Myriad's Conquest

Adrian sat at the edge of the bed while his subordinates were standing in front of him and looking at him with eyes full of worry.

"Lord Dornan, are you really okay?" Millea asked gently.

She was really anxious when they found Adrian sprawling on the floor inside his office while laughing hard. She only started to relaxed once Adrian had proclaimed that he didn"t turn crazy. However, she still confused about what the Lord had done, and why a dragon image appeared above the Lord"s Manor.

Of course, she wasn"t the only one who wonders about those, other people also curious too. Originally, all of them had thought that the one who"s causing the commotion earlier was the beasts. But, they immediately heaved a sigh of relief when they realized that their fearful imagination was far from what happened in reality.

Adrian raised his face and smiled as he replied, "I"m fine... Don"t worry."

Millea wants to ask again, but she couldn"t stop herself from lowering her sight down towards Adrian"s topless upper body.

*Gulp!*

She gulped at the sight of Adrian"s strong, and ripped body, especially when the body was glistened due to the sweat still permeated on it.

Millea"s eyes were burning with desire, and her heart was thumping so wildly, it almost breaks. Adrian"s well-defined muscle was extremely enchanting, even his face has become so manly chiseled.

It wasn"t like Millea had never seen a man"s upper body before. There were many topless men back in Yarra and Seastar. Most of them did heavy kind of work like loggers and gathering stone, and it"s obvious Millea had seen them. However, their body couldn"t be compared to Adrian"s current body at all.

Her face was full of red colors. She bashfully averted her eyes after some difficulties and recovered her composure.

Adrian himself was quite surprised by the change.

His appearances before were nothing more than a 17 years old human teenager with a lean and slender body, but he has a very good-looking face, though. His current body was even more outrageous than the old soldierly body he has back on earth. Overall, his figure looked like a Greek G.o.d statue that was perfectly sculpted by a master. h.e.l.l, he even better than those statues.

Adrian"s current condition proved that the Golden Star Dragon"s bloodline has successfully fused with his body. Right now, he wants to quickly try his newly gained power.

He looked at each of his subordinates, and he sighs after he saw their anxious expressions.

"I need to calm them, first."

"Hey! Thank you for being worry about me, but as you all can see, I"m alright. So, you guys can calm down and return back to your job." Said Adrian with a very leisure tone.

Millea and the rest exchanged glances with each other after hearing Adrian"s words. They looked at him again, and their expression tells that they were still not convinced.

"Are you really alright, Lord?" Asked Dorhok.

"I"m fine really, you guys don"t have to worry about me anymore. Look, I know all of you have some question about the earlier thing, and I will tell you about it, later. Thus, each of you can go back to your job because I have something to handle outside the village."

Even though they were still not convinced at all. But the lord"s orders are absolute, so they could only nod their head and prepare to leave. Except for Millea, she instead opened her mouth and spoke, "If you want to go outside, let me accompany you..."

Adrian interrupted her fast, "Definitely not. I"m heading for the southeast forest. It"s dangerous bringing you along. Besides, don"t you have a department to take care of?"

Millea was shocked, she hurriedly asked, "Why do you want to go there?"

Adrian sigh again.

Although he was feeling warm inside his heart because of his subordinate"s worriedness, he really wants to get out of here and test his new power as quickly as possible.

"As I said before, I want to go there to handle some personal matters, and I"ll be going alone. That"s why, all of you are dismissed, and be sure to calm the rest of the villagers too."

Within his words, Adrian was implying that he takes no further questioning and intervention in his decision to go into the forest.

Millea understood that she could only give up and nodded her head with a displeased face. Then, she and the rest of the people began to leave the manor one by one.

Adrian put on his beetle"s armor, equipped his sword again, and finally, he dashed towards the southeast forest.

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The reason why he chooses the southeast forest as the location to test the extent of his new power was that he wants to make some beasts that dwell there as targets. Zilong has brought militia squads to the forest many times before, they have explored much of its area and always brought back meats from Normal-grade beasts they had encountered.

From that, it was revealed that the number of beasts that lived within the forest seems to be abundant. Thus, Adrian does not need to go very deep in order to search for them.

And it"s true, after a few minutes of walking from the forest"s edge, Adrian found two Wilderness Brown Bear fought with one another nearby, probably fighting for territory.

They were the same exact type of beast with the one that Adrian had encountered and killed just a moment after he arrived in this world. Back then, his strength was measle, he only got miniscule stat bonus from his profession while the rest of the stat was basically 0.

If he didn"t have Epic-grade Gloria"s Defender who knows what will happen to him.

Then, he suddenly remembered that he still had several weapons he brought from the earth such as an HK416, a G18 pistol, some frag and smoke grenades, and even a flashbang. He wasn"t sure whether those weapons are effective against the beasts in this world or not.

But during the battle at Yarra, Adrian had witnessed Gelian punctured a Normal-grade beast"s head with the arrow he fired using an ordinary bow. Thus, it"s safe for Adrian to a.s.sume that the HK416 and rest of his modern weapons could still inflict damaging effects to the beasts.

Adrian didn"t watch the bears for too long, he quickly unleashed Gloria"s Defender in preparation to barging into their fight. He doesn"t have to worry about those bear"s strength now, his overall stat with Gloria"s Defender equipped couldn"t be matched by the two bear"s combined stat.

He was very curious about Inferior Dragon"s Sacred Armor, so he checked the technique"s information.

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Inferior Dragon"s Sacred Armor (Gold) - Combat Technique.

If activated: +0.8 Strength, +1.1 Agility, +1.7 Vitality, +75% defense against any attack

Duration: 5 Minutes

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"So... 5 minutes with those stat boosts? That"s awesome!"

The elated Adrian didn"t waste any more time, he quickly activates the technique by shouting, "Inferior Dragon"s Sacred Armor!"

White golden aura emerged from Adrian"s body. Not long, a faint transparent white golden colored armor with a dragon"s visage was formed. He was now wearing another armor on top of his beetle"s armor.

"It looked just like energy armors in sci-fi movies..."

*Roar!*

Adrian didn"t get more time to idling around as the two bears shifted their attention to him. They roared and charged.

Naturally, Adrian did not intend to wait for them, with the new overwhelming Agility he rushed forwards.

There were at least 50 meters of the distance separating him and the bears, originally. But in a quick flash, Adrian had reduced the distance and arrived right in front of one of the bears. He didn"t want to use his other techniques, so he only swung Gloria"s Defender without using one. What he did was just executing a normal attack guided by the movement of Western War Style martial art.

*Slash!*

The bear was caught by surprise. It didn"t have time to react. Its head was cleanly beheaded.

Before the bear"s body even fall to the ground, Adrian already continues his attack on the last bear.

The same exact scene happened to the second bear, its head was also completely cut off.

[You have killed a Wilderness Brown Bear. You are awarded 50 profession exp.]

[You have killed a Wilderness Brown Bear. You are awarded 50 profession exp.]

In just a matter of seconds, Adrian had easily killed two Normal-grade Wilderness Brown Bear. Normally, it would take three or four men in order to take down a single bear.

This was the result of a Dragon"s bloodline power.

"Huh... That"s not bad at all... Hahaha." Adrian laughed in satisfaction.

Next, he glanced at the dead bodies of the two bears, thinking about bringing them back to the village. However, since they don"t fit inside his inventory s.p.a.ce, he could only give up the thought.

Afterward, he wants to test Dragon Sense skill. He didn"t know what kind of power did this skill has and why it was registered as a normal skill instead of a combat technique.

He closed his eye and imagined using the skill.

Suddenly his mind was filled with loads of foreign knowledge.

"Ah! It"s sensory ability...F*ck it"s like a G.o.dd.a.m.n radar!"

That"s right, Adrian could sense everything around him faintly. From plants, falling leaves, blows of winds, a drop of water, ants below the ground, beasts roaming around, everything.

He could cover hundreds of meters of area with his Dragon Sense, beyond that his head was plagued by a headache. It looks like the coverage radius and the intensity of the sense depended a lot of both Intelligence and Const.i.tution.

But this was already too good for Adrian. Dragon Sense is truly an overpowered skill.

When he was about to return to the village, his Dragon Sense was picking up something ma.s.sive heading for him.

Adrian immediately readying himself again.

*ROAR!*

A beastly roar ten times more dreadful than Wilderness Brown Bear roar echoed from the south direction.

The trees over there swayed heavily, and the grounds shake.

A huge 7 meters long lizard that looked like a Komodo Dragon revealed itself from the treeline and running ferociously towards Adrian.

No! It"s more like the beast was running towards the bear"s corpses. This big lizard probably attracted here by the smell of blood.

Adrian appraises the lizard"s stat.

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Name: False Earth Dragon

Race: Beast

Grade: Leader

Unique Skills: None

Strength: 5.4

Intelligence: 0.1

Agility: 2.9

Const.i.tution: 2.1

Vitality: 4.8

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The beast was actually cla.s.sified as a dragon even though it didn"t have wings.

This was the first Leader-grade beast he has encountered. Adrian realized even Leader-grade beasts still didn"t possess unique skills, probably only Lord-grade and above possessed them.

The False Earth Dragon was ignoring Adrian completely while focused on rushing towards the corpses.

Adrian could just ignore the beast too and quickly return to the village, but he felt that it"s a pity to waste the chance to kill this Leader-grade beast that has presented itself. Besides, based on its stat, the beast would be a good opponent in order to further test his bloodline power.

Because there were only 2 minutes left before his Inferior Dragon"s Sacred Armor would be automatically deactivated, and he doubts he could use the technique more than two times within a day with his 2.5 Const.i.tution. Thus, he didn"t want to waste any more time.

Adrian immediately dashed towards the lizard.

He intended to use Gloria"s Wings on a particular area of the beast"s body just above the right side of the front leg. That area appears to be soft as it wasn"t covered by any scales, unlike the rest of the beast"s body.

However, before he could even shout the technique"s name...

*BANG!*

The swipe of the lizard"s tail hit Adrian with full force. As a result, he was thrown away for dozens of meters before crashing into a tree.

"F*CK!!! That was hurt..."

He stood up again while enduring pain.

"Looks like I"ve underestimated you huh? Alright..."

Fortunately, the damage he received wasn"t that severe due to the Sacred Armor"s protection. His fighting spirit soared high as he locks his sight on the beast.

The false dragon was in the middle of devouring the bear"s corpse. While it appears that the beast did not pay Adrian any attention, but it was actually on guard against him.

Adrian dashed again, this time with extra cautions.

Another tail"s swipe was coming for him just as Adrian closing in the distance.

*Wuzz!*

He successfully dodged the tail by lowering his body and letting it pa.s.sed above him.

The lizard didn"t have enough time to swipe back it"s tail because Adrian already entered the striking range of Gloria"s Wings.

He shouted, "Gloria"s Wings!!!"

The technique was activated, and a pair of holy wings clad Gloria"s Defender. Adrian thrust the sword into the lizard"s body.

*Duarrr*

*GUAGHH!!!*

The beast painfully howling as one of its front legs was blown to pieces. That"s right, it did not just get cut off, but the leg was literally exploded.

*Boom*

The lizard"s body fell to the ground and twitching heavily. But a moment later, it tries to raise it"s body again.

This beast"s Vitality was remarkable. However, Adrian doesn"t intend to give the beast a single chance.

"Star Dragon Cleave!"

Gloria"s Defender radiated a blinding white golden light as Adrian activated the new Gold-grade combat technique.

He strode towards the lizard"s exposed neck and swung his sword on it.

*Slash*

*GUAG...*

The false dragon was instantly killed after its neck was cut horizontally by Adrian"s sword.

[You have killed a False Earth Dragon. You are awarded 1,000 profession exp.]

A kill notification rang.

"Wow! So much exp from killing a Leader-grade beast."

Adrian was excited, his profession exp was raised by 1000 points, this was a big harvest. Not only that, his stamina and fatigue weren"t decreased overly, this was after he had used all three of his Gold-grade combat technique. His current Const.i.tution was really a game changer. He rather did feeling tired, though.

Also, his left arm appears to be dislocated because of the impact from the beast"s tail.

But beyond that, the battle was very successful for him.

*Zuush*

The Inferior Dragon"s Sacred Armor around his body has vanished completely because it"s duration has over.

Adrian walks slowly to the lizard"s corpse and scrutinized it. He felt that he must bring this corpse back to the village.

"How the h.e.l.l am I gonna do that?"