold dragon eyes flickered in and out through the black smoke, making it look even more evil and mysterious.

Just the pressure from its wings beating was enough to make some frail mage players lose their footing and tumble to the ground in embarrassment. A powerful, perfect draconic body. Sharp, curved horns like a crown. A pitch-black body fused with armor-like scales, and the energy core at the center of its chest... This Black Dragon's image nearly satisfied every player's fantasy of an "ultimate BOSS." Only, they seemed to have run into this ultimate BOSS a little too early...

And why was such an imposing monster not marked as a World BOSS, but only as a simple hidden BOSS? Could its strength actually be even less than that ugly black noodle? The players didn't get it. But they had Appraisal. Appraisal could roughly reveal a BOSS's information, as well as its HP bar. And when one player used Appraisal, everyone within a certain range shared the result. All of them could see the BOSS's information immediately. Who knew which quick-witted bastard had acted so fast.

The instant the Black Dragon BOSS finished speaking, its information was already displayed in every player's field of view. [Name:????] [Race: Mutant Black Dragon] [Level: 38 (Tier 4)] [Other:????] All of its power attributes were [?], revealing nothing at all. The players were speechless. Knowing only the level and race was completely useless. Without the skills, they couldn't even tell where this BOSS's weakness was.

The Storm Worm King's information also had plenty of question marks, but at least it displayed the Worm King's skills. There weren't exact descriptions, but they could still make rough guesses from the skill names. This Black Dragon had nothing. Only an HP bar... Wait... Was something wrong with that HP bar? The players only realized it after a beat, or maybe because of the angle of their view and the Black Dragon's flight path, they had mistaken the dragon's HP bar for the horizon!

"Ah, shit!"

"How can there be an HP bar that long!" A Seomida mage stared dumbly at the sky, at that rise-and-fall line stretching away without end. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen wrong. But when he opened them again, the HP bar was still there, bobbing up and down, tormenting every player's nerves. The Storm Worm King's HP bar was already pretty long, but compared to this Black Dragon, it was basically the difference between an earthworm and a fully grown giant python. Both were Tier 4 BOSSes.

So why was this Black Dragon so ridiculous... Whether the players understood it or not, Su Nian wasn't going to let these system points slowly think it through. He had just finished reading out the BOSS's opening line, then swept his wings and dove down, spewing scorching dragonfire that flooded the sky. Nothing made the Storm Worm King happier than what was happening right now. Sure enough, the giant dragon's attention was focused on those humans.

That way, it could escape while the Black Dragon and the humans fought. The Storm Worm King was practically glowing with joy. It shrank down in the water and peeked up sneakily at the battle overhead. But a fireball like a molten projectile suddenly split off from the Black Dragon's breath and crashed toward it. The fireball expanded at high speed. By the time it neared the water's surface, it was already half the size of a basketball court. Then it exploded. BOOM! Steam surged upward.

Waves rolled into the sky like a dragon, layer upon layer, violent and towering. When the heat finally dispersed, only a twenty-odd-meter-long section remained on the sea surface. It had already been roasted through, fragrant on the outside and tender on the inside, like a sausage. Alongside it, a platinum treasure chest flashed with gold as it bobbed uncertainly in the water. ➤ Next: Players vs. Black Dragon (1)