Chapter 532 - 419: The Problem is the Dragon

Long Yi transformed the basement of his villa into a laboratory, beginning his research process. Prior to this, Long Yi had already formed some ideas; now, it was time to validate them.

The Dragon Knights of the Black Dragon Empire had some distinct features. Firstly, their power was fairly equal. According to Ai Lin, the Fighting Aura of these Dragon Knights was virtually identical. Moreover, based on Wesley’s observations, the combat strength exhibited by these Dragon Knights showed no discernable differences. This meant that the entire team had no apparent weaknesses, capable of securing victory in any task with any soldier.

Next, the Dragon Knights of the Black Dragon Empire consistently chose the Black Dragon species. Even if not purebred, they had to be similar at the very least! If the attributes of the Mount Dragons were the same, it meant that tactics could be tailored specifically for this one type of dragon. In contrast, the White Dragon Empire wasn’t selective; any dragon could rise to the top. The mingling of dragon species necessitated flexible strategies. However, the ever-changing battlefield always outpaced plans. If the tactics lagged behind the situation, defeat was inevitable.

The last feature was the inexplicably powerful Black Dragons.

But that was no longer of concern to Long Yi.

Becoming stronger was easy. The key was how to become stronger!

Long Yi had a pile of various materials at hand. In ordinary times, Long Yi, Ai Lin, Little Zi, and Suolin all read the information inside. Long Yi compared the knowledge with the Giant data in his memory, looking for useful components and eliminating those parts that had major negative influences. As masters of magic, Ai Lin and Little Zi naturally studied the magic parts of the knowledge.

As the only person here who had personal experience, Suolin had far more experience with the Black Dragon Empire’s knowledge than Long Yi and the others.

With such a team, coupled with the help of the Giant’s Staff, progress was incredibly swift.

The Black Dragon Empire forcibly fused the dragon power within the human body through magic potions. This method was quick to take effect, but it came with a series of side effects. For instance, it would cause the Dragon Knights’ thinking to become less flexible. Their first invasion was precisely like this. Now, the enemy had significantly improved, the most direct manifestation being that the tactical movements of the Black Dragon Knights had become more flexible. Even so, they still couldn’t measure up to real Dragon Knights. However, the superior strength of those Black Dragon Knights masked this weakness.

Therefore, Long Yi began to ponder, how could he utilize this advantage?

The Reincarnation of Dragon Blood performed on Ai Lin was a ready-made example, transforming a person into a Fairy Dragon. This was absolute power. But turning all 3,000 Dragon Knights of the White Dragon Empire into half-dragons? This was a calamitous endeavor! Even if all the Mount Dragons were willing to sacrifice themselves for their knights, newly born half-dragon fighters wouldn’t be able to withstand the sheer numbers of the Dragon Clan attacking them from all sides!

In the end, this problem had to be addressed starting with the essence of the Dragon Blood Reincarnation spell.

Not long ago, Long Yi just completed a modified version of Dragon Blood Reincarnation on the Crystal Demon Princess Belle, of course, he used his own blood. That was a decision he made out of necessity in an extreme situation. But now it seems, Dragon Blood Reincarnation does not necessarily require the Dragon Clan to totally sacrifice themselves, but only a portion of their power.

Although these technologies came from the Black Dragon Empire, compared to the Black Dragon Empire, Long Yi had a tremendous advantage. He had the strength of the Giants, he had the Giant’s Staff.

The Giants, back then, were experts in bioengineering, creating a myriad of different creatures. Even the incredible elemental beings were created by the Giants. Long Yi, the inheritor of Giant technology, while not as comfortable as the Giants of old, could at least resolve the current situation more easily than the Black Dragon Empire.

The first problem was the dragons.

The Black Dragon Empire achieved the goal of balancing the entire legion’s battle by using dragons of the same species, and most of the Dragon Knights in the Red Dragon Empire were also Red Dragons. Only the White Dragon Empire wasn’t picky.

Flexible strategy was an advantage, but also a disadvantage.

To change this disadvantage, they had to start by changing the dragons.

When Long Yi proposed this idea, everyone in the war council in front of him was stunned.

"Starting with modifying the Mount Dragons? Long Yi, that’s quite a bold step," Kirei said, sweeping his gaze over everyone present.

Actually, everyone believed that after brewing for so long, Long Yi would announce a scheme to enhance the Dragon Knights, but they didn’t expect that this time it would be about the dragons.

"Yes, my goal is to target the system of the Black Dragon Empire, to eliminate weak points as much as possible and balance the capability of the entire legion," said Long Yi.

"But will the Contract Dragons agree?" Legion Commander Fedinan asked. He had 1,000 Dragon Knights under him. Such a massive scale was not something that could be easily persuaded.

"Won’t we know if we ask them?" Legion Commander Fan Sen piped up.

"Um... do we also have to modify the Earth Dragon Riders of our land forces?" asked General Kai Long.

"Just ask." Long Yi smiled, saying, "Also, can we stop using the word ’modify’? The word itself is full of evil. We can say it’s evolution!"

Everyone present believed that Long Yi’s evolution plan would provoke the backlash and disgust of the Dragons. However, the result was surprising: apart from a few dragons expressing hesitation, almost every dragon was indifferent to the proposal, and more than 70% of the dragons thought this should be carried out as soon as possible.

Actually, Long Yi wasn’t aware that the present-day dragons, other than some indigenous breeds, were reproduced from dragon eggs created by Giant equipment. They didn’t have parents, nor did they care why they were born to be what type of dragon. In fact, the dragon breed was fully controlled by the Dragon Clan congress.

In other words, for the Dragon Clan, this body is just a vessel for the Dragon Soul. If it can become stronger enough to defeat the opponents, then no matter what form it takes, it doesn’t matter to them.

So, Long Yi started acting recklessly immediately.

If he wanted to standardize, then there must be a standard.

Thus, Long Yi rushed directly to the Dragon Knight Academy and found the Dean who was in his office, revitalizing his mind.

"Dean! I beg you!"

Long Yi burst in with urgency. At this moment, the Dean was talking with Gav, the personal guard of the old Emperor. Seeing Long Yi come in, both old men paused simultaneously.

"Long Yi? What’s the matter?"

The Dean asked with a smile. He had a genuine liking for this young man who devoted himself to protect the White Dragon Empire.

"Actually, it’s not something important. I just want to extract two tons of your dragon blood." Long Yi said with a shy face.

"Two tons! You little bastard, are you trying to kill me!" The Dean laughed and scolded.

"Eh, if there isn’t two tons, two jin will do." Long Yi scratched his head.

"I heard you’re studying the transformation of Dragon Knights recently? Does my blood help the Dragon Knights too?" The Dean asked.

"Calling it transformation sounds terrible, it’s better to say evolution!" said Long Yi," But this is not for Dragon Knights but for dragons. I planned to use a special way to enhance the combat power of all the giant dragons in our Dragon Knight Legion. After thinking about it, it seems only you can be regarded as the strongest in recent hundreds of years. So I came to find you!"

Long Yi, an honest man, said sincerely.

"Hahaha! Boy, you sure know how to sweet talk. It’s no problem to extract my blood, even if it’s my dragon blood essence, but what do you want to do?"

"I?" Long Yi grinned and pulled out a huge syringe from his private space, "Of course, turn all the dragons into White Dragons!"

Eventually, the Dean did not let Long Yi stab that huge syringe into him. Instead, he directly gave his Dragon Blood Essence to Long Yi. Looking at the huge cluster of Dragon Blood Essence floating in the air that contained terrifying Dragon Power, Long Yi was frightened. If this Dragon Power were to burst out from here, it could at least flatten half the Academy. Losing so much Dragon Blood Essence, the old Dean would surely be weak for a while - he was truly a generous dragon.

Actually, although these Dragon Blood Essence are precious, they can slowly recover after resting for a while. After all, the Dean can’t directly participate in the war, so this could be considered as contributing to the Empire, right?

The Dragon Blood Essence was carefully frozen by Little Zi and then placed into Long Yi’s private space. Without any delay, Long Yi immediately returned to his villa.

Once, the Giants had a variety of technological innovations that defy the heavens, which naturally included genetic manipulation of organisms. Although Long Yi didn’t know how heredity was conducted in this world, there was at least one magic spell that could do it.

That is Dragon Blood Reincarnation. This spell was first born in the Black Dragon Empire, but because it could not achieve the expected effect, it led the Black Dragon Empire to develop the slightly less favoured Dragon Breath Reincarnation. The only reason why Dragon Blood Reincarnation could not be realized was that the Black Dragon Empire lacked a power that could precisely alter genetics.

This power is called the Power of Giants.

God granted the Giants the omnipotent Power of Giants, and they could use this power to perform various magics and abilities.

And now, under the persistent research efforts of Ai Lin and Little Zi, an incomplete version of Dragon Blood Reincarnation has been realized. It can be said that the only difficulty in Dragon Blood Reincarnation was the Power of Giants. With the Power of Giants, everything else was no problem, without it, everything else was pointless.

Under the special transformation of Dragon Blood Reincarnation, the White Dragon Blood Essence provided by the Dean slowly changed, and the internal Dragon Power was replaced by the Power of Giants. Then, the Scepter of Giants transformed the Dragon Blood Essence into a retrotranscription state. In this way, it could quickly combine with the dragon’s body.

Subsequently, Long Yi got a small bottle of dark golden liquid - the dark gold color was the color of the Power of Giants. The liquid was almost completely suspended in the center of the bottle, not touching any position.

It’s simple to say, but for this small bottle of liquid, it took them a whole month’s time, they failed hundreds of times, and nearly one-third of the Dragon Blood Essence had been consumed.

But, in the end, they succeeded.

Now, a problem occurred.

A dragon should be selected as the first test subject, but would any dragon be willing to step forward? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)