The continent of Atlan, Serel Wilderness.
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A black-feathered, red-beaked hawk flapped its wings as it flew across the sky, passing over lush mountain forests, a clear green lake, and the endless wilderness. It slowed down slightly, eventually landing on a rugged cliffside. As it preened its feathers, it looked down.
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This place was a massive circular sinkhole, looking as if it had been blasted out by a meteorite.
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The center of the sinkhole contained forests and rivers, surrounded on all sides by steep, jagged cliffs.
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The Black-Feathered Hawk tilted its head, its eyes filled with confusion. Reflected in its vision was a creature at the bottom of the sinkhole, repeatedly throwing its full strength into ramming its flesh-and-blood body against the mountain rock.
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It was about six meters long from head to tail, with scales and horns, wings, and a long tail. It was clearly a Young Dragon, though its appearance was somewhat peculiar and did not resemble any common species.
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Its head resembled that of a Red Dragon and it possessed the backward-swept horns of a Red Dragon. The difference was that the base of its horns was encased in spade-shaped metallic bone, forming an angular structure similar to a knight's helmet.
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Its dragon scales overlapped in layers, with a base color of black that shimmered with a silvery gleam. The surface bore faint patterns, presenting a dark red luster akin to lava flowing over an iron plate. The edges of the scales were as sharp as blades, refracting an obsidian-like cold light as they rose and fell with its breaths, giving the creature a highly metallic feel overall.
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Though it was only a Young Dragon, it already possessed a sense of power and ferocity that far surpassed ordinary beasts, and its limbs, tail, and wings were all exceptionally strong.
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Bang!
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Garros flapped his wings, which were much broader and thicker than those of an ordinary Young Dragon, to accelerate, ramming headfirst into the base of the cliff before him. Loose stones splattered everywhere, and dust filled the air.
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Shaking his head, he pulled his head and upper body out of the rock.
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Garros shook his dragon scales, dislodging the small pebbles caught in the crevices and the dust clinging to the surface. Then, he stopped his mountain-ramming behavior—which had so confused the Black-Feathered Hawk—and leaned against the large hole he had smashed to rest.
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"Six years have passed in the blink of an eye since I became a Dragonkin."
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Garros sighed inwardly, looking down at his dragon claws, opening and clenching them repeatedly.
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It—or rather, he—was not a normal Dragonkin.
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First of all, he was a hybrid of a Red Dragon and an Iron Dragon, as was evident from his unique appearance.
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However, while a Red Iron Dragon hybrid was rare, it was still within the realm of possibility.
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Both Red Dragons and Iron Dragons were prime examples of Evil Dragons, and both revered power and strength.
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One was the leader of the Chromatic Dragons, while the other was the head of the Ferrous Dragons.
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Although under normal circumstances, there was fierce competition between these two Dragonkin, and they often couldn't stand the sight of each other, instantly breaking into a fight upon meeting, it was not entirely impossible for these Evil Dragons, who both revered strength, to suddenly lock eyes mid-fight. The battle would turn into flirting, and soon enough, the sparks would ignite an uncontrollable passion.
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The main reason he was considered abnormal, however, was that within this Red-Iron Young Dragon's body resided a human Soul that had transmigrated from another world.
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That's right, Garros was a transmigrator.
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He couldn't figure out why he had transmigrated and didn't bother to think too much about it, as it was pointless. Moreover, a Dragonkin's body was far more powerful than a human's. Having gained a new lease on life, Garros had long since accepted the reality of becoming a Dragonkin.
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Influenced by his dragon heritage and six years of living as a Dragonkin,
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his human Soul and draconic nature had now undergone Fusion, becoming indistinguishable from one another. This formed a personality that was predominantly draconic—loving the pursuit of power and strength—yet also retained human logic and wisdom. He possessed the resilience and power of a Dragonkin, without the negative traits such as excessive arrogance, self-conceit, or a pathological obsession with treasure.
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In short,
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he took the best of both worlds and discarded the dregs.
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Raising his dragon claws, Garros carefully felt his head, which had just spent a long time ramming the mountain.
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The fine scales on his facial armor and the horns atop his head felt even sturdier to the touch.
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"Though it's not very obvious, my body has definitely grown a bit stronger again."
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The Young Dragon nodded in satisfaction, his tail—lined with blade-like dragon scales—swishing left and right, carving dense scratches into the ground.
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Over the past six years, Garros had constantly studied his Dragonkin body.
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Aside from the various mystical traits inherent to a Dragonkin's body, he was pleasantly surprised to find that, perhaps due to his Red-Iron hybrid nature combined with his human Soul, some unknown, wondrous reaction had occurred, granting him an innate talent that other Dragonkin lacked.
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—Adaptive Evolution.
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This talent was not obvious; its initial effects were minuscule and imperceptible, to the point that Garros had not even realized he possessed such a talent before the age of two.
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Even now, it was still limited. It required day after day of repeated training, tempering, and adaptation to yield a single effective evolution. Furthermore, the degree of evolution was not large, and it also required corresponding food intake to replenish energy.
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Several years of this had only made Garros's physique much stronger and harder than that of a normal Young Dragon, giving his scales their current metallic texture.
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But.
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As Garros utilized it and grew older, the talent itself was also growing and evolving, with its effects becoming better each year. Its upper limit was currently unknown.
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As everyone knew, any evolution-type talent was incredibly broken, and Garros was full of anticipation for his future.
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"With a Dragonkin's long lifespan, the trait of growing stronger with age, and my Adaptive Evolution talent, one day, I will be able to evolve and strengthen to an unimaginable degree."
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Garros thought happily.
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Glancing back at the massive mountain, the strong Young Dragon stepped back to gain some distance, and then rammed into it once again, sending dust flying and stones scattering.
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A beautiful future was currently just a fantasy.
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As for now... it was better to keep ramming the mountain.
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This was one of Garros's daily training methods.
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Other methods included, but were not limited to, flying high into the sky and free-falling, jumping into fires to burn himself, letting his Iron Dragon Mother whip him with her tail, and completely holding his breath in deep water in an attempt to suffocate himself.
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Time slowly passed.
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The sun gradually dipped to the west, eventually sinking into the embrace of the distant mountains.
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Night fell, draped with countless stars. Two moons—one full, one crescent—simultaneously shed their bright, clear moonlight, ensuring the world in the dark was not entirely dim.
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After his mountain-ramming training ended,
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Garros walked away from the clearly collapsed and sunken cave entrance.
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There were many, many such cave entrances nearby, all of which were Garros's masterpieces.
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By the mirror-like, clear lake, Garros's arrival startled away a large number of birds and beasts.
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He paid them no mind, taking large, hearty gulps of water before looking up at the twin moons.
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Of these two moons, one waxed and waned, changing with the sky, while the other was a 'Fake Moon' that always resembled a perfect jade plate, never changing.
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The Fake Moon was actually an extraterrestrial magical fortress constructed by the Elven Empire [Nausir].
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Aside from this Fake Moon,
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there were also many twinkling stars. Though they appeared no different from other stars, they were actually various'satellites' created by the various Empires through magical means.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYtLNUXkUV
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