21: Chapter 21: No clues found, but a terrifying presence discovered...
[Crimson Alert: The East Sea's third line of defense has been declared lost! The Abyss Sect's 'Skinner' has appeared; three thousand Awakened have fallen. Where is the dawn for humanity?]
Jiang Feng clicked on the video, and the footage was shaking violently.
The black seawater was boiling as if it were being cooked, and dense crowds of stitched monster beasts rushed the defensive line like a tide.
The so-called modern electromagnetic cannons were no different from toy water guns under that magnitude of magical energy charge.
“Weakness is the original sin; this saying applies to any world.”
Jiang Feng scrolled to the comment section, which was filled with negative energy and agitation:
“Even Lv60 big shots were instantly killed. I heard those monster beasts have started systematically establishing strongholds; they don't see us as humans at all.”
“Don't be pessimistic! Did you guys see? Our Huaxia genius, Shen Qingni, awakened an S-grade talent. When people like her grow up, they will be the backbone of humanity!”
“That's in the future! The key now is, who can fill the vacuum of combat power at the front lines?”
Jiang Feng closed the post and gave a cold laugh.
That Great Campus Belle Shen, who had mocked and ridiculed him outside the dungeon entrance, had actually become the hope of the entire village?
“Whoever wants to be the savior can be it; it’s too tiring.”
Jiang Feng shook his head. “I just want my dad to retire early and my mom to stop being so frugal.”
Of course, in this world overrun by alien races, the prerequisite for being protective of his own was to be even more unreasonable than all those alien races.
Next, he searched for 'Ancient War Titan' and 'pangus spinal cord.'
As a result, only a line of cold red text popped up on the screen:
[Insufficient Permissions. This information involves high-dimensional taboos; it is recommended to retry after reaching Lv30.]
“My level is too low; I don't even have the qualification to take a look?”
Jiang Feng's eyes turned slightly cold.
Fine, since there are no clues, then I'll level up through brute force until the system has no choice but to spit out the truth.
I'll rush my level to 30 first. Maybe once I reach that level, clues for the 2nd Job Advancement will appear.
Just as he was about to get up and clear the loot, Jiang Feng suddenly glimpsed a sudden patch of white in the large pit smashed out by Sion's tombstone.
Jiang Feng didn't know what it was, so he walked over and bent down to check.
In the grave pit, there was actually an unsettlingly white egg.
“What is this thing?”
Subsequently, when his fingers touched this white egg, the sensation was extremely cold.
Then, a deathly stillness, permeated with a sense of gray decay, surged forth one after another.
This thing was just a stone that looked like an egg; there wasn't a hint of life in it.
The system notification sound immediately rang in his mind.
[Ding! Detected 'Mysterious Pet Egg (Unidentified)'. Spend 1,000 Mana points for a forced appraisal?]
“Appraise!”
Jiang Feng didn't even bat an eyelid.
For an ordinary player whose mana was stretched thin, these 1,000 points might be life-saving money, but for a cheater like him with 'infinite stat points,' it was just a casual matter.
Besides, with 3,125 points of Luck sitting right here, he was betting that he could win even the system's underwear in this wave.
Buzz—!
The moment the magic power was infused, the dull gray eggshell shuddered violently, cracking open a hideous fissure.
Immediately following that, what burst forth was not golden light, but a seven-colored radiance capable of piercing retinas and spanning the horizon!
[Warning! High-dimensional luck interference detected; appraisal result has deviated!]
[Determining... Since your Luck value is ridiculously high, the hidden entry 'Life from Despair' has been triggered!]
[Congratulations! The useless egg has completed a life reversal and underwent an ultimate mutation!]
[Obtained: 1-Color Quality Pet — 'Ancient World-Destroying Dragon (Infancy)']!
...
“My god, this quality is even more precious than the ninth grade of Red Quality, the Mythical-grade treasures!”
Jiang Feng couldn't help but marvel: “A 1-Color World-Ending Dragon, and it's even Ancient-grade! Simply awesome!”
Boom!
The seven-colored pillar of light shot up into the sky, directly smashing the decades-thick haze over the Bonebury Wasteland into powder.
In the center of the light pillar, the eggshell shattered inch by inch, turning into a sky full of stardust.
A figure about the size of a four or five-year-old child appeared in the chaos.
It wasn't a hideous scaled monster, but a little girl so exquisite she looked like a porcelain doll.
She wore a short skirt woven from seven-colored dragon scales, her snow-white hair reached her ankles, two white jade-like dragon horns sat atop her forehead, and her pink little feet were bare as she suspended in mid-air.
The girl opened her eyes, and her pupils seemed to contain a crushed galaxy.
She looked at Jiang Feng, initially confused, but then sensing the aura of her 'provider,' her eyes instantly lit up.
“Eeya!”
She was like a pink nuclear bomb, plunging headlong into Jiang Feng's embrace, her two arms tightly hugging Jiang Feng's neck.
Her small head kept rubbing against the crook of Jiang Feng's neck, mumbling strange syllables.
“...Ma... Mama?”
Jiang Feng's entire body froze, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
I'm a real man; this call of 'Mama' really makes one's brain short-circuit.
[Pet Information: Unnamed]
[Quality: 1-Color (Above Mythical, Taboo of the Gods)]
[Status: Infancy]
[Personality: Lively, extremely dependent, combat maniac]
“Ahem, I'm not your mom, I'm your master.”
Jiang Feng lifted the soft and squishy little thing up, and meeting those big watery eyes, his heart instantly softened.
“Forget it, in the future call me... Big Brother.”
“Eeya!” The little girl nodded as if she half-understood, still wanting to burrow into Jiang Feng's embrace.
“Since you are a dragon race incarnation, I'll call you... 'Long Nü' from now on.”
[Ding! Naming successful! Long Nü's intimacy with you has increased to 100 (Inseparable in Life and Death)!]
Hearing the new name, Long Nü excitedly broke free from Jiang Feng's hands and spun around happily in the air.
“Long Nü... likes... name!”
Just as her clear voice fell, a destructive pressure suddenly erupted from her petite body.
With a casual wave of her hand, a faint seven-colored ripple emanated out.
Rumble—!
Within a thousand-meter radius, those withered trees as hard as iron and the Lord-grade tombstones instantly evaporated into flying ash the moment the ripple touched them, as if they had been hit by a dual-vector foil dimensionality reduction strike!
Even those thick earthen mounds were directly leveled to the ground!
Jiang Feng's pupils shook violently.
Holy crap, this destructive power... you call this infancy?
Long Nü was startled by the commotion. Looking at the ruins she had casually dismantled around her, she twiddled her fingers somewhat helplessly, her eyes instantly turning red.
“...Did... did I do something wrong?”
Jiang Feng wiped away cold sweat, his heart pounding wildly.
If he took her back to the city center in the real world, as long as she got happy, half a street... no, half a city would probably be gone.
“It's okay, you dismantled it well.” Jiang Feng knelt down and rubbed her head. “In the future, just dismantle places like this. You have to be obedient outside, you know, baby?”
Long Nü felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted, and her little face blossomed into a smile again.
[System Prompt: Your pet 'Long Nü' observed the battle and absorbed the Lord's remnant soul, gaining 100,000 Experience!]
[Long Nü's level has increased: Lv1 → Lv15!]
A series of golden level-up lights exploded on Long Nü's body.
What? Leveled up again?
Jiang Feng was speechless.
He was completely speechless.
I kill monsters to get attribute points, but this little ancestor doesn't even need to look at monsters; she's here on vacation, takes a stroll, and goes straight to level 15!
He casually pulled open Long Nü's attribute panel: