The Era of Gods

Chapter 484: Chapter 484 Dragon Clan Covenant

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Editing the core of a starship and constructing a Mage Tower’s Tower Spirit is similar; in fact, this core is the very soul of the Star Realm Battleship. By editing its core and defining its behavioral standards, it can be better controlled in the future.

This only required a bit of effort; having had the experience of editing the Tower Spirit of a Mage Tower, he quickly completed editing the spirit of the ship.

Then…

A super wooden ship, ten kilometers in length, smashed through a Void Storm and disappeared into the void.

After ten minutes, a giant Void Ship flew from afar, circled around the Moon Cloud Realm, and once again vanished into the void.

An hour later, a floating metal city made of metal and nearly ten kilometers in diameter appeared in front of a small plane. A Silver Dragon sleeping on the Plane Crystal Wall at the edge of the plane lifted its head in shock at this huge object and quickly tore through the Crystal Wall to escape into it.

Lin Xiao stood on the command bridge and watched the images on the screen before him, intriguingly ordering the floating city to halt above the plane.

This plane was the Dragon Realm, as the natives of the Moon Xiao main plane called it. He had visited it once before, and it was inhabited by hundreds of Dragons as well as numerous various sub-dragon species.

These dragons were originally brought into this world from other Crystal Wall Universes by a former Boss to reproduce. Most of the initial batch of dragons had died, with only two remaining, which had now evolved into Ancient Dragons that could vie with the top demi-gods and even some newly enthroned Indigenous True Gods.

In the past, Lin Xiao lacked the strength to take down these dragons without suffering losses, so he didn’t bother with them or thoroughly investigate.

Now, with the Star Realm Battleship in hand, powered by the Nesser Core as the energy core, he could draw infinite energy from the void, bringing into play all the might of the starship, except for a few extremely powerful abilities he was not yet strong enough to use, allowing him to face these Ancient Dragons head-on.

Of course, with two True God-Level guards under his command, he could forcefully subdue the batch of dragons, but he had chosen not to do so yet.

Now that he had some time, Lin Xiao decided to conquer this batch of dragons.

But before making his move, he separated the incarnation holding the Lifeline divine position and sent it back to school. If nothing unexpected happened, the school’s second major lesson would be about the thing Xie Yufei had mentioned to him—the Descend to the Star Soul Crystal Wall System.

The interior of the Star Realm Battleship was empty, lacking any surveillance machinery. He tried to open a gap in the Crystal Wall, but as soon as he did, he saw a ferocious dragon face, and was immediately greeted by a blast of Dragon Breath flames, revealing that these dragons were able to observe the area outside the plane and see him.

“Pretty fierce!”

Lin Xiao wasn’t courteous either. He directly opened the Divine Realm Gate within the starship to summon many Clans, including over two hundred Legendary Supreme Naga Lords, as well as the Lords of the Earth—Divine Furnace, the Tide Lord Akens—these two demi-gods, and Slarda.

After a thought, he also conveniently summoned his guard leader, Lin Bao, to bolster the ranks.

With his army assembled, he directly drove the Floating City into the Plane Crystal Wall, causing a deafening boom. All the dragons and sub-dragons within the plane looked up to see a gigantic metal corner of the Floating City embedding itself into their world.

Although the plane was fiercely resisting, the Floating City was sheathed in a strange glow that easily melted the Plane Crystal Wall, forcing its way in.

Dozens of dragons burst from their lairs into the Vault of Heaven, gathering around a huge Ancient Red Dragon with dark red scales and lava-like fiery streams within the gaps of its scales. They watched menacingly as the Floating City gradually descended from the sky.

The dragons did not attack immediately. Another Ancient Bronze Dragon stopped them—the Breath that was previously sprayed was from a non-Legendary Red Dragon, one of the offspring of the Ancient Red Dragon.

So, when the colossal Floating City slowly pried open the Plane Crystal Wall and it took nearly half an hour to squeeze in, he found that they were not attacked during this period.

It took so long mainly because the plane was small while his Star Realm Battleship was so large, akin to stuffing a big-pored pacifier into a baby’s mouth. It was bound to be choking and needed time to adapt and settle.

An hour later, Lin Xiao in the Star Realm Battleship met the humanoid form of the Ancient Bronze Dragon, a middle-aged man with bronze-colored skin.

The Ancient Bronze Dragon placed a hand on his chest and greeted Lin Xiao with a profound voice,

“Bronze Dragon Aielnus pays respects to His Majesty, the master of the Crystal Wall!”

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrow and asked in surprise,

“You know me?”

“During my astral wanderings in the Void, I have once glimpsed Your Majesty from afar.”

“Oh!”

He did not doubt this as Ancient Dragons indeed possessed the capability to wander through the void; a wisp of Divine Thoughts could traverse the void, turning into a Projection Descending onto any plane.

As the saying goes, don’t strike a smiling face; since Aielnus, the Ancient Bronze Dragon, came with clear goodwill, Lin Xiao felt momentarily embarrassed to strike.

He rubbed his chin, about to speak when Aielnus took the initiative to say,

“Respected master of the Crystal Wall, have you come to conquer us this time?”

Lin Xiao nodded,

“Yes, this world does not need forces outside my control.”

“I understand Your Majesty’s concerns. We are willing to sign a covenant with the Dragon Clan, and my people are prepared to fight for Your Majesty.”

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Lin Xiao rubbed his chin hard and wondered,

“You want to sign a Dragon Clan pact with me?”

“Yes.”

This upfront approach had him unsure of how to respond, but then it seemed obvious; if this branch of the Dragon Clan didn’t want to be annihilated, they had to submit to him.

Perhaps other Dragon Clans had made an impression on him as being too domineering and proud, he did not expect this one to be so easy to talk to.

Since they were so forthcoming, Lin Xiao found himself unable to move against them; a Dragon Clan pact was the best way to borrow their power.

Normally, the best course of action would be to conquer them and then take them into the Divine Realm, but given his previous actions had offended the Dragon Clan’s ancestor, the supreme Dragon God Ao, it would be inappropriate to have a group of Dragons in his Divine Realm.

A Dragon Clan pact, also known as a Dragon Clan contract, is a special type of agreement. After signing a Dragon Clan pact, one can use the summoning spell “Dragon Clan Pact” to summon the contracted Dragon to fight for oneself.

As long as the tribute is sufficient, the summoned Dragon cannot refuse to fight.

As for the tribute, of course, it is the Dragons’ most favored treasures of gold and gemstones.

The problem was resolved too easily, making Lin Xiao feel like he was punching at air; he didn’t know what to do next for a while.

Luckily, the ancient Bronze Dragon invited him to visit the Dragon Realm, and he gladly accepted.

At Radiant University’s undergraduate section, Lin Xiao’s life Incarnation returned to campus. As expected, upon entering the campus, he received a message from his head teacher, which was just as he had anticipated, the same as what Xie Yufei had mentioned to him before.

In five days’ time, during the second major class, all students from freshmen to seniors who had not yet achieved Divine Enthronement were required to send a fragment of their will to the Star Soul Crystal Wall System.

Compared to the information he got from Xie Yufei, the details given by the school were lacking many key points; the students were not aware of the specific situation in the Star Soul Crystal Wall System.

Of course, if there were students who had the same connections as Lin Xiao, or if their clans were sufficiently advanced, they too would know the specific details.

Though that was hardly useful.

This time, it was only a matter of Consciousness Descending rather than the full Projection Descending to the Totem Crystal Wall Universe, even more stringent than the last time. There was basically nothing to prepare for, and over these days, he was either with his girlfriend or was lectured by Jin Sisi on things he already knew.

Five days later, all students headed to various Super War Fortresses located in Subspace in batches, starting their descent from there.

How to descend was already quite familiar to him, there were no special treatments, except for that Teleportation Array which was a bit unique—it was layered with one rune after another, including power from the Nightmare World. It might have been jointly crafted by the Human Race Dominator from the Star Soul Crystal Wall and the Dominator of the Nightmare World. Whether it was people from the Human side or from the Nightmare World, they all had to go through such a Teleportation Array to descend.

By the time Lin Xiao’s life Incarnation and his classmates returned to the campus, his consciousness had already passed through that special Teleportation Array into the Chaotic Void, heading toward some unknown place.

This fragment of his consciousness was completely unable to perceive anything beyond the force field enveloping them; even the passage of time was unclear. After what seemed like an indeterminate duration, the rapid transit began to slow down until it stopped.

Soon after, there was a flash of light before him, and he realized he had appeared out of nowhere in a space. Below his drifting consciousness was a nameless octagonal altar carved from pure white marble. There were three levels, and below the three tiers was a bottomless abyss, with swirling gray fog that obscured what lay beneath.

As he wondered what was happening, a screen popped up in front of him, and a voice that could not be distinguished as male or female rang out:

“Adventurer from the Human Main World, please create your character and choose a preset profession!”

Immediately after, the screen flashed, and five shadows made of light appeared before him. On a closer look, they were the virtual shadows of a Human, an Asura Naga, a Star Spirit, a member of the Crimson Furnace Clan, and a Lesser Naga.

As he pondered, each shadow briefly brightened, and his gaze landed on the Lesser Naga, revealing a series of data.

Race: Lesser Naga.

Category: Sub-human Species.

Talent: Dominator’s Body (Pseudo), reduce all negative status and effects by 20%, reduce critical damage by 50%, Defense Level +10, Life limit +20%. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Inherent Expertise: Advanced Swimming, underwater breath-holding time +200%, underwater swim speed +150%.

Evaluation: A potential-rich combat race, racial talents provide significant bonuses when taking on close combat professions, racial traits prevent Lesser Nagas from taking on magic professions, but there’s an extremely small chance to take on the Lesser Naga’s exclusive Magician profession.

Lin Xiao’s eyes lit up after reading; this was exactly the current situation of the Lesser Nagas in his own Divine Realm.

He quickly turned his gaze to the Asura Naga, his eyes lighting up immediately.

Race: Asura Naga.

Category: Legendary race of Human-Dragon Descendants.

Talent: Asura Overlord Body. Immune to critical hits, immune to fatal blows, immune to slowing effects, reduce all negative status and effects by 50%, reduce all damage by 40%, each level up adds +3 to all attributes, life value +50%, regenerates 1% of max life per second, absorbs physical damage equal to Constitution *1, absorbs spell damage equal to Constitution *1.

Inherent Expertise: Asura’s Fury. For each 1% loss of life, increase Moving Speed by 1% and Attack Speed by 2%, and Attack Strength by 2%.

Evaluation: An incredibly strong combat race, highly recommended for close combat physical professions.