An internet troll who wanted attention, the reader criticized his favorite web novel, saying: “The protagonist is dumb and the author is s*upid.”
Author: “…Got it.”
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The wind blew up ripples on the lake. Vivian held her flying golden hair. She saw Xiu in the woods and slightly widened her eyes in surprise, which soon turned into joy. "It's you."
Xiu observed Vivian's expression calmly. Seeing the girl's eyebrows filled with joy, he smiled and walked out of the shadows, greeting Vivian like a long-lost friend: "Long time no see, did your bracelet fall into the lake again?"
The green lake reflected the shadows of the two people. A long time ago, Xiu and Vivian met at the lakeside of the Magic and Martial Arts School. At that time, Xiu helped Vivian find the bracelet that fell into the lake. Thinking of what happened at that time, Vivian also smiled. She stretched out her hand, revealing a string of old chains.
"Thank you for helping me find it. It is a very important memory for me." Vivian stared at Xiu quietly with her beautiful eyes: "Last time, I left without thanking you because of an emergency summons. Thank you, God of Light, for letting me meet you here again."
"Me too, I'm glad to see you again." Xiu smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to come to the tower as well."
Vivian smiled lightly, the corners of her mouth curved like a quiet crescent moon. She had a good impression of the handsome young man with blond hair and blue eyes. Perhaps because they didn't know each other's names, the man would not compliment her because of her status, nor would he deliberately approach her because of her beauty. Whether it was the first time they met or now, they could get along and talk naturally, as harmonious as if they had known each other for a long time.
The two of them were very tacit and did not ask each other's name. Vivian asked Xiu: "How long have you been here?"
"I just came in." Xiu smiled helplessly: "I don't know the situation yet."
"I arrived nine days earlier than you and will be leaving soon. I'll tell you some tips as a thank you for helping me last time." Vivian winked at Xiu: "We are now in the Dragon's Lair. Those lizardmen will keep trying to seize our lair. We must defend it for ten days. After ten days, the Dragon God Io will appear - have you heard of Io?"
"Yes. The Nine-Faced Dragon God Io, he can appear in the form of any dragon."
"Yes, Io can transform into any dragon. He is very powerful, but there is a way to weaken him." Vivian smiled slightly: "There are many lizard nests in the Dragon Cave, and there are also treasures in them. Bring those treasures back to the nest. The more treasures in your nest, the more dragons will be attracted."
"Every time you kill a dragon, you can seal one of Io's dragon forms." Vivian smiled and said, "This way, it won't be too difficult to face Io."
Xiu looked at the ignorant saint, lowered his eyes and smiled. "Thank you, really...thank you very much."
Vivian couldn't help but stare at Xiu's upturned mouth. Both the man's hair and smile were as dazzling as the sun.
"I have a friend who looks a lot like you," Vivian murmured. "He also has brilliant blond hair and is an excellent knight."
Xiu knew that Vivian was talking about the Holy Son Eric, and his eyes darkened.
"If I have the chance, I'd like to meet the friend you mentioned." Xiu's smile remained unchanged. "Do I really look like him?"
Vivian nodded. "I think you two can definitely get along, but..." The saint's beautiful face was a little sad. "I have already lost him - my friend can no longer use martial arts and magic because of using forbidden techniques. One day, he and his partner left the light... us silently."
"I'm sorry," Hugh said.
Vivian shook her head, indicating that Xiu didn't need to apologize. Ye Zi fell from the tree into the lake, watching everything with sarcasm.
"I've been out for a long time, and now I have to go back. You—" Vivian paused, then said, "Do you want to come with me? I'll let my trusted...companion help you."
It's so relaxing to be with this person that she even feels sad to leave him.
"You will help me because what you see now is 'me'."
Vivian looked at Xiu in confusion. The blond young man spoke so softly that he seemed to be talking to himself. Before Vivian could ask, Xiu suddenly asked another question: "Do you have someone you like?"
Vivian's heartbeat quickened. It was the first time she felt such a strange emotion. She was silent for a moment, but still answered, "I believe in the God of Light with all my heart and soul. I don't have any other thoughts."
"...So you will never understand my feelings." Xiu said softly: "Do you know what it feels like to drift on the sea with only a piece of driftwood? Knowing that you can survive with the driftwood, at that time, the driftwood in your arms becomes even more important than your life - it sounds ridiculous, but that's how I feel now."
Vivian stared at Xiu in a daze. The face of the person in front of her was smiling, his mouth was smiling, his eyebrows were smiling, but his eyes were the only ones that did not have a smile at all. The light blue color that was as pure and beautiful as water was filled with a frightening coldness.
"I have someone I like, so I can't stand any threat that might take him away from me."
Although Vivian's necklace sensed the danger and quickly formed a barrier, Xiu's dragon spear easily penetrated the light film and pierced Vivian's chest. Xiu said to Vivian who was close at hand: "I am not like Eric. His admiration for honor, his compassion for the weak, and his justice for the world... I have none of them."
The two people reflected in the lake seemed like a match made in heaven. Although the scene was similar, things and people had already changed. Vivian's eyes widened, and her words were like the hands of an old clock, trembling and walking with great difficulty.
"Alec? You are..."
Xiu smiled, revealing a kind of cruelty that was almost gentle.
"——Evildoer Xiu, I remember you called me that at first."
“…”
Vivian fell to the ground without a sound. Xiu pulled out the dragon spear, but there was no blood on it, and there was no wound on Vivian's chest either - she was not dead, but her time was sealed. Xiu sent the girl, who seemed to be sleeping, into the lake, and watched her being swallowed up by the clear water bit by bit.
If you drift in the water holding onto a piece of driftwood, you will not die immediately even if you lose it. However, the pain of struggling in the water is more terrible than death.
He was afraid of losing Du Ze's future, so he could do anything.
"Clang clang~"
The fire phoenix jumped from Du Ze's left shoulder to his right shoulder, and then from his right shoulder to his left shoulder, as if it couldn't find the place that suited its taste. Du Ze wordlessly pulled the fire phoenix's feathered tail that had almost circled around his neck, trying to pull the silly thing off.
The black dragon raised his head, but it was Xiu who came back. The fire phoenix that had just been on Du Ze gave up its position very honestly. Du Ze found that Xiu's clothes were not messed up much, so it seemed that the previous enemy was not very difficult to deal with.
"I got some information." Xiu sat behind Du Ze and hugged the person in his arms. "Let's go back."
Mor spread his wings and carried Xiu and Du Ze back the same way.
When they arrived at the lair, Duze saw from a distance that Enoch was holding several apple-sized gems and throwing them up and down like a juggler. Seeing them coming back, the idiot waved to them excitedly, and then was almost hit on the head by the falling gems.
"I'm back!" Enoch showed the gem in his hand to Du Ze and Xiu: "Look, what the thief found."
According to Enoch's description, the thief discovered a nest guarded by lizardmen nearby, which was filled with gems and other valuables. He immediately stole a lot of them.
"There are still many, many diamonds." Enoch said excitedly, "How about we go and bring them back?"
"good."
Du Ze didn't expect Xiu to agree to Enoch's proposal, and Xiu smiled at him. After everyone came back, Xiu told everyone his intelligence.
"...Therefore, we must guard the lair within these ten days." Xiu scanned the Dragon's Lair and smiled, "Then fill it with treasures."
People die for wealth, and birds die for food.
During the few days in the Dragon Clan copy, Du Ze deeply understood this supreme truth.
At this time, the number of lizardmen attacking the city had grown from a few to hundreds. The yellow-green creatures rushed over with weapons in one hand and sacks in the other. Their unstoppable momentum, their determination to fight to the death, and their determination to die, all combined into one sentence:
Tycoon, can we be friends?
Cute Lord: Get lost.
Bang! The lizardman running in the front was beaten into a meat pie by the black dragon, and his attempt to hug the dragon's thigh failed.
...It really makes anyone who sees it cry and anyone who hears about it feel heartbroken.
In order to curry favor with the rich, the lizardmen began to use tactics, so they rode on ground dragons - this has to be said to be a huge tragedy.
Lizardman (riding a ground dragon): Tyrant, can we be friends?
Stupid: ...
There was a loud roar. The ground dragon, which was in extreme fear and madness, abandoned its master, trampled half of the war lizards to death, and disappeared in the dust.
...Please observe three minutes of silence.
The lizardmen said with a bloody face that they would not be happy if they did not hug the thighs, and they would not believe this evil. The ground dragons were the lowest level of monsters, and there were always one or two days a month when they were stupid, so this time they chose the two-legged dragons to carry out the air raid.
Trooper (riding a wyvern): Rich man, can we be friends? ~ Dumb and cute: …
Boom! The whole army was wiped out.
...That day, the lizardmen finally remembered the horror of being trampled by a ground dragon and the humiliation of being killed by a stupid creature.
In summary, due to the strange intimidation of a certain silly monster to monsters, the pressure of guarding the nest was instantly reduced by half, and they could free up more manpower to plunder treasures. Enoch has a natural nose for treasures, and he can always find the place where the troglodytes hide their treasures. Therefore, although the poor thief does not have to fight, he must run back and forth to find the nest, and finally he is exhausted. Compared with finding the treasure and fighting, the most time-consuming thing is to move the treasures back to the nest. Rachel and the Thunder Squad need to spend half a day to draw the space teleportation array, but the efficiency is not very high if they rely solely on manpower. Du Ze couldn't help but look at Xiu. Xiu's dragon form was a silver dragon that was good at space magic. The cute master must have thought of this a long time ago, but he still chose not to change his form.
Is it because of what happened on Dragon Island?
"Why don't you use dragon form?"
Hearing Du Ze's question, Xiu ran his fingers across Du Ze's neck.
"I can't control myself in dragon form." Xiu said with a smile, "I can't help but hide you in a place where no one can find you, and then enjoy you to my heart's content."
The cute master's tone sounded like he was joking, but Du Ze knew that Xiu was very serious, so the stupid cute reader never dared to mention this matter to Xiu again.
The treasure in the lair grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Du Ze found that the cave could never be filled, just like the endless desire of the dragons. In most legends, the dragons always like to collect treasures and gather piles of coins. For the dragons, treasures are never enough. They like to appreciate these treasures and bathe in the light of the treasures with pleasure. Yi Ye Zhi Qiu also set up the dragons in this way: the dragons paid for restraint and took away toughness. They will not restrain their desires because they are strong enough - strong enough that the invaded objects have no room for resistance, and strong enough that no one can take back the treasures from their lair.
Just like they are now.
Guard the lair and grab the treasure.
As the treasures increased, Xiu and Du Ze welcomed the first dragon on the second day. It was a white dragon, which suddenly swooped down from a height and blew icy air at the black dragon. Du Ze was almost frozen, but the fire phoenix cried out, and the flames on its body covered Du Ze like a veil, driving away the cold.
After the initial panic, everyone calmed down quickly. The demon sisters killed several lizardmen who took the opportunity to attack the nest, and Xiu rode the black dragon to fight the white dragon. Compared with other dragons, the white dragon was fierce but simple-minded. It was not as smart as other dragons and only knew how to charge wildly and breathe ice. With the cooperation of Mor, Xiu defeated the white dragon without much effort.
After the death of the white dragon, it disappeared into the air just like the lizardmen. This was a beginning. The more treasures they collected, the more dragons were attracted: green dragons that sprayed poison mist, sapphire dragons and emerald dragons that used sonic attacks, glittering crystal dragons... Various dragons came one after another. Du Ze and his companions encountered a silver dragon on the seventh day. They were the most fierce in that battle. The silver dragon used space magic to teleport half of the treasure in the nest to the outside, and the lizardmen immediately swarmed in as if they had eaten Jin Ke La. Although they finally solved the problem of the silver dragon, they still had to recover the treasures that the silver dragon had teleported out bit by bit.
Xiu wiped the blood from his forehead and thrust the dragon spear into the air. A faint ripple appeared in the empty space, and an invisible amethyst dragon was exposed. It was stabbed in the reverse scale by Xiu, and fell to the ground unwillingly, and disappeared into nothingness. Enoch panted and fell to the ground and shouted: "Ahhh! This is the last one! I am so tired...!"
The others were too tired to talk. This was their tenth day in the Dragon Tribe dungeon, and everyone was very tired. Just as Du Ze had expected, in the end, the mountains were really full of warrior lizards. Those yellow-green creatures were not strong, but they attacked day and night like an endless group of ants. Although everyone could raise their feet and step on them to death, they had to keep raising their feet and repeat the action. Even if they took turns, everyone had very little time to rest - not only did they have to eliminate the endless stream of warrior lizards, but they also had to attract all the dragons and deal with them within ten days. Everyone's nerves were very tense, and the more time passed, the greater the accumulated pressure.
Here, everyone just felt tired, more tired than the previous three levels combined. Although there was no threat to life, they felt extremely exhausted.
At this time, Old John, who was cleaning up the lizardmen outside, jumped in.
"My young master, all the lizardmen suddenly left."
Everyone knew what this meant. Du Ze even wanted to wail: God Tower Master, please be so kind as to let the cute master have a rest!
At this moment, the cave entrance above the grotto was suddenly sealed, and the entire cave suddenly fell into darkness, with only the treasure shining. Mor raised his head alertly, and he swept his tail violently, and the thorny tail slapped the air, shattering the void.
A man with long white hair walked out of the void. Even though he didn't speak or show any features, from his aura similar to Soth's, it could be seen that he was also a Lord God - the Lord God of the Dragon Clan, Io.
Aio landed on a small hill of gold coins and looked at them with a look that was hard to tell whether it was praise or blame.
"You have already killed all the dragons, so I will not fight you in dragon form."
After a brief opening statement, the Dragon God launched his attack. Facing his own God, Mor hesitated for a moment, and was immediately bullied by Io. Xiu used the Dragon Spear to attack Io who jumped on the dragon's back. However, the Dragon Spear, a giant weapon, has always been used for charging. In close combat, it is very slow, and the attack interval is too large, which will reveal many flaws. Io easily avoided the spikes of the Dragon Spear, raised his curved knife, and slashed at Xiu's right arm.
Xiu grabbed the dragon spear and swept it towards Aiou. Aiou did not dodge. He was already close to Xiu, and the conical body of the dragon spear had no killing power to him. Aiou chopped Xiu's right arm. At this time, Xiu's mind changed, and the dragon spear instantly turned into a magic knife. Aiou reacted very quickly and immediately pulled back when Xiu stabbed him with the magic knife. Therefore, he was only cut with a narrow wound, instead of being cut in the waist.
Ai Ou covered his bleeding waist and looked at the long sword in Xiu's hand with some surprise.
"It's a very good weapon." Io said, glancing at the wound on his waist and abdomen and sighing. "The humanoid is too fragile."
Mor finally reacted, and he leaned forward to try to bite Io off his body. Io dodged the black dragon's bite attack, and he jumped onto a golden mountain nearby, and couldn't help but take another look at the wound.
The long, narrow wound continued to bleed and showed no sign of healing. Instead, it seemed to be trying hard to squeeze the blood out of the body.
The magic knife was covered with a layer of scarlet light and hummed softly. Xiu's right arm was injured, so he transferred the Thousand Changes to his left hand. Mor did not hesitate this time. He carried his dragon rider and took the initiative to attack the Dragon God.
Io seemed to be familiar with the dragon's attack style, and he could easily dodge the black dragon's attack. However, Io's own movements were also slightly uncoordinated. He seemed not good at fighting others in human form all the time, which was a common problem for all dragons. Coupled with the bleeding wound, Io's movements became slower and slower. He dodged Mor's wing attack and retreated away from Xiu's attack range when Xiu's long sword chopped down from above.
Xiu's magic knife was only a few centimeters away from Aiou's nose, and when it was on the way to Aiou's chest, the magic knife turned into a dragon spear and moved at a longer distance. Aiou wanted to dodge, but he was unable to do so.
"Pfft——"
The blood of the Dragon God spilled on the gold coin, and the gold and blood colors intertwined to form a kind of enchanting light color. Io glanced at his pierced chest, and then looked at the black dragon Morr, his eyes were full of praise, like an elder looking at his own child.
"Your dragon rider is excellent."
As soon as the Dragon God finished speaking, all the treasures in the cave were crushed into powder and turned into a blue beam of light. Enoch saw the disappearing gold and silver treasures and cried out in sorrow: "Leave one piece for the thief as a souvenir. It was not easy for me to find so many!"
Once the exit appeared, the place they were in began to collapse. The entire cave was shaking and about to collapse. Xiu asked Io, who was disappearing bit by bit: "Do you know the news of the Creator God?"
Du Ze, who ran over, happened to hear these words. Aio read the three words "Creator God". At that moment, it was impossible to describe the expression of the Dragon God.
"The God of Creation created everything. If I could find the Father God," Io's figure gradually dissipated, leaving only a sigh: "Maybe my race wouldn't be so sad..."
The dragon race is about to fall into despair due to the crisis of reproduction. As the main god of the dragon race, Aio also looks for the God of Creation, but he failed. Du Ze thought, just like what Soth said, is it true that only the God of Light and Baal know the news of the God of Creation?
Baal has already made a mistake, so he can only think of the God of Light. The silly reader began to think about how to make the arrogant boss speak. This is a problem.
With Io's death, the speed of the cave's collapse became faster and faster, and everyone hurriedly returned to the circular hall through the blue light. Du Ze had already developed the habit of taking a look at the stone platform when he came back. Opposite the stone statue of the dead, he found the latest dragon statue - a huge Western dragon squatting on the stone platform, with its long tail coiling around itself. It had no features, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a metal dragon, a color dragon, or a crystal dragon.
Including the demons, undead, and humans, the stone platform in the hall was now half full. Du Ze was very excited. He wanted to hold Xiu's hand and let Xiu see, but he didn't catch anything.
——Just at that moment, his hand passed through Xiu's hand, so transparent that it was almost a phantom.