Chương 243: Reborn as the Dragon — Chapter 243 - So System, You Admit You're Useless?

The smell of blood. Human sweat. And the rank stench coming off the dragon beast in front of him. It had pissed itself in fear. Su Nian came to his senses and looked around. He seemed to be inside an arena. The humans surrounding him were all wearing expressions of shock and terror. What was there to be scared of? Was a Black Dragon as handsome as him really that frightening? Su Nian was a little annoyed. That came from the Black Dragon's instinctive disgust toward humans.

And the trembling dragon beast in front of him didn't seem to be his summoner, either. So where was his summoner? Su Nian felt something sticky under his dragon claw. He lifted it and looked. A shattered girl was lying there. Her lower abdomen had probably been crushed flat when he emerged just now. Her limbs looked as though they'd been torn apart by some kind of monster. Shredded flesh and broken bones were scattered all around like discarded parts.

The key point was, even after injuries like that, the girl still wasn't dead. She was only clinging to life. She could still live through that? Su Nian didn't understand it, but he was deeply shocked. That level of vitality was basically cockroach-tier, wasn't it? This cockroach-like girl was his summoner. Su Nian could feel a faint connection.

"Lowly dragon beast, you dare piss yourself in front of the great true dragon? Die!" Since the dragon beast wasn't the summoner, Su Nian showed no mercy. He opened his mouth and blasted out a mouthful of scorching dragon breath. The dragon beast didn't even dare move. It was instantly vaporized, not even given a chance to struggle or scream. Flames burned inside the arena. There was no fuel, but with the dragon breath as ignition, the fire only grew hotter and fiercer.

Licked by the searing flames, the nobles in the arena finally reacted to what had happened.

"A Black Dragon! How can there be such a huge Black Dragon here?!"

"Run! Move it, don't block me!" The nobles panicked. Humans had an instinctive reverence and fear for creatures like dragons, and this Black Dragon looked especially hard to deal with. It had just appeared and spewed Aubrite's carefully cultivated dragon beast to death.

"Your Highness, th-this Black Dragon is also your pet, right?" The nobles near Delna stayed relatively calm. That came from their trust in the princess. This beast arena was one of the Third Princess's holdings. Delna: "..." Delna was just as panicked inside. This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. Judging by size alone, this Black Dragon should be somewhere between young adult and adult, a powerful fifth-tier legendary creature.

But a Silver Knight of the same fifth tier couldn't kill a dragon like that. Only a sixth-tier Gold Knight could be absolutely certain.

"The appearance of this Black Dragon is an accident." Delna shook her head. She was forcing herself to stay calm. As a princess, she wasn't some useless decoration. She had been trained from childhood by all kinds of masters in the palace. Her personality might have been a little twisted, but she had real ability. Not yet twenty years old, and she was already a pretty solid Black Knight, fourth tier.

"An accident?!" This time, even the nobles around Delna couldn't sit still. These lords were used to luxury and decadence. They feared nothing in the world except one thing: death. And clearly, this suddenly appeared Black Dragon posed a serious threat to their lives.

"Your Highness, quickly order the guards in the arena to hold that Black Dragon off. Then we'll have time to leave safely!"

"Yes, Your Highness, don't just stand there."

"Shut up! Do you need to teach me how to do things?" Delna snorted coldly. In fact, she didn't even need to give the order. This arena was her property, and the soldiers stationed here were her elite troops. They were already charging toward the Black Dragon. But those soldiers wouldn't hold out for long. Their seemingly solid defensive line would be utterly flimsy before a Black Dragon. So Delna took a scroll from her spatial ring and tore it open at once.

The magical power inside the scroll transformed into a white pigeon made of mana. The pigeon circled once in the sky, then vanished with a whoosh. It was an emergency distress letter. The pigeon would fly directly to the nearest city defense commander, report the situation, and show the location where the distress signal had been sent. Inside Eirilan's royal capital, there were four city-defense commanders. They each guarded one of the capital's four gates. Every one of them was a Gold Knight.

As long as they could hold out until a Gold Knight arrived, this Black Dragon wouldn't be able to make much of a stir.

"Don't panic when something happens. Your behavior today has really disappointed me."

"As core nobles of the royal capital, you should show the bearing and courage befitting royal capital nobles." Seeing that the Black Dragon's attention wasn't on them, Delna finally breathed a sigh of relief. The distress signal had gone out. She had nothing else to worry about, and instead started lecturing the nobles around her. In the center of the arena, Su Nian ignored the soldiers gathering around him. He was coiled beside the girl, trying to communicate with this summoner who had already fallen unconscious.

He had been summoned here to do a job. If he didn't do the job, he wouldn't get the reward.

"System, is there any way to make her wake up quickly? And your trash system shop too. Players have healing potions, why can't you? Are you just a useless piece of junk?" Su Nian's fatal triple hit left the system silent for a moment. After a long pause, the system answered in a flat voice: [Host can pour dragon blood over the summoner. Also, the rule power of this system and the rule power of the player system are not the same. This system is good at transformation, not at twisting rules to directly create objects.] Su Nian said, "So, dog system, you're admitting you're more useless than the other system?" System: "..." It regretted not installing a self-destruct program back then just to save a bit of cost. Otherwise, it would absolutely have dragged this Black Dragon to hell with it. The system went quiet again. Su Nian didn't care. Ordinary creatures couldn't withstand too much dragon blood.

For beings not already tainted by dragon aura, dragon blood was like cancer cells. It would rapidly devour the host's original cells, until the host lost its reason and became nothing more than a feral beast that only knew how to kill. After all, once the brain was assimilated, things like reason naturally no longer existed. In all the generations that had bathed in dragon blood, every single one had been a warrior with considerable strength to begin with.

There were also a small number of ordinary humans who could endure dragon blood. Those people were extremely rare, and luck played a part too. The girl lying unconscious in the blood before him had no magic or aura at all. She was very weak, just an ordinary human. The only thing that made her different was her terrifying self-healing ability.

Since the system had offered this solution, that meant the girl could directly accept violent dragon blood and still keep her sanity, instead of turning into a mindless mad thing that only knew how to bite. As for why not use heart's blood. First, there was very little of it. It was precious. Second, the girl in front of him needed energy to repair her body, and dragon blood contained massive amounts of it. Su Nian put his dragon claw into his mouth and bit down. His sharp teeth tore open the tip of his claw.

Then he held it above the girl. Crimson-gold dragon blood slowly dripped down. It mixed with the girl's blood. Like slithering snakes, it gradually worked its way into her body through her broken wounds. ➤ Next: Gold Merit Knight (1)